New Fairy Princess Minky Momo OVA Opens in Japanese Theaters on November 13
The OVA revives a 1980s magical girl franchise that has not seen a new animated entry in over three decades, with a modern story that critiques social media-driven validation.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime News Network, The Fandom Post.
The official website for the new Fairy Princess Minky Momo OVA, titled Fairy Princess Minky Momo: A Duo of Sincerity Toward a Dream of Longing, announced on Saturday that the film will open in Japanese theaters on November 13. The OVA is the franchise's first new animated release since 1994's Minky Momo in The Station of Your Memories, marking a 32-year gap. The story is set in Diginarsa, the land of dreams and hopes, which is sustained by dream energy. As humans lose their dreams and hopes, the dream energy decreases, threatening the land's existence. The king sends three companions-Chamocha, Dettabook, and Pipirupi-to seek help from Minky Momo. On her 12th birthday, a girl named Momo receives a smartphone and awakens as Minky Momo after meeting the companions, resolving to save Diginarsa. As she collects dream energy, a mysterious app becomes popular, but the dreams children share on the app are frivolous, driven by desire for recognition or views. Momo begins to question everyone's dreams. Ayumu Watanabe directs the OVA at Ashi Production, with Deko Akao writing the script and Hiroshi Watanabe and Mari Tominaga handling character designs. The original 1982 series was directed by Kunihiko Yuyama.
Kunihiko Yuyama, director of the original 1982 series, drew a new illustration for Minky Momo's birthday that the website released alongside the announcement. Ayumu Watanabe, who directed Witch Hat Atelier and Space Brothers, is directing the OVA at Ashi Production. The original series' main animator, Hiroshi Watanabe, and key animator Mari Tominaga from the 1994 OVA are designing the characters. Katsunori Shimizu is the sound director, Zack Promotion handles sound production, and Tomoki Hasegawa, who composed for the 1994 OVA, is writing the music. Studio Live is credited for design cooperation. MOVIC and Giggly Box are distributing the film.
The OVA is part of a 50th anniversary event for Ashi Productions, which the studio announced in 2025. The franchise saw a revival in 2022 with a Japanese Blu-ray box set priced at 49,500 yen that included the 63-episode first series, the 65-episode second series, and the OVAs. Crunchyroll added the original television series to its catalog in 2024 with Japanese audio and subtitles in English, German, Latin American Spanish, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian. Harmony Gold USA previously released the OVA Fairy Princess Minky Momo: La ronde in my dream in English as Gigi and the Fountain of Youth.
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