Most likely, if you buying a Tenchi manga, it's because you're a Tenchi fan. Recapping the OAV anime series at the beginning was a waste of time and space. (And the fact that the original anime was nowhere near being completed at the time this manga series was started, well, it was forced to take the characters down its own particular timeline.)
Which is fine with me, because I always had a greater interest in watching these characters bounce off each other, as well as whatever immediate predicament they were facing, than worrying about where they were ultimately fated to end up.
As you see in the other reviews, this story has the gang dealing with a Ryoko double. Not a terribly original premise, but in the right hands, it could be milked for a lot of fun.
Okuda is talented enough to make the characters look and act right, but he shows a certain laziness in this volume by depicting the action scenes in too many frames as a bunch of abstract wavy lines. Something like what a little kid might draw in order to show a fight taking place. Add to this the fact that the story is not resolved within this volume leads to a feeling of undersatisfaction.
However, as Tenchi fans are resigned to the idea that they will be getting the successive volumes sooner or later, anyway, this will not trouble them too much. Since I fall into that same boat, I can only hope that this series improves in the volumes that follow.
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