Foruth: The Lemon Bits
About a year after Ryoko's attack and Yosho chasing after her, someone out there in the galaxy produced the Galactic-tech version of an eroge featuring characters obviously based on Yosho and Ryoko. The story is of these two stranded on one of those sword-and-sorcery worlds mentioned in a previous post, cooperating to survive, and falling in love. It was probably meant to score political points of some sort against either Jurai, the House Masaki of Jurai, or Yosho specifically. It gained enough popularity to be brought to Ayeka's attention, and that was the final straw that prompted her to go tearing off in her ship to find Yosho.
A few years after Ayeka runs off, a second game hits the scene. This one is about what happens when Ayeka finds the first two on that barbarian death-world, which revolves around some epic combat against life draining threats that might endanger the galaxy if they get off world. It also involves a lot of the infamous Juraian marital practices, i.e. the Ayeka-based character breaks out the whips and chains and hot wax. Some of those monster threats are sex-demons as well.
The first game made a few ripples but would have been soon forgotten. This one not only captures the attention of those whose fetishes run in this direction, but has epic action and production values that attract even more people who aren't into the kinky sex. 700 years later, the existence of the first game is a bit of obscure trivia but the second has produced sequels, spinoffs, reboots, multiple routes splitting off into their own separate series, etc.
So when various aliens become aware of Tenchi and Earth, there is always someone around who is a fan of this series and makes the connection.
It doesn’t help matters as people dig deeper and uncover details on some of those invasions, the existence of actual life-sucking and sex demons being fought by magical warriors, and this Ataru Moroboshi guy who married into the Oni Syndicates.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.
About a year after Ryoko's attack and Yosho chasing after her, someone out there in the galaxy produced the Galactic-tech version of an eroge featuring characters obviously based on Yosho and Ryoko. The story is of these two stranded on one of those sword-and-sorcery worlds mentioned in a previous post, cooperating to survive, and falling in love. It was probably meant to score political points of some sort against either Jurai, the House Masaki of Jurai, or Yosho specifically. It gained enough popularity to be brought to Ayeka's attention, and that was the final straw that prompted her to go tearing off in her ship to find Yosho.
A few years after Ayeka runs off, a second game hits the scene. This one is about what happens when Ayeka finds the first two on that barbarian death-world, which revolves around some epic combat against life draining threats that might endanger the galaxy if they get off world. It also involves a lot of the infamous Juraian marital practices, i.e. the Ayeka-based character breaks out the whips and chains and hot wax. Some of those monster threats are sex-demons as well.
The first game made a few ripples but would have been soon forgotten. This one not only captures the attention of those whose fetishes run in this direction, but has epic action and production values that attract even more people who aren't into the kinky sex. 700 years later, the existence of the first game is a bit of obscure trivia but the second has produced sequels, spinoffs, reboots, multiple routes splitting off into their own separate series, etc.
So when various aliens become aware of Tenchi and Earth, there is always someone around who is a fan of this series and makes the connection.
It doesn’t help matters as people dig deeper and uncover details on some of those invasions, the existence of actual life-sucking and sex demons being fought by magical warriors, and this Ataru Moroboshi guy who married into the Oni Syndicates.
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No, I don't believe the world has gone mad. In order for it to go mad it would need to have been sane at some point.