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Poor Kiyone! She graduated second in her class at the Galactic Police Force Academy and finds herself assigned to the backwater planet Earth with her well-intentioned but ditzy partner Mihoshi. Rather than stay at the Masaki home in rural Japan with the rest of the interstellar freeloaders, Mihoshi and Kiyone get an apartment in Tokyo, taking part-time jobs to pay the rent. Mihoshi inadvertently wreaks havoc wherever she goes, from construction sites to fast food restaurants, but karaoke bars provide a welcome break from these fiascoes. The funniest episode in this collection of the first "Tenchi" broadcast series is "No Need for a Carnival." The women from outer space pitch in at the Masaki Family Shrine harvest festival with predictably disastrous results. Space pirate Ryoko and Jurai Princess Ayeka set up rival shooting galleries, with little figures of each other as the targets. Super-genius Washu creates a haunted house that's a little too realistic for Tenchi, and when Mihoshi makes Sasami a cotton candy, she creates a tsunami of pink spun sugar that engulfs the entire carnival. It's all very silly in the special way that "Tenchi" fans on both sides of the Pacific expect. Rated for ages 13 and up for brief nudity, minor profanity, and some scary imagery in the fun house. --Charles Solomon
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