Life is so full of hurry and hustle, sometimes I think it's passing us by. Days are like hours, hours like minutes, I'm caught up in it til I look in your eyes...
Eastern Mysticism + Space Fantasy stuff. I'm only at episode 2 of the OVA, watching for the first time, and spaceship made of wood is very awesome. It feels so unique and refreshing compared to today's Sci-Fi.
I remember listening to the theme for the first time after being in hospital for 2 weeks, that feeling of pure euphoria, everytime I listen to this it takes me back to that happy feeling.
@@leftwingdogwhistle awwww shucks. I had my gallbladder removed at the time so it was no biggie. But I remember watching it again and fully taking in the intro because I missed it so much!
Every time I hear this theme (or even watch the actual intro in one of the episodes that has it), my mind takes me back to the first time I saw Tenchi Muyo. My dad took me and my brothers to one of his friends place and while everyone was in the backyard or dining room, I was in the living room with the lights out, watching Tenchi Muyo on a big TV.
It was literally the first anime I ever bought on VHS back in 1994 at 13 years old, way before the Toonami mainstream happened. Now I'm 41, revisiting old memories, time flies kids, cherish it.
What makes this even more beautiful is that we never really got this opening in the States (until toonami/adult swim aired the uncut tapes late night. And only for a limited time.) The full intro, this version, was never to be found on any website, torrent, etc. The version we only had for years dropped you directly into the track, missing that important few seconds of otherworldly goodness. I seriously love you for uploading this. I feel like I can die fulfilled now.
Wow really? Something I guess to be said for having been a teen in the 90s, the VHS tapes had the full intro I can't believe they'd cut the intro beats before the track fully kicks in. Did they cut the character flashes with the drum beat from them? I've only owned the VHS tapes and the DVD set from '99 which kept the full intro
Jeez does time fly. Tenchi Muyo was one my favorite anime’s of all time. Ryoko will forever be a badass, she was the best character in the entire show. I had a massive crush on her when I was a younger.
Still have a crush on her. Yeah, she's not real but you can't help wishing that she was. My favorite female anime character hands down. After her is Project A-Ko.
One of the best original anime openings that isn’t by a major Jpop band. It sounds very similar to the 80s Jazz band Hiroshima. This is more funky but it’s definitely in the same style.
If I recall correctly, this theme never had an official name. Websites back in the day called it "Ballad of Ryo-ohki" so that's what I've always called it even though it's not a ballad. Lol.
I used to watch the show just for this song at the end (it was at the end credits in my experience). Something about this song let me process some emotions (this is 99 or 2000) and I was 11-12 - right when/before puberty hits and your brain undergoes those changes. I never thought I would ever come across this song again - and in this quality. I actually don't make it a thing to pour my heart out on RUclips comments but this song just did that for me. Thank you for posting this.
Before Outlaw Star, Tenchi was my favorite anime back when I watched Toonami as a high-schooler. I still have the ‘kid friendly’ episodes of both animes on VHS, believe it or not.
i loved this franchise. still do. I miss the style/art of it. I miss the gang. XD such a time to be a live when it was airing for us in the NA. Thank you toonami for being there in my preteenage years. i'm 35 now. this is such a blast from the past. I still watch anime now and again but not as much back then. I still come back to old school anime, this is one of them.
Thank you for making a version with the lead-in from the anime and including that bit of information in the description! Way, way, way back in the day, back during the days of dial-up connections and WinMX/Limewire, I spent so many hours trying to find a version of it with this lead-in for one of my custom CDs and could only find official soundtrack versions without it. I thought I just had bad luck, but now I know that it was thrown in just for the anime intro. I'm feeling nostalgic and created a playlist of all those songs from back in the day, so I'm going to download this and replace the one I had so I can hear it how I remember it. Thank you once again!
Man this brings back memories,90s anime,toonami,cartoons,movies, the 90s and 2000s were an awesome time I do miss it,Ryoko is still my favorite character from Tenchi.
What's crazy is listening to this with headphones, and knowing what a midi track sounds like, then realizing just how much of this was in midi... yet it felt so organic and alive.
29 years old and I've decided to rewatch all of tenchi...I almost forgot 😢 but hearing the theme is all came flooding back all of toonami ...Tom and his drinking problem and swearing toonami was so under-rated 😂 and help us cope and none of you realized it.....search broken promises toonami if you dont believe me
Brings back memories of the end credits for this show which aired on Cartoon Network UK's Toonmai block, along with Dragonball Z, The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest, Gundam Wing and Batman of the Future (Europe's name for Batman Beyond).
