From when Toonami was legendary. This promo got me so hyped to watch Tenchi Muyo.

07-03-2000 man, seeing that date really makes one realize how much older they are.

And this was how Toonami got me into anime. I love this series so much.

Peter Motherfuckin' Cullen. The Voice of Toonami...Forever.

I remember seeing this promo as a kid and even at that age thinking "Wow, this looks like the sexiest thing ever!" Having just watched the original 7 episodes of the OVA, I can safely say that it is the ultimate male wish fulfillment fantasy, not just because all the girls in it are beautiful, but because they're all really memorable, likable characters.

I was beyond jealous of this guy as a kid.

Peter Cullen can make you watch ANYTHING!!!

Toonami always new how to amp up a show. I was ten when this came out, what great memories. Building Gundam models while I watched Toonami after school, life never really got better than that. Here's hoping for the future.

I remember seeing this promo 14 years ago when i was teenager i miss those days and the old Toonami line up shows like T .M Rurouni kenshin Outlaw star Yu Yu Hakusho and DBZ .

Tenchi Muyo will always be one of my anime gem classics.

The best summer of my life, easily. Thirteen years old, not too young to be constantly tied to my parents and having no freedom, but not too old to have adult stresses and responsibilities. A lot of cool stuff happened that summer. I graduated eighth grade, and had no idea what high school was going to throw at me, three different oceanside vacations, camping trips, visits to state parks, pool parties. But then when it seemed like I was just sitting inside and there was nothing else to do, there was Toonami, and I was actually way more hyped for this show than I was any of the vacations I went on. I remember this ad played over and over, the show being teased literally for weeks before premiering. I was obsessed with DBZ at the time, and season three had just wrapped up, leaving us wanting more, with nothing new to watch. No streaming services, no DVD rips, no Crunchy Roll. What? A new anime is coming to the US? Nothing could have been more exciting. The most hilarious thing about this ad and the Toonami intro for the show is how action packed it makes the series seem, which is partially based in reality, but also played up big time to capture the 14-year-old DBZ demographic. I remember being really hyped because most of the female characters looked like DBZ characters with the huge, spiky, bright and colorful hair, but everything looked shinier and newer than anything from the world of Dragon Ball. And then that iconic shot of Ayeka and Ryoko fighting over Tenchi on top of the roof of the Masaki house made it seem like it wasn't going to be just mindless fighting, and the characters were going to spend their summer in the woods, just like I was. I always loved how it looks like someone with a camera on a crane is actually flying over them. Maybe this was going to be a more "mature" show than DBZ, but the art style still gave me a DBZ vibe, even though it seemed like something new and different. I remember in the TV series (not the OVA), there was an episode where Tenchi takes Sasami around a local summer fair or carnival, and watching that at 5:30 in the summer evening just seemed to fit so well. Super chill, not really dark and edgy or full of deep symbolism like Evangelion or something. Just capturing little life moments in animation. I'll never forget those times, when life moved much slower and you didn't have to constantly check your cell phone or answer work emails or mindlessly scroll through random stuff on the Internet. Maybe one day I can turn off all electronics, take some time off, go for a walk through the summer woods, and then come home to an episode or two of this show for old time's sake.

I used to watch this show all the time. I even watched it at night sometimes. I was 8 and 9 years old. I'm 21 now and I still love it.

The best Toonami Promo in the world

12 years old when this released man if I could go back in time relive the glory days of toonami

Never forget that Toonami had Optimus Prime as part of their cast

I feel that this was one of the original Harem Anime’s that was introduced to us through Toonami

This show was my second favorite to watch after DBZ on TOONAMI! Memories of watching these shows that would live on forever!

This commercial was my sexual awakening

My mind just keeps me "running in the 90's". TOONAMI FATEFUL WE WERE THERE!

I remember this bump. 15 years ago. fuck I'm old lol

Weird how they merged clips from Tenchi Ryo-Ohki(OVA), Tenchi Universe, and Tenchi in Tokyo for this promo. None of these series actually had any relation to each other, besides having the same main cast of characters.

The good old days. They can never be replicated, only remembered. Cheers.

I swear this promo is what got me hooked on the series. Thank you, Toonami, for the good old days.

Oh man the nostalgia, I can't take it! LOL So much memories I had back then, this was also the same year that my family and I moved from San Jose, CA to Salinas, CA

This is without question my favorite promo ever made by the good folks at Toonami. Thanks for giving it the HD facelift.

July 3rd 2000....boy was that a great time......Still on summer vacation and watching Toonami.

Damn. Hard to believe this was over 20 years ago... 😭😭😭

Toonami in it's glory days.

Hard to believe this was 10 years ago, gotta love it. Loved this series. Nostalgia......it's a good thing!

My god I remember watching this show every day after school.

Ryoko, my first anime waifu crush

This shit was my childhood, and my first and STILL my favourite anime ever...god this show rocked.

That moment when you realize as an adult that they used clips from three different tenchi series for this promo nearly two decades later.

This was my first harem. As a kid I was like how do the ladies hate Johnny Bravo but love Tenchi.

Fun fact: When ep 4 of Muyo! actually aired on Toonami, "You're a naughty boy aren't you Tenchi!" was redubbed as "You're a bad boy aren't you Tenchi!"

I totally forgot about this show! Thank god for these promos! I'll listening to anything narrated by this guy!

omg 17 years ago I remember this commercial to my fave anime and I loved toonami

I swore for the longest time that Kiyone yelled "Pull over lesbo! License and Registration!"

The animation was beautiful on this anime especially the eyes of the characters

I'm re-watching the series right now, and I forgot how awesome the show was! That said, I can see several differences due to the how certain things couldn't be broadcast in afternoon TV. The premise is so over the top that it ended up being awesome!

