Thirteenth episode synopsis
Ben Lang's synopsis
I didn't start writing synopses to episodes when Ben Lang sent this
one to the mailing list. I started writing synopses after I got the
13th thru 16th episodes and none of the prolific posters were able to
get them. I did end up writing some comments to what Ben Lang wrote
as a sent out synposes for the 12th thru 16th episodes, so I present them
here.
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 20:50:14 -0600
To: tenchi@usagi.jrd.dec.com
From: Ben Lang
Subject: STM summery
OK seems my little pictures have caused quite a response. Here's a synopsis.
We open with Yuugi in some sort of surelistic dream w/ Sasami. She's
holding a red balloon. Sasami tries to get close to Yuugi and the balloon
pops and the dream is over. Now we see Yuugi and Cat Girl (sigh) talking.
Then Sasami is doing laundry and being very happy about it. Ryo-Ohki's
pretty hyped up too. Nobiuki is coming back on the train and seems pretty
pleased with himself.He's happy about Tenchi and Sakuya getting back
together. I think Sakuya reminds him of Achika and he told Tenchi that last
ep. Then Tenchi and his friend are practicing martial arts in the gym.
Tenchi is kicking some ass (now we know Tenchi isn't a wimp in this world).
He looks out the window and all of Sakuyas friends are waving with her at
him. Sakuya looks really embarased. The teacher sneaks up and yells at
Sakuya and co. While Tenchi is distracted his friend flattens him to the
ground. Ryoko is watching the sun rise (a theme in STM). She seems sad. She
does some martial arts (someone out there loves me. PERFECT for my tenchi
game from the side and long shots :) :) ) and gets depressed. Suddenly
glasses guy shows up. Ryoko and glasses guy fight. He has the upper hand
but does not kill her when he has the opertunity. They talk at the end of
the fight and do not seem altogether unfriendly. Sasami witnessed the
explosions from the fight and shrugged them off and walked away she had
something else to do. Yoshu senses a coming storm and we switch to Nobiuki.
He has just come back and the girls wanted to know where he was. Aparantly
he tells them about Tenchi and Sakuya. They are not pleased to say the
least. Actually now that I think about it Glasses Guy told Ryoko about what
happened w/ Sakuya. Each girl takes her turn yelling at him. Until Aeka the
one he is most afraid of. Aeka string him up from the ceiling (where he
shall stay the rest of the ep.) and the guardians whip him while she
laughs. Ryoko imagines what's happening on the date w/ Sakuya (remind you
of Skuld anyone?) and Aeka gets angry and trys to fly through the portal.
Cat-girl(sigh) however is sitting on Tenchi's bed doing her nails (sigh)
and thus the portal is deactivated. Sasami goes to FUNHAO and waits until
Yuugi shows up. She does not find it unusual that she appears out of thin
air. Sasami is extremely happy to see Yuugi (so is Ryo-Ohki). Glass
crystals thrust from the ground around theMasaki house and everyone (sans
Nobiuki who's tied up) runs outside. Yuugi makes her first appearance to
the girls. Then we switch to Tenchi and Sakuya's date. She certainly seems
to be enjoying herself. Tenchi I'm not so sure about. Yuugi starts to
attack w/ huge energy bolts. She hits everyone one by one until only
Ryoko's left standing. We switch to Yuugi (aparantly she's got a split
personality) playing w/ Sasami. Sasami is jumping rope w/ Ryo-Ohki turning
the rope (other end tied to a tree). yuugi looks confused and Sasami
encourages her to join in. Yuugi tries to and they both fall. More fight
for a while and then we're back w/ Sasami Yuugi (wow I'm having Fushigi
Yuugi flashbacks all of a sudden :) :) ). Sasami is playing cat's craddle.
She's REALLY good. She makes Tokyo Tower (inside joke) and Yuugi tries to
make something she eventually makes a halfway decent cradle. Now we switch
to Yuugi vs. Ryoko. Yuugi has her hand INSIDE Ryoko's neck and blasts her.
