September 21, 2005: Beagle-san, myself and the entire AFC wish our lady, Princess Masaki Ayeka Jurai a very happy birthday! May all your dreams come true!
Jeff Morris
AFC VPAugust 18, 2005: As information, the ezBoard server for the AFC Message Board died last night. They're hoping to get a new one installed tonight, and the boards back up and running at some point thereafter.
Jeff Morris
AFC VPJune 23, 2005: Greetings from the VP! We're beginning to make some updates to the AFC webpage, starting with updates to the links, banner and fanfiction pages. We're always looking for contributions, so please contact Beagle or myself at the addresses listed below. And have a great summer while you're at it, okay?
Jeff Morris
AFC VPFebruary 14, 2005: Happy Valentine's Day!
January 7, 2005: Happy New Year! A new year brings new changes here at the AFC, with a new President and Vice President. Taking over the reins as President is Beagle-san, whom former President Lesell Charis had chosen to be Vice President back in December of 2003. Our new Vice President is Jeff Morris. We both look forward to continuing the AFC's long tradition of being a place where the Tao of Tenchi is kept alive: remembering that Tenchi Muyo! is a show about a young man who takes strangers into his home and his heart, making them his family, to the point where he'd die rather than foresake anyone of them. We hope that this site will continue to honor our beloved Ayeka-hime, and be the home for fun and civil anime discourse for many more OVAs yet to come!
December 21, 2004: Merry Christmas! Following our regular tradition, here are some Tenchi Holiday Fanfics
September 21, 2004: Today is Ayeka's Birthday! Happy Birthday Ayeka!
March 17, 2004: Happy St. Patrick's Day! See Lesell's wonderful pic of Ayeka on the AFC's main entrance page You can see more of Lesell's art at her web page Lesell's Temple
February 14, 2004: Happy Valentine’s Day! Please enjoy Lesell's pic of Ayeka on the AFC's main entrance page
16 December 2003: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays etc etc etc! Just a few things to announce.
Firstly, the Vice President applications are now CLOSED. There will be no election taking place as all candidates dropped out before the applications closed, except one, of course. The new Vice President will be announced soon. In the meantime, please do not send any more Vice Presidential applications my way. Thanks to all who were interested, and sorry to those who missed the cut-off date for applications. Next time, maybe! =)
Secondly, the website will no longer be updated for a little while, therefore, we ask no content be submitted. Our old webmaster, Possum, has been wanting to retire for some time. He is unable to continue his regular updates and keep up with his email. Don't worry though, keep your submissions handy, and when the new site goes up, please submit them then. We will also have a new webmaster at that point! =) In the spirit of Christmas, also, enjoy these Holiday Fanfics =)
--Lesell Charis
President of the Ayeka Fan Club15th October 2003: Hi All! Lesell Charis here, (President of the AFC). Sad news, as Literary Eagle, (AKA Lita) our beloved former VP and former Prez herself has decided to retire-- mostly due to other interests. We wish you the best, Lita and hope you have a nice time off the job, though we'll all miss your firm authorative moderating, we know you won't be totally gone, popping by the MB periodically, yay!
Anyway, we obviously need a new VP to fill in Lita's position. You can apply for Vice Presidency by emailing me at Lesell@hotpop.com
Of course, we need trustworthy intelligent individuals with a penchant for punishing puny peons who push us on the message board! If this sounds like you, drop me a line. Mostly, the VP would moderate the message board; but there are other tasks involved. Eventually the VP would take over the Presidential position should something happen to me or if I retire. Therefore, the VP should be inclined to eventually take over. When that occurs, a new VP would be appointed, and so on, and so forth.
Since I have no one in mind for this position, it is open to anyone who wants it, except in the eventuality that more than one person applies. In which case, an 'election' will take place. If not, the position will be given to the first able applicant
Applications will close in a few weeks. Be sure to tell me why you think you'd be a good Vice President and what you can offer the AFC!
Good luck to all applicants!
--Lesell Charis
President of the Ayeka Fan ClubMarch 3, 2003: For the Japanese, March 3 is Hina Matsuri, the Girls’ Festival or Doll Festival. An episode of Pokemon called it “Princess Day”, and we thought that made a great excuse for the AFC to celebrate it! (Heh.) One of the features of this day is dolls dressed in outfits from the Heian Era, which is why we’ve decorated the Frames/No Frames page and the Main page with pics of Ayeka wearing clothes from that time period. Click on the picture to the left if you’d like to see a bigger version of it. If you’d like to know more about Hina Matsuri you can visit these links:
Schauwecker’s Guide to Japan: Japanese Holidays
Japanese Holidays, Local Festivals and Events
Many, many thanks to Literary Eagle for writing these notes on Hina Matsuri!
February 14, 2003: Happy Valentine’s Day! In honor of Valentine’s Day, I’ve posted scans of a few pages from Volume 3 (Magical Girl Pretty Sammy) of the graphic novel series “No Need for Tenchi!” by Hitoshi Okuda: Manga Scans.
Also for Valentine’s Day, Jeff Morris has posted a fun Valentine’s Day fanfic, “I Got Your Valentine Right Here”, on his website Wide World of Fanfic!
Horosha has posted his Valentine’s Day fanfic “Tenchi’s Heart” on the Message Board. Here’s the link to “Tenchi’s Heart” Please read these fanfics - they’re highly recommended!December 25, 2002: Merry Christmas! Following our usual tradition, I’ve re-posted the page of Christmas Fanfics.
October 20, 2002: Today is the fourth anniversary of The Ayeka Fan Club. Our club was founded by Jaf and Jared in October 1998, at a time when there were almost no Ayeka fan sites. Since then the AFC has grown to have over 1600 members. Many thanks to Jaf and Jared for giving us this great home!
September 21, 2002: Today is Ayeka’s birthday, so ring the AFC Gong!
March 3, 2002: For the Japanese, March 3 is Hina Matsuri, the Girls’ Festival or Doll Festival. An episode of Pokemon called it “Princess Day”, and we thought that made a great excuse for the AFC to celebrate it! (Heh.) One of the features of this day is dolls dressed in outfits from the Heian Era, which is why we’ve decorated the Frames/No Frames page and the Main page with pics of Ayeka wearing clothes from that time period. Click on the picture to the left if you’d like to see a bigger version of it. If you’d like to know more about Hina Matsuri you can visit these links:
Schauwecker’s Guide to Japan: Japanese Holidays
Japanese Holidays, Local Festivals and Events
Annual Events in Japan
Many, many thanks to Literary Eagle for writing these notes on Hina Matsuri!
