This Volume Has a Full Tenchi story in it that deals with ryo-ohki. i'm not sure if it's been translated before but that's why my blog exists.
It also goes into photon in the second half.
The cover is deceptive Dual is still mostly untalked about in it.
As usual this is a loose translation.
the title says
Tenchi Muyo :Ryo-Oh-ki (imperial ghosts)
This is a kajishima rant. here is the skinny version:
The Tenchi OVA was a work that let me experience a lot of new things in the industry, and i enjoyed it, but sadly it has taken a bit of a misfortunate turn as of late (not really I'm exaggerating.)
It is a work that changed my destiny, the OVA version is not yet completed but there are far more parts to it then just what the OVA has shown so far. Fortunately some of them are about to be released soon in the form of the true trenchi novels. this is a part that i wanted to include in an episode originally so i drew it. If i actually included all my ideas like these the story would be very long... but i like it. maybe i'm a bit biased. I hope others think it's good too,
I think he means the ryo comics not the next part.
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These seem to be really early but not super really early drawings
Google says about these:
When I looked for materials that I tried to place design work of "Tenchi" this time, many things (including things that were lost) are not returned so much, and as much as possible I can see things that have not been announced elsewhere Although there are plentiful quantities, I thought about just putting all of the things in my hands all the more difficult to edit, such as graffiti and memoranda, but when that happens, what is the color page? I have no idea how to become a page, but it has become quite a difficult condition to make it a book. · · · With the default setting including scribbles etc. I just put out all things I found as CDs and put them out on CD next summer schedule. Sorry for those who do not have a PC.
In other words, this time I will introduce the little process of writing down the board and planning.
The picture of 1 to 5 is a picture drawn because I want a thing that shows a work image as to what the work is different from the character. I understand that you are having a lot of hardships. I am not very good at poor taste (?) Which made such a posterous wide meaning clearly saying that it is incomprehensible (I can not misunderstood) (So it is miserable) So " When you are told that the item you can understand at a glance "," Do not be silly, there is no way for such things to (for me)! "So in your heart
In other words these are drawing of the main characters to use as a sort of show promo picture.
and he had thought about including all the scraps and drawings in a book but he seems to have decided on putting them on a disc...
I'm not wasting time on this section.
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Google says:
Google says:
I was crying. I'm not a lie, I really did not know what to draw. And these guys ...
It is what you set by yourself, but there are a lot of hair volumes, and if you arrange them in commemoration photographs, it will be hard for you to choose layouts because they hide behind people except Tenchi and Araka. The next picture that I drew was an image of each thousand yahs that I divided into six. However, I still do not feel refreshed whether it can be said as a work image. Just thinking about things you can not do, waste your bets, make it a board that shows the story directly! So that's what I figured out above. Eventually this is the most mentally easy, and the images are transmitted quite concretely. Although there are some boards in temporal relation, this form became a classic at the time of planning after this. The picture of 8 and 9 is a single LD jacket draft accompanied by a bonus event of tenchi. Actually it was the profile of the charm wearing a charm, but at the beginning I submitted the layout of 8, but the retake that I want you to show the face of charm and Abe Kasumi came back. Of course, it was intentional that they did not show their faces, so this repair is not acceptable. "Let's show your face" It is a translation that made fascination face up under considerable distorted receipt (lol).
so basicly He didn't know how to draw a promo image like this. and the characters wacky hair made it a reaaaaaaaaaly hassle cause in the wrong orientation someone's face would most definitely get covered by someone else's hair. eventually he made one below which simply sums up the ova
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Although I only swim in the pond in front of my house, I bother to make a lunch box. But that is good. Pond in front of the witness house. Because the predecessor Shin Emperor always performed water quality purification, it is so refreshing that it can be used for drinking.
I am lost here. but the next page is a storyboard so ........
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"Tenchi"
This takes place near the 3rd episode.
This is when Ryo-chan and sasami became friends and it was decided that they would share a bed.
This takes place near the 3rd episode.
This is when Ryo-chan and sasami became friends and it was decided that they would share a bed.
Sasami:Ryoko one-chan.... uhm.... uh....!
Ryoko:Make sure to take proper care of her.*
Sasami:Ok!
Translator note: this seems like a weird line Sasami hasn't even asked ryoko her question yet
She wants to ask ryoko if it's alright.
But remember, Ryoko is linked to ryo ohki and can see her memories. so she is able to answer the question before sasami ever asks it.
Ayeka: Huh?
Sasami had fallen asleep first
Ayeka: She fell asleep with Ryo-ohki?
Ayeka kept Ryo-ohki company until Ryo fell asleep.
Ayeka: ... ... really... what a strange little thing you are.
