Can Tenchi Muyo Daughter of Darkness be considered

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A Christmas special?



Ok the first part has Christmas the rest is Summer but Christmas gets mentioned and the end credits has them celebrating it.



Is it technically a Christmas movie?

[Saiyanic Panic]

Sure! It feels like a dozen-dozen years since I've watched it but I remember enough Christmas trappings in the plot.

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{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}It starts with Prince Yosho and the woman-child antagonist exchanging gifts at the Juraiian summer equivalent holiday. Just then the royal guards extend their pleasantries by beating the absolute smeg out of her because she's a vile child-eater.

She sulks in her woman-cave for hundreds of years until triggered by the gang celebrating Christmas. So she creates a gift for Tenchi (Yosho's grandson) by manipulating his and her own DNA to create a teenage daughter, sending her to Earth to be a general nuisance and bring back daddy so demon mother can consume him too.

Time and incest shenanigans pass and the girl is by and large accepted by everyone, with her especially wanting to spend Christmas with the family. Mom is totes jealous because everyone treated her so shamefully after her stint as Juraiian It. She zaps the daughter's memory and Sasami is abducted with Tenchi and Ryoko giving chase into the demon world.

So this is Christmas and what the demon has done is attack our heroes with tendrils of tinsel and garland and gigantic teddy bears. She rants a while and relays her tragic backstory and I believe you're supposed to feel sorry for her but **** the bitch, she eats kids. The daughter snaps out of it, breaking free from her control and declares she wants to spend Christmas with her family. Momma has a 100% hissy, devolves her into a gem stone and goes full "Night on Bald Mountain" after Tenchi tells her she's not done away with an experiment but quashed the part of her that was good and decent. She meets her ultimate end and - having pocketed the gem - everyone goes home.

Since the greatest scientist in all the universe is among Tenchi's harem they are able to re-conceive the daughter from the stone as an infant. And the film indeed closes with her having gotten her wish and being able to live and celebrate her first Christmas with the gang.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

I don't see why not.

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Anything can be a Christmas special if you believe in my man Santa Claus.