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Happy Toonamiversary! For July 3rd this year, Tenchiforum has a new welcome banner! This fantastic piece showcasing each era of Tenchi characters was done by the amazing Phil Dragash!

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OK, here we go! As promised, here's 10 of my favorite pieces of Tenchi Muyo fanart I've ever made. And considering I've drawn more Tenchi stuff (mostly Ryoko), than anything else, that's really saying something.

These were drawn back in late 2004. I was in school for graphic design, and the final project for one of my favorite classes was to do something with a monochromatic color scheme. It could be created either on the computer or in traditional media.

Because I love Tenchi so much, what I decided to do was redraw several images from the series, using only shades of blue for the color, and make them into a book. I call this series Memories in Shades of Blue.

About 8 years later, these would be the first pieces I uploaded when I joined deviantArt, and now, over a decade after that, I am so happy to share them with you, Tumblr friends! I hope you enjoy them. ❤️

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For context, her is the original unedited picture

You know, it's one thing to take out Sakuya. But removing Ryoko?

No. Just...NO.

This TinT poster originally had a huge defect, so I fixed it   Hope you enjoy it now!

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My Adventures with Superman Season 2 Easter Eggs

Welcome to another week of My Adventures with Superman! My hunch about the what happened last week was true and things are not going too well for the gang...

My Easter eggs lists for season 1 is here if you haven't seen it!

My season 2 episode 1 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 2 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 3 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My season 2 episode 4 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 6 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 7 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My season 2 episode 8 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 9 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 10 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

Spoilers if you haven't seen the episode

To start things off we meet Kara on Earth! I talked more about her here. Shes's dressed similarly to Android 18 when she, 17, and 16 drive to Goku's house in episode 147 of Dragon Ball Z. While watching the episode I was wondering why does Kara's hair look so familiar? Then it hit me. Kara's got Sakuya Kumashiro's hair from Tenchi in Tokyo!

Shout out to recent DC characters enjoy ice cream for the first time like Wonder Woman in the live action movie and Justice League animated movie, and the new DC Super Hero Girls cartoon. As a mint chocolate chip ice cream fan, good first choice of ice cream to enjoy!

Perry puts Clark and Lois on a new beat for the Metropolis "Most Eligible Single" contest because Superman was chosen to be one of the five up for that title. Cat Grant self-invites herself to join the duo to figure out who Superman is through his love life. Lois is sweating bullets at this point. At the contest we meet the potential people for winning the title, Hank Henshaw, Chandi Gupta, Byrna Brilyant, and Silver St. Cloud. I talked more about Hank Henshaw here. We see a darker more bigoted side to him this time around. Will we see him get his cyborg body and become Cyborg Superman in this season or season 3? Who knows. Season 3 is confirmed though.

Dr. Byrna Brilyant is a very deep DC universe cut dating back to 1946, the golden age of comics. Back then Byrna Brilyant was an enemy to Wonder Woman going by the moniker, Blue Snowman.

Byrna in the 1940s makes her first appearance in Sensation Comics #59 (1946) [W: Joye Hummel, P&I: H.G. Peter], where she was a teacher who's father created this compound called blue ice, after his death, she uses it as a way to extort this town after freezing it over for monetary gain.

Byrna makes another appearance in 2010 in Power Girl #7 (2010) [W Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti, P&I: Amanda Conner, C: Paul Mounts, L: John J. Hill] where Dr. Mid-Nite and Power Girl are trying to stop Byrna from committing a robbery but the main bad guy, Vartox shoots a seduction musk rifle at Power Girl but the smell knocks out Dr. Mid-Nite and it works on Byrna, but not Power Girl. This all makes more sense if you read the comic.

Byrna's next appearance post-New 52 was in Superman/Wonder Woman #4 (2014) [W: Charles Soule, P: Paulo Siqueira, I&C: Hi-Fi, L: Carlos M. Mangual] where we see Wonder Woman and Hessia battling the Blue Snowman robots.

Byrna's latest appearance post-DC Rebirth is in DC: Love is a Battlefield #1 (2021) [W: Crystal Fraiser, P&I: Juan Gedeon, C:Ulises Arreola, L: Marshal Dillion, where Byrna is now gender fluid after interrupting a date between Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor. Good on Wonder Woman for letting them go and hoping the realization there is a word for what Byrna was feeling would make them feel much better. So going forward if we meet Byrna again, I'll be referring to them with they/them pronouns, but if its New 52 continuity and before, Byrna will be referred to with she/her pronouns with the continuities to help clarify the pronoun usages.

