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tenchiforum · 1 year

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For the first time ever, the lost interview from the creators of Tenchi Muyo! has been found!

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Original article here

You can watch the Tenchi Muyo! portion with English subtitles above.

For the original, untouched tape, you can watch here. You can also watch on archive.org.

If you’re interested in how and why this was lost, and how we found it, read below!

Part 1: (Space)ships Passing in the Night

It goes without saying that Tenchi Muyo! is a juggernaut franchise. Due to its popularity in the 90s as well as its multiple continuities, if there’s a product of any kind, you can find a Tenchi-branded version of it. From Sega Saturn soap to panty eyeglasses wipes, Tenchi Muyo! has it all. As a result, the phrase “I’ve never seen that before” gets uttered quite a bit when you’re on the hunt for something Tenchi related.

What also happens is that it is easy to miss something that you’re not looking for, because you don’t know it exists or what’s in it. Every time one searches through Japanese auction sites, you’re basically cutting your way through a dense jungle in the hopes of maybe catching a glimpse of what you’re looking for, while also catching glimpses of interesting curiosities, such as this:

PIONEER LDC – “OVA Operation Start” (OVA作戦始動)

This little black box, produced by Pioneer LDC was starting at over 100 USD. Upon closer inspection, you can see that the front pops up, and it has cardboard cutouts of Pioneer’s OVA properties as they were launching in 1992. According to the listing, the box also had a button one could press that would make voice lines play (presumably from each of the franchises featured). Green Legend Ran, Bastard!!, Kishin Corps, and Moldiver are all featured on the sides, but prominently featured in the middle was Pioneer’s bread and butter, the Zeus of their pantheon, their flagship series, Tenchi and Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo!.

For those who don’t remember or don’t happen to know, Pioneer LDC jumped into the world of Original Video Animation (or OVA) in 1992 with these properties (though Moldiver and Kishin Corps, of course would release in February and March of 1993) so this little video was more than likely a cool little showcase of what they had.

At first glance, while it is really cool, it’s not something one would immediately jump at to buy. Especially considering that the contents of the tape were unknown, the description did not offer any insight into it other than where it was from, the working condition of the box button and that it was “Not For Sale.” Which again in Tenchi fandom is not unheard of, nor does it mark something as particularly rare. For a price point so high, I just shrugged it off as a cool curiosity and continued my daily look through of aforementioned auction sites.

Part 2: A Crisis of Revelation

Because of the launch of tenchimuyowiki.com, I’ve been voraciously cataloging every piece of Tenchi media I own and any I can find in an effort to preserve Tenchi history. One night while I was working on one such project, I was looking through images and playing around in Photoshop, ripping Japanese text from images, when I inadvertently clicked the wrong button on an image I was looking at, and it popped over to this image:

This is not only the only known picture of the co-creators of Tenchi Muyo! together, but this is the only known image of Masaki Kajishima’s face. Due to Kajishima’s reclusiveness, he’s never shown his face in interviews, and only very rarely has he even done audio interviews. Everything about the man is kept at a distance from fans. The most high-quality picture of Kajishima that most fans know is from the back of his head.

I stared at the image again for the first time in a while. I’d looked at the first image of the two many times before, but on this particular night my brain clicked the right way, and I said to myself

“Wait a minute, this looks like it’s from a video…”.

If you’ve ever watched old Japanese game shows like Takeshi’s Castle or anything like that, the text is unmistakably made from video of an older time. But even with this idea buzzing around in my head, I was still at a loss. Considering how old this was, it could have been from a news report too, which if that was the case, no way would something like that have survived.

However, I wasn’t going to let this go this time, and I tracked down the source of this image: Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki Otanoshimi Ooemaki.

And there, right next to the image, was text talking about where this was from.

But wait a minute, I recognize that image above it… That’s the characters from the black box!

THAT BLACK BOX HAS THE INTERVIEW!

The title of the tape, translatable as “OVA Operation Start” was a promotional tape that Pioneer made and sent out to pitch their new line of home video products to potential customers. This box and its tape were not for sale, and unless you were lucky enough to be a Japanese Pioneer employee, or a Japanese video store owner, or be in Japan in the early 1990s, you never saw this video or its contents.

