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Tenchi
in Tokyo Episodes
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Episode
1 - Separation Anxiety
Tenchi announces
that he is leaving for Tokyo to train as a Shinto priest so he can inherit
the family shrine. Fortunately, Washu comes up with an inter-dimensional
tunnel that links his house in Okayama with his apartment in Tokyo,
so they can visit him whenever they want. Little do Tenchi and the girls
know that they are being watched by Yugi, a mysterious girl living in
a palace of crystal.
Episode
2 - Four's a Crowd
Tenchi meets a pretty
and flirtatious girl, Sakuya, at his new school. However, it's not long
before trouble is afoot for them both when they end up at a Love Knot
shrine, and Sakuya accidentally releases a love goddess who is determined
to tie their fates together.
Episode
3 - Long Distance Lunacy
The girls, having
been locked out of the inter-dimensional tunnel, keep an eye on Tenchi
with the aid of Washu's spy probes. However, Yugi has other plans. A
demon, summoned from a mobile telephone, is determined to put an end
to all long-distance relationships by scrambling long-distance communications,
including Washu's spy probes. The girls are so disturbed by the bizarre
images they receive from the demon-addled probes that they set out to
stop the demon in a daring aerial battle!
Episode
4 - The Eternal Pledge
Tenchi and Sakuya
accidentally stumble across a mysterious mansion, the House of the Eternal
Pledge, and meet Hotsuma, one of Yugi's servants inside. Telling them
that a couple who proclaim their love for each other in the house will
stay together forever, Hotsuma leads them both into a wedding ceremony
against their will. However, Ryoko and Ayeka are not about to let Tenchi
get married without them intervening!
Episode
5 - Money! Money! Money!
Money is running
short at Tenchi's house, so the girls set out to earn a living by finding
jobs in Tokyo. However, they can't keep their minds on the job when
they spot Tenchi going around with Sakuya, and they soon get fired.
They think their luck is in when they spot a high-paid job on a construction
site, but don't realise they are unwittingly helping Matori, one of
Yugi's servants, to construct a gigantic palace-building demon!
Episode
6 - Play Date
Sasami arrives at
Tenchi's apartment one day in tears. She tells Tenchi that the girls
have been trying to steal the money she made performing with Ryo-ohki.
She decides to spend all the money to stop the girls from trying to
take it all for themselves, so Tenchi takes her shopping in Tokyo. However,
Yugi is still watching, and sends Tsugaru, another of her servants,
to trick Sasami into coming to her palace.
Episode
7 - The Day We Met
Part one of a two
part story. Tenchi returns home to Okayama on the anniversary of when
he met all his house guests. Told mostly in flashback, we learn of the
events that took place to bring this oddball gang of space pirates,
cops and princesses to Earth.
Episode
8 - Tenchi Anniversary
The concluding part
of the story. The girls recall how Tenchi looked after them following
the battle, and how each of them received a piece of Tenchi's mother's
crystal necklace as a bond that ties them together. There is a minor
crisis as a demonic monkey summoned by Yugi steals everyone's crystal
piece, and Ryoko accuses Sakuya of the theft.
Episode
9 - The Guardians of Old
A school field trip
to an archaeological dig leads Tenchi and his classmates into trouble
when they fall through a hole in the ground into an underground cavern
and discover a 3,500 year-old tomb. The tomb is clearly not of Earth
origin, and it has been shattered by a rock-fall caused by an earthquake
3 months previously. As they explore the underground cavern, two guardians
of Jurai appear and, mistaking them for the demon that was sealed in
the tomb, attack them!
Episode
10 - Ryoko's Big Date
Ryoko arrives in
Tokyo for a date with Tenchi. Unfortunately, she has chosen the same
day and location that Sakuya wants to meet him too. Rather than risk
a big argument (or worse), Tenchi decides to go along with Ryoko's plans.
However, Yugi is, as ever, watching them, and so too is Sakuya.
Episode
11 - Moon Mission
When Ryoko and Ayeka
break a statue while fighting over the last cookie, they blame the accident
on Ryo-ohki. Ryo-ohki protests her innocence, but Ryoko and Ayeka convince
Sasami that she is lying. Sasami shouts at Ryo-ohki, and the distressed
cabbit runs away from home. Sulking at the lake shore, she spots another
cabbit watching her. The other cabbit leads Ryo-ohki to the rest of
her family on the moon. The next day, Tenchi is snatched up from Tokyo
to help search for Ryo-ohki, and when Washu locates her on the moon,
they set out to bring her back. However, the cabbit that lead Ryo-ohki
away is none other than Yu-Ohki, Yugi's evil pet cabbit, who is on a
mission to keep them apart.