Chadi Gupta is also another deep cut from the DC universe because she's reference to her comic counterpart from Justice League Europe.

Chandi makes her first appearance in Justice League Europe #47 (1993) [W: Gerard Joes, P: Ron Randall, I: Randy Elliot, C: Gene D'Angelo, L: Willie Schubert] where she's escaping her family and comes across the the JLE and wants to join them. Her energy projection and construct creation powers came in handy for the JLE in issue 50 where she and the rest of the JLE were able to fend off Sonar's attack and that earned her a spot on Justice League Europe as the superhero Maya.

Silver St. Cloud is probably one of the more prominent characters from the DC universe who showed up in MAwS. She got into the pop culture zeitgeist through the Gotham tv show when it aired.

Silver St. Cloud makes her first appearance in Detective Comics #470 (1977) [W: Steven Engleheart, P: Walter Simonson, I: Al Milgrom, C: Jerry Serpe, L: Ben Oda] where she meets Bruce Wayne at a party on his yacht. She eventually becomes one of Bruce Wayne's more prominent love interests and one of the few who were suspecting Bruce to be Batman thanks to his constant disappearing.

She shows up in post-new 52 in the maybe possibly out of cotinuity anthology, Legends of the Dark Knight (2014) digital comics, specifically as a cameo in issue #50, Dr. Quinn's Diagnosis [W: Jim Zub, P&I: Niel Googe, C: Kathryn Layno, L: Saida Temofonte], where Batman is getting psychoanalyzed by Harley Quinn.

If you want to read a comic with a fun appearance of Silver St. Cloud give Batman/Elmer Fudd Special #1 (2017) [W: Tom King, P&I: Lee Weeks, C: Lovern Kindzierski, L: Deron Bennet] a read cuz goddamn is it noir AF and beautifully drawn (a while back DC superheroes crossed over with Looney Tunes characters and its very good. They have also done it with Hanna Barbera characters as well. Give those a read too! They're all fun!)!

The charity that MAwS Silver mentions was first mentioned in Superman #152 (1967) [W: Bill Finger, P&I: Al Plastino] where Superman is accepting a clock medallion for a charity event. In the comics Silver St. Cloud isn't usually working for charities, shes mostly a Gotham socialite.

At the event, the MC (who gives off Funky Flashman vibes imo), asked if anyone has questions and the first to jump on that was George Taylor of the Metropolis Star. I talked about the Metropolis Star here, but for George Taylor...

he actually makes his first appearance here in Action Comics #1 (1938) [W: Jerry Seigel, P&I: Joe Shuster, C: Strauss Engraving Company] where he is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Star.

In the silver age, George Taylor makes his first appearance in Superman #366 (1981) [W: Bob Eozakis, P: Kurt Schaffenberger, I: Frank Chiaramonte, C: Adrienne Roy, L: John Costanza] where he assigns Perry White on the Superboy scoop to see if he's active in Metropolis. In post-Crisis on Infinite continuity, George makes a cameo appearance in Adventures of Superman #451 (1989) [W,P,&I: Jerry Ordway, C: Glenn Whitmoore, L: Albert DeGuzman] where we see George's office door.

In the New 52 continuity, George Taylor makes his first appearance in Action Comics #8 (2012) [W: Grant Morrison, P: Rags Morales, I: Rick Bryant, C: Brad Anderson, L: Pat Brosseau] as editor-in-chief for the Daily Star where in the comic he's proud of Clark and encourages him to take the job at the Daily Planet.

Kara and Jimmy make it into the studio where Lois, Superman, and Cat Grant are and Kara confronts Superman showing off that she's the one in the armor. She is on a two-way radio communications with someone named Primus. Whether that is Brainiac's designation when Kara is on the field or its a different character all together, there is a Primus in the DC universe, not just in the Transformers universe. Btw this isn't Kara's first time siding with an evil faction, she was part of Darkseid's Female Furies in the 2004 Superman/Batman series, specifically in issue #11. You might have also seen it happen in the Superman/Batman: Apocalypse animated movie too.

Primus aka Pren makes his first appearance in Green Lantern #141 (1981) [W: Marv Wolfman, P&I: Joe Stanton, C: Carl Gafford, L: John Costanza] where he is the leader of the alien group, the Omega Men from the Vega star system. They jump Hal when he and Carol Ferris were on vacation thinking Hal is part of the Citadel, an extraterrestrial empire that is conquering the star system the Omega Men are in.

