# Farmagia

Farmagia (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese action role-playing video game developed and published by Marvelous, with character designs by manga artist Hiro Mashima. It was released worldwide for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and Steam on November 1, 2024. An anime television series adaptation produced by Bridge premiered in January 2025.

## Gameplay

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 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. Additionally, 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 a certain Elemental Spirit.

## Plot
### Setting and characters

Farmagia is set in Felicidad, a fictional 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 game's player characters are a party of young Farmagia consisting of Ten (Paul Castro Jr. / Kōhei Amasaki), their bold and reckless leader, and his childhood friends from Centvelt's orphanage: Arche (Deva Marie Gregory / Ayane Sakura), a cheerful yet sickly girl; Leii (Bryson Baugus / Reiō Tsuchida), Ten's self-conscious best friend; Chica (Suzie Yeung / Inori Minase), Arche's pacifistic friend; Emero (Darrel J. Delfin / Hiro Shimono), Chica's older brother figure; and Anzar (Chris Hackney / Takuya Satō), the group's admired senior. A fairy named Lookie-Loo (Joe Zieja / Atsumi Tanezaki), who lacks conventional Fairy Skills, is also part of the group. They are guided by Nares (Kira Buckland / Mikako Komatsu), Avrion's noble-minded ruling general, and Dentro (Jamieson Price / Shigeru Chiba), the orphanage's elderly caretaker.
The primary antagonists are Nares' fellow generals from the Oración Seis, who govern the other continents on behalf of Felicidad's ruler, the Magus Diluculum (John Patneaude / Kenjiro Tsuda). The group's leader is Glaza (Doug Stone / Ryūsei Nakao), a tyrannical archmage who rules the continent Nadeyat'sya. The other generals are Manas (Khoi Dao / Koki Uchiyama), a mad scientist who rules Perfectus; Corpus (Sean Burgos / Tetsu Inada), the brutish yet honorable ruler of Rahatluk; L'Oreille (Erin Yvette / Sayaka Ohara), the treacherous and sadistic ruler of Sonrisa; and Lisan (Laura Post / Yoko Hikasa), a bewitching newcomer to the group who controls no continent.

### Story

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. After Ten's party drives Zanas' forces out of Avrion, Nares entrusts them with liberating the other continents by securing their Elemental Spirits' shrines and eliminating their ruling Oración Seis generals. They also reunite with their missing friend Emero, now a soldier of Perfectus, who defects to Avrion after learning that Manas has been turning his subjects into mindless demi-beasts in experiments to create the Farmagia Hyperion, the ultimate life form.
After killing Manas and Corpus, Ten's 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 Arche 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, whom the party learns has been secretly working against Glaza and L'Oreille for his friends' protection. L'Oreille performs the Harvest Festival on Nadeyat'sya and absorbs all its souls before being killed by Ten's party, ending the war.
In the aftermath, Diluculum reveals himself to have faked his own death and consumed the Oración Seis' 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, forcing Ten's party to kill them while he prepares the Grand Harvest Festival, which would reap all souls in Felicidad. 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 afflicted Eleonora with a curse that rapidly aged her to death, Diluculum consumed her soul to keep her vital connection to the Elemental Spirits intact, 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 further 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. Ten and his friends then become Felicidad's new leaders, returning the land to prosperity. Meanwhile, God's messenger Charlot—a cherub who had been controlling Lisan—chooses not to report the awakening of Ten's power to God out of fondness for Ten's party, sparing Felicidad from God's interference.

## Development and release

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.

## Reception

Aggregate scores :
| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | NS: 64/100 |
| OpenCritic | 36% recommend |
Review scores :
| Publication | Score |
| Nintendo Life | |
| Nintendo World Report | 6/10 |
| RPGFan | 75/100 |
The Nintendo Switch version of Farmagia launched at #8 on Japanese charts, selling 4,296 physical copies within its first three days of release, making it the only new release to chart in the top ten games sold that week.
The game received "mixed or average" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. Reviewing the Switch version, Paulo Kawanishi of Nintendo Life praised the character designs, writing, and technical performance. However, he criticized the farming aspect of the game, noting the lack of variety regarding the designs of its dungeons, monsters, and the farm itself. Leigh Price of Siliconera considered the game to be mediocre, calling its farming and training aspects "undercooked", but enjoyed the story and sidequests for their character writing. Abraham Kobylanski of RPGFan found the game's monster-farming premise to be bizarre, describing the story as both "strange but captivating" and "uneven", and praising the music and dating segments while criticizing the game's farming aspect as an "afterthought".

