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Dengeki G's Magazine is a Japanese magazine published by ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) and sold monthly on the thirtieth that primarily contains information on bishōjo games, but also includes an entire section on anime based on bishōjo games, and seria ...

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, which ran between the February 2008 and May 2011 issues. The project had been first announced in the two-hundredth issue of ''Dengeki G's Magazine'' released in the October 2007 issue, and the project itself is a form of commemoration for the achievement. ''Ohime-sama Navigations premise is written by Satz, and the character design is by

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, known for her artistry on '' D.C.: Da Capo'' by

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and '' Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two.'' by Minori. A

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adaptation entitled ''Hime Navi'' was serialized between the June 2008 and June 2010 issues of ''Dengeki G's Magazine'' illustrated by Raina, and a second manga using the original title was serialized in the same magazine between the November 2008 and June 2010 issues illustrated by Yūki Takami.

Plot

Story

''Ohime-sama Navigation'' revolves around three young girls enrolled at a fortune-telling school named Kaisen Academy. Each is learning different forms of fortune-telling at the school, though they are in the same class and have the same homeroom teacher — Mai Komura.

Characters

; :Crystal is a girl dressed like a witch. She was born on February 10, and has O type blood, making her a "

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"-type princess. ; :Hime is a girl dressed like a

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. She was born on July 21, and has AB type blood, making her a "

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"-type princess. ; :Kari is a girl dressed in a

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style. She was born on May 4 and has A type blood, making her a " Snow Queen"-type princess. ; :Mai is the homeroom teacher to Cystal, Hime, and Kari.

Princess types

Media

Reader-participation game

''Ohime-sama Navigation'' is a reader-participation game that ran from the February 2008 to May 2011 issues of

magazine ''

''. Originally, the readers were given three heroines—Crystal Hoshikawa, Hime Kaguyama, and Kari Nano—and the readers were able to vote on their birth dates and blood types which would determine their "princess type" which corresponds to princess in

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s. The main part of the game is for the readers to give advice to the three heroines as they attend the fortune-telling school.

Manga

adaptation entitled was serialized in

' ''

'' between the June 2008 and June 2010 issues and is illustrated by Raina. Starting with chapter 14 released in the July 2009 issue, the title changed to and kept that title for the rest of the manga. The first volume of ''Hime Navi'' containing the first thirteen chapters was released on June 27, 2009 under ASCII Media Works'

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. A second manga, entitled ''Ohime-sama Navigation'', was serialized in the same magazine between the November 2008 and June 2010 issues and is illustrated by Yūki Takami. Three volumes of ''Ohime-sama Navigation'' were released between June 27, 2009 and August 27, 2010 under Dengeki Comics.

External links

Official website
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