You Know You Watch Too Much Tenchi Muyo! When..
And, yes I promise. This does end... eventually.

-You bring Ryoko/Washu/Aeka's picture to the beauty salon and say to the hairdresser "MAKE MY HAIR LOOK LIKE THIS!"

-Everytime you get mad, you expect to form a red plasma sword and point it at your enemy

-Everytime you get mad, you expect a bunch of little logs to surround you and your enemy, hoping to zap the living daylights out of them

-You take a peice of wood, and try to carve Tenchi-ken out of it while staring at a pic of Tenchi-ken for 5 hours

-you've done the following and then try to make a blue light come out of the end, expecting it to cut through rock

-you design the crazy outfits that the Tenchi gang wears, make them, and wear them in public

-You try to make another demension in your closet, hoping to build your own lab

-You own every peice of Tenchi merchendise there is

-You own three whole sets of the Tenchi manga available, one for reading, and one for show, and one for your reading backup, just incase you break one of your books, because you read them too darn much

-You find a guy that looks like Tenchi (spikey hair, brown eyes, little ponytail at the end, etc) and you constantly hang around him, saying "Don't you know me Tenchi? It's me!! Ryoko/Aeka!"

-You find a guy that looks like Tenchi, stare at him with those big green puppy-dog contacts and say, "Will you be my guiney pig? PLEASE?"

-You constantly hang around your best friend, saying "WAAAHH!! KIYONE, SING THIS KARAOKE SONG WITH ME!!!"

-You are known at school/work as the "Tenchi Freak" and are proud of it

-you buy three red gems like Ryoko's and are always confused when that you pray that they'll come to you and give you back your powers, they never do...

-someone really pisses you off, you scream, "AZAKA! KAMIDAKE! APPREHEND THAT VISCIOUS CRIMINAL!!!" Then Two guys you hired dressed up in Azaka and Kamidake costumes come and chase the poor guy.

-You dye your hair blue, put two little triangles on your forehead (even though your mom freaked out with the hair dye) and go around cooking constantly

-You wore Ryoko's "Peeping 'Tam'" outfit to school, and got dresscode because you looked too:
a. Silly
b.weird
c.sexy
d. all of the above, and especially c.

-one of your favorite character cries, you cry, when they're happy, you are too

-your highlight of the day is watching your Tenchi tapes

-you recorded the Toonami version of all the series, just so you can say you got a copy of ALL the made versions of Tenchi

-You constantly debate why your character should get Tenchi

-you constantly debate whether Ryoko's real hair color is light blue, or cyan

-you have dreams of Tenchi choosing one of the girls, but refuse to tell it to anyone else, for fear that it might get out to the producers, and they'll change it


-You read the manga and then imagine you and your friends replace the roles of various characters.

-You think of Tenchi Muyo! in literature class when you are discussing romance, action, mother/child relationships, coming of age stories, and other genres of lit.

-You and your friends call each other by one of the character's names.

-You have to go by two characters, cause one of yours is only in Tenchi Universe and not in the OVA. (Kiyone!)

-You actually have a friend who is waaaay too much like Washuu that it is creepy at times.

-You are obsessing over the 3rd OVA!!!

-You have to have at least one "dose" of Tenchi every single day.

-You make a list on You Know You Watch Too Much Tenchi Muyo! When.


-You find ways to manipulate the prompt sentence your english teacher gives you everyday for your journal writing to fit an episode of Tenchi

- While watching the "magic fingers" episode of Tenchi, your friend (that looks and acts like Tenchi) keeps glancing at you in embarrassment (because you look and act like Washuu)

- You made a sign for your door that declares your room as Washuu's Sub-space Laboratory

- You willingly go up and down the halls of the mall (you always run into people you know there) announcing that your friend (who you want to pound in the face) is your son just so you can have his Washuu figurine


P.S. I never did any of those things... ::looks around nerviously::


-You name your X-Box Ryoko (OK Eric, give it up!)


-when you and a group of friends name yourselves after different characters from the show, THEN discard your original relationships and live your lives off the ones between the characters. (Me and my friends don't do that... really, we dont.)

