Tenchi Muyo! GXP: Difference between revisions

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The focus character is Seina Yamada, a young man with a kind heart, a spiky crewcut that is unusually pleasant to the touch, and [[Cosmic Plaything|the absolute worst luck ever]] (His bicycle frequently falls to pieces while he's riding it, doorknobs snap when he's trying to open them, windows and awnings collapse when he's under them, the horse you've bet on loses its jockey while you're listening when he passes, etc). The series opens with said luck bouncing him and anyone in his path around while he hurries to visit Kiriko, a childhood friend who just returned after months out of town. Tempting fate, he takes a shortcut by the home of Tenchi Masaki, whom he [[Sempai-Kohai|admires and respects]] -- just in time to be knocked in the lake by a passing spaceship. This begins his chance encounter with Amane Kaunaq, a Galaxy Police officer who had stopped off on Earth to make a delivery to Tenchi. She assumes that Seina knows about Tenchi's houseguests, and she's impressed that he survived the crash in such good shape, so she gives him an application form for the "GP" and tells Seina to look her up.

 

 

The characters who comprise the core cast are:

* '''Amane Kaunaq''' - The GP detective who accidentally scouted Seina , Amane is a former fashion model and [[The Ojou|daughter of one of the richer families in the galaxy]], who gave up her old life to become an [[Action Girl]] and [[The Ladette|Ladette]]. Yet another of Mihoshi's old partners.

* '''Seto Kamiki Jurai''' - Feared by most of the galaxy as the "Oni (Devil) Princess of Jurai", she's a high-ranking member of Jurai's royal family, [[The Man Behind the Man|The Woman Behind The Emperor]], and Tenchi's <s>great-grandmother</s> <s>great-great-great</s> <s> grandfather's grandmother</s> grandfather's stepmother's mother. She's infamous for her use and arguable mastery of both the [[Xanatos Gambit]] and [[Batman Gambit]], and also loves [[Jerkass|messing with people and their love lives for the lulz]]. She makes Seina her ''special'' friend early on...

* '''Elma''' - A [[Funny Animal|Wau]] [[Hot Scientist]] who often functions as Seina's nurse, and happens to have an interest in Seina, despite the species gap. {{spoiler|Elma is actually Ryoko (the one above) in disguise.}}

* '''Seiryo Tennan''' - A flashy, flamboyant man who serves as Seina's [[Sadist Teacher]] during his academy days. He's incredibly bitter about having "lost" a duel against Tenchi in the main OVA storyline, and as a result, has developed a particularly nasty [[Fantastic Racism|hatred for earthlings]]. Despite ostensibly being one of the "good guys" early on, he pulls a [[Face Heel Turn]] for the sake of his family's business after being kidnapped by pirates, and attempts to make himself into Seina's [[The Rival|Rival]] from then on.

* '''Airi Masaki''' - Chairwoman of the Galaxy Academy, and therefore the GP Academy. Yosho's wife, and therefore Tenchi's <s>[[Berserk Button|grandmother]]</s> [[Oba-san|mother's mother]]. Runs a small restaurant in her spare time.

* '''Fuku''' - [[Expy]] and technical younger sister of the OVA's Ryo-Oh-Ki, Fuku is given to Seina after a particularly dangerous mission. Fuku acts as the mind and power source for Seina's second [[Cool Ship]], the ''Kamidake II.''

 

 

* [[Abhorrent Admirer]] (NaBiko, to NB)

* [[Affably Evil]] (Da Ruma)

* [[All There in the Manual]] (Knowlege of the three ''Tenchi'' OVA series is essential to getting the most out of the show.)

* [[Amazonian Beauty]] (Kyo Komachi)

* [[Beach Episode]] (Twice.)

* [[Betty and Veronica]] (Kiriko and Amane, with Ryoko B. as [[Third Option Love Interest]].)

* [[Bottle Fairy]] (Amane)

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] ("Oh! The good luck meter!")

* [[Butt Monkey]] (Seina for the first few episodes. Seiryo for practically the entire series.)

* [[Call to Adventure]]

* [[The Commies Made Me Do It]] (Ryoko B.)

* [[Conspicuous CG]] (The spaceships)

*** It's actually a really bizarre continuity nod. The Tenchi Muyo OVA 3 was planned well ahead of GXP, and those changes where included to hype up the third OVA.

* [[Cool Ship]] (The ''Mikagami, Kamidake'' and ''Kamidake II''. The ''Unko'' is an inversion of this trope, being decidedly uncool in every single possible way.)

* [[Cosmic Plaything]] (Seina)

* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]] (Seto, whenever she's feeling mischievous. Almost borderlines [[Slasher Smile]] on a few occasions.)

* [[Dirty Coward]] (Tarant.)

* [[Dirty Old Man]] (NB. Quite unusual behavior a [[Robot Buddy]]...)

* [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]] (Seina suffers this after being enhanced -- the excuse for the first round of [[Innocent Cohabitation]] is him being trained to control it.)

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] (Toyed with. An early [[Running Gag]] sees NB having large, pointy parts of spaceships jammed into his rear end (don't ask). He reacts just as you would expect. Also played with later on... When Seiryo talks about how his day with Seina has come, a droopy shock baton [[Foe Yay|stands up firmly]].

* [[Ensign Newbie]] (Seina is given command over a decoy ship despite still technically being a cadet.)

** Justified in that the higher ups were trying to weaponize his bad luck. Putting him onto a battleship might seem like a good idea until you realize his bad luck bleeds onto ''everybody'' (barring his harem), not just pirates.

** Neige has just ended 2 millenia as head of state of a theocracy. Which doesn't make her a princess, exactly, but close enough for government work.

