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Today we have a finger puppet from Sword of Mana sitting atop the pop-up book Mana Tree from the Secret of Mana remake.
The final episode of the anime has aired, and you may have noticed some things were a bit off.
The beginning of the episode was completely recycled from the last one, some scenes seemed to start and end suddenly, and there were a lot of close-ups on faces.
Well it seems that the episode had to be aired before everything was finished, because a “Director’s Cut” version of episode 12 will be aired at a later date.
More details to come on distribution in January 2023, according to the official site’s news section.
I’m going to eventually put together my thoughts on the series as a whole, and each of the episodes, but now that I know the Director’s Cut is coming I’m going to hold off for the time being.
Preorders for the Shiloh Nendoroid are being taken between December 22nd 2022 and February 1st, 2023.
It comes with a Li’l Cactus.
Over in the The Teardrop Crystal section of the site you can now find a Glossary page.
All of the glossary entries were translated by me, and come from the official Twitter account for the anime. These tend to be posted a little while after each episode. Only Episode 09 seems to have no glossary entries associated with it. The final glossary entries should be coming up shortly after the airing of the finale of the series this Friday.
The entries seem to be mostly written for viewers of the anime who are unfamiliar with the original game, but seasoned veterans of the series may find some interesting tidbits in them.
I may go back and add some images to this page later on, as the Twitter posts each had a screenshot associated with them, but I’m on vacation for the holiday and don’t have a good way to add them in at the moment.
Over at the main site for the anime, you can find a second online exhibition link.
This one is titled “cave” whereas the last one was “house” and took place in the MC’s house. so naturally this one takes place in the Mekiv Caverns.
You can walk down the entrance of the cavern, checking out some scenery settings and some character art, and eventually you end up in a big room with a life sized Du’Cate.
I tried crawling around in the edges of the cave to look for secrets, but got bored and decided to update the episodes page instead.
Let me know if you find anything!
Back at it again, Super Groupies has some more limited time Mana Merch on the way. This time, there are nine items spread across three characters for Legend of Mana: The Teardrop Crystal. The deadline to order is December 19th. Edit: As of December 7th, they are sold out.
Shiloh’s gear has a brown, light blue, and red accented theme going to it, reminiscent of his character design. The watch in particular is the big winner here, though I’m not sure why it only has nine artifacts on it. They’re all the lands related to Jumi Quests of course (and Madora for some reason? the anime I guess), but I feel it’s an odd choice regardless. The interior of the bag and wallet have a very cute design going on, I’d love a set of sheets made from it. Also, fans of the Jumi arc will notice a certain phrase on it, “Tadaima” or “I’m back”, that is sure to pull at your heart strings. Final note, the Li’l cactus charm on the bag and wallet is great.
Elazul’s gear goes for black and dark blue, with just tiny highlights of green and red on it. I feel they missed the mark here a bit, I would not associate black with his character design. The watch does look rather striking, with that little hat thing on it, but the bag and the wallet really don’t say Elazul to me. The interior patterns are just a handful of shattered gems, none even in his color. The wallet shows off the core and green color a bit more, while the bag keeps the core tucked away hidden and has a darker version of the green on the sides.
Pearl’s gear is almost completely black and white with a slight tinge of nacre, or mother-of-pearl. The watch has the pattern from the bottom of her dress on it, but is otherwise very plain. The bag and wallet have the same design across them, but now in plain white rather than nacre. The bag in particular has a big boxy feel, which doesn’t match Pearl’s character to me. The interior of the bags are ocean themed, showing off Blackpearl’s conch hammer and some pearls and shells, which is cute but very understated. Finally, a her white pearl core appears on the both the bag and wallet.
I gotta say, I feel Pearl got the short end of the stick here, but overall these are lacking compared to the Super Groupies Secret of Mana Merch I posted about last month.
What do you think?
At GoodSmile‘s new product exhibition gallery “WonHobby Gallery 2022 AUTUMN” two Legend of Mana Nendoroids were revealed.
They provided an image of a Painted Shiloh and a Prototype Serafina.
They look pretty nice! I hope we get more characters as well, and also maybe some more proportional figures/statues later on.
EDIT: Turns out they’re one step ahead of me. Here are some Pop Up Parade statues that were posted on Twitter.
We’ve got another note from Sandra in the latest episode? Can you read what it says?
It’s a bit small, but you should be able to make it out using the key:
I’ve got the answer after the break:
Just a small note, here on the main page where it’s more visible.
Every week I update the Episodes and Gallery for Legend of Mana: The Teardrop Crystal. It seems they put new episode information out pretty early, so be warned the images/descriptions likely include spoilers!
I also included translations of Li’l Cactus’s diary entries for the episodes. I may tweak them here and there, as it’s pretty punishing to puzzle out precisely what the potted poet is purporting to pen.
Another small thing, I rearranged the site menu on the right side. Legend of Mana seemed to be large enough to support its own listing.
Oh no! Sandra left a secret message, and we have to decode it to figure out what is going on!
Luckily, Li’l Cactus here has the key!
Hey, that’s not a key! That’s the silver pendant from the World of Mana campaign that Children of Mana and Dawn of Mana released under.
The Mana Sword looks absolutely tarnished, though! It practically turned back into the Rusty Sword at this point.
Take better care of your stuff, Li’l Cactus!
Oh, you have a nice clean one too. That’s cool I guess.
But what does this have to do with Sandra’s note?
Oh, I see! According to the Art of Mana book, the Mana Sword is inscribed with text in the Fa’Diel language. It apparently says “There is love in Mana. There is Mana in love.” very interesting!
Let us take a closer look at that lettering.
Looks like it actually says “Love is in Mana, Mana is in Love”!
We can clearly see the letters A, I, and N repeated a few times within half the phrase. From there, we can make a few assumptions and the letters seem to fall into place nicely.
Say, I wonder if the letters match anything in Sandra’s letter?
We’re getting somewhere! Using what Boyd said, we know she was talking about the Flame of Hope and she must have signed her name, Sandra. Things start to fall into place again!
We’ve got it! How cool is it that they are still using that alphabet over 15 years later?
Keep your eyes open for more text in the anime (Li’l Cactus appears to be using it in the first episode, and Reverend Nouvelle’s book has a lot)!
Here are all the letters we know so far, for your convenience!
And here is Sandra’s note rewritten, just for good measure. Special thanks to Sevon for lending a steady hand for the writing in this post, my chickenscratch would have left us all wondering what was going on.
EDIT:
Mataxia over on The Mana Series Discord reminded me that this was covered in one of the older books! I probably saw this a long time ago, but forgot about it as I don’t have the book on hand anymore. Thanks Mataxia for the image!
Long time Seikens forum member, Kimiko, had a lot of luck figuring out Li’l Cactus’s diary from episode 1 in the comments below!
TODAY I HEARD A
STORY ABOUT TWO
LITTLE SORCERERS
TRYING TO BECOME
THE RULERS OF
Kimiko also found that Nouvelle’s book title appears to just be part of the common “Lorem Ipsum” filler text. I kind of expected that, but it’s good to have confirmation! Thanks Kimiko!