I’ve added more fan fics in our Fan Fiction page:
“Until It Sleeps: A Changed Princess” by EvilPii
“Heart in the Snow” by Raine
“Perfect” by Raine
“Size Doesn’t Matter” by Raine
and I’ve added an Ayeka picture by Garasu to our Fan Art page.February 14, 2002: Happy Valentine’s Day! Wanted to announce that it’s time for the Tenchi Muyo Fanfiction Awards once again. Please visit AleeN’s site Tenchi Muyo Fanfiction Awards for details. Speaking of fan fiction, here are some some more fics in our Fan Fiction page:
“Three Things Remain” by Amethyst
“And Tears Fell” by tiakall/Riikii
“Ayeka” by Firestarter
“Broken Heart” by SliiM
“A Birthday of New Beginnings” by Tsunami’s Knight
“If I Could Wait For A Moment/Would That You Were Here” by BGlanders
“Never Wake Up” by Ayeka the Jurain Princess
“Must Be Me” by Ayeka the Jurain Princess
“What Happened To Our Love?” by Ayeka the Jurain Princess
“The Warning” by Ayeka the Jurain Princess
“Dullest Star” by Ayeka the Jurain Princess
“Destiny Changes (Shimmer)” by Ayeka the Jurain Princess
“Must Be Love” by Ayeka the Jurain Princess
“Lover in Disguise” by Ayeka the Jurain Princess
Ayeka the Jurain Princess also sent us anime reviews for “Tenchi the Movie- Tenchi Muyo In Love” and “Sailor Moon S - The Movie”. GoddessAyeka sent us a review of “Gundam Wing (TV Series)” You can read them in our Anime Reviews page. I’ve also updated the link for the Ryoko Forever Fan Club in our Links page.December 31, 2001: Happy New Year! Ring in the New Year with the AFC Gong! We now have 1570 Members in the AFC. In the past year we’ve added over 1000 Members, so we have even more reason to celebrate - ring that AFC Gong again!
I’ve added more fan fics in our Fan Fiction page:
“All I Need to Be” by Chiriru
“When I’m Alone with You” by Kartune2
“Ayeka Goes to the Movies” by Thomas McKee
Also, JB747 sent us a new wallpaper. I’ve added it to our Downloads page. Lastly, Watotsu sent us another banner - you can see it in our Banners page.
December 16, 2001: Merry Christmas! John Joseco was kind enough to let us post his Ayeka Christmas picture on our http://come.to/ayeka/ page. Thank you John! To put everyone in the Chrismas spirit, I’ve re-posted our page of Christmas Fanfics.
Once again we have more fan fics in our Fan Fiction page:
“The Night I First Loved You” by Fuzzy Bunny
“Murasaki Cascade” by Beagle-san
“A Penny for a Princess” by Vincent
Chapters 3&4 of “The Saga of Marianna” by Ayeka Angel
“The Heart of Jurai” by Ayeka Angel
“Shattered Pieces of a Broken Faith” by CrystalHorse72
“Thoughts of a Princess” by Kouri no Ryuu
Horosha sent us another anime review, this time it’s “You’re Under Arrest” - see it in our Anime Reviews page. John Joseco and SyLynz have sent us some new fan art (it’s in our Fan Art page). I’ve updated the link for Catherine Joseco and John Joseco’s web site in our Fan Art page. Its new address is: Mika’s Cafe. I also updated the link for Demon891’s Ayeka’s Shrine of Love web site and added a link for a new Nagi fan site, The Hunters’ Guild, to our Links page. Watotsu sent us a new banner, which I’ve posted to our Banners page.October 15, 2001: Just a reminder that Saturday October 20th will be the third anniversary of The Ayeka Fan Club’s founding by Jaf and Jared. Many, many thanks to them! Please ring the AFC Gong for them!
It’s been a very long time since our last update (I apologize very much for this!), so there are lots of items to mention. Here are the latest additions to the Fan Fiction page:
“All Along” by *beautiful_dreamer*
“Taken Away” by Serenity6456
“If It Hurts to Look Back” by CrystalHorse72
Part 2 of “The Saga of Marianna” by Ayeka Angel
“Ayeka’s New Rival, Tenchi’s New Love” by Meilin
“If Only In My Dreams” by Yimh
“Reflection” by Yimh
We received some more wallpapers from Jon Hickman, Skinner and Royal Ryoko - they’re in the Downloads page. Horosha sent us his review of “Gunsmith Cats”, which you can read in the Anime Reviews page. We also added some more Ayeka pictures in the Fan Art page by Subeyuki, *sydney*, CrystalHorse72, Zombiesoup and Keiichi. In the Member Pics page we have new pictures by Pii, Sephiroth Strife and Bryan. Firebird, Isamu Kuramitsu and Sami Lee have also sent us new banners (in our Banners page of course!). Thanks to all of you for contributing! I’ve added Support a Princess and Literary Eagle’s web site, Wings of Glass, to our Links page. Also in our Links page, I’ve updated the links for K’thardin’s Tenchi Muyo Fan Art page, Pudduh’s Brits Tenchi Muyo fan fiction reviews page, and J-Pikachu’s three web sites: Always and Achika, Church of Advent Tsunamiism and his Home Page.
