Ha! I got a crack out of the Misaki OAV 3 hate crime thingie. On that note, check this out. Click on "Articles" and read a deleted scene, and a funny bit between evil Misaki and Tsunami/Sasami.

Back on topic, I can't comment on GXP since I never could bring myself to watch it. I've been thinking of looking for episodes on Youtube or downloading a torrent so I can say I've seen it, then immediately delete them from my hard drive before they corrupt everything, unless, of course, I wind up liking it (unlikely), but then I'll have to go buy the DVD set and hoard all the inserts.

As for OAV 3, it is my opinion that the reason why Tenchi went downhill was because the writers were simply trying to cram way too much story and way too many characters into way too few episodes. That whole story arc could have easily taken up the time of two OAVs on its own! It's simply too big of an undertaking to try and add so many new characters, develop them, and keep the story going strong all at the same time and within such a small amount of space.

Think about it, things were moving pretty slowly epic story-wise during the first two because they were making us care about each of the characters. The first OAV introduced them to us, and developed mostly Ryoko and Aeka pretty well while hinting about a larger plot behind-the-scenes.

The second OAV developed Sasami and Washu the most and began to slowly bring the larger story into the light.

The third OAV should have developed Mihoshi and introduced Noike (since she's Mihoshi's partner in this one), and developed her as well. They could have grown together. A fourth OAV should have then been created to give focus to the Choushin and their story. This way, we wouldn't all hate Noike, as she'd become familiar to us, and the other characters wouldn't just sit on the side, either. They just tried to do too much at once!

Basically, OAV 3 had a good plot, but it had a rushed plot and I felt like more questions were raised than answered by the end of it.

Oh yeah! And the voices. To me, it sounded like none of the VAs were giving it their all this time around. Everything sounded like a regular anime dub to me, which is sad, as I had grown to like the Tenchi dub almost as much as the original Japanese - a rarity for me! There's a few reasons I can think of as to why this might be.

A.) Everyone was tired of these roles. Maybe they just got bored and decided not to do their best.

B.) Funimation has crappy voice directors. I hate Funimation's dubs.

C.) Removing Petrea Burchard destroyed the chemistry between the actors. I don't know if they record their lines together or not, but if they do, then removing Petrea would certainly affect the others as well.

Its set roughly 15 to 16 years later, the funny thing is though because they are all either goddesses Jurain or a mix of both they won't look any different, lol

Yea well Kiyone was replaced by Noike =(, and Tokimi has been added, along with Airi and Tennyo, so thats what 9-10 girls

Exactly, every woman that is around him suddenly feels the urge to thrust themself onto him, except Noike, she was payed to play the role however she seemed all "interested" in him