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☆ I just read the first chapter of the OMORI Manga. It is amazing. The art is very well done and I like how they drew Basil's hair. It was kinda surprising though with the different pacing. I was expecting Sunny to get the Horror Mari jumpscare when opening the door. It's just Kel. I also really like how they drew Kel in the manga. Btw I read it on KManga, I just downloaded off the play store. But I think they have a website if you don't want to download it. :D ☆
☆ KEL ☆
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im so curiouss. whats everyones thoughts on the omori manga announcement?
HELLO HELLO THE OMORI MANGA IS OUT I AM NOT IN ANY WAY SANE AHHHHHHHHHHHH
Anyway have some thoughts I suppose!
First of all, it is scarily fast paced. We have several hours of gameplay summarised in one manga chapter.(which, to be fair, is pretty long yay)
I am also kind of upset that the impact of sunny’s choice to open the door for Kel just—isn’t there. With the pacing of the chapter, we barely register that he’s a hikkikomori, it hasn’t sunk in yet, then oh look, Sunny opened the door for Kel! Sunny’s choice to open the door, to go outside and greet his friend for the first time in years, is simply another panel in hundreds, before we’re dragged into Basil! Aubrey! More Drama!
Second of all, I think it’s quite interesting that they chose to reveal the Violin and HellMari so early in, as it was intended to be the “big twist” at the end of the video game. Not sure why they did this, and it’s…kind of disappointing, given the importance of suspense and foreshadowing in the original game.
I suppose much of what I’m complaining about is simply the pacing.
However, it is only the first chapter, and we can’t tell for sure that it’s going to be a disaster. We don’t know for sure, and I plan on continuing the Manga until we do.
Even if it ends up being mid, we have illustrated character interactions to look forward to <3
BASIL MY BOY AAAAAAA
I drew some shots from the Omori Manga
I really really like the style- I kind of wanna study it in the future~
Shots from the Manga under the cut
Foreshadowing in Omori and its manga: a critique
I'm back again, although it's been a while since I've written anything. I'm waiting on more Dreamscape chapters to formulate an analysis on Mari.
Omori Spoilers and Omori Manga Spoilers under the cut
Omori has poor foreshadowing, in the manga and the game, but for different reasons. And I can tell from one chapter.
Firstly, a rundown on the narrative device itself - foreshadowing provides an advance hint toward the events of the story. It's a very common device, but it's actually relatively difficult to do well. There's a very fine line between too obvious and too subtle, especially with the expectation of twists.
Foreshadowing in these types of psychological horror games tends to be very subtle, take Doki Doki as an example, and further foreshadowing in games like Yume Nikki is so subtle that the reality of the world isn't even evident at all. While this can be frustrating for the players, it's actually incredibly important, allowing you to theorise and discuss.
In the original Omori game, foreshadowing was often too abstract and subtle to be properly understood by a player - and this was fundamentally because there foreshadowing was so widespread, it overwhelms the player as they attempt to discover the truth.
Let me cite an example. Daddy Long-Legs belongs to a group I'll call the "Truth creatures" - characters like Stranger, the various Somethings, Hellmari, Phobias etc. He exists in a portion of Pyrefly Forest which foreshadows the truth of Headspace. But he's purposeless as a character otherwise, he only appears in a corner of Black Space 2 that is practically inaccessible to those on the Truth route. Why would you introduce a new character, one who becomes irrelevant, to foreshadow a part of the game that would be far better foreshadowed by Stranger? Someone who is actually relevant? This convoluted choice feels unnecessary, adding characters for the sake of subtlety.
In a similar way, the Somethings, Phobia bosses and Hellmari are loosely linked, and it's not quite explicit where each comes from and the relevance of each to the truth. Where's the distinction between the Mari Something and the others? Where does the game show me an explicit difference between the formation of Something and the formation of the Phobias? Why aren't Hellmari and Something more related, considering the events that formed them? A better foreshadower would be able to accurately make these distinctions, leading to overall better contrast between the recital day and the formation of the Phobias.
