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Welcome to Otapedia! an Otaku encyclopedia which compiles topics, themes and terms of Japanese Otaku culture from the classics to the newest anime, manga, games series and more!
On each page of the Otapedia database is an archive of information that provides the terms, definitions and explanations of anime, manga, games, official goods, cosplay etc that are loved by Otaku fans all around the world.
Otapedia can be used as a dictionary to find the background, story, history, characters and various terms related to certain works. In addition, Otapedia is an open service in which we gather user feedback to improve the database. It is an encyclopedia service that we create together with you, the fans. Also, original content has been published in Otapedia as a starting point, by our members who are passionate about anime, manga and games. Content will definitely increase! So please make sure to keep an eye out this space!
In addition, Otapedia will strive to bring up-to-date news and details on the latest anime series released every season. With more than 50 new series released per season, there is an abundance of information. So this service is a guide for anime fans to find exactly what interests you! and leads you to the latest anime that matches your interests and tastes the most!
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There are a countless number of anime, manga and game series produced in Japan yearly. Therefore our aim at Otapedia is to organize the terms and definitions etc of the latest works and make information and a wide variety of content readily available to Otaku fans. Check out the categories and series titles and get your hands on in-depth knowledge on the latest and trending series!

The class system in Final Fantasy, a series of RPG style video games produced by Square Enix, also known as the job system or job class system, is a central and recurring component of gameplay whereby a player chooses a specific class or job for characters that starts out as blan...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

The unique role-playing gameplay (RPG) featured in Final Fantasy games, developed by Square Enix has been one of the major reasons fans have loved the series from the beginning of the franchise. Since the release of Final Fantasy 1 in 1987, the franchise has introduced a variety ...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Throughout the Final Fantasy series produced by Square Enix, a number of famous characters have been produced. These characters are a popular choice in cosplay and many enthusiasts dress up for events like KupoCon, a traveling Final Fantasy fan convention. These characters are al...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Cactuars are a recurring group of creatures that appear in the Final Fantasy series produced by Square Enix. They made their first debut in Final Fantasy VI, where they were known as “Cactrots” and later renamed to Cacterus in Final Fantasy VII. They have since appeared in a numb...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Moogles are a recurring race of beings that appear in the Final Fantasy series, which is produced by Square Enix. They made their first debut in Final Fantasy III and have since appeared in a number of spin-off and derivative games like Kingdom Hearts. Along with the chocobos and...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Chocobos are a recurring animal character in the Final Fantasy role playing game series produced by Square Enix. They first appeared in Final Fantasy II and were conceived by Koichi Ishii. They could be compared to the Final Fantasy equivalent of a horse, helping players get arou...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Noctis Lucis Caelum is the protagonist of the role-playing game Final Fantasy XV, which was developed by Square Enix and released on the Sony PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2016, then later released on other platforms.

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Lightning was originally born as Claire Farron and is the protagonist of the Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy XIII. This game was developed by Square Enix and was released on the Sony PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and other platforms. The game is set in the fictional floating ...

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Yuna is a female protagonist in the Japanese role-playing game Final Fantasy X, developed by Square and released on the PlayStation 2 in 2001. She acts as the main protagonist of Final Fantasy X’s sequel, Final Fantasy X-2. Yuna was designed by Tetsuya Nomura, a veteran character...

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Tidus is the primary protagonist of the role-playing game Final Fantasy X, which was developed by Square and released on the PlayStation 2 in the year 2001. He was originally created by Tetsuya Nomura, a veteran character designer of the Final Fantasy series. The game is based on...

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Zidane Tribal is the primary protagonist of the role-playing game Final Fantasy IX, developed by Square and released on the PlayStation in the year 2000. In the game, players follow Zidane Tribal, Garnet and a growing cast of characters as they try to defeat Queen Brahne of Alexa...

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Squall Leonhart is the primary protagonist of the role-playing game Final Fantasy VIII, developed by Square and released on the Sony PlayStation in the year 1999. The game centers on Squall Leonhart and his team of mercenaries who are pitted against antagonist Ultimecia, an evil ...

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Terra Branford (known as Tina in the Japanese release) is one of the main protagonists of Final Fantasy VI, a Japanese role-playing game developed by Square and released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Famicom in Japan) in 1994. She was designed by Yoshitaka Amano and...