Lastly, an important official announcement: Literary Eagle and Lesell Charis are exchanging roles in the AFC. Lesell is now the President and Lita is now the Vice-President. Don’t worry, this won’t change your beloved AFC, but it will give Lita more time to write (hint), and of course Lesell will enjoy cracking the whip at the AFC staff (yikes!)July 17, 2001: I’ve added MORE fan fics to the Fan Fiction page:
“A Need For Magical Love” by Maria: gohan_viedel
“All For Love” by Maria: gohan_viedel
“Today Tomorrow Sometime Never” by MadHatter Beliel
“The Saga of Marianna” by Ayeka Angel
“Keep On Loving You” by Kartune2
Seion and Royal Ryoko sent us some NICE wallpapers - please see them in our Downloads page. Royal Ryoko also sent us a new banner - see it in our Banners page. I also added links for Ryo-Ohki’s Fan Club, the Mayuka Memorial Society, and the Church of Kagato to our Links page. Lastly, I added a link for John Wright’s page of EZBoard icons in the Message Board and in our Links page.July 15, 2001: Our Guestbook was offline for about a week. The provider’s server apparently crashed. Hopefully it will be OK now. I’ve added four more fan fics to the Fan Fiction page:
“The First Time I Love You” by Kartune2
“The Funeral (A Final Farewell)” by Kartune2
“Princess, I Will NEVER Let You Down” by Kartune2
“One Special Day” by Garasu
The main site for GenSao’s Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction Archive is back up again (yay!). I added links for The Temple of the Teal-Tressed Goddess, (a Kiyone fan site), The Sasami Appreciation Society, and #WASHU# to our Links page. I added some new fan art by Eevee and Jennifer Goh to the Fan Art section of the Gallery. I also added Hawaiian Puppetmon’s picture to the Member Pics section of our Members page.June 24, 2001: I’ve added some more fan fics to the Fan Fiction page:
“Jesus bleibet meine freude” by The Entry Plug
“Only He Has The Power (to Move Me)” by SarahMc
“Until We Meet Again” by SarahMc
“Crash and Burn” by SailorElysion
“Dizzy” by SailorElysion
“My Angel” by SailorElysion
“The Rest of Our Lives” by SailorElysion
“The Princess Who Loved Me” by Davner
“Spring Love” by AyekaAngel
“Perfect Princess - The Story” by Lady Sapphire
BTW, the main site for GenSao’s Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction Archive is down. Please use one of his mirror sites for now: TMFFA Mirror Site #1 or TMFFA Mirror Site #2. I posted Horosha’s review of “Manatsu No Eve (Daughter of Darkness)” in the Anime Reviews page. I added a link for SarahMc’s Ayeka and Tenchi Forever web site to our Links page. I added some new fan art by Molly Morgan, Steve Smith and Sumy to the Fan Art section of the Gallery. Lastly, we’ve changed the setup of the Message Board. You need to register with EZBoard in order to post messages. Kale-chib-ki has written some very helpful instructions: Message Board Registration Instructions.May 13, 2001: Welcome to our new home! I’ve moved the web site to our new web-hosting provider, Interland, so there will be no more pop-up advertising. Please let me know if you encounter any broken links. Thanks, Possum. I added two more fanfics to the Fan Fiction page: "Order of the Royal Teardrop", by Davner and Masami; and a poem, "Perfect Princess", by Lady Sapphire. I also posted the remaining four parts of "If Only Wishes Could Be Dreams", by CrystalHorse72, and I relocated it to the regular section of the Fan Fiction page. Lastly, I added links for BRITS and AleeN’s Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction Awards site to our Links page.
May 6, 2001: We now have over 1000 Members, and our site has passed the 50,000 hit milestone! Yay! - ring the AFC Gong! Lots of updates this time: Added Horosha’s review of “Tenchi Forever” to the Anime Reviews page. Added two fan art pictures by Youko Kitsune and another fan art picture by John Joseco to the Fan Art page. Added “To Love and to Hate” by The Total Anime Nut, “Perhaps Next Time” by Umaro, “Hands of Fate” by Little Ryoko, and Part 2 of “Power of the Princess” by CrystalHorse72 to the Fan Fiction page. Added another CrystalHorse72 fan fic, “If Only Wishes Could Be Dreams” to the Other Fanfics page. Added a new small banner by *sydney* to the Banners page. Added a link to demon891’s web site Ayeka’s Shrine of Love in the Links page. Updated Arca Jeth’s banner on the Links page. I have a large backlog of fan art, so I’ll try to get them posted as soon as I can.
March 4, 2001: Our old Message Board provider, InsideTheWeb, has quit the Message Board business. See their announcement at this link: InsideTheWeb Shutdown Notice. Consequently, I had to find another Message Board provider. After much research, I decided on ezboard. Please see the new Message Board at this link: new Message Board. I’ve saved the contents of the old Message Board, and I’ll post it to a separate web page soon. Literary Eagle has sent us another picture for the Fan Art page - “Dressed in red”. Meachy also sent us a picture for the Fan Art page - “Posing for a portrait”. I added two new fics to our Fan Fiction page: “Power of the Princess” by CrystalHorse72 and “Love’s Cruel Fate” by Sami Lee. kosmicrat sent us a new banner, and I’ve posted it to our Banners page. A big “thank you” to all of you! AIC has posted another interview on their web site: Interview with Hayashi Hiroki. It gives some interesting background on the history and origins of the original Tenchi Muyo series. You’ll definitely want to read how Tenchi Muyo was partially inspired by the old 1960’s TV sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie”!
February 14, 2001: Happy Valentine’s Day! In honor of Valentine’s Day, Literary Eagle sent us a new picture for our Fan Art page - “Ayeka in a Wedding Dress”. I also posted two new fan fics: “Kagato’s Attack!” by Jason Boaz in the Other Fanfics page, and “Wheels of Fire” by Thomas McKee in the main Fan Fiction page. Nathan has written a review of “Elf Princess Rane” - see it in the Anime Reviews page. The Ryoko Forever Fan Club has relocated their web site to this address: http://www.8op.com/rffc/. I also updated several links in the Links page. Literary Eagle and Lesell Charis have published the latest edition of the AFC Newsletter (Newsletter #19), so I’ve posted it to our Newsletters page. Please read it for the latest news of the AFC!
January 12, 2001: Very good news for Tenchi Muyo fans - there WILL be a Third OAV. See this interview on AIC’s web site: Interview with Kajishima Masaki. Many, many thanks to JB and CC for letting us know about this good news! Please see their posts in the Message Board.
December 31, 2000: Happy New Year!
December 22, 2000: I’ve added Davner’s new Christmas fic, “The Twelve Dimensions of Christmas” to our Christmas Fanfics page - please check it out!
December 17, 2000: Merry Christmas! How do you like the Christmas pictures? I’ve added a page of Christmas Fanfics - please take a look! I added Sakuya’s Tenchi Enthusiasts Network web site to our Links page - it’s a nice site - definitely worth a visit! I also posted a few more pics to the Scans section of our Gallery. I’ll be making some more updates in the next day or two.
