Ever since Kajishima took over with the new Tenchi projects we've gotten very little explanation of Tenchi's powers.. in GXP he runs side by side with Seina (who is on a bike and has had GP physical enhancers), yet how he does this is never explained during GXP. Now it's the extra lighthawk wings. If only the third OVA had of focused on the original cast more, maybe then details like this would have been properly explained. I still think they should include a Ryoko goddess form episode, or Tenchi could at least give her back another one of her gems so she can have them be symmetrical

You guys have your facts so mixed up, I don't know where to start;.;

1. Those are Washu's gems, not Ryokos. Ryoko isn't a goddess at the level of her mother or aunts. IMO, Ryoko should never get all three gems.

2. Tsunami can summon 10 LHW, not just 9. (OAVep5-6, TM101) She could summon even more, but that is all the dimension can take before falling apart. (MK Interview) Summoning wings is an exponential operation, not a linear. (TM101) I.E. Every additional wing requires twice the power of all the wings before it or for simpler math:

1st Wing = 1 Energy Unit (to call up) = 1 Total Energy (for this wing and all previous)
2nd Wing = 2 Energy Units = 3 Total Energy
3rd Wing = 4 Energy Units = 7 Units Total Energy
4th Wing = 8 Energy Units = 15 Units Total Energy
5th Wing = 16 Energy Units = 31 Units Total Energy
6th Wing = 32 Energy Units = 63 Units Total Energy
7th Wing = 64 Energy Units = 127 Units Total Energy
8th Wing = 128 Energy Units = 255 Units Total Energy
9th Wing = 256 Energy Units = 511 Units Total Energy
10th Wing = 512 Energy Units = 1024 Units Total Energy

Thus Tsunami is at least (1024/7=)146 times more power than her 1st generation tree offspring. Perhaps much more so.

3. Number of wings does not depend on mood. Tenchi has the power of Material-Energy Conversion (ep6). MK said in an interview that it makes "no sense to put a limit on the number of LHW a being with Material Energy Conversion could call up." Tenchi can theoretically call unlimited wings.

4. Tenchi is "immature", which explains why he can't summon all his power now. Perhaps in OAV3 he matured a bit, allowing him to call more wings in the one scenario. Sasami's symbols on her forehead are triangular and different from Tsunamis because she is still a child. (TM101). In the one MK Noike nookie doujin with an older Sasami, we see her symbols as between a triangle and 2 circles, indicating a between state and transition. Right now, like Sasami, Tenchi also has triangles as his divine markings. In an MK picture of the future, Tenchi has a single circle.

5. Most of these facts are way back from the 1990s, it has nothing to do with MK "taking over" Tenchi, he was there from the beginning and mapped out a lot of this foundation long ago.

The Jibril has done well and sufficiently answered my questions. ^_^
Kiyone Masaki approves!

Tenchi is also much much faster than Seina. I'm currently taking astronomy and the sheer size of the galaxy and distance of planets from one another is mind-boggling. The fact that Tenchi can move across the solar system in a blink of an eye is some mad powerful mojo at work.

yea for sure

We're all going to have to go back to the Washu controlling Ryoko thread now. I think I read a pretty good explanation for the merger somewhere in there.