... when you start to relate your life to the show

-all of your notebooks and folders for school are somehow tenchi-related

-you want a pet cabbit that sits on your head and turns in to your own personal hummer, complete w/ sound system

-you mock-cry when you don't get your way

-you've changed your best friend's name to kiyone

-you ask your brother "if you could have one super power, what would it be?" and when he answers "heat ray vision" you tell him that is the most stupid answer you've ever heard, and start naming off a few of the tenchi crew's powers

-you have a shrine for one of the characters in your closet

-you train in the woods behind your house with a stick

-you write ways to tell if you watch too much tenchi on a BBS board at 7:00 in the morning, waiting for carpool, glancing out the window once in a while

-When people form up weird and odd theories on Tenchi

-When people try to think up of everything about tenchi

-When people start to replace other forms of media with the cast members of TEnchi....



-you write a terrible lemon SI fic in which you kill Tenchi and get it on with all of the girls (including Sasami).

-you order a huge supply of hair dyes (of various colors) and hair gel, kidnap six girls (or seven, or eight, depending on which series you want to re-create), and order them to change their names and hairdos to the characters you assign to them. Furthermore, you order them to refer to you as Tenchi Masaki from now on.

-you go hog-wild at the mere mention of the characters' names (or slight variations) in other anime series or video games (i.e. Ryoko Subaru [Nadesico], Ryoko [World Heroes 2], Aika [Skies of Arcadia], Ryoko [Area 88], Masami [Generator Gawl], Sakuya [Sister Princess], etc.).
When you name your female mouse (brown) Ryo-Ohki
and your male mouse (greyish beige, red eyes) Ken-Ohki



- After you name yourselves after different characters as Lord Katsuhito said, you publicly announce in the middle of the mall/Wendy's/movie theatre that (depending on who your character is and who else is with you and what character they are (for example, Katsuhito to Washu or Ryoko to Washu)) "This is my mommy!"



-When you joined the U.S. NAVY just to go to Japan to buy Tenchi Import merchandise
Not that I have done it…. YET


-when you try to get your cat addicted to carrots


-you put tape on the side of your eyes to make them look like ryoko's

-you've tried to get your hair to look like the tenchi casts' hair, but ended up pulling half of it out

-you use words like "kawaii" or "hentai -(sp?)" in public

-You know you watch too much Tenchi Muyo! when . . .



-When you pay girls to whip you and make you call them "Princess!"



-you make everyone around you call you "Tenchi" even in school!!

-you ask the guy at Blockbuster Music if they have the Tenchi soundtrack constantly, even though he assured you at first that there was no such thing

-you plan on designing a Tenchi video game in english when you're older

-when you own a chatroom, you kick someone out because they said, "Tenchi sucks" and have done that, mulitple times ( )

-You're the only one that wants uniforms at your school/university, because you want the uniforms that Tenchi wears

-you are replying to a post like this

-you named your computer "Washu" and color it pink (like her hair)

-when you went to get your laptop, you yelled at the guy because:
a.it wasn't completely transparent
b. it wouldn't float in mid-air
c. it wouldn't pop up in thin-air when you wanted it to


-you constantly call your friends Tenchi names (Todd becomes Tenchi, Rhonda becomes Ryoko, Ashely becomes Aeka, Sandy becomes Sasami, Wendy becomes Washu, Mindy becomes Mihoshi, and Kandy becomes Kiyone!!)

-you're me

-you've made multiple fanfics

-you've made GOOD SI fics

-you have to discuss every nook and cranny about Tenchi on this Tenchi board!!

-you're reading this

-you've laughed at these

-you done the above because they're sooo true!!!

