{"id":116,"date":"2000-08-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-08-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2000\/08\/08\/ask-john-why-does-ryoko-have-a-tail\/"},"modified":"2000-08-08T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-08-08T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-why-does-ryoko-have-a-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-why-does-ryoko-have-a-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Why Does Ryoko Have A Tail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a simple question I hope you can answer. Why does Ryoko in Tenchi Muyo have a tail?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nI wish I could help you with this, but I don&#8217;t know.  I&#8217;ve always wondered that myself, as she only seems to have a tail in a handful of scenes.  It may have something to do with the creators trying to make Ryoko seem cat-like, as she always seems to be stealthy, always seems to the purring and cuddling up to Tenchi, and appears in a cat costume on the Japanese LD cover to the Tenchi Muyo Sound File music video collection.<\/p>\n<p>Addendum: numerous readers have contacted me regarding this answer, to provide a correction and clarification.  While I believe that the suggestion of cat-like qualities through a tail is appropriate for Ryoko, the Guardians of Order Tenchi Muyo RPG sourcebook states that Ryoko&#8217;s tail &#8221; is a belt with a tail attached that reacts to her emotions.&#8221;  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8op.com\/RFFC\/ryokos-tail.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ryoko Forever Fan Club<\/a> further reinforces this fact with reference stills from the Tenchi Muyo animation and import illustration books.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okaminokami&#8221; also wrote in to provide the following information:<br \/>\nThe Tenchi Encyclopedia included with the Tenchi Muyo OAV box set states that the tale is from Tenchi&#8217;s cat, Chibi, in the first episode. Apparently, Ryoko gave the cat some of her energy to live a little longer. When the cat died, Ryoko took the energy back and gained those traits.  That is also where the bell Ryoko has when she first meets Tenchi on school&#8217;s roof comes from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: This is a simple question I hope you can answer. Why does Ryoko in Tenchi Muyo have a tail?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}