The characters most important in Tenchi canon. Once again, the OVA will take precedence here. As the tabletop Tenchi game encourages players to simply play as the main cast, most important ones are given stats.
- Tenchi Masaki
The titular star of the series, Tenchi Masaki is the culmination of the Choushin's manipulations to engineer the birth of the ultimate higher-dimensional being. In essence, he is the living vessel of the entity that best suits the title of "God". He is a human/Jurain/Airai mix, the result of several generations strengthened by notable amounts of inbreeding - his dad, Nobuyuki, is Tenchi's grandfather Yosho's descendant of an unknown number of generations by Yosho's human wife Kasumi, whilst his mom Kiyone was Yosho's youngest half-human daughter.
Tenchi is a kind-hearted, good-natured, sweet-tempered and sincere sort of boy, with the right mixture of innocence, friendliness, chivalry, trust and understanding that causes him to draw women like a magnet draws iron filings. He is also very forgiving, being quick to befriend Ryoko despite believing her to be an evil being who tried to kill him and has shown much mercy on his villains (in Tenchi in Tokyo, he confronted Yugi with a light slap to end her monologue about death and destruction followed a hug despite everything she done including trying to kill most his friends). By the end of the series he becomes a living conscience to Ryoko by being one of the few individuals in her long life to see her as a woman rather than a weapon, experiment, or monster, and after taking a deal of abuse from Ayeka they form a relationship of equals without social expectations rather than peasant and princess. He allows Mihoshi to stay in his home despite her causing MASSIVE bills through constantly destroying the house, puts up with Washu's periodic kidnappings and experimentation, and despite being uncomfortable with the idea of a relationship with a small cat/rabbit animal with the mind of a child who can turn into a woman he humors her and in time reciprocates her feelings.
Much of the series' internal romantic conflict is born of the fact that all of the various love interests want him, but he sincerely wants to make them happy and not only has bonded to all of them, but he can't bear to hurt any by choosing one. Fortunately, as a Jurain royal-heir, polygamy is not only legal for him, but expected; once the ladies accept that they would rather share him than lose him, they all marry him and eventually bear his children.
Tenchi appears to be an average-looking Japanese man in his late teens to early twenties, with a small frame but muscular from his years of martial arts training, his childhood spent outdoors on the Masaki Shrine grounds, and life working the fields of the self-sufficient shrine. His hair is black and short, with a rat-tail in the back.
Because his mother Kiyone died while he was very young, his sister Tennyo left for space as a result, and his nurse Rea following suit as soon as he was an adolescent, Tenchi's formative years had very little female influence outside of visitors to his grandfather's shrine and the old woman who runs a hotsprings his family would take vacations to. As a result he tends to treat women like guests or family members, frustrating his father after the women start arriving in the Masaki house with Tenchi making no romantic passes at any of them. He also has difficulty understanding women, being confused at both ends of the spectrum by Ryoko's openness towards sexuality or nudity and well as her general non-feminine nature as well as Ayeka's behavior in regards to courtship and strict predetermined gender roles. Being a young man with no romantic experience, throughout the series he is highly nervous when situations like his father and grandfather peeping on the girls or the various methods of the women in his life courting him occur. He may have something of a minor emotional complex regarding his mother as when Washu (a woman who regularly makes romantic advances on him either in the interest of studying his sperm or in having a child) cared for his nephew he was visibly uncomfortable with her telling him the way she was holding the baby was the same way his mother held him, and showed a much more startled reaction to hearing Mihoshi bathing with said baby and saying "No, stop that, I can't make milk yet!" than Ryoko sticking her hand down his pants and fondling him in front of the entire rest of the household. Furthermore, he showed his rare genuine anger when he found out his mother was much less gentle and caring than he remembered her to be, with her actual care bordering somewhat on abuse.
Tenchi is something of the only sane man of the crew, being the most level-headed and rational-thinking of them all. He often finds himself overwhelmed by the craziness his various love-interests get up to. When actual danger is present however, Tenchi becomes impatient and will act rather than plan in order to save the lives of others.
He is incredibly slow to anger, although once he's reached that state his innate Jurai powers manifest. Only with the use of his grandfather's Master Key (devices carved from the wood of Jurai trees that are bound to royal trees) which resembles a sword hilt, the Tenchi-ken (possibly his namesake), can he control them and reach his full potential early on in the series.
After being nearly killed when his lower body was blown off by a laser destroying the ship Ryu-Oh he was in while attempting to rescue Ryoko from Kagato in the first season, Azaka and Kamidake placed him in a protective barrier that kept him alive long enough for Tsunami's spirit to contact him and heal his wounds. Only after that point was be able to access Jurai powers exceeding even his grandfather, gaining three lines on his forehead that glow blue when expending Jurai energy. Lighthawk Wings are a representation of Tsunami's power, and are virtually always only manifested by tree-ships made from Tsunami's firstborn trees in Jurai's fleet. Tenchi can manifest 3 after his first near-death experience around his body. To illustrate how impressive that is, any more than 10 Wings manifesting in the 3rd dimension would cause it to collapse in on itself (so even having a ship that can make 3 is a big deal, physically making 3 is unheard of). He also gained a silver ring he wears on the middle finger of his right hand where a Jurai battle suit emerges from (although he cannot remove it, as doing so simply activates it). After manifesting Lighthawk Wings the suit becomes much more elaborate, resembling Jurai royalty rather than soldiery. While the Wings are present he can use one of them as a sword of immense power. Some fans, and the writers of the RPG book, theorize it was actually Ayeka teaching him to control Ryu-Oh's Lighthawk Wings shortly before being cut in half that granted him the ability to use them rather than Tsunami's contact.
Tenchi manifests as "god" when killed by Z in the third season, which almost destroyed all of reality. As his return to the divine had been forced unnaturally and (painfully) progressed through the dimensions that make up reality like Alice Liddell eating a mushroom and going through a house, it was impeded long enough for him to regain control of his godlike self through his mortal self's love of family. He proceeded to calm the mortal manifestation of the concept of destruction, the opposite to the Choushin, by kissing it and draining its power before the two vanished. He returned later in a resurrected mortal body. After this Tenchi is able to call upon much more Jurai power, manifesting 6 Lighthawk Wings rather than only 3. In the continued comics, Tenchi is considered a noble of Jurai despite not being from Jurai by birth, being of mixed blood outside Jurai citizens (including a people somewhat hostile to Jurai politically), and not being bonded to any Jurai tree-ship. It is possible his ability to manifest the Lighthawk Wings is considered an equivalent by the court or that Azusa made some form of proclamation.
Due to Yosho telling Tenchi ghost stories as a youth, Tenchi is somewhat easily scared by the paranormal and has worse than average reaction to death and the idea of corpses. This quickly vanishes when seemingly any kind of explanation is offered, being paralyzed with fear by the idea of a ghost only to immediately relax when told it was only the soul of an ancient alien god of unknownable power possessing a little girl...