Primus/Pren NuParr makes his New 52 first appearance in Deathstroke #9 (2012), but gets a more prominent role in the Omega Man limited series from 2015 [panel from The Omega Men #1 (2015) W: Tom King, P&I: Barnaby Bagenda, C: Romulo Farjardo Jr., L: Pat Brosseau]. In this continuity, the Citadel is now a corporation that was exploiting Krypton's destruction by by selling stabilized planet cores to other worlds. This comes at a cost where the Vega star system is enslaved by them and those who resisted we killed and the survivors formed the Omega Men.

And with that another episodes Easter eggs and references are done! Come back next week to see what episode 6's Easter eggs and references are! In case you missed it:

My Easter eggs lists for season 1 is here if you haven't seen it!

My season 2 episode 1 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 2 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 3 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My season 2 episode 4 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 6 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 7 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My season 2 episode 8 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 9 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My season 2 episode 10 Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

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Sakuya holding a cat.

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I was tagged by @missanthropicprinciple

Three ships: Oh dear I don't really do much of that; I'm not sure why - it's just not my thing, I suppose. I do like Romance so it's anyone's guess. I'm going to have to stretch backwards in time for this, I think. Sakuya Kumashiro/Tenchi Masaki. You can say that's one I truly shipped in the conventional sense. I always wanted Daria Morgendorffer to get her shot at Trent Lane. I really like what they ended up doing there, though. It made sense. And let's put a target on my back for the last one: Sherlock Holmes/Violet Hunter.

Last song listened to: Prince's Little Red Corvette

Last film watched: the last I can remember is Parasite. Watching movies is another thing I don't do much of either, tbh.

Currently reading: Ha. There's a whole stack of books on the floor by my bed that I've assembled during quarentine, but I'm reading volume one of Melmoth the Wanderer on my phone instead. It's available through project gutenberg.

Currently consuming: I just finished off the glass of water that's been on my bedside table since last night :/

Currently craving: a croissant

Tagging: @alexandrastillreadsthings @queenofnots @seiokona @rhymingteelookatme @arbeaone

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Analisys of Sakuya Kumashiro

I don’t even know if anyone even pays attention to this tag anymore but I just want to post these thoughts while I still have a firm grasp on what I want to say.

Sakuya Kumashiro was (at the time the show was released) Tenchi’s most recently introduced love interest as our hapless hero decided to attend school in tokyo. She wasn’t just a B-Lister like Mihoshi and Kiyone, however. She was pretty much the poster girl for the series and was played up as more competition for Ayeka and Ryoko’s already heated battle for Tenchi’s affection. 

She has also been a much hated character among the tenchi fanbase almost since her debut. Personally, I am part of the minority that doesn't hate her. She’s by no means my favorite, but I never minded her and actually kind of liked her towards the end of the series. When I first saw Tenchi in Tokyo as a kid, I actually thought of Sakuya was one of my favorites and didn’t understand all the hate she got,but now that I have re watched this series as an adult I can sympathize with what others were saying and I can even pinpoint my own problems with her character. I still like her, and I believe her story could have been a good one but it was poorly executed during the shows original run. As such, what follows is my own personal interpretations regarding Sakuya and her actions, as well as my own personal criticisms regarding her as a character.

In case it wasn’t obvious, there will be spoilers just under the cut so if you have any intention of watching the series, please do so before reading.

Anyway, to give a brief background for my points, Sakuya was revealed to be a mere puppet created by the main antagonist, Yugi, in order to drive a wedge between tenchi and his loved ones in order to weaken the power of some ancient artifact that tenchi’s family was protecting. Sakuya is largely unaware of this fact and simply goes on thinking she’s a normal girl until Yugi ultimately destroys her. 

All of the revelations regarding Sakuya are not revealed until the last quarter of the series and, until that point, most of the show is a slice of life comedy as Tenchi adjust to life in tokyo and his family and harem attempt to reunite with him through various means while Yugi also releases the occasional monster/villain of the week to try and put further strain on tenchi’s relationships with his loved ones and also trying to push him towards sakuya. This brings me to my first point.

