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[[File:nahnaaaahnahnahnahnahnahnahnahnah.png|frame|[[Royal We|We]] [[Manly Tears|are moved to tears by the size of the thing]].]]
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The [[King of All Cosmos]] gets drunk one night, and on a drunken bender accidentally destroys all the stars in the sky. The following morning, he assigns his son, the Prince, to make new stars by collecting random objects from the Earth to be turned into stars. The {{color|rainbow|Prince}}, who had been treated rather badly by his father up to now, does this by running the objects over with a big sticky ball that makes bigger and bigger clumps of objects as it collects them. The Prince starts by collecting ants and thumbtacks, and eventually moves on to whales, jumbo jets, office towers, and sports stadiums...
'''''Katamari Damacy''''' is a delightfully addictive acid trip that [[Widget Series|only the Japanese]] could have created. The controls are simple, the game is brightly coloured and fun, and, for the concerned parent, nonviolent--although you ''are'' rolling up people, most of whom scream. It's great at a party. Recreational drugs optional... and, really, [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
=== Games in the series: ===
▲''Katamari Damacy'' is a delightfully addictive acid trip that [[Widget Series|only the Japanese]] could have created. The controls are simple, the game is brightly coloured and fun, and, for the concerned parent, nonviolent--although you ''are'' rolling up people, most of whom scream. It's great at a party. Recreational drugs optional... and, really, [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|they'd be redundant.]]
* ''塊魂'' / ''Katamari Damacy'' (2004): The [[PlayStation 2]] game that started it all.
* ''みんな大好き塊魂'' / ''We ♥ Katamari'' (2005): The only sequel on the [[PlayStation 2]].
* ''僕の私の塊魂'' / ''Me & My Katamari'' (2005/2006): An installment on the PlayStation Portable.
* ''(ビューティフル塊魂'' / ''Beautiful Katamari'' (2007): The first installment on the seventh generation of consoles, and the only one not to not be released on PlayStation consoles, instead being an [[XBox 360]]-exclusive title.
* ''塊魂TRIBUTE'' / ''Katamari Forever'' (2009): The only release for the [[Play Station 3]] in its 8-year lifespan. A re-packaging of stages from ''Katamari Damacy'', ''We ♥ Katamari'', and ''Beautiful Katamari'', all remastered in HD. The game also has four brand-new (albeit short) stages.
* ''塊魂ノビータ'' / ''Touch My Katamari'' (2011/2012): An installment on the PlayStation Vita.
See also the [[Comic Book Adaptation|official webcomic]], simply titled ''[[Katamari (Webcomic)|Katamari]]'', created by the same folks who write ''[[Buttersafe]]''.
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* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: Sort of. Both kanji in 塊魂 (Katamari Damacy) have the same right-hand radical; to a casual observer, the kanji appear almost identical.▼
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: The Cousins' names. Ichigo and Marcy; Shikao and Nickel; Foomin and Dipp...
▲* [[
* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Played with in ''Katamari Forever'' with the RoboKing.▼
* [[Amazing Technicolor Population]]
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Presents, which you can equip in all sorts of combinations. In a nice touch, most presents look different depending on which character/cousin you're playing as. By extension, the cousins themselves probably count as this, seeing as they all play the same.
* [[Ass Shove]]: Referenced in the thermometer item description: "Used to measure your temperature. Put this in your mouth, armpit, or..."
* [[Big No]]: "Students? Studying at school? Noooooooooooooooo!!!" - The King Of All Cosmos.
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Certain cousins fall into this. For instance, TV lover Shikao ''shifted his face around'' just so he could watch scary movies out of the corner of his eye.
* [[Black Bead Eyes]]: The Prince and his cousins.
* [[Blatant Burglar]]: Lampshaded in ''We ♥ Katamari''. The description for "Burglar" in the collection of items you have rolled up is "He wants to be stealthy, but he looks so obvious."
* [[Bowdlerization]]: The English version of the first game omits the detail that the King was drunk when he broke the stars.