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Sephiroth is the main antagonist of Final Fantasy VII, an RPG game developed by Square and released on the Song Playstation 1 in 1997. Sephiroth was designed by Tetsu Nomura. Since his introduction in Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth has made an appearance in the feature film Final F...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Zack Fair is a non-playable character that originally appeared in Final Fantasy VII, a Japanese RPG game released on the Playstation 1 in the year 1997 by Square. Zack Fair makes appearances in a number of other game titles, spinoffs, and remakes, including Before Crisis: Final F...

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Vincent Valentine is a playable character in Final Fantasy VII, an RPG style game released on the PlayStation 1 in the year 1997 by Square. Vincent Valentine shows up a number of other game titles, spinoffs, and remakes, including the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. He also app...

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Yuffie Kisaragi is a playable character that originally appears in Final Fantasy VII, but shows up in a number of other game titles, spinoffs and remakes, including Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. She also appears in Final Fantasy: Advent Chil...

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Cid Highwind is a playable character in Final Fantasy VII who makes appearance in a number of other game titles, spinoffs, and remakes including the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII. Also in In Final Fantasy: Advent Children, a computer animated film that takes place after the ev...

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Cait Sith is a playable character first introduced in Final Fantasy VII, an RPG game developed by Square and released on the Sony Playstation 1 in 1997. Cait Sith was designed by Tetsuya Nomura. Since his introduction in Final Fantasy VII, Cait Sith has appeared briefly in the fe...

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Red XIII is a playable character first introduced in Final Fantasy VII, an RPG game developed by Square and released on the Sony Playstation 1 in 1997. Red XIII was designed by Tetsu Nomura and is designed to be a member of an unnamed feline species. Since his introduction in Fin...

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Aerith Gainsborough is a character first introduced in Final Fantasy VII, an RPG game developed by Square and released on the Playstation 1 in 1997. Aerith was designed by Tetsu Nomura. Since her introduction in Final Fantasy VII, Aerith Gainsborough has appeared in the feature f...

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Tifa Lockhart is a character in Square’s Final Fantasy VII and was created by Tetsuya Nomura. Since Final Fantasy VII, Tifa Lockhart has made appearances in a number of other Final Fantasy Games and spin-off titles and will soon return in the Final Fantasy VII Remake.

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Barret Wallace is a playable character in the role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII, developed by Square Enix. Wallace was created by character designer Tetsuya Nomura, and appeared in the computer graphic film set two years after the events of the game, Final Fantasy VII: Ad...

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Cloud Strife is the main protagonist and made his first appearance in Square’s Final Fantasy VII, and has subsequently made appearances in a number of other releases and spinoffs, including Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII. Released on March...

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The cast of characters in Final Fantasy VII, a role-playing game released on the Sony Playstation 1 in the year 1997 by Square (later Square Enix), have garnered a huge following among fans in the series. They appear in a number of other spin offs, movies, and other media includi...

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The Final Fantasy franchise is one of the few franchise series that have a large range of derivative and spin-off games come from the mainline series. These games are not limited to a single game console as many have also been ported to a variety of different gaming consoles, suc...

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A significant number of the Final Fantasy franchise, remakes, and spin off games have been released on Sony’s popular Playstation Portable system, the PlayStation Portable (PSP). The PSP is a handheld game console developed and released by Sony Computer Entertainment first in Jap...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

There is an extensively long list of Final Fantasy mobile phone games from remakes, spinoffs, console ports, apps and derivative games that have been designed or are in development for mobile platforms including iOS, android, and Windows. Here is a list of the history of currentl...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

The ongoing mega success of Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball Z franchise continues to spawn a massive array of manga, anime, toys, merchandise and of course video games. Over 80 video games featuring the Dragon Ball Z storyline and its characters have been produced by companies such ...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021

Final Fantasy Chronicles is an action role playing game published by Nintendo on the Gamecube and developed by The Game Designers Studio, a subsidiary of Square Enix. The game was released in Japan in the year of 2003 and outside Japan such as Europe, North America, and Australia...

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Final Fantasy Mystic Quest (Final Fantasy USA in Japan) is a role-playing game released by Square in 1992 on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Famicom in Japan) as a spin-off title of the Final Fantasy game series. The gameplay is comparable to that of other flagship...

