H'lo, all...

The recent talk about names and relations got me to thinking about how much
of a Tenchi family tree I could put together... so I put together as much
as I could.  Here it is, below.  Note that it's still pretty tentative,
however...  Family names haven't been added (is there any accurate source
for what each of the characters' family names are?), and some of the names
are missing... but it's a start.

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                            Funaho(F)     Mazusa(M)         Misaki?(F)
                               |____________|  |________________|
                                     |            |          |
?????(F)   ?????(M)    ?????(F)   Yo:sho:(M)    Aeka(F)   Sasami(F)
   |__________|           |___________|
         |                      |
      Nobuyuki(M)            ?????(F)
           |____________________|
                      |                                [Tenchi family tree
                  Tenchi(M)                             by Richard Uyeyama
                                                         Version 0, 8/4/95]
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The source for much of this information is the second Tenchi Muyo Dash (')
CD (Sasami no St. Valentine), currently my favorite Tenchi CD drama. (smile)
There's a scene in there where Sasami explains to a very confused chocolate
saleslady exactly how she's related to Tenchi-niichan...

If anybody can fill in any of the blanks, I'd be much appreciative.  I'm
sure that at least Nobuyuki's mother's name can be found somewhere...
Also, I'm not entirely sure about Aeka and Sasami's mother's name.  Was
that listed in Tenchi 101? (I need to get a copy of that at some point...)

Also, if anybody (Hitoshi, maybe?) has any sources of "official" last names
for any of the characters, that'd also be great.

Looking at the tree above, I'm sort of wondering how Tenchi could have
the same family name as Yo:sho: or Aeka or Sasami...  Is there actually
something "official" that lists any of their last names as "Masaki"?
Though it's possible, I suppose, that Tenchi could have taken his mother's
family name for some reason...  And is there anything anywhere for what
Nobuyuki's last name should be?

Hmm, the credits for the Valentine CD drama list Yo:sho: as "Masaki
Katsuhito"...  I assume that Katsuhito is the name he adopted when he
started living on Earth...  His having the family name "Masaki" is still
problematic in the above tree, however...

Anyhow, I guess that's about it for now, so...


Until later,

	Richard Uyeyama
	ruyeyama@ranma.com

	"I look up, up at the stars... try to name the ones I see...
	 And all the while I wonder what you may be dreaming tonight..."

		-- "An Enchanted Serenade"
		(MB ED1)