[OOC][PLOT] Planning for Arc 2 - Crisis on Infinite Earths

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The main reason, I think, that Universe and Tokyo were so popular was because they differed from Kajishima's work where Tenchi actually winds up marrying all of them.  There was a knee-jerk reaction from the fandom because up until this point, the Tenchi Solution was something unheard of, and various big name fans had their own ideas about who Tenchi should marry.  (Thus, we also had the seed for Waifu Wars and Shipping Feuds.)

Old pun that predates Tenchi Muyo:
"You married them both?"
"I thought it would be big of me."

There's a lot of cultural pushback to ignoring monogamy (in most cultures - certain non-mainstream versions of Mormonism and Islam being notable exceptions). This part of Tenchi Muyo -- and the parts of our own story here where two of the SIs are gathering harems for whatever reasons -- squicks a lot of people.

This is something else that we need to address in Arc 2 if we intend to keep TNB as a deconstruction.