History Anime / TenchiMuyo

** ''Anime/{{Photon}}'', which is ''also'' retroactively part of the OVA continuity due to its connection with ''War on Geminar''.

* AceCustom: Any of the [[SapientShip Royal Tree Ships]], each of which is individually designed and tuned for their user and their [[BondCreatures Royal Tree partner]] serving as its power and control unit. It is actually common for the respective princes and princesses [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething to design their ship themselves]].

The series was one of the first anime titles to achieve major popularity in the United States, and one of the first to receive a straight English dub free of a bowdlerized script or any edits. Along with ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', ''Anime/SailorMoon'', and other series in the mid-[[TheNineties '90s]], it helped contribute to the early internet-age "Anime Boom" in the United States. It found an even larger mainstream audience when it premiered on Creator/{{Toonami}} in 2000 (in a package that included the original [=OVAs=], ''Tenchi Universe'', and ''Tenchi in Tokyo''). The show was also what put Pioneer (later Geneon) on the map as a major anime distributor, and Tenchi remained their signature title for much of their existence. Creator/FUNimation now has the American rights to the vast majority of the mainline ''Tenchi'' franchise. The group released ''Tenchi Muyo GXP'', the third OVA series (as ''Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Oh-Ki''), ''Sasami: Magical Girls Club'' (spinoff) and ''Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari'' (renamed ''Anime/TenchiMuyoWarOnGeminar'' for North America) on DVD (and Blu-ray for ''Geminar''); it also secured the licenses for and re-released the original OVA series (a Blu-ray and DVD combo set), ''Universe'' (DVD), ''Tokyo'' (DVD), and the three films (a Blu-ray and DVD combo set containing all the films) after the original American licenses fell into limbo. With the series first arriving in the US in late 1993 on [[UsefulNotes/{{VCR}} VHS]] and UsefulNotes/LaserDisc, Tenchi Muyo has remained in-print longer than few other anime series, surviving through many different home video formats (VHS, [=LaserDisc=], DVD, UsefulNotes/BluRay, legal streaming). However the Mihoshi Special (a part of the original OVA series), the ''Pretty Sammy'' [=OVAs=], and the'' Magical Project S'' spinoff remain in limbo, and can only be found through Pioneer's original now-out-of-print [=DVDs=].

** One notable example is a scene where Ryoko is playing video games on a Nintendo UsefulNotes/GameBoy.