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''[[Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar]]'' (''Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari
At the beginning of the show Kenshi has been told he needs to help with an assassination plot in return for going home. The target of assassination is the newly-crowned queen of one of the lands in this world. When faced with killing a girl roughly the same age as him he can't do it. Eventually, he ends up being a servant of the queen while she is attending a super elite school that serves both the nobility and the pilots for the somewhat organic looking super robots. Being the little brother of the guy who pretty much made the [[Harem Genre]] what it is today, it doesn't take long before the good ole [[Chick Magnet|Masaki-charm]] goes to work. Soon, Kenshi is being chased by almost every girl in the school... literally.
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First started airing in 2009 and was released in [[OVA]] format, one episode a month. It also aired on television through Japanese pay-per-view service, although the first episode was later "enhanced" with extra scenes for the Blu-Ray release.
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* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]] due to the fact that many world leaders' children go to this school. {{spoiler|One episode they elect Kenshi to the school government just so that everyone's attention will be on him and they can actually get work done.}}
* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Several members of his harem but in particular: Chiaia, whenever he appears happy, quota demands it, or just when she's bored or something good happens to him. Lashara and Mexiah whenever there's an opportunity to exploit him for their own gain or to make him unhappy, and Lithia who refuses to acknowledge him, and frequently puts him down (much like the others in this list).▼
* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Seems Kenshi's ''Massage Mode'' brings this up to some girls.
* [[All Amazons Want Hercules]]: As the series progresses Kenshi's harem keeps getting bigger until {{spoiler|it pretty much includes everyone at the school. Keep in mind that the students at the school include the kids of all the top leaders of the world's governments.}}
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* [[A Mech by Any Other Name]]: The Seikijin ("Holy Machine Men").
* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents|Amazingly Embarrassing Mother]]: Flora. '''BIG TIME'''.
* [[Anime Hair]]: Present and accounted for.{{context}}<!-- Obviously it's "present and accounted for", or the trope wouldn't be listed here. Tis is owrse than leaving the explanation blank. -->
* [[Animal Motifs]]: Not a real animal, but the girls at the school frequently compare Kenshi to the native Koro, a [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|two-tailed white squirrel-like creature]]. It's one of the reasons that so many of the girls develop a crush on him.
** That Kenshi acts like a male version of Ryo-Ohki much of the time doesn't hurt either.
* [[Background Magic Field]]: The "Draft of Ena", which supplies power to the Seikijin mecha and most of the [[Magitek]] in the series. It only extends to a certain
* [[Badass]]: [[One-Man Army|Kenshi]], it runs in the family.
* [[Battle Harem]]: Most of Kenshi's harem are pilots.
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* [[BFS]]: Some of the Seikijin wield these. In episode 12 {{spoiler|Kenshi compresses a ''mountain'' to create a huge stone [[BFS]]. Which turns into an even bigger [[Laser Sword]] in the final episode. Which then turns into a smaller but far more powerful ''Light Hawk Sword''}}.
* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: You can rip a Sekishi in pieces, but you never see anything else really bleed.
* [[Bludgeon Blade]]: The "sword" Kenshi creates for himself late in the series by ''compressing an entire mountain'' into a superdense rod a hundred or so feet long; only the [[Anti Gravity]] device that also serves as its guard makes it usable, even by his [[Humongous Mecha]]. Despite being universally described as a "sword", it obviously has no edges or point -- until the last episode.
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Emera to Dagmyer.
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Aura's father.
* [[Book Ends]]: The series begins and ends with screens of text representing a conversation between two unknown individuals who seem to be responsible for Kenshi's transportation to Geminar, suggesting that it is some kind of test or [[Rite of Passage]] for him. (The general opinions among the fandom is that the two "voices" are Washuu and Tokimi or Washuu and Kenshi's mother Reia, but there is no conclusive evidence either way.)
* [[Bookie]]: In episode 7, Lashara tries to run a bookmaking operation on a school-wide athletic competition and bungles it, ending up in the red when she has to make payouts on a large number of bets.
* [[Cast as a Mask]]: Used as a red herring when Mexiah had the same voice actress as the mysterious masked woman Neizai who tended to show up when Mexiah disappeared. {{spoiler|Mexiah was actually the alter ego of Doll (different actress), and Neizai was actually Reia Second (different actress). The show actually throws a red herring in the [[Wham! Episode]], when Ulyte talks to Neizai while the camera shows a closeup of Mexiah with [[Mind Control Eyes]]... with her mouth conveniently obscured.}}
* [[Character Development]]: The first half of the series is devoted to this (and [[Fan Service]]). Initially Kenshi just wants to go home. While he never really loses that goal, he also grows closer to his fellow students at the academy including the members of his [[Unwanted Harem]]. All so that by the time the series gets back to the mecha action, Kenshi actually has a reason to fight other than "I want to go home".