- Body 5 Mind 4 Soul 11
- HP 80 Energy Points 125 Attack Combat Value 8 Defense Combat Value 6 Total Character Points 55 Total Skill Points 40
- Attributes
- Combat Mastery L2,
- Divine Relationship L2,
- Energy Bonus L5,
- Highly Skilled L2,
- Item of Power (Master Key) L3,
- Jurai Power L5,
- Speed L1
- Jurai Power Sub-Attributes
- Battle Costume L1,
- Force Field (extendable)
- Lighthawk Wings Shield, Stops 105 (Uses Energy 2x) L5
- Energy Shield, Stops 75 (Uses Energy) L4
- Space Flight L2
- Special Attacks
- Lighthawk Sword, Damage 80 L6
- Field-penetrating, No Rejuvenation, Contact, Uses Energy x2
- Energy Sword, Damage 70 L5
- Field-penetrating, Contact, Uses Energy
- Skills
- Acrobatics (Balance) L2
- Gardening (Vegetable) L1
- Melee Attack (Sword) L2
- Melee Defense (Sword) L2
- Ranged Defense (Personal) L1
- Sleight of Hand (Pick Pocketing) L1
- Stealth (Silent Movement) L1
- Unarmed Defense (Striking) L1
- Defects
- Girl Magnet 1
- Item Dependency (Master Key) 1
- Latent Jurai Power 1
- Weakened Jurai Power 2
- Latent Jurai Power
- Lighthawk Wings, Lighthawk Sword, and Space Flight (Only useable in danger or emotional duress)
- Battle Costume (Not in control of when it will appear)
- Energy Sword (Difficulty manifesting outside of danger)
- Energy Sword/Energy Shield (Requires Master Key to use)
- Master Key
- Must accept rightful owner, has moderate sentience, lineage of Masaki or worthy wielder in extreme situations only.
- Control Jurai tree-ships and access their logs remotely.
- Deals 40 points of Field-Penetrating electric damage per round to anyone attempting to hold the Master Key who is unworthy of it, 60 points when connected to a ::Jurai tree. Will not harm Jurai nobility unless it recognizes them as an enemy of it's primary master.
- Immediately manifests Jurai power to those successfully using it, regardless of ordinary degree of training. Does nothing for those without potential for Jurai power.
- Yosho and Tenchi require it to perform advanced Jurai powers.
- Can contain Washu's gems, granting additional powers. At will, these gems may be returned to Ryoko or Washu or restored to the Master Key.
- Ryoko Hakubi
After the trauma of having her son stolen from her began to clear from her mind, Washu felt a surge of maternal loneliness. Having begun experimenting with the polymorphic protoplasmic entity called Mass, she decided to make herself a new child; she extracted an ovum, fused it with Mass, and energized the hybrid to become Ryoko, her new daughter. Washu's emotional trauma had rendered her cruel however, and Ryoko was treated as an experiment rather than a daughter. After seizing on the opportunity to escape with Washu's three mysterious gems and Ryo-Ohki, Ryoko became a notorious space pirate. What exactly she did during these years is never brought up. She became the single most notorious and feared space pirate to ever live, however whatever she did was not considered sufficiently antagonistic to put her on the Galaxy Police's "Eternally Wanted" list and whatever crimes she committed in her early life were canceled by the statute of limitations. She repeatedly exhibits a great deal of pride in this period and still thinks of herself as a great space pirate warlord.
Unfortunately, Washu's accidental creation, Kagato, sealed Washu away and abducted Ryoko to force her into serving him. Ryoko became his absolute slave, terrorizing the galaxy under Kagato's command for ages before making a blatant assault on Jurai itself causing massive widespread death and damage; there, the current Royal Heir, Yosho Masaki Jurai, led a one-man attack to capture her after she fled. The two shot each other down on Earth, and Yosho sealed Ryoko away inside of cave around which he built himself a shrine. There, she remained as a mummy for over 700 years, and during that time she learned to project her spirit and observe the world. She spent Tenchi's childhood following him around the lands surrounding the Masaki shrine, initially as mere entertainment although after watching Tenchi grieve his grandmothers death and seeing him grow up mostly alone she felt kinship and longed to physically meet him and play games. As a young adult Tenchi unsealed her from her tomb and accidentally returned the gems that give her power, allowing her to rejuvenate and leave her prison which directly led to Tenchi's life taking its official turn for the weird.
She followed him to his school and waited until he was alone to appear, and due to her lack of social skills attacked him with enough force to destroy a large chunk of the campus in a game of cat and mouse. By calling out her attacks and giving him time to safely evade energy beams that could explode with the force of dynamite, she reasoned it really was just a game in which she had the advantage. After he accidentally cut off her hand with the Master Key and reclaimed one of her gems, she made a show of regrowing her hand instantly and when he apologized for hurting her she let out an amused chuckle and vanished. She went to wait for him in his bed, having decided he would make a good consort although her seduction was interrupted when Ayeka appeared, having been drawn by her ship picking up a power like Yosho's. Ayeka quickly established herself as an enemy by attacking Ryoko with intent to kill, and later potential rival when Ryoko heard that Tenchi and Ayeka had taken refuge from a storm in a shed together for the night. Ryoko was quick to become territorial, and Ayeka became the target of any frustration she had throughout the series. In time Ryoko's lust would grow to genuine love as Tenchi remained one of the few beings who had ever treated her like a person with thoughts and feelings, and when his disapproval of killing or abandoning responsibility threatened their connection she began to develop a sense of right and wrong as well.
Ryoko appears to be a somewhat muscular, otherwise lean woman in her mid 20's with yellow eyes that sometimes glow and a very large mane of unkempt teal hair that reaches halfway down her back and equally long sideburns in the front. She has pronounced canine teeth like her mother, and long ears that are round at the end rather than pointed like an Elf. In her initial leisure costume it appears as if she has a tail, although in reality it is a part of her belt that responds to her emotions (curling, tensing, and so on) and is not present in a costume she grows on her body when in battle, or when she is naked. Whenever sitting she is almost always cross-legged and likes to hover in midair in this position, and when asleep at night can be found lying on top of a ceiling beam somewhere in the Masaki house rather than in a bed (although she does from time to time sleep in one like the others, and when Tenchi is away will claim his bed to herself). She is a heavy sleeper and can not only sleep through a small battle happening in the room below her, but can actually be rolled around and shot with laser beams without stirring. In Japanese, Ryoko uses quite a lot of slang words, talks in a way normally associated with thuggish male characters, and mixes in English words from time to time. In English, she speaks in an alto voice similar to other "sexy action heroines" in translated anime like Faye Valentine.
Ryoko has myriad powers of her own, thanks to being a hybrid of a Choushin-avatar and Mass, including levitation, intangibility, regeneration, super strength, and hurling energy blasts. When empowered by all three gems, she has the powers available to an omnipotent Choushin although she is limited in practice by what her body can physically handle and what she has the desire to do; with only two she can easily split herself into two versions of herself acting independently of each other, use many different kinds of attacks like shooting small fragments of her hair like needles or forming explosive bursts of energy, heal from anything that does not kill her almost instantly, and seemingly cannot be harmed by extreme heat or shockwaves including direct explosions. At one point in the comics Sasami accidentally drops a precision cooking knife, shattering the blade edge until Ryoko simply pinches her fingers and slides the knife through them sharpening it instantly.
