Tenchi & Friends Special: Pretty Sammy 2

Revenge of The Imperial Electronic Brian

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All right, I admit it. The main reason I purchased this piece of anime was to get its points, because I needed just a few more and I could order a nifty El-Hazard T-shirt from Pioneer. However, I was rather surprised to find that this video is a wonderful piece of satire with Bill Gates and Microsoft as its victims.

However, it is probably a good idea to explain the Pretty Sammy universe. I suppose that it can best be described as an alternate universe to the standard Tenchi universe, either the OAV series or the T.V. series. In this universe the persons are as follows:

• Sasami Kawai - the 10 year old feature character who is in the 4th grade. She has been given a rather large dose of magic and is able to transform into Pretty Sammy who is able to make everything turn out right. Sasami is also the proxy for Tsunami, the ruler of the magic kingdom of Jurai. Tsunami is in a battle with a rival named Ramia who has her own proxy in our world.
• Ryo-ohki - Companion to Sasami. In this universe, she talks.
• Tenchi - Sasami's older brother.
• Chihiro - Sasami and Tenchi's mom. She is a slightly strange person who makes Mihoshi look normal. She owns a record shop with Mihoshi and Kiyone.
• Misao - a young friend of Sasami. Misao is also a magic girl named Pixy Misa and is the proxy for Ramia in our world. Misao does not know she is Pixy Misa.
• Washu - present as Sasami's teacher and all around really smart person.

95% of the worlds' computers are using software written by Bif Standard and his company Standardsoft. However, he has been unable to break into the Japanese market.

So, Bif devises a plan to break into the Japanese market by gobbling up all the rival computer operating systems and software products. This poses a problem for Tenchi and Sasami, as the karaoke software that Chihiro wants to run will not run on Bif's operating system. In order to calm their now frazzled mom, Tenchi and Sasami go in search of the Mach 8 OS.

They find, however, that none of the shops carry the Mach 8 OS anymore, so Tenchi must resort to the black market. However, Pixy Misa shows up chasing Tenchi for the copy of the Mach 8 OS.

For, Bif has made a deal with Ramia to combine his network with magic to make a magic network. With this he hopes to bring about the destruction of the world so that he could rebuild it standardized.

Eggg.... In any case, Pretty Sammy can not let this happen. For one thing, she finds standardization boring.

This is a very cute piece of anime and I was very surprised by it. The animation quality if pretty good and the satire is well done.