The staff for the early magical girl anime franchise Fairy Princess Minky Momo announced on Wednesday that production on a new original video anime (OVA) has been green-lit. It will be the franchise’s first new one since 1994’s Minky Momo in The Station of Your Memories, 31 years ago.
The anime studio Ashi Productions presented on Wednesday a new Minky Momo visual drawn by the original 1982-1983 anime’s main animator Hiroshi Watanabe, as part of the studio’s 50th anniversary project:
Ashi Productions
also presented a 50th anniversary promotional video on Tuesday. The video features Minky Momo and several other pioneering magical girl anime which the studio animated:
William Winckler Productions launched an Amazon Instant Video release of the 1982-1983 television anime as English-dubbed features in 2015, and it described the story:
In Minky Momo, a princess from a magical world is sent to Earth to help people recover their lost hopes and dreams. Using her magic, and with the aid of her magical dog, monkey and bird, Minky – known on Earth as “Gigi” – encounters amazing adventures.
The 1982-1983 series inspired a television series followup in 1991-1992 and several OVAs. Harmony Gold USA released the Fairy Princess Minky Momo: La ronde in my dream OVA in English as Gigi and the Fountain of Youth. Crunchyroll began streaming the original television anime in January 2024.
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