Princess Tenko and the Guardians of Magic

Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic is an American magical girl cartoon show produced by Saban that centered around the fictional adventures of Japanese real-life magician Princess Tenko, Mariko Itakura.

The story of Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic begins when a female magician, already an experienced performer, is chosen by an old man named Tenko to come to his school for magicians and learn real magic.

It is now up to Tenko and the " Guardians of the Magic ," as they come to be called, to retrieve all of the Starfire gems before Jana and Jason get them and use them for evil.

* Hikita Tenko: The former leader of the Guardians.

With the help of Jana and Jason, he kidnaps Ninjara, seeing her as a rare prey, and sets traps for Tenko and the Guardians.

The major twist of the Tenko Reunion was the revelation that it was one of the women who had betrayed them to the communist rebels, the spy being revealed as Christina Campbell, whose difficulty adjusting after life in the camps had been developed in detail in the third series.

The complete series of Tenko was re-released on DVD during 2011 through Acorn Media UK.

One of her most recognised and popular roles was of Dr Beatrice Mason in the 1980s television series Tenko, a drama which chronicled the lives of British women in Singapore after the Japanese invasion and their consequent confinement in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.

Jean contrived to keep the Club open and solvent for the next five years, before going on to a very distinguished career both on stage and on television in series such as ' Tenko ' and ' The Brothers '.

The series was made by London Weekend Television for the ITV network between 1987 and 1989 and created by Lavinia Warner and Jill Hyem, who had previously produced and written the BBC women prisoner of war series Tenko.

The main protagonists of the series from left to right: Bolt, Steel, Tenko, and Hawk.

Following Space: 1999, Merton appeared in many popular television series including Grange Hill, Return of the Saint ( 1979 ), Bergerac ( 1983 ), Angels ( 1983 ), Tenko ( 1984 ), Dempsey & Makepeace ( 1985 ), Lovejoy ( 1986 ), Crime Traveller ( 1997 ), Doctors ( 2001 ), Dinotopia ( 2002 ), Casualty ( 1986 – 2002 ), EastEnders ( 1998 – 2003 ), The Bill ( 1999 – 2005 ), Judge John Deed ( 2006 ), Coronation Street ( 2008 ) and Wire in the Blood ( 2008 ).

* Tenko ( now on Yesterday )

* Lavinia Warner's page on Tenko

Assigned to produce Star Cops was Evgeny Gridneff, who had previously worked for the BBC on Tenko, Blott on the Landscape and Hold the Back Page.

At the end of each episode, the real Princess Tenko would appear on stage and perform an illusion or teach a magic trick.

* Diamond Gem-can enlarge a creature it is used on ( Holder: Princess Tenko )

The older Tenko passed his mantle to her before he died at the age of 45 by heart disease.

She loves all animals, taking an immediate liking to Tenko ( whom she calls " Tenki "), but her weakness for cute things makes her vulnerable.

Finally, the newest magician of all, the new Tenko, receives her own Starfire gem, the Topaz.

After helping Tenko in one adventure, she becomes her apprentice and trains constantly to be a Guardian.

* Jana: Granddaughter of the Master Guardian who came before Hikita, the short-tempered Jana tried to steal the Starfire Gems when Tenko became the new Master Guardian instead of her.

He and Tenko have shown signs of being attracted to each other, but his loyalty to his sister is greater and so he follows her orders.

After he was injured by Jana and Jason he was placed in the Tenko Box and disappeared, but occasionally his spirit appears to Princess Tenko to give her advice.

* Pearl Gem-Has the power of flight, used by Tenko to turn her horse into a pegasus.

Tenko is a television drama, co-produced by the BBC and the ABC.

A total of thirty episodes were produced between 1981 and 1984, followed by a one-off special ( which was twice the length of the other episodes ), Tenko Reunion, in 1985.

Tenko dramatises the experiences of European women interned by the Japanese militia following the invasion of Singapore in 1942.

Tenko was created by Lavinia Warner after she had conducted research into the internment of nursing corps officer Margot Turner ( 1910 – 1993 ) for an edition of This Is Your Life and was convinced of the dramatic potential of the stories of women prisoners of the Japanese.

Princess Tenko is the stage name of ( born June 29, 1959 in Arai, Niigata ), a pop singer turned magician specialising in grand illusions.

It is first seen when Ueki was defending himself from Tenko.

Wish Me Luck is similar to Tenko and the 1970s BBC drama Secret Army, in that it deals with strong female characters coping under extreme conditions in wartime.

Two of the most senior students, the twins Jana and Jason, become jealous of the newcomer when she is chosen to become the new Tenko just before the original dies.

In the scuffle, the Tenko Box is damaged, and the remaining Starfire gems are scattered all over the world and some through time.

* Princess Tenko: The Master Guardian, she is the leader of the show's heroes.

* Topaz Gem-summons a Golden Lion ( Holder: Princess Tenko ; wears a matching armor / uniform )

* Rose Quartz Gem-summons the Rose Eagle ( Holder: Princess Tenko ; wears a matching armor / uniform )

* Sapphire Gem-lets holder breathe underwater and summon the Sapphire Dolphin ( Holder: Princess Tenko ; wears a matching armor / uniform )

( Holder: Princess Tenko )

( Holder: Princess Tenko )

( Holder: Princess Tenko )

( Holder: Princess Tenko )