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* [[Chekhov's Gag]]: Wahanly creates a generator for the training [[Powered Armor]] to use it to chase Kenshi down in the fifth episode. {{spoiler|The modified armor gets used for guerilla warfare in the last episode.}}
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Kenshi of course.
** Due to cooking skills, strength/speed, and all
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Lashara when she actually sees affection that might get Kenshi out from under her thumb (especially involving her [[The Rival|Rival]]). Chiaia whenever Kenshi appears too happy. Both whenever there's something to blame or exploit.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: the various Seikijin have colors and outward appearances dependent on who is piloting them.
* [[Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story]]: Lashara and Chiaia decide to hide Kenshi's connection to the white Seikijin that attacked the ''Swan'' in the first episode by having him serve as one of Lashara's servants. Instead of revealing he's from another dimension (which would basically ruin the deception by itself), Kenshi hides his unfamiliarity with the customs of the world of Geminar by claiming to be from "Kouchi" -- the highlands above the Draft of Ena which powers the Seikijin and the other [[Magitek]], and whose residents are conveniently isolated socially as well as physically.
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* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Lan. (Doll seems to be one at first, but after the reveal in episode 8 {{spoiler|she's more of a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] [[Femme Fatale]]}}.)
** [[Faux Action Girl]] as well, as she hardly ever fights, and in these cases is usually completely dominated not only by Kenshi or Neizai, but bu Emera as well.
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* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Mexiah is quite popular around the girls.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Ulyte seems a bit too ''friendly'' with Kenshi.
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* [[Free-Love Future|Free Love Alternate Dimension]]
* [["Happy Ending" Massage]]: Turns out Kenshi's massages give the girls this feeling as an aftereffect.
* [[Holy City]]: The Holy Land, in which much of the series takes place, is a [[Vatican City|Vatican]]-like city state.
* [[Honey Trap]]: Maria persuades Yukine into trying to set one for Kenshi, to both [[Shipper on Deck|help her bodyguard win Kenshi's heart]] and [[Schoolgirl Rival|put one over on Lashara]].
* [[Horrendous Home Remedy]]: The tea Kenshi provides to Ulyte and Lithia is both delicious and healing, but most of the other girls react with horror and disgust when he shows them the "raw" ingredients, including a lizard, beetles, and several noxious-looking fungi and plants. Overlaps into [[I Ate What?]] when they realize that Kenshi ''also'' used them in the delicious stew they just ate.
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: King of Shurifon, who's chewing the scenery in almost all his scenes. Quite an unusual behavior for an ''elf''.
* [[Hot for Student]]: Mexiah {{spoiler|and maybe
* [[Hot Mom]]: Maria's mother Queen Flora is pretty easy on the eyes.
* [[Hour of Power]]: Pilots can only operate Seikijin for limited amounts of time, dependent upon their personal endurance.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The Seikijin. Prominent in episode one. Then all but ignored until episode 8.
* [[I Ate What?]]: The reaction of most of the girls when they realize that the flavor of Kenshi's delicious stew is due to it sharing some disgusting ingredients with the [[Horrendous Home Remedy]] he made for Lithia.
* [[I Didn't Mean to Turn You On]]: Kenshi is a rather bizarre case. In episode 3, Mexiah somehow brainwashes him to make him turn into a "berserker massage machine" at her command. Then she gets
* [[If It's You It's Okay]]: The girls like Kenshi so much they are willing to let him wash their backs, as in
* [[Karmic Death]]: In episode 11, {{spoiler|Cliff kidnaps Ceres and Hazuki and [[I Have Your Wife|uses Hazuki]] to force Ceres to become an [[Action Bomb]] in a bid to kill Kenshi}}. Needless to say, {{spoiler|Cliff meets his end less than halfway through the episode}}. Also a case of [[Laser-Guided Karma]]. {{spoiler|Dagmyer}}, who reluctantly approved of the plan in the first place, {{spoiler|suffers a milder karmic punishment in the form of a [[Freak-Out]] and [[Villainous Breakdown]] that he doesn't recover from until the end of the ''next'' episode}}.▼
* [[In Medias Res]]: The action starts with Kenshi already in Geminar and pressed into service as a mecha pilot/assassin for the bad guys. We never find out how he got there (although there are tantalizing hints at the beginning of the first episode and the end of the last) or how the bad guys got their hands on him.
