MENTAL RAMBLEINGS CAUGHT, PINNED DOWN, AND WRITTEN OUT!  
(a.k.a. thoughts that run through my head and I mannaged to 
write them down and they have absoloutely no bearing on my 
other stuff...most of the time...) 
Random Musings:  Tenchi Muyo!
I've noticed several hidden details in the series.  Here 
they are!  

-In Washu's memories of her marriage, sppecifically her son, 
I noticed that both the baby and the face-in-shadow husband 
had pale blond hair that was very wavy, so the son obviously 
took after his dad.  

-Kagato has pale hair that is very wavy..  Could he be Washu's 
old husband who was stolen from her?  My brain went into 
overdrive with that idea; one in particular where Kagato uses 
genetic material from himself and Washu to make, after tons of 
tinkering with her genes, a super-genius daughter!  

-And yet, before you get too far on thatt track...didn't Kagato 
make some remark that he was "no longer your student" to Washu 
during the episode where we meet her?  Washu and her husband 
were students together!  That means it's most likely that 
he's her son.  

-Another point:  Mihoshi's grandfather aalso has wavy blond 
hair, though not as wavy or as light as Kagato or Washu's 
missing family.  Mihoshi herself is the same.  Plus, Mihoshi's 
grandpa is the head hancho at the Galaxy Police, and Washu's 
husband came from and upper-class family, who could probably 
buy high-ranking positions for family members.  And Mihoshi 
was supposedly one of the top detectives int the GP, yet 
you would expect them to demote her more than giving her a 
boring beat; maybe lowering her rank or something.  And, Kagato 
seemed to derive an unusual amount of pleasure in taunting her 
about her demotion.  I say that her grandpa is Kagato's half 
brother from a later marriage of Washu's husband!  As such, 
Kagato would probably have some major issues with his brother 
and his brother's family.  So that explains why he bashed Mihoshi's 
skills and seemed so happy to beat the crud out of the Galaxy 
Police's ships.  

-Hey!  Going by my observations, Ryoko wwould be Kagato's half 
sister!  So why would he do such mean things to her?  My brothers 
do mean things to me, but they would never brainwash me or do a 
lot of the mean stuff Kagato does to Ryoko.  Which brings me to 
the conclusion that, if my above observations are correct, than 
the only explanation is that Kagato didn't know that Washu was/is 
his mom.  Which kinda makes sense.  His dad's family wouldn't 
want him running away to live with his "comon" mother as soon as 
he could.  Either that, or he didn't know that Washu used her ovum 
to make Ryoko, which explains his taunts that he could have made 
her in the form of a stone.  Or he's an egotistical jerk who likes 
taking other people's credit.  

-It's implied that Kagato was doing all  the bad stuff he did on 
orders from Lady Tokimi.  LT wants her agents (namely Dr. Clay) 
to capture Washu and bring her back to LT.  Kagato had Washu 
locked up in that stasis chrystal for who knows how long, and she 
was his prisoner for about 5000 years.  If he was working for LT, 
why didn't he turn Washu over to her as soon as they were done 
creating Ryo-oki?  Did he know that Washu was his mom?  Or maybe he 
overheard LT talking about just what she wanted Washu for, and what 
little honor he had left prompted him to make sure that LT never 
got her hands on Washu.  Or some combination of both?  

-Or maybe Kagato is a half brother of Waashu's kid... =O.o= ...dang, 
I devote way too much time to this stuff...