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''Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic'' was an ephemeral 1995 animated show by Creator/SabanEntertainment. The story is about a young teenage girl who was discovered by an old magician, Hikita, while she was performing at a circus. He told her she could do more magic than just magic tricks if she got the proper training and she agreed to come with him. She goes to the school to train with five (six if Shonti is counted) other students and soon becomes best in the class. Becoming the Tenko, she learns about the powerful Starfire Gems, each of which have their own magic power. However, another student, Jana, enraged that neither she nor her brother Jason was chosen as the new leader of the gems' guardians despite their grandfather being Hikita's predecessor, coerces Jason into stealing the gems. They get their hands on one apiece, but most of the rest is sent to the ends of the earth to keep them out of the twins' hands. Tenko and her friends are required to recover them all.
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''Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic'' was an ephemeral 1995 animated show by Creator/SabanEntertainment. Creator/SabanEntertainment, kicked off by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=876383KDYks&list=PL7iHDx18sVFFN_gDCu6SjoTct6Pp_ZfzR&index=2 a sneak preview]] hosted by Creator/AmyJoJohnson.
The story is about a young teenage girl who was discovered by an old magician, Hikita, while she was performing at a circus. He told her she could do more magic than just magic tricks if she got the proper training and she agreed to come with him. She goes to the school to train with five (six if Shonti is counted) other students and soon becomes best in the class. Becoming the Tenko, she learns about the powerful Starfire Gems, each of which have their own magic power. However, another student, Jana, enraged that neither she nor her brother Jason was chosen as the new leader of the gems' guardians despite their grandfather being Hikita's predecessor, coerces Jason into stealing the gems. They get their hands on one apiece, but most of the rest is sent to the ends of the earth to keep them out of the twins' hands. Tenko and her friends are required to recover them all.
The story is about a young teenage girl who was discovered by an old magician, Hikita, while she was performing at a circus. He told her she could do more magic than just magic tricks if she got the proper training and she agreed to come with him. She goes to the school to train with five (six if Shonti is counted) other students and soon becomes best in the class. Becoming the Tenko, she learns about the powerful Starfire Gems, each of which have their own magic power. However, another student, Jana, enraged that neither she nor her brother Jason was chosen as the new leader of the gems' guardians despite their grandfather being Hikita's predecessor, coerces Jason into stealing the gems. They get their hands on one apiece, but most of the rest is sent to the ends of the earth to keep them out of the twins' hands. Tenko and her friends are required to recover them all.
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See also: ''WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'' and ''ComicBook/WonderWomanAndTheStarRiders''
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See also: ''WesternAnimation/PrincessGwenevereAndTheJewelRiders'' and ''ComicBook/WonderWomanAndTheStarRiders''''ComicBook/WonderWomanAndTheStarRiders''.
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* DeusExitMachina: It's rare for the entire team to participate in a fight, the show usually finding reasons to limit the focus to Tenko and maybe one of her friends to make the logistics of fights easier on the production crew.
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* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: In an early episode Janna and Jason manage to steal a Starfire Gem that lets them spy on anyone anywhere, letting them know when and where they'd need to be to screw up Tenko's plans. If needed the Guardians could fake it out with elaborate charades, but this did mean splitting up the team, which presented its own problems (indeed, the one episode they do this is the one where the show's ''other'' major villain appears, and having the whole team would've come in really handy).
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* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: In an early episode Janna and Jason manage to steal a Starfire Gem that lets them spy on anyone anywhere, letting them know when and where they'd need to be to screw up Tenko's plans. If needed the Guardians could fake it out with elaborate charades, but this did mean splitting up the team, which presented its own problems (indeed, the one episode they do this is the one where the show's ''other'' major villain appears, and having the firepower of the whole team would've come in really handy).
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: As if the title of "Trust and Betrayal" didn't give it away, the teaser before the intro reveals Janna's really coming to the Guardians for help so she can stab them in the back.
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* OldMaster: Hikita, who taught Tenko everything she knows. Somewhat subverted however he tries to confront Jana and Jason even admits "I may be old, and I may be weak," and is immediately taken out by Jason.
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* OldMaster: Hikita, who taught Tenko everything she knows. Somewhat subverted however However, he tries to confront Jana and Jason even admits is immediately taken out when he confronts Jana, admitting "I may be old, and I may be weak," and is immediately taken out by Jason.weak".
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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Princess Tenko is "always pure of heart and soul", making her ThePolyanna.
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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Princess Tenko is "always pure of heart and soul", making her ThePolyanna.ThePollyanna.
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* EnergyRingAttack: Steel's Starfire Gem allows him to fire magical rings which can bind enemies or form ladders.
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* FiveTokenBand: The Guardians are a racially diverse bunch. Tenko is Japanese, Bolt is white, Hawk is Native American and Steel is African-American. [[spoiler:They are later joined by Ali who is white.]]
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* FusionDance: Jana and Jason's fusion into their two-headed dragon form, achieved by placing their personal (Amber for Jana, Ruby for Jason) Starfire gems together.
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* ShipTease: Jason flirts with Tenko the moment he meets her, and a subsequent episode implies that the attraction is mutual, but Jana drags him into evil with her before anything can happen between them.
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* ShipTease: Jason flirts with Tenko the moment he meets her, and a subsequent episode implies that the attraction is mutual, but Jana drags him into evil with her before anything can happen between them.
* SiblingFusion: The twins Jana and Jason can fuse into a two-headed dragon form, achieved by placing their personal Starfire (Amber for Jana, Ruby for Jason) gems together.
* SiblingFusion: The twins Jana and Jason can fuse into a two-headed dragon form, achieved by placing their personal Starfire (Amber for Jana, Ruby for Jason) gems together.
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* {{Expy}}: Tenko’s backstory here makes her one for Marvel’s Dr. Strange, with Hikita as the Ancient One, Jana as an AlphaBitch version of Baron Mordo and the other male guardians splitting the role of Wong.
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* AntiVillain: Jason, who notably tries to reason with their enemies a couple times, even though he has the power to hypnotize them and skip such niceties.
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* LandSeaSky: Tenko's three gems follow this theme with the animals they let her conjure for help: a lion, an eagle, and a dolphin (the latter also letting her breathe underwater).
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Yes and no. There are some endings that leave you wondering how things got back to normal for the next episode, like when Janna and Jason are turned into rats or stranded on a FarSideIsland. On the other hand, the show has elements of an ongoing narrative (mainly in Starfire Gems that were discovered in earlier episodes being used again in later ones), as Western animated series were starting to experiment with doing around that time.
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* BadassNormal: The reporter Stacy from "The Big Story", who kicks Janna and Jason's butts all over her apartment until Jason hypnotizes her.
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* SmurfettePrinciple: Weirdly for a show seemingly aimed at a female audience, but Tenko's the only female Guardian out of four. There's three other women, but they all don't qualify for one reason or another. Ali only gets her own gem at the end of the second-to-last episode. Shonti did not get her gem in any of the episodes and the only reason we can even assume she was to get one at all is because of her toy. And Jana is evil and doesn't cooperate with Tenko ever but in the finale.
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* SmurfettePrinciple: Weirdly for a show seemingly aimed at a female audience, but Tenko's the only female Guardian out of four. There's three other women, but they all don't qualify for one reason or another. Ali only gets her own gem at the end of the second-to-last episode, but doesn't get to use it because Tenko's on her own in the last episode. Shonti did not get her gem in any of the episodes and the only reason we can even assume she was to get one at all is because of her toy. And Jana is evil and doesn't cooperate with Tenko ever but in the finale.
