History Anime / TenchiInTokyo

* LineOfSightName: In episode 5, Tenchi introduces Sakuya to Ryoko and Ayeka as the characters from the "Monster Busters" arcade game, which Tenchi and Sakuya played earlier. Sakuya called Ryoko and Ayeka "Miss One" and "Miss Two", respectively, because the characters in the game almost bear a resemblance to them.

* {{Retgone}}: Happened to [[spoiler:Sakuya]] in episode 23, [[spoiler:when Yugi destroys Sakuya's crystal, erasing her from the school's records and Tenchi's photos. Nobody, except Tenchi, knew who Sakuya is.]]

* BlandNameProduct: The girls are watching a Samy-branded TV, a reference to Creator/{{Sony}}, as well as to Anime/PrettySammy (which is called "Pretty Samy" in Japan).

* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: Tenchi gets trapped in one towards the end with Sakuya (who, at this point, is completley under Yugi's control). However, Sakuya breaks free and sends him back to the real world, [[DyingMomentOfAwesome even though it kills her in the end]].]]

* MomentKiller: In the final episode, just when Ryoko is about to kiss Tenchi, Washu pops out of the tree trunk to test her new and improved Dimensional Tunnel. She was then followed by Sasami, and then Ayeka, and finally, Mihoshi and Kiyone. Ryoko proceeds to strangle Washu for ruining her moment.

* MoralityPet: [[spoiler: Sasami, for Yugi]].

* SpannerInTheWorks: Three of them show up and trash the BigBad's plans: Washu, because the villains always tend to underestimate her and in this case this lets her [[spoiler: decode Yugi's plans]]; [[spoiler: Sasami]], because [[spoiler: Yugi got distracted by her desire to keep her out of her schemes since she's her MoralityPet]] (and this is pointed out by [[spoiler: Matori]], ''twice''); and '''especially''' [[spoiler: Sakuya, who despite being Yugi's "shadow", in the end turns out to be more independent than she should've been...]]

* StoodUp: In episode 10, when Tenchi chose to go on a date with Ryoko instead of Sakuya. When it's all over and Ryoko goes back home after a great day, Tenchi goes home, passes by the local park... and finds Sakuya, who has been waiting for him around ''five hours'' (thank God she chose a bench in the park instead of a restaurant). She lets Tenchi explain himself and forgives him, but she can't help crying anyway as she explains herself to Tenchi as well. [[spoiler: Since Sakuya is a "shadow" of the BigBad Yugi, there's some lampshading as Yugi watches over the whole exchange from above, and when Sakuya starts crying... [[WhatIsThisFeeling Yugi cries too, much to Yugi's own shock]].]]

* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: Sakuya (and watch Ryoko and Ayeka foam at their mouths!)

* OddballInTheSeries: At the time this series premiered, it was ''different'' to say the least in comparison to previous Tenchi installments. The animation differed significantly and the DenserAndWackier tone contrasted strongly with the previous shows. The series experimented much more by having Tenchi attend college away from his harem of girls. The Masaki family in this continuity no longer had roots in Jurai, this time being native to Earth from a long line of guardians. The series also made even more use of CanonForeigner characters than before, particularly with Sakuya being one of Tenchi's newest love interests and the show even chose to forgo using its most iconic antagonist Kagato in favor of new, original villains in Yugi, Hotsuma, Tsugaru, and Matori. For the time, ''Tenchi in Tokyo'' was probably the most experimental Tenchi installment yet and its somewhat negative reception made sure that there wouldn't be much experimenting with AlternateUniverse Tenchi shows again until seventeen years later when ''Ai Tenchi Muyo'' premiered which gave the whole "Tenchi embarks on a new life path, spends less time with his traditional harem, and interacts with more CanonForeigner characters" concept another go.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Hotsuma.

* KarmaHoudini:
** Ryoko's a notorious [[SpacePirates space pirate]], as usual. She lands on Earth in this series trying to steal the Jurai Light Stone with Washu, after which Tenchi nursed her and the others back to health. Seeing him kiss Sakuya, she goes back to pirating on an S-class scale to try to run away from her problems. She never gets arrested or imprisoned in any way for her crimes, and [[spoiler: seems to be the frontrunner for Tenchi at endgame with Sakuya out of the picture]].

* BikerBabe: One time character Masayo.

* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Isao and Masayo are a ''literal'' example, as falling stars who were transformed into humans (as a super-fast runner who can't stop his race and a BikerBabe chasing after him) and used by Yugi and Tsugaru to separate Ayeka and Sasami further from Tenchi. It doesn't work since Ayeka decides to ''help'' Masayo, and by the end of the episode they're back together.]]

* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold Her Liquor]]: In the first episode, Ryoko suffers from a bad hangover after trying Washu's homebrewed sake the previous night, which was very strong.

