Ariana Grande is actually a video game character now
Pop star and bonafide Japanophile Ariana Grande has achieved a type of immortality: She's going to be a guest character in a Final Fantasy game.
Grande gave fans on Instagram a peek at her adorable and very true-to-life character, called DW, and the process behind it. The character is wearing the black bunny ears she wears on the Dangerous Woman album cover.
And of course, it wouldn't be an Ariana Grande character without the long ponytail.
Her character will be in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, a free-to-play mobile RPG for Android and iOS. The game first launched in Japan in 2015 and became available in North America in June 2016.
Here she is in a meeting.
And here's a pic of a photoshoot she shared not too long before the announcement.
No more details or release date yet for the character. Mashable has reached out to the game's Japanese owner, Square Enix, for comment.
But in the meantime it seems like Grande is pretty stoked about the whole thing, and so are her fans.
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Congratulations Ariana; looks like all those Japanese lessons are paying off.
Liza Hearon was the Deputy Editor for Mashable UK. Liza started her career in journalism writing about punk bands for a 'zine in Florida, and her wanderlust has led her to work for news organisations in Russia, Japan and now London. Prior to joining Mashable, she was the European homepage editor for the Wall Street Journal. Liza loves podcasts, karaoke and really, really spicy food.