December 10, 2000: Lots of updates this time! First, added two new fics to the Fan Fiction page, “Adagio” by Firebird and “The Death of a Princess” by Katrina. LUMbizkit submitted a new picture for the Fan Art page. Richard Powell and Literary Eagle sent us new pictures for the Member Pics page. Literary Eagle also sent us three more comics for the Four Frame Comics page in the Gallery. Lesell Charis and Literary Eagle published their latest Newsletter #18 a couple weeks ago - please take a look! Many thanks to Firebird, Katrina, LUMbizkit, Richard Powell, Literary Eagle and Lesell Charis! I fixed a bad link for the Ryoko Forever Fan Club and added a new link for Arca Jeth’s Fan Fiction Archive in our Links page. Lastly, a few weeks ago our Guestbook provider had a problem and we lost our entire Guestbook. This means we lost all of our Guestbook entries from the past two years (ouch!). I found another provider, so we have a Guestbook again. When you have a chance please stop by and sign the new Guestbook. I still have a large backlog of work to catch up on - I’ll try to complete all of it as soon as possible!
October 20, 2000: Another reason to celebrate - today is the AFC’s 2nd anniversary! Literary Eagle and Lesell Charis have published Newsletter #17 to mark the occasion. Please see it in the Newsletters section!
September 21, 2000: Today is Ayeka’s birthday, so ring the AFC Gong! Literary Eagle and Lesell Charis have published the latest AFC newsletter, Newsletter #16. Please see it for all of the latest news of the AFC. Lord Tenchi Masaki has posted a new Ayeka screensaver on his web site in celebration of Ayeka’s birthday. Here’s the URL: http://www.anime.org.uk/jurai/savers.htm I’ve posted two more pictures in the Fan Art page, by MarvelBoy and John Joseco. Nathan sent us his latest anime review, Photon. I’ve posted it in the Anime Reviews section. I also added Firebird’s pic to the Member Pics page. Literary Eagle scanned and translated some more comics. Please see them in the Ayeka Four Frame Comics page. Literary Eagle has drawn another Ayeka pic in honor of the princess’ birthday, “Tenchi giving Ayeka a goodnight kiss”. I’ve added it to the Fan Art page. Thanks Lita, Lesell, Lord Tenchi Masaki, MarvelBoy, John, Nathan and Firebird!
September 4, 2000: I posted the bios for The Red Writer, Duo Maxwell, Gohan Jr., and Hounder (all by The Red Writer) to the More, More, More Members section of the Members page. Literary Eagle sent us three new Four Frame Comics, which I’ve added to the Ayeka Four Frame Comics section of the Gallery. Firebird sent us her Member pic for the Member Pics page. MarvelBoy drew a picture of Ayeka, so I’ve posted it in the Ayeka Fan Art page. Thanks Red Writer, Literary Eagle, Firebird, and MarvelBoy! I’ve also added two new movies to the Movies section of the Gallery.
August 23, 2000: DALnet made some changes to their site, so I’ve updated the Chat page to enable you to connect to the #Aeka chatroom using DALnet’s new Java applet.
August 20, 2000: Another milestone for the AFC - we now have over 400 members! Ring the AFC Gong again! Seion has sent us a new banner and a “badge”. I’ve posted both to our Banners page. He also sent us a new AFC WinAmp skin. I’ve added it to our Downloads page. Thanks Seion! Literary Eagle sent me two Ayeka four frame comics, so I’ve created a new Ayeka Four Frame Comics section in our Gallery. We’ll be adding some more comics soon. I posted the new bios for Yui Kurokami and Wizard31 (both by Literary Eagle) to the More, More, More Members section of our Members page. Literary Eagle also sent us a cool new Ayeka drawing (“In Disguise”), which I’ve added to our Ayeka Fan Art page. Her drawing was inspired by a scene from Evil Pii’s “Tenchi Muyo! vs. Men in Black” fanfic. Many thanks Lita! Nathan sent us his review of the anime “Brain Powered”, so I’ve added it to the Anime Reviews page. I also added a link for Matango’s new TenchiFlare! Tenchi Muyo web site to our Links page. Lastly, FoxAnime has a new e-mail address (it’s now FoxAnime1@aol.com), so I’ve updated it throughout the site. That’s all for now, Possum.
July 26, 2000: Another day of celebration for the AFC! Our counter passed the 20,000-hit mark earlier today. Ring the AFC Gong long and loudly! We must thank our founders Jaf and Jared. In October 1998, they created this little club for Ayeka fans. Originally a club of two Members, we now have over 290 Members. Congratulations Jaf and Jared! You’ve given all of us Ayeka fans a great home!
July 19, 2000: I posted two more bios: Nuriko and MissingNo, both by Nathan. You can see them in the More, More, More Members section of our Members page. Thanks Nathan! Literary Eagle sent me the new “AFC Philosophy” page. I’ve added a link for it on our Main pages, so please read it (especially if you’re a recent Member or a new visitor to the AFC). It gives you a very good idea of what the AFC is all about. An important note for new Members of the AFC: if you’re a new Member, your name should appear in the COMING SOON section of the Members page. Please let us know if we’ve missed you! ^_^;;; Our Mailing List’s administrator, Kale-chib-ki, is on vacation until about July 25, so if you’ve signed up for the Mailing List in the last few days, please be patient - he’ll add you to the ML when he returns. Thanks! I’ve also added a kawaii new banner to our Banners page (by Literary Eagle). Thanks Lita! The Ryoko Forever Fan Club’s web site has moved. Their new address is http://www.8op.com/rffc/. I’ve updated our Links page with this new address. It’s a nice site - please stop by and visit! Tatsumingo’s web site, Tatsumingo’s Room, has also moved to a new address. Here’s the new URL: http://homepage2.nifty.com/tatsumingo/index_e.html I’ve updated the link in the Ayeka Fan Art section of our Gallery page. He has lots of nice artwork - take a look - it’s great! Many thanks to RadHaz for telling us about Tatsumingo’s move! We’re getting closer to the 20,000-hit mark for the AFC. Watch for our special celebration page when we reach this milestone (probably sometime next week). That’s all for now. Thanks, Possum.
