Vanguard Princess (ヴァンガードプリンセス, Vangaado Purinsesu), also known as Vanguard Princess: Senjin no Himegimi (ヴァンガードプリンセス 先陣の姫君) is a Japanese dōjin 2D fighting game for Windows and Linux,[2] developed by a single programmer and illustrator Tomoaki Sugeno nicknamed Suge9.

Sugeno planned a future update called Vanguard Princess Prime which would introduce a new character named Rikako but has since ceased development on it.

[citation needed] An English version was released by eigoMANGA in February 2013 on Amazon.com to North America and Europe.

This version comes with the original English release, plus a free, optional Director's Cut add-on, which returns previously removed content to the game.

After the official release, Vanguard Princess was initially picked up on by video game websites such as Daiken,[10] Kotaku[11] and Siliconera.