Characters / Tenchi Muyo! GXP

This is a character sheet for the series, Tenchi Muyo! GXP.

Main Characters

Seina Yamada

Voiced by: Shigeru Mogi (Japanese; GXP and Ryo-Ohki 4), Hirofumi Nojima (Japanese; Ryo-Ohki 5 onwards), Tony Oliver (English)

Cosmic Plaything extraordinaire. An extremely nice kid who just happens to possess the worst luck in the universe, though things eventually start going his way. Sports an ever-present band-aid on the upper-left side of his forehead.

• Amusing Injuries: If it can hurt him without killing him then it will happen.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's a very gentle and amiable fellow, with a legendary amount of patience. Piss him off, however, and he will tear through a space armada to hunt you down, yank your ship out of hyperspace and crush it into a little ball, with you on board!
• Born Unlucky: He is notorious for having a bad-luck field. His parents close shop and customers flee in terror when he returns home from school.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: Or happen to live nearby where the call usually goes. As Seina is Tenchi's neighbor and Amane recruited him because she thought that Seina is Tenchi's relative. Well, that, and surviving a spaceship landing on him.
• Chekhov's Skill: In the early episodes, his bad luck field triggers a malfunction with the hull's emergency sealing system, and he notes that energy weapons trigger an immediate and opposite reaction, forcing him to use his decidedly low-tech knife to cut his way free, as well as being taught how to manipulate said system. In the finale, he is attacked by his Arch-Enemy who is coming at him with an energy blade. Guess what he does in response.
• The Chew Toy: Seto's personal chew toy.
• Chick Magnet: Not just his crew but handmaidens and the academy's nurse.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Kiriko.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: Seina is completely oblivious to any girl who shows attraction to him.
• Cosmic Plaything: Played for Laughs; comically horrible things regularly happen to him and he always survives.
• Cursed with Awesome: Horrendously bad luck means nothing will go right when he's around. It also turns out to work on everyone indiscriminately (including space pirates). As a result, he gets a job with an extremely fat paycheck (the interest of his savings account is enough for his family to upgrade from a family store to a supermarket!) and gets him married to 8 hot women and 1 Ridiculously Cute Critter.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: He's frequently a Gender Flipped example of this trope.
  • At the end of every episode you can see him repeatedly trip during the credits.
• Determinator: Seina suffers through days of a Physical Training regimen designed for cadets with Super-Strength just to prove to himself that he has the right to be there.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Justified by having to adjust to surgical strength enhancements before being sent to space.
• Double Inlaw Marriage: At the end, he gets married to Kiriko while his sister gets married to Kiriko's younger brother.
• Ensign Newbie: He wasn't even a newbie as Seina is still a trainee who just finished his basic training. He is assigned to be a ship captain as part of his advance training simply because he is one hell of pirate magnet that once single-handedly broke the universal record of pirate encounter during his travel to the academy.
  • While the academy only give him the position for his pirate magnet ability and assign him two very competent sidekicks to do the actual work, Seina does gets better as a captain from there on despite lacking experience or training.
• Extreme Doormat: To his parents and younger sister. They all grab him and physically force his thumbprint (which counts as a legal signature in Japan) onto the GP application before any of them even read it.
• Falling into the Cockpit: He's actually thrown into the cockpit by the residents of a planet that needed a skilled spaceship/mecha pilot.
• Generation Xerox: An official doujin by Masaki Kajishima shows his son with Kiriko having a Childhood Friend version of an Unwanted Harem with Ayeka and Ryoko's daughters. See here.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Seto realizes that a 'bad luck field' makes him great pirate bait and because the bad luck affects everyone around him indiscriminately, the pirates don't survive the encounter as free pirates.
• Hero of Another Story: Naturally, as the series is a spin-off to the original Tenchi OVAs.
• Its Not You Its My Bad Luck: In the Light novels Seina presents this as the main reason he's not responding to the attentions of his haremettes.
