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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 (95 cm) and weigh 71 lbs (32 kg).

Story[]

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 game screenshot shows their spirit watching over the world.

Gameplay[]

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.

Other appearances[]

Circle of Mana[]

Rank Image Classes Quote
SR SR 0009 SR 0010 SR 0011 SR 0012 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 UR 0025 UR 0026 UR 0027 UR 0028 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 SUR 0145 SUR 0146 SUR 0147 SUR 0148 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 SUR 0185 SUR 0186 SUR 0187 SUR 0188 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 SUR 0477 SUR 0478 SUR 0479 SUR 0480 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 SUR 0597 SUR 0598 SUR 0599 SUR 0600 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 SUR 0997 SUR 0998 SUR 0999 SUR 1000 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 SUR 1121 SUR 1122 SUR 1123 SUR 1124 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 SSUR 0105 SSUR 0106 SSUR 0107 SSUR 0108 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 SSUR 0149 SSUR 0150 SSUR 0151 SSUR 0152 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 SSUR 0949 SSUR 0950 SSUR 0951 SSUR 0952 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 SSUR 1025 SSUR 1026 SSUR 1027 SSUR 1028 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 LGR 0077 LGR 0078 LGR 0079 LGR 0080 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 LGR 0613 LGR 0614 LGR 0615 LGR 0616 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 LGR 0625 LGR 0626 LGR 0627 LGR 0628 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 SLGR 0093 SLGR 0094 SLGR 0095 SLGR 0096 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?」

Final Fantasy Brave Exvius[]

Echoes of Mana[]

In Echoes of Mana, Popoi appears while the Chapter 2 and Chapter 5. In Chapter 5 Quilto/Quilta searching for a Fairy for heading out to the holy Manaland. While a dialog with Fairies from their village, Popoi suddenly appears. The Fairy from Trials of Mana told about: "Nooo!? Only humans chosen by a fairie can have the Mana Sword." Popoi said: "Really? I don't remember choosing Big Bro? He kinda just found it." This means: Popoi is a Fairy from Holy-Manaland.

Trivia[]

  • 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 in the Dwarf village, and later 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 in 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.
    • Echoes of Mana still uses gender-neutral words for the sprite. Echoes of Mana also reveals that Popoi is in fact a Fairy. Other Fairies in the Mana series are interpreted as female.
    • Popoi uses the masculine-leaning pronoun オイラ, a dialect variant of 俺, in the Japanese version (and the more polite ボク during the con trick in the dwarven village). Note that Japanese pronouns are typically not limited to only one gender, but simply indicate degrees of masculinity, femininity, age and social status.

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