** The show tries to portray Yugi as a troubled girl that couldn't control her powers and driven insane by loneliness, but she takes way too much enjoyment in separating the group, as well as [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling]] Ryoko through the neck from within their first confrontation. [[spoiler:[[NotHelpingYourCase Not helping Yugi's case]] is the fact that she also takes way too much pleasure in re-absorbing a terrified Sakuya and then [[MindRape mind-raping]] Tenchi with her LotusEaterMachine in the hopes of stopping him from interfering in her plans.]] And yet, even after all of that, she only gets off easy with just a slap on the wrist (or in this case, a [[ArmorPiercingSlap slap in]] [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan the face]] from Tenchi himself).

* DenserAndWackier: The overall tone for ''Tenchi in Tokyo'' is much zanier and wackier than past Tenchi installments.

** Washu Doll A from ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'' appears in episode 12, carrying signs that read, "Call me for dinner".

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In Episode 16, "Carnival!", the girls (except Ryoko) travel to Tokyo to visit the school carnival at Tenchi's high school, but they end up ruining the carnival with their various antics: Mihoshi uses her Galaxy Police Blaster in a shooting gallery, Ryo-Ohki gets captured by a fanatical scientist, only for her to destroy the lab by transforming into her mecha form, Ayeka destroys a haunted house while searching for Tenchi, and Washu takes a robotic mouse, enlarges it, and lets it roam in the hallways, until it was destroyed by a combined effort between Ayeka, Mihoshi, and Kiyone. This causes Tenchi to lash out at the girls, and he sends them home, telling that thay cause nothing but trouble.

* {{Retgone}}: Happened to [[spoiler:Sakuya]] in episode 23, [[spoiler:when Yugi destroys Sakuya's crystal, erasing her from the school's records. Nobody, except Tenchi, knew who Sakuya is.]]
* RoadTripPlot: "Tokyo or Bust!": Desperate to see Tenchi, and inspired by a news report of how a hitchhiker gained sympathy after he hitchhiked to Tokyo, Ayeka takes an unwilling Sasami and a sick Ryo-Ohki to Tokyo by hitchhiking. However, after they helped Masayo, they discovered they overshot Tokyo and wound up in Sendai; this causes Ayeka to be even more determined to continue hitchhiking to Tokyo, but by the time they arrived at Tenchi's apartment in Tokyo in the middle of the night, Ayeka and Sasami are too tired to talk to Tenchi, and they quietly leave the apartment through the Dimensional Tunnel.

* StealthPun: In the Japanese version of episode 9, one of the commercial's slogans is "Denchi Muyo!", which translates to "No need for batteries!"

* RedStringOfFate: In episode 2; the MonsterOfTheDay invoked this on Tenchi and Sakuya by tying their pinkie fingers together with red string, but then the monster discovers more strings attached to Tenchi's pinkie finger; they were attached to the entire Masaki Clan (Ryoko, Ayeka, Sasami, Mihoshi, Kiyone, Washu, Katsuhito, Nobuyuki, Azaka, Kamidake, and Ryo-Ohki). When the monster pulled on the strings, Ryoko and Ayeka were pulled into the dimension.

* ProWrestlingEpisode: Episode 15, "Love Match". Amagasaki finds himself being attacked by the spirit of a legendary female pro wrestler whenever he tries to talk to Tenchi. He eventually confronts the wrestler in the ring, defeating her with a lariat.

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: Sakuya.]]

* ProWrestlingEpisode: Episode 15, "Love Match". Amagasaki finds himself being attacked by the spirit of a legendary female pro wrestler whenever he tries to talk to Tenchi.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In Episode 16, "Carnival!", the girls (except Ryoko) travel to Tokyo to visit the school carnival at Tenchi's high school, but they ruined the carnival with their various antics: Mihoshi using her Galaxy Police Blaster in a shooting gallery, Ryo-Ohki being captured by a fanatical scientist, only for her to destroy the lab by transforming into her mecha form, Ayeka destroying a haunted house while searching for Tenchi, and Washu taking a robotic mouse, enlarging it, and having it roam in the hallways, which was destroyed thanks to combined effort between Ayeka, Mihoshi, and Kiyone. This causes Tenchi to lash out at the girls, and he sends them home, telling that thay cause nothing but trouble.

* RoadTripPlot: "Tokyo or Bust!": Desperate to see Tenchi, and inspired by a news report of how a hitchhiker gained sympathy after he hitchhiked to Tokyo, Ayeka takes an unwilling Sasami and a sick Ryo-Ohki to Tokyo by hitchhiking. However, after they helped Masayo, they discovered they overshot Tokyo and wound up in Sendai; this causes Ayeka to be even more determined to continue hitchhiking to Tokyo, but by the time they arrived in Tenchi's apartment in Tokyo in the middle of the night, Ayeka and Sasami are too tired to talk to Tenchi, and they quietly leave the apartment through the Dimensional Tunnel.

