(04-08-2025, 01:55 PM)robkelk Wrote:(04-08-2025, 01:07 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: ...and from another page on the site, Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki Season five? Did I miss something, or is that just a Japan-specific numbering for something I've probably already seen?
You missed something. TM! Season Four was released in 2016, has been translated, and has run on Crunchyroll. Most of the original cast from Ryo-Ohki and GXP returned, with only the late Yūko Mizutani unable to reprise her role as Mihoshi. (Michie Tomizawa takes over her roles, which means she's un-retired again.)
OAV 4 trailer (home release of the fourth Blu-ray)
OAV 5 was released in 2020. My, but there's a lot of new characters. OTOH, Sasami and Ryo-ohki are teenagers now.
OAV 5 trailer (home release of the third Blu-ray)
Oh! Right! Yeah! It seems to have been made before the Toei Agency deal, though. Moreover, that 'Paradise Starting' thing I mentioned earlier in this thread apparently had no ties to AIC / Toei, according to the Tenchi wiki. I guess the GXP novels are copyrighted directly by Kajishima and so he got another studio to do most of the work there? So I guess AIC Rights is less hooked into Kajishima's mad mad mad plans, which is good.
Michie Tomizawa coming out of retirement for another role like that feels like some sort of surreal joke about action movies with One Last Job, too...