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Tenchi Universe - Episode Synopsis

Episode 1: No need for discussions
Episode 2: No need for a princess
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Episode 11: Time and Space adventures pt 1
Washu has built a new machine, the Dimension Tuner, which can be used to alter reality to the users wish. However, it is not yet completed. The girls sneak into Washu's lab and tamper with her machine, each one wishing for their own reality. Washu catches them, but it is too late. The machine overloads, causing everyone (inc Tenchi & his family) to be sent into a new dimension.
i) Ayeka's dimension Ayeka and Tenchi are engaged royals in what looks like feudal Japan. Tenchi is sent by the king to slay a demon who has been terrorising the locals. Ayeka summons her royal guards, Mihoshi & Kiyone to aid him on his quest. Tenchi confronts the demon, who happens to be (you guessed it) Ryoko. As usual, Ryoko is in love with thw reluctant Tenchi. They are seen by Mihoshi & Kiyone, who tell Ayeka. Ayeka is pissed, and confronts Ryoko. However, just as things get started, the group are cast into another dimension...
Episode 12: Time and Space adventures pt 2
ii) Mihoshi & Kiyone's Dimension
Kiyone travels by boat to a small island. There she finds a cafe run by Tenchi & Ayeka, and another run by Sasami. She decides to stay in this town and works for Sasami. Mihoshi is nowhere to be seen. Kiyone has a happy life in this town for a while, until one day, a familiar face arrives. Mihoshi has tracked Kioyne to this town, and decided to stay with her. Kiyone gets mad, and runs away again. A new dimension forms...
iii) Sasami's dimension Tenchi, Ryoko and Ayeka are high school studens, while Mihoshi and Kiyone are teachers. As is the norm, Ayeka and Ryoko fight over Tenchi. Elsewhere, Sasami converses with her talking cat - Ryo-ohki. One afternoon, she spots Ayeka and Ryoko fighting, and decides to fix things. Transforming into 'Pretty-sammy' a Sailor moon type charachter, she uses her powers to make Ayeka and Ryoko friends, much to the confusion of everyone else present...
Episode 13: Time and Space adventures pt 3
iv) The family dimension
Tenchi and Mihoshi are married, with one daughter, Sasami. Ayeka is Mihoshi's nagging sister in law, who orders her about the house and critisizes everything she does. Mihoshi leaves the house to meet her friend Kiyone, and tell her about Ayeka's unkindness. Upon returning home she finds her nexd-door neighbour, Ryoko, attempting to steal Tenchi away. She and Ayeka are annoyed...
v) Ryoko's dimension
Ryoko has kidnapped Tenchi, the fiance of the duchess Ayeka, and forced him to become her accomplice as she robs banks. Despite Tenchi's reluctance, Ryoko is happy in this life with him. However, one night, Washu appears - she needs Ryoko's help to send everyone back to their original dimesion. Ryoko refuses. Tenchi decides he will leave this dimension, and Ryoko, not wanting a world without Tenchi, decides to help Washu. Her machine is set up, and everyone returns home.
Episode 14: No need for a rebellion
Kiyone is promoted, and leaves Earth. Tenchi leaves his house and returns to find it gone. Suddenly, a pod falls from the sky, containing everyone except Ayeka, Sasami and Ryoko. Washu tells Tenchi that they were taken by a Jurai military ship. Ayeka had been arrested for high treason, Sasami as an accomplice and Ryoko for being a space pirate. All three are locked up on a Jurai ship. Kiyone contacts the ship from Yagami, requesting Ryoko's handover, but is refused. Washu, Tenchi, his father ans Katsuhito travel to the Jurai ship. Fighting off the guards, they arrive at Ayeka & co's cell. Ryo-ohki transorms into a ship and breaks open the cell. The crew escape and head for their new target, Jurai.
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Episode 19: No need for runaways
Whilst the group are eating at a space bar, Yagami is stolen by two theives. The group see Yagami leave, and follow in Ryo-ohki, leaving Ayeka and Sasami behind with the bill. Katsuhito and Tenchi's dad remain on Yagami, unaware of what is going on. The others in Ryo-ohki lose track of Yagami. The galaxy police find Yagami, and thinking the crew are on board, attack it. The attack is broadcast, and the crew find out where Yagami is headed. The bewildered theives lose control of Yagami and head into They catch up with it, subdue the theives and escape from the supernova. However, they have forgotten that Ayeka and Sasami are still back at the space bar, washing up to pay off their bill...