* TwoTimerDate: Subverted in the episode, "Ryoko's Big Date", in which Ryoko and Sakuya offered to go out on a date with Tenchi in Tokyo, but Tenchi chose Ryoko, after he heard her warning on his answering machine.

** In episode 14, the staff Dominatrix!Sakuya carries in Ayeka's fantasy is the same one that [[Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld Ifurita]] wields.

* RoadTripPlot: "Tokyo or Bust!": Desperate to see Tenchi, and after watching a news report of how a hitchhiker gained sympathy after he hitchiked to Tokyo, Ayeka takes an unwilling Sasami and a sick Ryo-Ohki to Tokyo by hitchhiking. However, after they helped Masayo, they discovered they overshot Tokyo and wound up in Sendai; this causes Ayeka to be even more determined to continue hitchhiking to Tokyo, but by the time they arrived in Tenchi's apartment in Tokyo, Ayeka and Sasami are too tired to talk to Tenchi, and they quietly left the apartment through the Dimensional Tunnel.

* SelfServingMemory: Ayeka's flashback story to Masayo; she claims that Tenchi was her fiancee, and that she's trying to save him from "that stalker woman" Sakuya; Ayeka imagines her as a dominatrix who's torturing Tenchi. Sasami dismisses Ayeka's story, and tells Masayo that Ayeka just wants to check up on Tenchi.

* BrokeEpisode: Episode 5.

In this series, Tenchi [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to be normal]], so he leaves his {{harem|Genre}} behind to go to school in [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Tokyo]] and work at his grandfather's friend's Shinto shrine. Upon settling in and enrolling at his new school, Tenchi soon finds himself encountering Sakuya Kumashiro, the most popular girl in school who is (naturally) smitten with him and things seem good and normal at first for Tenchi, but it's soon revealed that a [[DarkMagicalGirl mysterious girl]] with fearsome powers named [[BigBad Yugi]] is threatening to not only take over all of Tokyo, but the [[TakeOverTheWorld entire world]] as well and it's often up to Tenchi's harem (who are all trying to see him anyway) to come and save him... not just from Yugi, but also from Sakuya!

In this series, Tenchi [[IJustWantToBeNormal just wants to be normal]], so he leaves his {{harem|Genre}} behind to go to school in Tokyo and work at his grandfather's friend's Shinto shrine. While there he meets Sakuya Kumashiro, the most popular girl in school, who is (naturally) smitten with him, and things seem good... unfortunately, a mysterious girl with fearsome powers named Yugi is threatening Tokyo, and it's often up to Tenchi's old friends (who are all trying to see him anyway) to come and save him... not just from Yugi, but also from Sakuya!

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The series has a different backstory for the major characters as opposed to ''Ryo-Ohki'' and ''Tenchi Universe''. Washu and Ryoko steal the Jurai Light Stone, only to get pursued by Ayeka, Sasami, Mihoshi and Kiyone. Then, after Ryoko, Washu, Ayeka and Sasami crash-land near the Masaki Shrine in Okayama, Ryoko absorbs the Light Stone and transforms into a demonized version of herself. However, she is thwarted when Tenchi uses the sword formed from his crystal necklace to draw the Light Stone out from her.

** In episode 16, she gets cornered by a group of scientists who want to dissect her, and she responds by transforming into her mecha form and destroys the lab.

* RedStringOfFate: In episode 2.
* RoadTripPlot: "Tokyo or Bust!": After watching a news report of how a local hitchhiker gained sympathy, Ayeka takes an unwilling Sasami and a sick Ryo-Ohki to Tokyo by hitchhiking, to check on Tenchi. However, after they helped Masayo, they discovered they overshot Tokyo and wound up in Sendai; this causes Ayeka to be even more determined to continue hitchhiking to Tokyo, but by the time they arrived in Tenchi's apartment in Tokyo, Ayeka and Sasami are too tired to talk to Tenchi, and they quietly left the apartment through the Dimensional Tunnel.

* StoodUp: In episode 10, when Tenchi chose to go on a date with Ryoko instead of Sakuya. When it's all over and Ryoko goes back home after a great day, Tenchi goes home, passes by the local park... and finds Sakuya, who has been waiting for him around ''five hours'' (thank God she chose a bench in the park instead of a restaurant). She lets Tenchi explain himself and forgives him, but she can't help crying anyway as she explains herself to Tenchi as well. [[spoiler: Since Sakuya is a "shadow" of the BigBad Yuugi, there's some lampshading as Yuugi watches over the whole exchange from above, and when Sakuya starts crying... [[WhatIsThisFeeling Yuugi cries too, much to Yuugi's own shock]].]]
* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: The trope is normally averted in the TM world since the Masaki shrine is located in the prefecture of [[http://wikitravel.org/en/Okayama Okayama]], but in this particular series it's played completely straight.