July 10, 2000: Wow - it’s been a very active week for the AFC! We’ve added 37 new Members and our site has had over 1400 hits in the last seven days! Here’s some unexpected Tenchi Muyo news: Cav and RadHaz have both made posts to the Message Board about the rumored third Tenchi OAV. Here are links to their messages: Cav’s message and RadHaz’ message. If it’s true that AIC is currently in production on the third OAV series, this certainly is good news for Tenchi Muyo fans! Sephiroth Strife sent us his COOL member pic. See it on the Member Pics page. I posted the Member bios for John Joseco (by Literary Eagle) and Ken-Ohki and Ken-Ohki M (by Jaf) to the More, More, More Members page. Thanks Lita and Jaf! Richard Powell sent us his updated e-mail address. His new address is dracoxii@hotmail.com. I added two more fanfics, Kimochi by Will Z, and One’s Test of Devotion by Davner to the Fanfics page. I added a link for TERu1’s MyTenchi website to the Links page. His site has full-length Flash movies of Tenchi Muyo episodes, MP3s and video clips. Here’s a website that has downloadable copies of all the Cartoon Network’s trailers for Tenchi Muyo: Toonami’s Basement (by Zogg). You’ll find the Tenchi trailers on this download page: Tenchi downloads. Many thanks to Zogg for posting these trailers for us Tenchi fans! Lastly, some news for RPG fans: Lord Tenchi Masaki posted a note in the Mailing List that Guardians of Order has released a Tenchi Muyo RPG. See their website for all the details.
July 4, 2000: Here’s a webpage that may help you find out when Tenchi’s being broadcast in your area: Cartoon Network Schedule. Click on the “Schedule” link on this page. On the next page, change “Now” to “All Day”, set the time zone for your area (“Eastern”, “Central”, “Mountain”, “Pacific”, “Alaska” or “Hawaii”) and click on the “OK” button to see the Cartoon Network’s schedule for the next seven days. Don’t forget that Tenchi’s also in the Cartoon Network’s “Rising Sun” Toonami line-up on Saturday mornings.
July 3, 2000: Just a little reminder. Tenchi Muyo will be on the Cartoon Network (in the U.S.) tonight, starting at 6:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time. Check your local TV listings for the time in your area. You may have encountered some problems with the site over the weekend. Angelfire was having some difficulties (it was affecting other sites too), so please be patient. Hopefully Angelfire will have the problems sorted out soon... Anime Expo is in progress in Southern California. You can see some of the sights at this website: Anime Expo. Please take a look - they’ve posted LOTS of pictures. I think all Tenchi Muyo fans will recognize these characters: Tenchi tug o’ war
June 25, 2000: I added some more pics to our Fan Art page, by Björn Brändewall, Bobertkay, EvilEyez and John Joseco. Please check out their great pics! I posted the new bios for Richard Powell and Space Pirate Dark Warrior, both written by Nathan, to the More, More, More Members page. In addition, Nathan sent us a review of the anime Card Captors, which is now being broadcast Saturday mornings on the Kids WB network. I posted his review in our Anime Reviews page. Thanks Nathan! I added a link for Seion’s new version of A Startica Song to the Fan Fiction page, and I also added a link to an interesting new fic, Goodbye and Hello by Nikholas F. Toledo Zu too. I added a link for the Two Guys’ Tenchi Muyo Fan Fic Review Page in the Links page. Check it out - it’s a site where an Ayeka fan (Davner) and a Ryoko fan (Cav) give their opinions on Tenchi Muyo fanfics. Last week GenSao published the voting results for the Spring 2000 season on his Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction Archive. Four AFC members finished in the top ten:
3rd place: “Confess to You” by Literary Eagle
5th place (tie): “Hands of Fate” by Ryoke
7th place: “To Love and To Hate” by The Total Anime Nut
10th place (tie): “Aikan Muyo” by HapposaiPlease ring the AFC Gong long and loudly for them - congratulations!
June 21, 2000: Happy Startica! In honor of this holiday, Seion sent us a very beautifully-designed web page version of A Startica Song. Please take a look! I also posted the new Newsletter #15, written by Literary Eagle and Lesell Charis. Please read it to find out what new things are happening with the Ayeka Fan Club. The upcoming broadcast schedule for the Cartoon Network’s anime block, Toonami, has been published on AnimeNation’s website, in their “Anime News” page. The first episode of Tenchi Muyo will be broadcast at 6:00 P.M. on Monday July 3rd, beginning with the first OAV episode, “The Resurrection of Ryoko”. Copies of the Cartoon Network’s trailers for Tenchi Muyo can be found at this web site: Toonami Miscellaneous, which is maintained by TylerL. Click on the picture of Washu for the long trailer, and click on the picture of Tenchi for the short trailer. Many thanks to TylerL for providing these trailers for all of us Tenchi fans (especially those of us who don’t have access to the Cartoon Network’s broadcasts!) Lastly, I’ve received permission to post more fan art pics, so I’ll be uploading them this weekend.
June 18, 2000: More bios! I added the new bios for Mayhem (by War-Ouki) and Fox the Wanderer (by Jaf) to the More, More, More Members page. War-Ouki and Jaf please take a bow - good work! I added more fan art pics by EvilEyez, John Joseco, Miss Ryoko, Ryoke and Tatsumingo to the Fan Art page. I’ll be adding more fan art pics soon. If you know anyone who has drawn some Ayeka fan art pics, please ask them if they’d let us post their pics - thanks! Please see the ongoing discussion in the Message Board concerning “Tenchi & Pioneer’s Decision on OVA 3”. A petition may be distributed in an attempt to persuade Pioneer to go forward with production of a third Tenchi Muyo OAV. See the notes below (from June 11, 2000) to read Pioneer’s comments about the third OAV.
