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December 12, 1998
More news pertaining to the upcoming Tenchi movie to be released next year: the theatrical release of A Far Away Feeling in Japan is now postponed to the Golden Week (April ~ May) of 1999. The new movie will feature the entire regular TM! cast: Tenchi, Aeka, Ryoko, Sasami, Mihoshi and Kiyone, Wasyu, Ryo-oh-ki, Nobuyuki, Katsuhito/Yosho, Azaka and Kamidake. Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-oh-ki manga volume 9 was released on December 1st: ISBN4-04-712176-2, 560 yen, 180 pages. More interesting character and adventure stories. The first volume of Tenchi in Tokyo (aka Shin Tenchi Muyo!) is now in stores everywhere in North America. Licensed from GETS, official Taiwanese versions of Shin Tenchi Muyo! and Pretty Samy TV VCDs are now available from Mu Mian Hua. Each VCD comes with two episodes and is retailed for NT$300 (~US$9). AIC is now in the process of creating a English version of their website. Definitely a good news for anyone who is Japanese-phobic. Anime section of the UCI Bookstore will be closing down later this year. For those of us who have depended on UCI for direct orders of special anime products from Japan in the past will now have to look elsewhere. Luckily, Mike Riley, the person in charge of the anime section of UCI Bookstore will be retiring/is already retired and will be opening his own anime store called Tokyo Pop. Keep an eye out for it. Sources: CuSO4 (cuso4@cuso4.com) Acid Tenchi (acidtenchi@primary.net)
October 30, 1998
As many of you are probably already aware of, this site was removed from the ntucsu server earlier this week. If it happens again, we will be making Animanga Services the official server for hosting this page. We strongly suggest those who pay regular visits to this site to update your bookmark accordingly, and we sincerely apologize to everyone for any inconvenience the downtime may have caused in the past week. -_-
October 10, 1998
Today, I received a relief e-mail from Michael Wilson. Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:20:10 -0400 From: Michael Wilson (ssj9trunks@home.com) To: sasami@mechapilot.com Subject: English AIC Page If you look under the AIC logo, you'll see this text: "English Version .....Coming Soon!" Be happy! You should hug another pumpkin, too. (joke... in case that didn't come out nicely) Perhaps I was a little too presumptuous with AIC on their decision with the English website... ^^;;; Thanks for putting my mind at ease, Michael! Sources: Michael Wilson (ssj9trunks@home.com)
October 1, 1998
First, the good news... Volume 8 of Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-oh-ki OVA manga has just been released in Japan and Taiwan. Funaho and Misaki are on the cover. This issue features some really cool character stories not to be missed! According to the Nov. issue of Looker, a Tenchi Muyo PC Card Game software will be released on October 9 by AIC Spirits. The target platforms are Win95/98/NT4.0. List price is 5800 Yen. It contains 6 mini card games. Rumors are coming very close to becoming facts. Announcement for Tenchi Muyo! in LOVE 2: A Far Away Feeling has recently been made in a PLDC convention in Tokyo. Below is a report concerning the event. Courtesy of Sasami-kyo Okayama Headquarter Here is a rough translation for the article accompanying the pictures: It all happened very suddenly. After the premiere showing of Battle Athletes OVA Mission 6 and the first episode of Photon, a representative told us this: "Today, a special announcement only in Tokyo. Scheduled to be released in theaters [in Japan] next January, work for the third installment in the Tenchi Muyo! movies has begun. Tentatively titled 'Tenchi Muyo! in LOVE 2: A Far Away Feeling', the movie is directed by Hiroshi Negishi, who also directed the first TV series and TMiL; the script is written by Saharu Amiyama. As with Achika of 'in LOVE' and Mayuka of 'Manatsu no Eve', there will also be a new character appearing in 'in LOVE 2'. What kind of 'feeling' will it be? Find out in the Jan 99 theatrical release. Later we will be showing a 30 sec promotional of this special report, so don't go away! ^_^" Stay tuned for more info. Now the bad news... AIC has just moved its pages to a new server. The English pages have been completely removed, along with the video and CD libraries... ;_; Check it out for yourself. Sources: 'CuSO4' Yung (cuso4@cuso4.com) Sasami-kyo Okayama Headquarter (http://tacocity.com.tw/slime/sk/index.html) Sasami-Kyo Taipei Division (http://tacocity.com.tw/slime/sk/index.html) TenchiKen (tenchiken@narf.com) Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
September 14, 1998
