


Her official nickname is The Psychic-Powered Idol. Throughout the years, her sailor uniform outfit was a frequent request from Japanese fans that was denied due to the belief that it wouldn't translate well with the overseas audience (this kept up until recent installments). She is perhaps best known for changing her outfit and hair style for virtually every new KOF game.Īthena was a highly anticipated character for the King of Fighters lineup and developers relate that they are constantly working to keep her in the series. She was also given her own RPG game Athena: Awakening from the Ordinary Life in 1999 released only in Japan for the Sony PlayStation.
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She later appears in The King of Fighters series of fighting games as a female fighter character and has appeared in every one of its editions. Psychic powers + Chinese martial arts boxingĪthena Asamiya (麻宮アテナ, Asamiya Atena) is a character originally from the former SNK's video game Psycho Soldier and a distant relative and modern-day counterpart of Princess Athena from the game Athena. Maple-leaf-shaped bean cakes, things with sesame flour dissolved in milk strawberry daifuku (KOF '94) Sakura daifuku, churros (KOF '98) March 14, (2002 in Ordinary Life) 17 years old (KOF '94), 18 years old (KOF series)Ĭreating home pages, shopping by catalog/online fortune telling (KOF '94)
