Athena Asamiya

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Athena Asamiya (Japanese: 麻宮 アテナ, Hepburn: Asamiya Atena) is a character originally from SNK's 1987 video game Psycho Soldier. An esper, Athena is a descendant of Princess Athena from the earlier Athena game. She later appears in The King of Fighters series of fighting games as a member of the Psycho Soldier Team alongside her friend Sie Kensou and her teacher Chin Gentsai. While there have been changes to the team, Athena has been consistently playable in the main series. She was also given her own video game Athena: Awakening from the Ordinary Life, which was only released in Japanese regions for the PlayStation in 1999. Athena was designed with idea of having an appealing main character in Psycho Soldier. The use of a character song and multiple outfits resulted in major praise by publications for video games and the character also received generally positive reception.

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