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   appearance of Kiyone, and one of the earliest appearances of Magical   
   Girl Pretty Sammy.  Available on VHS as part of the "Tenchi Collection",   
   or on DVD as part of the "Magical Girl Pretty Sammy" collection, from   
   Geneon.   
      [Entry by Rob Kelk]   
      
      TENCHI MUYO TV:  Tenchi Masaki is an ordinary schoolboy until   
   gorgeous alien women (with their little sisters and meowing spaceships   
   in tow) start to crash-land in his backyard.  A little bit of URUSEI   
   YATSURA and a little bit of RANMA 1/2, with some "Star Wars" homages   
   thrown in for good measure.  The TV series is generally considered a   
   parallel universe to the version of the story told in the OAV series.   
   Highly recommended for fans of romantic comedies and sci-fi adventure.   
      Available from Geneon under the title TENCHI UNIVERSE.   
      [Entry by Dave Menard]   
      
      TENCHI IN TOKYO (a.k.a. SHIN TENCHI MUYO):  This latest installment   
   of Tenchi fun is yet another parallel universe from the OAV and first   
   TV series.  In this story, Tenchi goes off to school in Tokyo leaving   
   the girls behind in Okayama.  This doesn't sit well with the passel   
   of alien women, especially since Tenchi's getting awfully close to   
   that new girl, Sakuya...   
      [Entry by Dave Menard]   
      [Available from Geneon.   - Rob Kelk]   
      
      TENCHI MUYO movies   
      TENCHI MUYO IN LOVE!:  Tenchi and the girls must race back in time   
   to keep an intergalactic criminal from altering the past.  The first   
   Tenchi movie, based off the TV series continuity.  Spectacular   
   animation combined with a good story make this film in many ways the   
   best Tenchi feature.   
      TENCHI MUYO: DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS (a.k.a. MANATSU NO EVE):  Known   
   as "Midsummer's Eve" in the UK and Europe.  Tenchi's daughter appears,   
   but who's the mother?  And what does all this have to do with Yosho's   
   childhood on planet Jurai?  Not as well received by fans as the first   
   Tenchi movie, DoD is nevertheless high-quality animation, though the   
   story may seem to be a little rushed.  This may be due to the   
   long-circulated rumour that the plotline was originally written for a   
   third OAV series.   
      TENCHI MUYO IN LOVE 2 - TENCHI FOREVER:  According to Pioneer/AIC,   
   the *final* TENCHI MUYO TV feature.  "Forever" does a fair job of   
   resolving some of the longstanding conflicts between the two primary   
   rivals for Tenchi's heart, and the bittersweet ending suggests that   
   Tenchi has finally made a choice.  A languid pace makes this feature   
   tricky viewing, especially compared to the more frenetic pace of the   
   earlier films.  Worth watching only if you are willing to invest the   
   attention needed to appreciate this final chapter.   
      [Entries by Dave Menard]   
      [Dave's comment about the first movie being the best is his   
   opinion - some people, including the list maintainer, like the second   
   movie better.  All three movies are available from Geneon.   - Rob   
   Kelk]   
      
      TENCHI UNIVERSE:  see TENCHI MUYO TV.   
      
      TENKU NO SHIRO LAPUTA:  see LAPUTA, CASTLE IN THE SKY   
      
      TENSHI NI NARUMON (a.k.a. I'M GONNA BE AN ANGEL):  An odd romantic   
   fantasy with an edge, concerning a teenaged boy named Yusuke whose life   
   is turned upside down by the appearance of a very strange girl called   
   Noelle and her even stranger family who come out of nowhere to change   
   Yusuke's home into a fantasy toy house and Yusuke's life into chaos.   
   Noelle seems to be out-of-this-world in many ways, not the least being   
   her desire to "become an angel".  But at the same time different   
   otherworldly things are going on in the background which threaten   
   Noelle, Yusuke and the others around them.  The series takes a big "left   
   turn" at the halfway point and becomes stranger and much darker.   
   All-in-all TENSHI NI NARUMON is a very different, compelling and   
   ultimately satisfying fantasy.   
      [Entry by Dave Baranyi]   
      