• The Jinx: His bad luck often bleeds off onto those around him. Soon, the Galaxy Police weaponize this trait (at Seto's suggestion).
• Made of Diamond: He survives having a spaceship land on him in the very first episode, and is in perfect health the very next scene, yet strangely often sports Amusing Injuries, and wears a bandage on his head for no explained reason.
• Marry Them All: An interesting case. At the end of the series he's about to get married to the four members of his harem only to have said harem increase due to four minor characters kidnapping him during the wedding and... sealing the deal.
• Mistaken for Badass: Amane only tries to recruit Seina as she thought that Seina is Tenchi's student and knew the terrible secret of space simply because he happened to be near Tenchi's house, knew Tenchi, and survive ship crashing on him with minimal damage. He does take multiple levels in Badass and becomes very influential in GP and Jurai ESPECIALLY near the finale when he becomes third in line to the Juraian throne (behind Yosho and Tenchi).
• Nice Guy: Despite his poor luck, Seina always manages to smile and treat everyone with kindness and respect, it's part of the reason why the girl's love him so much.
• Oh, Crap!: Very briefly at the end of the series. The wedding day is notorious for terrifying men getting married to one wife, let alone four. There's also the fact that Seina was rightly worried that all four of his prospective brides would come to resent him because the marriage was for political reasons, not out of love. To ease his fears, a trusted friend suggested he speak to his blushing brides first. Of course, seeing your bride in her wedding dress before the wedding is universally considered to be ''very'' unlucky.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: An entire fleet of rogue military vessels was scared shitless when Seina, of all people, tore through them like paper and graphically crushed Shank's spaceship into a ball while it was still fully occupied. Seina doesn't regret it a bit. Never ever screw with the guy whose bad luck can turn on his enemies.
• Pointless Band-Aid: Seina is always wearing a band-aid on his forehead just below the hairline. This is never explained, nor is he shown changing it at any time.
• Red Baron: "Lorelei" Seina.
• Reincarnation: the novels reveal that Seina is the reincarnation of Kazuki from Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure
• Spot the Thread: Despite not knowing Amane very long, he noticed something was off regarding the "Amane" that was trying to experiment on him.
• Understanding Boyfriend: Childhood friend is a black ops specialist, who can and will bathe in the blood of her enemies? The teacher who recruited him is The Tease and a very Trigger-Happy Hard-Drinking Party Girl who thinks leaving the fashion model business is being a Defector from Decadence? Getting romanced by a shape-shifting Space pirate that wants to perform human experimentation on him? Having a girl who is Really 700 Years Old that looks, and acts, like a small child try to cater to you by calling you "big brother?" Having your wedding ceremony being interrupted by four women who outright kidnap you and force you to consummate marriage with them on camera? That's cool. It's just how they roll.
• Unexpected Successor: Due to finding and bonding with the only other 1st gen Juraian Royal Tree in existence.
• Unfazed Everyman: It's harder to be any more unfazed than Seina. Not being traumatized by being kidnapped from his own wedding and forced to consummate relations with four women who are near complete strangers is over-the-top for anyone. Oh, and it's implied that Seto wanted this to happen!
• Unlucky Everydude: Redefined by Seina. WORSE than Tenchi.
• Unwanted Harem: He is uncomfortable to the point of 'scared' by all the female attention he gets. This is why he gets so much of it; more bad luck.
• Walking Wasteland: Of bad luck.
• Willfully Weak: Averted. Seiryo Tannan forced Seina to take the physical training classes designed for people who have already undergone the strength enhancing surgery required for space prior to actually getting the procedure himself in order to break him and get him thrown out of the academy. Seina, with pure willpower, survives enhanced physical training classes with a normal human body for 2 days before the academy found out and put a stop to Seiryo's scheme.

Amane Kaunaq

Voiced by: Mariko Suzuki (Japanese), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (English)

The GP detective who accidentally scouted Seina , Amane is a former fashion model and daughter of one of the richer families in the galaxy, who gave up her old life to become an Action Girl and Ladette. Yet another of Mihoshi's old partners.

