OVA 4 Info Thread

[Eff Efferson]

Hah, I knew it! I knew there was a reason they were dropping so many references to GXP besides fanservice!

Really cool to see a grown-up Seina. Now I"m curious to see how much Seina will contribute to Kenshi's training/upbringing. Perhaps the novels explain this, but does Seina have anything special to contribute for training Kenshi besides his mecha pilot skill-ooooooohhh

seina and mihoshi specificly are credited with using their abnormal probability vectors to help  train kenshi. mihoshis is positive seinas is negative so

oh wait someone beat me to it... i never considered he was also helping eith mech pioliting

[Ricin]

Makes me wonder how the episode will end. Will it be with Tenchi and Seina's families watching Kenshi battling Gaia or will it end with Kenshi being sent to Geminar?

You can split the difference. OAV 4 can end with sending Kenshi. OAV  4+1 can end with them watching the Geminar fight.

[Ricin]

Hah, I knew it! I knew there was a reason they were dropping so many references to GXP besides fanservice!

Really cool to see a grown-up Seina. Now I"m curious to see how much Seina will contribute to Kenshi's training/upbringing. Perhaps the novels explain this, but does Seina have anything special to contribute for training Kenshi besides his mecha pilot skill-ooooooohhhh.

Amane and Gyoukuren (sp?) showing up too is a surprise. I wonder how much screen time they will have.

I hope the OVA has sold well enough so that we can to go into OVA 5 soon, instead of ending on a blatant sequel hook.

I am not sure ZINV would allow Kenshi to pilot it. Also Kenshi was said to learn his piloting ability from Dagmyer's crew.

Also when they were discussing Kenshi's upbringing and fail condition he was pretty much surrounded by all of the GXP girls. There is also the scene with Mexiah where Kenshi states that he had same the look in her eyes from Aunts, grandmothers and so on. That needs to show up in the montage too.

Quotes from ISM Subs:

Kenshi: You have a scary look in your eyes, Ma'am. Am I just imagining things, or are you about to teach me what's applicable or abnormal?
Mexiah: You're Imagining things!
Kenshi: You're lying! I am not imagining things! I have sister-in-laws, aunts and grandmas who get that same mischievous look in their eyes!

Also the bottom left hand inlet of this picture is what I am talking about when I say he is surounded by the GXP girls.

https://e-hentai.org/s/f4fdf12905/676809-12

[Ryo-Okay]

Episode 4 got delayed until September 13

https://twitter.com/tenchi4th/status/888219290230431744

[CajunShaun]

 

[Harls]

If that's what it takes to make it properly...

[WarOmnimon]

THIS.  SO much this.  I'm actually upset with AIC right now.  They were on a roll and then suddenly a delay?  They seriously can't afford this on the 25th anniversary year after the 20th anniversary failed.

If that's what it takes to make it properly...

Which is only a 2 week delay.  I don't think that's making it properly stuff... that's actually suspicious.  If it was 3 weeks or even a month, then yeah, I'd hear you on that... but it's only 2 weeks.  That just screams of something fishy going on to me.  So sorry, can't agree with you on this one.

[Tenchi10]

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[Monster Man]

Episode 4 got delayed until September 13

Paaaaaatience is key.

[Ricin]

In a weird way this works for me.

I had Dragon Con the day the OAV dropped in Japan. I would have been unable to download it for a week or so anyway.

Sucks for the delay I would love to know the reason.

[WarOmnimon]

Sucks for the delay I would love to know the reason.

Same here.  Though with the delay being only 2 weeks, I don't think it has anything to do with the episode itself.  Given anime production and stuff, especially for an OVA series, it would have been delayed 3 weeks or more if it was something in the episode that was messed up and had to be corrected.  Common sense dictates that.

