Tenchi the Movie 2: The Daughter of Darkness

Tenchi the Movie 2:
The Daughter of Darkness
North American release cover
Directed byTetsu Kimura
Written byNahoko Hasegawa
Based onTenchi Muyo!
by Masaki Kajishima
StarringMasami Kikuchi
Ai Orikasa
Yumi Takada
Chisa Yokoyama
Yuko Mizutani
Yuri Amano
Yuko Kobayashi
Junko Iwao
Yō Inoue
Edited byMasashi Furukawa
Music byKow Otani
Production
companies
Distributed byToei Company (Japan)
Funimation (North America)
Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
MVM Films (United Kingdom)
Release date
  • August 2, 1997 (1997-08-02)
Running time
65 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Tenchi the Movie 2: Daughter of Darkness, known in Japan as Tenchi Muyō! Midsummer's Eve (天地無用!真夏のイヴ, Tenchi Muyō! Manatsu no Ibu) in Japan is the second of three films set in the Tenchi Muyo! multi-verse directed by Tetsu Kimura and written by Nahoko Hasegawa. The film was released in Japan on August 2, 1997, as a double feature, along with Slayers Great. The film was later released in North America on Laserdisc on 31 March 1998 and DVD on August 8, 1998. Tenchi Muyo! Daughter of Darkness was later re-released along with Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Muyo in Love and Tenchi Forever! The Movie in a collectors' pack.[1] Funimation announced distribution of the film, along with several other Tenchi properties, on July 2, 2010, at Anime Expo.[2]

  1. ^ "Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Muyo Movie Collection". Amazon. 19 June 2007. Retrieved June 3, 2009.
  2. ^ "Funi Adds Trigun Film, Moyashimon, Shiki, Black Butler 2, Sekirei 2, More (Update 2)". 22 September 2023.