She can pool some of the energy still left in her body to create fake replacement gems, which keep her alive and healthy. Without any gems she loses much of her power and will decay into an unliving mummy, although it isn't clear if she is capable of being truly killed. The gems she controls will sink into her body, one in each wrist and the final gem in her abdomen. Despite being an adult (she considers herself 2,000 years old, although she was created before that and may only consider her "birth" the date of her escape from Washu) she will continually recover from the damage her 700 years as a mummy caused then stronger still until one day she actually use all three gems in the same way the fully empowered goddess version of Washu could. She has a bad tendency to forget the direct correlation between her access to her gems and her power limits; for example, she can summon "demons" made of energy with only the one gem, but she needs at least two to be able to control them. Despite Washu's omnipotent knowledge also being present in the gems, Ryoko never accesses it. It's unknown if she can or is even aware of it.
Ryoko is brash and arrogant - truthfully, her life has left her a lot more messed up than she cares to admit. Though she acts the part of the carefree, laidback, hard-fighting partygirl, she's also got quite a few vulnerabilities. Any suggestion of her as a monster or a corpse either causes her to go into a rage without restraint of her powers or openly crying depending on the source and her current emotional vulnerability. She feels a great deal of guilt for what she did under Kagato's control, and despite her name being cleared later on and the Emperor of Jurai granting her a pardon both for her actions and the financial damages, any reference to the destruction she wrought can sober her out of even outright murderous intent. Though the most casually flirtatious and sexual of Tenchi's love interests, she also has one of the deepest bonds to him, having watched over him in astral form since he was very young and forming an intense love for him as a result of seeing him grow up. In the alternate continuity of the anime series (Tenchi Universe), this leads to her being promoted as more of the Official Love Interest than just One Of The Love Interests. She has a greatly stunted sense of social expectations and norms, and her behavior is split between a woman finally able to experience childhood (as she spends days doing activities that she saw Tenchi do as a small boy like fishing by the stream near her cave, as well as playing video games on what appears to be a Gameboy Pocket) and a street thug (drinking all day every day, looking for any excuse to fight with anyone, and taking advantage of an opportunity to spread her notoriety). She has absolutely no concept of the idea of motherhood prior to actually becoming one as Washu had only cared for her in the way a researcher would keep a specimen alive, Ryo-Ohki shared a mental bond and only had a slightly above animal degree of intelligence, and Ryoko's observations of Kiyone and Tennyo were of something bordering on abuse. After absorbing a computer AI named Zero created by Dr. Clay which had been given a Mass body and programmed to feel her same emotions (without her insecurities) in order to infiltrate the household and kidnap Tenchi, Ryoko dropped most of her facades and behaved according to how she felt openly which lead to becoming closer to Tenchi and Ayeka. Despite having a soft side and mental scars, Ryoko is extremely confident and only actual betrayal can shake her (displayed best in another series, Tenchi In Tokyo, where Tenchi openly romancing a woman outside the household caused her to immediately return to space in tears to return to her space pirate life, and after believing Mihoshi had tried to use their friendship to apprehend her became vicious and notorious once more).
Ryoko does not get on with Ayeka at all for the bulk of the series across all canons (with the exception of the Pretty Sammy universe), and they are most serious "rivals" for Tenchi's heart - Ayeka's attitude and history as a pampered princess both manage to rub Ryoko the wrong way, and she responds by pricking Ayeka right where it hurts; in her own overinflated ego. The fact Ayeka immediately attacked Ryoko upon finding her to avenge the loss of Yosho and the destruction wrought on Jurai began the antagonism, which only worsened from there with Ryoko's one attempt at getting along resulting in (a very drunk) Ayeka laughing about the idea a mummy pirate romancing a lost nobleman of Jurai causing (an also incredibly drunk) Ryoko to cry. This began to change when the two had to work together to save Tenchi's life on the Soja. Their relationship progresses to periodic full-power sparring over pranks and matters like Ryoko stealing food from her plate during meals or Ayeka making not-so veiled references to Ryoko's age or imprisonment, and eventually the two manage to settle down to a level where they realize that they cannot remember the last time they even argued.
Likewise, Ryoko is not receptive to Washu's attempts to bond with her and form a mother and daughter relationship. Ryoko only knew Washu in the abstract during her childhood as a towering and cruel figure that she feared more than anything else, and had no memories of any actual meeting of either her or Kagato as an adult (merely his orders and life as a slave on the Soja). When finally meeting her first captor, an adolescent girl that critiqued her body before asking to be called "mommy" that then immediately turned into a fully-grown woman and attempted to seduce Tenchi, Ryoko responded predictably with open hostility. Washu would spend most of their new relationship trying to control Ryoko (such as electrocuting her painfully to her to keep her in the house while Ayeka enjoyed a date with Tenchi earned from a wager between the two), verbally abusing her (critiquing Ryoko's adult body with "Your breasts are sagging." and periodically bringing up any and every misdeed Ryoko ever committed in conversation for the purpose of causing her guilt), experimenting on her using restraints Ryoko could not break, and otherwise simply being shut away in her lab and being a non-factor. The acquired sadistic streak runs deep in Washu, and when Ryoko was emotionally vulnerable for the first time around her after absorbing Zero she immediately locked Ryoko away in a dark claustrophobic room with a live camera feed and gleefully recorded it when Ryoko broke down weeping and begged her as "mommy" to be let go. The turning point in their relationship came in a comic where Washu decided to turn Ryoko back into a toddler for her own amusement until she called her "mommy" in front of the rest of the household. Upon actually hearing a toddler version Ryoko calling her this however, Washu suddenly felt the repressed guilt of having spent that portion of Ryoko's life keeping her in a cage like an animal, and hugged with tears in her eyes resulting in a confused Ryoko gently hugging her back with Ayeka's laughter dying at the sight of the scene (although upon Washu then attempting to make Ryoko call Tenchi "daddy", Ryoko broke a table over her head). The two are able to speak telepathically when near each other, and Washu has the same degree of control over Ryoko that Kagato did although only once in the comics did she actually use it and only to force Ryoko to hold off from attacking and possibly killing someone innocent.
Early on Ryoko had a short temper around Mihoshi, and after the house is demolished during a peaceful nap on the roof Ryoko physically threw her ship into space telling her to never come back. Nobuyuki was angered by this and took Ryoko aside to tell her that Mihoshi garnishes her wages to try to repay him for house repairs (which is not nearly enough). After that Ryoko develops more respect (or at least tolerance) for her. Ryoko's exploits made her very familiar with Galaxy Police command, patrols, policies, and uniforms, more so than Mihoshi herself.
Ryoko is fond of Sasami, although upon realizing that Sasami would grow up to become Tsunami she began to see her as a potential rival, telling her that any attempt to date Tenchi is against the law and she'd be put to death for it (Ayeka immediately stepped in and said it was a lie, although at Ryoko suggesting Tenchi could develop a Lolita-complex if Sasami pursued him Ayeka told Sasami the actual punishment is being banished from civilization instead to Ryoko's amusement).
Ryoko resents Katsuhito for his defeat of her and for her imprisonment, although as the events lead to her finding Tenchi and being freed from Kagato she never pursued any grudge against him.
Ryoko loves Ryo-Ohki as the closest she had ever had to family as well as the representation of freedom to her. Prior to the time when the group entered into a polygamous relationship with Tenchi, Ryo-Ohki was the only being Ryoko showed no jealousy or resentment towards in pursuit of him.
