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This is a character sheet for the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' series:

 

==== Voice Actors: [[Masami Kikuchi]] (Japanese), Matt K. Miller (English) ====

The main hero of the franchise, who is always presented as an ordinary high school student that ends up surrounded by women lusting after him as he struggles through various hijinks, and doesn't usually have much personality beyond that apart from being a nice guy, being the reason as to why he's such a [[Chick Magnet]].

* [[Armor-Piercing Slap]]: Tenchi did this {{spoiler|to Ryoko}} in ''Daughter of Darkness'', and {{spoiler|to Yugi}} in {{spoiler|the final episode of}} ''Tenchi in Tokyo''

* [[Author Avatar]]: Tenchi '''Masaki''' and '''Masaki''' Kajishima. It gets more obvious when you learn that the OVA is partly a showcase of Kajishima's personal harem fantasies. And the fact that the character essentially becomes {{spoiler|stronger than the Chousin who created the universe}} is a strong hint too.

 

Is the most popular girl amongst western audiences.

* [[Action Girl]]: Largely in the 'Universe' and 'Tokyo' series.

** She's that in the OVAs too, but by the end of the second series she's largely out of her league, so she barely bothers anymore.

==== Voice Actors: [[Yumi Takada]] (Japanese), Jennifer Darling (English) ====

Princess of Juria that has fierce rivalry with Ryoko over Tenchi, amongst other things.

* [[Barrier Warrior]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: She hates being called an old maid. But more than that, Ryoko ''always'' brings out the worst in her.

==== Voice Actors: [[Yuko Mizutani]] (Japanese), Ellen Gerstell (English; 1st), [[Rebecca Forstadt]] (English; 2nd) ====

An extremely clumsy and idiotic police officer that tends to end up on chasing Ryoko. She is extremely stupid and has numerous runninggags revealing around he airheaded nature and clumsiness.

* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: She takes ditziness and awkwardness to unprecedented new heights.

* [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?]]: Played as a running gag in the manga and PC-FX games, as Mihoshi's addiction to soap operas made her mistake some of Tenchi's actions as if he wanted to elope with her or just rape her. The catch? Mihoshi was more than happy with the idea, much for Tenchi's puzzlement.

==== Voice Actors: [[Yuko Kobayashi]] (Japanese), Kate T. Vogt (English) ====

A mad scientist with various origins throughout the franchise. Is fairly childish and prone to fights with Ryoko, though not as much as Ayeka. Her inventions defy laws of physics and can often serve as plot points due his irresponsibility or deus ex machina.

* [[Abusive Parents|Abusive Mom]]: In the OVA (where she created Ryoko), she once straps Ryoko into an apparently escape-proof lab-table, turns off the lights and then runs off and hides. Ryoko is so afraid of being trapped alone in the dark that she starts crying and pleading for Washu to come back and rescue her. Washu is not only well aware of how badly this scares Ryoko, but is actually just around the corner, gleefully taping Ryoko's cries for "mommy".

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Washu really likes crabs.

==== Voice Actors: [[Etsuko Kozakura]] (Japanese), Debi Derryberry (English) ====

A rabbit like alien with a cat's head and ears as long as her body that makes cat noises. As such fans refer to her as a cabbit. She is close friends with Sasami and eats nothing but carrots, and transforms into a space ship.

* [[Person of Mass Destruction|Animal of Mass Destruction]]: Her ship form is often depicted as this.

* [[Big Eater]]: Tenchi often has a whole garden of carrots just so Ryo-Ohki can eat them.

 

=== Katsuhito Masaki{{spoiler|/Yosho Masaki Jurai}} ===

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Literally, depending on the continuity, anyway.

* [[Covert Pervert]]: he once copped a feel of Ryoko and quite enjoyed it...

 

=== Nobuyuki Masaki ===

* [[Bumbling Dad]]

* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Less so in some versions.

 

=== Azaka and Kamidake ===

* [[Badass]]: In their Knight forms

* [[I Don't Know Mortal Kombat]]: In ''Tenchi Universe'', Knight!Azaka gets beaten by Sasami ''a lot''

 

=== Tokimi (OAV) ===

* [[Action Girl]]: Called the best fighter of the Choushin by her sisters themselves.

* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: As a Chousin, she knows nothing about what is good and what is evil.

