Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki 5th Season

I just don't know why I persist after the first set of the Ryo-Ohki OVAs followed by the Universe TV series and movies which were pretty great. Everything since from all the alternate takes / reboots to the various spin-offs have ranged from barely relevant to outright bad. Isekai Monogatari & Tenchi GXP are not terrible per se but they were at best tangentially related to Tenchi. However they felt a need to tie it all together into one giant lore that presumably aims to be dense and rich but ends up incomprehensible and ridiculous. Just about every character that has ever showed up inany capacity in any "related" series puts in an appearance here either as glorified extras or extended cameos. At least I think so since I could not recognize or remember more than half of them nor can I remember them now after watching them. The titular hero himself is now a tertiary player in his own series and what should have been the defining development that original fans have been craving for comes off as just another event in a slideshow of events. It just suddenly shows up, happens and then just as quickly fades into the background. Detailing the event should be a spoiler but the show manages to spoil it just fine by itself. The art is jus plain ugly and calling the animation limited would be charitable. The bottom of the character design barrel has been well and truly scraped with true abominations making the cut. I have nothing to say about the music because I cannot recall a single note of it. I must admit that Tenchi Muyo was a formative element in my anime fandom so to see it fall so far and so hard is genuinely distressing. Scenes that should be invoking nostalgia and warmth only stir up regret and sadness. Hopefully this is truly the end.