I always though the pull of the Tenchi series (regardless of which canon universe) was about the random comedy. Unusual suitations for a guy, who is just plain "plain."
First problem with GXP is that its not really funny; it tries but its humor but most of it falls flat. Second, Seina is not simply plain, he comes off as annoying; It's made worst by the fact that Seina seems to achieve without any effort of his own; for someone who is supposed to be plagued with bad luck he seems to have everything just handed to him. He doesn't even seem to have anykind of adequate motivation. He's not even attractive (made worst that he looks like a child in a harem made of grown women); all in all you are left asking why these girls are just falling all over him. Heck in any other world, some might think of his bad luck as a turn off where as everyone seems to love his bad luck. He's got nothing going for him, but with no effort on his own he succeeds
See with Tenchi you could get why girls would like him. He was kinda plain, but it worked as he acted as a straight man who played off of the more unusual personalities of the girls. He was a fairly attractive enough guy with no glaring flaws who was strong and kind hearted and his interaction with the girls expressed that; maybe being in love with him is a tad much, but you can see why they would like him. Heck the original OVA's were very character driven and payed a good deal of attention to the girls themselves helping you better understand them. If you broke each girl down, you can find a reason why they came to like tenchi... I'd also say about the same of Kenshi in War on Geminar
Tenchi Muyo, universe and War on Geminar feel like they would have been a better fit for toonami, and I'm there are better harem series; series with better characters and that are side splitting hilarious
Actually, the real reason Bleach is in re-runs is because they caught up to where VIZ dubbed, and they are waiting for more episodes to be delivered. This is what the Toonami crew has stated many times on Tumblr.
Ah I see, I was not aware that Bleach was behind on its dubbing
Yeesh, its like dealing with filler probelms all over again, except instead of the series going into filler because it caught up with the manga, its going into reruns because it caught up with the dubbers
We don't know that because GXP is built around Seina & not Tenchi. It involves chars that were not part of the other TM series that preceded this. It's like airing Clev based on nostalgia for FG 10 yrs from now. Ep 16 & 17 feature Seina returning home & that's when the original TM chars appear. In GXP, Seina is either a neighbor or cousin of Tenchi. In Geminar, Kenshi is a half-brother so there are at least some flashbacks involving his upbringing around the original Tenchi chars. I agree with some of you who argue the best way to make a play on the nostalgia is to air the OVAs that feature those chars. But seeing that both these series are built on entirely new chars that wasn't going to gain them much.
I don't know about that, i mean while GXP may not star the same old characters, it is atleast a sort of loose continuation of their story and even expands upon the series... granted I feel like much of what it adds really just makes things more convoluted, but it tries... frankly if GXP was a better quality series, it would have done well to cash in on nostalgia
But as for War on Geminar; that series's connection to the actual tenchi series is so weak, i've actually become convinced that that the creator just got an idea for an original series and then decided to shoe-horn it into the tenchi canon by making the main character related to tenchi