Ryoko flies back into a tree and lies there looking VERY dead. Everyone
reacts w/ horror esp. Washuu who has to be held back by Yoshu (def. a
connection here.) Tenchi recoils in shock and then shakes it off. The
crystal on Ryoko's wrist begins to glow. Tenchi is just about to pay the
bill for sakuya and him when he sees one of the crystals on the ground.
Tenchi picks it up and suddenly Ryoko is bathed in green swirling lights
(there have been three breathtaking animations in this season of anime the
sword drawing in Perfume de la Rose, Dragon Slave from Slayers Try and this
one it is incredible animation). All of the gems start to glow and Ryoko
prepares a huge blast. Which she unleashes on Yuugi (and i mean HUGE).
Yuugi barely blocks it all. The other Yuugi w/ Sasami collapses. Sasami is
very woried. Yuugi fires a huge blast of her own. Ryoko is weak and
helpless.The blast is blocked by...GLASSES GUY!!?!?!?! What the. Baggy
sleaves shows up to block it too. Aparantly they we're stoping Yuugi from
doing something she shouldn't do (killing Ryoko?). Both Yuugi's leave. We
pan out to see HUGE craters littering the lawn and the girls lying
exahausted and beat on the ground.Sasami is then asleep in front of Funaho
and wakes up w/ no memory of what happened. Tenchi tries calling home but
all the girls are asleep and Ryoko blasts the phone. Yuugi is back home and
is winded. She looks slightly frightened for a second but soon is back to
normal. She laughs and the ep is over (Nobiuki still on the ceiling :)
Notes.
First of all. The first commercial for TMME was played. I digitized it and
will put it up tonight. Animation looks really good and we see Tenchi in
full LHW gear kicking ass.
Yuugi w/ Sasami and Yuugi everyone else are distinctly different. There's a
lost childhood thing going on here. Maybe she should talk to Ryoko. :)
It doesn't come across but Yuugi is INCREDIBLY powerful. The blasts she
routinely fires are 20 ft around. It's insane.
They poured SO much money into this one. The animation is at least OAV
quality. Possibly better in some parts.
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My comments on Ben Lang's synopsis
In case you're wondering about the odd format these comments are in,
all I can say is that's how I sent it out.
From: gee@math.berkeley.edu (Randall M! Gee)
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 00:18:32 -0700 (PDT)
To: tenchi@usagi.jrd.dec.com
Subject: 13th episode of NEW TENCHI MUYOU! synopsis
Continuing on with the synopses....
I guess no one did a synopsis of the important 10th episode. Oh well.
Ben Lang sent a summary of the 13th episode to this list July 7, so
I'll just add a few details to his, before sending out the important
14th episode where Tsunami shows up and proclaims her love for Nobuyuki.
(Just kidding.... nothing like that happens....)
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On 1997 Jul 7 (Mon),
Ben Lang wrote:
>OK seems my little pictures have caused quite a response. Here's a synopsis.
>We open with Yuugi in some sort of surelistic dream w/ Sasami. She's
>holding a red balloon. Sasami tries to get close to Yuugi and the balloon
>pops and the dream is over.
It's Sasami's dream. It's the nice Yuugi she met in the 5th episode. I
think Yuugi is inviting Sasami to meet her the next night, and Sasami
asks if Ryou-oh-ki can come. She says yes.
>Now we see Yuugi and Cat Girl (sigh) talking.
I think Yuugi refers to Sasami as a friend here.
>Then Sasami is doing laundry and being very happy about it. Ryo-Ohki's
>pretty hyped up too.
She's telling Ryou-oh-ki about meeting Yuugi.
>Nobiuki is coming back on the train and seems pretty
>pleased with himself.He's happy about Tenchi and Sakuya getting back
>together. I think Sakuya reminds him of Achika and he told Tenchi that last
>ep. Then Tenchi and his friend are practicing martial arts in the gym.
>Tenchi is kicking some ass (now we know Tenchi isn't a wimp in this world).
It's judo, and he throws Luke Perry to the floor.
>He looks out the window and all of Sakuyas friends are waving with her at
>him. Sakuya looks really embarased.
