Tenbi Academy

Tenbi Academy is a private prep high school located in Japan that recently converted from all-girls back to co-ed at the start of the series. Maken-Ki! begins with Takeru Ooyama's enrollment at the school.

Background[]

Prior to the creation of the academy, the area was known simply as Tenbi. Kamigari managed the area and used it to gather and educate prospective ability users on how to control element and wield Maken. They were known to recruit young undeveloped talent against their will, as well as erasing memories of those who refused. Ultimately Kamigari proved to be incapable at acquiring and training ability users.

Kamigari's failures eventually led to the creation of Tenbi Academy by Minori Rokujou's father, who became the first school principal. Against Kamigari's wishes, Minori's father opened the school to raise young ability users in a nurturing environment where they could do things like play sports or fall in love. Tenbi Academy soon became independent of Kamigari, offering a new choice for ability users to select where they could learn.

Despite this, human nature became a source of trouble as staff at Tenbi Academy struggled to maintain peace. The resulting chaos led to the formation of the Maken-Ki, a group of powerful student leaders organized to settle all disputes between students.

Tenbi Academy was originally a co-ed school before it changed to an all-girls school after several male students and a male teacher brutally assaulted a female student. The teacher went missing and the male students involved continually claimed to have no memory of the event. Many years later, the school would return to being a co-ed school.

The motto at Tenbi Academy is "Mentality, Beauty, and Physical" in the manga and "Brain, Beauty and Body" in the anime. The principal stated at the induction ceremony that the school's motto would remain unchanged even though the school returned to co-education.

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Alumni[]

Those who previously studied at Tenbi Academy.