Tenchi reveals that he is moving to Tokyo for two years to attend high school and take up an apprenticeship to complete his training as a priest for the Masaki Shrine, something the girls are not happy about. However, as Tenchi moves from his quaint home to the big city, a mysterious girl seems to have plans that involve him.
Full Recap
At night, two men approach and vandalize a streetside hokora—a miniature Shinto shrine—leaving it unable to seal any local kami. In the air, a mysterious girl implants several kami in various parts of the city.
At the Masaki household, Ryo-Ohki meows as the morning sun rises, and Ayeka goes out on a balcony to recite her newly-written love poem about Tenchi, which has rather basic lyrics. She's interrupted by Washu, who suddenly appears out of a star-shaped "dimensional tunnel" that she worked on all night.
Sasami uses a gong to call everyone downstairs for breakfast, but Ryoko comes out of her room with a terrible hangover. Washu explains that she had given Ryoko some strong liquor which made her pass out after just a single sip. Sasami tries getting Tenchi out of his room, but he isn't there; instead, he's outside, standing on a tree branch and looking at the large lake near his house. By the time he walks back to the house, he sees two spaceships racing in the sky above. Kiyone and Mihoshi are chasing another spaceship for breaking speed laws and manage to capture and transport it to the Galaxy Police, but not before they run out of fuel and crash into the lake.
Tenchi and Katsuhito learn about the strange occurrences around the city on TV, and Katsuhito tells Tenchi he doesn't have to go through with something if he doesn't have to, but Tenchi insists that he's made up his mind. He gathers everyone except for Ryoko (who's sleeping off her hangover) to take a group photo. Washu tries using a holographic camera she made, but after blowing the side off of a mountain to test it, they use a regular camera instead.
When asked why he wanted to take a picture, Tenchi reveals that he's moving to Tokyo to attend high school, and he probably won't return for two years. It comes as a surprise to everyone, even Tenchi's father Nobuyuki, but Katsuhito explains why Tenchi is leaving. A few days ago, he had gone to Tokyo and met a priest named Dokuzen Tsuchida who offered to train Tenchi to become a proper heir to the Masaki Shrine; he couldn't turn down the offer because he owes the Tsuchida family for building the Masaki Shrine a long time ago.
Sasami attempts to make Nobuyuki go to Tokyo instead of Tenchi, but Tenchi insists that he has decided and will go to Tokyo. Ayeka is the first to accept Tenchi's choice and hopes that he trains well before he returns. Meanwhile, Ryoko mumbles in her sleep that she loves Tenchi.
While Tenchi and Katsuhito take a crowded train through Tokyo, a teenage girl who attends Tenmangu high school leaves school for the day and hangs out with her friends. When she parts ways with them, she walks right past Tenchi and Katsuhito, and both teenagers look at each other for a moment. Katsuhito shows Tenchi the apartment that Dokuzen arranged for him to live in, and they go to the Tsuchida shrine to meet him. There, Dokuzen reiterates that he'll turn Tenchi into a fine priest, but he also asks for a favor: he needs someone to perform a purification ceremony that he doesn't have time to do himself. Katsuhito and Tenchi agree to do the ceremony for him.
At home, Sasami is too depressed about Tenchi leaving to cook lunch or dinner, so Kiyone and Mihoshi sell instant ramen for ¥500 to everyone except Nobuyuki (as they ran out of stock by the time they got to him). As Tenchi and Katsuhito go to sleep in his apartment, it's revealed that the mysterious girl knows Tenchi by name and is targeting him.
The next morning, Tenchi and Katsuhito go to a construction site, whose lot has stayed undeveloped for fifty years, and Katsuhito performs the purification ritual to expel any lingering spirits. Once he finishes, several spirits reveal themselves, and Katushito attempts to expel them with his divine abilities, but nothing happens, and the spirits threaten to kill them if they don't leave. Katsuhito and Tenchi promptly run away.
At home, Ryoko realizes that Tenchi had left and angrily thrashes the house. She blames Ayeka for not telling her but then realizes it was Washu's fault for giving her a hangover. Washu understands and decides to use her dimensional tunnel to transport her to where Tenchi is in Tokyo, and everyone else decides they want to visit him, too.
Just as Tenchi and Kasuhito are cornered, the girls arrive through the dimensional tunnel and learn that the spirits are about to kill them, enraging them and starting a fight with the spirits. Ryoko punches them around, Ayeka uses a protective shield to defend Tenchi and Kasuthito, and Ryo-Ohki has the ability to transform into a giant mecha that Sasami can pilot. As the coup de grâce, Washu throws a jug of her homemade sake into the air for Mihoshi to shoot, only she can't hit it. Kiyone shoots it herself, and the spray of drink causes the spirits to instantly disappear. As they are defeated, the spirits leave behind various types of currency, leading Katsuhito to say that they were spirits who came to paces money.
As dusk falls, the girls each bid farewell to Tenchi and ask that he takes care of himself while he's away. Ryoko is sad to see him leave but is excited about the prospect of being a "long-distance wife", something Ayeka doesn't let pass.
The next day, Tenchi enters the classroom of his high school, Tenmangu, and sits next to the girl he momentarily saw the other day. She introduces herself as Sakuya Kumashiro and strangely tells him "I think I am in love". It's a development that the mysterious girl seems to approve of.
Cast
- Tenchi Masaki: Masami Kikuchi (Japanese) Matt K. Miller (English)
- Nobuyuki Masaki = Takeshi Aono (Japanese) Bob Papenbrook (English)
- Katsuhito Masaki = Takehito Koyasu (Japanese) Richard Cansino (English)
- Ryoko Hakubi = Ai Orikasa (Japanese) Petrea Burchard (English)
- Ayeka Masaki Jurai = Haruhi Nanao (Japanese) Jennifer Darling (English)
- Sasami Masaki Jurai = Chisa Yokoyama (Japanese) Sherry Lynn (English)
- Mihoshi Kuramitsu = Yuko Mizutani (Japanese) Rebecca Forstadt (English)
- Kiyone Makibi = Yuri Amano (Japanese) Wendee Lee (English)
- Washu Hakubi = Yuko Kobayashi (Japanese) Kate T. Vogt (English)
- Yugi = Akiko Yajima (Japaneses) Debi Derryberry (English)
- Rampaging Demons
Gallery
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Trivia
- As of this episode, Katsuhito, Nobuyuki, and Kiyone are now voiced by new voice actors; Bob Papenbrook (both Katsuhito and Nobuyuki), and Wendee Lee, respectively.
- Mihoshi and Kiyone get new outfits, along with them now wearing lipstick instead of having plain lips
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