#maya mahabala

[bikwin5]

early chapter 5

[xbuster]

DQまとめ by Mahoshiki

[spacevixenmusic]

DRAGON QUEST IV REFERENCE SPOTTED

[bethany81707]

So, continuing adventures in Itadaki Street Portable:

Medal Princess has not been kind to me, but second does allow me to advance, so I've been sneaking on by on the success of these two bozos. The final map is the Ghost Train, which is one of my favourites.

And it starts off swimmingly. That 77 was followed up by someone getting Hocus Pocus "all Paper Shops are now Straw Shops"- an effect that basically means "all tiny shops expand to be worth 50G to land on", and increasing the stock prices in all the districts that I now happen to have stock in as well. Every payment gives me 10G regardless of to who. I'm on top of the world.

And climbing. 79, incidentally, is the best card at stealing that last property you need for a monopoly-

And I happened to have just the shop I needed.

What were the CPUs up to? Oh, Sephiroth's managed a big set over on the other side of the map, but I got my way into there first, just in case something big happened. And it did. Victory is assured.

And then Fran gets trapped on this side. This costs her all her stock and two properties.

Tempting, but I'll pass. I have what I need and more than enough to be getting on with.

...Slightly concerning, but not too much so. She's an AI, she'll make a lucky escape next move and will more or less by easy pickings later.

I don't really want Sephiroth getting these triples, but he's got the same bottlenecking issues I do, and I'm not paying that much for them. If he wants to pay, I'm happy to make him.

(He has paid so much that he still has to sell stock after getting 5% of his net worth for free from his Temple.)

...Uh, Fran, you were supposed to make a lucky escape and survive this lap.

Fran?

FRAN!?

So hey, that's the story of how I was poised to sweep this board, but Sephiroth stabbed Fran in the back to get out of having to suffer it. I did technically win (even if I didn't get very many trophies for Gil), but damn was that a very hilarious way to get a disappointing end.

For what it was worth, Maya was a very appropriate animation for this. Very "stay silly" energy.

[deetheartistda]

Dragon Quest IV’s Maya Mahabala. That’s it. That’s the post.

[topazlight]

this popped into my head abruptly and wouldn't let me rest until I saw it realized

[syd-beads4evac]

wtf your friend lovingly dances for you & your gf

been a long time since I drew DQ Maya...

[zabkazee]

Inktober 2018, Day 28 ✒ Meena & Maya (Dragon Quest IV)

I think I was familiar with these two through fanart before I was even aware of the Dragon Quest series. xD

Sadly broke my “no inkwash” rule for this year, but I really didn’t want to throw out my wrist so close to the finish line.

★ Dragon Quest Art | Commission Me | Twitter | Instagram | Ko-fi | Facebook | ETSY ★

[adamworks]

Hi there!

Chapter IV: Meena and Maya and the Mahabala Mystery The hardest chapter until now!

[briannamarkay]

Would look soo cute doing a Maya Mahabala cosplay #q #dragon quest #maya #darkskin #exotic #Anime #manga (at Cape Town, Western Cape) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBGlDAbHZrZ/?igshid=43fi2airgk39

[shadyfacewolf]

Maya Mahabala by 1987arevalo on @DeviantArt

https://www.deviantart.com/1987arevalo/art/Maya-Mahabala-827192378

[starduststarcrossed]

Maya Mahabala (Dragon Quest IV) for an art trade with a friend on dA. C:

[spacevixenmusic]

Pour one out for every time my heart skipped a beat while watching Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai (1991) and thinking I was finally about to see a DQ4 character but got juked.

See, part of the reason I put this anime on my list oh so many years ago now is because I grew up with the Dragon Warrior games on NES, and 4 in particular was one of my world-reshaping JRPGs (I feel like most everyone has at least one JRPG they played in their childhood or teen years that completely rocked them to their core; this was one of mine). In the early 00s when I learned what Google Image Search was, I got really into looking for fan art of characters I had only seen previously as pixel sprites. And while looking up DQ4 characters (I only knew their early NA translation names, not the modern ones they have today), I saw an image of what I THOUGHT must have been a screenshot from an anime featuring two of my favorite characters from DQ4. I only saw that one image by itself and nothing else like it, so I figured if it was a screenshot it must have only been like one scene in one episode, so it probably wasn't a big deal, but it was still cool and stuck in my memory for years.

Eventually, I found out that there was in fact a Dragon Quest anime, about original characters and an original plot with no direct ties to any of the games I grew up with. But it sounded like it could be fun nonetheless, and hey, maybe it still did have that screenshot after all! So now here I am in 2023, finally got around to watching it and keeping my eyes peeled for that so-called screenshot, just in case. This is also a big reason I watched the 91 anime instead of the new 2020 one, even though the 91 version doesn't cover the complete manga series. I've been catching all the little references to DQ trivia and monsters that I know along the way, but it's been mostly centered on stuff from DQ 1-3, with 4 mostly only reflected in the background music (which in hindsight makes sense, given that the game debuted around 1990, and the anime aired in 91-92, adapted from a manga that started in 89).

Anyway, I'm 99% positive now that what I saw back then was not, in fact, a screenshot of Mara and Nara (oh sorry, guess I should use their modern names now - Maya and Meena Mahabala), but just a really cool fan art. A mild disappointment, but I can't fault the anime for that. Now I wonder if I can still dig up that fan art to show what I was talking about...

[bakothemimic]

There are honestly only three rules for writing Balzack/Baalzack.

1) Balzack is the human form and the first transformation form. The second transformation who looks like a blue Pruslas is Baalzack. (Note: Baalzack says that the monsters actually took to calling him Baalzack so he did not come up with the name himself. So she isn't quite Asgore.)

2) Balzack murdered Mahabala for the Secret of Evolution. (Note: If Maya and Meena ever have any interaction with Balzack after this happens... well revenge is the only reason Maya and Meena are travelling across the world in the first place.)

3) At least in the localizations, Balzack is French.

And yet somehow Dragon Quest Heroes 2 missed literally all of these. They still call him Balzack after transformation, Maya and Meena treat him like some random encounter, and he isn't even French! 

Shameful, honestly.

[limitglove]

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