- Acting for Two:
- Takeshi Aono voiced Nobuyuki and Katsuhito before his 2010 retirement. In the English dub, Jay Hopper voiced both until he left the show, and Bob Papenbrook began voicing both as well.
- Tsunami and Sasami in both the Japanese and English versions. Also a bit of a meta-example, not only for fitting the trope itself but for fitting its title literally thanks to Sasami and Tsunami's fusion link.
- Adaptation Sequence: Anime OVAs —> Novels —> Video games —> Non-canon anime TV series —> Non-canon anime films
- Adored by the Network: Since it began with the first Ryo-Ohki OVA in 1992, Tenchi Muyo! has been one of AIC and NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan's most popular anime franchises.
- Amateur Cast: The anime's English dub was one of the first uncut anime dubs to use union voice actors (though it was a non-union project until partway through the second OVA). As a result most of the original cast were theater actors who hadn't had much voice acting experience beforehand, (the notable exceptions being Jennifer Darling, Ellen Gerstell, and Sherry Lynn; all of whom had prior experience in western animation productions) and they had no dub roles at all until that point. Most of them didn't have much success afterward. (Debi Derryberry is a notable exception, though she's more well known for her western animation and video game roles.)
- Anime First: Manga were made later.
- Cash-Cow Franchise: On an international level.
- Channel Hop:
- Tenchi Universe, Tenchi in Tokyo and Pretty Sammy aired on TV Tokyo. For Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure and Sasami: Magical Girls Club, it was broadcast on WOWOW. Then, Tenchi Muyo! GXP aired on Nippon TV. Finally, Ai Tenchi Muyo! aired on Tokyo MX.
- The third Ryo-Ohki OVA, Tenchi Muyo! GXP, Tenchi Muyo: War on Geminar and Ai Tenchi Muyo! were all distributed by VAP, a record label owned by Nippon TV.
- The fourth and fifth Ryo-Ohki OVAs were distributed by Pony Canyon.
- The North American distribution rights to Tenchi Muyo! were held by Pioneer Entertainment, which was later renamed Geneon Entertainment USA in 2003. In 2005, Funimation released the third Ryo-Ohki OVA and it would later go on to acquire most of Geneon USA's Tenchi Muyo! titles shortly after they went out of business in 2007.
- Franchise Ownership Acquisition:
- While Tenchi Muyo! has been owned by AIC since the beginning, they negotiated a deal with Toei Agency to jointly share the franchise's copyrights in April 2021.
- The franchise began with Pioneer LDC as their main producer and home media distributor for the two Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OVAs, Tenchi Universe, Pretty Sammy, Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure, Tenchi in Tokyo, and the theatrical films. In 2003, Dentsu wound up with the rights after purchasing Pioneer LDC and renaming it Geneon Entertainment. When NBCUniversal purchased Geneon from Dentsu in 2008, they acquired the rights to these series as well.
- International Coproduction: Tenchi Muyo in Love was produced in Japan, while the sound design was done in Los Angeles, California, and the music was primarily recorded in Berlin, Germany.
- Late Export for You: Ai Tenchi Muyo! was released on home media in North America in 2018, four years after its Japanese premiere.
- Milestone Celebration: Ai Tenchi Muyo! premiered in 2014, the year which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the second Ryo-Ohki OVA's premiere.
- The Original Darrin: In the English dub of Ai Tenchi Muyo!, Petrea Burchard reprises her role of Ryoko after Mona Marshall replaced her for the third OVA.
- The Other Darrin:
- In Japanese:
- Yumi Takada retired from voice acting in 2009, and Haruhi Nanao replaced her as Ayeka from Ai Tenchi Muyo! onwards.
- Ken Uo and Katsuyuki Konishi replaced Takeshi Aono as the voices of Katsuhito and Nobuyuki Masaki following Aono's retirement in 2010 and death two years later.
- After Yuko Mizutani's 2016 death, Michie Tomizawa replaced her as Mihoshi Kuramitsu (and her mother Mitoto).
- Yoko Soumi and Chie Nakamura respectively replaced the late Ikuko Sugita and Tomoko Kaneda as Mikami Kuramitsu and Fuku after the third Ryo-Ohki OVA.
- Hirofumi Nojima replaced Shigeru Mogi as Seina Yamada after the fourth Ryo-Ohki OVA.
- In the English dub:
- Rebecca Forstadt replaced Ellen Gerstell as Mihoshi Kuramitsu after the first Tenchi Universe film.
- Bob Papenbrook replaced Jay Hopper as Katsuhito and Nobuyuki Masaki starting with Tenchi in Tokyo, and would continue to do so until his 2006 death.
- Doug Stone replaced Mark Tracy as Azaka beginning with Tenchi in Tokyo.
- Kamidake had three voice actors. For the first Ryo Ohki OVA, he was voiced by Phil Fox. Beginning with the seventh episode, he was played by Jack Fletcher. Then, for his appearances in Tenchi in Tokyo, he was voiced by Michael Sorich.
- Funimation was able to secure the entire cast for OVA 3, except for Petrea Burchard due to her union's increasing wage scale, so Mona Marshall became Ryoko's regular voice actress for that, until Burchard reprised her role in Ai Tenchi Muyo!. Also, Mona Marshall had voiced Noike for her brief cameo in GXP, Kari Wahlgren became her permanent voice for OVA 3.
- When Funimation picked up Ai Tenchi Muyo!, most of the original cast returned. However, Washu's voice actress, Kate Vogt, had moved away to Portland, Oregon; she was replaced by Karen Strassman (in a 2022 interview, Vogt mentioned that she was never contacted). Jennifer Darling, Ayeka's regular voice actress, retired in 2015, and she was replaced by Cherami Leigh.
- In Japanese:
- Real-Life Relative:
- Akio Ōtsuka voices Azusa Masaki Jurai. His wife from 2005 to 2008, Yoko Soumi, has been voicing Mikami Kuramitsu since 2016.
- For the Italian dub of The Daughter of Darkness, sisters Barbara De Bortoli and Federica De Bortoli respectively voiced Mihoshi and Mayuka.
- Recast as a Regular: Katsuyuki Konishi voiced Sorunaru in the third Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OVA before replacing the late Takeshi Aono as Nobuyuki Masaki in the fourth one.
- Role Reprise: All of the voice actors from the anime reprised their roles for the tie-in video games.
- Screwed by the Lawyers: Since 2020, the fourth and fifth Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OVAs are streaming on Crunchyroll, meaning that they are not available to watch on Funimation's website with the first three OVAs, Tenchi Universe and Tenchi in Tokyo, and vice-versa as of 2024.
- Swan Song: Ai Tenchi Muyo! was Yuko Mizutani's final appearance as Mihoshi Kuramitsu before her 2016 death.
- Word of God: OVA continuity. In the end, Tenchi will marry everyone. That's why we used to call it the Tenchi Solution.
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