Still one of the very best anime opening themes of all time. And the best traditionally Japanese sounding songs I've ever heard. Always sounded so damn cool.
This sounds more like Law and Order or Judge Judy court theme song. We're trying to figure out who is Tenchi's future wife. Will it be Ryoko, Ayeka, Mihoshi, or even possibly Little Washu??? 😲 😏 👏 😂
This was once the best theme to hear coming home from school on toonami (cartoon Network).
Hell yeah man.
For real Yo Geez.!!! All the feels coming back with this
Why doesn't this comment have more Likes?
Those were the days.
Well summer school for me it came out during the summer.
It’s just hard to believe how quickly time goes by sometimes.
yeah, I know the feels
It's been almost 30 years when I first watched this. And I still love it. The whole multiverse and everything
Ain't that the truth
Life is so full of hurry and hustle, sometimes I think it's passing us by. Days are like hours, hours like minutes, I'm caught up in it til I look in your eyes...
Tenchi Muyo, Rurouni Kenshin, Outlaw Star, Cowboy Bebop, Gundam Wing, Big O. Those were the days
AMEN. So true!
🔥🔥🔥🔥
Omg I can see myself heading to Taco Bell real quick with my 2 week old driver’s license before outlaw star comes on.
Hell yeah
Soooo damn true.
This is probably the only opening that can make me feel a million feelings without any words
Same
Beyond True
This and Neon Genesis Evangelion
Same goes for Outlaw Star & the opening 2 seconds to Cowboy Bepop.
Agree
You rarely hear such eastern sounding theme songs anymore. The eastern mysticism really made this show and song unique.
Eastern Mysticism + Space Fantasy stuff.
I'm only at episode 2 of the OVA, watching for the first time, and spaceship made of wood is very awesome. It feels so unique and refreshing compared to today's Sci-Fi.
I loved the hell out of that, a lot of characters are aliens but even then their culture was very clearly Japanese.
It's like how Doctor Who has Space British...
@@KeyleeTamirian Hoe’d you like the rest of the series?
@@strawberrycat. And Ryoko was clearly modeled after a Western character resulting in an inevitable culture clash
This theme will always be a masterpiece.
The nostalgia....it hurts...
It sure does buddy, it sure does, you’re not alone
*THIS ANIME WILL ALWAYS STAY IN MY HEART*
Yours and mine. It's greatness can never be replicated.
I remember listening to the theme for the first time after being in hospital for 2 weeks, that feeling of pure euphoria, everytime I listen to this it takes me back to that happy feeling.
I know that feeling tho. Damn.
Wow. Your comment gave me watery eyes.
@@leftwingdogwhistle awwww shucks. I had my gallbladder removed at the time so it was no biggie. But I remember watching it again and fully taking in the intro because I missed it so much!
Every time I hear this theme (or even watch the actual intro in one of the episodes that has it), my mind takes me back to the first time I saw Tenchi Muyo. My dad took me and my brothers to one of his friends place and while everyone was in the backyard or dining room, I was in the living room with the lights out, watching Tenchi Muyo on a big TV.
have you acquired a harem yet?
This was one of the first animes I watched. Damn it doesn't seem like that long ago but it's been over 20 years lol
Same, I was in middle school when this premiered on toonami. 6th grade. Wow. 😢😢 I'd give anything to go back to those times
I know how you feel. Heading towards my mid 30s wondering where has all of the time gone! This with pokemon & CCS was my first set of animes
It was literally the first anime I ever bought on VHS back in 1994 at 13 years old, way before the Toonami mainstream happened. Now I'm 41, revisiting old memories, time flies kids, cherish it.
@@Arcazelian ccs, card captor sakura? Loved that in 6th grade.
What makes this even more beautiful is that we never really got this opening in the States (until toonami/adult swim aired the uncut tapes late night. And only for a limited time.)
The full intro, this version, was never to be found on any website, torrent, etc. The version we only had for years dropped you directly into the track, missing that important few seconds of otherworldly goodness.
I seriously love you for uploading this. I feel like I can die fulfilled now.
Wow really? Something I guess to be said for having been a teen in the 90s, the VHS tapes had the full intro I can't believe they'd cut the intro beats before the track fully kicks in. Did they cut the character flashes with the drum beat from them? I've only owned the VHS tapes and the DVD set from '99 which kept the full intro
Still an awesome theme in 2021
Awesome theme in 2022
Said because they gave a proper ending to the show.
