donetryingtokillyou

[uboacore]

Dreamtrain

Made a 3D animation and music for the train from Yume Nikki! Featuring a few special guests too…

Also here’s a photo I took of my real life train npc while making the animation!

[avielsusej]

College Project that also doubles as Yume Nikki Fanart! This took a lot of time to do but I'm really happy on how it turned out! I also am just a month late for it's 20th anniversary! Also added some close ups to different areas!

[ynfg-gifs]

Yume 2kki - File Viewer

[thedrowsydreamer]

Collective Unconscious: Colorful room.

[asoingbob]

its been 1million years since i drew yn fanart

as usual alt ver under the cut

[c0ckedgun]

i like the tanuki woods,the npcs here are cute

jack stauber cameo

this yn fangame is called Braingirl i like it so far

[sweetlynightmarish]

I can't believe the gifs I made got eaten. I'll have to find another way to post them I guess...

[beethefallen]

okay but might i seriously suggest playing yume nikki/2kki to anyone who likes rpg horror, or undertale, or even the backrooms as a concept. anyone who likes concepts that can be so beautiful one moment to mildly/very unnerving the next.

if you had an rpg horror phase in middle school and heard about the toby fox interview (and got hyped like i did), i heavily suggest getting into yume 2kki (especially the online version, where you can hang out with other people in game) the maps are beautiful, strange, comforting, scary, confusing, and wacky. i love them, and it's so nostalgic. i got back into it again and i cant stop exploring. ive been playing for hours on end, it is practically endless. i just keep finding new things, new places i want to go to.

the npcs??? i am obsessed with each and every one of them

they're funky little guys created from the minds of so many different people, they're all wonderful

please play it, you'll love it so much <3

[cephiro]

cannot stand how ppl in the yume nikki fanbase can like seccom masada-sensei and draw him as this caring like. parental or even romantic (YIKES!!!!!!!!) figure fr madotsuki. i hate that bitch

[skenpiel]

fucking love how blatantly she absolutely hates uboa in the manga

[uboacore]

Made a train creature

[mantits24-07-24]

another yume nikki sketches i didnt post here!!! Shitai-san is my favorite NPC btw :D

[dreamerkitty]

More effects for Yume Nikki npcs this time Toriningen and Mafurako!

I'm sad I'm running out of cute npcs cause I love doing these aaaa

[thedrowsydreamer]

Collective Unconscious: Primeval Edifice.

[facelesskiwami]

what's your general interpretation of yume nikki?

I think a lot of Yume Nikki is intentionally left up to interpretation, with a lot of its character and world designs being akin to stuff the creator just thought was neat or interesting to look at. I think if there is a clear theme throughout the game, it's isolation/lonliness.

It's pretty clear from the beginning that Madotsuki refuses to leave her room. When you interact with the door, it's not like you hear a locked door sound or anything, she just shakes her head "no". It's also one of the only things in the game she physically responds to.

Also her name Madotsuki, which to my knowledge isn't a normal Japanese name, translates roughly to "window" or "windowed". I'm not 100% sure if that's accurate but it kind of brings to mind the idea of always being on the outside looking in. That one famous part where you watch a party from the bushes kind of highlights this.

In the dream world, every NPC either ignores you or runs away from you. One of my favorite examples of this is in the mall. It's one of the only areas in the game with a large population of "normal" humans at once, and when you try to interact with them, they become distorted and start avoiding you.

I've seen people speculate that Madotsuki has some dark shit from her past involving potentially knifing someone (hence the knife effect and the other gorey imagery) but I don't really buy that. The """official""" Yume Nikki manga hints at Madotsuki potentially murdering someone but it's just a bit too cheesy for me to believe.

To me it's more interesting to think it represents her fear of resorting to some sort of violence due to her loneliness/isolation. Or she just likes gruesome/macabre things.

Back on the topic of isolation/loneliness, I think the most interesting aspect of this is her interaction with certain NPCs. Madotsuki is (presumably) a young girl, so she would probably relate the most to other girls. But every interaction with the "normal" girls in her dreams is bizarre.

Let's take the Toriningen for example. They're the closest things to "enemies" in the game, given that they take you to small prison-like areas when they catch you. They're clearly designed to resemble human girls except for their bird-like faces. I really like the theory that they represent popular girls, or other peers of Madotsuki that she's intimidated by (hence their height, they're possibly older than her or its symbolic.) They could even be bullies, sometimes hostile towards her or sometimes not.

There's Kamakurako in the igloo, who just ignores Madotsuki completely.

Mafurako (who appears as a normal looking girl if you use the stoplight) will teleport you away if you try to interact with her. Possibly her shunning Madotsuki or Madotsuki keeping her distance.

Monoe is an interesting example because she's the only character that calls attention to herself by displaying a full-sized portrait when you try to interact with her. I find this really interesting why this character is given so much attention, and similar Mafurako she teleports herself away. Another example of Madotsuki not being able to interact with another girl.

Not sure what's going on with Monoko. Similar to Monoe, she draws attention to herself by having a full-screen event. Maybe Madotsuki can't relate to her, or is disgusted by her for some reason.

Poniko is definitely the most interesting example of this recurring theme of Madotsuki's weird interactions with her peers. Like other characters, she ignores you completely. Her bedroom is also possibly the most normal looking area in the game, implying that it's someplace Madotsuki has been many times. Maybe a childhood friend?

One aspect of the Uboa event I don't see people talk about a lot is how her bedroom changes when the event is triggered. The sudden visual motif of eyes (and googly eyes) is very reminiscent of other areas of Madotsuki's dream. I like to imagine this is Madotsuki's mind "infecting" the memory of this room, and in turn changing her perspective of her old friend(?) into this strange monster. I'm not sure what exactly Uboa is supposed to represent, but I think it's more about Madotsuki's memories with Poniko being tampered by her own fears or insecurities.

There's a lot more you could unpack in Yume Nikki, such as the possible themes of sexual abuse, traffic accidents, violence, gender identity... but this is my personal guess as what the "true" meaning of the game is.

I still think Kikiyama didn't ever have a specific story in mind for the game and it is more of an interpretive art piece, but this is my personal guess to what Yume Nikki is about.

Even I think this analysis is pretty surface level, so that's why I enjoy the different theories regarding this game. The ones about gender identity is really interesting to me.

[bwf5]

Playing Yume Nikki on Halloween in 2020 was so tacky of me lmao. Happy 3 year anniversary to my absolute love for this game! (Happy Halloween as well)

My absolute fav YN npc, love you mall rooftop cat, you mean so much to me ❤