Research for Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy)

Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and is developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square). The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and science-fantasy role-playing video games (RPGs), but includes motion pictures, anime, printed media, and other merchandise. The series began in 1987 with the eponymous video game conceived by Sakaguchi as his last-ditch effort in the game industry; the title was a success and spawned sequels. The video game series has since branched into other genres such as tactical role-playing, action role-playing, massively multiplayer online role-playing, racing, and fighting.


In My Own Words
Hironobu Sakaguchi created a successful on going, best selling franchise. Final Fantasy has become a best selling franchise in the gaming industry. With thirteen main titles to date and many spin offs. The tradition of the franchise is to make a a completely new story, setting, characters, music and many other changes to each instalment but still sticking to the traditional Final Fantasy feel, rarely do they make a sequel to a certain installment, such as Final fantasy X-2. I think this is a really good way to treat each installment to the franchise, it keeps each game fresh and new without the franchise going stale from same story and characters.


References 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hironobu_Sakaguchi

Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli, Inc.  is a Japanese animation film studio founded in June 1985. The company's logo features the character Totoro (a large forest spirit) from Hayao Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro. It has its headquarters in Koganei, Tokyo.

Several anime features created by Studio Ghibli have won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award, including: Castle in the Sky, in 1986; My Neighbor Totoro, in 1988; and Kiki's Delivery Service, in 1989. In 2002, Spirited Away won a Golden Bearand an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, which it remains the only film made outside the English-speaking world to have done so.

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