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Apr 20, 2018
"Look, a bear has come out of hibernation and is airing out its futon!" - probably the only good part of this film. I'm sharing it so you don't have to watch the whole thing. Okay, older Tenchi with long hair is nice, too.

For whatever reason this film has the worst art style of all three films, while simultaneously getting what looks like a technical upgrade. Faces are squashed. Ears are rectangular. Bodies are smushed. Most of the time the art team cannot seemingly draw boobs in clothing.

I have a thought that maybe the anime team/production company thought "okay, we had a movie where the team stalks a teenager the whole film, then the Christmas alien kidnap film, now what? Oh, I know, we'll have Tenchi get kidnapped, brainwashed, and sexually assaulted the whole film with a sort of thriller-esque tone as brainwashed Tenchi sort of gets that he's in an abusive relationship but can't do much about it because Haruna is too powerful I guess."

I'm also not sure what Haruna gets out of it. Sure, she's still in love with Yosho and maybe sexually attracted to Tenchi, but the first time we see them have sex she doesn't seem that thrilled. I'm not sure if it's a physical thing or because it's a psychologically empty relationship or something (I mean it's pretty clear she basically temporarily lobotomized him by screwing with his memories so anything she gets out of it would have to be purely physical). The movie apparently wants you to feel bad for her (see the umbrella scene; like oh no, she had to wait in the rain for a bit and move away from the entrance to a store, such tragic... 9_9) but like... she's doing a lot of really awful stuff so... um... no?

But we finally get an improvement over the dub :D dub!Yosho crying out for Haruna is awful. in the sub the voice actor did a far better job. Yippee!

Skip this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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