Farmagia

In Felicidad Underworld, farmers who can produce monsters from seeds and befriend them are called Farmagia. One of the world's five continents, Avrion, is home to a spirited Farmagia, Ten, and his friends—Chica, Arche, Leii, and a fairy named Lookie-Loo. They spend their days in peace, cultivating their fields alongside their monsters.

Everything changes when the Magus, the leader of Felicidad, unexpectedly dies. Oración Seis, the six generals serving the ruler directly, choose one of their own, Glaza, as the new Magus. However, Glaza plans to renounce those without powers and elevate only the talented ones. Worse still, his forces attack Avrion to separate it from the rest of the world.

With the help of their allies, Ten and his friends resist the invasion. The party, each with their own creatures, must now rise up and fight to save Felicidad from imminent doom.

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Ten Main

Amasaki, Kouhei Japanese

Chica Main

Minase, Inori Japanese

Arche Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Leii Main

Tsuchida, Reiou Japanese

Lookie-Loo Main

Tanezaki, Atsumi Japanese

Diluculum Supporting

Tsuda, Kenjirou Japanese

Lisan Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Beezer Supporting

Ishikari, Yuki Japanese

Aider Supporting

Tezuka, Hiromichi Japanese

Charlot Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Katou, Masazumi Producer

Tsunoda, Akira Producer, Episode Director

Wanibuchi, Motohiro Producer

Jin, Hongji Assistant Producer

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Apr 11, 2025

patkarunungan

Recommended

'Farmagia' is an anime that has a reputation for being bad. I originally wanted to watch it 1) to get some taste for what's bad to feel the contrast between what I consider good to great, and 2) to lower my MAL average score.

The truth is, it has some things that make me cringe and some aspects that make it decent or good.


§ Overview

After the death of the world of Felicidad's ruler, one of the Oración Seis, Glaza immediately sets himself up as the ruler.

Glaza's minions immediately attack the Avrion continent where the protagonist Ten and his friends live. In response, Ten and his ... friends must fight Glaza and other members of the Oración Seis to regain their freedom.


§ Notes


1. This is Fairy Tail meets Pokemon/Digimon. The characters were designed by Mashima Hiro, the mangaka of Fairy Tail. Although Mashima did not write Farmagia, there are clear parallels. Ten corresponds to Natsu; Leii corresponds to Gray; and Arche corresponds to Lucy (perhaps). Both main characters have pets; Lookie-Loo corresponds to Happy. (I don't know the analogues for Chica and Emero.)


2. With the usual disclaimer, if you don't like Mashima's works, you will not like this anime. The same goes if you like his works.


3. If I were a person who usually drops anime, I would have dropped this before reaching halfway. I was facepalming at how dumb the characters were. It was not encouraging.

I suggest that you keep at it. It gets better.

In fact, the character designs don't seem to pop initially. But by the end of the anime, you will know which is which because of how invested you become in their respective story arcs.


4. I love that we get the respective story arcs of each protagonist, and this makes them so memorable. This is in sharp contrast to so many anime that have an ensemble but fail to characterise and give justice to each cast of characters. (I'm looking at you, 'Promise of Wizard' and 'Cheer for You.)


5. The opening song for Farmagia is decent. Some dislike it, but come on. It's from Asian Kung-Fu Generation, the band that sang one of the bangers of the original Fullmetal Alchemist.

The ED by miss-dystopia is okay but has the energy to become a banger.


6. The animation is decent enough compared to the usual, but it probably pales in comparison to top-tier battle shounen. (By the way, the source material is a game so we don't have the usual demographic categories as shounen, shoujo, seinen, and josei. But with the way the content is too similar to Fairy Tail, it's safe to use the term shounen.)


7. The pacing is mostly decent. At first, the events are happening so fast that it seems it's not good pacing. But after watching, you realise that the 12-episode format has helped this anime. Even if you feel that the anime is bad or cringe, as I often experienced, because the cringe aspects are similar to Fairy Tail, you can't help but feel that each episode is way better than the average episode of Fairy Tail. The single cour format made the director only to include the essentials and not bother creating fillers that don't add much to the plot.

Thus, plotwise, Farmagia is good.


8. You can, however, nitpick some plotholes such as the personnel not being too numerous for a continent. It's not perfect but decent.


9. Its greatest strength is the lore and world building. Despite my wanting to hate this anime, this is an aspect that convinced me that this anime is not really bad.

I won't spoil you because the world of Felicidad's mythology is tied directly to the plot. I will list though the place names. If you got a kick out of the character names in Frieren as German words that characterise the characters, you might like this aspect.

• Felicidad, which is the world our characters are inhabiting. It means happiness in Spanish.

• There are five continents within Felicidad, and I like the map.

1. Avrion. You can't find a meaning for it, but it seems related to the word of French origin, avion, which is any machine that flies or an aeroplane.

2. Perfectus. Latin for perfect.

3. Rahatluk is the Bosnian concept of 'the art of enjoying.'

4. Sonrisa is Spanish for smile (or even forced smile).

5. Nadeyat'sya is Russian for hope.


§ Conclusion

Farmagia is that one anime considered by others as bad. Indeed, it has some cringe elements. Yet, I was surprised that it has so many decent elements that I cannot ignore.

I'm grading it a 5 and a recommended mark. It's not bad and can be good. It's hampered by how the characters can act like idiots, and this prevents me from giving it a higher score.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Feb 1, 2025

Almus

Mixed Feelings

Well-written

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

This is like Digimon, meets Fairytale, meets RWBY. It's really cheesy monster fighting, with noble idiotic child heroes. The artstyle is very inconsistent between animation and very obvious cgi that doesn't even match. And by the power of friendship, they will defeat the villains that resemble Yugioh antagonists.

Now I'm rating this as "Mixed Feelings" because I can't exactly say this show is bad. If I were still 12 years old then I might have liked this show much more than I did. But those days are past and this title wasn't for me. After four episodes in, I didn't see a single stand-out quality ... to make this show shine, so I wouldn't recommend it... but if you have a younger viewer who cares more about action than content, then they might still like it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 30, 2025

Salvatierra21

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to people who like these types of games I recommend that they just go play the game so as not to fall asleep with this sleepyhead, I now understand why the video game studio in charge of Farmagia collaborated with Mashima because with him they save a lot of time in character design and script, all he has to do is copy Fairy Tail and recycle terms already overexploited in his previous works until when do you have to listen to an organization called Oracion Seis I know that a mangaka has his own style that is seen in his works but this reached the ... ridiculous and mediocre zero originality in the plot, the same simple ecchi of a lifetime and the characters you can't stand them that's why it's better to play the game like that as I said you will keep your mind busy and you won't fall asleep

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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