▲* [[Karmic Death]]: In episode 11, {{spoiler|Cliff kidnaps Ceres and Hazuki and [[I Have Your Wife|uses Hazuki]] to force Ceres to become an [[Action Bomb]] in a bid to kill Kenshi}}. Needless to say,
** This is a borderline example, since {{spoiler|Kenshi did throw Cliff off a cliff}}. However, since {{spoiler|it was Cliff's scheme that sent Kenshi into [[Unstoppable Rage]] in the first place}} it still fits.
* [[Kid Hero]]: Kenshi is 15, but looks and acts young enough to qualify.
* [[Know When to Fold'Em]]: Dagmyer's cronies (well, except [[Karmic Death|Cliff]]) finally drop any pretense of loyalty to Babalun roughly at the ''start'' of the final episode, and only wait for the good moment to surrender, snarking all the time.
* [[Large Ham]]: [[Big Bad|Babalun]], though the [[Our Elves Are Better|king of Shurifon
* [[Likes Older Women]]: {{spoiler|Dagmyer}} apparently.
* [[Lonely
* [[Lost Technology]]
* [[Love Martyr]]: Emera. She gets more and more disgusted at the whole hoopla as the series progressed, but stays out of her love to Dagmyer.
* [[Luminescent Blush]]: Spinoff of ''Tenchi Muyo!'' -- of ''course'' it has to have this.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Wahanly, who is basically a more energetic version of Washu.
* [[Magitek]]: The Ahou-based technology used in most of the show.
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* [[Mook Horror Show]]: Kenshi, both in and out of his Seikijin, is a fearsome opponent...and that's ''before'' you [[Unstoppable Rage|piss him off]].
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Mexiah. ''By far.'' All the women in the cast have their moments, but Mexiah particularly enjoys driving Kenshi nuts.
* [[Mythology Gag]]: Kenshi's constant musings about his older sisters, who are obviously Tenchi's harem. None of them
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** There are also multiple references to Kajishima's ''[[Photon|Photon: The Idiot Adventures]]''. The Koros are more realistic versions of the animal mascot from ''Photon''; Lashara's name is a reference to both Photon Earth and Lashara Moon, while Flora and Maria share the surname Nanadan with the villain Papacha. Also, Ahou magic was the [[MacGuffin]] of the ''Photon'' series.
* [[The Ojou]]: Aura, Lithia, Morga.
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* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: {{spoiler|Gaia's core crystal became one of these for both Babalun and his father.}}
* [[Rape as Drama]]: It's implied that the female Seikishi hunting Ceres at the start of episode 11 "had their way" with him beforehand. Everybody seems to get over it after his girlfriend is rescued, but this seems to be part of what drove Kenshi berserk.
* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: {{spoiler|Mexiah, aka Doll. Also, Wahanly's actual age is 97.}} Kenshi at one point wonders if Lashara belongs to this trope (she doesn't) because of her mature attitude and his experience with
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Kenshi can cook, clean and kick your ass 12 ways to Sunday.
* [[Red String of Fate]]: Invoked in episode 4; Chiaia spends the episode trying to weave a (red) cord to replace the chain of Kenshi's pendant (which she broke while scolding him). She's
* [[Rescue Romance]]: In a sense -- in episode 3 Kenshi gets Lapis her handkerchief back after it's thrown from a cliff. Without ropes. Using a vine to climb down. While Chiaia utterly ''freaks''.
* [[The Resenter]]: {{spoiler|Dagmyer}} becomes more fearful and resentful of Kenshi as time passes, [[Villainous Breakdown|and it shows]].
* [[Rie Kugimiya]]: As Lan.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Lahara does
* [[Running Gag]]: Relentless attempts of the older heroines (mainly Mexiah and Flora, but it's not only them) to ''[[Black Comedy Rape|have their way]]'' with Kenshi.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: Nothing else can be said about the ultra-ambiguous ending. The jewels still glowing, ends with the antagonists, etc, etc.
* [[Sharing a Body]]: {{spoiler|1=After Neizai/Reia's core crystal was implanted in Ulyte, they ended up switching forms depending on whose will was stronger. Neizai eventually took permanent full control of their body when Ulyte's strength and health gave out.}}
* [[Shotacon]]: Mexiah's {{spoiler|and Flora's}} interest in 15
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[The Ojou|Morga]]'s Seikijin in the last episode is an [[Captain Ersatz|ersatz]] [[Getter Robo|Getter-1]], complete with [[An Axe to Grind|double tomahawks]]. [[The Berserker|And she uses it in the appropriate manner, too]].
