New Tenchi Muyo! & GXP

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Desert507

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Back in 2000, Toonami aired Tenchi Muyo!, Tenchi Universe, and Tenchi in Tokyo. Now Tenchi Muyo! (JP= Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki) is the canonical story written by the creator of Tenchi and his story- Masaki Kajishima. If anyone remerabers, the 13 episodes of TM! (OVA 1 & 2) kind of ended with a cliff hanger.

As of 2007 Masaki Kajishima has put out an additional 7 episodes (OVA 3) of TM! taking place half a year after the end of OVA 2 and a spinoff series running parallel to the TM! storyline called Tenchi Muyo! GXP. GXP deals with a boy named Seina and his adventures in the Galaxy Police (the same organization that Mihoshi is in) and expanRAB the TM! universe beyond the confines of the Misaki Shrine- giving backround on Juraian society and galactic politics.

Now if you are looking for any sort of closure to the TM! story you aren't gonna find it here, but it's more crack for Tenchi Fandom.

Would anyone like to see Tenchi on Cartoon Network again or do they know of any plans to air the show?

If anyone wants more Tenchi info, go to astronerdboy.com/tenchi- but beware of spoilers.
 
GXP aired the entire series on Colours TV and now airs on FUNimation Channel. The OVA Ryo-Ohki hasn't aired anywhere and is currently only available on DVD. Considering that CN has cut back on anime, then while it would be good to be on CN, I doubt it will ever happen.
 
The first two OVA's for TM!R aired in Japanese w/ subtitles on the International Channel a couple or so years ago because Cartoon Network no longer had a license to air them.

Now, aside from the fact that CN is doing less anime (as pointed out), the fact is that the first two TM!R OVA's are in lirabo at the moment. Geneon USA cannot do anything with them and FUNimation hasn't license-rescued them. The only way they'd get back on TV is if FUNimation did license-rescue them for the FUNimation Channel. However, I don't believe FUNimation has even aired OVA 3 on their channel.

All of the TM!R OVA's are not geared toward TV airing since they don't have accomidations for commercials. So, a 30-minute episode would run what? 45-minutes with commercials? What do you then do with the remaining 15-minutes? That was one of the reasons CN stopped airing TM!R (or so I'm told).
 
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