ITS TIME FOR THE ANNUAL OMOCAT CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY!!

many good things have happened, OMOCAT has grown so much, and my life is forever changed :>

here’s a little thank you to all my followers and supporters!

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PRIZES:

1) FIRST PRIZE: 1 OMOCAT APPAREL in the size of your choice (while supplies last) new items that may be released this following week are also eligible for the prize

2) SECOND PRIZE: 1 OMOCAT POSTER, PRINT, or BOOK of your choice (while supplies last) new items that may be released this following week are also eligible for the prize

3) THIRD PRIZE: 1 OMOCAT STICKER SET/STICKER or ACCESSORY of your choice (while supplies last) new items that may be released this following week are also eligible for the prize

RULES:

1) reblog the entire post to enter the giveaway! likes do not count gomen ~_~

2) EDIT: you may only reblog once! multiple reblogs apparently don’t work anymore because tumblr’s new system only shows the most recent reblog. also, no giveaway-only blogs! i’ll be checking >:(

3) i will be choosing 3 winners randomly. i will painstakingly copy-paste each blog name in a random generator, and have the generator pick the winners for me

4) the winner will be chosen this weekend on the midnight of DECEMBER 16th. i will be sending out asks to let you know if you’ve won so please make sure your ask is open! if you do not reply within 24 hrs, i will have to choose another winner!!

5) i will provide free shipping! (yes, even international)

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good luck!! once again, thank you all and happy holidays!!!!!

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The purchase is to be completed by November of this year and will total roughly 14 billion yen (approx. $140 million USD). Index is to undergo management reorganization following the acquisition.

oh god why

Sorry if everything is hard to see! I made some valiant attempts to make a rather simplistic timeline with

Color coding certain things!

No snarky comments!

Hours of research put into play!

Also if it’s circled, it takes place in a separate universe, just a heads up.

I added some stuff.

this http://i41.tinypic.com/drblhu.jpg image may also help with thoughts

Why Luke (Abyss) and Sera(Digital Devil Saga) are alike

I’ve been wanting to talk about this for some time now. Luke fon fabre and Sera are a lot a like. let us discuss the ways underneath

Reblog and add your own thoughts.

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oh wow, I really wasn’t expecting to see this in the tags, because I’ve actually had a thought for the last month or so to draw Sera and Luke together. I don’t have much to add since you hit most topics, but here’s some stuff from me too.

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I'd like to see that picture!

* I'm more on the train that Jenna wanted to piss off Cuvier and Sera is a clone, but Jenna doesn't want to tell Cuvier how she did it since she knew how Sera was going to be used. All the children they used was for their sick experiments. If David did give his sperm to Angel though, there is nothing that says she has to look like him. Genetics are funny like that and if Jenna's were stronger, she'd look like Jenna and not so much David.

* The form at the end of Abyss could definitely be Lorelei, Asch, Luke or a combination of any of those since Van Hosted Lorelei for a while too. It's up in the air. I'm just going to go with my own fav theory on that haha.

*Seraph ascended and came back as Serph and Sera enlightened to try and bring their friends back is what I think. The first Seraph tried to guide Serph and Sera in order to continue the chain I think. I love that game so much and it's open interpretations.

What is it about Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne that’s allowed it to persevere when other Japanese RPGs on the Playstation 2 have faded? Final Fantasy X has become a laughing stock, everybody’s basically forgotten the .hack franchise and nobody ever seems to talk about Shadow Hearts or Grandia anymore. Atlus’s own Personas 3 and 4 have been remade again and again on multiple consoles, most recently the critically acclaimed Persona 4: Golden. Granted, a number  of games (FFXII, Dragon Quest VIII) have held up extremely well, though controversy remains. But many of these were rapturously received upon release, while Nocturne was assigned 8 or 8.5 scores and essentially dismissed as an oddity. Maybe it was because people in the United States weren’t used to the Shin Megami Tensei series, maybe because the game was just so, so difficult.

This makes sense because compared to the rest of its ilk, Nocturne is an oddity. The story is decidedly minimalistic, free of the melodrama that characterizes most of the genre. The art design looks like nothing before or since, a world away from the extravagance of Final Fantasy or the cel-shaded beauty of Dragon Quest’s overworld. It’s a game that can be actively hostile, tossing you into a world with an incredibly high encounter rate, in which the demons you’re trying to recruit rarely listen to you and bosses are seemingly insurmountable. Nocturne is easily one of the least accessible of Atlus’s Megami Tensei franchise, with the interface frustrating you at every turn.

So Nocturne isn’t as polished as the Persona games, or as accessible as Devil Survivor or even Strange Journey. But while it can be frustrating, terrifying and even unfair, the atmosphere is absolutely top-notch. In contrast to the living worlds of so many Japanese RPGs, the universe of Nocturne is a desolate landscape haunted by demons and the ghost of the dead. It’s a supremely lonely experience, and coupled with the haunting soundtrack and a story where your choices actually matter it becomes a transcendent one. Nocturne was the first SMT game to appear on the Playstation 2, but rather than a test-run it comes off as a small miracle, where every element (from the gameplay to the art direction to the themes of the story) feeds into the greater whole. The upcoming Shin Megami Tensei IV looks to be much, much more accessible than Nocturne, but I imagine the true test of the game’s worth will come in whether or not it captures Nocturne’s off-key vibe. Games like this only come around every couple of decades, if ever.

How many times must you die for this woman

Artwork of the first case in Layton Brothers Mystery Room

I didn't even know of this until today and i want to play it

Ni No Kuni

by Kristen King  (Krikin)

とうふ.

Digital Devil Saga 2

Developer: Atlus

Genre: RPG

System: PS2

(US) Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga - 2005 - Atlus

(JP) デジタル・デビル・サーガ アバタール・チューナー2 - 2005 - Atlus

(EU) Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga - 2007 - Ghostlight

objective: fun

Yeah I think tumblr makes this too big