Well guys, I’m gonna be heading back home today to the land of dial-up internet connection. That means I’m not going to really have a way to do any real updates to the site, unless I was willing to wait three years for it to happen. And honestly, I’ve been spoiled by this super fast internet. So fast that when a page doesn’t load in two seconds flat it means you forgot to pay the internet bill. For like three months. Whoops.
I won’t be doing anymore big updates for now, but I’ll still be hanging around on the forums until I leave for Japan.
Anyways, I’ve got three updates for you today. Read on to see what I’ve got for you.

The Bestiary now contains every enemy from FFA to LoM!
There is a Special Behind the Scenes look at how new Mana games are made!
There is also a new Seikens Stories comic!

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Here there be more monsters!

Small fixes all around. Details in the “Read more” part of this entry.

Guys, there are only 20 more Final Fantasy Adventure enemies, 5 more Secret of Mana, 4 more Seiken Densetsu 3 and 5 more Legend of Mana enemies to go into this Bestiary. And that is counting bosses! Only three more sections to go before the Bestiary is complete as far as FFA, SoM, SD3 and LoM are concerned. Then I’ve gotta get started on the new games, haha.

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Here there be more monsters!

Message from Sheexy (who hath once more fallen victim to the interwebs failing):

I added in a section for Aquatic enemies and Insects. There were also a few little fixes done in random places. The Bestiary has a new sleeker look with the green game section dividers that Dekky helped me put in. It looks pretty cool with the enemies overlapping them, unfortunately some of the enemies don’t have transparencies on them, oh well. Getting really close to completely covering the first four games here! Thanks to Kassidy for getting these things up for me.

Here there be more monsters!

Kind of a big update.  Plants and oddball enemies are now covered.  Also, I went back and added the Gorgon Eye from Legend of Mana into the Eye section (how on earth did I miss that?!) and the Godbeast section has been replaced by the Divine Beings section and gained an entry on the Mana Goddess from LoM.  (Thanks for the idea on that Anon)

And now for some interesting news:

Final Fantasy Adventure has eightteen normal monsters left.
Secret of Mana has three more normal monsters left.
All of the Seiken Densetsu 3 normal monsters are in!
Legend of Mana has ten more normal monsters.

Here there be birds!

Alright, all the birds are in the Bestiary now (Save for those in the newest games).  Kind of a small update, but that is because I am having to sort everything into broader groups now.  All the main groups are pretty much done.  I also added Wall Face and Doom Wall into the Living Objects section.

I’ve got my computer back, but due to the nature of the Bestiary updates ahead there are just going to be small updates now.

I don’t have a bestiary update for this week because I’ve been kind of a computer scavanger this week.  Everytime one of my roommates gets off their computer I jump on it and do what I can, I just didn’t have time to get the bestiary update together.

I did remove all of the Japanese names from the main index game listings though (Secret of Mana and Legend of Mana listings).  I figured it would make it easier to sort through.

I’ll try to get a bestiary update up next week.

Here there be yet more monsters!

Golems, Needle Birds, Scorpions and Sea Dragons are in.
Awesome.

Woo, V3 is up!  Awesome Dekky!

With V3 being up the first new feature you can find is over in the Bestiary!  Now you can click game titles and alphabet letters to better find enemies if you can’t figure out which family they belong to!  Alternatively, it makes a nifty way to sort out enemies if you’re working on a fan project or something.

Also, I updated the Bestiary!  A few fixes here and there, but I’ve also added Undead and Egg families and gave Ghosts an overhaul!

Dekky and I were just kidding about giving up on stuff, so keep checking the site out!  New Bestiary updates are still coming!
Also, Mana Music Monday will be on Tuesday this week because we have so many updates going already, hahaha.

Ok guys.  It is getting pretty crazy over here with school and the fact that I am now completely sure I am going to be in Japan a long time this Summer.

The Bestiary itself has maybe 14 families left to do, then a few little cleaning up things.  I was trying to work out a nice way to organize everything, but that is going to have to wait.  I’m not going to be able to do any of the Bestiary stuff for a while, but if I do find time to do some updates to it it won’t be anywhere near Four.  One a week might be possible, but we’ll see.

Anyways, this will all get settled in the end.

Hey everyone, first I’d like to say that Heroes of Mana is going to be released State side late this summer!  Thanks to Boreras in the Shoutbox for linking me to the article at Kotaku Here, who in turn got their information from IGN Here.

Also, just a small early warning that the Bestiary will not update on Saturday due to, shall we say, technical reasons.  Deques and I are going to be cleaning it up a bit.