Katsuhito Masaki
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| Yosho Masaki Jurai | |
| Code Name: | Katsuhito Masaki |
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| Gender: | Male |
| Seiyū: | Takeshi Aono (Katsuhito / Genjuro) Takehito Koyasu (Yosho) Kunihiko Yasui (Binpachi) Masamichi Ohta (Child Yosho in MnE) |
| Voice actor: | Jay Hopper (1st Katsuhito) Bob Papenbrook (credited as John Smallberries in GXP) (2nd Katsuhito, 3rd Yosho) Matt K. Miller (1st Yosho) |
| Voice actress: | Barbara Goodson (Child Yosho in MnE) |
| Hair color: | Dark grey (as Katsuhito) Black (as Yosho) |
| Eye color: | Brown |
Katsuhito Masaki (柾木 勝仁 Masaki Katsuhito?) is a fictional character in the anime Tenchi Muyo!.
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[edit] OVA
In the OVA, Katsuhito, also known as Yosho Masaki Jurai (柾木 遙照 樹雷 Masaki Yōshō Jurai?), fled Jurai over 700 years ago to "retire" on Earth. He was once the greatest swordsman on Jurai. Currently Katsuhito is a Shinto priest who is not only training Tenchi be a Shinto priest but also training him in Jurai swordsmanship. Yosho had a marriage arranged with Ayeka, but left. At the time, not all Juraians liked the idea of mixed blood heritages (he is part Earthling) and he used Ryoko's attack as an excuse to slip away to Earth. In the OVA, he expected that Ayeka was trying to track him down and arranged for Tenchi to fight Ryoko so that his grandson would go in his place to Jurai. While he appears to be of advanced age, his gray hair and lined face are merely an illusion hiding his true form, which he shows to only a select few (such as his mother).
Yosho's tree is called Funaho, after his mother. It is supposed to be the most powerful first generation ship, and thus the most powerful Jurian tree ship of them all (not including Tsunami-no-fume ). It is currently rooted on Earth and so at present cannot take ship form. However, the tree has not lost its power. This was because during his battle with Ryoko, Yosho had stolen the three gems originally bonded by Washu and bonded them to the pommel of Tenchi-ken (which was created from the wood of the Tsunami tree). As a result, the gems had supplied power to the tree for over 700 years.
He is in a common law marriage with Airi and has two children from that union called Minaho and Kiyone.
[edit] Tenchi Universe
In the Tenchi Universe continuity, Katsuhito is still known as Yosho and is related to Jurai's royal family and is the greatest swordsman who has ever lived, but is not a close relative to Ayeka or Sasami. While Ayeka and Sasami are from a distant branch family, Yosho and Tenchi are from the main line. This makes Tenchi the direct heir to the throne of Jurai.
In the movie Tenchi Forever! (Tenchi in Love 2), it was revealed that, after he defeated Kagato for the first time, he left Jurai along with his lover, Haruna, but tragically, she died upon arriving to Earth. After he arrived, he fell in love with a girl named Itsuki Masaki, who would become Achika Masaki's mother.
Unlike the OVA continuity, where Katsuhito had retained his youthful appearance throughout his seven centuries on earth and simply chooses to appear as an elderly man, Yosho of the "Tenchi Universe" continuity truly is as elderly as he appears.
[edit] Tenchi in Tokyo
In this series, Katsuhito is not part of any line to Jurai's Royal Family. He is just the wise guardian of the Masaki Shrine. He also doesn't display any kind of special powers in the series. Near the finale, when Washu needed to go to Tenchi to warn him about Yugi, Katsuhito went with her. It is there that Katsuhito revealed to Tenchi that the Masaki family are the Earths protectors that secretly battle against any enemy that is a threat to the earth and the gems that Tenchi received from his late mother are in fact the power that had been granted to them by the gods of the Earth that repels all evil.
Later after Yugi began to freeze time and after Tenchi went to fight her Katsuhito explained to Washu that Tenchi won't kill Yugi as he had preferred to be a kindhearted person which is why Washu and the other women from space are allowed to live on Earth in the Masaki Shrine. Katsuhito explained that through this method it enables for Tenchi to be true to himself and be able to fulfill his Planet Guardian duties. This proved to be true when Tenchi chose to spare Yugi.
[edit] Pretty Sammy
In Magical Project S (Pretty Samy TV), Katsuhito and Yosho appear as Genjuro Hagakure (葉隠 源十郎 Hagakure Genjūrō?) and Binpachi Hagakure (葉隠 敏八 Hagakure Binpachi?), respectively, in episode 10. Genjuro Hagakure is the leader of the ninja village theme park and is working to prevent Nobuyuki Onijigoku from turning it to a wild west theme park but had become bedridden. Binpachi is Genjuro's foolish grandson who had chosen to go over Onijigoku's side as he felt that cowboys were cooler than ninja. At the end, Binpachi chose to go back to his family's side after his grandfather protected him from getting shot by Gunman Girl, and responded by distracting Gunman Girl with his Ninja skills until Pretty Sammy destroyed her. Genjuro then was able to convince a depressed Onijigoku that they could convert the theme park into a mixture of the wild west and ninjas. But to help teach Onijigoku a lesson for what he had tried to do, Genjuro had him and his assistant bound to the entrance of the wild west park as punishment.
| Tenchi Muyo! characters | |
|---|---|
| Main Characters | |
| Tenchi | Ryoko | Ayeka | Sasami | Mihoshi | Washu | Kiyone | Ryo-Ohki | Noike | |
| The Chousin | |
| Washu | Tsunami | Tokimi | |
| Villains | |
| Kagato | Dr. Clay | Z | Yugi | Kain | Yuzuha | Haruna | Seiryo | Tarant | Yakage | Shima Brothers | Yume | Mikamo & Yataka | Garyu | Dark Washu | |
| Masaki Family | |
| Katsuhito | Nobuyuki | Achika | Tennyo | Airi | Rea | |
| Guardians & Royalty of Jurai | |
| Azaka & Kamidake | Azusa | Funaho | Misaki | Seto | |
| Galaxy Police | |
| Seina | Minami | Misao | Sabato | |
| Pretty Sammy | |
| Sasami Kawai | Pixy Misa | Ramia | Rumiya | Chief Pretty Sammy characters | Chief Magical Project S characters | |
| Others | |
| Nagi | Sakuya | Mayuka | Zero | Minagi | Hiwa | Asahi | Kazuma | Tama | Chief GXP characters | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki | Tenchi Universe | Tenchi in Tokyo | Tenchi Muyo! GXP | Pretty Sammy | Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club |
