Admittedly, I'm a big Tenchi fan.  I grew up 
watching the typical dubbed/edited stuff like 
Battle of the Planets, Starblazers, Robotech, and 
the Super Robot stuff (Grandizer, Dangard Ace, 
etc.).  I NEVER would have envisioned myself 
liking something akin to a slapstick soap opera.

Most of the time, Tenchi makes you laugh.  But 
in some rare moments, it brings a tear to your 
eye.  And every now and then, you want to yell at 
the TV.  :-)

To give you an idea of the comedy aspect, let me 
describe a scene that I think your cel is from.  
The overall plot is serious: the gang must 
disguise themselves to get through a Jurian 
checkpoint on their way to clear their names as 
intergalactic criminals.  But how they do it....

Your cel shows Ryoko and Tenchi (in drag) as part 
of a school group, composed of the other members 
of the gang.  At one point, their cover is 
exposed, and Tenchi, Ryoko, and Mihoshi are 
confronted by a cadre of staff-weilding security 
guards.  A young man who has been hitting on 
Tenchi arrives in the nick of time to offer Tenchi 
a staff, which he accepts and promptly uses to 
beat the tar out of all the security guys (while 
still in drag).  It's a great action sequence.    

Where was the mighty Ryoko during the fight?  
Well, Mihoshi freaked-out and clutched onto 
Ryoko's side.  So the two of them are in the 
background, with Ryoko basically punching Mihoshi 
in the face in rythm with each word as she says 
"LET-ME-GO" (etc.).  HILARIOUS!

JP