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3	''Princess Minerva'' (プリンセス・ミネルバ) is an RPG video game created by Riverhillsoft (a company perhaps only known by developing the Japanese ports of VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia) in 1994. Originally for the Platform/PC98, it was also released for the Platform/PCEngine in March 25, 1994, and for the [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Famicom]] in June 23, 1995. It's part of a multimedia franchise that includes an OVA, a manga and a serial novel. The OVA was released in May 1995 in Japan, and it was released in North America by [[Creator/ADVFilms A.D. Vision]] in September 1995.
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5	The video game starts in a fantasy world in the country of Whistler, when the evil sorceress Dynastar dares Princess Minerva to try to rescue all the girls in the world, or else anyone will be turned into mindless monsters for her to conquer. So the Princess leaves with [[AmazonBrigade all of her eight personal]] [[BodyguardBabes female bodyguards]] to put an end to this menace. However, all of them get robbed of all money and belongings...
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7	The OVA is a prequel that tells the story of how the eponymous Princess got to assemble her AmazonBrigade, just because she was bored. And also, her first encounter with Dynastar.
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9	The Super Famicom game got an unofficial FanTranslation in December 2017.
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12	!!''Princess Minerva'' provides examples of:
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14	* AccidentalKidnapping: The villainess Dynastar sends her two henchwomen Orchid and Pyrocession to kidnap the titular princess, they end up nabbing her lady in waiting Blue Morris who was dressed as her so she can fight in a tournament, they gag her and stuff her into a sack, after opening the sack Dynastar realizes she’s not the princess and uses her as a hostage.
15	* BagOfKidnapping: Dynastar's henchwomen gag Blue Morris and stuff her, thinking her to be Minerva, in a sack per orders of their boss.
16	* {{Dominatrix}}: Lachloa Valvis' fighter persona as Kamen Bondage is themed on a dominatrix. Equiped with a whip, leather clothes, mask, high heels, and NoblewomansLaugh to boot.
17	* GagSub: The english translation of the video game, which found every reason to avert repetitive dialogue... by adding anything ''but'' what was really said.
18	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Dynastar tries to abduct the princess as part of a plot to abduct all the women in the world... and her henchwomen kidnap the ''only'' person in Minerva's court who was advising her ''not'' to fight Dynastar herself, and fail to abduct ''any'' of Minerva's bodyguards.
19	* {{Prequel}}: The OVA serves as one for the Video Game.
20	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Princess Minerva literally goes out and forms her own magical girl team to save the kingdom. Made doubly hilarious is that ''she'' was meant to be one of the people abducted in the first place!
21	* {{Stripperiffic}}: Dynastar's outfit is a sheer, nude-colored body stocking with a few strategically-placed bits of armor and a cape.
22	* UnexplainedAccent: The traveling saleswoman and tournament fighter Lachloa Valvis is given a Brooklyn accent in the English dub.
23	* WhipOfDominance: Lachloa wields one as Kamen Bondage, which is her fighter persona. She uses it for attacks, hold people in place, and assert her dominance.
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