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Chocobo Racing is a racing genre video game produced by Square that was released on the Sony PlayStation in 1999. Chocobo racing has often been compared to other kart racing games such as the well known Mario Kart or Crash Team Racing. The main star of the game is Chocobo, the ma...

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Chocobo Mystery Dungeon is an RPG video game developed by Square Enix. It was released in Japan on the Nintendo Wii in 2007, and the following year to the rest of the world. A port of the game was released on the Nintendo DS in the year 2008 as a remaster of the game. A related s...

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Final Fantasy Explorers is an action RPG game for the Nintendo 3DS that was released in Japan in 2014 and in 2016 in North America and Europe. The game was developed by Square Enix and includes staple elements of the franchise series such as a job system and well known Final Fant...

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Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Square Enix. It is an abridged version of Final Fantasy XV and was released on the PlayStation 4, iOS, Android, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in 2018. The game received generally positive reviews ...

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Final Fantasy Type-0 is an action RPG game set part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy series developed by Square Enix. It was first released as one of many Final Fantasy PSP games on the PlayStation Portable in October 2011 exclusively for the Japanese market. It was l...

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Dissidia Final Fantasy is a fighting, action role playing spinoff game of the Final Fantasy series produced by Square Enix on the PlayStation Portable. It is one of a number of Final Fantasy PSP games and was released in Japan in 2008 and in 2009 in the rest of the world. Directe...

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Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is a free to play RPG game and a spinoff title of the Final Fantasy series, produced by Alim and Square Enix for iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire devices. It was released in Japan in 2015 and worldwide in 2016. The game is one of a number of Final Fantasy ...

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Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is a tactical RPG game that was released by Square in 2003 on the Gameboy Advance. The game, though not a sequel, Advance shares a lot of things in common with Final Fantasy Tactics, a game that was released in 1997 on the PlayStation 1. The game lat...

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Final Fantasy Tactics, developed by Square, is the first tactical RPG strategy game and the first title in the Final Fantasy Tactics series, released on PlayStation in 1997. The game inspired a re-release in 2007 as Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions on the PSP, one of t...

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The Final Fantasy VII (7) Remake is an upcoming remake edition of the popular Final Fantasy 7, the seventh title of the flagship series Final Fantasy that was released on the Sony PlayStation in the year 1997. It was one of the most successful and influential games of the series....

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Final Fantasy XV (15) is the fifteenth title in the flagship Final Fantasy series, produced by Square Enix and released for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2016, Microsoft Windows in 2018, and as a Stadia title in 2019. The game was directed by Hajime Tabata, produced by Shinji...

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Final Fantasy XIV (14) also called Final Fantasy XIV Online is an MMORPG released by Square Enix in 2010 for Microsoft Windows personal computers. It is the fourteenth title of the flagship Final Fantasy series and is the second MMORPG in the franchise. The game was directed by N...

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Final Fantasy XIII (13) is an RPG video game, the thirteenth release of the flagship Final Fantasy series. It was produced by Square Enix and came out on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, later released on the Windows operating system. The game was released in Japan in December 200...

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Final Fantasy XII (12) is the twelfth title in the flagship Final Fantasy series, an RPG game developed by Square Enix and released on the PlayStation 2 in 2006. The game was directed and produced by Hiroyuki Ito and later re-released as Final Fantasy XII International Zodiac Job...

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Final Fantasy XI (11), also known as Final Fantasy XI Online is an MMORPG type game and the eleventh installment of the flagship Final Fantasy series released by Square (Later to become Square Enix) in Japan on May 16, 2002, for the Sony PlayStation 2. It was released on Microsof...

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Final Fantasy X (10) is the tenth installment in the Square (Later to become Square Enix) flagship series Final Fantasy. It is a RPG style game released on the Sony PlayStation 2 in 2003 and remastered and re-released as Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster for PlayStation 3 and PlayS...

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Final Fantasy IX (9) is an RPG style game and the ninth instalment in the flagship Final Fantasy series. The game was released by Square (Later to become Square Enix) in 1999. This edition of Final Fantasy was the last game to be released on the original Sony PlayStation. It was ...

Last updated at, 12 Jan 2021