## Other media

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, Toshizo 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.

### Episodes

| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original release date |
| 1 | "The Seeds of War" Transliteration: "Senran no Hajimari" (Japanese: 戦乱の始まり) | Toshihiko Sano | Toshizo Nemoto | Shinji Ishihira | January 10, 2025 (2025-1-10) |
| In the underworld Felicidad, monsters are grown from seeds by farmers called Farmagia to serve as companions and other facets of society. Ten, a young Farmagia orphan who has not yet accepted a monster of his own, strives to grow himself the strongest monsters and join the Oración Seis, six generals who govern Felicidad under its ruler, the Magus Diluculum. When Diluculum suddenly dies, his position is assumed by his longest-serving general, Glaza, who proposes a caste system designed to purge Felicidad of its weakest denizens. That night, Glaza's army launches a surprise attack on Centvelt, Ten's hometown on the continent Avrion, which is ruled by Nares, the only general to reject Glaza's leadership. During the chaos, a masked Farmagia razes Centvelt's orphanage and monster farm, which only Ten's crops survive. Ten salvages one of his crops, which produces a pack of Fang monsters that he uses to challenge the masked Farmagia alongside his friend Leii. ||||||
| 2 | "Avrion in Revolt" Transliteration: "Hangyaku no Aurion" (Japanese: 叛逆のアウリオン) | Chako Sano | Toshizo Nemoto | Toshihiko Sano | January 17, 2025 (2025-1-17) |
| Ten's Fangs and Leii's Arkies are able to injure the masked Farmagia, Zanas, but are outmatched by Zanas' Dubhalchan Tiarna. Nares rescues Ten and Leii after defeating Glaza's invasion force with her Leviathan Rosso, a powerful monster summoned by her Fusion technique, but a strike team of Glaza's soldiers disconnects Avrion from the Neural Road, a system of portals between Felicidad's continents. After Zanas retreats, Nares declares rebellion against Glaza and the rest of the Oración Seis, who have allied with him. Nares devises a plan to capture the continent of Perfectus, Felicidad's center of transit; Nares sends Ten and Leii there with their friends Arche and Lookie-Loo as a commando squad to defeat its general, Manas, while their other friends Anzar and Chica join Avrion's main force to distract Manas' army. Anticipating Nares' strategy, Manas impedes Ten's party with his own subordinates, one of whom they recognize as their long-lost childhood friend Emero. ||||||
| 3 | "Reunion in Enemy Territory" Transliteration: "Tekichi no Saikai" (Japanese: 敵地の再会) | Yūto Nakamura | Toshizo Nemoto | Toshihiko Sano | January 24, 2025 (2025-1-24) |
| Emero renounces his old friends as traitors, having pledged loyalty to Manas for saving him from his presumed death. After Ten's party defeats his attendants Zucchero and Gâteau, Emero escapes with them by performing a Unite Blitz—an advanced Farmagia technique his friends have not mastered—to combine his Salamad monsters into a more powerful Salamander. Ten believes he can persuade Emero to switch sides by reuniting him with Chica, Emero's closest friend. Zanas attacks the team, but is forced to retreat upon the appearance of a demi-beast, an uncontrollable monster. When Ten kills the demi-beast with his Fangs, he and his friends have a sudden vision of Manas experimenting on Gâteau with a caterpillar-like monster in his palace orchard. Later, as part of a string of recent disappearances in Perfectus, Gâteau is reported missing after his earring is found covered in a Fang's claw marks. Manas presents the earring to Emero, who concludes that Ten has killed Gâteau. ||||||
| 4 | "The Ties That Bind" Transliteration: "Musubitsuku Kizuna" (Japanese: 結びつく絆) | Shigeki Awai | Toshizo Nemoto | Toshihiko Sano | January 31, 2025 (2025-1-31) |