      TETSUWAN ATOMU:  see ASTRO BOY   
      
      THOSE OBNOXIOUS ALIENS:  see URUSEI YATSURA   
      
      TIME STRANGER:  An involving variation on THE TERMINATOR, with   
   slight nods of the head towards TIME BANDITS.  The animation is very   
   good and the story, complex.  Feudal Japan is depicted nicely and in   
   detail, as is the far future.  Great plot complications throughout.   
      
      TINY SNOW FAIRY SUGAR:  The weather is something that happens, not   
   something that's created, right?  But Did you know that fairies can   
   create the very weather itself?   
      In the picturesque town of Muhlenburg lives an 11 year old girl   
   named Saga.  An organized, efficient, "make a decision and go!" kind   
   of girl, Saga is very embodiment of industrious, whose only character   
   flaw is an impatient temper.  She's not the type to be superstitious.   
      But Saga can see fairies.  As a child, Saga looked  to a sky while   
   lying in a snow bank, and saw a beautiful fairy flying away on a trail   
   of falling snow.   
      Still, childhood memories are easily dismissed as figments of the   
   imagination, so it's no surprise when Saga dismisses the fairy she finds   
   while running her errands, as a mere illusion.  After all, fairies are   
   lovely, beautiful creatures, not hyperactive, selfish, lazy,   
   waffle-eating, 3-inch-tall toddlers.   
       But this one is!  Her name is Sugar, and she's come to the human   
   world to find her "twinkle" and become a great Snow Fairy, just like her   
   mother.   
       With an appropriately whismical soundtrack and characters designed   
   by the Queen of Cute, Koge Donbo, TINY SNOW FAIRY SUGAR is best   
   described as an heartwarming animated fairytale.   
      [Entry by Abraham Evangelista]   
      
      TO HEART:  A 13 episode slice of life drama about a group of   
   17-year-old high-school students.  The nail-biting climax of episode   
   one concerns whether or not Akari, a total sweetie with cherry-red   
   hair, will get to sit next to the boy she likes, and the rest of the   
   series pretty much follows on at the same tempo.  Akari's squeeze is   
   the sleepy-headed but kind-hearted Hiroyuki, whose ever-helpful nature   
   causes him to acquire new female friends in each episode.  The genius   
   of this charming series is how its focus on the events of everyday   
   life manages to elevate them to a level of importance that supplants   
   any need for magical superheroes or quests to save the world.  Having   
   said that, many of the girls that Hiroyuki befriends have intriguing   
   quirks:  e.g. Serika practices black magic, Kotone is a psychic who   
   only makes unlucky predictions, and Multi is an incompetent android   
   sent to the school for field trials.   
      Rather remarkably for a TV series that is bordering on shoujo, TO   
   HEART actually started life as a Hentai dating sim.  As well as the 13   
   episodes, there are 6 little "omake" (extras) which were originally   
   broadcast with some of the episodes.  They use super-deformed versions   
   of the characters and are mostly even more low key than the main   
   episodes.   
      Licenced by Right Stuf.   
      [Entry by Shez]   
      
      TONARI NO TOTORO:  see MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO   
      
      TRIGUN:  A sci-fi western comedy (mostly) focusing around the   
   world's most unlikely criminal, Vash the Stampede.  The man is   
   apparently so dangerous that he's worth 60,000,000,000$$ ("double   
   dollars"), but whenever anyone catches up to him in hopes of snagging   
   the reward, they're always thwarted:  sometimes by his skill with a   
   gun, but mostly by his inherent goofiness.  However, Vash does have a   
   dark past, so mysterious that even he himself doesn't know what it is!   
   All in all, a fairly lighthearted show with some serious themes, but a   
   hilarious watch.  (Geneon)   
      [Entry by KireiSarah]   
      
      
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