* [[The Cameo]]: Various characters from ''[[The Idolmaster (
* [[Camp Straight]]: In the original version, ''The King''. The Japanese dialogue is written to give him a feminine speech pattern, and you can hear it in his voice when he sings ''A Song for the King of Kings'' at the end of ''We
* [[Charged Attack]]: The aptly-named Charge N' Roll technique. Use it carefully, however
▲* [[Camp Straight]]: In the original version, ''The King''. The Japanese dialogue is written to give him a feminine speech pattern, and you can hear it in his voice when he sings ''A Song for the King of Kings'' at the end of We Love Katamari. The sequel shows he genuinely fell in love with the Queen, so...
* [[Cloudcuckooland]]
▲* [[Charged Attack]]: The aptly-named Charge N' Roll technique. Use it carefully, however - it's all too easy to slam into a much larger object and lose items off your katamari.
* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: ''[[Katamari (Webcomic)|Katamari]]'' is actually a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131204025327/http://www.shiftylook.com/comics/katamari webcomic adaptation], available on Namco's Shiftylook site.▼
▲* [[Cloudcuckooland]] - Nobody will notice your Katamari until it grows big enough, and even then, the inhabitants of each level ''really'' like odd arrangements of their items...
▲* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: ''[[Katamari (Webcomic)|Katamari]]'' is actually a [http://shiftylook.com/comics/katamari webcomic adaptation], available on Namco's Shiftylook site.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: One of the songs on the ''Katamari Damacy'' soundtrack is entitled "The Wonderful Stars Walk is Wonderful".
* [[Destructive Saviour]]: You (as the Prince) are restoring the night sky, but at what cost? ''THE ENTIRE WORLD?''
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
* [[Doom Doors]]: The sound the RoboKing makes in a ''Katamari Forever'' cutscene.
* [[Downloadable Content]]: The "Lock and Key" system was used for ''Beautiful Katamari''. Fans were not pleased.
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* [[Ermine Cape Effect]]: Is the King's Royal Cape not the most elegant shade of pink?
* [[Esperanto, the Universal Language]]: [[Royal We|We]] are brushing up on [[Verbal Tic|Our]] skills.
* [[Everything's Better
** [[Everything's Better
*** '''[[That One Level|The HELL it is]]'''
** [[Everything's Better
** [[Everything's Better
** [[Everything's Better
** [[Everything's Better
** [[Everything's Worse
* [[Excuse Plot]]: The King went on a drunken bender and destroyed all of the stars. Are you [[Memetic Mutation|a bad enough Prince]] to roll up enough things to restore them?
* [[Fake Difficulty]]: The controls.
* [[Genre Busting]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
** There are several "[[Uranus Is Showing|Uranus]]" jokes in the last level of ''Beautiful Katamari''.
** One of the loading screens, reads "WE ♥ URANUS. WE ♥ KATAMARI, TOO. ♥
** Even worse is the Cousin known as Johnson, who [[Exactly What It Says
** At one point, the King brags about "the [[Gag Penis|size of Our royal thing]]"
** If you manage to roll up both the King and Queen of the Cosmos in the Elephant/Bird level of ''We ♥ Katamari'', the King will, in so many words, mention that sex inside a Katamari is great.
** In the description for the handcuffs item, the King notes "If you do something really bad these may be used on you! Or if you are good...".
** The King's description of the cobra item: "It's rumored that there are even larger ones hidden in trousers."
* [[God]]: The King of All Cosmos is essentially this in the Katamari universe. [[Jerkass Gods|Cosmos help them all.]] In ''We ♥ Katamari'', "God" (actually a Shinto goddess) [[Honest Axe|pops up from a lake, holding a gold and a silver axe]].
▲** This trope is also played straight in cutscenes and in conversations with the King, as neither the Prince nor the Cousins are heard speaking, but the King sometimes responds to them, making it clear that they can speak - it's just that the player can't hear it.
* [[Hollywood Atlas]]: Once you get big enough to roll out into the world in later games, you'll notice that countries are represented by stereotypical trappings and tourist locales. In the original games' credits, you can ''roll up the entire world'' as well.
