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5th Tenchi Muyo! OVA Season's Promo Video Reveals 6-Volume Length
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official website for the fifth season of the Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki original video anime (OVA) series revealed on Friday that the season will have six total home video releases, with the first release slated for February 28, 2020. The rest of the releases are slated for May 29, 2020; August 28, 2020; November 27, 2020; February 26, 2021; and May 28, 2021. Those who purchase all six releases will receive a novel featuring the drafted plot of the season.
Keitaro Motonaga (Katanagatari, Digimon Adventure tri., Date A Live) is directing the anime at AIC. A-Line is credited for collaborating on animation production. Sayuri Sakimoto (Grisaia, Made in Abyss: Fukaki Tamashii no Reimei animation director) is the animation character designer and chief animation director. Masaki Kajishima is again credited as the original creator, original character designer, and as chief director. Hideki Shirane is both writing and overseeing the series scripts, and Yasunori Honda is returning as the sound director. Kaori Oda will perform the anime's ending theme song.
The anime stars:
- Masami Kikuchi as Tenchi Masaki
- Ai Orikasa as Ryōko
- Haruhi Nanao as Aeka Masaki Jurai
- Chisa Yokoyama as Sasami Masaki Jurai
- Michie Tomizawa as Mihoshi Kuramitsui
- Yūko Kobayashi as Washū Hakubi
- Naomi Shindoh as Noike Kamiki Jurai
- Etsuko Kozakura as Ryo-Ohki
- Yukiko Morishita as Kenshi Masaki
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Nobuyuki Masaki
- Rio Natsuki as Reia Masaki
- Emi Shinohara as Tennyo Masaki
- Yumi Touma as Tokimi
- Kumi Sakuma as Kiriko Masaki
- Shiho Kawaragi as Karen
- Ryōka Yuzuki as Jovia Jovis
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki is the title of the original 1992 OVA series that started a long-running cross-media franchise, with numerous sequels and spinoffs. The original OVA received the Tenchi Muyo! Omatsuri Zenjitsu no Yoru! (Tenchi Muyo! The Night Before The Carnival), Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki Dai-2-Ki (Second Season), and Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki Dai-3-Ki (Third Season) sequels.
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki Dai-4-Ki (Fourth Season), the fourth OAV, debuted in 2016 as the first entry in the OVA series in 11 years since the last episode of the third OAV debuted in 2005. The fourth and final episode of the fourth season debuted in September 2017.
Sources: Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki anime's website, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