-your notebook are filled with more Tenchi doodles than notes

-your teachers can recognize that "Tenchi Daydreaming" look

-you've gotten psychiatry(sp?) that was demanded by your parents because of your Tenchi "fascination"

-when it's been done above, you later make your psychiatrist a Tenchi manicac also

-your history teacher is going to Japan, so you make her sit through an hour-long session of Tenchi tutoring and another lesson of anime, complete with charts, graphs, food, and culture, especially with the anime

-you've converted half of your school/workplace into Tenchi maniacs

-you've designed your room to look like Ryoko's

-you've designed your room to look like Aeka's on Ryou-oh (that's alot of plants!!)

-you've actually found that alarm clock that Kiyone uses in the episode where she goes to Earth, and you use it every morning

-you give bone-crushing hugs like Misaki

-you've persuaded your band to play a Tenchi song at the school dance


-If when you are wandering around the mall or school, and you could swear that you just saw Tenchi walk by.

-You are convinced that all bank robberies were Ryoko's doing.

-You spray your hair with special hair color spray stuff that is pink to make your hair pink like Washu's (eventhough Washu's hair is really red)



-You know you've watched too much Tenchi Muyo when you name yourself Tenko_Masaki and write this incredibly long Story that other Tenchi freaks get into...*Hello, my name is Tenko_Masaki, I am a Tenchiholic*

*When you brainwash most of your city into loving Tenchi*

*Take off to Japan just to get That Ryoko figure only sold their and instead come back with arm loads of Tenchi merchendise*

*Have actually been asked to be someones Guiney pig*

*Always have the need to protect women in danger (Even if their not) only to run from them later when they want to thank you*


- You have to protect your Tenchi-in-disguise friend from all the other girls who are always gettting mad at him ( because they love him so much )
and you always go home with bruise, scratches and a migrain.

- You make deals with a Japanese foreign exchange student that used to live with you to buy you real nice TM stuff in return for a bunch of American crap..... ( Junko's the best! )

- When cleaning out your harddrive you discover that your computer's so slow because all the memory's taken up by Tenchi Muyo! pictures and you have to put them all on a data disc... ( man! those things can hold so much! it's incredible! )



- If your own mother and father who can't stand anime even know the words to Talent for Love.

- If during Christmas, you downloaded all of the songs from the Tenchi Christmas album and made your whole family sing along to them

- If you throw a big stick at your Tenchi-look-alike friend to see if he catches it and swirls it around just like in No Need for a Checkpoint.

newspapers work too ^.~


-your computer is filled up with so much Tenchi files, that you delete the ACCESSORIES without a second thought

-you name your most prized possesions after the Tenchi characters you like, and name the thing you hate most after Tenchi character you absolutely despise

-you always call your crush "Tenchi"

-you always call your crush one of the girls off of Tenchi that you like

-you can picture a perfect life with Tenchi/one of the girls

-you cannot do the above, because you can't bear to take Tenchi/your preferred girl off of Tenchi away from the girl you prefer that Tenchi should end up with/Tenchi


-you call Jamie (I think that's him) from "Zoids" Tenchi because they look so much alike (I did that for a while, when Zoids was released, my friend introduced me to it, and I said, "HEY!!THAT'S TENCHI!!! I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY CALL HIM!!!I'M CALLING HIM TENCHI!!")

-you jumped for joy when you heard that Tenchi was coming back to Toonami, even though you don't even watch Toonami's version cuz you got your own tapes

-you gather all your Tenchi videos and DVD's and throw a 2-day non-stop Tenchi viewing party!!!

-you figure all you need to live is a 24-hour non-stop-no-commercial Tenchi channel, that airs uncut Tenchi, that and a bag of chips will tide you over until you die

-you can't imagine a world without Tenchi

-when you saw the title of "We Need Tenchi" you said, "Yup! We sure do!"

-when you saw the title of "I Love Tenchi" you said, "Hey! I do too!"

-you did the two above...and you're a guy...

-you made a cd of all the Tenchi songs you like, and listen to it constantly.

-you do the above, and your cd finally breaks cuz you played it too darn much!!! But that's ok, you made copies!!