Ryoko has a noted phobia of the dark and a serious drinking problem, although she can purge the alcohol from her system in moments if need be (if it's not life or death however, she won't). Ryoko has no sense of taste and does not require nutrients from food, nor any water or oxygen to survive and only eats either socially or for the feel of being full (although later comics involve Ryoko complimenting Sasami on cooking, so this may not have remained canon). She is also somewhat physically numb, with Ayeka's attempt at torture via electrical shock in their first meeting resulting in a sexually aroused Ryoko. Kagato's assault of her, Misaki's rough handling of her, and a shock from Tenchi's Master Key only elicited an actual ordinary pain response however. Ryoko claims to be a sadist although this is never actually presented. She is extremely lazy and despite being in restraint for almost a millennium will still spend most of every day sleeping, although when enthusiastic about working (usually because of some connection to Tenchi, such as cleaning the house to impress him or working minimum wage jobs in Tokyo to earn money to buy him a gift) she will do so cheerfully and with dedication. While not without empathy as Ryoko has volunteered to help people in need from time to time, she is motivated primarily by her own interests for most of the OVA itself and a good portion of the comics canon to it.
Ryoko and Ayeka both marry Tenchi together as his first brides, although their wedding night is ruined by Mihoshi sleepwalking into his bed in the dark during the honeymoon and becoming his first lover while the two rekindled a forgotten rivalry over who would take his virginity. Ryoko gave birth to Tenchi's first child, a girl, around the same time as Ayeka's pregnancy neared its third trimester, with a third baby boy being born after them that resembles Tenchi and who's mother is never identified. Ryoko's daughter looked mostly like her mother, except with smaller ears and brown eyes. She had the ability to float through the air as a baby (something that made Ryoko proud, and Ayeka horrified) although the extent of her other powers isn't known. Ryoko and Ayeka's children were raised together by the former rivals, being very close through their childhoods and going to school in Japan together like humans. Ayeka taught the adolescent girl to knit, and unlike her mother became studious in higher grades. Ryoko wasn't happy with her daughter growing up so fast, showing visible consternation at the idea of her needing a bra. After a night spent in a shed taking refuge from a storm with his sisters similar to how Tenchi had with Ayeka years before, Ryoko became angry at Tenchi's son for things he may have done (but didn't) just like she had their father. In time both Ryoko and Ayeka's daughters would marry the Tenchi look-alike (making it likely he was neither Ayeka or Ryoko's son, unless the Masaki line had officially thrown the "half is as close as you get" rule out the window in regards to incest).
- Body 10 Mind 4 Soul 7
- HP 115 Energy Points 85 Attack Combat Value 8 Defense Combat Value 6 Total Character Points 60 Total Skill Points 55
- Attributes
- Appearance L2
- Combat Mastery L1
- Damn Healthy! L3
- Energy Bonus L3
- Heightened Mass Power L1
- Highly Skilled L3
- Jurai Power L3
- Mass Power L5
- Speed L2
- Jurai Sub-Attributes
- Battle Costume L2
- Control Servant L4
- Illusionary Disguise L2
- Summon Servant L4
- Special Attacks
- Energy Sword, Damage 60 L4
- Field-penetrating, Contact, Uses Energy
- Explosive Blast, Damage 50 L4
- Area-Effect, Short Range, Uses Energy
- Rapid Fire Energy Blase, Damage 50 L4
- Auto-Fire, Short Range, Uses Energy
- Hair Needles, Damage 30 L3
- Auto-Fire, Spreading, Short Range, Limited Shots
- Mass Power Sub-Attributes
- Astral Projection L1
- Duplicate (twin) L1
- Flight (can hover) L2
- Incorporeal Form L3
- Life Support L2
- Mind Control (Ryo-Ohki only) L1
- Rejuvenation L3
- Teleport L1
- Space Flight L1
- Super Strenghth L1
- Unique Mass Power (create minor illusions) L1
- Skills
- Acrobatics (Flying) L2
- Electronics (Computers) L1
- Melee Attack (Sword) L1
- Melee Defense (Sword) L2
- Navigation (Space) L1
- Piloting (Spaceship) L1
- Ranged Defense (Personal) L1
- Stealth (Silent Movement) L1
- Thrown Weapons (Energy Blasts) L1
- Unarmed Attack (Striking) L1
- Unarmed Defense (Striking) L1
- Defects
- Easily Distracted (love of Tenchi, own looks) 2
- Item Dependency (Washu's Gems) 1
- Phobia (claustrophobia, caves) 1
- Servitude (Wahsu, Kagato) 1
- Weakened Jurai Power 2
- Unique Defect (numbness, no sense of taste)
- Item Dependency
- Can use three gems containing all the power of the Choushin goddess version of Washu, with one in each wrist and one located inside her abdomen. Can create false gems to limp along without a real one using Rejuvenation with 10 Energy Points from scratch or 5 Energy Points to transmute a stone or piece of jewelry.
- No Gems: Will begin to die (no crunch effects).
- With only false gems: Loses all Jurai Powers.
- Abdomen Gem: Grants all Jurai Powers other than those noted below, theorized by RPG book writers it allows her to pierce the defenses of Jurai.
- Right Wrist: Gains Control Servant equal to Summon Servant level. Possibly has other effects, unstated by rules as unconfirmed in canon.
- Left Wrist: Grants Mind Control (Ryo-Ohki) and Summon Servant.
- All Gems: Unspecified in anime, theorized by Funaho to be able to manifest Light Hawk Wings. Possibly equal, or near equal, to Tsunami herself.
- Characters can aim using a blade to separate a Gem from Ryoko at a 4+ Penalty. Success causes Ryoko to lose 17 HP in addition to attack damage, unless already below 1/5 max HP. True Gems are removed from her body, if removed by the Master Key it immediately absorbs them. False Gems explode.
- Ayeka Jurai
Tenchi's great aunt and the crown princess of Jurai, daughter of Misaki. As a small child having been told she would marry Yosho one day she considered herself deeply in love with him, and Yosho running off to chase Ryoko while Jurai burned caused her to launch a one-woman crusade as a young women in pursuit of him and Ryoko. During the hundreds of years she searched she kept a holographic projection of him in her quarters on her tree-ship, Ryu-Oh, gradually falling into speaking to it while crying each night. When she reached the age where she would have married Yosho, she began to utilize a process similar to cryogenic sleep to stay youthful while she searched. Her crusade became more personal when she was informed Ryoko had been cleared of all crimes by a council controlled by her grandmother Seto, with Ayeka launching in one last sweep through the universe with her sister Sasami onboard while she could still claim ignorance of the message. As fate would have it her guardians Azaka and Kamidake detected the energy radiated when Tenchi activated the Master Key for the first time. She did battle with the ancient Ryo-Ohki and captured Tenchi (who was immediately imprisoned) and Ryoko. After her frustration at her attempts to torture and intimidate Ryoko were met with pleasure and ridicule respectively, she took Tenchi's Master Key which she recognized as Yosho's and tortured her with it happily although when Tenchi managed to escape from Azaka and Kamidake and activate the Master Key she was horrified; a direct relative of herself using Yosho's sword to save Ryoko, who in her eyes was the single most horrible being to ever live. Once Ryu-Oh crashed into the Masaki lake Ayeka was devastated, having to live under the same roof as Ryoko at the generosity of a primitive alien peasant (as Ayeka's love for Funaho and Yosho apparently didn't connect to the rest of humanity in her mind).