June 11, 2000: I posted the bios for Ayashi_No and Iwa/princess_aeka_14 in the More, More, More Members page. Many thanks to Ryoke and Literary Eagle for those bios! After many delays, I’ve finally updated the Fan Art page. Please take a look and let me know what you think. All of the artists gave us permission to post their Ayeka fan art pics, so a very big THANK YOU to them also: Cameron, Emi, EvilEyez, Catherine Joseco, John Joseco, Lesell Charis, Literary Eagle, Masami, Miss Ryoko, Ryoke, Seion and Tatsumingo. Please send them a nice note to let them know how much you appreciate their great work! And of course, thanks once again to K’thardin for letting us post pics that were already posted on his Tenchi Muyo fan art site: K’thardin’s Tenchi Muyo Fan Art Page
The Cartoon Network will begin airing Tenchi Muyo on July 3. For more details, see the June 6 entry in the Anime News section of AnimeNation’s website. You also might want to read the discouraging news from Pioneer regarding the likelihood of the third Tenchi OAV (it’s on the same page - see the entry for June 5). Here’s the actual paragraph from AnimeNation’s website:
In regard to the persistent rumor of a third Tenchi OAV series, according to Pioneer, Tenchi Muyo has past its peak of popularity in Japan, “and the demand isn’t there for more...for there to be more, the demand would probably have to come from the US market - which could happen if the TV airing really catches on.”May 30, 2000: At Literary Eagle’s suggestion, I posted a new “COMING SOON” section in the Members page. It lists all the new Members in the AFC. Please take a look! I also added Literary Eagle’s new Newsletter #14. It has some very important news for the the AFC - please read it. Jaf has a new e-mail address, JuggaloJaf@aol.com, so I updated it throughout the site. I’ll be making some more updates later this week to try to catch up on my backlog of work. The last few weeks have been busy for me, so I wasn’t able to keep up with my normal update schedule. Thanks, Possum.
May 7, 2000: Last week I posted Kiyone-Type-Person’s bio (by Ryoke ) in the More, More, More Members page - thanks Ryoke! Dustin Taylor sent me his new e-mail address, so I’ve updated it in the site. Lesell Charis sent me an update to Leviathan’s bio, and I posted her changes. She also sent me a new banner for the Frames page and I’ve uploaded it too (thanks Lesell!). I posted Literary Eagle’s latest fan art pic (Ayeka brainwashed by Tokimi) to the Fan Art page. I fixed a bad link for “http://come.to/ayeka/” in the “Frames/No Frames” page - thanks to Jaf for pointing it out to me. Finally, I changed the Message Board and Guestbook backgrounds to match the rest of the site. I’ll try to add more pictures to the Fan Art page later this week.
April 23, 2000: I posted the new bios for MoonPrincess (by Nathan) and Lazidog and Kaze20 (both by Jaf) to the new More, More, More Members page. Thanks Nathan and Jaf! I received permission to post some more pics to the Fan Art page, so I’ll be adding them in a few days. I re-organized the Members page a little bit, and I reduced the size of the thumbnail pictures in the Member Pics and Fan Art pages to make them load faster. I also made some updates to the Downloads page. That’s all for now, thanks, Possum.
April 16, 2000: Please read Literary Eagle’s new Newsletter #13. War-Ouki manages to make yet another appearance in the Newsletters, and Literary Eagle spotlights another cool fanfic, so please read. At War-Ouki’s request, I’ve temporarily changed the background for the Message Board and the Guestbook. At the moment it’s a simple purple background (the color that worked best with the yellow text on those pages). I’ll try to provide a better solution soon. Kale-chib-ki sent us a note that the Mailing List service is undergoing a change. Here’s a link with all the details: eGroups Information. Radhaz has generously let us use a midi (Love is Cruel) from his Marugoto Aeka site (it’s a great Ayeka site!), so I’ve added it to our Midis frame (frames version) and to our Downloads page. Also see his note in the Message Board. Thanks RadHaz!
April 9, 2000: More updates! I posted the new bios for Misery Lambz (by Masami) and Ceres (by Jaf) to the Yet Even More Members page. War-Ouki sent me a new self-portrait, which I’ve posted to the Member Pics page. Literary Eagle’s new Ayeka pic (Ayeka using five Juraian keys to fight Tokimi) has been added to the Fan Art page. Many thanks to Masami, Jaf, War-Ouki and Literary Eagle! I’ve added a new link on the Main pages, to allow you to switch between the “Frames” and “No Frames” versions. For all you Mac and UNIX users, I provided some more instructions for viewing the Ayeka Aboard the Souja Flash movie.
Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been a bit hard to get hold of recently. That’s because another site upgrade is in the works. I’ve been working on this for awhile, but I think it’s now ready for you to take a look. I’m in the process of upgrading the Main pages first, and ultimately the entire site. Here’s the prototype for the new “No Frames” Main page: click here. One of the goals is to make the pages smaller so that they’ll be easier to read on an 800x600-pixel display. An additional benefit is that the pages should load faster. Another goal is to give the pages a more “modern” look. Please send me any C&C. BTW, here’s a really nice website that inspired much of the new design, Symphony of EVA. It’s a beautifully designed site - definitely worth a visit! Thanks to Literary Eagle for pointing out this site to me. That’s all for now, Possum.
April 5, 2000: Please see Jaf’s latest Newsletter #12. It has some very important news for the AFC (This has been a bad week for retirements!). We’re very sorry to see Jaf and Jared, the club’s founders, both retire. Without them there would be no Ayeka Fan Club. They’ve done an excellent job of guiding the club through its first 18 months of existence - everything that the AFC is today is the result of their efforts. Jaf, Jared, we can’t thank you enough for giving us Ayeka fans a place to get together and celebrate our beloved Princess. I encourage everyone to send them a note of thanks - they’ve done a great job! This is indeed a sad day in the AFC...
Literary Eagle has graciously agreed to serve as our new President (thank you!). Please welcome her and give her any assistance that she may require. I’ll be removing the “temporary” label from my webmaster title, so let me know about any issues relating to the website itself. Literary Eagle and I will both strive to maintain the high standards for the AFC that Jaf and Jared have established. This club belongs to you, the Members, so please send us your constructive criticism and comments and we’ll do everything we can to meet your requests. Thanks again, Possum.
April 2, 2000: A legend in the Tenchi Muyo online world has retired (please see K’thardin’s note in the Message Board). Bob, The Chief Bottle Washer of the Ryoko Forever Fan Club has retired. We’re very sorry to see him go - we wish him the very best. Long before there was an Ayeka Fan Club, Bob helped carry the torch for Tenchi Muyo lovers all over the world. He was also very generous to help out the fledgling AFC in our early days. Many, many thanks Bob - we hope to see you again!
