New Tenchi Series

[ibawow]

Best News of this year ... 

[JDavis]

It's nice that we're getting new Tenchi, but... yeah, likely no new plot here. These 5 minute anime tend to be the anime equivalent of a 4 panel manga. All humor.

[shades of blue]

I haven't seen 5 minute animes, but I suspect that the beginning theme and credits will be enought to knock some time off and it will be less than 200 minutes overall.  Maybe I'm wrong.

Did you watch Azumanga Daioh, back in the day? Cause that was actually a five minute show. The individual segments aired Monday through Thursday, with Friday airing all of the segments that aired that week with the final segment as an extra.

Now you've got a couple of five minute titles that popup from time to time, but they usually follow the standard weekly airing schedule. Titles like Onee-chan ga Kita, Yama no Susume, Recorder and Randsell and lastly, Pupipo. Most of which, if not all of which are based upon 4koma titles. High Score Girl, an upcoming title, also follows that format.

That said, they usually just have a short splash screen and short credits. And sometimes the credits include alternative scenes, depending on budgeting.

http://www.youtube.com/v/fJP1Ez2H9O4http://www.youtube.com/v/UUtPrYZ9NtM
http://www.youtube.com/v/nKK2q3YSSJAhttp://www.youtube.com/v/MTKtsMi1T8I

BTW if any of those catch your interest, most of them have subtitled bluray releases by now. And the blurays tend to include a bonus episode.

[antvasima]

I read that the series will get a Blu-Ray and DVD release, so the possibility of an extra 22-minute episode included sounds nice.

[shades of blue]

Nah, the bd/dvd will likely get a couple extra five minute timed episodes. That's how the extras for other five minute shows tend to be. If any extras run longer than that, I'd suspect the city was happy with the results and funded additional content. Or Kajishima paid out of pocket.

That said, since the series is going to be fifty episodes long, I suspect the bd/dvd will likely be released in four separate releases. With thirteen episodes per disc and two original episodes to round out the the two releases which otherwise would include just twelve episodes. That is IF my assumption is correct.

[antvasima]

More news. AIC will helm the new Tenchi series.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-06-16/anime-studio-aic-involved-in-new-tenchi-muyo-series/.75604

[Harls]

As expected.

[SimmyC]

As long as the quality is good. It may not be the Tenchi series I expected, but at least it's something. I am of course assuming that AIC doesn't screw it up. It isn't like they screwed up before.