Does anyone else really enjoy Tenchi Universe?

[Hellohi]

I really do like that series and genuinely felt sad when it ended. I'm stuck home with an injury and rewatched it 2 weeks ago and still miss it.

When Ryoko described it as a carnival, she really had the description spot on. I enjoyed the adventures the group went on and seeing their shenanigans and them going on this crazy adventure into space was amazing.

I loved the OVA of course but I love Universe because it seems like the groups day to day lives were much more exciting and interesting instead of just boring harem home.

What did bother me was the change in some of the character's personalities, like Ayeka's personality was more mean, conceited etc. and 1000x worse than the OVA Ayeka. It also bothered me how at times it seems like Ryoko and Ayeka really did not care for each other or if the other died. At least in the OVA there seems to be some genuine sister love.

And Kiyone rejoicing over Mihoshi's death when we first meet her bothered me too, I want them to truly care for each other.

A lot of it is for comedic effect and it's not canon so it's not like it matters. I did enjoy the series as a whole though and even want to rewatch it lol.

[Eff Efferson]

i loved it except for the weird time space adventures i skip that arc every time.

the only problem i have with it is the characters are completely different and flat in comparison with the ova. like i always say it's the essentially space betty and cosmic veronica's wacky sci fi adventure starring" steve urkel with red hair, a cartoon character of every blond joke ever made and her serious lesbian sidekick, and that one little girl.

It's still good, its an expanded re-envisioning of the first ova  and really what it needs is a second and even third season so it could have moved past that and done something more original.

ryokos death still has me shook. like i forgot about it on the last rewatch and when she didn't come back until the last scene i was so confused.

also TV ayeka is worst waifu. 100 percent unredeemable and mean. so mean it made me hate ayeka in all of tenchi for a long time.

[Nanaten]

Kiyone deserves more love
Or at least compensation for being Mihoshi's partner

[EcchiOujisama]

It's very solid. I enjoy it quite a bit, although I prefer the OVAs overall. It's a fun take on the characters.

The ending is truly incredible, to say nothing of it going into Tenchi Muyo In Love. All these years later I still get chills every time I see that last segment with Tenchi walking. While the English dub was definitely a step down from OVA 1&2, even the dub nails that scene perfectly. 

I can't blame Kiyone one bit for celebrating Mihoshi's death. She deserves more than to be tied down by that braindead fool. I wouldn't even blame her if she looked both ways, shot Mihoshi with her space gun and told the GP she found Mihoshi like that. I feel so bad for Kiyone. I just want her to be happy.

If you thought the girls' personalities are warped in Universe Hellohi, they are far worse in Tenchi In Tokyo. The "nice" ones take on Aeka's worst traits from Universe and Aeka...really goes to hell. They're all so insufferable plain regular nice girl Sakuya becomes the best girl by default. Fujisawa from El Hazard making a cameo may be the only redeeming thing in the entire series.

[onimono]

I enjoyed it to an extent, but the mischaracterization of everyone gets on my nerves. Before OVA3 and the doujinshi, it turned me into a hardcore Ryoko x Tenchi shipper.

[Y_Anthony_Who]

No.


Edit: A part of me wants to rewatch it since I'm starving for Tenchi, but I know it's just going to piss me off. I hate flanderization, and all of the plot is gone. Jurai is nothing, the GP is nothing, nobody has a real backstory, there's no overarching narrative besides a cookie-cutter usurper storyline. I love Tenchi for the characters, the world, and the story, none of which is present in Tenchi Universe. I would actually enjoy it more if they'd just made their own non-characters instead of taking the names and likenesses of the Tenchi cast. I'm also in the minority that doesn't like Makibi Kiyone. So in summation, I hate it.

But make no mistake, I don't judge anyone else for liking it. Have fun. 

[Warmaster]

Yeah I loved Universe, I'd only put it marginally behind the OVA's.

I think it's because Tenchi goes off world and it has that GXP vibe of him seeing all these landscapes and cultures that are so alien.

[Monster Man]

TU was pretty solid imo. Despite tinkering with pre-established characters and the lack of world building, it still felt like a classic Tenchi experience at it's core, which to me is what matters most.

In fact a lot of older Tenchi titles had this sense of adventure cleverly mixed with goofy slice-of-life shenanigans. All that seems to be absent nowadays. 

[Gaston]

I really don't likes this series, mostly how badly it treat the characters personally thought that wouldn't have be that bad if some old fans didn't treat like the characters were the same in the OVA (just how many old fanfictions that suppose to take place in the OVA have Aeka as a super-bitch?). I do like Nagi and her pet (in fact the best thing in this series is the romance with Ryo-Ohki and....whatever was is name). The ghost episode was cute too.

But if you likes this series, I have no problem. Just don't mix it with the OVA.

[Harls]

I liked it more when I was younger, as time went on I could see the problems that others have already pointed out.
And my interest in it subsided.

[Maysiiu]

Definitely, it always feels to me more light hearted and easier watching than the OVA.

Partly that, and my convinced opinion that Nagi has the les-hots for Ryoko and it just makes it even funnier. The comedy is TU is top notch 90's anime, while OVA has a lot deeper and developed narrative.

I would love some real backstory of Ryoko/Ayeka relationship in TU, but isn't the exaggeration part of the beauty?

[BlackAeronaut]

I've seen a bit of Tenchi Universe...  And to me it felt about the same as one of those 0-calorie diet sodas - every bit as empty and false as you had imagined them to be.

I mean, sure, the LOOK is spot on, and all the same voice actors are there.  But everything else is different.  It really didn't take me very long to realize that when I saw it from the very first episode.  I was like, "Waitaminit.... WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?"

It seriously bothered me until I came to understand that multiple continuities were a thing in media, but man it was such culture shock that I don't think I could ever watch any of the 'alternative' continuities of Tenchi.  For me, the only thing that comes even close to Kajishima's original vision is the Okuda mangas... and even then, he flanderized Aeka so horribly...  (That is, he took her seeming ineffectiveness against Kagato and made her into the designated damsel-in-distress of the entire manga series.)