• Action Girl: She's not just the ship's gunner, she's good with guns and in hand to hand too.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Seina's the first guy she's ever liked. Why? Because he's nice to her without ulterior motives, and still finds her both beautiful and sexually attractive.
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Kiriko's Betty.
• Big Fancy House: Her "second home" at the Academy.
• Call to Adventure: She delivered it to Seina.
• Cartwright Curse: Sort of. Prior to meeting Seina, her father tried to fix her up with various suitors. Each of them was worse than the last.
• Cool Big Sis: She often acts this way towards junior cadets.
• Crash-Into Hello: With a spaceship!
• Daddy's Girl: She used to be one, but rebelled. Her father's still not over it.
• Defector from Decadence: How she sees leaving the fashion model business to become a member of Galactic Police.
• Expy: Of Ryoko from the main series.
• The Fashionista: She used to be a fashion model before becoming a GP officer.
• The Gadfly: As early as the first episode to Seina. After performing a Kiss of Life on him as part of rescuing him from the fact that she landed a spaceship on him in the first episode, she left lipstick on his cheek. He was completely unaware until Koriko showed him a mirror.
• Good Parents: For the most part. Her father thought Seina is The Casanova, and took an immediate dislike. Her mother, on the other hand, not only pointed out how bad he is at reading Amane's suitors but liked what she saw after getting a first hand look at Seina's character, and the fact that Seina genuinely makes Amane happy.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: When she's not on duty, it's rare to see her without booze in hand.
• Hot for Student: She's had a bit of a crush on Seina before, during, and after he was her student in the academy.
• The Lad-ette: She mostly acts like "one of the boys."
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She's a party girl and the reason Seina was pulled away from deary Earth into the excitement of Space.
• Motor Mouth: Amane sometimes gives Excel a run for her money.
• Ms. Fanservice: She can make being completely disheveled look sexy. Seina's noticed, and she noticed that he noticed, and doesn't hesitate to play it for all it's worth.
• Ojou: She's not a princess but sufficiently high status and wealthy.
• Satellite Character: While she has had some development, it clear that she exists largely to cling off Seina for most of the series.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Even though she's a former fashion model, she still looks good on the runway, much to Seina's delight, and he doesn't hesitate to tell her.
• The Tease: Constantly to Seina.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She has boyish short hair, wears shorts, loves to solve problems with her fists, and tends to be very impolite. Yet, she's hot and she knows it, and loves to play it up just to get a reaction from Seina.

Kiriko Masaki

Voiced by: Kumi Sakuma (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English)

A distant cousin of Tenchi's, Kiriko is Seina's childhood friend (with Tsundere qualities) who has looked after him since they were little. Unbeknownst to him, she has also been working for the GP all this time.

• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Amane's Veronica.
• Beware the Nice Ones/Let's Get Dangerous!: She is definitely one of the nicer girls, but don't let that fool you. In combat situations, she can transform into a cold-blooded killer, and entirely focuses on the bloody work at hand.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Seina.
• Expy: of Ayame
• Good Is Not Soft: An extension of the above. Shank's crew attacking the ship? Seina's life in jeopardy? Kiriko dons her battle suit, activates its cloaking feature, and silently goes on the warpath, murdering space pirates left and right with laser-guided focus and not the slightest ounce of mercy—to the point that she failed to notice that Seina saw her blood-covered form while encountering Shank, his frightened reaction both surprising and distressing Kiriko for a time after.
• Hidden Depths: Kiriko isn't just a teacher/paper pusher - she's a hardened warrior that made one of the fiercest pirates freeze up when she glared at him.
• Hime Cut: She has the grace associated with this hairstyle and ultimately becomes a princess of Jurai.
• Hot for Student: To be fair, she liked him before she became his teacher.
• Invisibility Flicker: When activating her suit's cloaking ability.
• Satellite Character: A bit more character development than the others, but still applies.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Seina was so impressed by how she looked in Jurai formal wear that he was disappointed when she switched back to her GP uniform.
• Something Else Also Rises: As she discovered trying to wake Seina up one morning.
• Taking You with Me: Her response to Shank attacking her ship and trying to harm Seina. Justified as Shank is notorious for killing the crews of ships he raids, even if they surrender without resistance, and Shank's ship was too strong to take on with conventional weapons.
• Tsundere: Mild Type B. She does her best to be polite to others and when she gets mad at Seina it's because she's worried about him.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: She's polite and graceful and just as 'devious and wicked' as the Devil Princess herself. She has long hair with a Hime Cut. Most importantly, she's the only one of Seina's love interests that's from Japan.

