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** Unlike his later design, Omori has the whites of his eyes drawn in. Due to being depicted as older, he's also much taller and skinnier than his game counterpart. An even earlier iteration of Omori drawn before the blog had him wearing a t-shirt instead of an undershirt.

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** Unlike his later design, Omori has the whites of his eyes drawn in. Due to being depicted as older, he's also much taller and skinnier than his game counterpart. An even earlier iteration of Omori drawn before the blog had him wearing a t-shirt instead of an undershirt.a tank top.
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** Unlike his later design, Omori has the whites of his eyes drawn in. Due to being depicted as older, he's also much taller and skinnier than his game counterpart.

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** Unlike his later design, Omori has the whites of his eyes drawn in. Due to being depicted as older, he's also much taller and skinnier than his game counterpart. An even earlier iteration of Omori drawn before the blog had him wearing a t-shirt instead of an undershirt.

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'''''Omoriboy''''', also known as '''''Omori Hikikomori''''' (omori ひきこもり), was a discontinued webcomic by Omocat about a depressed young man living in a BlankWhiteVoid. Omori spends his days surfing the internet, playing old games, drawing, interacting with his cat, and musing about his life.

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'''''Omoriboy''''', also known as '''''Omori Hikikomori''''' (omori ひきこもり), was a discontinued webcomic by Omocat about a depressed young man living in a BlankWhiteVoid. Omori spends his days surfing the internet, playing old games, drawing, interacting with his cat, and musing about his life.
life. A companion blog from his cat's point of view, ''Omoricat'', was updated sporadically but ended early into its run.



** There is no indication about the existence of Sunny, Basil and Mari, all who are heavily important characters in ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}''.

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** There is no indication about the existence of Sunny, Basil and Mari, all who are heavily important characters in ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}''. ''Omori's Story'' does have a flower crown-wearing recurring extra who would ultimately become part of the inspiration for Basil, but he holds no importance to Omori in the comic.


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* PerspectiveFlip: ''Omoricat'' was made of panels that featured Omori and his cat together, except told from her point of view (bad grammar and all). It's [[AllThereInTheManual through this blog]] that the cat's name, Mewo, was revealed.
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[[caption-width-right:350:i'm omori and i fap and play old games]]
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* DaydreamSurprise: In ''Omori's Story'', Omori is invited by his neighbors for a day out. He has fun for the first time in a while, even cracking a smile, but as he reaches out for one of them, the world turns back into his room. He looks at the floor, only to see the drawings he made that day.

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* DaydreamSurprise: In ''Omori's Story'', Omori is invited by his neighbors for to a day out. He has fun for the first time in a while, even cracking a smile, but as he reaches out for one of them, the world turns back into his room. He looks at the floor, only to see the drawings he made that day.day -- all of which show the same places and things he encountered.

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied. Omori keeps tissues nearby and almost always has his laptop set to a porn site, suggesting he uses them for this purpose offscreen.


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** There is no indication about the existence of Sunny, Basil and Mari, all who are heavily important characters in ''VideoGame/{{OMORI}}''.


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* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: Implied. The lonely and teenaged Omori keeps tissues nearby and almost always has his laptop set to a porn site, suggesting he uses them for this purpose offscreen.

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* DrivenToSuicide: 2012 begins with Omori going through a breakdown, culminating in him almost stabbing himself with his kitchen knife.



** Omori rarely uses his knife. When he attempts to stab himself, there's no indication that he can be brought back, as is the case in the game.



* GratuitousJapanese: Omori's writings occasionally have some Japanese phrases, such as Tako's name in his sketchbook, the title of the blog, or when Omori relates himself to other hikikomori. These phrases are typically written in hiragana.



* KissMeImVirtual: Omori is once shown kissing his laptop, muttering to himself about the "waifu" on the screen.

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* KissMeImVirtual: Omori is once shown kissing his laptop, muttering to himself about the "waifu" on the screen. One of his sketch pages also has the name of Tako surrounded by hearts.
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* RetroGaming: Omori's only known game console is his UsefulNotes/GameBoy, and he is occasionally shown playing games from his collection.