Episode
12 - Stupid Cupid
Hunger is afflicting
the Masaki household once again; with Sasami in bed with the 'flu, Tenchi's
father Nobuyuki is in charge of the cooking, and no-one can stomach
his food. Realising his help in unappreciated at home, he heads for
Tokyo to see Tenchi. There he meets Sakuya, and, thinking that she and
Tenchi are in love, tries to kindle the relationship. Yugi's servant
Matori steps in, and creates a dim-witted clone of Nobuyuki from one
of his discarded cigarette butts. The clone, however, is too stupid
to get its mission right, and kidnaps Sakuya, leading both Tenchi and
his father on a desperate chase through the streets of Tokyo to get
her back!
Episode
13 - The Eye of the Destroyer
The story steps
up a gear as the first half of the series draws to a close. Yugi's toying
with Tenchi and the girls becomes more vicious as she threatens to break
their bonds to one another. Although Sakuya and Tenchi's relationship
is back on the rails, Ryoko is pining for Tenchi. Hotsuma pays her a
visit and tries to gain her trust. Yugi herself attacks the Masaki home
that night, and almost kills Ryoko. However, Hotsuma and Tsugaru rush
to her defence - have their loyalties changed, or is Yugi's first direct
attack an intricate bluff?
Episode
14 - Tokyo or Bust!
With no other means
of getting to Tokyo, Ayeka resolves to hitchhike her way there to check
up on Tenchi. Hitchhiking is tougher than she imagines, but she and
Sasami eventually cadge a lift off a leather-clad biker girl with an
impossibly fast pair of wheels. The biker tells Ayeka of her unrequited
love for the fastest man on the road, and the soft-hearted Ayeka encourages
her to pursue him no matter what the cost. But she is no ordinary biker,
and her beloved is no ordinary man...
Episode
15 - Love Match
Tenchi 'phones Washu
late one night to ask that she close the inter-dimensional tunnel for
good. Shocked to discover their only route to Tokyo blocked the following
morning, the girls desperately try to scrape together the cash for bus
tickets. Washu comes to the rescue by deducing that Tenchi's father
must have some savings put aside, and they tear the house apart to look
for them. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, the spirit of a female pro-wrestler,
summoned by Yugi from an old wrestler's mask, is determined to put a
stop to anyone who might get in the way of Tenchi and Sakuya's blossoming
relationship.
Episode
16 - Carnival!
The girls finally
locate Tenchi's father's hard-earned savings and blow them all on their
trip to Tokyo. In Tokyo, the preparations for the school festival are
well underway. By the time the girls arrive in Tokyo, the carnival is
in full swing, but they bring their inimitable brand of chaos with them
and manage to lay waste to the festivities. Furious with them for ruining
the festival, Tenchi sends them home shamefaced. This latest outrage
renders their relations ever more strained, and Yugi's well-laid plans
come closer to fruition when Ryoko realises she has finally lost Tenchi
to Sakuya.
Episode
17 - Drifting Away
Ryoko wanders the
streets of Tokyo, mired in self-pity over Tenchi, when she is attacked
by a mysterious assailant. As she flees from her attacker, she meets
Hotsuma again. Both he and Ryoko are being stalked by automated attack
drones sent by the Galaxy Police. Hotsuma offers Ryoko the opportunity
to return to space piracy, become his ally and fight against the Galaxy
Police together. Ayeka too is tortured with doubt over Tenchi, and a
meeting with Tsugaru finally convinces her that she has also lost him
to Sakuya.
Episode
18 - Game Over
Kiyone and Mihoshi
are angling for a promotion and working extra hard chasing down wanted
criminals. Washu has holed herself up in her laboratory to perform important
research. Meanwhile, Ryoko is quickly settling back into her role of
space pirate, and with Hotsuma as her new partner, they try a daring
raid on the Federation Bank. Back on Earth, Mihoshi and Kiyone finally
receive notification of their promotion, and are reassigned to a station
on Pluto. But Ayeka notices how lonely life at the Masaki home is becoming
with the departure of the Galaxy Police duo. Tenchi's grandfather is
apprehensive; the dwindling relationships between the girls and Tenchi
does not bode well...