Early in her stay in the Masaki house, she showed herself as demanding and abusive although Tenchi is well-aware of the fact her behavior only stemmed from her frustration (guy doesn't understand women, but he does understand people). Ryoko quickly realized that implying a deep connection between herself and Tenchi struck a nerve, and exploited it from implying Ryo-Ohki's egg was Tenchi's child to speaking of him as a husband. Ayeka soon shut herself in the room she had been given to stay in and refused to come out until Sasami reminded her it was Ayeka's duty to request the hospitality they had already been given for days. After she informed Katsuhito of her gratitude (without realizing who he was) and securing the promise of continued food and shelter as long as it was needed, she lapsed into a deep depression where she dreamed of her brother's corpse until, of all beings, the newly reborn Ryo-Ohki came to her and refused to leave, showing affection as a pet would, until she accepted her situation and smiled again.
As she began to venture further from the house Ayeka came one day to watch Tenchi practice his swordsmanship and realized that his technique was that of the secret Jurai royal style. As the two returned along the path to the house she sprained her ankle which required Tenchi to carry her until a fierce storm came, causing the two to take refuge in a nearby shack. They dried their clothes with a fire Tenchi built, and he acted the chivalrous gentleman when it came time to look away. When the storm cleared she realized the large sacred tree along the road was Yosho's own royal tree from his tree-ship, called Funaho after his mother. Tenchi used the Master Key to access the tree Funaho's memories and Ayeka saw that he had won his battle with Ryoko and believed once again he was alive. Afterwards Ayeka made Tenchi her champion and asked for protection for her and her sister until rescue could come. She also began to fall in love with him at that point.
When Azusa, Misaki, and Funaho arrived at the Masaki household to bring her home, Ayeka stated she was so in love with Tenchi that she would renounce her ties to Jurai and claim to the throne by planting Ryu-Oh and severing her ties with Tsunami if she had to. Luckily that wasn't necessary as all Azusa demanded was for Tenchi to best the man he had chosen to be Ayeka's new arranged husband in a duel (winner: the bottom of Mihoshi's ship).
Ayeka continued hostility to Ryoko, and when Ryoko came to the bathhouse bearing sake and the story of how she watched Tenchi grow up she took the opportunity to mock her for the story. When Tenchi had been kidnapped by Kagato and Ryoko came along with in the rescue attempt, Ayeka dropped all hostility and treated her as a comrade during the pursuit and the two fought together side by side after they had believed Tenchi to be dead from the Soja's blast. Once she learned Ryoko had only been Kagato's puppet during the attack on Jurai Ayeka stopped openly deriding her although the two would continue to get into periodic scrapes ranging from the two battling in full combat regalia above the Masaki house over food stolen from the other's plate during a meal to sarcastic comments made whenever possible. It would take many years before the two would stop bickering. After the incident with Kagato, Ayeka learned Katsuhito was Yosho. He fools her with his illusion of being an old man and gives her his blessing to pursue Tenchi without any regrets or thoughts to the past.
Early on in the series, Ayeka's Japanese voice actress spoke in prim and proper language not dissimilar to how a period actor playing a older noblewoman in a story about medieval Japan would speak. As the story progressed Ayeka's speech became more normalized as barked orders gave way to requests, polite words entered into her vocabulary, and while Ayeka rarely lets out a slang word many shorter words were used in her vocabulary. She would give shrill chortling laughs to the back of her hand early on as a court custom, later giving way to open-mouth laughter with abandon. The English equivalent would be going from sophisticated Shakespearean speech to Elizabethan to that of a modern business woman. Ayeka's English voice actress mostly kept the same method of speech throughout, although early on the commanding tone was played up while later trying to sound like merely a refined lady walking on the wild side. Only when addressing Azaka and Kamidake does her regal authority slip out regardless of when in the series it occurs, making a marked shift when transitioning from giving the two a command to responding to a question from Tenchi almost in the same breath. In the comics Ayeka will periodically show ignorance about Earth speech and use slang wrong, or attempt to use a metaphor or expression and either say it wrong or say something completely random and nonsensical, although this only exists in the comics.
Like Tenchi she is quick to action, usually responding first with one open threat and after provocation with swift violence against the offender (usually Ryoko). Unlike Tenchi she is not one to abandon a fight unless a mutual cessation of hostilities is enacted (usually Sasami requesting her to stop a scuffle with her rival). She obsesses over her beauty, although not quite to the same degree that Ryoko does, and never removes the ornamental jewelry in her bangs.
As Ayeka's entire behavior set stems from her royal upbringing full of tradition and ceremony, many issues of her new life shock her. Ideas like housework, sexuality, and rural living left her speechless although she quickly acclimated in order to remain close to Tenchi. By the end of the first season, Ayeka has taken up a great deal of the household chores upon herself and shares the work with Sasami. In the Tenchi In Tokyo series when dealing with loneliness and abandonment by the entire rest of the cast she loses her mind somewhat and turns the house into a deathtrap that could withstand the invasion of an army in an almost Macbethian mental state (driving Nobuyuki into the surrounding forests as he fled for his life after trying to come home to visit).
While not extraordinarily intelligent, Ayeka is very well-versed in shiplore as well as the myths and traditions of Jurai. She is able to point out information about Ryo-Ohki, the Soja, and even her own ship that many including Washu would miss althuogh the only ships she knows how to actually pilot are the tree-ships of Jurai and similar classes. She is similarly able to "resurrect" Ryu-Oh by planting it within the soil of Earth without severing its bond to Tsunami. Furthermore she was able to give Tenchi training that allowed him to manifest Lighthawk Wings, something she herself is also capable of as a member of the Jurai royal family.
Among her powers are the ability to command a swarm of small sticks which look like miniatures of Azaka and Kamidake, which can generate energy within them to cause damage or contain a foe. She passively generates a force field around herself in dangerous situations that she can extend to protect others, and has enhanced healing allowing her to recover from a sprained ankle within hours. She is also physically fit, and although she does not train contantly in the Jurai fighting style like Tenchi does she did learn it and is still capable of fighting with it.
After prolonged semi-friendly relationship with Ryoko, Ayeka develops a drinking habit despite having nearly no tolerance level and combines drunkenness with denial (something she is prone to do as well when sober) when presented with a negative factor.
Ayeka's relationship with Mihoshi is defined mostly by the frustration the entire cast feel with her after the peroidic destruction of the Masaki household although otherwise acts neutrally towards her. Similarly Ayeka has little relationship with Washu beyond frustration when an experiment that clearly should not have been conducted for the reason of plain common sense gets out of hand. Ayeka is more fond of Ryo-Ohki than she is the others, and treats her as the child of the house. Ayeka's relationship with Sasami is mostly defined by Ayeka's attempts to set a good example for her as the way a lady should behave, and is quick to chide her for adopting bad habits (or getting close to "the ugly old pirate mummy") although Ayeka has a small amount of jealousy for the belief Sasami will become more beautiful and intelligent than her one day. Ayeka loves Tenchi deeply and is just as willing to give her life for him as Ryoko.
