Needle Birds, Pumpkin Bombs, Sahagin, Sea Dragons, and Swords have been updated now.

Some of the names in the Bestiary might be a bit off for the English because I don’t have SwoM or CoM on me to double check. Actually as far as I know it never tells you many of their names in CoM, but I know that in SwoM they changed up a few of the names. When I go back over all of the pages and update the data on each monster I’ll get those names right though.

Also I’m getting close to being done with the minor update part, only 19 more files remain. The only problem is they are mostly the pages where all the monsters who don’t fit into an obvious category go. Stuff like plants, living objects, etc. that include lots of different monsters. If you’re wondering how I chose which monsters to give separate pages and which ones not to it all depends on how unique they are and how much they’ve been represented in the series. Now that I’m including the new games though I might have to break a few off into new pages, but we’ll see.

What the Forest Taught Me - Hiroki Kikuta

- Why today?

- Why not?

- Well… ok. I found a lot of Secret of Mana things. These Secret of Mana English Guides (One, Two) are good deals. You can also get the complete game with all the inserts! (One, Two, Three) And if you like the art for the game I’d reccomend buying this Japanese Basic Guidebook!

- Neko, you forgot the Secret of Mana Soundtrack! And while I’m mentioning that, I might as well list the soundtracks from the other games too! Here is the Final Fantasy Adventure Soundtrack which has both the original Gameboy tunes as well as some nice orchestrated tracks, there is the Seiken Densetsu 3 Soundtrack, the Legend of Mana Soundtrack, the Sword of Mana Soundtrack(One, Two), the Heroes of Mana Soundtrack and the Dawn of Mana Soundtrack! Boy that was a mouthful…

- If you’re a real collector you should pick up this Sword of Mana Lenticular Postcard! It’s super shiny!

- Buy this Sword of Mana Four Panel Comicbook. Guys my throat hurts I don’t think I can keep this up.

- Just keep going!

- It is expensive, but I can assure you that you will enjoy this Children and Dawn of Mana Artbook. It has more than 700 pieces of art related to the designing process of both games.

- …

- I think he lost his voice.

- Err… we’re not done yet though, we still need his help.

- …

- Can’t you like, sell stuff through interpretive dance?

- *does a dance about the Legend of Mana Postcard Book*

- Whoa, that was pretty cool! Do some more!

- *does a dance about the neat artworks in the Seiken Densetsu 3 Basic Guidebook*

- The man has talent.

- I’ll say, well, we can take five now. I think we did a good job.

The Howler Family, Iffish Family, and Mushboom Family pages has been updated. Now the Molebear and Pebbler page has been renamed to be the Molebear, Molecat and Pebbler Family page because I threw in those baddies from Dawn of Mana into their category, and it’s updated too.

Again just a reminder there won’t be any solid info on anything from Sword of Mana or later until I get all the pages up to date, and when I get to that point I’ll also put more thought into the layout of images on the page.

Battle 1 ~Believe in Victory~ - Kenji Ito
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The first one is from Final Fantasy Adventure, and the second one is the remastered version for Sword of Mana.
Personally I greatly prefer the original to the remake. The remake sounds too shiny to me, like they relied on that sparkly sound way too much, though I have to admit the drums are a nice addition. To me the original just sounds much more imposing and more like a boss battle should.

But that’s just my thoughts, what do you think?

Elemental Enemies, Eyes, Golems, and Griffin Hands are all up-to-date now.

I also found I completed two more before than I thought I had, so the official count is 34 done 28 to go.

I want to give a huge shout out to Nick, nick912012 on the forums and news comments, for getting me the Sword of Mana and Children of Mana sprites for the Bestiary! They’re not in there yet, but I’ll get them added when I add the information for those games into the pages. Thanks man!

Different Road - Hiroki Kikuta
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The problems with the Bestiary are as follows:

• Broken images everywhere due to the gallery being moved.
• SwoM, CoM, DoM and HoM aren’t mentioned on most of the pages.
• Anchor tags need to be added into every mention of monsters.
• I am incredibly lazy.

That’s a lot of work considering how many pages there are, but I’ve got 27 of the pages completed now, and only 34 more to go, so that isn’t really that bad. The “finished” pages do not, however, have summaries of the monsters from SwoM, CoM, DoM and HoM. They only list the monsters, and that’s all they will do for a while.

But I have a new plan for this section:

I will get as many of these pages as I can to a “finished” version of themselves and then upload whatever I have done at the end of each week until each of them no longer contain the problems I listed above.
After that, since they will still not have summaries from SwoM, CoM, DoM and HoM I will go through them each in alphabetical order and add all the necessary details, fix a few bits and bobs here and there, and even add in new information I’ve learned from the monsters from the Japanese guides. I plan to do one of these a week, and not all the pages will need this treatment.

Anyway, just letting you all know that the Bestiary isn’t dead, even though I’ve ignored it for over a year.

Also… I need to do the merchandise section… but that’ll come a bit later.