@@jamesritzer3531 Still awesome in 2023 as well
It’s awesome in 2024 too
Celeste Burch's vocalization of Ryoko made me fall in love with Ryoko!
Petrea Burchard is pretty awesome, true enough!
@@elliothughes2856 Petrea is the best Ryoko in English IMO!
One of our generation’s first waifus
Jeez does time fly. Tenchi Muyo was one my favorite anime’s of all time. Ryoko will forever be a badass, she was the best character in the entire show. I had a massive crush on her when I was a younger.
Still have a crush on her. Yeah, she's not real but you can't help wishing that she was. My favorite female anime character hands down. After her is Project A-Ko.
That bass line is rediculously good
The bass, uh I love it.
Just, so sweet. Makes the whole song
Just having a euphoric religious experience in my room with headphones on, flashing back to high school…
need this on spotify
Brings back many great memories for me still the best anime for it's time and holds it's own even today
One of the best for sure
One of the best original anime openings that isn’t by a major Jpop band. It sounds very similar to the 80s Jazz band Hiroshima. This is more funky but it’s definitely in the same style.
Hiroshima is what comes to my mind as well.
I love their song "why can't I love you"
If I recall correctly, this theme never had an official name. Websites back in the day called it "Ballad of Ryo-ohki" so that's what I've always called it even though it's not a ballad. Lol.
I always heard it called ryo-ohki, but never understand why that would be its name. Wouldn't it make more sense to just call it Tenchi Muyo??
My dad used to love this song. Brings back memories and tears.
Great series from Pioneer... definitely one of my favorite animes.
I used to watch the show just for this song at the end (it was at the end credits in my experience). Something about this song let me process some emotions (this is 99 or 2000) and I was 11-12 - right when/before puberty hits and your brain undergoes those changes. I never thought I would ever come across this song again - and in this quality. I actually don't make it a thing to pour my heart out on RUclips comments but this song just did that for me. Thank you for posting this.
Before Outlaw Star, Tenchi was my favorite anime back when I watched Toonami as a high-schooler. I still have the ‘kid friendly’ episodes of both animes on VHS, believe it or not.
You sir are awesome 👌
You editted "True" main theme ost. This is the gem.
This is one of those anime intros that'll stay with me forever. The first 3 ranma 1/2 intros too.
Hell yeah! Ranma Ova: Desperately seeking Shampoo theme Love Panic was awesome too.
That bassline
i loved this franchise. still do. I miss the style/art of it. I miss the gang. XD such a time to be a live when it was airing for us in the NA. Thank you toonami for being there in my preteenage years. i'm 35 now. this is such a blast from the past. I still watch anime now and again but not as much back then. I still come back to old school anime, this is one of them.
right there with you lol 29 now those were the times
I very much miss this art style.
I was 7 watching Tenchi Muyo, hearing this song takes me back 😭
Music.
Thank you for making a version with the lead-in from the anime and including that bit of information in the description! Way, way, way back in the day, back during the days of dial-up connections and WinMX/Limewire, I spent so many hours trying to find a version of it with this lead-in for one of my custom CDs and could only find official soundtrack versions without it. I thought I just had bad luck, but now I know that it was thrown in just for the anime intro.
I'm feeling nostalgic and created a playlist of all those songs from back in the day, so I'm going to download this and replace the one I had so I can hear it how I remember it. Thank you once again!
The opening beats showing the Milky Way before showing off the characters hits so hard!
Ascending! That's how I feel when I listen to this music. So, so beautiful.
I was trying to sleep lastnight and this was stuck in my head....over 20 years now, crazy to think.
Nostalgia man
Love this soundtrack. I think of my little girl and my little brother watching the show when I came home from work.
It's nice coming back to this from time to time. I remember hearing this when when i was ten.
Great work putting this together. I think people have been sleeping on the ridiculously technical and brilliant bassline.
I had this movie on VHS and loved that track
Hahaha. Because of this show I pretended to input data on a computer in the air like Washu. Silly childhood moments
You mean Washu.
now we can almost do it for real.
oh gosh I did this too. I was a bit neurotic in my wishing i had Washu's powers as a kid
@@treehann though once I understood I had autism it actually helps with remembering things. Like Sherlock Holmes mind palace
This song makes me feel so much really brings me back to good times watching toonami
They never draw Ayeka in this quality every again and I will always be mad about it lol.
ah the original Tenchi opening and its full version. Thanks
Somehow this theme makes me think of the music in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back.