The rivalry between Ayeka and Ryoko temporarily resumes on the night the two marry him; even though they actually wed Tenchi first, it was a sleepwalking Mihoshi who managed to take Tenchi's virginity on their wedding night; they were that wrapped up in bickering with each other.
The hostility dies again when their children are born, Ryoko's first and Ayeka's soon after. The two raise their daughters together, Ayeka's daughter being especially interested in Tenchi's son with an unknown member of the household even from a young age. She would make herself the boss of Ryo-Ohki's triplet daughters and dole out punishments in the form of chores despite also being a child. Ayeka was quick to realize the girls were growing up, and was the one who suggested to the displeased Ryoko that it was time to buy the girls bras. Although Ryoko was angered when Tenchi's son and the two girls were stranded in a shed, Ayeka merely looked glum due to the realization of where the story was going. In her teenage years, Ayeka's daughter would become a class-president at her school and eventually marry Tenchi's son with Ryoko's daughter (copy/paste generation).
- Body 4 Mind 4 Soul 7
- HP 55 Energy Points 55 Attack Combat Value 5 Defense Combat Value 3 Total Character Points 60 Total Skill Points 30
- Attributes
- Appearance L2
- Highly Skilled L1
- Item of Power (Ship Key & Capture Field) L1
- Item of Power (Door Portal Trap) L1
- Jurai Power L2
- More Powerful Mecha L3
- Own a Big Mecha (Ryu-Oh, Guardians (Azaka and Kamidake)) L8
- Jurai Power Sub-Attributes
- Battle Costume L1
- Force Field, extendable (Stops 45, Uses Energy) L2
- Mind Shield L2
- Space Flight L1
- Special Attacks
- Energy Fist, Damage 50 L2
- Energy Balls, Damage 30 L1
- Short Range, Uses Energy)
- Skills
- Interrogation (Physical, Diplomacy) L1
- Piloting (Spaceship) L1
- Ranged Defense (Personal) L1
- Social Science (Politics) L3
- Unarmed Attack (Striking) L1
- Unique Skill (Domestic Crafts) L2
- Unique Skill (Escape from Bonds) L1
- Defects
- Easily Distracted (love of Tenchi, Ryoko) 2
- Recurring Nightmares 1
- Unique Defect (Royal Responsibilities) 2
- Items of Power
- Ryu-Oh's Ship Key & Capture Field
- Ship Key appears as a tiara. Controls Ayeka's Jurai tree-ship Ryu-Oh. Can summon a swarm of small floating logs as a Weapon Attack L2 (Damage 30, Tangle, Slow).
- Door Portal Trap (also simply called a force field in the translation) functions as a Teleport device when attached to openings that can be closed such as windows or doors, letting out at a specified location up to 500 feet away. Works one-way, opening the portal from the inside causes it to function normally.
- Mecha
- Guardians of Jurai are Azaka and Kamidake (see below).
- Ryo-Oh is a powerful Jurai tree-ship that answers to Ayeka. It is destroyed repeatedly in the series, and grows again within months from a seed recovered from the wreckage.
- Sasami Jurai
Ayeka's little sister, who was seriously injured when she fell from a high platform near the physical avatar of Tsunami, the Choushin patron of Jurai. Tsunami merged her spiritual self with Sasami to save her life, and so when Sasami comes of age, she will basically become the mortal avatar of Tsunami.
Unlike her sister, who arrogantly boasts of her superiority due to her noble lineage, Sasami acts the part of the quietly confident noble; she's sweet, gentle, kindly natured and supportive, making her the second most sensible person besides Tenchi, and only because she is still very much a child, her sensibility speaks more of how immature Ayeka acts than anything else. Most of the time. She actively enjoys doing household chores because it makes the rest of her family happy, and is the primary cook for the family as a result, being very good at it. Although sincerely interested in Tenchi herself, neither Ryoko nor Ayeka can seriously bring themselves to get upset about it; the idea feels wrong to them. She changes very little in other continuities.
- Body 3 Mind 5 Soul 10
- HP 65 Energy Points 85 Attack Combat Value 6 Defense Combat Value 4 Total Character Points 50 Total Skill Points 10
- Attributes
- Appearance (Cute) L1
- Divine Relationship L6
- Energy Bonus L1
- Heightened Jurai Power L3
- Jurai Power L1
- Own a Big Mecha L6
- Jurai Power Sub-Attributes
- Astral Projection L2
- Mind Shield L2
- Precognition L1
- Unique Jurai Power (Juraian Tree Gateway) L3
- Skills
- Cooking (Home) L5
- Defects
- Ageism 1
- Conditional Ownership (Tsunami) 1
- Latent Jurai Power 1
- Marked (Tsunami's reflection, symbol on forehead) 1
- Recurring Nightmares 1
- Unskilled 1
- Latent Jurai Power
- Astral Projection-Sasami's Astral Projection can only be used when her Tsunami personality takes over. This normally occurs only in times of emotional stress, or when Sasami has been absorbed into the Tsunami spaceship, or when she is sleeping. Sasami's astral image always appears as Tsunami, a mature version of herself.
- Mecha
- Tsunami, Ship of the Beginning-Tsunami is a spaceship, a royal tree, and Sasami's future self. The Tsunami ship has the Summonable (Becomes A Mecha) Sub-Attribute at Level 1. To summon Tsunami, Sasami must use a Juraian Tree Gateway. Sasami's essence then enters Tsunami, who appears somewhere in nearby space. Sasami's Conditional Ownership of Tsunami means she shares ownership of the ship with her "future self" and will not summon the vessel frivolously.
- Unique Jurai Power
- Juraian Tree Gateway-Sasami's ability to open gateways between royal Juraian trees stems from her connection to Tsunami. When Sasami appraoches a tree and chants a special verse, she creates a portal that can transport her to any other Juraian tree.
- Ryo-Ohki
Ryo-Ohki is a genetically engineered lifeform created by Washu from the protoplasmic entity Mass. She created Ryo-Ohki at about the same time that she was creating Ryoko, and so the two formed a telepathic bond. While Ryoko was made from Washu's own egg cell and Mass cells Ryo-Ohki was somehow created by combining Mass and minerals together. Ryo-Ohki is a shapeshifter, able to transform from a massive, multi-spined crystalline spaceship with enough shielding, firepower and self-repair capabilities to decimate armadas of enemy vessels singlehandedly and even assault the heavily fortified planet of Jurai to a small, fuzzy organism that resembles a brown and cream colored meowing rabbit with the head of a cat (hence fans commonly refer to her as a cabbit) that possesses exaggeratedly huge ears as long as her body and a gem in her forehead. She mostly eats carrots, and after she became a member of the household Tenchi began planting more of them at the Masaki Shrine fields to Ryo-Ohki's delight.
After Ryoko's rejuvenation, she sensed that her rebirth had stirred the corpse of the old Ryo-Ohki who had been destroyed by Yosho's ship. She immediately activated the ancient vessel, and was attacked shortly after by Ayeka and in a dogfight between Ryu-Oh and Ryo-Ohki both crashed into the lack nearby the Masaki house. Only a few days later, while Ayeka and Sasami debated if their ship would ever be able to fly again, Ryoko retrieved a large black egg early in the morning and for amusement tricked Ayeka into thinking Ryoko had laid it and it contained Tenchi's child. Shortly after it hatched, revealing a reborn Ryo-Ohki. Later in the series Ryo-Ohki accidentally duplicates herself, and after being cautious of the each other they realized they were the same being. Ryoko became bored with their exchange and scooped both back into their egg, shook it, and dumped out a singular (and dizzy) Ryo-Ohki once again.