I added the “New Member” button below. Now it’ll be easier for people to join the club. This new form will automatically send an e-mail to Literary Eagle and myself, and it’ll record the new member’s information in a file on the website. This should make our recordkeeping much easier. A couple of days ago I added Davner’s new fic Daughters of Twilight to the Fanfics page. It’s a really impressive fanfic (he’s captured Ryoko’s character VERY well). Today I posted War-Ouki’s new pic in the Member Pics page. Take a look - it’s great! Lastly, Sephiroth Strife and War-Ouki sent us their new e-mail addresses, so I updated them in the Members pages. That’s all for now, Possum.
March 26, 2000: I’ve started building the new Fan Art page - please take a look! I’ve added a link for it in the Gallery page. Thanks to Cameron, Literary Eagle and Miss Ryoko for letting us use their pics. If you have an Ayeka drawing, send it to me (Possum) or Jaf and we’ll add it to the Fan Art page. I added a link in the Gallery page for our new Movies page. I’ll be adding more movies soon. I also updated some of the story descriptions on the Fanfics page, and added four more fics: No Need for Death by CP, Paradise Lost by Thomas “009” Doscher (aka Davner), and Twilight Dreams and No Need for the Loves of Heaven and Earth! both by Evileyez. Thanks to Literary Eagle for providing the new improved descriptions and for recommending the new entries for the Fanfics page. I made a mistake in my last update note. MarvelBoy’s bio was actually a co-production by MarvelBoy and Kale-chib-ki. Sorry for the mistake!
AnimeNation has published more news about Tenchi Universe DVDs and Tenchi joining the Cartoon Network’s lineup in June. Please see the Anime News section of AnimeNation’s website for details.
March 18, 2000: I posted the new member pics for J-Pikachu (a self-portrait), Masamai and MarvelBoy (both by MarvelBoy) in the Member Pics page. I also posted MarvelBoy’s bio (by Kale-chib-ki) in the Yet Even More Members page. Many thanks to J-Pikachu, MarvelBoy and Kale-chib-ki! I added a new fic to the Fanfics page, For a Friend by Loneshark. Lastly, I updated some broken links, etc. in the Banners, Chat, Links, Members and Newsletters pages (thanks to Literary Eagle for suggesting Loneshark’s fic and for pointing out the broken links).
March 11, 2000: More updates! I’ve posted the new Member bios for Geoduck and Usaggi. See them in the Yet Even More Members page. Thanks to Literary Eagle and AleeN for Geoduck’s bio and thanks to Nathan for Usaggi’s bio. I’ve also posted Lesell Charis’ pictures in the Member Pics page, added her updated banners to the Banners page and added links to her site (Lesell Charis’ Anime Inspired Art) in the Links page. A couple of weeks ago I renamed “Ayeka’s Theme” to “Ayeka Bojo” in the Midi frame and the Downloads page (thanks to Literary Eagle for letting me know about that error). At Jaf’s suggestion I worked on reducing the loading time for the Main pages, so now it should take only about half as long to load the Main pages in your web browser. In case you didn’t see my note in the Message Board, the Cartoon Network will be broadcasting 66 episodes of Tenchi Muyo, starting June 5 at 5:30 P.M. (13 OAV episodes + the Galaxy Police Mihoshi Special + 26 Tenchi Universe episodes + 26 Shin Tenchi episodes = 66 episodes). See these articles at Kidscreen and AnimeNation: Anime News for more details. I’m experimenting with posting some ShockWave Flash movies. Try this one: Ayeka Aboard the Souja, and let me know if I should post more of them. Thanks, Possum.
March 3, 2000: For the Japanese, March 3 is Hina Matsuri, the Girls’ Festival or Doll Festival. An episode of Pokemon called it “Princess Day”, and we thought that made a great excuse for the AFC to celebrate it! (Heh.) One of the features of this day is dolls dressed in outfits from the Heian Era, which is why we’ve decorated the Frames/No Frames page and the Main page with pics of Ayeka wearing clothes from that time period. Click on the picture to the left if you’d like to see a bigger version of it. If you’d like to know more about Hina Matsuri you can visit these links:
Schauwecker’s Guide to Japan: Japanese Holidays
Japanese Holidays, Local Festivals and Events
Annual Events in Japan
Many, many thanks to Literary Eagle for writing these notes on Hina Matsuri! And congratulations are in order for her too. Her fanfic Confess to You took first place in the Winter 2000 poll on GenSao’s Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction Archive. The AFC officially rings the gong for Literary Eagle - congratulations! BONG! BONG! BONG!
In addition, here are other AFC authors who finished in the top 15 in GenSao’s poll:
4th place (tie): Hands of Fate by Ryoke
6th place: To Love and To Hate by The Total Anime Nut
7th place (tie): Aikan Muyo by Happosai
7th place (tie): A Startica Song by Seion and Literary Eagle
11th place (tie): The Dark Jurain by Masami
Congratulations! We ring the AFC Gong for them! BONG! BONG! BONG!February 27, 2000: Please see Literary Eagle’s and Kale-chib-ki’s note in the Message Board concerning the way our Members page is organized. We’d like to hear everyone’s opinion before we make any changes (or not) - thanks! A reminder: please vote for your favorite Tenchi fanfics at GenSao’s Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction Archive. The Winter 2000 polls close Tuesday February 29. Obviously many of our AFC Members are authors and would appreciate your vote! More good news: last week the long-dormant #Aeka chat room returned to life (hooray!). If you’d like to chat with fellow AFC Members feel free to join in. Just hook up to the DALNet network with your IRC client and join the #Aeka channel. We don’t have a regular meeting schedule, but check the Message Board or the Mailing List for meeting announcements. This evening Kale-chib-ki sent me an update to Evil Pii’s bio, so be sure to read the new improved version in the Yet Even More Members section of the Members page. Lastly, I’ve added some video captures from OAV Episode 6 in the OAV Pics section of the Gallery and a new OAV slide show in the Slide Show section of the Gallery - take a look, I think you’ll like them! Bye for now, Possum.
February 21, 2000: I’ve made some updates to the Members area. The Even More Members page was getting too big, so I split it in half and created a new Yet Even More Members page. I posted Evil Pii’s bio in the Yet Even More Members page - thanks to Kale-chib-ki for the bio! I’ve also added more pictures to the Member Pics page. Now we have pics for Bobertkay, Fasdar, Kale-chib-ki, K’thardin, Literary Eagle, Nathan, Ryoke and Seion.