Ryoko Balta/Balouta

Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa (Japanese), Barbara Goodson (English)

She's an honorable space pirate who has somehow gained an immense fan-club among GP officers, who revere her as an idol. She tried to recruit Seina as a pirate on his way to the academy, and they continued encountering each other afterwards. Named for the Ryoko of the original series.

• Ascended Fangirl: Of the original Ryoko. Although she does a good job of mastering Ryoko's "look," their personalities are quite different.
• The Commies Made Me Do It: Kidnapped as a child and brainwashed into becoming a pirate.
• Expy: Of Peorth, in terms of look and mannerisms.
• Gut Feeling: A flashback reveals that she was part of the rather large fleet of pirates chasing Seina at the start of the series, but she sensed something was amiss and backed off, to the chagrin of her crew... until Seto's ship showed up, and they all praised their captain's insight.
• High-Heel–Face Turn: She's the only pirate to join the good guys and one of two females.
• I Owe You My Life: This is why she joined Seina's crew.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: She had to be told what her real identity was.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Often shown in the credits, and commercial breaks. For undisclosed reasons able to shape-shift into female humanoid and hybrid forms, such as Amane, Erma, or a mermaid. Lost princess of Baluta.

Neju/Neige na Melmas

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (Japanese), Marie Danielle (English)

A high priestess with Psychic Powers whom Seina first meets on Jurai. She falls for Seina and decides to join up with his crew after being released from her duties. Despite being Really 700 Years Old, she serves as the show's Token Mini-Moe.

• Big Brother Instinct: Exploited. After hearing Seina has a little sister she calls him 'big brother' and acts like an adoring little sister.
• Creepy Child: Her true nature is a powerful and scary old lady but her body looks like a little girl.
• Deliberately Cute Child: Enjoys acting like a little kid despite being the oldest on the ship.
• Satellite Character: Her character arc was resolved in her introduction.
• Token Mini-Moe: Like Sasami before, she's the cute little character. The difference is that she's not really a child.

NB

Voiced by: Shinichi Watanabe (Japanese), Bob Papenbrook (English)

Seina's Robot Buddy (and Author Avatar for the series' director, Shinichi Watanabe). NB frequently ditches Seina in order to roam around videotaping the girls' locker rooms and peeping on his harem.

• Abhorrent Admirer: NaBiko, a Distaff Counterpart robot built to chase him around.
• Author Avatar: Oddly enough, he has little in common with Shinichi Watanabe's usual avatar Nabeshin, like in Excel♡Saga.
• Babies Ever After: We wish this would be the weirdest thing in the series, or even the weirdest thing regarding him, but still, somehow, in the ending he's stuck taking care of a fleet of baby robots resulting from the "affections" of NaBiko.
• Black Comedy Rape: Of robots by Fembots.
• Dirty Old Man: NB. Quite unusual behavior a Robot Buddy...
• Lovable Sex Maniac: As long as it's not NaBiko.
• "Second Law" My Ass!: He tells Seina what to do instead of the other way around.

Fuku

Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda (Japanese; GXP and Ryo-Ohki 3), Chie Nakamura (Japanese; Ryo-Ohki 5 onwards), Deanna Morris (English)

Expy and technical younger sister of the OVA's Ryo-Oh-Ki, Fuku is given to Seina after a particularly dangerous mission. Fuku acts as the mind and power source for Seina's second Cool Ship, the Kamidake II.

