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[[File:okamiden_6872.png|frame|[[Ridiculously Cute Critter|All together now: ]]''[[Precious Puppies|Awwwwwww!]]'']]

 

 

Nine months after the events of ''Okami'', dark clouds, demons, and cursed zones mysteriously return to the land of Nippon. Issun, trying to perform his duties as a Celestial Envoy, is rescued from the returned imps by a puppy named Chibiterasu, whom he takes to see Sakuya. Chibi has some of Amaterasu's powers, being her son, but he is weaker than the protagonist of the last game, since he's still very young. Chibiterasu teams up with various partners, starting with Kuni (son of the original game's Susano and Kushi) to fight the returned evil.

 

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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Most of the characters have Japanese names. Then there's Charity, who is never mentioned to be foreign and looks like any other young Japanese woman in the game.

** And then there's Grimm.

** Kyokugami (Magnetism) - [[Selective Magnetism]]

** Michigami (Guidance) - [[Escort Mission]]

** Nuregami (Waterspout) - [[Making a Splash]]

** Sakigami (Bloom) - [[Green Thumb]]

* [[Camera Screw]]: Since you have no direct control over the camera in combat, it's perfectly possible to end up in situations where you're blindsided by enemies or have a hard time getting what you want on camera to use a brush technique on it.

* [[The Cavalry]]: {{spoiler|Three of your five partners come to your rescue just when it's needed most (the other two are excluded for obvious reasons at that point in the game), even violating space and time to do it.}}

* [[Call Back]]: Many. See [[Broken Bridge]] for one. You also get to create a drying rod and draw the sun closer for Mrs. Orange, just like in the first game. One must wonder how she gets laundry done without a god around.

* [[Cel Shading]]

* [[Disc One Final Dungeon]]: {{spoiler|The Underground Ruins}}

* [[Discontinuity Nod]]: In ''[[Okami]]'', gathering up all 100 stray beads nets an artifact that grants invincibility, infinite ink, and 10x damage for your [[New Game+]]. In ''Okamiden'', they're nothing more than rather cheap antiques. When you get scammed into buying one for 10,000 yen, your partner comments on how worthless it is.

** Shiranui. Even though we knew about it even in the first game.

** The Goryeo, a.k.a. {{spoiler|the Sunken Ship from the first game. You even get to witness the Water Dragon sinking it.}}

** Nanami uses her Wet and Dry Jewels as hair decorations after she retrieves them. They make her even more adorable, if that's possible.

** Kagu has floral-themed hair decs on and hanging from her bun. {{spoiler|After she becomes a Miko, she gains two giant gold bells with trailing ''[[Shide]]''. They're even cuter.}}

* [[Evil Knockoff]] / [[Mirror Boss]]: {{spoiler|For the climactic [[Final Boss]] battle, Akuro assumes a dark version of Chibiterasu -- complete with his own Celestial Brush, Divine Instrument, and Kuni as a partner!}}

* [[Exposition Fairy]]: Issun for the prologue, and whoever your partner is at the moment for the rest of the game.

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Being about a puppy and its E10 rating (As opposed to [[Okami]]'s T rating), the game seems like this at first. {{spoiler|It's the exact opposite, especially by the end.}}

** The game also inverts [[Hotter and Sexier]]. The best example is Sakuya: While she retains her massive bust, she is now wearing a full kimono with no hole cut out of the back to show off her butt cleavage.

* [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Sugawara and Waka.

* [[Lost Forever]]: Several locations (and everything in them) become inaccessible after certain events in the story.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: As in the first game, placing a painted mask over your face makes the demons believe you're one of them. Then again, imps and faeries aren't too bright. In even more fairness, they wear similar masks themselves.

* [[Personal Raincloud]]: A character's reaction to something that leaves them really nonplussed, like [[Running Gag|Chibi's many strange nicknames.]]

* [[Point of No Return]]: After you enter the Moon Cave {{spoiler|100 years in the past}}, and even though you have multiple hours of playing and cutscenes left, you will no longer be able to warp back and forth.

* [[Preexisting Encounters]]: Demon Scrolls wandering around in outdoor locations, and certain areas have ominous kanji eminating from them, which do the same thing.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Doctors Redbeard and Bluebeard have the healing herbs from ''[[Resident Evil]]'' on their floors, for one.

** One of the fishermen in Ryoshima Coast greets Chibi with [[Memetic Mutation|"Yo, dog."]] The Tanuki does the same thing.

** In-game, you meet an authoress named Shikibu, who's plagued by her creation, Genji--no doubt a reference to Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote ''The Tale of Genji.''

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: A telepathic penguin god and a magnetism-controlling whale god are added to the brush god gang.

* [[Speaking Simlish]]: The voice acting, as in the previous game.

* [[Spin Offspring]]: Kuni is the child of Susano and Kushi {{spoiler|although he is adopted}}, Amaterasu is Chibi's mother, and ''all'' the various brush gods apparently now have children.

* [[Stable Time Loop]]:

** When Chibi first meets her, Nanami asks where he's been and where that blond kid he was with is, as well as calling him Squiddy. {{spoiler|Later, Chibi travels nine months back into time accompanied by Kurow, who you've met at that point, and meets Nanami when she helps Chibi find the Knowing Jewel, as well as giving Chibi said nickname. And then there's the whole Orochi, Amaterasu, and Shiranui time loop from the first game...}}

** Chibi rescues {{spoiler|Shiranui from the ice cave 100 years in the past, which in turn allows him to show up and save Ammy and, later, Chibi in return. Without this aid, it's highly probable that Ammy would never have been born/reincarnated, and thus neither would Chibi.}}

** Chibi's Sword and Mirror Divine Instruments. The Beads float around his neck. The [[New Game+]] weapon sticks to his sides.

** Kuni's [[BFS|giant sword]], just like his father's did.

* [[Tron Lines]]: In the Ruins and on {{spoiler|Issun's flying saucer}}. This seems to be characteristic of Moon Tribe technology.

* [[Truly Single Parent]]: Not spelled out, but we can assume Amaterasu and the other brush gods don't need a partner to produce children.

* [[Turns Red]]: Almost all bosses change their behavior at least once as their HP total is worn down.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: No one seems particularly interested by the white wolf puppy ridden by various children, some of which are pretty unusual in and of themselves. No one really seems to bat much of an eye when things mysteriously fix themselves, burst into fire, or split in half, either.

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