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4th Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki OVA Reveals Additional Cast, Designs

The official Twitter account for the fourth installment in the Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki OVA series announced additional cast members on Friday.

Yukiko Morishita as Kenshi Misaki (from Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar) as a child

Shigeru Mogi as Seina Yamada (cast returning from Tenchi Muyo! GXP)

Mariko Suzuki as Amane Kaunaq (cast returning from Tenchi Muyo! GXP)

Nao Takamori as Gyokuren (cast returning from Tenchi Muyo! GXP)

Michie Tomizawa as Mitoto Kuramitsu
(Tomizawa is replacing late actress Yuko Mizutani as Michie from Tenchi Muyo! GXP, as she is for Mihoshi)

Yoshiko Sakakibara as Misaki Masaki Jurai
(Ayeka and Sasami's mother, cast returning from original Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki OVA)

Takehiro Murozono as Kazuki Yotsuga
(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:

Masami Kikuchi as Tenchi Masaki

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
• Yoko Soumi as Mikami Kuramitsu
• Rui Tanabe as Ringo Tatsuki
• Risa Yuzuki as Mizune Masaki
• Azusa Satou 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, Oneechan 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