Dude... I just crapped my pants... well, not really, but it was pretty damn close.  RIGHT!  On to the review!  As you can see above and below, the pictures are not as large as my usual... large pictures.  That's because I did not have Tenchi Muyo on DVD, I have it on VCD (it looks better small).  This means that the quality isn't as good (although it is pretty damn good) and the people who produced this set decided that they would do something extra special with it, let me tell you a story...

          Back when I was looking to buy Tenchi Muyo, all I could find was the box set that had all of Tenchi Muyo, all of Tenchi Universe and I think it might also include Tenchi in Tokyo (that is what I thought at the time, I now know that it only had Tenchi Muyo).  This was all for about $90 off of Amazon.com, which was about $30 off the normal price.  Because I didn't want to spend so much on an anime that I didn't really know if it was good or not, I found the VCD version of Tenchi Muyo for $34.

          Now, when I bought this, I was under the impression that it was in English, as it was, but I had no idea just how much in English it really was.  Not only was it dubbed in English, but it was also subtitled.  This wouldn't be a problem if it were DVD, but VCD is just a bunch of really good MPEG's, meaning I got what I got.  Not only that, but the subtitles weren't even done well, they didn't match up with what people were saying when they were saying it.  I can see what happened in my mind's eye...

     1st Japanese guy - "Okay, we have Tenchi Muyo for sending to Americans."

          2nd Japanese guy - "Right, we send them Tenchi Muyo in box set so stupid Americans must spend many dollars, ha ha ha."

          1st - "Yes, but we not send Tenchi Muyo separately on DVD, stupid Americans must buy in crappier VCD, ha ha ha"

          2nd - "Ha ha"

          2nd - "....."

          1st - "I have idea!  Not only we send Tenchi Muyo on VCD, but we send it dubbed in English and subbed in English because stupid fucking Americans need to learn how to read"

          2nd - "Yes"

          1st - "..."

          2nd - "If we must teach stupid Americans to read, we must test them by not putting subtitles in sync with the speech, good test for stupid cow Americans!"

          1st - "Yes..... ha ha ha ha!"

          2nd - "Ha ha ha"

          1st - "Ha"

          I know it must've gone something like that.

          Tenchi Muyo is about a guy named Tenchi Masaki who is quite normal, the wackiness begins when he lets a demon out of imprisonment and that demon happens to be in love with him (some people who've seen this may say that Ryoko, the demon, fell in love with him after he set her free or whatever, but she was actually in love with him before).  Because Ryoko is now free, people who are after Ryoko start coming to Earth to capture her, all of these people happen to be pretty young girls, and they fall in love with Tenchi (sounds like my situation, exactly like it).  The craziness begins.

          I really, really, really like this anime, not only does it have awesome characters, but it has great animation and is extremely funny and entertaining.  We got Ryoko, who just plain kicks ass, Mihoshi, who is like a grown-up Bubbles
(Powerpuff Girls), Sasami, who is almost as cool as Ryoko, and everyone else who are cool in their own special way (especially Sasami's mom).  Although this is kind of a romance, it also has quite a bit of action and is... it's... it's fucking great!

Genre - action/sci-fi/romance/comedy

Animation - If I think really hard, the only animation I've seen that's better than this is from Ninja Scroll and Akira (not anymore, by a long shot).  The animation is very detailed and smooth, it goes down your throat like giant, non-stick pan... or something.

Sub vs. Dub - the sub is, by far, better.  it's also very, very dirty at points

the Good - Ryoko, Mihoshi and everything else.  Ryoko and Mihoshi are special though.  Everyone actually changes clothes.

the Bad - It's too damn short, and I've seen some of Tenchi Universe, I don't accept that as a reasonable substitute (Tenchi Universe is the TV version of Tenchi Muyo and has something like... 5500 episodes or something, it's not as good in all categories)

Overall - Fucking awesome, it puts together bunches of genre types and actually does an excellent job.  (13 episodes)

I recently bought the DVD box set and, let me tell you, it's worth the extra money, plus a pretzel...