Final Fantasy Tactics 2025: Cloud and Aerith’s Tragic Romance Retold (With Voice Acting!)

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles marks the latest remake of the 1997 game Final Fantasy Tactics. With polished graphics, gameplay enhancements, and voice acting, this 2025 release is likely to be hailed the definitive way to play Tactics - and not only because it's the game's first foray into modern consoles and PC. This … Continue reading Final Fantasy Tactics 2025: Cloud and Aerith’s Tragic Romance Retold (With Voice Acting!) →

Cloud and Aerith’s Marriage Prophecy Returns in Ever Crisis

Mobile phone game Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis has been around for a few years now, but only in last night's update did it's abbreviated retelling of the Final Fantasy VII story finally reach the climactic end of the original game's disc 1. OG players - and really, most fans of Final Fantasy whether they … Continue reading Cloud and Aerith’s Marriage Prophecy Returns in Ever Crisis →

No, Cloud and Aerith Don’t Have a Brother-Sister Relationship

It's a tale as old as love triangles in pop culture media: one side's superfans will try anything to try to disprove and invalidate the other. Fandom veterans might've heard this one before: the ship you like is actually sibling-coded and therefore wrong. That feeling when your sis asks you not to fall in love … Continue reading No, Cloud and Aerith Don’t Have a Brother-Sister Relationship →

Did Aeris Know the “Real” Cloud?

A major argument against Cloud and Aeris's romantic relationship is that Cloud and Aeris only interacted in disc 1 of the game - a period in which Cloud was knee-deep in his identity crisis, which was not resolved until the game's second disc. Auxiliary claims allege that Cloud is actually role-playing Zack in disc 1, … Continue reading Did Aeris Know the “Real” Cloud? →

The Perfect Girl For Cloud, According to Cloud’s Mom (Hint: It’s Aerith)

After Aeris contracts Cloud to be her bodyguard (in exchange for one date), she brings him to her house in Sector 5, where she lives with her mother, Elmyra. It's a quaint, homey cottage surrounded by flower gardens - a sharp visual contrast from the rest of the cyberpunk junkyard of Midgar's slums that Cloud … Continue reading The Perfect Girl For Cloud, According to Cloud’s Mom (Hint: It’s Aerith) →

30th Anniversary “Farewell” Exhibit Featured Clerith

In honor of the Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary in 2018, from January 22 to February 28, Square Enix held a “Farewell Stories Exhibition” at the Mori Arts Center Gallery in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo. As the title implies, the exhibits were focused on the sad "farewell" stories of the Final Fantasy series, exploring tragic good-byes and … Continue reading 30th Anniversary “Farewell” Exhibit Featured Clerith →

Aerith’s Theme is a Romance Song: Its Legacy of Love and Marriage

https://youtu.be/n0H6kTppjP8?list=PLOLBWlPQqPksIcApr9kIlnBYL1GmW0LCx The iconic theme song of Aeris is undoubtedly one of the most memorable in Final Fantasy VII, partly due to its powerful and melancholic chord progression, and partly due to the heart-wrenching scene at which it most infamously plays. It is a somber and beautiful piece of music with a reputation as a staple … Continue reading Aerith’s Theme is a Romance Song: Its Legacy of Love and Marriage →

No, Aerith isn’t wearing the hair bow Zack gave her

In Crisis Core, we meet an Aerith who is conspicuously bow-less for the first time in her video game character career. Sure enough, Crisis Core has Zack buy Aerith a pink bow to wear. Origin story of Aeris wearing a hair bow? Not quite. First, Aeris may not be wearing a hair bow at the … Continue reading No, Aerith isn’t wearing the hair bow Zack gave her →

Ota City of Gunma Prefecture, Japan, Will Open “Aeris’s Little Forest” Garden on June 5

Ota City in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, has just announced the new name of a renovated English-style garden: エアリスの小さな森公園, or "Aerith's Little Forest." Source: Ota City Twitter Named of course after our Aeris Gainsborough of Final Fantasy VII, this park will open on June 5 for visitors. Nearly 14,000 square meters large, it features a "garden" … Continue reading Ota City of Gunma Prefecture, Japan, Will Open “Aeris’s Little Forest” Garden on June 5 →