Zipangu
Info
Zipangu is a sub-continent located in MapleSEA. It can be accessed by heading to any townand speaking to an NPC named Perry who charges a fee of 3k mesos to go to/come back from Zipangu. Zipangu is largely based on Japanese culture, and many NPCs, maps and monsters reflect this.
Places
Zipangu consists of two main towns. Mushroom Shrine, which is a city modeled after ancient Japanese culture, and Showa Town, which has a Yakuza theme to it. The monsters surrounding Mushroom Shrine are generally weak, with monsters like Orange Mushrooms and are meant for lower leveled characters.
The monsters surrounding Showa Town, however, are generally much stronger and meant for higher level characters. This makes Zipangu, as a whole, a good training area for both lower leveled and higher leveled players.
Aside from the areas surrounding the two towns, there is also a Cemetary accessed by a hidden portal at "Crow Forest" . This cemetary is filled with monsters like Ghosts, Coolie Zombies, Night Foxes, Zombie Mushrooms, Bains and Dark Gollems. This makes it a generally good place for clerics/priests to train, as most monsters here can be healed for damage and are weak to holy.
There are many areas to visit in Showa town. There is a sauna that recovers your HP and MP faster. In it also lies a hidden training map, filled with Red Slimes and Jr Effies. There is also a parlour that you can enter once a day, which contains the infamous boss Anego.
Bosses
Zipangu has extremely powerful enemies, such as the Big Boss (Grandpa) and Mushdad, a level 90 big mushroom, much like Mushmom. Anego is also another boss found in Showa. There is the Male Boss as well. Both Anego and the Male Boss are feared by most maplers, because they deal insane damage. For example, the touch damage of the Male Boss can go higher than 4,000, while Anego has a slapping skill that does as much as 18,000 damage!
Notes
- Zipangu was released in MSEA at 11/15/06
- Zipangu is the english name version of the Japanese Jipang. Jipang was derived from the chinese word japan "日本"(pronounced as zhe pen) plus some english sounds.