PopoloCrois
video game series
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.
History
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.
Yohsuke Tamori died on April 10, 2026 at the age of 74.
Video games
Years after the manga had ended distribution, Tamori sold the series to Sony Computer Entertainment, who released a series of role-playing video games based on the manga, developed by G-Artists for the PlayStation.
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