![]() ![]() And accordingly, you will find that an entire generation of Japanese gaming owes inspiration to Castle in the Sky Laputa, and Granblue Fantasy remembers that. Before airships, steampunk and magitech were popularised in Japan by Final Fantasy, it was popularised by Miyazaki Hayao. One day I need to write more lengthily about this topic, but for now it’s enough to say that Final Fantasy also had to take its ideas from somewhere, and not only did it borrow from fantasy tropes everywhere, it also borrowed from Japanese media (as is the incestuous nature of Japan’s homogeneous culture). It’s not simply a matter of Granblue Fantasy being a Final Fantasy derivative, though all JRPGs, really, share a common heritage. Perhaps most importantly, I can tell you that Cygames, the company that developed the Granblue Fantasy game, house a few old Square refugees, so if you’re seeing Final Fantasy DNA throughout this pilot episode ( these two are basically super-Celes and Terra-light, right?), you know where it came from. What I can tell you about, and what you can see for yourself, are airships, evil empires, and dragon summons. Or at least it looks close enough on first blush I have never actually played the game-I don’t really play mobile games, in general-so I can’t really tell you what it kind of show an adaptation of it will turn out to be. Well, no proper Final Fantasy anime, but what we do have is Granblue Fantasy, which actually may be close enough. But if the Tales series can manage regular anime series (or at least OVAs), then other JRPG franchises can, too? No? Even a single cour of anime is a lot of commitment, let alone the several that would be required to contain a full-length JRPG, so maybe nobody ever thought it’d be a profitable proposition. We’ve turned all sorts of media into anime, videogames included, so why not a burgeoning franchise like Final Fantasy? You can imagine, say, a FF6 anime, and it would be awesome, right? Or perhaps it would be too much awesome to fit into a single series. Just take one of the numbered games and turn it into an anime. ![]() I’m not talking about some promotional prequel thing, or one of those CGI movies that Square-Enix likes to push out once in a while like Advent Children. Somehow, there has never been a Final Fantasy anime. ![]()
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