Of the many skills he acquired, he also learned etiquette, how to cook, sew, mix medicines and construction. And it wasn't only fighting that Kenshi was taught.
Luckily, Kenshi was an eager learner who viewed all of his strenuous battle training as merely having fun with his family and friends. Geminar was a developing planet that did not have considerably advanced technology and there were no beings with truly superhuman abilities, so Rea wanted him to also only possess human strength, with no artificial bio-enhancement (though his abilities soon advanced to a near superhuman realm). And though Kenshi was destined to be given a great deal of physical training and preparation for his mission, Rea insisted that he be as "pure" as he could be, with no artificial augmentation or advanced weaponry. However, the motherly Mitoto Kuramitsu pointed out how sad and cruel it would be to put such a weight on Kenshi's young shoulders and it was decided that they would lead him though his training without ever telling him that he was going through it all to be the savior of a planet in another dimension. It was shown definitively that not sending Kenshi would result in Rea's programmed directive killing her and it was conclusively deemed necessary, as long as they could completely prepare him and ensure his safety. Before he was old enough for school he could carry huge loads and jump off the sides of short cliffs with Ryo-Ohki.Īfter a few years, Washu and Lady Seto led a convention of some of the strongest figures in the galaxy (who all happened to be women) to decide how the next steps in his development would be handled, and to consider one last time if he really needed to go to Geminar. By taking nutritional additives concocted by Washu, through his play with Ryo-Ohki and his training with the rest of his extended family, Kenshi grew in leaps and bounds.
His main daily activity consisted of playing in the hills and fields with Ryo-Ohki (who, in the early days, had to deactivate her higher computer functions to make their games fair). Although Nobuyuki's primary work and home was in the city, it was decided that Rea and Kenshi should make their home at Tenchi's house by the shrine to better facilitate his training. Eventually, it was decided that sending Kenshi to Geminar could not be avoided. When Kenshi was born, Washu and the others debated what must be done. That child would be especially well suited to take on Gaia, a great evil that was raging war against her planet of Geminar. By being sent to Earth, a mission had been imprinted into her being, to have a child with a human from Earth's dimension. It was a story she told to Kiyone Masaki, who found Rea after being transported to Earth, and she mistakenly assumed that she had told Nobuyuki or other authority figures. It was only the night before her wedding that Rea Masaki learned that no one knew of her origin as being an artificial human from a world in another dimension. His given name means "Swordsman", which would come to reference his sword-fighting preference while piloting his Seikijin.
TENCHI MUYO WAR ON GEMINAR SEASON 2 SERIES
It is only after that series that his back story is detailed in seasons 4 and 5 of Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki. As part of his mother's mission, Kenshi is sent from his home on Earth to the parallel universe world of Geminar. He is introduced as a hardworking 15-year-old boy from Earth. Kenshi is the younger half-brother of Tenchi and can be classified as human however, his father is a distant descendant of Juraian royalty and his mother is an artificial human from Geminar.