Ayeka (阿重霞 Aeka, spelled Aeka in Singapore), is a key character in the various Tenchi Muyo! anime series by AIC. While details of her character differ between the various series, Ayeka is typically shown as the beautiful first princess of the planet Jurai who has fallen in love with the series main character, Tenchi Masaki. In the various series, Ayeka is portrayed as being modest, well mannered, traditional, and aristocratic, but can also be arrogant and snobbish as well. She can also be very fierce when she feels that anyone or anything she cares for is in danger, such as Tenchi or her younger sister Sasami , whom she is very protective of. She universally holds a rivalry with the character Ryoko, who also fights for Tenchi's affections. Often the conflict between the two comes out of their decidedly different personalties, with Ayeka being a woman of class and status while Ryoko is a blunt, ill-mannered troublemaker. The level of the rivalry can vary between being equatable to a pair of bickering siblings to an all-out feud. Often, Ryoko's teasing can bring out some of Ayeka's worse aspects.

OVA

Ayeka is the First Princess of Jurai 's Royal Family. During this series, she was on a search for her missing brother, Yosho . However, her search did lead her to Earth, but she didn't detect her brother or his ship, but they did find Ryoko.

For the most part, she is very shy, demure and proper, but once she's upset, she can become just as violent as Ryoko.

Her physical age is 20, it is unsure about her Jurian age.

Her powers and strengths are amazing, she can fire energy blasts, summon a very powerful forcefield, and she also has the ability to summon guardians that can do various things like arc electricity and capture spaceships.

She is also a little sadistic at times. She has no qualms about torturing others, especially Ryoko. (There is also a music video, Ojosama to Obi , which kind of shows that very well.)

She has a spaceship called Ryu-Oh , which she travels around in. Unfortunately, it gets destroyed in a crashlanding on Earth after a scuffle with Ryoko. It did start to regenerate, but it was totally blown away by Kagato and the Soja. It has the ability to produce 3 wings of the LightHawk .

Universe

Once again, Ayeka is still the Princess of Jurai. Still shy and demure, she seems to fall in love with Tenchi on the very first day she meets him.

She was drawn to Earth by Mihoshi 's distress signal, but once again, she finds Ryoko there as well, and a massive fight eventually occurs.

She'd do just about anything to get rid of Ryoko and spend the rest of her time with Tenchi. Her obsession over him is rivaled by Ryoko's own obsession, and many arguments and humorous confrontations ensue.

Again, she has a ship, Ryu-Oh, which crashlands on Earth, however, it becomes incapable of flying when it begins to regenerate, taking root to the wreckage of her old ship. However, she doesn't mind.

Tenchi in Tokyo

In this series, she is still the Princess of Jurai, however, her attitude and artwork is considerably different.

Instead of being completely shy and demure, she's a lot more like Ryoko in terms of explosive emotions. She's a lot more gullible and almost ditz-like.

Her powers are still similar to the other two series, except we never see her fling any energy blasts. Instead, we only see her activate her forcefield on many occasions.