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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: According to Omori, his attempts to be open and kind to others when he was younger resulted in him getting bullied.



* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: According to Omori, his attempts to be open and kind to others when he was younger resulted in him getting bullied.
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* {{Hikikomori}}: The comic's premise centers around a shut-in that spends his days in a depressed haze, with nothing to do but play games, draw, and use his laptop.

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* {{Hikikomori}}: The comic's premise centers around a shut-in that spends his days in a depressed haze, with nothing to do but play games, draw, and use his laptop. According to one of the posts, [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep "Hikikomori" is also his actual name]].
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* WhamShot: After hoping next year will be better for him, the first post of 2012 shows Omori brought a knife into his room. Several panels later, he uses it to attempt suicide.

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* WhamShot: After hoping next year will be better for him, the first post of 2012 shows Omori brought casually etching a picture into the floor with a kitchen knife into his room.he didn't have before. Several panels later, he uses it to attempt suicide.

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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: According to Omori, his attempts to be open and kind to others when he was younger resulted in him getting bullied.



* DrowningMySorrows: The New Years Day panel has him drinking sake, apparently as a toast to "not fucking this year up as bad as this last one".

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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Omori and everything in his room is drawn in black and white. Even when he goes out with his neighbors in ''Omori's Story'', he remains the only monochrome character.
* DrowningMySorrows: The New Years Day panel has him Omori drinking sake, apparently as a toast to "not fucking this year up as bad as this last one".
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* BlankWhiteVoid: The room Omori lives in is a completely white plane, where nothing else save his own belongings and his cat exists. A panel has him walk some distance away from his usual spot, not knowing where he'll end up.

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* BlankWhiteVoid: The room Omori lives in is a completely white plane, plane devoid of walls, where nothing else save his own belongings and his cat exists. A panel has him walk some considerable distance away from his usual spot, not knowing where he'll end up.
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* BlankWhiteVoid: The room Omori lives in is a completely white plane, where nothing else save his own belongings and his cat exists. A panel has him walk some distance away from his usual spot, not knowing where he'll end up.
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* ImaginaryFriend: Omori has two: Tako(-chan), a faceless girl with octopus tentacles on her head and limbs, and Inko, a person in a fox mask.


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* YouDontLookLikeYou: In one of Omori's sketches, Tako is drawn as a twintailed human girl surrounded by tentacles rather than a faceless humanoid with tentacle limbs.
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->''all these old memories never really stop messing with us, do they?''



* WhamShot: After hoping next year will be better for him, the first post of 2012 shows Omori brought a knife into his room. Several panels later, he uses it to attempt suicide.

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* WhamShot: After hoping next year will be better for him, the first post of 2012 shows Omori brought a knife into his room. Several panels later, he uses it to attempt suicide.suicide.
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-> ''if i stay here, i can be whatever i want to be\\
if i leave this place, i’ll have to accept my limitations as a human\\
and i just don’t think i’m ready to do that yet''
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* AnimalEyes: Unlike his neighbors, Omori's eyes are drawn as ovular and catlike. This helps emphasize his current solitary attitude.

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* AnimalEyes: Unlike his neighbors, Omori's eyes are drawn as ovular oval and catlike. This helps emphasize his current solitary attitude.
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* MinimalistCast: The only recurring character throughout the comic is Omori himself, with others either being implied (like his mother) or only appearing in related stories (like his neighbors).
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* SplashOfColor: While Omori's room is DeliberatelyMonochrome, the outside and his neighbors are depicted with rapidly changing pastels.

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* SplashOfColor: While Omori's room is DeliberatelyMonochrome, the outside and his neighbors are depicted with [[EpilepticFlashingLights rapidly changing changing]] pastels.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied. Omori keeps tissues nearby and almost always has his laptop set to a porn site, suggesting he uses them for this purpose offscreen.
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'''''Omoriboy''''', also known as '''''Omori Hikikomori''''' (omori ひきこもり), was a discontinued webcomic by Omocat about a depressed young man living in a BlankWhiteVoid. Omori spends his days surfing the internet, playing old games, drawing, interacting with his cat, and musing about his life.