Anyway, if I was a guessing man... I'd have to say that AIC's crowdfunded Megazone sequel / reboot hitting the stretch goal for its first PV has something to do with this.  Maybe they halted work on the episode so they could get that out top priority given the fact that it's crowdfunded?  If that's the case, it makes me REALLY glad that AIC sold Tenchi to Kadokawa (As noted earlier in the thread), because that combined with episode 4 being the finale means we won't have to put up with these kind of holdups for much longer.  But like I said, this is just a guess, because we don't know details.

TLDR Given that it's only a 2 week delay, I highly doubt it's something related to the episode of the OVA itself.  If it was 3 weeks or more, yeah... but it's not.  It's likely something unrelated to the OVA and / or just AIC being shady.

[Eff Efferson]

if kadokawa has indeed bought tenchi it will be glorious for all of us. or super incredibly awful... i mean they also have to get kajishima's other works with it or else that could ruin so much. :/     AIC is a mess of a company. they have so many good titles and no idea how to manage them.

[antvasima]

I would appreciate if somebody could provide a link to the news of AIC selling Tenchi Muyo to Kadokawa. Thank you.

[WarOmnimon]

I would appreciate if somebody could provide a link to the news of AIC selling Tenchi Muyo to Kadokawa. Thank you.

It was mentioned earlier in the thread that the deal has been made while I was vocally talking about why I found it strange that Crunchyroll, etc didn't license OVA 4 yet even for subs only, but it hasn't been made official via a news release or anything.  At this point, I don't expect the announcement until OVA 4 is over.  It was Tsundere89 who mentioned it, and I quote...

I have a source who pretty close to the anime industry and knows people both in Japan and  in the US.  According to his contact at Funimation the likelihood of Funimation picking up OVA 4 is rather slim.   Their are a few reasons for this.  1. Their are too many references  and unknown characters from the GXP light novels  which nobody has access to in the states as they are untranslated and 2  Tenchi related blue rays discs have not sold very well. Funimation is considering giving up the original Ova license in 2020.  Also i have received some news from the industry in Japan.  The announcement has not been formally announced yet but Kadokawa have bought Tenchi.

There ya go. 

if kadokawa has indeed bought tenchi it will be glorious for all of us. or super incredibly awful... i mean they also have to get kajishima's other works with it or else that could ruin so much. :/     AIC is a mess of a company. they have so many good titles and no idea how to manage them.

I think that they'd only have to buy Dual at minimum.  Buying Photon and Agga Rutter might help, but it isn't necessary unless they want to go further into certain aspects of the canon.  As noted before (In fact, I believe you may have been the one who did so), Masquerade and Anata Dake Konbanwa don't really fit into Tenchi canon, even though the Tenchi-ken appears in Konbanwa... but as noted, that's likely just an Easter Egg.  Dual, Photon, and AR, on the other hand, DO (Dual for its connections to GXP, Photon for its connections to WoG, and AR because of the Shank guild and so forth).  In fact, given that Photon and AR's own characters don't appear in Tenchi canon (Unlike Dual whose characters DO appear), they might not even need to buy those two.  Just Dual would be enough.

...and you know, given that Photon and AR are both inactive and haven't gotten anything in ages, yeah.  I think Kadokawa would just need to buy Dual to keep things consistent.  They wouldn't need the other stuff.  And then there's the situation that AR is the odd man out compared to Tenchi, Photon, and Dual due to being hentai... but then we'd be straying off course too much. 

[Eff Efferson]

they would have to get dual isekai and gxp (i mean i guess they sort of have it already? but i think it's a licensed thing..)

honestly i'm not sure how the rights work in japan... but it just seems all kinds of complicated when you consider how much of AIC's works all reference and use other AIC characters...  do the scenes in other aic shows which have tenchi cameos have to be cut out in newer releases? do scenes that give el hazard characters cameos need to be cut? is there a grandfather clause? are they getting the tenchi tv shows?  why are aic selling their first franchise? so many questions.

would they have to get photon as well based on the technicality that koro in isekai is basicly the same character design and name from photon?

:/ im sure they will make it work.