• Berserk Button: She doesn't have one, but what happens if you make Fuku cry? You get to deal with a Planet Destroyer and Ryo-Oh-Ki the same time! Pirates found this out the hard way. It gets worse when Shank abuses Fuku's clones. Seina finds out and wrecks Shank's base.
• Cowardly Lion: Normally shy and afraid but with sufficient encouragement she can face a fleet of pirates.
• Meaningful Name: Means "luck," a shortening of 幸福 Koufuku (Good luck).
  • Fridge Brilliance in-universe example: it's brought up why he didn't name her "kou" instead (because both "Kou" and "fuku" can be used to mean luck). He explains it's because "kou'" can also be used in 不幸 fukou for bad luck.
• The Power of Love: The more she is cared for by the crew the more power she can supply to the ship.

Supporting Characters

Airi Masaki

Voiced by: Sakiko Tamagawa (Japanese), Kari Wahlgren (English)

Chairwoman of the Galaxy Academy, and therefore the GP Academy. Yosho's wife, and therefore Tenchi's grandmo — mother's mother. Runs a small restaurant in her spare time.

• Berserk Button: Being called "Grandmother" or "Granny" or any similar term. Don't say anything of the sort if you value your well-being.
• Eccentric Mentor: Uh, yeah...
• Insistent Terminology: She hates being called "grandmother" or "grandma", despite the fact that she is Tenchi's grandmother.
• Maligned Mixed Marriage: Her relationship with Yosho was frowned upon, especially since she was already engaged, so when she first got pregnant by him she actually had the embryo removed and placed in stasis until she could break off her existing engagement and return to the Academy, where she had the embryo put back into her and gave birth naturally to her daughter Minaho.
• Pointy Ears: Shows that she's a native of Airai.
• Prim and Proper Bun
• Tangled Family Tree: Lampshaded — she literally pulls out a family tree diagram when she explains to Seina how she's related to Tenchi.

Seto Kamiki Jurai

Voiced by: Yukari Nozawa (Japanese), Melora Harte (English)

Feared by most of the galaxy as the "Oni (Devil) Princess of Jurai" (Jurai no Oni-hime), she's a high-ranking member of Jurai's royal family, The Woman Behind The Emperor, and Tenchi's great-great-great... nobody.^note For a change, she's not actually related to Tenchi in any way, being the mother of his great-grandfather The Emperor other wife. And the BFF of one of Tenchi's wives, and grandmother of the two others, but that doesn't count. She's also a Kamiki only by adoption. She's infamous for her use of The Plan and also loves messing with people and their love lives for the lulz. She makes Seina her special friend early on...