A short comic, ''Omori's Story'', was released to the OMOCAT SHOP in 2012, along with a book of his drawings titled ''Omori's Sketchbook''. Omocat initially wanted to expand on Omori's world through a graphic novel, but this comic was cancelled in favor of making a video game about him instead. The game, ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'', was eventually released in 2020.

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! ''Omoriboy'' contains examples of:
* AllLowercaseLetters: Omori's notes are written in lowercase, typically lacking punctuation.
* AnimalEyes: Unlike his neighbors, Omori's eyes are drawn as ovular and catlike. This helps emphasize his current solitary attitude.
* {{Bowdlerize}}: Omori's introductory panel has him clearly watching porn on his laptop. A later version of the same panel, used for the game's Kickstarter, has the contents of his laptop obscured by a SnowyScreenOfDeath.
* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** Omori explains to the audience what his name means (it's apparently short for {{Hikikomori}}), and calls out his author for giving him a similar name to her username.
** Omori expresses gratefulness that he's only a character on a blog, because it means he doesn't have to pay rent on his room.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Omori implies he's been through stressful circumstances, though he never elaborates further.
--> how hard do you think it is\\
for a kid to grow up when it’s got no one to look up to?
* DaydreamSurprise: In ''Omori's Story'', Omori is invited by his neighbors for a day out. He has fun for the first time in a while, even cracking a smile, but as he reaches out for one of them, the world turns back into his room. He looks at the floor, only to see the drawings he made that day.
* DrowningMySorrows: The New Years Day panel has him drinking sake, apparently as a toast to "not fucking this year up as bad as this last one".
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference:
** Unlike his later design, Omori has the whites of his eyes drawn in. Due to being depicted as older, he's also much taller and skinnier than his game counterpart.
** The characters that would become Aubrey, Kel, and Hero have slightly different designs: Aubrey's counterpart wears a shorter shirt, Kel's counterpart has shorter hair and a more detailed checkered tank top, and Hero's counterpart lacks his hair spikes.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** Omori and his neighbors are drawn as teens/young adults, compared to the child ages of their game counterparts.
** Unlike his game counterpart, Omori never leaves his room throughout the comic's run.
** Within the comic itself, the early pages of the blog imply that Omori's room is just stylized for the viewer, and the colorful world the room's connected to is Omori's imagination. Later installments show that the void of his room is literal, and the colorful world is part of it.
* AGodAmI: As Omori draws, he proclaims himself the god of the world he creates.
* {{Hikikomori}}: The comic's premise centers around a shut-in that spends his days in a depressed haze, with nothing to do but play games, draw, and use his laptop.
* InterruptedSuicide: A sequence had Omori prepare to stab himself, only to suddenly stop in the last panel. Dragging the panel onto a dark background reveals his hand was stopped by Tako, one of his imaginary friends.
* KissMeImVirtual: Omori is once shown kissing his laptop, muttering to himself about the "waifu" on the screen.
* LivingIsMoreThanSurviving: Acknowledged, but defied. Omori believes that living means having to change himself for the better, but is unwilling to, so he's content with "just existing".
* MuscleAngst: Combined with WeightWoe: Omori is concerned about his weight, but thinks it might be nice for himself to have abs.
* NightmareFuelColoringBook: A page of Omori's sketches is covered in red and black, drawings of eyes, and pictures of knives and his own bloodied face.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The last page of the comic has Omori locked out of his laptop, which he had presumably been using to post on the blog.
* RetroGaming: Omori's only known game console is his UsefulNotes/GameBoy, and he is occasionally shown playing games from his collection.
* ShoutOut: Omori is once shown singing along to Music/{{Coldplay}}'s "Fix You". Another panel has him listening to a mini playlist, with the songs provided below the panel.
* SplashOfColor: While Omori's room is DeliberatelyMonochrome, the outside and his neighbors are depicted with rapidly changing pastels.
* TherapyIsForTheWeak: In one panel, Omori mentions his mom wanting him to seek help for his depression. Omori insists he's fine, and that everyone else thinks there's a problem with him.
* WhamShot: After hoping next year will be better for him, the first post of 2012 shows Omori brought a knife into his room. Several panels later, he uses it to attempt suicide.

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