With this revelation freshly burned into my brain, I hurriedly moved back to the auction sites.

But it was nowhere to be found.

No, it can’t be…

I quickly inserted the Kanji into Google and found out that the box had finally sold… not even three weeks beforehand. It had been up every single time in the last eight months I’d checked while I was browsing for things, not knowing that the holy grail of Tenchi Muyo! interviews was on it. It even failed to sell on ebay, before finally being bought for around 10,000 yen.

To say I was devastated was an understatement.

Something like that did not come around every day. The odds of it ever showing up again were probably slim to none.

However, I didn’t give up, and then it appeared.

Part 3: Never Tell Me the Odds

After some searching, and with the help of Tenchiforum’s own Crazed, a similarly described VHS tape was found on auction sites. Unlike the black box tape, this one had a very old (but machine-made) label on it. Marked with Pioneer LDC’s logo as well as their signature LaserDisc logo, it had the exact same name with a slightly different description above.

Regardless, if what was on the tape was on the tape, the grail had been found.

And sure enough, that’s exactly what it was!

Curiously, it has a TCR time marker burned into the top of the video, meaning this could have possibly been an internal tape specifically within Pioneer. The seller also had many other promotional videos meant for stores as well. How they got this tape in their possession was not clear, but ultimately, it was the real McCoy.

While reading this, you may be thinking to yourself, “But Dagon, what makes this so rare? Why is this lost?”

Well, for one thing, this video has never appeared on any other release of Tenchi, ever. It is exclusive to these Not For Sale tapes and was not mass-produced in the way the actual episodes of the show were. The circumstances surrounding it also are probably why it never appeared anywhere else. This was made specifically to sell the idea of these properties to people. Also, as mentioned before, Kajishima doesn’t like his face being shown, and Hayashi moved on to El-Hazard after the two split up. Whether it was Kajishima, Hayashi, Pioneer, or a combination of the three, this interview stayed on this tape for 30 years exclusively, and the job it was supposed to do, sell Tenchi Muyo! to the masses, succeeded.

#tenchi muyo ova #tenchi muyo!#tenchi muyo #hiroki hayashi #masaki kajishima #pioneer anime #pioneer ldc #OVA #OVA Operation Start #Otanoshimi Ooemaki #OVA作戦始動 #1992 anime #anime promotion #Youtube

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shi-ni-shi-ni-koroshi · 8 months

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Promo Alert! I am making a post on Kamierabi / god.app, a new series airing on October 5th because of lack of ad funds from the department. The character designer is Mr. Atsushi Ohkubo so that's why the post is here. They would be pleased if this can be spread to notify everyone who may be interested in watching. Do not miss!

#kamierabi #god app #soul eater #atsushi ohkubo #maka albarn #soul eater kid #death the kid #crona #soul evans #fire force anime #new series #2023 #anime expo 2023 #black star #anime art #anime promotion #anime #please spread for it to be noticed

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gebo4482 · 10 months

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Nimona - Concept Art

#nimona #animation #fantasy movies #poster #promotional art #concept art #artwork #netflix

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daydreamerwonderkid · 1 month

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It's been 1 month since Jason's last international incident.

Obligatory click for better quality

You do NOT have permission to repost my art.

Per @cheer-me-up-scotty's request, I drew the Jason Momoa Aquaman this time around

Meme references under cut

And, of course:

#dreamer doodles #gintama batfam #jason todd #red hood #bruce wayne #batman #hal jordan #green lantern #i had the dumb idea #that the justice league did a bunch of #promotional motivational posters #and that jason had a designated cell on the watchtower #where a bunch of their leftover posters are hanging #idk it made me laugh #i also stared at a lot of justice league animated screenshots #to figure out the coloring and shading for this one #idk how well i did

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lycomorpha · 1 month

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I got in one (1) night's moth-ing before the weather turned again, but fingers crossed for tomorrow 💖🦋

Until we're past the gales, here's some super-cute moths from previous years to remind you that:

- moths are beautiful

- they pollinate ur plants at night

- their caterpillars are essential food for baby birds

- they're a crucial part of many ecosystems, with life cycles connected to those of trees and wildflowers, birds, and lots of other invertebrates

The moths in the pics are: small emerald, blood vein, small blood vein, tree lichen beauty, box tree moth, orange swift, scorched wing, riband wave & willow beauty, brimstone moth.