Ryo-Ohki one day wandered into Washu's lab, and became frightened by a tank full of unspecialized Mass which Washu explained were only fascinated by her advanced form. They read her mind and saw the desire to help Tenchi in the fields as a larger version of herself, causing them to transform into a feminine humanoid shape which walked to the field Tenchi was working on. It initially began working by mimicking him, although after noticing it he became frightened which startled the Mass woman causing it to attack him in fear. Washu threw Ryo-Ohki at it, which caused them to merge and Ryo-Ohki to gain increased capacity for intelligence as well as the ability to turn into an anthropomorphic version of herself. Her humanoid form is covered in tufts of brown and cream hair with teal bangs crowning her head with long brown hair otherwise. She is skinny like Mihoshi, although not as tall. In both forms her eyes are yellow. She shapeshifted into a small child form to become more comfortable with bipedal movement and to learn about the world around her better. She became an ever-present companion of Sasami either as a little girl or a small cabbit afterwards. She began learning how to walk and talk, spurred along by a desire to court Tenchi as a mate which was encouraged by Sasami (and horrified Ayeka and Ryoko).
Ryo-Ohki has a very simplistic mind, roughly analogous to a small child. She is a creature of instinct and impulse, but benevolent and caring despite that. She possesses animal instincts and acts very hostile via hissing and growling at an imposter Ryoko at one point. Ryoko has the ability to control Ryo-Ohki with command and telepathy, although without Washu's gems she cannot perform this ability. Her dominance of Ryo-Ohki is not as complete as Kagato's over her without possessing all three gems, and Ryo-Ohki is able to put up mild resistance if need be while Ryoko only has two (which is the bulk of the series).
Eventually, she mastered her full humanoid form and married Tenchi alongside the others. Ryo-Ohki would give birth to three girls, each looking like herself with less fur in their humanoid forms and when transformed appearing as normal Cabbits. Despite their strange appearance they attended kindergarten with Tenchi's other children and Tenchi's cousin Seina's son via Amane Kaunaq (who was born around the same time as the three). Each has different hair than their mother; one has slightly less teal on the sides, one has a shock of teal at the widows peak and teal eyebrows, and one has brown forehead bangs although all three have forehead gems. The final Cabbit daughter had difficulty transforming into a human and was not able to attend school until she managed to transform in order to grab the hand of Amane's son thinking he was going to trip and fall off a cliff (in reality, he was barely a few feet off the ground). It is unknown if the three Cabbit daughters can transform into spaceships. One would become a class president in her teenage years, one became bookish, and one became an athlete. All three would eventually marry Seina's son (with Ryo-Ohki appearing make it somewhat of a shotgun wedding considering her expression in the silent comic).
Whether or not Ryo-Ohki ever learned to speak in the OVA is unknown, although she is seen in a silent comic (as in no text) consoling Ryoko and Ayeka's daughters after they were frightened when the final stage of her pregnancy turned her into a giant crystal.
In the Universe series, Ryo-Ohki cannot assume a human form and is one of a race of beings similar to herself. Ryoko's rival, Nagi, has a tan male named Ken-Ohki who Ryo-Ohki is romantically interested in. She has no backstory in this series, but Ken-Ohki's presence implies that she is not a unique creature there is in fact an entire species of them.
In Tenchi in Tokyo, Ryo-Ohki starts off as Sasami's pet and has no association with Ryoko. Along with turning into a spaceship, she can turn into a giant pink robot.
- Mihoshi Kuramitsu
Descendant of Washu and Mikamo, Mihoshi is a Galaxy Police officer who operated near Earth. Starting with Mikumo onwards, her family is known both for their great luck and strange abilities that appear generation to generation (for example, Mihoshi's mother Mitoto Kuramitsu seems to be able to teleport randomly around reality and despite merely being a janitor for the Galaxy Police can suddenly appear almost anywhere without realizing she's not mopping the floor of Galaxy Police headquarters anymore).
Mihoshi is dark-skinned, blond-haired , and blue-eyed. She is lanky and tall, and has large canine teeth. This last feature may be an indication of her lineage from Washu rather than a trait of Kurumitsu peoples. Her hair is always tied, and appears to be styled and have lots of volume.
After her rescue by Tenchi she came to live at the Masaki house, and destroys it on an almost daily basis due to her inability to land her ship and her refusal to allow her computer partner, Yukinojo, pilot. She gives half of her salary to Nobuyuki each month to pay for the repairs, but she is unaware just how much it costs to fix each time and believes she is actually covering it. Washu has attempted many different methods of saving the house in the comics, from repairbots living in the walls (which grew to be feral and predatory due to exhaustion) to homing beacons (which Mihoshi inevitably either places in the wrong location (such as keeping it inside the ship while it plummets towards the house at maximum speed), or simply doesn't turn on), all to absolutely no success.
Her grandfather Marshal Anderson is the current head of the Galaxy Police, and although it's unstated if the Kuramitsu still have an Emperor Mihoshi or her descendants would be eligible to take the position if so.
Much of Mihoshi's intended backstory is unexplained, as Kajishima has yet to write the background novel centered around her he intended to while appearances in later works are minimal and usually only pertain to jokes or plot devices.
Originally one of the best and brightest officers, an incident that has only been hinted at damaged her mind and made her unable to focus on almost anything for prolonged periods of time. It involved an arranged marriage of some kind, with her fiance abandoning her resulting in a suicide which lead to her family paying a great deal of money to have her resurrected somehow. The results of the resurrection are something that was apparently planned by the Choushin before they parted ways (which makes little sense as Tsunami had not even created life yet) and directly resulted in Tenchi ascending as the Kami. Furthermore, Mihoshi has demonstrated the ability to travel safely between dimensions at will without even realizing what she has done, something Washu cannot understand or explain despite extensive research. Kajishima has stated that Mihoshi rarely lets her hair down as it results in slow memory loss (yep, she's Dori). Fans have theorized based on the appearance of the catatonically depressed Mihoshi in flashbacks that she may have somehow become involved in Tokimi's extra-dimensional powers or events, although that is purely speculation.
Mihoshi eats constantly, is the epitome of the "dumb blond" (although in the OVA she is the most intelligent and competent of all the versions of Mihoshi in the other series), lives like a slob with the inside of her ship looking more like a bachelor pad than a police officer's vehicle with underwear and half-eaten containers of food on every surface, and while not selfish will show a lack of understanding of others until something is pointed out to her (when asked to stop Ryoko and Ayeka from destroying the house during a fight she called on them to think of how that would ruin her dinner until she realized that it would ruin EVERYONE'S dinners and became more frantic in her attempts). The paperwork submitted to her superiors contains every bit of detail she can think of, repeated constantly and in the first person, which forces them to hire a small team solely for the purpose of deciphering what she's trying to say and censor it if it contains sensitive information (such as the weaknesses of Jurai's defenses, or the fact that the all powerful God lives on Earth and she's pregnant with his child). Like all Galaxy Police officers she carries sidearms, has a patrol ship which can turn into a mecha, and must regularly patrol her sector and respond to alerts. She also has a cube that functions like a Bag of Holding, while pocket dimensions seem to be a rarity unless being created liberally by an advanced scientific mind like Washu. No explanation is ever given on the cube.