-whenever your class has a book or video thing, your hand shoots up and immediatly suggests Tenchi for the theme

-you always volunteer to your drama teacher that your class should do a Tenchi play, and after hours of persuading, she finally agrees

-your boyfriend changes his name to "Tenchi" just so you'll listen to him

-your girlfriend changes her name to "Ryoko/Aeka/Mihoshi/Washu/Kiyone" just so you'll pay attention to her

-your boyfriend/girlfriend has done the above, because you talk about Tenchi so much

-your girlfriend thinks that Tenchi is ripping you apart, but then you sing one of your most favorite romantic song off of Tenchi, and she just melts!!

-you wish you lived in Okayama

-you wish you were an anime character

-you actually painted your car with the Tenchi characters on, and in big bright letters, you have the Tenchi logo and words that say "TENCHI FOR LIFE!" on the trunk.

-you did the above, and even though you paid thousands of dollars for it, you hired someone to paint the car for you

-because you did the above, you have just been voted for "Most obsessive fan" in your city

-you know the comic book store clerk personally, because:
a. you visit him frequently to pick up the Tenchi comics you preordered
b.you converted him into a Tenchi fan

-you made an orgainization called "TA" "Tenchi Annonymus(sp?)" Haha Tenko
"Hello, my name is Tenko and I am a Tenchiholic"
Everyone:HI TENKO!!!
"Hello, my name is Rychi, and I too am a Tenchiholic"
Everyone: HI RYCHI!!!
haha...^_^

-you are afraid of the school nurse, because you think she is Washu in disguise, with her "Angel of Mercy" get up

-you stick Tenchi stickers all over your room and computer

-you made a model of Ryo-Ohki spaceship entirely out of scratch

-you scream at the person at BORDERS book store because they don't have "Sasami's Magic Cookbook"

-you have a Tenchi ringtone playing on your cell phone

-you have mastered the Tenchi RPG game multiple times in Japanese

-you and a Japanese person switch places for a week, and while they come back with just some souveniers (sp?), you come back with a whole carful of Tenchi merchendise

-you ask everyone to call you "Little Washu/your name"

-you can't findd your house/car keys and you make a scene by screaming, "GACK!!! WHERE'S THE MASTER KEY?!"

-you purposely fall down and cry, just for the fun of looking as cute as Mihoshi

-you can cook as great as Sasami

-you think you can do the above, but unfotunatly, that's not possible

-you use FOTOMAGIC and stick your face to the bodies of your favorite Tenchi characters

-someone asks you what Tenchi is, and you look at them like you've just been asked where the sky is

-you take a whole lotta wood, and carve Aeka's little logs, and when you're finally done, you spend hours trying to make them disappear and reappear to your will

-you've done the above, saying to yourself, "this will come in handy for that fight I'm in tomorrow!!"

-you wish you had the strength that Ryoko has

-you've adapted Ryoko's sloth-like ways of sleeping, and are proud of it

-you are very disappointed when you attatched a cat tail to your belt, only to find it won't sway to your emtions

-you try to sing your favorite character's karaoke song at your school dance

-you've done the above, but in a bar

-you've tried to make those little dolls that Washu puts on her shoulders, but only to wallow in defeat that they don't say, "_____! You're a genius!!" "______! You're the greatest"
and you can't reply, "THAT'S RIGHT!!!HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"

-You write the kanji for Tenchi on everything you can get your hands on
-You cry when you think of Tenchi picking someone other than Ryoko
-You hold a deep hate for one of the characters and you will never forgive them (Sakuya)
-You dad, who has only seen TMiL once (and has never seen any other TM! shows/movies) remembers the words to the Alchemy of Love
-You mom reads your new No Need for Tenchi manga in the car as story time
-While reading the mange, your mom makes soundeffects and commentary
-Your step-sibs ask you to draw them Tenchi characters over and over again (and you are actually getting pretty good at it)


Thank you to everyone at the AIC BBS! A special thanks to:
Rychi (Thanks for starting this), The Lonely Moon, Lord Kastuhito, TrixisTacoDelux, Yummy Pho, insaneben, ZERO-Ryoko, San Ryoko Starwind, RedRum097, tdb617, Tenchi Masaki

Thanks for making us all laugh so hard!