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This is a second short story:
No, Ryo-chan isn't in prison here.
One time she saw a partition and didn't want to walk around it so she tried to take a shortcut through it and got stuck.
(text in blue)Ryoko: You could have just phased through the wall you know.
Ryo-ohki:Miyaaa o_o
Ryoko:yeah yeah.... don't worry I won't tell anyone.
inferred without words: Hey Tenchi you'll never guess the hilarious thing i just saw.
MIYAAAAAAA!!!!
Ryo- ohki jumped onto Ryoko's face to cover her mouth.
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This next story was actually adapted into the true tenchi novels as an after story story. but I'm pretty sure this was published first.
Washu:Ryo ohki ... You shouldn't chase the butterflies anymore. "
Ryo ohki loves to follow butterflys.
Ryo Ohki is careless as to whether she falls from down the slope and into the river.
sasami: "But it might scare ordinary people who see you"
Ryo: ........................8[
The fact that this scene is drawn up like this and also shows up in the true tenchi novels is quite interesting.
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Recently, Ryo-ohki is having trouble sleeping. so she will get out of bed and go for a walk.
Ryo: Miyaaaaaa
Washu "You can't get to sleep again?... Well I guess it can't be helped, Come over here."
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Washu and ryo play Tag (really though it's oni gokku - pretending to be a demon hence the horns)
"Hey ~ ~ I'm going to catch you! No matter what form you change into!"
Ryo ohki wanted to see what washu was Studying.
Washu:Hey! I can't see in front of you you know. "
Then ryo ohki thought up a new game and her and washu was the first to watch her explain it.
(i think that's what it says... the words translate out roughly to: new game and the first to、washu watched。google translate butchers it as First of all, I will ask Washu for a new game. which seems really off. it almost looks like she is making a sleeping motion... which could mean this is where she tells washu about her idea to play the game she plays in ova 4 and gxp3 where she sneaks into tenchi's room while he sleeps and pounces on him. this would make the most sense. and would put this as a ova post ova 3 pre ova 4 story)
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Mihoshi must have gotten in late and fell asleep in the bath.
Washu:Hey! I can't see in front of you you know. "
Then ryo ohki thought up a new game and her and washu was the first to watch her explain it.
(i think that's what it says... the words translate out roughly to: new game and the first to、washu watched。google translate butchers it as First of all, I will ask Washu for a new game. which seems really off. it almost looks like she is making a sleeping motion... which could mean this is where she tells washu about her idea to play the game she plays in ova 4 and gxp3 where she sneaks into tenchi's room while he sleeps and pounces on him. this would make the most sense. and would put this as a ova post ova 3 pre ova 4 story)
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Mihoshi must have gotten in late and fell asleep in the bath.
Ayeka: Oh so she was with ms.washu this whole time
Washu: Sorry to wake you up. I'll leave the rest up to you.
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Ryo ohki was watching tv once when ryoko scared her.
This is a tricky part it is actualy read right side down then left side down.
Panel 5 panel 1
Ryo ohki was watching tv once when ryoko scared her.
This is a tricky part it is actualy read right side down then left side down.
Panel 5 panel 1
Panel 8 panel 4
Panel 8:Ryoko: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Panel 5 panel 1
Panel 8 panel 4
Panel 2: And that's the end of today's program
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ryoko:mom....... uhm....... uhhhhhhhh............ Ryo-ohki said
she thinks i'm tastey... Please help me.... I'm scared.
Washu:.........................eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhh.
she thinks i'm tastey... Please help me.... I'm scared.
Washu:.........................eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhh.
Washu retrieved the footage of the program from ryo-ohki's memory banks and played it again through the tv so ryo ohki could memorise the song.
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And now for a short kajishima rant... summarized of course.
this is the original character line up design that i made when first pitching parallel adventure story which has now gotten an air date and a channel and even some mentions in some magazines so now i can show you it instead of just a silhouette. originally it was just parallel adventure story but the higher up decided to publish it as DUAL!parallel adventure story
In bad google-ese for anyone who cares:
One animation work announced in silhouette was officially decided on airing. I think that I already watched it with animation magazines etc, but it will be broadcasted with the non-scramble of WOWOW. The picture above is a picture of my original drawn drawing at the time of planning submission. For animation, even at the TV Olympic Games, you are woken up by a character designer. The title at the time of planning was "Burari Runn Lunn Story", but this time, "Dual! Burare Rune Lun Story" is the official title. By the time we decided on the title this time, there were a lot of red and red folding folds. As for myself, it is said that titling is unusual and it is unusual and if you attach a title at the time of planning, it is said to make me a different monster ... · · · · · · "Space office" was also supposed to be. Just this time I asked for impossible impossibility to make this title, and succeeded in throwing in the subtitle the Runeulun story. ... with the time of the charm. Why I stick to this is a draft
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And now for a longer kajishima rant... summarized of course:
reminder: photon started coming out in november 1997 and this is from
december of 1998 but it seems all 4 episodes weren't out yet as it ended Feb 18, 1999 without this context a lot of it makes no sense in the original japanese. ugh confusing language. it took me a while to realise this so if there's something that looks odd. well you know why.