Mihoshi is a sleepwalker, and after Ryoko and Ayeka's marriage to Tenchi she unintentionally claims his virginity in the dark while the two fight to see who is his first. She and Noike become pregnant with Tenchi's children around the same time, after Ryoko and Ayeka however, with her giving birth to a daughter that cried frequently as an infant, and as an older child was never seen not laughing or smiling.
Along with Nioke and the wives of Tenchi's cousin Seina, Mihoshi took a great deal of sadistic joy dressing up Seina's blond-haired son in drag as the Disney Cinderalla and wore a look of concern when the young boy pretended to show interest in Tenchi.
- Washu Hakubi
One of the three Choushin who created the universe, taking on a more mortal form to interact with her creations. Washu has been severely hurt in the past when she fell in love with an alien noble and bore him a son, only for the man's parents to forcibly seperate her from her family(Ironically, said family are Mihoshi's ancestors). As a result, she spends most of her time in the guise of a child version of herself, usually returning to adult form only to make a point or to try and seduce Tenchi.
Although a genius, Washu is also playful and arguably kind of crazy. She has her own extradimensional lab the size of a planet accessible through the cupboard under the stairs in the Masaki shrine, but is fond of bizarre tricks and of tormenting others, especially Tenchi and her daughter, Ryoko.
In the alternate continuity anime series, Tenchi Universe, due to the abandoning of the incest-laden Choushin plotline, Washu was re-envisioned by amplifying her craziness; here, she's a mortal (but still incredibly brilliant) mad scientist who was sealed away by her peers for her reckless endangerment of the universe by creating multiple doomsday weapons, which she didn't even consider to be a big deal. Her irresponsibility comes up again when she creates a machines that bends reality and not doing much to stop the cast from messing with it resulting in the creation of multiple alternate realities (with everyone but Ryoko's and Sasami's ideal realities going bad), a robot version of herself that she put weapons on for no good reason, and a humorous mention by Tenchi that post series she nearly destroyed the universe.
In Tenchi in Tokyo, Washu is instead Ryoko's partner, and plays a considerably less role than in Universe, which already downplayed her role from the OVA.
- Noike Kamiki Jurai
- Katsuhito Masaki/Yosho Masaki Jurai
The former Prince of Jurai who was stranded on Earth after capturing Ryoko. Having grown to dislike his throne, he was happy to set himself up for a comfortable life in self-imposed exile, posing as a humble kendo-practicing shrine keeper and marrying a succession of human brides. He is Ayeka's half-brother on their father's side and was originally engaged to marry her. A master swordsman, he taught Tenchi everything he knows.
- Nobuyuki Masaki
Yosho's son-in-law (and a descendant of Yosho by one of Yosho's previous human brides), Tenchi's widower father. A successful architect, he lives on his own back in Kurashiki whilst Tenchi lives with his aspiring harem in the Masaki Shrine in Okayama. A nice guy, but a bit of a lech. He later remarries a woman named Rhea, and their son Kenshi ends up getting Isekai-ed to his mother's home dimension where, true to form, he ends up piloting a magical mecha, compressing a mountain into a sword, and getting a bigger harem than Tenchi's.
- Emperor Azusa Masaki Jurai
- Misaki Jurai
- Funaho Jurai
- Kiyone Makibi
Outside of the OAV continuity, Kiyone is the Long-suffering Galaxy Police partner of Mihoshi. She actually became fairly popular in the fandom, to the point that many fanfic writers would include Kiyone in stories otherwise set in the OAV continuity. The third OAV series then introduced Noike, who is pretty much Kiyone in everything but name.
- Seina Yamada
Tenchi's classmate, and protagonist of the Anime spinoff Tenchi Muyo GXP. Seina has horrible luck. If something bad can happen, it will happen, and it will happen to him. Standing too close to him can even cause his bad luck to temporarily rub off on you. He ends up getting accidentally(and forcibly, thanks to his greedy family) recruited into the Galaxy Police. The GP soon learns to weaponize his bad luck(If he keeps accidentally jumping right onto the middle of Space pirate fleets, then you know right where said pirates are going to be, and can set a trap for them), and he soon ends captaining his own ship. This being Tenchi Muyo, of course, most of his crew is female(including the GP officer who recruited him, his Childhood crush((a distant cousin of Tenchi's who turns out to be a GP officer herself, and a stone cold killer when Seina is in real danger), a Space Pirate spy, and an alien priestess who's older than she looks), and he ends up marrying them all(and four alien princesses at the last minute. Blame Lady Seto). He ends up having three sons who all wind up marrying Tenchi's seven daughters.
- Kagato
- Dr. Clay
One of Washu's former rivals from the Galactic Science Academy, an ugly, overweight, overbearing asshole who styles his hair and beard to look like an octopus (to counteract Washu's hair resembling a crab). He creates a fake-Ryoko that kidnaps Tenchi before going rogue and turning against him for his abuse.
- Tokimi
Washu and Tsunami's sister-Choushin, who decided to pursue the experiment by creating her own universe and plunging it into endless, pointless wars that resulted in countless casualties. This helped engineer the superhuman she wanted, but came back to bite her in the ass when he decided he wanted to use his power to kill her for creating them as just her playthings. Not evil, but ignorant, unthinking and without a lot of empathy for lower-dimensional beings.
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Tokimi's ultimate creation, her universe's analogue to Tenshi, driven into a theocidal fury by the destruction of his family and the torturous experiments he underwent to achieve his power. Tries to kill Tokimi and then chases her into Tenchi's universe, where his willingness to destroy Earth - and everything else - as collateral damage in his fight against Tokimi induces Tenchi to fight him. Also not quite evil: he intended to rewind time and put everything back once he'd gotten his revenge.
Exactly what happens to him in the end is ambiguous, but the most popular theories involve either Tokimi sending him back in time to live out his life with his family in a rebuilt version of his original universe, or Tokimi reincarnating him into Tenchi's half-brother and spin-off protagonist Kenshi Masaki, potentially with an eye towards taking a swing at him herself eventually, after seeing how happy being with Tenchi made her sisters and getting interested in the idea.
- Seiryo
A Pink-haired Jurarian noble who was chosen by Emperor Azusa to be Ayeka's fiance. He challenges Tenchi to a duel for her hand, which is brutally interrupted when Seiryo chose to start the duel just outside Mihoshi's "landing" spot. He reappears in GXP, now sporting a hate-boner against Earthlings, which causes problems for poor Seina.
- Misao Kuramitsu
- Ships, Robots, and Mecha
- Spaceship Ryo-Ohki
- Guardians of Jurai: Azaka and Kamidake
- Ryu-Oh
- Mihoshi's Battle Suit
- Mihoshi's Patrol Shuttle
- Kagato's Giant Cobra Robots
- The Soja
- Kagato's Floating Head Robots
- Tsunami: "The Ship of the Beginning"
- Washu's Ethereal Laptop and Floating Cushion
- Washu Dolls
- Washu's Subspace Laboratory
- Battleship Shunga
- Dr. Clay's Escape Ship
- Octopus Head Robots
