At the same time, we don't want the board to go the same route the pre-2010 Tenchi fandom went along. So, argument is welcome, however endless bickering and whining will not be.
Ha!ha! Yes, the endless bickering, fighting, etc. I'm so glad I gave up being a moderator at FUNimation's forum and at Ayeka Fan Club. I hated all of the drama, which is why I pretty much stayed away from Tenchi forums for a long while, except when old contacts would ping me about stuff.
Anyway, I only learned that Tenchiforum was gone today. I think I last popped in there last week just to see what they thought of OVA 4. I didn't hang around too long. I'm sad to see them go though.
As to Hasegawa-sensei's novels, I don't know what happened there. I was interested in checking those out just for the fun of it. It may have been a case of a lot of enthusiasm, but no support. For years, I tried to get the doujinshi and such translated. I can't tell you how many folks would write me saying, "Hey, I know Japanese. Send me some stuff and I'll translate for you." I'd send them a test page of something I already had properly translated and verified by a pro. Only very rarely would anyone translate the test page and of those who did, none responded to stuff I sent them.
read through the google translates i posted of hasegawa... within a few moments of reading them your eyes will rollback in your head so hard that you will see why they didn't get translated
heres my summary of the hasegawa cannon:
1. The aborted version of ova 2
2-3 Hasegawa writes down what happens in ova 1 because maybe your a teenager and your mom won't buy you a series of 6+ individualy sold ultra expensive video tapes about space waifus.
Everything up to mansetsu no eve: Tenchi has a tea party ryoko tries to feed tenchi crumpets. ayeka objects because those are her crumpets and she wanted to give them to tenchi first. also sasami gets kiddinaped by a she pedofile and mihoshi and kiyone play dungens and waifus and kagato's son comes down to earth to talk about his feelings while he has tea and crumpets with tenchi
mansetsu no eve: Tenchi becomes a wife beater and gets a baby thanks to the worst revenge plot by one of the most oddest anime villains in history. at the end he chooses to unabort the magicly aborted the baby for some reason. even though he is like what 15... ok... i guess... maury maury maury.
the last one: Tenchi has a tea party ryoko tries to feed tenchi crumpets. ayeka objects because those are her crumpets and she wanted to give them to tenchi first. then tenchi gets some ptsd flashbacks of sakura blossoms decides they have to like kill the juraian emperor or some shit and tenchi chooses ryoko to be his baby momma and katsuhito spent the rest of eterity sealed in a cherry tree! the end!
......................................................... chris-chan could write a better continuity.