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Kenshi uses this on Babalun when he tries to {{spoiler|1=add [[More Than Mind Control]] to his attempt to use the same brainwashing that he used on Mexiah/Doll.}}
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* [[Spider Tank]]: Wahan's Kikoujin/Mechanoids.
* [[Stalker with a Test Tube]]: After Kenshi reveals that he's a Seikishi, he starts to run into this trope from the various nations of Geminar (mostly in the form of various factions of his [[Love Dodecahedron]]); Lashara's mostly happy at the chance to play middleman.
* [[Super Breeding Program]]: In order to ensure a strong future generation of future pilots, all of the Seikishi are effectively in one of these; they're required to have children with multiple designated partners before finally being allowed to marry. The male Seikishi have it worse, being treated like "stud horses" before ending up in [[Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage
* [[Supreme Chef]]: Turns out the secret ingredient Kenshi needed to make his soup better was {{spoiler|adding dried and powdered lizards, fungi and bugs}}.
* [[This Cannot Be!]]: {{spoiler|Cliff}} has a [[Freak-Out]] when he sees that Kenshi escaped his "perfect" plan to kill him. {{spoiler|Babalun has a similar reaction in the final episode when Kenshi cleaves the "unbreakable" Gaia's Shield}}.
* [[Those Two Guys|Those Four Girls]]: The four Holy Academy students with [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|multicolored hair]] who make several appearances through the series (and have crushes on Kenshi, naturally.)
** [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Those Four Girls]]: In episode 12, when Lan attacks Kenshi's group while they're creating the Tenchi-Ken; they arrive in the nick of time, giving Kenshi enough time to finish the sword and save the day.
** [[Colourful Theme Naming]]: Those Four Girls have names loosely based on their hair colors in English -- Yellis, Bwoole, Gryino, and Wreda.
* [[Toxic Phlebotinum]]: A lesser variation -- most Ahou technology makes normal people ill without shielding. Seikishi (pilots) are people who can use the Seikijin mecha [[Hour of Power|for a useful amount of time]] before becoming sick.
* [[Tsundere]]: Lashara, Chiaia, and Lithia all fit the bill to some degree.
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Chiaia to Dagmyer; among other factors, the fact that he wasn't allowed to marry for love as a male Seikishi complicated their relationship. It comes to a head in episode 9 when {{spoiler|[[Manipulative Bastard|Dagmyer tries to exploit her crush]] by asking her to kill Kenshi. In a [[Shout-Out]] to an incident in the original ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' OVA, she nearly goes through with it but backs out at the last moment.}} Even after this she still tries to persuade Dagmyer to change his mind before it's too late. During a very tense situation she ultimately
* [[Unlucky Everydude]]: Kenshi ''appears'' to be this at first, what with the whole "launched into a strange world [[Unwanted Harem|surrounded by crazy women]] thing... [[God Mode Sue|until he starts proving how
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Subverted. Kenshi's rage does give him the power to escape from a deadly trap on his own and grants his Seikijin increased strength, but it also causes the mecha to reach its operational limits even faster.
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: It ''is'' a ''Tenchi'' spinoff, after all. Kenshi manages to top his big brother by unintentionally getting a good ''couple hundred'' girls after him.
* [[Villain Decay]]: If he didn't [[Kick the Dog]] so many times, you'd almost feel sorry for
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Dagmyer}} has one spanning most of the series due to growing fear and resentment of Kenshi. It culminates in a [[Freak-Out]] and complete mental collapse in episode 11
* [[Villainous Valour]]: {{spoiler|Dagmyer's}} duel with Kenshi in the final episode is made of this trope. He's still hopelessly outmatched, but he faces his fears head-on and meets defeat with honor.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Lashara and Maria.
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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Dagmyer wants to change the status quo because he's sick of being treated like a stud horse. Too bad he's doing this by following [[Complete Monster|Babalun's]] orders.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Episode 8. {{spoiler|[[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]], Dagmyer's plan is revealed, Doll makes her triumphant return, the audience gets their fill of [[Humongous Mecha]] action... and [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|everyone finds out what Kenshi can really do]].}}
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Kenishi using his [[Super Strength]], speed, and Badassness to do chores around the school. A ''lot'' faster than the staff can handle (
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Yukine, a combination of [[The Stoic]] and a [[Shrinking Violet]].
* [[World of Action Girls]]
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