Product Description

The trouble and fun began when high school student Tenchi inadvertently released the marooned space pirate Ryoko from his grandfather's shirine. Now Ryoko and a gaggle of other attractive and temperamental alien women are all competing for Tenchi's attention. How much love does one poore Earth boy have to give?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1767063 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

About the Author
Hitoshi Okuda is an up-and-coming manga artist whose work has been published by Japanese publisher Kadokawa Shoten.

Customer Reviews

Curious, but quite an original sci-fi saga
If you are new to the whole Tenchi series, you may have a bit of trouble settling down at first due to a very unfamiliar fantasy setting and a pretty twisty plotline which doesn't really start at the very beginning in this book. But then you'll fall in love with all the spunky, fun-loving characters like the courageous teenaged Tenchi and his five wacky female housemates with their offbeat hairdos like the devilish Ryoko, her "mother" the youthful-looking scientist, Washu; the pretty princess from outer space, Ayeka and her sweet little sister, Sasumi; and the resourceful space police, Mihoshi. Not to mention their charming little rabbit-cat pet, Ryo-oh-ki with the most amazing trick: he could turn into a spaceship in the time of need!

In this story, Tenchi & Co. suddenly encountered Ryoko's wild twin named Minagi who is out for blood! So Tenchi and Ryoko fiercelly battled Minagi and knocked her out, thus causing her to lose her memory. And along comes Yakage who wants to test Tenchi's legendary sword and thus he made off with the lovely Ayeka in the very end. But better read all about it to find out! Very cute and funny with such skillful drawings and truly endearing characters!

guess I'm in the minority here...
This book starts with what I think is a many page explanation of everything that's happened before the events of the beginning of this volume. Since this is the first volume, as far as I know, I guess that means that this is an explanation of things that happened in the series. I've never seen any of the series, something which I think crippled my enjoyment of this book. The explanation at the beginning seemed like it should have helped, but all it did was confuse me more. I had a hard time keeping track of who all the characters were, what they were, and why they were there. The rest of the book didn't explain that all for me either. I spent a lot of time vaguely interested, but mostly confused. So, if you've never heard of this before or you've never seen the series, then this is probably not the book for you.

"No Need for Endings" is not the end of Tenchi! Whew!
No doubt about it...I love Tenchi! And I have really enjoyed the "No Need for Tenchi" series by Hitoshi Okuda. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Vol. 12 is the last of the "No Need for Tenchi" series. I was very sad to think that I wasn't going to be able to get a fresh Tenchi fix anymore! I have enjoyed the continuing adventures of Tenchi in this series so much that, as Ryoko says on the final page of the final story, "I can't imagine living apart from Tenchi...from everyone...anymore...."

Then I discovered that Hitoshi Okuda has embarked upon a NEW comic series featuring Tenchi and company. Now I'm anxiously awaiting the next issue of "The All-New Tenchi Muyo!" Yippee!

So get volume 12 of this great series, and enjoy -- there really is no need for endings!