New 'Tenchi Muyou! GXP' Anime 'Paradise Shidou-hen' Announced

Video game publishing company EXNOA announced a new anime for Tenchi Muyou! GXP subtitled Paradise Shidou-hen on Friday. The company also opened an official page, revealing a teaser visual (pictured above). The new anime is commemorating the 30th anniversary of the franchise.

Masaki Kajishima, the original creator, is supervising and drawing the original character designs. Screenwriter Hideki Shirane (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka) is once again credited for the script and series composition. EXNOA is in charge of production, with its animation label KINEMATICS being credited as the studio.

Tenchi Muyou! GXP: Paradise Shidou-hen will feature a new story for the main character Seina Yamada, serving as a prologue to the Paradise War arc in the story. The story is also connected to the fourth and fifth season of Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki released in 2016–2017 and 2020–2021.

Kajishima launched the Tenchi Muyou! franchise in 1992, which has inspired four spin-off television anime and multiple movie, manga, and light novel adaptations. The original video animation series spanned for 20 episodes over three seasons.

The Tenchi Muyou! GXP spin-off, produced by animation studio AIC, aired in 26 episodes from Spring to Fall in 2002. Funimation licensed the anime in North America and released it on eighth DVD volumes in 2004, with boxsets in 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2012.

Announcement


Official site: https://kinematics.jp/tenchi-gxp/
Official Twitter: @tenchi4th

Source: Anime Recorder

Tenchi Muyou! GXP: Paradise Shidou-hen on MAL