Princess Minerva

• Developer — Riverhillsoft • Publisher — Riverhillsoft Vic Tokai Corporation (SNES) • Director — Kōji Ikemoto • Producer — Rika Suzuki Kazuhiro Okazaki • Designer — Junji Shigematsu • Artist — Ran Ishida Fumio Matsumoto Osamu Inoue • Writer — Kō Maisaka • Genre — RPG • Platforms — NEC PC-9801, PC Engine, Super Famicom • Released — 1992 (PC-98) March 25, 1994 (PCE) June 23, 1995 (SNES)

Princess Minerva was developed by Riverhillsoft and published by Riverhillsoft and Vic Tokai Corporation for the NEC PC-9801, PC Engine and Super Famicom.

In the game, the evil sorceress Dynastar (ダイナスター) (voiced by Yōko Matsuoka) challenges Princess Minerva (voiced by Miki Itou), threatening to kidnap all the girls in the world and turn them into monsters. Minerva leaves with her eight personal female bodyguards to defeat Dynastar and her six also female demon generals. The game starts when all their weapons, armor and money gets stolen.

Princess Minerva was released in Japan for the PC Engine on March 25, 1994, and the Super Famicom on June 23, 1995. A five-issue shounen manga series and a nine-volume illustrated serial novel were also released, written by the game's writer Maisaka Kou and published by ASCII comix and Shueisha, respectively, during the 1990s. An original soundtrack / drama CD compilation was released by Futureland in 1995. Other released included a regular original soundtrack and a CD collection of graphics. In 2018, the Super Famicom version got a fan translation into the English language.

• Ja Kanji — プリンセス・ミネルバ • Ja Romaji — Purinsesu Mineruba

• Type — OVA • Director — Yoshihiro Yamaguchi • Producer — Masako Fukuyo Hiroshi Kanemasa • Writer — Hideki Sonoda • Music — Kenji Kawai • Studio — Group TAC • Released — May 1, 1995 • Runtime — 43 min The original video animation Princess Minerva was produced by Group TAC was released by Toho in May 1995 in Japan. It was released by A.D. Vision in the United States in September 1995 and then again in 1998. The OAV serves as a prequel to the game, telling how Minerva assembled her team of the most beautiful and powerful women warriors, and how she first run into Dynastar who tried to kidnap her and her friends. Dave Halverson gave the anime version a rating of C. Chris Beveridge of Mania.com gave it a B−.

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