Techi Muyo! In Love

Genre: comedy/sci-fi fantasy Length: 95 minutes (Theatrical Film) Audience Age: 13+

Opinion: A great video to view and to introduce those who are unfamiliar with the series.

This is a review of the dubbed VHS version (close captioned).

Featuring a soundtrack by Babylon 5's Christopher Franke.

While watching some old 8mm film of Tenchi's mother, Achika, on her high school field trip to Tokyo (it is 8mm film because that was what they used in the 70's for home movies. The film has nothing that would have anything Nicolas Cage would need to investigate) Tenchi suddenly starts to disappear and the entire house starts to fall apart. Luckily, the self-proclaimed, most brilliant mind in the galaxy, Washu, is able to prevent our hero from vanishing and explain what is going on. By looking at each individual frame of the film, the group sees that Achika is slowly disappearing from the reel, so something must have happened in the past to cause this.

At the same time Tenchi and company are learning about this wrinkle in time, the Galaxy Police Headquarters is destroyed. The final transmission:

Class A Criminal Kain...

Who is Kain? Does this have something to do with the time trouble? No matter what this villain's involvement in this dilemma; Tenchi, Ryoko, Ayeka, Sasami, Mihoshi, and Kione must go back in time to 1970 to prevent anything from happening to Achika. This is the only way to save their future, and to buy some cool souvenirs from the past.

Production Credits

Story/Plot • Production Credits • Review • Critique • Conclusion

Director: Hiroshi Negishi. Screenplay: Ryou Tsukimura & Hiroshi Negishi. Character design and supervising director: Hiroyuki Horiuchi. Direction: Koji Masunari. Animation directors: Takahiro Kishida, Kazuya Kuroda, Michiyo Suzuki. Art director: Torao Arai. Color Key: Takuya Kawami. Director of photography: Hitoshi Sato. Editing: Toshio Henmi. Sound director: Yasunori Honda. Music: Christopher Franke. Animation production: AIC.

Associate Producer: Zero-G Room. Produced by Pioneer LDC. Executive Producer: Taro Maki. Presented by Tenchi Muyo Committee.