February 12, 2000: Happy Valentine’s Day! I scanned the entry page picture from Volume 1 of the “No Need for Tenchi!” graphic novel by Hitoshi Okuda (published by Viz Communications). Okuda’s Tenchi manga and graphic novels are a must for any Tenchi fan! He really preserves the true spirit of the original Tenchi Muyo OAV series. Thanks to Literary Eagle for recommending this pic! At Jaf’s suggestion, I’ve started an AFC Member pics page - see the new link in the Members page. I have only Bobertkay’s picture at the moment, but I’ll be adding more pictures soon. Masami asked me to mention that, in addition to Bobertkay, Seion is also helping him with the graphics for the AFC RPG. Thanks guys! Following Literary Eagle’s advice, I’ve added a link to the mirror site for GenSao’s Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction Archive in the Links page.
February 9, 2000: The address for GenSao’s Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction Archive has changed again, so I’ve updated all of the links in our site. I added a link for K’thardin’s Where No Fic Goes Unpunished! site to the Links page, and I also added the names of all the AFC Members to the Members page.
February 8, 2000: I posted Bobertkay’s bio in the Even More Members page. Thanks to The Unknown DJ for the bio! Lots of news to report from the Message Board: K’thardin’s Where No Fic Goes Unpunished! site is back online, thanks to help from the Total Anime Nut, and Masami is working on an AFC RPG video game with artistic help from Bobertkay! We’ve been restored to the No Need for a Campaign! Tenchi webring by its new ringmaster Katagillian (thanks Katagillian!) and I’ve updated the link in our Webrings page. I’ve created a new Site History page to store all of our notes from previous months and added a link for it just above the AFC Gong. Oh, and check out the site in a few days - Valentine’s Day will be here soon (and guys, don’t be a blockhead - get something nice for your girl!). Signing off for now - Possum.
January 24, 2000: Ack - bad news! GenSao was forced to move his Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction Archive to another web server. See his note in the Message Board for details. I’ve updated all of the links on our site to point to his new address. A few days ago I posted Miss Ryoko’s bio in the Even More Members page. Thanks to Jaf for the bio! Here’s some good news for Tenchi DVD collectors: AnimeNation is reporting in its “Anime News” section that Pioneer is planning to release a box set of Tenchi Universe DVDs this summer!
January 6, 2000: Bong! Bong! Bong! Ring the AFC gong!! We just passed 10,000 hits on the counter! Major kudos to Jared and Jaf for achieving this milestone - congratulations to you both! Thanks to everyone who’s been supporting the AFC over the last year - we couldn’t have done it without you!
January 5, 2000: I’ve posted an updated version of War-Ouki’s bio. You can read it in the More Members page. Thanks to Literary Eagle for the update.
January 2, 2000: Hey, Y2K’s here and so far, so good! I’ve posted updates to Tneedoba’s, Tenchi Girl’s, Justice Arcain’s and Sailor Mars’ bios. You can read them in the More Members and Even More Members pages. Thanks to Jaf for these updates. I also added a navigation page for the Members pages.
December 31, 1999: Happy New Year! Hope you like the New Year’s picture in the “Frames/No Frames” page. I’ve added two new fanfics to the Ayeka Fan Fics page, “Hall of Tears” (by AFC member Masami) and “Ayeka Talk’n Dirty”. I also posted Ms. Cool’s and OddRyoga’s bios in the Even More Members page. Thanks to Literary Eagle, AleeN, War-Ouki and Ryoke for these bios.
December 21, 1999: Merry Christmas! How do you like the Christmas pictures? I’ve also added a page of Christmas Fanfics - please take a look! Thanks to Seion and Literary Eagle for providing Part 2 of “A Startica Song”! I found a new copy of the Ayeka “Santa” picture on the Nightfall Tenchi Muyo site (it’s a great Tenchi site with lots of good pictures). We used Nightfall’s image as a base, then changed Ayeka’s hair color and added the background.
December 14, 1999: Check out the new “AFC Gong” at the bottom of this page! Click on the gong’s image to ring it. Thanks to AleeN and Literary Eagle for helping with the gong!
December 10, 1999: The Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction Archive’s regular web site is back up again, so I restored all of the links to this site. I also corrected Foxanime’s e-mail address in the Main and Even More Members pages. Thanks to Literary Eagle for letting me know about these two things.
December 9, 1999: Here’s some good news for all Tenchi fans. Check out this article in the New York Post, New York Post Talks Dragon Ball. It sounds like the “Cartoon Network” is going to add Tenchi Muyo! to its lineup next year! This evening I added the bios for Fuzzy Bunny, DHSculley and Foxanime to the Even More Members page - take a look! Thanks, Possum.
December 6, 1999: The AFC now has a new look to it. How do you like it? This new look was created by AFC Member Seion Makibi. Send all C&C to Seion at seion@geocities.com. I have to thank Seion, Literary Eagle, Jaf and Jared for helping me to finish installing the new design - I couldn’t have done it without all of their help and advice - a huge THANKS to them!
November 24, 1999: Jared here. check out some more OAV captures I did. Hey if you’re a fan of the WWF watch Smackdown on Thursday. When the Big Bossman is entering watch for me I’m the only person standing up holding up a Big Bossman sign.
November 22, 1999: I added a link for the Mailing List in the no-frames version of the main page. The Ayeka Fan Fics page is now the main Fan Fics page, and I added a link to the old fan fics page at the bottom of the Ayeka Fan Fics page. I removed the link to Acid Tenchi’s site in the Links page. Unfortunately, the Acid Tenchi site has been retired. Sorry to see it go away - it was a good Tenchi site! Thanks to Literary Eagle and Kale-chib-ki for notifying me about the missing and broken links.
November 21, 1999: Jared added some images from OAV 3 in the “Gallery” - take a look - they’re very nice. I also added some more “Slide Shows” in the “Gallery” page. GenSao has given us permission to post links to Ayeka fanfics on his page, the Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction Archive (thanks GenSao!). I’ve added a link to a preliminary version of Ayeka Fan Fics in the Fan Fics page. Please submit your requests for fanfics that should be put on this page. Thanks, Possum.
November 16, 1999: I uploaded Jaf’s latest newsletter, Newsletter #11. Check it out - it’s another ROTFL episode!