==== Voice Actors: [[Yuri Amano]] (Japanese), [[Sherry Lynn]] (English; 1st), [[Wendee Lee]] (English; 2nd) ====

A space cop that has the misfortune of being partners with Mihoshi, whose clumsiness continuously ruins any chances of of a promotion as well as making her life a living hell.

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Blue Eyes]]

 

=== Nagi (''Tenchi Universe'') ===

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Bounty Hunter]]

 

=== Mitsuki (''Tenchi Universe'') ===

* [[Fair Cop]]

* [[Evil Redhead|Jerkass Redhead]]: She seemed to enjoy arresting Kiyone [[Smug Snake|a bit too much.]]

=== Achika Masaki (''Tenchi Muyo! in Love'' and ''Tenchi in Tokyo'') ===

==== Voice Actors: [[Megumi Hayashibara]] (Japanese), Grace Zandarski (English) ====

* [[Action Girl]]

** [[Action Mom]] {{spoiler|Tenchi and his harem go back in time to save her from Kain in ''Tenchi Muyo! In Love'', and end up only stopping him with her help.}}

 

=== Kazuhiko Amagasaki (''OVA and Tenchi in Tokyo'') ===

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]

* [[Ascended Extra]]: He is a recurring character in Tenchi in Tokyo.

==== Voice Actors: [[Mayumi Iizuka]] (Japanese), Julie Maddalena (English) ====

A all round normal girl Tenchi's age that has no crazy personality traits that befriends Tenchi after he moves to Tokyo, so naturally he ends falling for her and she serves as his love interest for the series. {{spoiler|Late in the series it's revealed that she was created by Yugi as an ideal girlfriend for Tenchi to drive a wedge between him and the other characters so they will leave and take the crystals that can stop her that they have with them.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Develops some traits of this, since she was created solely to love Tenchi.}}

* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Not necessarily her fault, since she's the only one in the [[Unwanted Harem]] without powers, weapons, or superpowered mascots.

=== Mayuka (''Daughter of Darkness'') ===

==== Voice Actors: [[Junko Iwao]] (Japanese), Julie Maddalena (English) ====

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]

* {{spoiler|[[Half-Human Hybrid]]}}: She is formed from Tenchi {{spoiler|and Yuzuha's}} DNA.

* [[Only One Name]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

 

=== Noike Kamiki Jurai (''OAV 3'') ===

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Was told to be only a cover-up, but extra omake material has indeed confirmed the engagement as real.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Several things made by Mihoshi.

 

=== Minagi (manga) ===

* [[Cloning Blues]]: Initially.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: After [[Defeat Means Friendship]].

 

=== Kiyone Masaki (OVA 3) ===

* [[Action Mom]]: She did a lot of things according to the story she left for Tenchi. However it seems most of it was [[Blatant Lies|made up.]]

* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents|Amazingly Embarrassing Mom]]: When your mother creates an elaborate practical joke concerning her death and wills her relatives to read it aloud to you, she probably qualifies as this.

 

=== Misaki Masaki Jurai (OVA and Manga) ===

* [[Action Girl]]: She's the [[All There in the Manual|chief of Emperor's bodyguards]], after all, and invariably snatches all martial arts championships which she can be bothered to enter.

** [[Action Girlfriend]]: To Azusa.

 

=== Funaho Masaki Jurai (OAV and Manga) ===

* [[Hot Mom]]

* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]: Next to Tenchi, she's the most level headed of the group.

 

=== Azusa Masaki Jurai (OVA and Manga) ===

* [[Akio Ohtsuka]]

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: In the manga, he wants to kill a boy who had just lifted Sasami's skirt.

 

=== Tennyo Masaki (OVA 3) ===

* [[Cool Big Sis]]

* [[Flat Character]]: Doesn't get much characterization, as she appears only by the end of the third OVA, and doesn't get much exposure [[All There in the Manual|in the novels and doujinshis]] as well.

 

=== Seto Kamiki Jurai (OVA 3) ===

* [[Action Girl]]: To the point that [[Four-Star Badass|Utsutsumi]] often feels redundant.

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]

 

=== Rhea Masaki (OVA 3) ===

* [[Girl Next Door]]

* [[Parental Substitute]]: To Tenchi after Kiyone died.

