Product Details

• Actors: Tenchi Universe
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
• DVD Release Date: December 26, 2000
• Run Time: 75 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004W9C3
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #141,309 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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The relative calm of the Masaki household is shattered when Kiyone gets a long-awaited promotion. She returns to Galactic Police Headquarters, hoping to get away from her disaster-prone partner, Mihoshi. Then Tenchi returns from school to find a ship from the planet Jurai has carried off not only his friends and relatives, but his house in Okayama as well!

A coup has taken place on Jurai: the legendary warrior Yosho has returned and installed himself as emperor. He's captured all the other claimants to the throne, including Crown Princesses Ayeka and Sasami. His soldiers also seize Ryoko, the space pirate. With the aid of Washu, his grandfather, and Ryo-Ohki (who conveniently turns into a space ship), Tenchi rescues the three prisoners. When Kiyone and Mihoshi learn about the Jurai crisis, they're naturally drawn into the fray, and soon the gang is on the lam together. To buy more fuel, they set up a karaoke bar-clip joint on the planet Concor, while dodging the Jurai military, the Galactic Police, and the interstellar bounty hunter Nagi. As fans know and expect, whenever Tenchi and his friends appear, chaos and comedy are never far behind.

Rated for ages 13 and up for cartoon violence and drinking. --Charles Solomon

Product Description
Fugitives! Tenchi an dthe girls are wanted throughout the galaxy for attempting to overthrow the Jurai government as they flee through space to Jurai to clear their names. With the Galaxy Police and the Jurai Military on their trail, they have very little itme to try and find out who framed them, especially when they have no money and they just ran out of gas!

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ahh, A Plot Emerges..., January 22, 2001

By	Carl Malmstrom (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews

As I rewatch the original Tenchi Muyo TV series - this time on DVD - I find myself liking it even more than I did the first time. Aside from being generally light and entertaining, the animation for the series is quite light and well done - almost direct-to-video (OAV) quality.

For the fifth (of eight) discs in the series, Tenchi, his family and his friends find themselves suddenly (literally) pulcked from Earth and into space - and a plot. With the series now halfway over, the characters of Tenchi have left behind the character development, the light silliness and the few pieces of foreshadowing presented in discs one through four in favor of a political mystery on Ayeka and Sasami's homeworld, a a galactic game of cat-and-mouse and, oh yes, some serious silliness.

While I enjoyed the four discs before this one, it was nice to actually feel that there is a driving plot and direction in the series. The mood in this disc does stay relatively light, but it foreshadows the increased drama of the future episodes.

In terms of the quality of the DVD release itself, I am continually glad that Pioneer included the episodes uncut for the DVD release - with full openings and endings for each episode (something they did not do for the VHS release). The digital extras are minimal - line art and character data - but welcome in the sense that anything was given to a disc this late in the series is nice. The finger puppets that come with the early pressings of each disc are adorable and have become a point of curiousity for me as I work my way through the discs wondering who the next group of "super-deformed" Tenchi characters made into finger-puppet form will be.

If you're working your way through the series, definitely get this disc. If you want to start watching Tenchi in its original form but find the earlier, plot-light episodes a bit too much to handle, this might be a better place to start again. Either way, it's a DVD worth getting.

5.0 out of 5 stars In volume 5 things get more....complex., June 19, 2004

By	Michael Valdivielso (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

First Kiyone's request for a transfer has been approved and she has been promoted and has been assigned to HQ. While this is going on Ayeka, Sasami and Ryoko are arrested by Jurai military. Ayeka and Sasami were arrested for high treason and Ryoko was arrested because the Jurai realized she was a wanted space pirate. With help from Mihoshi and Kiyone, Tenchi and the rest of the gang are able to rescue the girls, with help from Ryo-Ohki who basicly turns into a spaceship while still INSIDE The Jurai warship. Just think about the repair bills!
It seems the new Emperor, Yosho, has been approved by the Jurai Planetary Council. Yosho happens to be the name of a noble prince who was thought to have died many years ago after REFUSING the throne. Why would he come back?
Back at Police HQ, both Mihoshi and Kiyone get in trouble when Mihoshi overhears a Jurai agent plotting with a Galaxy Police Official. It seems Ayeka is to be turned over to the Emperor the second the police find her. Mihoshi, in fact, helps save Kiyone from capture as only Mihoshi can! They end up joining the rest of the fugitives.
In the last episode of the DVD we find the gang low on spaceship fuel and they don't dare go to a gas station. So the gang goes to a heavily populated planet where they can mix in with the crowds. There the girls end up getting jobs as hostesses and dish washers while the male folk get jobs at the same bar as bartenders, doormen and so on. They end up blowing up the bar and being chased by police, only to escape because Nagi refuses to let anybody catch Ryoko but herself. In other words she fires on the police!
Now the gang are terrorists and they still don't know what's going on!

5.0 out of 5 stars No Need for Space, April 25, 2002

By	Drez (Barberton, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This 5th volume of the Tenchi Universe starts out normal enough. But, a Jurai spaceship comes and takes Tenchi's house and all of his friends from outer space. It seems Aekya, Sasami and Ryoko were all arrested by the orders of Yosho, the new ruler of Jurai. Tenchi, Washu, Tenchi's grandfather saves Aekya, Sasami and Ryoko from the Jurai battleship.
Soon, everyone is most wanted by the Gaxaly Police, even Kiyone and Mioshi. Tenchi's grandfather suggested that they all go to Jurai and find out what's happening there. So, the entire group is heading for Jurai. Things are getting Interesting.