• Action Girlfriend: To the point that her husband Utsutsumi often feels redundant.
• Body Double: Later entries in the series reveal that Seto makes use of a woman named Kuis Panta as a double, but the two periodically sync their memories so both can be said to be Seto. They did this after Seto was injured in an accident so as not to tip off Jurai's enemies that the Demon Princess was out of commission.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Whenever she's feeling mischievous, sometimes bordering on Slasher Smile.
• The Dreaded: The mere presence of her communication ID is enough to cause an entire fleet of hardened pirates to shut down all equipment, including life support, to show that they're surrendering without resistance. Let's not think of the outcome if they hadn't done so...
• Gambit Roulette: Most of the series, especially Seina's love life, was orchestrated by her. The ''Roulette' is especially applicable here because her plans have to accommodate Seina's bad luck field.
• God Was My Copilot: It's eventually revealed in the novels that she is really Washu's long-lost best friend Naja Akara. For unknown reasons she was deaged and left without her memories where she was later found.
• Guile Hero: Ayeka admits that Seto is far more powerful than even the Emperor Azusa, in part because she is so adept at forming alliances and twisting the arms of important people.
• Happily Adopted: She's been adopted into the Kamiki house without any usual drama, and gets to be the most powerful person th the Galaxy.
• The High Queen: Princess, actually, but still.
• Insult Backfire: "Devious and wicked" is a compliment.
• It Amused Me:
  • Her primary hobby is causing chaos to relieve boredom (and collecting chew toys for this purpose). There is a reason she is feared...
  • Especially the wedding fiasco. When called out on it, she only responds by laughing. She had a Psychotic Smirk right before laughing as well.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She does mean well (in a twisted sense) and won't spread chaos that she can't fix.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Was found lost and amnesiac in space, and was adopted into the Kamiki family.
• The Man Behind the Man: Gender-flipped. It's her who is a true mover and shaker of the Juraian Empire.
• Manipulative Bastard: What she does in the love lives of others.
• The Matchmaker: Both for political purposes and screwing with other people's lives.
• May–December Romance: Met her future husband Utsutsumi when she was 4,500 years old while the latter was only 9 at the time. She semi-blackmailed Utsutsumi into marrying her 130 years later.
• Mysterious Past: Heavily implied to have some sort of connection to Naja Akara, Washuu's fellow scientist and friend who disappeared mysteriously in the same area where the young Seto was rescued. It's confirmed later in the novels that she is in fact Naja and wiped her own memories for unknown reasons.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Jurai no Onihime, or Devil Princess of Jurai.
• Older Than They Look: Despite her vague thirty-something appearance, Seto is actually at least a couple of thousand years old.
• One-Man Army: Just see what she's done with the pirates in GXP.
• Power Trio: One of the Three Great Princesses who actually run the Galaxy.
• Really 700 Years Old: She's somewhere between 5000 to 6000 years old. She looks looks like she's in her mid thirties.
• Red Baron: She's known as ''The Devil Princess of Jurai".
• Satellite Character: For all her importance in-story, she appears in the original OVA only as a cameo and didn't appear properly until GXP.
• Supreme Chef: Heavily implied to have taught Sasami.
• Trickster Mentor: She wouldn't have to mess with them if they didn't need it.

Erma

Voiced by: Niina Kumagaya (Japanese), Rebecca Forstadt (English)

A Wau scientist who often functions as Seina's nurse, and happens to have an interest in Seina, despite the species gap. Elma is actually Ryoko (the one above) in disguise.

• Cat Girl
• Mistress of Disguise: She disguises herself as Amane in one episode to lure Seina in to be experimented on. Despite very nearly seeing through it, Seina still agrees only because he's unfamiliar with alien customs and laws.
• The Mole

Mitoto Kuramitsu

Voiced by: Yuko Mizutani (Japanese; GXP and Ryo-Ohki 3), Michie Tomizawa (Japanese; Ryo-Ohki 4 onwards), Kari Wahlgren (English)

Mihoshi's mother, a janitor for the Galaxy Police. She's able to teleport randomly when she gets engrossed in cleaning; because of this, she's made friends in both Juraian royalty and among the space pirates. She has an Uncanny Family Resemblance to her daughter.

• Almighty Janitor: A literal janitor who has friends in high places on both sides of the law. She also highly versed in space warfare and shown give important advice and consultation in space warfare tactics to vessel captains in need that she happen to be with.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Just look at how she reacts to getting chased by pirates.
• Generation Xerox: She's basically an older, more mature, and (vaguely) more competent version of Mihoshi.
• Genius Ditz: Do we have to ask?
• No Sense of Direction: She's been everywhere possible. This is a woman who can get aboard a pirate ship while cleaning the bathroom at the Galaxy Police HQ.

Villains

Seiryo Tennan

Voiced by: Mitsuaki Madono (Japanese), Kirk Thornton (English)

A flashy, flamboyant man who serves as Seina's Sadist Teacher during his academy days. He's incredibly bitter about having "lost" a duel against Tenchi in the main OVA storyline (he was the guy that came with the Jurai clan in Here Comes Jurai and was originally assigned to marry Ayeka. He would up losing said duel when Mihoshi's ship splashed into the nearby lake and sweeping him into the water before he could even make a move), and as a result, has developed a particularly nasty hatred for earthlings. Despite ostensibly being one of the "good guys" early on, he pulls a Face–Heel Turn for the sake of his family's business after being kidnapped by pirates, and attempts to make himself into Seina's Rival from then on.