Thank you from the Moth Promotional Board ✨🦋✨

#bugblr #moth promotional board #motivational moths #moth #moths #lepidoptera #insect #insects #nature #entomology #a beautiful friend #bug #bugs #cute bugs #cool bugs #pretty animals #cute animals #cw bugs #cw insects

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hellspawnmotel · 8 months

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I finished wild arms yesterday! what a great game

#wild arms #wild arms 1 #cecilia adlehyde #jack van burace #rudy roughnight #earth golem #art tag #i really really loved this one im so glad i finished it #its really fun and not overly long for a jrpg (about 30 hours)#also gets my seal of approval in that despite what all promotional material would have you believe cecilia is the main character #like its not even a question she just is. compounded by the fact that if you want to you can play as her the whole time #my biggest criticism would prob be that by the end of the game the party feels kind of unbalanced especially in boss fights #cecilia can do so much shit and the boys basically just do different kinds of big damage lol #cecilia can also do big damage but shes too busy healing and buffing and debuffing and all that #its not all that hard though so its not a huge deal just kind of funny #anyway i definitely want to play the rest of the series at some point. apparently theres an anime too?? exciting

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cultofthorns · 5 months

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VIOLENCE TODAY!!!

#ultrakill #mannequin ultrakill #ultrakill act 3 #body horror #animation #fishart #key poses directly referenced from the violence update promotional art by francis #did this in 3 ish hours i have never worked faster im so hyped

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sakurafigures · 8 months

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♡ Panty & Stocking Anarchy (Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt) - Phat!

#panty anarchy #stocking anarchy #panty and stocking #paswg #phat!#galaxxxy #police #pastel #anime #anime figure #anime figurine #figure #figurine #promotional #bishoujo #non scale

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frobby · 1 month

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list of haikyuu character with actual real world jobs

-oikawa (accepted player for san juan Argentina )

-hinata (accepted player for sesi san paulo + japanese tourism ambassador for sendai japan)

-kageyama (japanese tourism ambassador for sendai japan)

-kuroo (appointed as special chief of japan's volleyball association's PR department)

#irl volleyball just loves using haikyuu as promotion for the sport and i love it #cuz thats really what haikyuu is all about getting people to play volleyball #and if the silly little anime men make people pay attention to irl volleyball then it has served its purpose #who do yall think will get a real job next #also if i missed anyone let me know #or if i got any facts wrong #haikyuu!!#haikyuu #hq #hinata shouyou #kageyama tobio #oikawa tooru #kuroo tetsurou #**I forgot to add but hinata has actually been a tourism icon twice but the first time it was as hina bird so i didnt include it #Idk about kageyama tho #I also forgot to put that sesi san paulo is a brazilian team oopsie #Figure it out man

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nyaagolor · 3 months

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Figured since I already did all her sprites, it couldn't hurt to do recolors of Trucy's official art too!

#trucy wright #ace attorney #I also did the promotional art / full pieces and one of her sprite sheets #I'm going to do her animations soon also #only thing I'm missing is her DS sprite sheet. Spriter's resource only has the HD one for reg trucy and the DS one for young trucy #mod vex #recolor

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animenostalgia · 1 month

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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) promotional poster

#nausicaa of the valley of the wind #80s anime #Hayao Miyazaki #Studio topcraft #studio ghibli #Anime art #Promotional art

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a-titty-ninja · 1 year

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#blue archive #ブルーアーカイブ #midori saiba #momoi saiba #twins #promotional video #anime #mygif #mygif:blue archive

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sherbetyy · 7 months

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THIS IS CLOSED! ALL PARTS TAKEN‼️📢

I’M HOSTING A DHMIS REANIMATION COLLAB FOR THE JOBS SONG!!! (for the late anniversary.. yuay!!)

