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A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things Lived On

I wrote about Slimes in the Dragon Quest series eleven years ago, and mentioned the fact that they were inspired by Creeping Cruds from Wizardry, but Akira Toriyama drew them as cute. There was also a mention of Slimes in … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Cartoons, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Food, Games, Gender, Japanese, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged akira toriyama, amoebas, at the mountains of madness, bavarois, black pudding, creeping cruds, custard, dungeon!, dungeons and dragons, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, flan, flan princesses, gelatinous cubes, green slime, h.p. lovecraft, jelly, moon, mousse, nuppeppo, onward, oozes, pink puffs, pudding, queen slime, she-slimes, shoggoths, slime, slimes, the blob, wizardry, world of final fantasy, yokai |

Monster Masters

I might as well review the books related to the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series that I received for my birthday, since I’ve finished reading them. Dragon Quest Illustrations, by Akira Toriyama – This collects some of Toriyama’s drawings … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged akira toriyama, chocobos, demons, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest illustrations, dragon quest iv, dragon quest monsters, dragon quest v, dragon quest vi, dragonlord, dragons, final fantasy lost stranger, final fantasy ultimania archive, grandmaster nimzo, greattree, hazuki minase, imps, itsuki kameya, king satan, kleo, manga, milly, mine yoshizaki, minotaur, moogles, murdaw, shogo sasaki, slib, slimes, square enix, terry, watabou, xenlon, yoshitaka amano, yuko sasaki, zoma |

Dragon Divinity

I can think of a few different video games with dragon gods, or at least dragons with celestial powers. I suppose that fits in with the East Asian conception of dragons, where they tend to be heavenly beings rather than … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Babylonian, Breath of Fire, Cartoons, Chinese, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Games, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Japanese, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Shinto, Video Games | Tagged agni, akira toriyama, amaterasu, bahamut, breath of fire ii, breath of fire iii, chrono cross, chronopolis, czar dragon, demons, diabolos, dinopolis, divinegon, dragon ball, dragon god, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest v, dragon quest vi, dragonians, dragons, dungeons and dragons, fate, final fantasy vi, frozen flame, harle, hoderi, hoori, incest, infinity dragon, izanagi, izanami, kaiser dragon, ladon, lavos, magicite, otohime, pyrospheres, reptites, rudra, ryujin, shenlong, shinryu, st. eva, super mario rpg, tamayori-hime, tiamat, toyotama-hime, ugayafukeiazu no mikoto, urashima taro, watatsumi, xenlon, zenith, zenith dragon, zenithia |

Monster Jam

When I discuss mythological beings, I usually like to mention when they appear in video games, with the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy series being two of the main candidates. Then again, some of the video game monsters are true … Continue reading →

Posted in Dragon Quest, Focus on the Foes, Monsters, Mythology, Video Games | Tagged akira toriyama, archdemon, aswang, bag o' laughs, belial, bloody hand, bullwong, canniboxes, demonites, demons, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest vii, drolls, druins, final fantasy iv, gold golems, golems, goodybag, goopi, graboopi, gremlins, imps, kiling machines, lunaticks, mech hunters, mimics, mindemons, muddy hand, ozwargs, robots, torneko taloon, urnexpecteds, well demons, zarlox, zebbot |

Ready, Abel, and Willing to Dai

While the Dragon Quest series is only moderately popular here in the United States, it’s huge in Japan, so it’s not too surprising that there would be spin-offs. Occasionally there are official translations of these as well, but most of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Dragon Quest, Monsters, Television, Video Games | Tagged abel, abel yuusha, akira toriyama, aliahan, avan, baramos, chiu, crocodine, dai, dai no daibouken, daisy, demon lord vearn, demons, dodonga, dragon ball z, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon warrior, dragons, estark, janack, legend of the hero abel, manga, marm, marquis de leon, moko, pop, princess leona, tiala, wolves, zoma |

It’s Slime Time

The Dragon Quest series was hardly the first to include sentient slime monsters. In fact, they seem to be pretty standard in fantasy role-playing games. According to this, producer Yuji Horii was directly inspired by the Creeping Crud from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Dragon Quest, Television, Video Games | Tagged akira toriyama, antidote spell, babble, creeping crud, cureslime, gem slime, ghostbusters, healer, healie, healslime, king healslime, king metal slime, king slime, liquid metal slime, liquid slime, man o' war, medislime, metabble, metal babble, metal slime, monsters, slime knight, slimer, slimes, the real ghostbusters, the trojan dragon, wizardry, yuji horii |