Episode 20: No need for swimsuits.
The crew are forced to take jobs at a beach to pay for repairs for Yagami. However, business is poor in the area, and they don't make much money. Meanwhile, Nagi arrives at the beach, searching for Ryoko... The crew are notified of a swimsuit competition, with a prize of 1 million Jurai. The women decide to enter. Nagi enters their shop, where she challenges Ryoko. However, Ryoko decides to fight her after the competition. At the end of the competition, Nagi decides to enter, and wins. Ryoko, furious at losing, steals the reward and escapes in Yagami. The others catch up in Ryo-ohki, and they resume their journey towards Jurai.
Episode 21: No need for a checkpoint
Episode 22: No need for knights
Yagami enters Jurai territory, where they are pursued by Jurai ships. They head to the sacred place, the forbidden part of planet Jurai. Katsuhito gives directions to the place, much to the suprise of Tenchi & the others. Upon arriving at the sacred place, Ayeka tells them of 2 legendary knights who will rise up to project Jurai's royalty. They find 2 blocks, with the same markings as those on Ayeka's guardians. The guardians stand on the block, and Katsuhito begins a ritual. He has Jurai's power, the power held by Jurai royalty. Two chambers open to reveal the knights, Asaka and Kamaidake. The wooden guardians have shut down. Katsuhito reveals he is Yosho, a member of Jurai royalty who aboandoned Jurai and settled down on Earth. The 'Yosho' who has taken over Jurai's throne is a fake. A Jurai ship appears, but is destroyed by the knights, who pledge alliegance to Yosho. Elsewhere, the fake Yosho schemes...
Episode 23: No need for Karma
The crew go to an old Jurai temple, where they see a statue of Yosho and another man. Yosho talks about him. He was a highly skilled Jurai royal, but became corrupted by his strong Jurai power. Yosho was forced to fight him, and defeated him. He dissapeared. His name was Kagato. Ayeka asks Tenchi to take the Jurai throne so that they can be together. Yosho is reunited with Kagato, who is the fake Yosho, and does battle with him. Despite using his Jurai power, Yosho is defeated. Ryoko and the Knights also attack Yosho, but all three are defeated as well. Kagato kidnaps Ayeka and escapes in his ship. Yosho hands Tenchi his sword and tells him he must defeat Kagato...
Episode 24: No need for Ryoko
Washu tries to revive Yosho. She tells Tenchi he has great power and must go to the Jurai palace to defeat Kagato. The Jurai military arrive, and attack. Ken-ohki appears and fights them off. Despite still being weak from her battle with Kagato, Ryoko decides to help Tenchi. Along with the knights, she travels with Tenchi in Ryo-ohki towards the Jurai palace. Ken-ohki acts as a decoy, allowing Ryo-ohki to reach the palace. The knights and Tenchi go onward into the palace, but Ryoko, who is still badly hurt from Kagato's attack stays behind. She staggers, and falls over...
Episode 25: No need for a showdown
Tenchi and the Knights head towards Kagato's location while Nagi continues to fight off the Jurai forces in Ken-ohki. The knights are confronted by Kagato's two knights. The do battle while Tenchi goes ahead. The knights defeat Kagato's knights, but use up all their power in the process, and faint. Tenchi reaches the throne room, where he sees Ayeka and Kagato. Tenchi equips his sword, and attacks Kagato. He is defeated, but saved by Ayeka, who escapes her prison. Kagato attacks her, but is stopped by Tenchi, who has unleashed the true power of Jurai within him, causing trees to sprout all over the room. Tenchi resumes his battle with Kagato, and kills him.
Episode 26: No need for a conclusion
Tenchi & the group are cleared of the treason charges. The truth about them and Kagato is broadcast to the universe. Ayeka becomes a member of Jurai's royal family. Yosho is successfully revived, along with Ayeka's wooden guardians. Asaka & Kamidake also survive. Ryoko is still missing, and Nagi departs to search for her. Mihoshi & Kiyone are promoted, and Washu becomes president of the universal science academy (she is thrown out one month later for constructing a universe destroying weapon). Despite Ayeka's pleas, Tenchi decides to return to Earth. He returns to his normal life and is left only with the memories of his adventures.
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