1.) Sakuya’s true nature is revealed too late.

throughout most of the series, Sakuya has been the subject of several villain’s plans but it is unclear why. As far as the viewer is concerned, she’s just some random girl from tokyo with no special powers or notable history. When we find out about her nature as another one of yugi’s pawns, we know why she was the focus, but it’s so late in the series that when we get this information that it just comes off as a rushed attempt to make her relevant to the story.

If I was in charge, I would have revealed her nature as yugi’s puppet very early in the series run and have her slowly grow in independence as she spent more time with tenchi. Maybe even have yugi take over her mind completely and have Sakuya be a recurring antagonist through the story with tenchi attempting to redeem her. This would give sakuya more relevance through the story and give her an actual character arc instead of just being the “dream girl” for tenchi. Which brings me to my next point:

2) Sakuya falls in love with tenchi at the drop of a hat.

Yes, the romance in tenchi isn’t always the strongest or well paced but with each of the girls in tenchi’s harem, he has had to at least done something to win them over or prove himself in some way. for example, when tenchi treated Ryoko’s wounds after her battle against ayeka during the flashback episode. Or how tenchi was so welcoming towards Ayeka and Sasami even though they were very clearly aliens from another world. These things aren't enough to spark actual romance on their own, but you can see why, over time, those feelings may have grown. With sakuya, she sees tenchi once and immediately believes he’s her soul mate. Since falling for tenchi was literally what Sakuya was born to do, it is somewhat justified why she developed such a quick obsession with him, but, as I said earlier, her reasons come too late for most people to really care. 

3) Sakuya is really whiny. (but is somewhat justified in doing so)

Another issue I had with Sakuya’s behavior was how frantic she would get if tenchi so much as sneezed in a direction that wasn't facing her. Even when he had a legitimate reason to leave or cancel a date (example: His home being attacked), Sakuya would suddenly cry or act like he just insulted her, saying things like ‘you always pick others over me!” At first, this seems like stereotypical whiny possessive brat behavior and it does get annoying at times. However, if we look a little deeper, we can see that these outbursts aren't entirely unjustified.

Sakuya has basically no concrete memories or history before her enrollment in school and meeting tenchi for the first time. We can assume she was implanted with a few basic memories so that she would think she was normal, but none of them sync up with her current reality. When we look at Sakuya’s apartment, it’s pretty much empty save for a phone and a few scattered photos of her dates with tenchi. He is literally the only thing that is consistent about her life and pretty much the only person she can rely on as being real. When he’s gone, she’s left in an empty room with memories that grow more and more fake by the minute. When Yugi’s plan starts coming together and she is no longer needed, Sakuya’s memories flat out start fading to the point to where she can only remember things from the past few months. With this in mind, it’s understandable why she’s so attached to tenchi. Being around him is the only time when her life actually feels real. 

4) She never interacts with any of the other girls in tenchi’s household.

This is probably the most grievous crime committed by the writers as far as the show is concerned. Most of the fun regarding Tenchi as a franchise is watching all the characters interact during all the crazy hijinks that occur during the series. Sakuya contributes nothing to that dynamic during the entirety of the show. It’s kind of astonishing as I thought that’s what they were building up to. A popular high school girl is suddenly thrust into situations way out of her league when the guy she has a crush on turns out to have relatives that are literally out of this world. This could have made for a lot of laughs but also gave room for sakuya to grow but sadly the writers just didn’t go this route for some reason.

And those are my 4 main criticisms for sakuya as well as a couple of my own personal justifications for some of her flaws. At this point, I don’t believe this will change anyone’s opinions regarding sakuya’s character but I hope it at least provided a new perspective. Thank you for sticking around to read this if you did. 

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Images from SHIN TENCHI MUYO! (Fujimi Fantasia Bunko)

The fourth and final light novel set in the Tenchi in Tokyo continuity by Mayori Sekijima. Unlike the previous three, this one did not include a mini CD. However, it is available digitally on Amazon Japan and Bookwalker!

You can read more here: https://tenchimuyowiki.com/Shin_Tenchi_Muyo!_(Fujimi_Fantasia_Bunko)

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A small collection of 10 high quality Tenchi color images from Doujins :)  Enjoy.

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Sakuya Kumashiro!

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IMO, Sakuya is not a character who deserves hatred. She deserves to be mourned over her developmental failure. Seriously, everything was there for a great and memorable character, something that should have been achievable by the writers in their sleep. 

The writers' failure to achieve not only greatness, but actually likability  just underscores how poor their performance was on TiT.