Anime: Tenchi Muyou! in Love

Quite.


Now, this is a lesson in futility, and when the point of reference is the Tenchi universe (whichever one really), this equates to an accomplishment of -nil.

But still!

There is something worth seeing here, even if it is a bit longer than it needed to be.

In a very literal sense, it looks better. But then, thats to be expected since there would be a bigger budget involved in the proceedings, and if they were going to make a Tenchi filum, it would not use the less that dynamic backgrounds that the serieses use. Indeed, a full 13 episodes of backgrounds are easily blown on here, and some of them are actually pretty good.

Unfortunately, the character animation is the same as ever, with nothing new or funky to justify the hour and a half that it presumes to demand of you, not a point scorer.

Sound, is same as ever, nothing new, nothing revolutionary ( besides the credits for the English version, which were weird). Everyone is the same, there are all of four new consequential characters, and probably less voice actors than that. so yawn.

The story is somehow contrived to have no effect on anything whatsoever,and its not a particularly gripping yarn at that. but still, the usual is given a better rendering this time round, so its not all bad.

SASAMI HAS NO IMPACT. If you need an explanation as to why this is a bad thing, you really shouldn't bother with this film, as its only real appeal is for folk who have not quite had enough of Tenchi etc to give up yet.

The entirety of this feature is a cash-in on what was a popular series, but it doesn't even try to be fresh like the film for the first continuity. So it follows that ..

you know what?

I don't really care anymore.

If you want this,especially if you want more of the same, by all means get it.
If you do not have a good reason to, do not bother.