PoPoLoCrois

PlayStation exclusive

PoPoLoCrois is the heart-warming story of Pietro, the prince of the PoPoLoCrois Kingdom, and his adventures to save his family, the world and everything else between.

Released: 10 February 2005
Platforms: PlayStation PlayStation Portable
Genres: Role-playing Strategy
Developers: G-Artists Sony Computer Entertainment
Publishers: Agetec Sony Computer Entertainment Ignition Entertainment
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Fantasy

About

PopoloCrois (ポポロクロイス物語, Poporokuroisu Monogatari) is a fantasy media franchise created by Yohsuke Tamori (1951-2026) and owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It originated as a manga series in 1977 in the Asahi Student Newspaper (a subsidiary of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper). Its title, pronounced (PO-po-lo-croyce), is a combination of words from two languages: the Italian word "Popolo (people)" and the French "croisé (crossing)", which together mean "crossing of people". The franchise is geared towards a young Japanese audience, with the general theme of the series being love, compassion and racial equality. The franchise consists of a manga series, role-playing video games, two anime series in 1998 and 2003 and a series of novels.

Keywords

anime
magic
summoning support
compilation
multiple protagonists
airplane
heroes
boss fight
digital distribution
based on - anime
tactical turn-based combat
world map

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Development

PopoloCrois was first published in November 1978 in the women's magazine Pafu (ぱふ). In October 1984 the cartoon was published in the Asahi Shimbun Student Newspaper, which is considered the official start of the PoPoLoCrois series.

In 2013, Yohsuke Tamori and Atsuko Fukushima teamed up to create spin-offs Popolocrois novel called Maya Mensis Aureos that was published by Kaiseisha; it is ended as a trilogy.