READ HERE FOR INFO AND UPDATES ON AVAILABLE PARTS.. (REMINDER ⚠️ SOME PEOPLE’S REBLOGS OF THIS MIGHT NOT BE UP TO DATE)

each animator will be assigned to a job of their choice to animate!! (unless you’d like to work 2 jobs..)

HERE ARE THE JOBS!! (‘HELP WANTED’ means the part is available and ‘POSITION FILLED’ means it’s taken. if there’s a name beside it it means it’s finished)

1: school (POSITION FILLED) astronomalyy

2: office job (POSITION FILLED)

3: football (POSITION FILLED)

4: judge (POSITION FILLED) pizza-feverdream

5: doctor (POSITION FILLED) billypeacockart

6: lumberjack (POSITION FILLED)

7: crypto bro.. (POSITION FILLED) solchle

8: sitting on a chair! (POSITION FILLED)

9: army (POSITION FILLED)

10: ice cream truck (POSITION FILLED) sn33zy

11: barber (POSITION FILLED) dhmis-autsim

12: fishing (POSITION FILLED) yippeepy

13: astronaut (POSITION FILLED)

14: petersons (POSITION FILLED) totally average kid

15: mailman (POSITION FILLED)

16: artist (POSITION FILLED)red-string-and-patches

17: toolmaker (POSITION FILLED)

18: therapist (POSITION FILLED)

(if you’d like to quit your job please dm me!)

here is a video so you know where your part stops and ends!!

and here’s the discord for you guys to discuss it!! i will not be there unfortunately, but the co-director mtsodie will :o]

RULES🐞

-keep it SFW obvs..

- don’t make your animation just one frame/a still image.

-don’t directly trace anything

-please don’t ask for a job if you aren’t actually going to participate !!

-AS A NOTE.. the slide transition at the end of your animation to the next will be up to you to animate! :o]

-please don’t use stuff like gacha club/life for your part

-make sure your animation is as long as your clip!!

ONCE YOU’VE FINISHED YOUR ANIMATION EMAIL IT TO [email protected] !! (please ignore the name of my old weird ass email ..) i’m not very good at this sort of thing, so i’d appreciate as much support and reblogs as i can get for this!!

and by all means …. GET CREATIVE‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

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ososull · 11 months

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But come what may, I do adore thee so

That danger shall seem sport, and I will go

((Redraw of that one Twelfth Night promotional image))

#did you guys like my twelfth night quote on my twelfth night promotional image redraw #anyways everybody’s got a crush on Maka all the time and god bless her huh #my art #art #crona soul eater #maka soul eater #soul eater art #maka albarn #croma #soul eater evans #soul evans #soma #soul eater #soul eater fanart #anime #anime fanart

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madootles · 1 year

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d***** can get fucked for refusing to advertise this movie. it really is so good and the many artists and creatives who put their jobs on the line to bring this story to us deserve all our appreciation and love.

#strange world #ethan clade #SUCH a cute and well-paced movie!#shout out to jaboukie lmao I've been following him on twitter for years and I never realized he was an actor until now #great commentary on harmful farming practices #and kind of investigates the common assumption that humans hold dominion over the rest of the world #this movie promotes the idea that we are just another bunch of organisms on this planet and we are acting as parasites #the gay boy plot really delivered it was actually so heartwarming to see....#sigh #turns out representation does matter #/s #went home and watched encanto and moana and now I'm watching lilo and stitch...... sigh #ok bye #animation #fan art #art #supporting artists #photoshop #digital art

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lycomorpha · 11 months

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A beautiful blood-vein moth visited me this morning 😍 May your weekend be blessed with soft fluffy moths 🦋

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This moth's caterpillar feeds on knot-grass, sorrel, dock, & orache plants. Many ppl view those as weeds, but they're vital to lots of different insects - including this moth friend.

Love speckled pink moths? Leave some weedy patches if you have a garden. If not, you can still help! Contact your local councillors/reps about creating and protecting wild areas in your community, including when they get mowed/tidied to allow plants to go to seed. 🌿🐛🦋💚

Thank you from the Moth Promotional Board 🦋✨

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