• Ascended Extra: Didn't have much of a role in the original OVA, here he's finally more than just a background character. Oh, and Seiryo gets a happy ending.
• Butt-Monkey: Bad things happen to him regularly. It's worse now that he's in the presence of a walking bad luck field.
• Continuity Nod: His hatred for earthlings stems from "losing" to Tenchi in the OVA.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite his over confidence and idiotic behavior, people know to not get into a fight with him.
• Determinator: To the point of absurdity in GXP. No matter what the girls do to him, he usually always... always returns in hopeless attempts to court Amane, as the two were previously engaged in a Arranged Marriage in the past, though Amane fervently hates Seiryo and as such she cancelled said marriage. Regardless, until near the ending of GXP, he continuously approaches Amane in his usual attempts to reignite their dissolved arranged marriage, which always results in a shameful defeat for him.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Hates Earthlings because he "lost" his duel with Tenchi when really it was Mihoshi's ship splashing into the nearby lake and washing him away. But, the guy is so prideful, he just put the blame on Earthlings because of, well, personal reasons.
• Face–Heel Turn: Early on for the sake of his family's business.
• General Failure: He's incompetent and most of his plans fail; his rank is due to nepotism.
  • The man could be Zapp Brannigan's more-effeminate cousin.
• Giver of Lame Names: He was the one who decided to name the ship Unko, due to the fact that every other "lucky" name was taken at the time. It's supposed to mean "bringer of fortune", unfortunately for Seiryo, "Unko" also means, and is more commonly used to refer to, poop.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: He worked for the GP and then to the pirates, then killed a pirate while still being a pirate and then almost bested the Big Bad for the heroes. Justified as he was forced by the needs of family business and disliked pirates before hand.
• High-Class Fan: Being a Sissy Villain, he always carries a hand fan with him, which further denotes his flashy and flamboyant personality.
• Set Swords to "Stun": Somehow does this with a Laser Blade, which was confusing even In-Universe.
• Sissy Villain: He's a walking Camp stereotype.
• Took a Level in Badass: Seiryo was introduced in an OVA episode as a hyper-effeminate throwaway adversary who could be defeated by a splash of water. He was reintroduced in this show as a comic relief stalker villain whose role consisted largely of getting his butt kicked by Action Girl Amane. Later, he beats the Big Bad in a sword fight! He says, "Yep, I'm a badass" afterward.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In the OVA, Seiryo was a slightly snobbish but reasonably respectful man who wanted to marry Princess Ayeka with her father's approval even if she was very reluctant. In this show, he's a stalker and a racist with a sadistic attitude toward one of his students. He eventually becomes one of the leaders of a crime syndicate that literally fights battles with the police force he used to be part of.
• Underestimating Badassery: In the parent show, he thinks that Tenchi will be an easy opponent. He never gets the chance to find out how wrong he is.
• Upper-Class Twit: His ego is bigger than his family's status.

Kyo Komachi

Voiced by: Romi Park (Japanese), Jessica Gee-George (English)

Another Space Pirate. Ends up guarding Seiryo Tennan, then serving under him.

• Amazonian Beauty: Uh, yeah. She also gets a happy ending with Seiryo.
• Call-Back: Seina takes a moment to say hi near the end, despite having only met her once.
• I Owe You My Life: To Seina. In the early episodes, when a malfunction of his ship's emergency hull-sealing system traps her in crystal, he shows her how to escape. In return she warns him to avoid Shank, at all costs. Unfortunately, he winds up in an encounter with Shank anyway.
• Noble Demon: Despite being a pirate, she clearly has a strong moral compass, and an unshakable sense of honor.
• Only Sane Woman: lampshades this when commenting that her sanity is only making Seiryo dumber than ever.