 

=== Hiwa Takahashi (Manga) ===

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]

* [[Nice Girl]]

 

=== {{spoiler|Empress}} Hinase (Tenchi In Tokyo) ===

* [[Barrier Warrior]]

* [[The High Queen]]

=== Kagato (OAV 1 and ''Tenchi Universe'') ===

==== Voice Actors: [[Norio Wakamoto]] (Japanese), Michael Scott Ryan (English) ====

* [[Animal Motifs]]: It's more subtile than in Washu's or Clay's case, but OVA Kagato has a theme of snakes going on in his ship and even in his style of hair. The person whom he was based on, Naja, has a snake theme in her name.

* [[Badass]]: Both versions, but only the OVA version is a

 

=== Dr. Clay (OAV 2) ===

* [[Animal Motifs]]: An Octopus, [[Embarrassing Nickname|naturally.]]

* [[Butt Monkey]]: At least to Washu...

 

=== Seiryo Tennan (OAV 2 & ''GXP'') ===

* [[Anti-Villain]]: He's really more petty and vain than evil.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: As shown in GXP, he's actually a 'very' competent swordsman, he's just a blithering idiot outside of that.

 

=== Misao Kuramitsu (OVA 3) ===

* [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Is often mistaken for Mihoshi if one doesn't look closely enough.

 

=== Mashisu Makibi (OVA 3) ===

* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Elects to work with Misao largely because she loves him.

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: When you get your behind handed to you by a nine year old [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|who up to that point had no previous indication of her martial arts prowless]], you've pretty much sunk as far as you can go on the villain scale.

 

=== Z (''OVA 3'') ===

* [[Affably Evil]]: From the way he speaks, you believe he's a good guy. {{spoiler|So does he, to some extent anyway.}}

* [[Anti-Villain]] via [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|The Chousin killed off his family causing him to go insane.}}

 

=== Kain (''Tenchi Muyo! in Love'') ===

* [[Black Eyes of Evil]]

* [[Big Bad]]: Of the first movie.

=== Yuzuha (''Daughter of Darkness'') ===

==== Voice Actors: [[You Inoue]] (Japanese), Barbara Goodson (English) ====

* [[Adult Child]]: Surrounds herself with various dolls

* [[Abusive Parents]]: To {{spoiler|Mayuka}}

=== Haruna (''Tenchi Forever!'') ===

==== Voice Actors: [[Kikuko Inoue]] (Japanese), Debi Derryberry (English) ====

* [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Big Bad]]: The least violent of the three movies' main ones.

== Manga Villains ==

=== Yakage ===

* [[Affably Evil]]

* [[Anti-Villain]]:He just wants to create the most powerful sword in the universe. His problem is that he uses extreme measures.

 

=== Yume ===

* [[Bratty Half-Pint]]: Appears like a child despite [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|being over 5,000 years old at least.]] Truthfully, she acts like a petulant, spoiled child as opposed to the major arc villain she was intended to be.

* [[Easily Forgiven]] / [[Karma Houdini]]: Have your minions kidnap a major Jurai official? Check. Have said minions hunt down the Jurai official's daughter? Check. Brainwash another Jurai official and have him instigate unrest on Ryuten? Check. Personally order your minions to kill the daughter of your rival? Check. Kill dozens of soldiers while you steal a royal tree and nearly collapse the galaxy? Double Check. What do you get for all this, Yume? Not even a slap on the wrist. {{spoiler|In the ''Shin/New'' manga, she suffers [[Redemption Demotion]].}}

 

=== The Shima Brothers ===

* [[Badass]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]: Only Hishima since the others are dead.}}

 

=== Garyu ===

* [[Crazy Jealous Guy]]

* {{spoiler|[[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: He really cares about Ayeka.}}

 

=== Dark Washu ===

* [[Anti-Villain]]

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Look at the name]].

=== Yugi (''Tenchi In Tokyo'') ===

==== Voice Actors: [[Akiko Yajima]] (Japanese), Debi Derryberry (English) ====

* [[Anime Hair]]

* {{spoiler|[[Anti-Villain]]}}

 

=== Hotsuma, Tsugaru and Matori (''Tenchi In Tokyo'') ===

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Tsugaru.

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Hotsuma.

 

=== Evil Kiyone (''Mihoshi Special'') ===

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Kiyone Makibi.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]

* [[Whip It Good]]