Both Crash and Tenchi truly defined the 90s. ^^
Hm... I don't, perhaps it is the sound of the bass? Damn Crash 2, I don't even want to know how many hours I played that... feels like 20 years ago
Ty the Tazmanian tiger vibes
Bomberman 64
That bass
That bass indeed
@@MantraHerbInchSin those soothing synth pads
God I miss this series
Still in love with this
Man this brings back memories,90s anime,toonami,cartoons,movies, the 90s and 2000s were an awesome time I do miss it,Ryoko is still my favorite character from Tenchi.
What's crazy is listening to this with headphones, and knowing what a midi track sounds like, then realizing just how much of this was in midi... yet it felt so organic and alive.
sssssssmmmmmmm................. YES, nostalgic right to my ears, (2022) where has good anime intro opening music gone, I miss it, I miss it real bad
So much hard work, inspiration and genius went into making this artstic expression (and the anime, also). Thanks to all for the experience.
29 years old and I've decided to rewatch all of tenchi...I almost forgot 😢 but hearing the theme is all came flooding back all of toonami ...Tom and his drinking problem and swearing toonami was so under-rated 😂 and help us cope and none of you realized it.....search broken promises toonami if you dont believe me
We lived in better times back then now some of us have become Tom and some of us everything hurts now like my back.. But agreed
@@MrLayton1990 same lol can't even crouch to pick something up without my knees snapping 😅 and cracking
check out the movies too
My happy place
Damn man, where does the time go? 😔
Brings back memories of the end credits for this show which aired on Cartoon Network UK's Toonmai block, along with Dragonball Z, The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest, Gundam Wing and Batman of the Future (Europe's name for Batman Beyond).
I remember watching this show over the summer at my grandparents house, good times
Still pretty fire to this day!
These bends remind me of lp's My December. Smooth move 💯
Still one of the very best anime opening themes of all time. And the best traditionally Japanese sounding songs I've ever heard. Always sounded so damn cool.
Hard to find this opening on RUclips.
Best anime theme hands down.
I feel like I'm gettin funky in a Japanese temple
I quit little league baseball to watch this show, and 20 something years later I have negative regrets.
Toonami Bob 001 I miss those days 😭😭😭
it got sci-fi,it got heream it got action it got something for everybody lol why I love the series I personally call it "Star Wars love Hina" lmfao
Whoa I thought I was the only one to read love hina!
2021 still here XD
2022 anyone? 👍🏾
Only the real ones
Yup
I have always, and will always, love this opening. Simple but elegant.
Man…my introduction to the harem genre and it was on Toonami. Good times.
Miss these times man, they have no clue
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤My first harem anime 😍😍😍😍😍
*Bons Tempos* ♥️🙌✨✨✨✨✨♥️🙌
Always a good goto tune, i love the bass in it and the arrangement generally. Makes me feel elated 😊
Still remember renting this from Blockbuster back in the day.
One of the first anime shows I ever watched.
This song is so damn good, even it's ENDING BEATS have to be replayed.
this bass, gott damn. i thought it was synth at first
Ryoko my first love will never forget tenchi
That bass line is sex for the ears
Make sure you use protection, you might get hearing aids.
@@johnwaterland2861 Take my angry upvote
This takes me back to a simpler time.
Yes it was deff
This sounds more like Law and Order or Judge Judy court theme song. We're trying to figure out who is Tenchi's future wife. Will it be Ryoko, Ayeka, Mihoshi, or even possibly Little Washu??? 😲 😏 👏 😂
You deserve alot more credit for this comment
Loud and wrong
@@bryana50cents16 What do you mean??? 😕 😕 😕
@@eddie995863 Lol, thank you and I try.
They don’t make anime like the 90s anymore
Ryoko to this DAY is my fave.
❤❤❤
Oh yeah this my jam man Cool
This takes me back to Saturday mornings with my coco pops watching My cartoon network and then being inspired to play tekken on the ps1
Still amazing
Anyone else first hear this in KTEH in the mid 1990s?
Just ordered Tenchi Muyo Laserdiscs episodes 1 through 11 time for me to relive my childhood ❤
Would anyone want to hear an extended version of this?
BOP
You can’t Shazam this
I'll bet that the composer submitted the original recording (the one on the soundtrack) and someone went "this needs a lead in or the intro will suck"
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿♥️👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
This man had females all up in his crib and the two hottest ones wanting his babies bruh lol
Best description of Tenchi’s love life I love it lol
@@MrLayton1990 😂👍🏿
Such a good opener
This reminds me of Princes ‘Thieves in the night’ for some reason
never ever get old