Tarant Shank

Voiced by: Yuki Matsuda (Japanese), Kim Strauss (English)

A Space Pirate. Makes a classic entrance as a Knight of Cerebus, but Seina's luck tends to undercut him anticlimactically. Implied to have a crush on Kiriko.

• Ax-Crazy: Even by pirate standards, he's needlessly cruel and bloodthirsty.
• The Determinator: He survived most events that would kill normal people. He even survives his ship being crushed into a tiny ball and then absorbed into a brief, miniature black hole by a Humongous Mecha.
• Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: In his duel with Seiryo, Shank tries to deploy the gun in his prosthetic arm. Seiryo has already closed the distance and gotten within sword range before Shank could draw a bead, causing the latter to lose the duel.
• Dirty Coward: If the stakes are too high, he'll run away to plot revenge.
• The Dreaded: He really wants to be one. Every time he appears, he's engaging in pointless cruelty For the Evulz, and has a very hideous track-record of Off Screen Villainy. Unfortunately for him, Seina's bad luck field constantly makes him an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, and he hates it with every fiber of his being.
• Famed In-Story: A truly villainous version. He and his ship are both well-known, and considered a top-priority among the GP because his crew kills the entire crew of any ship they raid, even if the other ship surrenders without resistance.
• Hate Sink: He is so evil that he isn't forgiveable by any means. And we really hate him for the useless fool that he is.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The reason Seina found his hideout on a back water planet he's been terrorizing? Shanks kidnapped Fuku, and Seina followed him. All attempts to kill Seina failed, owing to the latter's bad luck effect.
• Hollywood Cyborg: After a few too-narrow escapes.
• It's Personal: While he normally raids civilian, police, and sometimes military vessels and slaughters the crew, and thinks nothing of it, he targets Seina early in the series because his father was one of the very first pirates who was coincidentally captured as a direct result of Seina's "bad luck field." By the end of the story, he's become so enraged by Seina both literally and figuratively dismantling his entire pirate career and infrastructure that he infiltrates Seina's wedding and tries to wipe out Seina's entire bloodline. Of course, Seina takes him down without even really trying.
• Kick the Dog: Nearly crushes a Cabbit to death at one point.
• Knight of Cerebus: He tries to be this, it doesn't work.
• Meaningful Name: You know what it means to "shank" somebody right? Also he's near the top of a pirate organization and treats his subordinates and any poor sod who crosses his path very, very poorly. He's a tyrant that shanks people.
• Offscreen Villainy: He has a long track-record of brutally murdering the entire crews of ships he raids, and near the final episode leads his band of pirates to Rape, Pillage, and Burn an entire planet's population, only being stopped by Seina.
• Smug Snake: He thinks he is utterly superior to everyone else in the universe, in every aspect, without exception. He couldn't be more wrong if he tried.
• Sociopath Pirate: hunted Seina with a smile.
• We Can Rebuild Him: Eventually gets a synthetic eye and arm.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He's a relatively low key, ruthless bad guy who clearly thinks he's in a show that takes its Space Opera elements seriously. In reality, he's in a series that favors over the top hammy joke villains and fanservice humor over anything else. Really, it's like he took a wrong turn at Outlaw Star and ended up on this show somehow...
  • He keeps trying to be a very, very dangerous foe. He keeps trying to cross the Moral Event Horizon. But this isn't that kind of show, so he's never allowed to be as evil as he wants to be.

Da Luma

Voiced by: Toshihiko Nakajima (Japanese), Mel Dasher (English)

Leader of the Daluma Guild Pirates.

• Affably Evil
• Big Bad: Not really. He may be a pirate guild leader, but he's got better ethics and common sense than Shank.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: He and Seina are shown chatting quite amiably after his arrest, and Seina's actually quite sympathetic with his plight.
• Meaningful Name: Da Luma is named after (and all his stuff resembles) round dolls depicting Bodhidharma (called Daruma in Japanese), which are a type of good luck charm.