1999 ‘天地無用! in LOVE2 ～遙かなる想い～’ Directed by Hiroshi Negishi
One day, Tenchi disappears in the forest near his house. Six months later, Ayeka and Ryoko locate Tenchi living in a city, but with a mysterious woman. What's more, Tenchi appears to have aged several years. Whenever Ayeka and Ryoko catch up to him, he disappears into thin air, apparently existing in a fabricated alternate dimension where he has no knowledge of his past.
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i loved this! its fucking weird and not at all in tone with the rest of the series but proves once and for all that the characters all have enough depth at a baseline for them to work in a setting and premise this naturalistic. proud of this movie for not feeling the obligation to go big for its climax. all around a maturation on the series with some ridiculously tight cinematography and a few scenes with some truly jaw-dropping animation. everything framed in closeup in this movie looks fucking amazing. thanks tenchi......
A sad but fitting send-off for the Tenchi series as it was when I knew it. This was the last time the original dubbing cast was together and it's bittersweet to say the least.
The animation is good, the music lovely (that song at the end is worth a star alone), and while the story is slow at times, I've realized where I was frustrated by it a lot when I was younger, I appreciate it a lot more now. Because I've come to appreciate the smaller moments in films overall that can happen in more emotional, somber movies like this one.
It's definitely a more mature outing for the Tenchi franchise and ultimately more fitting for the end. Maybe there will be another Tenchi movie in the future but I doubt it will ever have the same cast I grew up watching it with.
“I want you to know, I- I’ll never forget you, Haruna.”
“Yes you will. You must. Let the memory fade away, until there’s nothing left but a warm feeling in your heart.”
An absolute marvel. An incredibly bold move, to take a series built on harem-lite antics and breezy romcom innuendos and soft sci-fi escapades, and then make a movie where the conflict is that the main character is trapped in a completely different genre of anime. There’s really no overstating how bizarrely adult the central narrative is, how lived-in and quiet and intimate it is in a way that feels like Ghibli in full slice of life mode, how breathtakingly tender the scenes of physical intimacy are. I almost…
I feel nothing for this movie but loathing and hate for Tenchi. The human body has 150,000 kilometers of blood vessel. If I wrote hate on every milimeter of those vessels it would not be a point zero zero one percent of the hate I feel for Tenchi.
For some reason, they made what should have the end to Tenchi Muyo a self serious, melancholic mood piece not played up at all for hyucks. Every time I revisit this, I'm surprised by just how well it works.
A great way to put a night cap on the Tenchi Universe series. Ending the series with 2 films and leaving the audience with a sense of closure and full circle plot points coming to fruition. I'm not sure how it could get any better when it comes to saying so long Tenchi!
9/10
A suprisingly mature and meditative conclusion to a series who's selling point is asking the audience which alien broad they'd like to date. Even in the movie itself there's this strange tonal disonance between the ruminative almost mumble-core discussions on loss and nostalgia and the more high-concept sci fi set pieces though that gives it a unique charm.
I've been sitting here, trying to reckon with one of the loveliest sex scenes I've seen this year coming from a Tenchi movie. I've been trying to reckon with one of my favorite movies I've seen this year coming from a Tenchi movie. They stepped away from the heavy Star Wars influences and into a quieter, more naturalistic movie about how love can fall apart on itself when it comes from a place of selfishness. And then did it with absolutely mesmerizing cinematography in what is, again, part of the Tenchi franchise.
This movie is beautiful and has amazing vibes. After just finishing Tenchi in Tokyo, this movie is quite the whiplash because of how opposite it is. The characters being way more competent and feeling like they have more depth is a huge reason why the Universe continuity reigns supreme as the best iteration of the Tenchi cast. This film gives us the best moments of Ryoko and Ayeka's dynamic. This film along with the first Tenchi Muyo! in Love are this franchise's peak.
This one has easily the most sexually intimate scenes in the trilogy (maybe in the whole franchise). Shame it’s Tenchi and his grandfather’s extra-dimensional ex-girlfriend who has kidnapped him to live out a repressed domestic fantasy of modern Earth romance… because. This is the least exciting entry in the trilogy, but still interesting to see the dynamic of the gang all doing their own things instead of being cooped up in the same house.
Tenchi Muyo! In Love 2: Tenchi does fuck his grandpa’s ex-gf.