I'm going to be honest I don't feel like cleaning this text up enough to be 100% sure what it says... but it says seems to say something like:
I made this story while i was working on tenchi muyo but i decided to sleep on it till my 2nd phase of shows because i really wanted yuko kobayashi to voice act in it (i think it says as a narrator she is washu's voice actor) but somehow it got resurrected and picked up and i was too busy with work on videogames right now to do do this project by myself so i have other helping with it, most of the scenario is written up already anyways. The video games on the other hand ......
to be honest that's the best explanation i can think of for why photon is such an odd outlier of his works.
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Photon: I made photon younger because i wanted to express a kind of character that i couldn't express in tenchi muyo.
and somehow it seem he ended up looking like an animal.
but maybe deep down subconsciously that was what i wanted because i drew him with the same eyes i use when i draw ryo-ohki
Keyne: i think this says something like The first person I showed this to who was takahashi, the character designer, he took one look at it and said "so this is the villain?" of course he also said that when i showed him ryoko but neither are the villain. So i bet him that a normal person wouldn't think so ... but when we asked a normal person ... the normal person thought so too.... oops... so he made a cuter looking alternative design.
Aun: (summarized because its just line after line of this!)
The voice actor for Aun Really hit it out of the ballpark. She is perfect for the role.
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top right: this is a wall the cities put up to keep sand out rather then taking other measures against sandstorms.
Mid right: this is an oasis in the middle of a cave.
Mid right: this is an oasis in the middle of a cave.
Middle left: Photons cloak responds to the power of anti ahou and it even refills the amo of solid weapons not just energy weapons or flares and the like.
Photon does not like bathing ... but he hates shampooing even more.
The oasis where the crater that was created by the fall of keynes ship is called Treasure Valley because her ship leaked all kinds of falling objects which people came and picked up. incidentally her ship hit an underground vein of water ( it may say water line)
big circle: Secret
bottom: this area is known as the giant's droplet.
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not going to lie i can't read this: but those ruins remind me a lot of the buildings he usually draws when drawing the ancient civilizations he draws like in geminar and the doujin for dual they travel on the waterways ... and the one in the dual doujins actually has an ass load of water too . who knows if their connected though.
Photon does not like bathing ... but he hates shampooing even more.
The oasis where the crater that was created by the fall of keynes ship is called Treasure Valley because her ship leaked all kinds of falling objects which people came and picked up. incidentally her ship hit an underground vein of water ( it may say water line)
big circle: Secret
bottom: this area is known as the giant's droplet.
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not going to lie i can't read this: but those ruins remind me a lot of the buildings he usually draws when drawing the ancient civilizations he draws like in geminar and the doujin for dual they travel on the waterways ... and the one in the dual doujins actually has an ass load of water too . who knows if their connected though.
the page above isn't from this doujin but it is the one i am referring to that deals with the people of d's world.
this is from the next issue hesei ban 3
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top: I drew the Pochi's design in a few minits.
Top 2: The banter between princess lashara and pochi is literaly a conflict of one mind. (what...)
Middle: Originally Sir Papacha's role was very minor, but thanks to mr.yamadera his dialogue has increased greatly and i'm glad to say he does not disappoint
Bottom:
google says : Bran ...... This character contains enormous dangerous material. Will it be impossible to release if time is late? I thought that, since it seems that such a story has not appeared, it probably is OK. Hopefully, I think that the anger of the viewers is the same as the thought of Photon. Let's apologize now. In many ways .........
I'm pretty sure this is Bulan if I Talked about This character in any way right now is it could be extremely dangerous. i could feel the anger of the viewers in my mind when i thought of her and of the plot to photon. so i'll apologize now...
I'M SORRY!
in many ways......
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Original picture for the AIC homepage.
Original picture for the AIC homepage.
2nd to bottom:
These picture could also be called the beginning of photon
before anything else about it was drawn.
this was before it was even decided that photon would be the name of the show.
even with other work negotiations are made to produce them based on illustrations like these. these were mostly used in advertisements for a radio drama version of photon broadcasted during
Ai Orikasa's (ryoko's voice actors) Personality Radio Hon show.