The two friends (Nosy Girl [dark hair] and Ditzy Girl [glasses]) are
holding each of Sakuya's hands and waving for her, since they're afraid
Sakuya isn't being aggressive enough. The Beanpole isn't there.
>The teacher sneaks up and yells at
>Sakuya and co.
She bashes all three of them with her megaphone (with one blow!)
>While Tenchi is distracted his friend flattens him to the
>ground. Ryoko is watching the sun rise (a theme in STM).
The sun is setting, actually.
>She seems sad. She
>does some martial arts (someone out there loves me. PERFECT for my tenchi
>game from the side and long shots :) :) ) and gets depressed. Suddenly
>glasses guy shows up. Ryoko and glasses guy fight. He has the upper hand
>but does not kill her when he has the opertunity. They talk at the end of
>the fight and do not seem altogether unfriendly. Sasami witnessed the
>explosions from the fight and shrugged them off and walked away she had
>something else to do.
I think that Sasami thinks that Ryouko is just blowing things up again.
Ryouko was pining for Tenchi just a second ago.
>Yoshu senses a coming storm and we switch to Nobiuki.
>He has just come back and the girls wanted to know where he was. Aparantly
>he tells them about Tenchi and Sakuya. They are not pleased to say the
>least. Actually now that I think about it Glasses Guy told Ryoko about what
>happened w/ Sakuya.
That's what I got out of it. He's telling Ryouko that Tenchi's
interested in some other girl, and Ryouko finds this laughable because
she's thinking Ayeka, but Hotsuma tells her its Sakuya.
>Each girl takes her turn yelling at him. Until Aeka the
>one he is most afraid of. Aeka string him up from the ceiling (where he
>shall stay the rest of the ep.) and the guardians whip him while she
>laughs. Ryoko imagines what's happening on the date w/ Sakuya (remind you
>of Skuld anyone?)
Her imagination features pretty ugly representations of Sakuya.
>and Aeka gets angry and trys to fly through the portal.
She bounces off Mihoshi's head to reach the ceiling.
>Cat-girl(sigh) however is sitting on Tenchi's bed doing her nails (sigh)
>and thus the portal is deactivated.
More precisely, she's taken the comforter off the bed, folded it up, and
put it on the floor. She's sitting on the comforter. The warp appears
between Tenchi's bed and the comforter.
Ayeka throttles Washuu, Ryouko further punishes Nobuyuki, Mihoshi is
crying, and even Kiyone is not happy.
...and Yuugi is looking at her crystals, the ones that represent Tenchi
and friends. The big white crystal represents Tenchi, a smaller pink
one floating nearby represents Sakuya. Circling the white Tenchi
crystal are several crystals representing the rest of the Tenchi family.
As this fight breaks out, all of the crystals, except the pink one, fly
away from the Tenchi crystal. And Yuugi laughs.
>Sasami goes to FUNHAO and waits until
>Yuugi shows up. She does not find it unusual that she appears out of thin
>air. Sasami is extremely happy to see Yuugi (so is Ryo-Ohki).
Again, this is the nice Yuugi. When she first appears, she's frowning,
and when she does smile, it does not look very pleasant. She greets Sasami.
>Glass
>crystals thrust from the ground around theMasaki house and everyone (sans
>Nobiuki who's tied up) runs outside. Yuugi makes her first appearance to
>the girls.
And this is the scheming Yuugi. Yup, two Yuugis at the same time!
Yuugi introduces herself, and for all I know explains everything that
will happen in the new Tenchi movie, but since I don't speak Japanese,
I don't know.
>Then we switch to Tenchi and Sakuya's date. She certainly seems
>to be enjoying herself. Tenchi I'm not so sure about.
Sakuya is very excitedly running and grabbing Tenchi by the hand.
Tenchi can barely keep up.
>Yuugi starts to
>attack w/ huge energy bolts. She hits everyone one by one until only
>Ryoko's left standing.
Yuugi is just flinging bolts around, scattering everyone.