This is also incredibly obvious in Black Space, where the foreshadowing and symbolism ramps up. I will say it here, there is no way anyone will ever understand the purpose and analysis of every single area, object and NPC in Black Space. As a result, while it feels magnificent, there's so much that feels pointless, as well. This worked in Yume Nikki because it is very focused on this premise of "no real truth", but since Omori has a real truth and a real reason for Black Space's existence, it makes so many objects and areas feel pointless to analyse and overthink. Again, it's this insistence on adding things upon things to make foreshadowing far too abstract and impossible to understand.
Music and its importance to the truth was also very poorly foreshadowed. While I can understand, from a repression perspective, why Mari playing the piano or Sunny playing the violin was only very very subtly foreshadowed in the music itself, there is a point where you do need to make it obvious to the players, otherwise it feels like this idea of Sunny playing the violin is just thrown onto the players with no real interrelation. Similarly, Mari's character was far too hidden, where it isn't evident at all that Mari is a human with emotions - she's portrayed as a God the entire game. Again, too much subtlety has led to story beats feeling out-of-place and underrepresented.
However, in the manga, foreshadowing makes events very obvious to the reader, making me question the goals of this manga at all - are you really going to introduce Omori to new audiences in such a rushed and evident way? Making everything obvious and clear, when foreshadowing was such a key element to the original game? The whole point of the twist was it was completely unexpected!!
Immediately as we get into the manga, it's already obvious that Mari and violins are relevant to the truth. I wouldn't be surprised if the dialogue that Mari speaks during the Hellmari sequence is related to the argument between Mari and Sunny on the recital day, and I would be so disappointed if they chose to immediately out key dialogue that was not present in the original game.
Furthermore, why on Earth would you immediately reveal the hidden part of Mari's character in the first chapter? Mari is supposed to be perfect, at least in Sunny's mind. The game absolutely goes too far with this - it was a fundamental failure to have no dialogue in the Truth segment, as it led to so many misinterpretations of Mari as a character - but you choose to reveal her anger and humanity now???? NOT LATER??? NOT LIKE A BIT LATER?? SO WE CAN PERCIEVE HER AS PERFECT??
I'm not even going to get into the mischaracterisation of Aubrey, portraying her as evil and horrible without the very necessary exploration of how her relationship with Kel influences her actions.
I want to have faith in the manga. I want to enjoy it, but, just, the pacing and foreshadowing is already off. I'm worried. At least the horror art is gorgeous.
a summary of this analysis. HOW THE FUCK DID YOU MESS UP FORESHADOWING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS??
song i listened to while writing
i've been obsessed with the beef recently, it's so funny.
i cracked the omori manga. it's written like an isekai anime but trying to mimic a psychological horror game. this manga fails at its clashing of genres.
the rushed pacing. the jagged storyline. the odd characterisation of real world characters. the strange of horror elements.
it would work if sunny was not a hikkiomori.
it would be more logical and rational if going out was shown to be sunny's daily life, rather than rushing over the elements that made sunny's shut-in nature prevalent, like the significance of opening the door for kel, which was an incredibly upsetting thing to dismiss.
if sunny going outside had been pre-established, although it clashes violently with the canon game, it would feel less rushed and more like an intro to an isekai anime, which is an awful and frustrating misinterpretation of the game.
may as well just disconnect the manga from the game and make it something else.
Kel ans Sunny are so fucking–
MAN THOSE TWO BLUSHING AT EACH OTHER LIKE
Edit:
I haven't actually drawn fnaf in a WHILE
Kel:Only I can annoy Aubrey!
I frickin love this manga
happy omori manga chapter one release !
i wanted to try messing around with some filters ^^
Saw everybody doing this so like why not
Redrew a page from the Omori Manga in my 'Puppy Artstyle' (the whole artstyle is an excuse to not draw hands and eyes) ♡
"Why are Kel and Sunny blushing at eachother during Pride Month?" -a commenter during Pride Month
Omori manga redraw!