Episode
19 - The Lonely Princess
Ayeka grows increasingly
worried about the splitting up of the family. Following a nightmarish
premonition and a visit from Tsugaru, she resolves to do something about
the situation and bring everyone back together again. Unfortunately,
Washu remains stubbornly locked up in her laboratory, and Ryoko is nowhere
to be found. She borrows Ryo-ohki to fly to Pluto to visit Mihoshi and
Kiyone, but gets pulled over by them for speeding. After they issue
her a speeding ticket, Kiyone tells Ayeka that Ryoko is back on the
class A wanted list. Despite her pleas, the Galaxy Police duo refuse
to give up their new assignment to return to Earth. In a final act of
desperation, Ayeka telephones Tenchi in Tokyo to tell him her concerns.
Episode
20 - Old Friends
Mihoshi and Kiyone
are assigned to perform an undercover investigation of Ryoko's band
of space pirates. Ryoko instantly sees through their disguises, but
decides to have a little fun by getting them to perform all the menial
chores around her hideout. When Ryoko finally lets on that their cover
is blown, she invites back to her quarters, which are designed to look
like the interior of the Masaki home. As they play cards together, Kiyone
manages to find out why Ryoko left Earth.
Episode
21 - Real Friends?
Washu finally comes
out of her laboratory with some startling news. She has been scanning
the data from Yugi's attack on the Masaki residence, and has detected
traces of Jurai energy coming from Yugi. Ayeka remembers the Juraian
ruins under the archaeological dig site, and flies there on Azaka and
Kamidake to investigate. Sure enough, the ruins' memory system contains
records of how Yugi was responsible for the darkest hour in Jurai's
history, and was banished by the then empress, Hinase. Her accidental
release from her tomb 3,500 years later coincides with the beginning
of the split in the Masaki family. Meanwhile, Yugi pays her playmate
Sasami another visit.
Episode
22 - Sakuya's Secret
Ayeka finds out
about Sasami's friendship with Yugi. Much to Sasami's disbelief, her
friend Yugi and the Yugi who attacked the Masaki home are the same person.
Determined to keep the murderous Yugi away from Sasami, Ayeka orders
Azaka and Kamidake to step up security around the Masaki household.
Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Sakuya takes up photography to make a record of
her summer with Tenchi. However, when Tenchi begins to ask her about
her family and her history, she first changes the subject, then has
to admit she cannot remember. Sakuya reaches the painful realisation
that she cannot recall anything of her life before she met Tenchi.
Episode
23 - Here, There and Everywhere
Ryoko is beginning
to grow weary of her new life as a space pirate. She takes a walk outside
her hideout and reminisces about her time on Earth. Meanwhile, Washu
sends a modified spy probe out to collect data on Sakuya, and makes
a shocking discovery about the nature of Tenchi's girlfriend. Yugi,
who finds that Sakuya is no longer an essential part of her plans, erases
her from existence - not even Tenchi's classmates can remember her.
Finally, Ryoko makes the decision to give up piracy and return to Earth,
but Hotsuma is determined not to let her escape.
Episode
24 - Yugi's Shadow
Yugi's plans are
nearing completion as her palace begins to emerge into the real world.
The girls are involved in their own battles against her servants Hotsuma,
Matori and Tsugaru. Meanwhile, Washu and Katsuhito hurry to Tokyo to
warn Tenchi of Yugi's impending attack, and to reveal not only the nature
of the seven-piece crystal, but also the startling history of the Masaki
family, and Sakuya's true nature. Having served her purpose, what remains
of Sakuya is destroyed altogether by Yugi.
Episode
25 - The End of Time
Yugi leads her assault
on Earth as her domain bursts through into the real world, turning everything
to crystal. Sasami is kidnapped by Matori and taken to Yugi's palace.
Mihoshi and Kiyone resort to desperate measures to defeat Tsugaru, and
Ryoko's love for Tenchi leads her to victory against Hotsuma. Tenchi
resolves to live up to his duty as defender of the planet and enters
Yugi's palace, but he becomes trapped in an illusory world where he
is able to live happily with Sakuya.
Episode
26 - Payback
With her servants
defeated, Sasami no longer her prisoner and the family reunited, the
desperate Yugi retreats to her inner sanctum. Tenchi knows that since
it was he who was manipulated by Yugi's tricks, he must accept the responsibility
and face her alone. He collects the six gems from the girls and, uniting
it with his own, creates the gem sword and heads for Yugi. The girls
back him up as best they can by holding off her attacks until Tenchi
reaches Yugi herself for the final confrontation.
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The original Japanese episode titles take the
form of haiku (three lines containing five, seven and five syllables).
Rather than translate the titles directly for the English releases,
new episode titles were made up which do not usually bear a close
resemblance to the meaning of the Japanese title. |
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