There is a new video out for the Legend of Mana anime, it’s a Cactus Diary entry. Seems they will do a number of these. Unfortunately it’s all in Japanese, but you can see a few new shots in the video at least.

You can find all of the trailers and videos on the official site, here.

So over on the Japanese side of the web, there was a great site called “Death Queen Ward” that unfortunately went down back in July. The site started out as a “Village” in 2002, upgraded to a “Town” in 2009, later a “Ward” around 2013, and now it is back in “City” form as of 2022. When the site went down, I reached out to the owner over Twitter and that seemed to have spurred them to rebuild the entire thing to bring it back.

So, what is it? Well it’s a great repository for all things retro Square, mostly within the Famicom and Super Famicom era. So Final Fantasy Adventure, Secret of Mana, and the original Trials of Mana fall right in place. The owner of the site, the Mayor Queen, has an extensive collection of merch and print media from that era along with a very impressive Phone Card collection. Trials of Mana in particular has some very rare and very expensive phone cards that I have opted out of collecting, just to save my sanity (and wallet).

Check out the merch Death Queen Mayor has picked up for these Mana games:
Final Fantasy Adventure
Secret of Mana
Trials of Mana
and even the Mana game that never was, Seiken Densetsu: Emergence of Excalibur
Also head over and see all the other goodness at Death Queen City.

It’s a very cool site, the new layout is particularly stylish, and it will be critical in helping me with my own rebuild of the Merchandise section here on Seikens whenever I can find time to get around to it!

I wonder where Death Queen City will go in the future… Death Queen District? Death Queen Metropolis? Maybe someday we’ll even see a Death Queen Ecumenopolis.

You can now watch the title sequence to the Legend of Mana anime coming out in two weeks! Check it out!

Quite some neat things to see in the video! There are some Jumi we haven’t seen before, which is exciting. I have a feeling the blue guy is likely Sappho, Basket Fish’s friend who gets mentioned a few times in game (and a bit more in the Ultimania guide). Then of course we see Esmeralda’s sisters and Alexandrite (we didn’t technically see them before I guess), and an icy Jumi as well. It’s cool to see the Jumi fighting the skeletons, especially Rubens who we know but don’t know much about! Anyway, we can only hope Basket Fish graces the series, it will really be a shame if Legend of Mana’s most compelling character doesn’t get his time in the spotlight. You can find all of the trailers on the official site, here.

Here is another trailer for the upcoming Legend of Mana anime! This one doesn’t have subtitles unfortunately, but it’s still neat to watch. I was pretty excited to see some monsters appear!

You can find all of the trailers on the official site, here.

The anime Seiken Densetsu Legend of Mana – The Teardrop Crystal will be broadcast starting October 7th, 2022 on 28 stations affiliated with MBS and TBS in Japan as part of the “Super Animeism” block. Doesn’t mean much to us overseas, but you can read the little details about it here. Now, check out the commercial that starts airing today!

It doesn’t show much we haven’t already seen, but it’s awesome that it’s getting closer! No details yet on streaming, unfortunately.

Over at the Wiki of Mana, Rabillion and Swordzman236 have been putting in a lot of work. The wiki opened almost a year ago and is already at over 2000 pages. It’s what you would expect from a Mana wiki: pages and pages of articles covering topics ranging from the games themselves to characters, monsters, items, and anything else you can think of. The wiki is also a treasure trove of images and sprites, some of which were contributed by us here at Seikens!

Currently, they have a big push for documenting the various collaborations the Mana series has had with other games. Did you know Mana characters have appeared in various Square Enix mobile games? Some of the collaborations date back to 2015 and 2016. As you can imagine, this information is not that easy to come by, as transient as mobile game events are, and that’s not even considering any Japan only events or games.

For that reason, they are seeking help! If you know anything about Mana crossovers or about Rise of Mana and Circle of Mana in particular, consider helping out!

Head over and check out what they have so far, here, and consider sticking around and editing! If you’d like to talk to the Wiki crew, you can find them on the Mana Series Discord.

In this video, filmed in 2011, I continued my efforts to complete my Legend of Mana Card Duel collection by opening up another Starter Deck. Make sure to watch the previous video if you have not yet for an introduction to the game’s cards. I had some misconceptions about the number of commons, uncommons, rares, and holofoils back when I was trying to complete my collection. I have only found three Japanese sites that actually detail the game, and two of them are only card lists! The list I had found at the point of filming this video had some serious errors, leading me to make the wrong assumptions in some of these videos.

Again, you can read details about the card game, including the translated rule book and fully translated cards, here.

A special thanks to Sevon (Twitter, pixiv) for the awesome “Card Master Sheexy” art included in the video!

Over a decade later, I finally edited and cleaned up some videos I recorded for the site. In this video I give an overview of the types of cards in the Legend of Mana Card Duel trading card game, talk briefly about Boosters and Starter Decks, open a Starter Deck, and finally sort through my collection at the time. This was the third Starter Deck I ever opened, the first two being opened in 2004 and likely 2006. This video was originally filmed in 2011, along with a handful of others where I open more Starter Decks.

You can read details about the card game, including the translated rule book and fully translated cards, here.
Of specific interest to this video is the page where I detail the Starter Decks for the game, here.
On the Opened Starter Decks page you can look at the details for all of the Starter Decks I have opened, here. This video goes over the Third Starter Deck specifically.

A special thanks to Sevon (Twitter, pixiv) for the awesome “Card Master Sheexy” art included in the video!
There is even a specially designed card that Sevon made, check it out below.

Perhaps the most esoteric page to ever grace this website, Starter Deck Functionality takes a look at how playable eleven of the Legend of Mana Card Duel starter decks I’ve opened up actually are.

I thought it might be interesting to look at what an introduction to the card game would look like from these starter decks that function as very large and poorly randomized boosters. As it turns out, it would not have been very fun.

Maybe someday in the future I’ll put some of these decks back together and give them a whirl.

If you’ve got a penchant for the pedantic, check it out.

Another preview for the upcoming Seiken Densetsu anime, Seiken Densetsu Legend of Mana – The Teardrop Crystal has been released! Check it out below, it’s got English subtitles! It’s pretty exciting to see a lot of these characters. The Heroine, now named Serafina, also appears in the video, but she seems to be interacting with some Faeries, from Niccolo’s Business Unusual 2. Could the two main characters be focusing on different main quests, will she get more involved with the faeries than the Jumi? We’ll have to wait and see, the current release is set for October 2022.

Check out the Character Page of the main site for the anime to see some new art for characters!

You can also find the images in our Gallery.

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