Farmagia

• Title — Farmagia • Developer — Marvelous • Director — Hiromi Sakamoto • Producer — * Tsuyoshi Nagano • Toru Mase • Kenichiro Tsukuda • Designer — Norikazu Miwa • Programmer — Yoshiyuki Takahashi • Artist — Hiro Mashima • Writer — * Hiromi Sakamoto • Makoto Sato • Composer — * Tetsuya Kobayashi • Shioto Hamasaki • Engine — Unity • Platforms — * Nintendo Switch • PlayStation 5 • Steam • Released — November 1, 2024 • Genre — Action role-playing, farm life sim • Modes — Single-player

Farmagia is a single-player action role-playing game and farm life sim in which the player grows monsters from seeds acquired from dungeons called mazes. On the player's farm, actions such as tilling and watering cost stamina called Farmagia Points (FP), which is replenished upon completing a maze. Fertilizers are purchased from the game's magic shop to improve monster growth and shorten the number of in-game days until harvest. The player grows two types of monsters on the farm: Battle Buddies, which are used to battle enemies encountered in mazes; and Research Buddies, which award points used to purchase additional skills and benefits in farming and battle. Additionally, Agri-Buddies are crafted from the game's magic shop to perform farming actions without consuming FP or resources. Once harvested, Battle Buddies are trained on the player's ranch to boost their individual stats. The effectiveness of training depends on the monsters' motivation, which decreases with every stat increase, and is recovered by feeding the monsters with treats. In mazes, the player controls a team of four characters with up to forty to sixty Battle Buddies divided among four different units: close-range attackers, long-range attackers, buffing and debuffing support units, and formation units focused on healing and protection. Each unit is assigned to a button that prompts them to attack a targeted enemy, decreasing their health and stamina. Besides attack and defense, Battle Buddies are used to perform various actions: Unite Blitzes, which combine one unit into a stronger United Buddy; Legion Attacks, during which all of the player's monsters attack a target simultaneously when its stamina is depleted; and Fusion Summons, which combine all units into a Fusion Buddy that damages all enemies on the battlefield. Player characters and monsters receive temporary benefits by equipping Fairy Skills, which are acquired from fairies found in fairy pods or purchased from the shopkeeper Charlot, and are reset after the player exits a maze. The game's story is divided into twelve chapters, featuring 2D visual novel-style cutscenes. As the player progresses through the story, they form pacts with Elemental Spirits that unlock access to more Fusion Buddies. The game also features in an affection system in which the player upgrades their Fusion Buddies by deepening their relationships with each monster's corresponding Elemental Spirit.

Farmagia is set in Felicidad, a land in the underworld where its human-like denizens magically farm and grow monsters to use in battle and society, with these farmers known as Farmagia. Denizens live atop continent-sized monsters that serve as Felicidad's landmasses, with the town of Centvelt on the "continent" Avrion serving as the game's central hub. The continents are protected by the six Elemental Spirits, who strengthen any Farmagia with whom they form a pact. The player characters are a party of young Farmagia orphans from Centvelt, consisting of Ten, their bold and reckless leader, and his childhood friends: Arche, a cheerful yet sickly girl; Leii, Ten's self-conscious best friend; Chica, Arche's pacifistic friend; Emero, Chica's older brother figure; and Anzar, the group's admired senior. A fairy named Lookie-Loo, who lacks conventional Fairy Skills, is also part of the group. They are guided by Nares, Avrion's altruistic ruling general, and Dentro, the orphanage's elderly caretaker. The primary antagonists are Nares' fellow generals from the Oración Seis, who govern the other continents and oversee monster production on behalf of Felicidad's ruler, the Magus Diluculum. Its members are Glaza, a tyrannical archmage who rules the continent Nadeyat'sya; Manas, a mad scientist who rules Perfectus; Corpus, the brutish yet honorable ruler of Rahatluk; L'Oreille, the treacherous and sadistic ruler of Sonrisa; and Lisan, a bewitching newcomer to the group who rules no continent.

