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Am I the only one who thought of Ness and his Magicant were similar to Nemo and Slumberland? Way back in December 2015, I watched this animated film titled Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland a movie based on the 1905 comic strips Little Nemo. While I was watching it, the boy Nemo started to make me think of Ness, the dream world Slumberland reminded me of Magicant, and both heroes had nightmare entities representing their fears/inner demon.

I do know that in the original Japanese version, Ness is naked, as nudity is seen as a form of purity in Japan. While in the international versions, he’s in his pajamas just like he was seen wearing during the beginning of the game. Whoever came up with this censorship made me think if anyone known Nemo, since Magicant is a dream world after all and probably someone came up with an idea to make Ness wear his pjs while he was in Magicant similar to Nemo when he’s in Slumberland.

Even though I don’t think there were any influences of Little Nemo within Earthbound/Mother 2, it’s still pretty interesting to think about it.

  Btw there’s an arcade game based on the movie and had some sort of chibi head of Nemo almost resembling to Ness’ face in his overworld sprite. Dunno where it appears though. (Credit to Monfriez who originally ripped the sprites.)