Tenchi Muyo! Daughter of Darkness

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name = Tenchi Muyo! Daughter of Darkness


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ja_name = 天地無用!真夏のイブ
ja_name_trans = Tenchi Muyo! Manatsu no Eve
genre = Adventure, Fantasy, haremInfobox animanga/Movie
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director = Tetsu Kimura
writer = Naoko Hasegawa
music = Kō Ōtani
studio = flagicon|Japan Anime International Company
flagicon|Japan Pioneer LDC
flagicon|Japan Toei ("distributor")
licensor = flagicon|USA Pioneer
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runtime = 60 min.

nihongo|"Tenchi Muyo! Daughter of Darkness"|天地無用!真夏のイブ|Tenchi Muyō! Manatsu no Ibu|Tenchi Muyo! Midsummer's Eve is the second of three movies set in the "Tenchi Muyo" multi-verse directed by Tetsu Kimura and written by Naoko Hasegawa.

Unlike the first and third films - which carry on the story told in "Tenchi Universe" - it is an adaptation of the tenth novel by one of the original OVA scriptwriters, Naoko Hasegawa, set in its own continuity taking place after the first OVA and ignoring the subsequent sequels.

This film was originally released in Japan in 2 August 1997 as a double feature, along with "Slayers Great".

ynopsis

Prince Yosho meets a young girl before the annual Startica celebration on Jurai. However, it turns out that the girl is actually a demon named Yuzuha and was driven away by the palace guards.

Seven hundred years later, Yuzuha discovers that Yosho is now on Earth... and has a grandson - Tenchi Masaki - who is surrounded by all sorts of women. Looking for revenge, the demon obtains hair from Tenchi, during a Christmas celebration and combines it with hair from herself and creates a girl named Mayuka.

Six months later during summer; the usual situations are taking place with the women fighting. Tenchi goes to clean his mother's gravestone, when he is met by Mayuka, who called Tenchi "Papa" ("Daddy" in the English dub). Confused, and knowing not else what to do, Tenchi takes her back to the shrine to stay with the others, until a solution can be had.

tartica

nihongo|Startica|スターティカ|Sutātika is a summer holiday celebrated in Jurai, and it plays an important role throughout the movie. It combines aspects of Christmas with the Japanese Star Festival.

Music

The music for this movie was composed by Kō Ōtani. The ending theme song is "Manatsu no Eve" ["Midsummer's Eve"] , performed by Mariko Nagai.

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