"This is it! The ultimate weapon!"

love how the promo combined pretty much the 3 main series of Tenchi into one

I've been looking all over for this anime

"Now is the time to craft the future!" Still pops into my head at random moments close to 20 years later.

I used to love this so much.

Toonami knew how to put together epic trailers back then man

This was just one of many I loved watching when Toonami was at its peak on cartoon network. This trailer made me feel like I was getting off the bus from school to watch my favorite shows. Times were much simpler back then.

The editing is epic. Old school Toonami couldn’t miss ❤

"Love stinks." Touché. I couldn't agree more. Before there were Infinite Stratos and even High School DxD, there was Tenchi Muyo! I had no idea that there is a 4th season of the OVA series already with the first OVA episode already aired from Japan on November 30 this year, it's crazy. I didn't see that coming. I even have a Japanese Import Sega Saturn game based on the anime as well. It's called, "Tenchi Muyo! Rensa Hitsuyou" for those who were wondering. Toonami 4ever!

Twenty years ago today, Tenchi Muyo blessed the masses airing on Toonami for the first time.

I love how they give clips from the OVA, Universe, and Tenchi In Tokyo

Favorite anime show ever Ryoko was my favorite

wow my first actual memory of this show was watching this promo back on toonami one day and the whole tenchi shows (save tokyo) are still among my top favorites in anime to this day ty for the upload

Where’s my 2020 at still watching and supporting the prince of Jurai Tenchi?!

Damn.......this brings back memories. When I was a kid I’d run home from school to watch this. I lowkey dreamed of having this kind of life (surrounded by women)..........I think that might’ve actually played a role in who I’ve become today 😅

I'm crying it's been 20 years I'm bout to turn 30. Where does the time go😭😭😭😭😭???

Summer 2000: the summer before high school. I will never forget it.

This brought a tear to my eye. I miss the old Anime's/Cartoons from childhood.

2 days before my 8th birthday this show was awesome man

Wow this came out 3 day before my birthday. Saw this promo back in the day and became hook to the series.

@SlimD716V2 Thank you for putting this up. Brings up some very good memories of when CN had something for everyone (I think. Nostalgia has a habit of making me misremember things). I\

First time I saw this promo I could not BELIEVE this was gonna be on television.

I was so excited when I saw this promo because I had seen the first movie on SciFi and liked it immediately.

My favorite anime of all time

sweet. this is the one i was waiting for

0:52 The moment you see some girls eyeing you with hearts in their eyes like that, you know you're DOOMED!

0:45 As of 2021, it finally ended. And it ended well for everyone

This just brings back so many nostalgic feelings

i remembered this around 2011 and now ill feel empty ....

just watched the whole thing again i love it plz bring back toonami

Honestly, Toonami introduced me to anime and Tenchi Muyo was the first series I watched! 👍🏻❤️😎

I didn't know Optimus Prime knew anything about love. :D

This show was quite epic. Try buying it on DVD, gets quite expensive too.

GOD this is classic. I loved that series so much

In case anyone didn't know, that is the voice of Optimus Prime, Peter Cullen, doing the narration for this promo... How awesome is this?!?

No one has a more badass voice than Peter Cullen. The runner-ups: James Earl Jones(voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa), Keith David(voice of Goliath), Patrick Stewart(Jean-Luc Picard and Professor X), Michael Ironside(voice of Darkseid and Sam Fisher), Steven Jay Blum(voice of Spike Spiegel, Roger Smith and TOM from Toonami) and last but no where near least... Don LaFontaine(look him up on KZfaq and look on in awe).

Nostalgic glory. Heck, Tenchi was nostalgic when it was new, LOL.

I would have been nine years old when this aired on Toonami.

R.I.P. Toonami...Thanks for the great memories!

R.I.P. Toonmai...Thanks for the great memories!

While playing this show on a kids TV channel like cartoon network was possibly an unorthodox move, it really was the very thing that actually got me interested in girls in the first place. Of course, looking back at this now makes me realize that it was a promo narrated by Optimus Prime himself and I'm like "WTF?" XD

toonami did a lot of nice promos this one was my favorite

Heck yeah.

I never saw this show. But I remember this promo. That's how good it is

I remember this Promo from 11 years ago good show... good times

Nice. You know you're watchin Toonami when you hear fat beats, slick cgi graphics and Peter Cullen's god like voice

OMG Yes, that takes me back! #FlashbackFridays

Month July through Early August before heading BACK TO School 2000 5th Grade the Final Year in Elementary School.

"And shared bathroom time"- HA HA HA, that's tooo fucking funny! XD

Hahaha the narrator just makes this all the better

I remember watching the ova series on adult swim before I even started school, my part of elementary school was coming home to see more tenchi.

Still love it to this day toonami got me into so many good animes

Trying to find anime gems I haven’t seen yet I come across this gem. I actually forgot all about this anime, but I remember watching it as a kid.

He had the funniest voice.

This show awoke a lot of people's harem

DragonBall Z and Tenchi Muyo was literally the power hour of Toonami and nothing after this came close.

and just to think toonami is back and i started to watch this show by streaming it online oh yea!!!

wowzers 12 years ago! Good times!

I use to have the crazy idea that they should dedicate a channel to just toonami and adult swim(adult swim for unrated shows) even with everything being available on the web I swear I'd watch that channel all day. Why would the CEO's ever think Toonami had to go I will never truly understand, part of me really feels Toonami is what really shot Cartoon Network's ratings sky high.

"He's got 99 problems, and these bitches are the main one...Tenchi Muyo" -Toonami's Tom