( I can't verify and have never heard this.mentioned anywhere but now we know it was a thing!)
I was impatient towards the animation. How many people even remember the radio drama.
Bottom:this is a picture of laman's house so we could explain to the director that it looks this way. (since it was so weird)
These picture could also be called the beginning of photon
before anything else about it was drawn.
this was before it was even decided that photon would be the name of the show.
even with other work negotiations are made to produce them based on illustrations like these. these were mostly used in advertisements for a radio drama version of photon broadcasted during
Ai Orikasa's (ryoko's voice actors) Personality Radio Hon show.
( I can't verify and have never heard this.mentioned anywhere but now we know it was a thing!)
I was impatient towards the animation. How many people even remember the radio drama.
Bottom:this is a picture of laman's house so we could explain to the director that it looks this way. (since it was so weird)
The rough setting of photon:
I realise that the character designs have changed a bit.
One thing you might not notice is that auns hair was originally supposed to end in these rounded triangles but they interpreted them as rounded curls. I thought it was properly conveyed in my drawings but i guess not.
top: this is princess lashara's original rough draft design
This is keyne aqua's grandfather gene's original design. this was not used though in the end product and there is a reason for it but can't say at this time (because a. keynes design changed and b. spoiler: keyne isn't gene's daughter lashara is) the reason for this can be seen by seeing the last episode of photon (which wasn't out yet i think....)
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top: Auns bigger sister Aun and photon.
top: Auns bigger sister Aun and photon.
Middle:
This time I played some nasty tricks Aun 's elder sister turned out to have gotten fat..
ms. Ma MaMii ends up working at the inn with auns sister because she separated from Papacha, and eventually she marries someone she meets there.
Bottom:
It was determined that the appearance of papacha's mistress was not that important and so they changed it.
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ms. Ma MaMii ends up working at the inn with auns sister because she separated from Papacha, and eventually she marries someone she meets there.
Bottom:
It was determined that the appearance of papacha's mistress was not that important and so they changed it.
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And now an minimally edited google dumb of kajishima's end rant. i think its a rant on how he came up with the name and plot of dual or parallel runrun monogatari as it is known in japan.
Why you stuck to "Parallel trouble story" (suddenly suddenly) suddenly ... ... It is a very miserable reason when thinking carefully ... so ......... Yes, That was when I wrote the plan of "Dual" (in my case it's a story plot) after returning home from the office It was finally completed by the thing that I finally got to decide the title It was. However, there is no reason to think of such a good title, and for the few days I was writing the proposal, only that part was blank for a long time. I exhaled a big sigh, and when I saw the windows I was quite bright outside. And ... In my head I was completely bright and in Lunulun state. At that time, a flash similar to the lightning came floating on my head ... ... "parallel ... Lunulun". . . . . . What a coincidence! Le 's letter is connected. I was quietly smiling with a low voice for quite a while in a natural high state. And in the part of the title, the letters of "Parallel Lunrun Story" fit just as perfectly like the one remaining jigsaw puzzle dress last, just like the one I saw for chicks born from eggs as imprint The imprinting which was also like that was done inside me. . . . . . . . . "Well ... I guess the reason for embarrassment is there because the future of my work is planned for the" dual! "And" masquerade "games and the other series I announced in the previous book It is scheduled for the autumn of next year
-masaki kajishima.
update: i found the two photon audio dramas they are listed as
Why you stuck to "Parallel trouble story" (suddenly suddenly) suddenly ... ... It is a very miserable reason when thinking carefully ... so ......... Yes, That was when I wrote the plan of "Dual" (in my case it's a story plot) after returning home from the office It was finally completed by the thing that I finally got to decide the title It was. However, there is no reason to think of such a good title, and for the few days I was writing the proposal, only that part was blank for a long time. I exhaled a big sigh, and when I saw the windows I was quite bright outside. And ... In my head I was completely bright and in Lunulun state. At that time, a flash similar to the lightning came floating on my head ... ... "parallel ... Lunulun". . . . . . What a coincidence! Le 's letter is connected. I was quietly smiling with a low voice for quite a while in a natural high state. And in the part of the title, the letters of "Parallel Lunrun Story" fit just as perfectly like the one remaining jigsaw puzzle dress last, just like the one I saw for chicks born from eggs as imprint The imprinting which was also like that was done inside me. . . . . . . . . "Well ... I guess the reason for embarrassment is there because the future of my work is planned for the" dual! "And" masquerade "games and the other series I announced in the previous book It is scheduled for the autumn of next year
-masaki kajishima.
update: i found the two photon audio dramas they are listed as
フォトン「のドラマその1」 and フォトン「のドラマその2」
