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'Bubble Gum Crisis' is a pretty gloomy anime. I wanted to do something that had never been seen before' (1994). I wanted to do a show where the characters themselves would be the core of the story. So many of A.I.C.'s vidoes were really nothing more than combat stories with characterization tacked on. You know, characters going about their daily lives-eating at the dinner table, taking baths-a side-story sort of thing.

в†‘ 'What I'd had in mind orginally was more like a parody of Bubblegum Crisis and Gall Force.

ДЄfter directing the first Tenchi Muyo! OVA, Hayashi would go on to work on several other anime produced by AIC, including as the the director and co-creator of El-Hazard, the director of Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 and Battle Programmer Shirase, and the creator of Black Heaven.

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Thus, before the production of the second OVA series commenced, Hayashi backed out of the project, deciding it would better to let Kajishima continue with Tenchi Muyo! on his own. Second, Kajishima wasn't satisfied with how the personalities of the characters turned out and how they were different than what he envisioned. First, he didn't expect that Tenchi Muyo! would become so popular, and he was unprepared to continue directing the series while wanting to work on other projects. Hayashi explained that the reasons that he left were twofold. While Tenchi Muyo! would continue with sequel OVA series and spin-offs, Hayashi chose not to continue directing and left the series to Kajishima. Consequently, Hayashi believed he tried putting too many story ideas into just six episodes and noted that he rectified this mistake when creating El-Hazard. Hayashi also mentioned that Tenchi Muyo!'s story was intended to go on indefinitely, but that didn't sit well with the sponsors and he had to conclude the story after six episodes. In addition to directing, Hayashi also personally selected the anime's entire voice cast, including choosing Norio Wakamoto to voice Kagato because he was an easy actor to work with. This would serve as the basis for the creation of Tenchi Muyo! Д«etween himself and Kajishima, Hayashi was responsible for writing down all of their ideas for Tenchi Muyo!. Instead, they developed an idea for a new anime after thinking about Mackie, one of the characters from Bubblegum Crisis and the younger brother of protagonist Sylia Stingray, and how they could create a story focusing on him instead of the Knight Sabers. In a separate 2001 interview, Hayashi said that he and Kajishima had submitted a project based on their ideas for a comedy-centric Bubblegum Crisis, but were rejected. Tenchi Muyo!, by contrast, would be instead be a comedy focusing on characters living their normal, daily lives.

Speaking in a 1994 interview with Animerica, Hayashi said that the idea for Tenchi Muyo! was inspired by both Gall Force and Bubblegum Crisis, and that he originally visioned it as a kind of parody of them and other previous works by AIC, which were very action-heavy. His first sole directoral work was the fourth episode of Bubblegum Crisis, 'Revenge Road' in 1988, which he worked on alongside Kajishima. He later joined AIC, where his first credit was as the assistant director of Gall Force 2: Destruction in 1987, working alongside Katsuhito Akiyama (the future director of Magical Project S and Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure).

He is one of the co-creators of Tenchi Muyo! alongside Masaki Kajishima.Д«efore the creation of Tenchi Muyo!, Hayashi's first work was as an animator for the American series ThunderCats and SilverHawks.

Hiroki Hayashi (жћ— е®ЏжЁ№) is a director and animator affiliated with AIC.

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