Looker is a monthly Anime magazine published in Japan. Previously, it is called Anime V. In the "Rumor" page in the Oct issue of Looker, a 'certain' producer claimed that Negishi Hiroshi will be directing a new Tenchi movie called Tenchi Muyo! in Love 2 - Haruka naru Omoi (roughly translates to: A Far Away Feeling)... Let's hope that rumor is correct. ^_- Sources: 'CuSO4' Yung (cuso4@cuso4.com)
August 16, 1998
Uh oh, bad news for Tenchi fans anywhere in the world: "This may be the last update for the English side of the AIC website since management is planning on cutting the site down to a smaller size and only maintaining Japanese pages. The CD Library and Video database will probably be cut as well. Any suggestions/complaints can be sent to aic@anime-int.com and they will be passed onto management." Please voice your support for the website and prevent this from happening! Send your mail to AIC today! Sources: Rell Ambrose (rell@web.compuserve.com) Official AIC News (http://www.anime-int.com/news/officl.html)
July 18, 1998
According to AnimeNation, Pioneer will begin releasing the long awaited Shin Tenchi Muyo! (under the new title Tenchi in Tokyo) in North America on November 10 and Pretty Samy TV on October 20. In other news: Pioneer will also be releasing Battle Athletes on September 15 and Fushigi Yuugi on October 20. Sources: Mark Clifton (mc7935@wcu.edu)
February 1, 1998
Tenchi Muyo! OVA series 1 & 2 VCD has been released in Japan by GETS (Global Entertainment Technology Systems). All 13 episodes plus Sound File plus episode 13+, in 8 VCDs, each for 3900 yen. GETS has also released a number of similar VCD packages of many Tenchi-related anime in Hong Kong: TMNE: 2 disk VCD, TMiL: 2 disk VCD and Shin Tenchi Muyo!, all of which were released on December 10 for HK$58 (~US$7.5) each. Similarly in Taiwan, a special VCD edition containing the entire OVA collection has been released in a boxed set. The street price is NT$1,780, which is roughly US$52. North American release of Manatsu no Eve will ship under the title The Daughter of Darkness. Sources: CuSO4 (chyung@hknet.com)
January 1, 1998
GREAT NEWS for those who have yet to experience the Tenchi magic!!! Pioneer is re-releasing the entire Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-oh-ki OVA series in two elegant packages: Tenchi Collection Number 1 "Heaven" and Tenchi Collection Number 2 "Earth", for US$40 each! Each new collection will contain two CLV discs with two episodes per side. The release date is set for February 24, 1998, don't miss it! ^_^ Sources: Dwight Decker (Deklane@aol.com) Tenchi Masaki (morrisoj@cbnet.ns.ca)
October 1, 1997
The second TV series and a new movie have been released recently, and one new Tenchi movie is currently in the works. The new TV series by designer Tsuji Takeshi is called Shin Tenchi Muyo! (New Tenchi Muyo!), which started airing on TV Tokyo on Tuesday April 1st, 1997, at 18:00, and recently completed its run on September 23rd. Previous Tenchi stories always took place at Tenchi's home in Okayama, but this time the primary setting is in Tokyo, where Tenchi goes to a new school alone. However, Wasyu manages to create a dimensional portal which allows the gang to travel between Okayama and Tokyo and back. A new human character, Sakuya Kumashiro (seiyuu Mayumi Iizuka), is introduced; she is the new girl who goes after Tenchi in Tokyo. There is also a new female villan named Yuugi. Go to http://ryoohki.anime-int.com/news/newdesign for character sketches of this new series, and http://www.anime-int.com/ld/movies for a quicktime movie of the new OP (5.4 MB). LDs and Videos of Shin Tenchi Muyo! are now available for purchase in Japan. The second movie entitled Tenchi Muyo! Manatsu no Eve which translates to Tenchi Muyo! Eve in Midsummer was released in Japan summer 97 by Kadokawa. All the Tenchi girls are present in this OVA-based movie (including Kiyone), along with Tenchi's daughter, Mayuka (who has dark blue hair and two ponytails). Although there is no indication of who Mayuka's mother is, Wasyu confirms that Mayuka is indeed Tenchi's child. Manatsu no Eve should be available on LDs/Videos in Japan January 98, and is looking at a North American release on March 24th. The other movie, tentatively titled Tenchi Muyo! in LOVE 2, will be released by Pioneer. It is most likely to be OVA-based and will, once again, put the spotlight on Tenchi's mother Achika. Sources: CuSO4 (chyung@asiaonline.net) -- Animage and Newtype April issue Hitoshi Doi (doi@win.or.jp) -- radio show "VA Tanteikyouku Rajimage" Ryo-oh-ki (zangief@netcom.com) -- AIC's official news page TenchiKen (tenchiken@narf.com) -- Animage and Newtype April issue Chris Wiegand (wiegand@iexpress.net)-- Confirmation of Manatsu no Eve as OVA-based.