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]:
* [[Important Haircut]]: The King suffered one, as depicted in his flashbacks.
* [[It Runs in The Family]]: The Prince's large collection of cousins, who combine all sorts of strange shapes and behaviors in addition to rolling
* [[It's a Wonderful Failure]]: See [[Love Hurts]]
* [[Kawaisa]]
* [[King of All Cosmos]]: [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: In ''Katamari Forever'', the RoboKing openly wonders about the physics of turning katamaris into stars.
* [[Leitmotif]]: Many items have distinct sounds associated with rolling them up (and some have sounds for crashing into them before you're large enough to collect them). After a short time playing, you'll come to recognize when you've rolled up a particular item by sound alone. Also, "Katamari On The Rocks", the main theme to the first game, is pretty much the theme to the series and gets remixed frequently. Not strictly a leitmotif because it has nothing to do with melody, but most if not all of the lyrical songs in the games include some variation on the Japanese verb "katamaru" (which describes the game's featured action).
* [[Living Statue]]: It's amazing how many of the inanimate objects can move
▲* [[Living Statue]]: It's amazing how many of the inanimate objects can move -- and flee in terror when you try to roll them up.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Each game introduces several new Cousins/Second Cousins/Distant Cousins... you get the idea. From ''We ♥ Katamari'' on, all of the cousins are playable after you've collected them, letting you give the Prince a break (and subsequently roll ''him'' up).
* [[Looming Silhouette of Rage]]: The King at the game over screen, should you fail an objective. If he's not shooting lasers at you.
* [[Love Hurts]]: "Tough love" indeed. In any game, your father will mock you angrily for failing the level.
** In ''We ♥ Katamari'', he fires lasers at you.▼
▲* [[Love Hurts]]: "Tough love" indeed. In any game, your father will mock you angrily for failing the level.
** In ''Katamari Forever'', he throws bouncing meteors at you. If you like, you can try to dodge them for as long as possible, and the game will keep score. You can even get a trophy for reaching a certain score.▼
▲** In ''We ♥ Katamari'' he fires lasers at you.
▲** In ''Katamari Forever'' he throws bouncing meteors at you. If you like, you can try to dodge them for as long as possible, and the game will keep score. You can even get a trophy for reaching a certain score.
* [[Lucky Charms Title]]: ''[[Heart Symbol|We]] ♥ [[Heart Symbol|Katamari]]'', read as ''We Love Katamari''.
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
*
** Also the game's name. "Katamari" means a "lump" or "mass" and "Damacy" is a corruption of "Damashii/Tamashii" for "soul." So an interpretation is "a mass of souls" or, in essence, "a mass of objects (rolled up into a Katamari ball)".
* [[Mix
* [[Mushroom Man]]: One of the Prince's second cousins, Kinoko, looks like a mushroom with arms and legs but no face.
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: Lalala: SHE'S NAKED!
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The entire premise of the second game is that the first was so popular that the King sends the Prince out to make more katamari for the fans.
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: The King of All Cosmos ''loves'' doing this.
* [[Pandering to
* [[Parental Bonus]]: The items and their animations are often rather... interesting. The descriptions of the items you've rolled up in the Collection screen are notably absurd. The King's descriptions for all the countries you roll up in Comet level in ''We ♥ Katamari'' in particular have jokes that would go over even adults' heads.
* [[Playable Menu]]: The save game select screen uses the in-game controls, and while the Level/Character/Operation select systems (Select Meadow, Space Mushroom, etc
* [[Popular Saying, But...]]: Love makes the world go round... But manners keep you from getting motion sickness.▼
▲* [[Playable Menu]]: The save game select screen uses the in-game controls, and while the Level/Character/Operation select systems (Select Meadow, Space Mushroom, etc.) do not, they are playable in their own way.
* [[Puzzle Platformer]]: At smaller sizes, the levels have ramps, bridges, and vertically-moving platforms (all built out of the same "ordinary" objects as the rest of the environment) that the player must carefully navigate to get to certain [[
▲* [[Popular Saying But]]: Love makes the world go round... But manners keep you from getting motion sickness.