| Emero attacks Ten's party over Gâteau's death, but relents when they explain their vision of Manas' orchard from their recent demi-beast encounter. Suspecting that Manas is connected to the disappearances, Emero returns to the palace, where he and the party find Zucchero partially transformed into a demi-beast. Manas confirms that Gâteau and the other missing people became mindless "Lost" demi-beasts in his failed experiments to create the Farmagia Hyperion, the ultimate Farmagia, with Gâteau being the monster Ten killed; he forces Zucchero to complete his transformation by feeding on the souls of Myosotises, the caterpillar monsters grown in the orchard, which turns him Lost. Emero reluctantly kills Zucchero and turns against Manas, who becomes a Reaper—a sapient demi-beast—and attacks the party. Inspired by the devotion of his party's monsters, Ten successfully Unites his Fangs into a Cerberus, which aids Emero's Salamander in killing Manas. Emero leaves to process his thoughts, but not before Ten invites him to follow them to Rahatluk, Avrion's next target. After the party returns to Centvelt, Arche suddenly collapses from fatigue. ||||||
| 5 | "To the City of Muscle" Transliteration: "Kinniku no Miyako e" (Japanese: 筋肉の都へ) | Hiroshi Maezaki & Kayoko Suzuki | Junichirō Ashiki | Shinji Ishihira | February 7, 2025 (2025-2-7) |
| The bedridden Arche remains behind on her team's mission to Rahatluk, which they infiltrate as merchants to defeat its battle-obsessed ruler, the Oración Seis general Corpus. After a visit from her friends, Arche is privately contacted by Glaza as a countermeasure against Avrion. Chica stows aboard the team's wagon, desperate to reunite with Emero, whom she believes will agree to Ten's invitation. When the team discovers her, their arguing over whether or not to look for Emero prompts her to search on her own, but she is quickly captured and imprisoned by Corpus' guards. Corpus, who is eager to challenge Avrion's Farmagia following their defeat of Manas, is disappointed to learn that Chica was uninvolved and violently rebukes her for her submissive behavior. At Zanas' suggestion, Corpus takes her as a hostage to lure her friends into battle. The team happens across Emero while searching for Chica before they are attacked again by Zanas, who reveals Chica's captivity to them. ||||||
| 6 | "Over My Dead Body" Transliteration: "Shikabane o Koete" (Japanese: 屍を越えて) | Fumio Itō | Junichirō Ashiki | Shinji Ishihira | February 14, 2025 (2025-2-14) |
| After Zanas departs, Corpus' servant Sivan brings Ten's party to Corpus' arena, where they battle Corpus for Chica's freedom. Witnessing her friends' struggle, Chica overcomes her own passiveness and joins the fight, performing a Unite Blitz that combines her Ribbhet monsters into a Necroakmancer. The party continues to struggle when Corpus assumes his Reaper form until Ten declares his intent to protect Felicidad's denizens, momentarily assuming a green-haired form that increases his power. Ten's unborn monsters react to his power and are sent to his side by Dentro, the caretaker of Centvelt's orphanage, arriving as fully grown Griffies, which Ten Unites into a Grifone. The party defeats Corpus, who allows himself to be dealt a fatal blow; he decrees Rahatluk's alliance with Avrion before dying, revealing that he only joined Glaza for his people's protection and organized the battle to test the party's worth. The party returns with Emero to Centvelt, where Chica expresses concern over Corpus' knowledge of their plan, leading Nares to suspect the presence of a spy on Avrion. ||||||
| 7 | "The Price of Truth" Transliteration: "Shinjitsu no Daishō" (Japanese: 真実の代償) | Akira Tsunoda | Junichirō Ashiki | Toshihiko Sano | February 21, 2025 (2025-2-21) |
| Arche goes missing during a homecoming celebration for Emero. Led by the party's acquaintance Charlot, Leii finds Arche making a phonecall to Glaza in an alley. Arche confesses that Glaza is forcing her to decipher the continent-destroying Harvest Festival spell written in his grimoire, having placed a deadly curse on her that can only be broken by his death. Dentro recognizes the curse and prepares medicine to offset its effects, sending the party into the forest to retrieve a rare mandrake root as an ingredient. They are challenged over the root by Oración Seis member Lisan, who destroys all but one of the roots and seduces the party with a love charm. Reminded by Lookie-Loo of their bond, Ten negates the charm with the power of his green-haired form. Lisan surrenders the root and retreats after briefly battling the party in her Reaper form. Following her recovery, Arche is cleared of suspicion of being the spy, whom Dentro realizes is someone else. Meanwhile, Lisan is decapitated by her fellow general L'Oreille, who is targeting the rest of the Oración Seis; her death is sensed by Charlot, who is revealed to have been possessing Lisan. ||||||
