"Hello Baby!" is the eighth episode of Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki.
Plot
Tenchi's aunt visits the Masaki residence, having walked Sasami home from her errands. Soon after, the aunt returns to collect on a bit of social debt; Tenchi and the girls are inadvertently charged with the duty of looking after his baby cousin, Taro, for a few days while his mother gets over a slight illness.
As can be expected, chaos ensues and before too long the girls have run themselves ragged. Within the first 24 hours, Taro wanders into Washu's lab, a first, and after some fright, Washu takes on the job single-handedly of watching him for a while before Tenchi can attempt to resolve the situation come morning. In the course of juggling baby chores and her own work, Washu postpones her lab experiments to focus on the baby in full. Although Washu manages to show the rest of the household how to care for a baby, even under her instruction they cannot cope. Washu resorts to preparing her own custom baby formula from subspace with apparent ease. This buys the group sometime before Tenchi's aunt can return with her son-in-law, Taro's parent. In the aftermath,
After Taro goes home, Washu reveals that she once, 20,000 years ago, had a baby boy, that she was forced to give up to the family of his father. Washu becomes bolder around Tenchi, much to the other girls' dismay.
Characters
Trivia
- This episode first aired in Japan 24th September 1994. The English version was then aired about a year later on 25th April 1995. In the subsequent OVA anthology, Hello Baby is considered to be episode number 8.