General Anime/Manga/Otaku Thread

[GameWizard001]

I was bound to get it wrong. I've only seen the first half or so of Tenchi Universe and the rest I know came from a series run down video. It's a really good series, but there are so many canons and different series, you would have to be a really big fan (and Japanese, since that is where the books were released) to piece it all together.

Dude, I recently read up on it an I'm STILL lost. I guess there's also some series connected to it called War on Geminar, or something, that involves Tenchi's half brother and then Sasami had some really weird spinoffs as well where her last name was changed and then that friend she was with from there got her own show.

It's way more convoluted than a show should ever be.

That's why I hate shows that spinoff so much, but in the way they spinoff Gundam or something. Something is related in a general way but no real connection to eachother. Like with Tenchi Muyo and Universe. Both follow the a general storyline but both diverge so much later on that you don't know which one is the true cannon and the other is just the writers of the show's thoughts.

Same with Hellsing OVA and Ultimate, both start out relatively the same in the first few episodes but

Spoiler

after the mansion is wiped out from the Valentine Brothers,

the OVA went in its own direction and Ultimate is right from the manga. Was glad that Ultimate had the original VO for the english dub reprise their roles for Hellsing Ultimate.