Following Diluculum's death from old age, Glaza establishes an oppressive regime over Felicidad as its new Magus, while Nares leads Avrion in rebellion against him. Ten battles Glaza's legion when they invade Centvelt, but is defeated by their masked commander, Zanas. Nares rescues Ten and accepts him into Avrion's army alongside Leii, Arche, Chica, and Anzar, who help him drive Zanas' forces out of Avrion. Under Nares' command, Ten's party is tasked with freeing the other continents by securing their Elemental shrines and eliminating their Oración Seis generals, who have allied with Glaza. They also reunite with their missing friend Emero, now a soldier of Perfectus, who sides with Avrion after learning that Manas has been turning his subjects into mindless demi-beasts in experiments to produce the Farmagia Hyperion, the ultimate life form. After killing Manas and Corpus, the party learns that Glaza has placed a deadly curse on Arche to blackmail her into deciphering Diluculum's grimoire, which is written in ancient Heavenly Scripts only she can read. Arche warns her friends that the grimoire contains knowledge of the Harvest Festival, a spell that reaps the souls of every denizen and monster on a continent. During the party's operation on Sonrisa, L'Oreille murders Lisan and betrays Glaza in an alliance with Zanas, leaving Glaza to be killed by the party, which lifts Arche's curse. In the process, Zanas is unmasked as Anzar, who has been working against Glaza and L'Oreille for his friends' protection. Despite Anzar securing the grimoire, L'Oreille reveals she has already learned the undeciphered spell and casts it on Nadeyat'sya, absorbing all its souls before being killed by the party. In the aftermath, Diluculum reveals himself to have staged his own death and consumed the Oración Seis's souls to restore his youth. Abducting Nares and resurrecting the other generals, Diluculum transforms all but his knowing servant L'Oreille into demi-beasts and sends them to rampage across Felicidad. The party is forced to kill the generals while Diluculum prepares to reap all souls in Felicidad with the Grand Harvest Festival. Through clairvoyant dreams experienced by Arche, the party learns that the archangels Diluculum and Eleonora created Felicidad and its denizens alongside Dentro—their seraph friend—after a failed uprising against God, who would consume human souls to amass power; when God cursed Eleonora to rapidly age to death, Diluculum consumed her soul to preserve her vital connection to the Elemental Spirits, which also passed her curse onto him. Driven mad with grief, Diluculum intends to strengthen himself with Felicidad's souls to kill God, having created the Oración Seis and its candidates—including Ten and his friends—to advance his goal. Diluculum successfully casts the Grand Harvest Festival after Dentro allows him to absorb his soul. Ten survives the spell by drawing strength from his friends, which awakens him as the Farmagia Hyperion; meanwhile, Diluculum's strength quickly deteriorates due to him consuming Dentro's soul, unaware that Dentro's old age was a slowed effect of God's curse. Ten revives his friends, and together they defeat Diluculum and restore Felicidad along with the souls lost in the Grand Harvest Festival. The party then become Felicidad's new leaders, the Dragons of Centvelt, returning the land to prosperity. Meanwhile, God's messenger Charlot—a cherub who had been controlling Lisan—chooses not to report Ten's awakening to God out of fondness for the party, sparing Felicidad from God's interference.

The game was announced at the Marvelous Game Showcase in May 2023 under the title Project Magia, with Hiro Mashima designing the characters and monsters. The current title was revealed at the following showcase in May 2024 along with the game's release year and opening sequence. The game's theme song is "dis-dystopia", an image song performed by Ayane Sakura and Inori Minase as the characters Arche and Chica, respectively. Farmagia was released worldwide on November 1, 2024, published by Marvelous for the PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Steam, with Marvelous USA handling the game's release in North America. Following the game's launch, Marvelous released weekly "buddy skins" for in-game monsters as free downloadable content throughout November 2024.

• Name — Farmagia

• Type — tv series • Director — Shinji Ishihira (chief) Toshihiko Sano • Writer — Toshizō Nemoto • Music — Shūhei Mutsuki • Studio — Bridge • Licensee — * Crunchyroll (streaming) • Network — Tokyo MX, MBS, BS11 • First — January 10, 2025 • Last — March 28, 2025 • Episodes — 12

• Portal — yes An anime adaptation was announced on June 20, 2024, and began development during the game's production. The television series is animated by Bridge and directed by Toshihiko Sano, with Shinji Ishihira serving as chief director, Toshizō Nemoto handling the series composition, Toshiomi Iizumi designing the characters, and Shūhei Mutsuki composing the music. The Japanese voice cast reprises their roles from the game. The anime's writing and direction is inspired by the style of Hiro Mashima, the game's character designer, including homages to Mashima's previous works Fairy Tail and Edens Zero. It premiered on January 10, 2025, on Tokyo MX and other channels. The anime's opening theme is "Life is Beautiful" performed by Asian Kung-Fu Generation, while the ending theme is "miss-dystopia" performed by Sokoninaru. Crunchyroll is streaming the series. Medialink licensed the series in Southeast Asia and Oceania for streaming on Ani-One Asia's YouTube channel and other streaming platforms.