Of course, having seen a bit of Tenchi again recently, it strikes me just how much each of the characters is SPACE [feudal fantasy type].

  • Aeka - SPACE Princess
  • Ryoko - SPACE Demon
  • Washu - SPACE Wizard
  • Tenchi - SPACE Chosen One Farmer Boy
  • Ryo-Ohki - SPACE fuzzy creature
  • Tenchi’s Ancestors - SPACE Ancestors

Mihoshi is of course a Space Constable and so on. Overall it’s still a chosen one farm boy warrior hero fantasy, but further emphasized by making the entire planet the backwater rural area.

And I can’t say I really object. It injects life into the setting and characters in a way that works for the kind of genre it is, and what is creativity but the finding new links between existing concepts?

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