| Tenchi Universe | |
 Title card | |
| 天地無用! (Tenchi Muyō!) | |
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| Genre | Adventure, Fantasy, Harem |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Negishi |
| Written by | Ryoe Tsukimura |
| Music by | Seikou Nagaoka |
| Studio | AIC |
| Licensed by |
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| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| English network | |
| Original run | April 2, 1995 – September 24, 1995 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Feature films | |
| Related series | |
Tenchi Universe (天地無用!, Tenchi Muyō!) is a Japanese anime television series animated by AIC and produced by Pioneer LDC. It is loosely based on the first six episodes of the Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OVA series. The series premiered on April 2, 1995 in Japan and concluded its airing on September 24, 1995. The series aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's cartoon block Toonami on July 20, 2000 and ended on August 24, 2000. Two featured films came from this canon, Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Muyo in Love and Tenchi Forever! The Movie. Funimation announced distribution of the series, along with several other Tenchi properties, on July 2, 2010 at Anime Expo.[1]
This series introduces three new characters: Mihoshi's partner Kiyone Makibi (who debuted in the "Mihoshi Special"), the bounty hunter and Ryoko's rival, Nagi, and her cabbit companion, Ken-Ohki. The series also gave some characters different personalities; Washu is now portrayed as a mildly-insane egomaniac with two pop-up dolls that proclaim her greatness, and Mihoshi was portrayed as a comic relief character whose constant bumbling, blunders and crying fits would often get the gang into trouble.