| 8 | "The Chosen One" Transliteration: "Erabarashi Mono" (Japanese: 選ばれし者) | Yūto Nakamura | Toshizo Nemoto | Toshihiko Sano | February 28, 2025 (2025-2-28) |
| Ten's party arrives at L'Oreille's continent of Sonrisa to defeat her with Anzar's support, but she, Zanas, and Glaza surround them during Anzar's absence. However, L'Oreille and Zanas betray Glaza and steal his grimoire, depriving him of much of his power. In retaliation, Glaza destroys Zanas' mask and reveals him to be Anzar, the true spy. L'Oreille and Anzar trap Glaza inside a barrier with Ten's party before retreating. Glaza assumes his Reaper form and attacks the party with a swarm of magical eyeballs. Arche performs a Unite Blitz in defiance of Glaza, transforming her Turnie monsters into a Rad Turnie. Following Anzar's earlier advice, Arche fills the barrier with her monster's pollen to blind Glaza, allowing Lookie-Loo to use his sensory powers to guide the party in destroying the eyeballs. Ten then achieves a Fusion with his Cerberus and Grifone, which combine into a stronger monster that destroys the barrier and kills Glaza, lifting Arche's curse. After Avrion captures L'Oreille's castle, L'Oreille offers to negotiate peace with Nares on Nadeyat'sya, Glaza's former continent. Nares tentatively accepts, attending with Ten's party in her bodyguard force. ||||||
| 9 | "The Three Angels" Transliteration: "Sannin no Tenshi" (Japanese: 三人の天使) | Hiroshi Maezaki & Kayoko Suzuki | Toshizo Nemoto | Shinji Ishihira | March 7, 2025 (2025-3-7) |
| L'Oreille casts the Harvest Festival on Nadeyat'sya in a surprise attack against Nares. Anzar protects his friends before falling into a crevice, while Nares remains behind to hinder L'Oreille as Dentro teleports the others to Avrion. The souls of Nadeyat'sya's inhabitants are fed to the still-living Diluculum, who publicly announces his plan to reap all of Felicidad's souls with the Grand Harvest Festival. En route to a Neural Road to the Magus' lair, Dentro tells Ten's party that he and Diluculum are angels who created Felicidad alongside Diluculum's lover, Eleonora, whom the malevolent God cursed to age rapidly after the three rebelled against Heaven; Diluculum suffers from the same curse due to absorbing Eleonora's soul in an attempt to save her. Seeking to become the Farmagia Hyperion and kill God, Diluculum has performed multiple Harvest Festivals to regain his youth, hastening the curse's effects with every casting. Dentro also reveals that Ten and his friends were created by Diluculum, reasoning that they were born inherently powerful to advance Diluculum's goals. When the group reaches the Neural Road, L'Oreille emerges through it. ||||||
| 10 | "Through the Darkness" Transliteration: "Yami o Nukete" (Japanese: 闇を抜けて) | Sumio Watanabe | Junichirō Ashiki | Shinji Ishihira | March 14, 2025 (2025-3-14) |
| L'Oreille, who has allied with Diluculum to satisfy her sadistic urges, assumes her Reaper form and magically removes Ten and his friends' senses except for pain and hearing. Leii recognizes L'Oreille as the same monster that killed his friend Anemone, whom he abandoned out of fear as a child. Reliving his trauma from the incident, Leii runs away as L'Oreille attacks his crippled party. While reflecting on his cowardice, Leii realizes L'Oreille's sense-stealing ability comes from a mystical bell she carries. He rejoins his friends and summons a Cuckoo-Doodle from Centvelt's farm to dampen the bell's noise with its screeching, allowing his Arkies to destroy the bell. He then Unites his Arkies into a Karkinos, which he and Ten combine with the latter's Grifone into a Nova Phoenix through Fusion, killing L'Oreille. Dentro sends the party to the Magus' lair, where they find the reanimated bodies of the other generals, including Nares, who all transform into Reapers. ||||||
| 11 | "A Brother's Path" Transliteration: "Ani no Michi" (Japanese: 兄の道) | TBA | TBA | TBA | March 21, 2025 (2025-3-21) |