Mana!

[A Black Falcon]

Legend of Mana was cool, but yeah, I can see what you mean about how it's a sidestory... I guess that means that Mana 4 will be back to a more classic Mana-game feel, then? But then what about Children of Mana... graphically it looks a lot like the past few Mana games, after all, but it doesn't have the main series label on it... and remembering that Sword of Mana is Mana 1, I wonder what that means about it. Is it just the common convention to pretend that handheld versions don't count when counting the number of titles in a series (which Mana didn't follow before, obviously)?