

Shinra シンラ , Shinra ? Enemy appearances Boss Biographical information Home Celsius Affiliation Gullwings Occupation Technical expert Physical description Race Al Bhed Gender Male Gameplay details Type Non-player character Behind the scenes information Designer Tetsuya Nomura Japanese voice actor Akeno Watanabe English voice actor Pamela Adlon

I'm just a kid. Shinra

Shinra is a young Al Bhed boy who serves aboard the Celsius in Final Fantasy X-2. A technical prodigy, he designed the Garment Grid system and the CommSphere communicators, helps decode the various spheres the Gullwings locate, and designs a display sphere for Yuna's concert.

Shinra rewards the Garment Grid The End for completing the optional activity of recording visual data of the applicable monsters in the game in their Oversoul states for Shinra's Bestiary. Enemies encountered in Oversoul state are listed in red.

Like many character models in Final Fantasy X-2, Shinra is recycled from an unrelated non-playable character from Final Fantasy X. He wears a mask with an ochre visor, and a brown full-body suit with lime green mittens. His suit has a blue collar.

His visage under the body suit is unknown, and the Fiend Tale endings in International+Last Mission and later versions add a recurring joke on Shinra's mysterious nature as a person who never removes his bodysuit. In YAC-13's ending, he short-circuits when trying to analyze Shinra's gender. In Skink's ending, after failing to get a kiss from all the maidens he's approached, Shinra kisses him, but it's ambiguous if this cures his curse. In YAC-62's ending, he's about to reveal Shinra's secret, but Shinra shuts him down.

Although Shinra is intelligent and knows it, he is still very much a child and is often heard singing the Gullwings' theme song. When faced with a conundrum the others expect him to solve, he retorts with: "I'm just a kid!" Shinra cuddles up to Yuna on the eve of the final battle, like a child saying goodbye to his mother or elder sister.



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Shinra appears with an Earth-elemental card.



Behind the scenes [ edit | edit source ]

Both Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega and the Final Fantasy X-2 Ultimania, suggest that Shinra of Final Fantasy X-2 has a connection to the company of the same name in Final Fantasy VII.

Shinra is a boy who supports the Gullwings, the group which the main protagonist, Yuna, belongs to. He carries a name that gives him an association to the Shin-Ra Company, and he is researching a method that could utilize the energy of 'the life force that flows through our planet'. The results of this cannot be seen in FFX-2, but maybe one day his descendants will establish a 'company that supplies the energy of the planet'? Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega, translated by Ryu Kaze/Ryu Sinclair[1]

Kazushige Nojima has said the following:[1]

After quitting the Gullwings, Shinra received enormous financial support from Rin, and began trying to use Vegnagun to siphon Mako Energy from the Farplane. But, he is unable to complete the system for utilizing this energy in his generation, and in the future, when traveling to distant planets becomes possible, the Shin-Ra Company is founded on another world, or something like that....... That would happen about 1000 years after this story, I think. Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Omega, translated by Ryu Kaze/Ryu Sinclair

Director of Final Fantasy VII, Yoshinori Kitase, has commented on this, saying Shinra in Final Fantasy X-2 was created by Kazushige Nojima who thought it might be good if people would imagine that Shinra would grow up and start the Shinra company.[2] In an interview with EDAMAME Arcade Channel, Kitase confirmed that the world of Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X are connected.[3]

In an interview with a French Final Fantasy website Finaland Nojima commented on the link thusly: "This story is a bit of a joke. When we created FFX-2, we wanted to create something, a totally new world. Except that when I created it, I realized that it looked a lot like FFVII... But without realizing it. Afterwards, when it was officially said in Ultimania, it took a completely gigantic proportion when it was just an anecdote."[4]

In Final Fantasy VII Remake a photo of the Shinra company's founders includes a man wearing the same mask as Shinra. According the "Secrets" chapter of the Final Fantasy VII Remake Ultimania, the man's mask is indeed supposed to be a reference to the Shinra of Final Fantasy X-2.[5]

Shinra is voiced by Akeno Watanabe in the Japanese version and Pamela Adlon in the English versions.

Shinra's name is an allusion to the Shinra Electric Power Company from Final Fantasy VII. In a Mar 4th, 2020 interview, Yoshinori Kitase explained that the word "SHINRA" derives from the word "myth" in Japanese (神話, shinwa?) because SHINRA was about becoming god and controlling everything.