▲* [[Puzzle Platformer]]: At smaller sizes, the levels have ramps, bridges, and vertically-moving platforms (all built out of the same "ordinary" objects as the rest of the environment) that the player must carefully navigate to get to certain [[Hundred Percent Completion|secret items]].
* [[Randomly Drops]]: There are some items that only occasionally appear on select levels... [[One Hundred Percent Completion]] is something only for the truly dedicated.
*
▲** Taken to its limit in ''Me and My Katamari'', where (in a loading screen) the King [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|breaks the fourth wall]] and says that the game should've been called "Us and Our Katamari."
* [[Rule of Cute]]
* [[Say It
* [[Sentai]]: Jumboman, in all colors and sizes. Royal Cousin Kuro also ''loves'' Sentai, and is known for striking poses.
* [[Shout-Out]]:
*
** In the ''We ♥ Katamari'' collection screen, the King describes Pakistan thus: "There's a city here called Harappa. But there aren't any [[Parappa the Rapper|rapping dogs]]."
** In ''We ♥ Katamari'', [[Stringy
** In one level, a Venus flytrap can be seen sticking out of a duct stuck in the ground, referencing the Piranha Plants from the ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]]'' series.
** An arcade game machine plays the ''[[
** In ''Beautiful Katamari'', the Cool Planet stage has many [[
* [[The Slacker]]: Goro [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Any relaxing, soothing background music becomes this as your Katamari becomes large enough to start absorbing people and buildings.
* [[Sugar Bowl]]
* [[The Tetris Effect]]: Play too long and you'll start calculating in your head how to roll up your surroundings. ''[http://xkcd.com/161/ Na na na na na na na na...]''
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: The optional sequence in the ending of the second, where the Prince tries to return to his home while the King rolls up everyone else into a
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]:
*
**
* [[Uranus Is Showing]]: In the "Uranus" level of ''Beautiful Katamari'', naturally. The King makes a few (completely unintentional) Uranus puns, and follows with "Why are you sniggering?" to the player character's ([[Heroic Mime|unheard]]) response.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: In the English version, the King always speaks in Royal We, and has a habit of sticking weird adjectives into his sentences. Although by the time ''We ♥ Katamari'' rolls around, the King is apparently learning Esperanto, though still rendered in the record scratches of the previous game. In the Japanese version, he is learning English. "Very Very Nice game..." In the first game, he greets you at every level with a different language, [[Canon Discontinuity|including Esperanto]].
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: It's surprisingly soothing to hear living beings scream upon being rolled up. And nothing can quite beat the sadistic glee of rolling up something that was smacking you around mere minutes earlier (especially if it actively chased after your Katamari and knocked several precious objects out of it, repeatedly).
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]:
** The King is rather stingy with praise throughout the entire series. In ''Katamari Forever'', he will only congratulate you for getting a score of 100/100 [[Up to Eleven|(or better)]]. A score of 99 or lower is treated as mediocre.
** This was also the relationship the young King and the Emperor had in the flashback reel of ''We ♥ Katamari''.
* [["What the Hell?" Dad]]▼
▲* [[What the Hell Dad]]
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: None of the male cousins even blink at wearing a bikini. On the flip side, none of the girls ever mind wearing a mustache. Or any of the other Presents that one might associate with one gender over another.
* [[Widget Series]]: It's a game whose goal is to roll the contents of the entire game world into a ball. Try explaining that to people. To be fair, the contents of the entire world are already in a ball, when you think about it.
* [[The World Is Just Awesome]]: Usually reserved for larger, longer stages, such as Make the Moon or Bird & Elephant. And yes, you CAN roll up the world in the end credits of the first game.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''Bubbles'', an early 1980s arcade game by Williams, meets ''[[
* [[Your Size May Vary]]: While the Prince's height is given as 5cm, he and the other cousins can appear in various places in various sizes. [[Lampshaded]] in-game via their roll-up profiles, which never specify their exact height. The King's roll-up profile states that he can change his size whenever he pleases, "depending on (his) mood and atmospheric conditions", so presumably, the Prince and the Cousins also have that ability.
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