Popoi

Popoi (ポポイ Popoi) is a playable character from Secret of Mana. A Sprite from the world of Secret of Mana, they are mischievous and boastful, but caring. Popoi's age and gender are unknown, but they are 3 ft. 1 in. tall and weigh 71 lbs.

Story[edit | edit source]

Randi first meets Popoi at the Dwarf Village, where they are found to be collaborating with the Dwarf Elder to scam people for money at the latter's freak show. Due to a massive flood in the Upper Land that washed them away into Gaia's Navel, Popoi has memory loss and doesn't remember anything about their past. At the Dwarf Elder's suggestion, Popoi joins Randi in hopes of recovering their memories, eventually reuniting with their grandfather in the Wind Palace, but deciding to continue aiding Randi in his quest. Popoi is the most mischievous member of the group and often plays the role of comic relief. As an orphan, they understand how Randi feels growing up without parents. In the Mana Fortress, the party realizes that destroying the Mana Beast will diminish mana and wipe out all of the beings connected to the world by it, including Popoi. Popoi cheers them on to save the world instead. In the ending Popoi fades away along with mana, the final screenshot of the game showing their spirit watching over the world.

Gameplay[edit | edit source]

Popoi's default weapon is the boomerang, also joining with a bow, and their specialty in battle is attacking magic, which delivers devastating amounts of damage from a safe distance. This is especially important because Popoi is the exact opposite of Randi in terms of parameters: Popoi's attack, defense and HP are the lowest of the team, and they learn special attacks with weapons very slowly.

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Circle of Mana[edit | edit source]

Rank	Classes	Quote
SR	迷子の妖精精霊使いエレメントアーチャーエレメントファイター	「へへん！これでオイラも大魔法使いだな！オイラの足手まといになるなよ、ニイちゃん！」
UR	迷子の妖精妖精の子ブーメランマスターエレメントマジシャン	「やったなアンちゃん！さすがはオイラの、いちの子分だぜ！！」
SUR	迷子の妖精妖精の子ブーメランマスターエレメントマジシャン	「食いきれないほどの料理を用意したんだぜ！？お前、チビのくせにどんだけ食い意地が張ってんだよ！」
SUR	迷子の妖精妖精の子ブーメランマスターエレメントマジシャン	「サンタってすげーな！プレゼントをくれる、さいきょうのヒーローかよ！」
SUR	迷子の妖精妖精の子ブーメランマスターエレメントマジシャン	「オイラを子供扱いするな！」
SUR	迷子の妖精妖精の子ブーメランマスターエレメントマジシャン	「ネエちゃん！オイラがついてるぜ！大船にのったつもりで、全部まかしときな！」
SUR	迷子の妖精妖精の子ブーメランマスターエレメントマジシャン	「やめろだって？こんな楽しいことをやめるなんて、勿体ないだろう？もっともっとイタズラしてやるぜ！」
SUR	迷子の妖精妖精の子ブーメランマスターエレメントマジシャン	「あんたの運勢を占ってやるぜ。いい運勢かどうかは、金額次第だな。」
SSUR	迷子の妖精精霊使いエレメントアーチャーエレメントファイター	「イタズラは最高さ！オイラの魔法で、勇者なんかポポイのポイだ！」
SSUR	迷子の妖精妖精の子ブーメランマスターエレメントマジシャン	「へへん、どうだオイラの演技力！アイツけっこう涙ぐんでたぜ」
SSUR	迷子の妖精精霊使いエレメントアーチャーエレメントファイター	「妖精族いちの魔法使いとはオイラの事だい！」
SSUR	迷子の妖精精霊使いエレメントアーチャーエレメントファイター	「何でも思い切りがダイジだぜ！　ドーンとね！！」
LGR	迷子の妖精妖精の子ブーメランマスターエレメントマジシャン	「ちぇーっ。また返事なしかよ。今度こそもう手加減しないからな！！」
LGR	迷子の妖精妖精の子ブーメランマスターエレメントマジシャン	「こんな地味な魔法じゃなく、オイラが派手なヤツ見せてやる！」
LGR	迷子の妖精妖精の子ブーメランマスターエレメントマジシャン	「春の森はいつでも桜が咲いてるけどさ、この時期が特別キレイなんだ。」
SLGR	迷子の妖精精霊使いエレメントアーチャーエレメントファイター	「とにかくタネを見つければいーんだろ？」

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Trivia[edit | edit source]

Early translations of their name spelled it as Popoie.
Gold statues of Popoi are used for saving the player's game in Legend of Mana.
In the original SNES translation, Popoi is referred to with masculine pronouns while on the Sandship. A guard says "He ate up ALL the ship's food!". Another says "'Zat your friend? Show him outta here!" This was most likely an error as the rest of the game follows the Japanese script in referring to Popoi with gender-neutral words. In the remake, this error is fixed.
- A potential reconciliation for the sandship dialogue, in-universe, is simply that the characters speaking are not familiar with sprites and assuming Popoi is male.

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