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4th Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki OVA Reveals Additional Cast, Designs
posted on by Karen Ressler
The official Twitter account for the fourth installment in the Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki OVA series announced additional cast members on Friday.
(Tomizawa is replacing late actress Yūko Mizutani as Michie from Tenchi Muyo GXP, as she is for Mihoshi)
(Ayeka and Sasami's mother, cast returning from original Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki OVA)
(protagonist of Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure, cast returning from Tenchi Muyo GXP)
The Twitter account also revealed designs for Amame Yotsuga (Ayeka and Sasami's grandmother), Yūzaki Hirata, and older versions of Washu and Ryo-Ohki.
The fourth OVA's fourth Blu-ray Disc volume is slated for August 30. The first volume shipped last November, the second volume shipped on February 22, and the third volume shipped on May 31.
The anime's main cast includes:
Ai Orikasa as Ryoko
Haruhi Nanao as Aeka Masaki Jurai
Chisa Yokoyama as Sasami Masaki Jurai
Michie Tomizawa as Mihoshi Kuramitsui
Yūko Kobayashi as Washu Hakubi
Etsuko Kozakura as Ryo-Ohki
Naomi Shindoh as Noike Kamiki Jurai
The rest of the cast includes:
- Ken Uo as Katsuhito Masaki
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Nobuyuki Masaki
- Rio Natsuki as Rea Masaki
- Yuko Nagashima as Minaho Masaki
- Rei Sakuma as Funaho Masaki Jurai
- Emi Shinohara as Tennyo Masaki
- Sakiko Tamagawa as Airi Masaki
- Yumi Touma as Tokimi
- Kenichi Ogata as Azaka
- Satsuki Yukino as Tsukiko Masaki
- Yōko Soumi as Mikami Kuramitsu
- Rui Tanabe as Ringo TATSUKI
- Risa Yuzuki as Mizune Masaki
- Azusa Satō as Otoka Masaki
- Miya Amamiya as Fūka Masaki
Masaki Kajishima is credited with the original concept, character design, and as general director. Hidetoshi Takahashi (Sword Art Online II, Your Lie in April episode director) is directing the anime at AIC and C2C. Hideki Shirane (Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar, Tenchi Muyo GXP) returns to supervise and pen the series' scripts. Takeshi Oda (Yurumates3Dei, Onee-chan ga Kita) is adapting the character designs for animation, and Ryo Sakai (Glass Maiden, Kino's Journey, Ceres, Celestial Legend) and Crunch All Stars are composing the music.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
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