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> <SPOILER SPACE!>
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> <YET MORE OF SAME! :->
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> >hmm.. well, I definately need to see that movie one of these days...
> >anyway, I can certainly think of a bunch of different ways it could have   
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> >happened... Ryo-ohki could have taken her to somewhere for help,
> >kem-oh-ki could have found her and gotten her fixed up... Or maybe when
> >Tenchi killed the Jurai leader, the wound he caused in Ryouko healed or
> >something... Anyway, maybe this will come up in the second Tv series?   
> (if
> >they ever make it)
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> Remember- Ryoko regenerate very well. If no kill her
> compleatly all at once, she come back! Note that lopping
> off her hand is minor wound for her! If bad guy didn't
> get chance for finish her off (or just assume she dead
> and leave) she heal up and come back! Prob have to
> decapitate or disintegrate her for kill her!
> Ryoko like bad penny, she keep turning up! ^_^

true, but unlike in the OAV, ryouko is much less powerful in the Tv 
series, and she doesn't regenerate too well.. not to mention the fact 
that the wound she recieved was pretty nasty, and it was a kinda of wound 
that probably couldn't be regernerated.

Magus