* [[Cute Kitten|Everything's Cuter With Cat]][[Everythings Better With Bunnies|-Rabbits]] (Fuku and Ryo-Oh-Ki.)

** The opening credits show four silhouettes, The final three are obviously Aeka, Ryoko (Hakubi), and Tenchi, while the first is eventually revealed to be Neige in the episode that introduces her. Tenchi and co's silhouettes are revealed in the crossover episode. The ''Kamidake II'' appears at the end of the sequence after its introduction, and Neige, Fuku, and Ryoko are added to the [[Team Shot]] following Fuku's addition to the cast.

** The ending credits intially use an [[Idiosyncratic Wipes|Idiosyncratic Wipe]] which causes the background to change each time copies of Seina's trademark band-aid fill the screen. Halfway through the series, the band-aids are replaced with multiple Fukus. Nude images of Amane and Kiriko ([[Nipple-and-Dimed]] for your convenience, naturally) shown towards the end of the sequence are replaced with ones of Ryoko, and for some reason, Mitoto.

* [[Genius Ditz]] (Mitoto Kuramitsu, daughter of Minami and mother of Mihoshi and Misao. She's a bubbly, airheaded lady who has [[No Sense of Direction|as much navigational sense as Seina has luck]], but is ''frighteningly'' competent when it comes to spaceship systems and repelling pirates. She also is able to enter hyperspace ''on foot'', leading to her finding herself in the most ''interesting'' places.)

** She seems subject to quantum uncertainty when it comes to her location.

** Alan, Barry, and Cohen have a brief [[No Fourth Wall|Fourth Wall-breaking]] moment of this when one heads off on his own and the other two protest that he can't, because the three of them together comprise a single character.

* [[Gunship Rescue]] (Ryoko B. in episode 12.)

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] (Yuuko Mizutani, who voices Mihoshi, pulls triple duty in this series as both Mihoshi's mother Mitoto, and NaBiko, NB's [[Fate Worse Than Death]] [[Robot Girl]].)

** In the English dub, Seina is voiced by [[Tony Oliver]] ("[[Robotech|Rick Hunter]]", "[[Lupin III]]"). Elma is Rebecca Forstadt, a.k.a. Reba "[[Robotech|Minmei]]" West; Rebecca also voiced Mihoshi.

* [[Hollywood Cyborg]] (Tarant Shank after a few too-narrow escapes.)

* [[Holographic Terminal]] (All over the place)

* [[Hot for Student]] (Most of Seina's harem is visibly older than him, and serve as his instructors at the GP Academy for most of the series.)

* [[Hot Springs Episode]] (All over the place.)

* [[Humongous Mecha]] (Seina gets to pilot one in episode 24. It [[Shout-Out|looks a lot]] like an [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|EVA Unit]], and even growls like one in combat.)

* [[Motor Mouth]] (Amane has her moments of this.)

* [[Ms. Fanservice]] (Amane)

* [[Nanomachines]] (Used on all GP members to give them [[Super Strength]], [[Super Speed]], a [[Healing Factor]], and [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|a dramatically extended lifespan]].)

* [[Non-Human Sidekick]] (Fuku, NB to a lesser extent.)

** [[Brown Bag Mask]]: Seina and his classmates were forced to wear paper bag masks to cover up the obscene-looking tattoos that appear on their faces.

* [[Pirate Girl]]: Ryoko

* [[Pointless Band-Aid]]

* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]] (The episode where Seina visits Tenchi's house, set ''after'' the 3rd OVA series but released well before it.)

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] (Pretty much every Juraian character shown. Neige trumps everyone else by being somewhere over two thousand years old.)

** Considering Tenchi's older sister is over 80 years old and his father is said to be 200 (due to the same treatment that Seina got), one has to wonder about Kiriko as well. A flashback shows that Seina ''remembers'' her being younger when he was very little, but who knows if his memories aren't colored by his assumptions and preconceptions?)

* [[Rebellious Princess]] (Amane ran away and joined the Galaxy Police to get away from the shadow of her overbearing father. He's still trying to get her to come home until the second half of the series.)

* [[Space Opera]]

* [[Subspace or Hyperspace]]

* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]

* [[The Sweat Drop]]

* [[Those Two Guys]] (Kenneth and Rajau, Seina's pals during his stint at the academy are the initial set. They eventually get replaced by Alan, Barry, and Cohen, a trio of male bridge operators.)

* [[Unexpected Successor]] (By gaining control of the Zinv-look-alike {{spoiler|which has a First Generation Juraian tree seed in it, Seina becomes third in line for the Juraian throne. However, because Tenchi and his grandfather do not really want to succeed the throne, this effectively puts him first.}}

* [[Unfortunate Names]] (Due to the fact that every other "lucky" name was taken at the time, Seiryo is forced to christen his ship the ''Unko'', which is supposed to mean "bringer of fortune", unfortunately for Seiryo, "Unko" also means, and is more commonly used to refer to, ''poop''. [[Hilarity Ensues]].)

* [[Unusual User Interface]] (Seiryo uses a giant game of bingo to control the ''Unko'' in combat during one episode.)

* [[Unwanted Harem]]: It's a Tenchi spin-off, what did you expect?

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] (Kiriko)

* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] {{spoiler|Ryoko Baluta}}

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] (Tarant -- at first)

* [[Who Is This Guy Again?]] (Hakuren, Gyokuren, Suiren, and Karen are all very rarely referred to by name in-show.)

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] (Tarant. He keeps trying to be a very, very dangerous foe. He keeps trying to cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. But this isn't that kind of show, so he's never allowed to be as evil as he wants to be.)

** He abused cabbits. That automatically makes him worse than Kagato in many fans' eyes.

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