>>84461825Here's the basics.
>Tenchi Muyo OVA (also called Tenchi Muyo: Ryo-Ohki)Japanese mythology and history, with aliens. Mature with lots of nudity, innuendo, and violence. Really complicated, Tenchi marries all the girls. Began as one season, got a second season years later, got a third season quite a while after that, then got a series of mini episodes designed to promote tourism to a specific county in Japan. Continued in canon dojinshi by the creator, some of which are VERY lewd (Sasami watching Tenchi have sex, and masturbating for the first time to it) to absolutely adorable (Tenchi and Ryo-Ohki's kids going to kindergarten).
>Tenchi UniverseMade after season one of the OVA. Made for TV, much less lewd but is more of a comedy/action series. Nobody is related to each other. Mihoshi has a partner cop named Kiyone who hates her, Ryoko has a lookalike arch enemy named Nagi with a Cabbit as well who is a bounty hunter. Has three movies in its continuity, the last one isn't a comedy at all but is actually kind of a serious romantic story with an actual sex scene. In the Universe continuity, Tenchi marries Ryoko and remains friends with all the others.
>Tenchi In TokyoCreated to cash in on Tenchi popularity after Universe ended. Made for TV, almost entirely goofy comedy, with monster of the week stories and recurring villains like Samurai Pizza Cats or Kirby. Disliked by many fans.
Similar to Universe, nobody is related and continuity is simple.
>Pretty SammyInitially a one-episode joke in Universe making fun of Sailor Moon with a talking male Ryo-Ohki, Sailor Sasami, and both Ayeka and Ryoko ignoring Tenchi over a lesbian tsundere crush on each other.
Greenlit for a full series when the studio realized kids would really watch it, although minus the lesbianism.
Later got a second series, which was a hybrid of Harry Potter and Sailor Moon with Headmaster Washu leading Sasami to a magical school to learn to be a Magical Girl.