>We switch to Yuugi (aparantly she's got a split
>personality) playing w/ Sasami. Sasami is jumping rope w/ Ryo-Ohki turning
>the rope (other end tied to a tree). yuugi looks confused and Sasami
>encourages her to join in. Yuugi tries to and they both fall.
This is a nice scene. Sasami is singing a jump rope rhyme and holding
out her hand, inviting Yuugi to join in. Yuugi, though she looks like
a little girl, isn't very familar with this, but she tries to join in,
and knocks Sasami to the ground. Sasami thinks it's pretty funny.
>More fight
>for a while
Kamadake is taken out while the other guardian protects Ayeka. Ryouko
flies up to attack.
>and then we're back w/ Sasami Yuugi (wow I'm having Fushigi
>Yuugi flashbacks all of a sudden :) :) ). Sasami is playing cat's craddle.
>She's REALLY good. She makes Tokyo Tower (inside joke) and Yuugi tries to
>make something she eventually makes a halfway decent cradle.
She's very happy at this. Ryou-oh-ki manages to tie herself up into a ball.
They talk a little after this. I think Sasami is inviting Yuugi to make
a crown of flowers.
>Now we switch
>to Yuugi vs. Ryoko. Yuugi has her hand INSIDE Ryoko's neck and blasts her.
>Ryoko flies back into a tree and lies there looking VERY dead. Everyone
>reacts w/ horror esp. Washuu who has to be held back by Yoshu (def. a
>connection here.) Tenchi recoils in shock and then shakes it off. The
>crystal on Ryoko's wrist begins to glow.
Ryouko calls to Tenchi....
>Tenchi is just about to pay the
>bill for sakuya and him when he sees one of the crystals on the ground.
>Tenchi picks it up and suddenly Ryoko is bathed in green swirling lights
>(there have been three breathtaking animations in this season of anime the
>sword drawing in Perfume de la Rose, Dragon Slave from Slayers Try and this
>one it is incredible animation). All of the gems start to glow
everyone sees the crystals light up. "Tenchi...." they think.
Columns of light shoot out from the ground to the sky. Ryouko
is restored. The nice Yuugi with Sasami collapses while they're
making crowns and Sasami is worried. The scheming Yuugi is in pain.
Ryouko blasts Yuugi with a huge discharge of energy, but Yuugi is
still able to block it. Ryouko is spent.
>and Ryoko
>prepares a huge blast. Which she unleashes on Yuugi (and i mean HUGE).
>Yuugi barely blocks it all. The other Yuugi w/ Sasami collapses. Sasami is
>very woried. Yuugi fires a huge blast of her own. Ryoko is weak and
>helpless.The blast is blocked by...GLASSES GUY!!?!?!?! What the. Baggy
>sleaves shows up to block it too.
I think Pirate Person (Tsugara) blocks it. Hotsuma shields Ryouko.
>Aparantly they we're stoping Yuugi from
>doing something she shouldn't do (killing Ryoko?). Both Yuugi's leave. We
>pan out to see HUGE craters littering the lawn and the girls lying
>exahausted and beat on the ground.Sasami is then asleep in front of Funaho
>and wakes up w/ no memory of what happened.
I don't think so.... The crown is still there....
>Tenchi tries calling home but
>all the girls are asleep and Ryoko blasts the phone.
The discharge is powerful enough to knock Tenchi off of his chair,
even though we in the USA can't even transmit enough energy to communicate
at 56Kb.
>Yuugi is back home and
>is winded. She looks slightly frightened for a second but soon is back to
>normal. She laughs and the ep is over (Nobiuki still on the ceiling :)
The crystals return to their orbit around the Tenchi crystal. She talks with
Matori, probably saying something like her plan (whatever it is) will
still bear fruit, and she laughs.
Did Yuugi show her hand too early?
Will Sakuya reveal herself to be a hopping vampire?
Will Tony Gwynn, Larry Walker, or .400 emerge victorious?
Tune in tomorrow to learn the answers to none of these questions!
-- Randall M! Gee, Keeper of Gummi Wisdom
(gee@math.berkeley.edu)
I am the keeper of Gummi Wisdom!
Email address: gee@math.berkeley.edu