Mar 28, 2013
I'd say that this is a Tenchi story that certainly had potential. The focus was changed from Tenchi Misaki and Earth to a new character and outer space. The problems were different and instead of the cast simply staying in a house until some new alien came to blow things up, here people were moving around and trying to do their job. The premise is definitely one that could work. The problem is the execution.
The main character, Seina Yamadal, doesn't show much in the way of character and frankly really isn't that different from any other harem anime protagonist. He's unlucky, average in looks, knowledge
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and physical capabilities and only obtained his chance at life in the Galactic Police by accident. If he was made a Juraian who obtained a sudden superpower when a girl was imperiled he'd basically be Tenchi-lite.
Seina's life prior to the series and his family effect almost nothing in the story. Indeed, his parents barely seem to care that he's left and his new life and friends don't seem to faze them in any way. His poor luck which has prevented Seina from making more than one friend prior to the series only appears for comedy's sake and honestly doesn't seem to mentally affect him any more than typical bad luck affects any harem lead.
His harem cast is equally average. They're all good looking women of the standard variety for a harem anime who are attracted to Seina for reasons that aren't really explained. There is little effort given to develop them beyond perhaps a single episode each for a few of the characters and several of the harem members never receive even that. Indeed, one of them had more personality while in disguise than as herself.
The villains are mostly weak and unimpressive. Admittedly there are two who have enough color to be interesting to watch, but sadly one fell from being a menacing threat to a joke and the other was only there to be a joke.
Ultimately I'd say that the problem with the story was the problem with Seina. It was just Tenchi-lite. A regular boy being forcibly introduced to an interstellar community, being forced to struggle to match his fellow recruits and not realizing that he's joined an organization that goes to the front lines of fighting crime until it's too late for him to get out could have provided one of the best stories in the Tenchi Muyo series and its most compelling character. Instead they went with what was safe and easy and for the last episode seemed to give up on a decent story altogether in favor of trying to keep hardcore fans of harem anime happy.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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