Yume Nikki:Uboa

Uboa
Basic Info
Role	Traps Madotsuki in Uboa's Trap
Collectibles	None
Events	Uboa
Location	Poniko's House Uboa's Trap
Other
Size	Standard
Killable?	No

Uboa (ウボァ) is a character that appears in Poniko's House in the Pink Sea during an event.

Overview

Uboa's altered expression.

Uboa is a round figure resembling a black mass with a white face. Its normal appearance consists of a smiling face with a squinting left eye and a resting right eye with a crack above it. Its facial appearance changes when interacted with and in Uboa's Trap, morphing into a distorted face will smaller eyes, nostrils, and what appears to be lips or rows of teeth.

Uboa does not appear until the event associated with it is triggered. To activate the event, the player must travel to Poniko's House in the Pink Sea and turn off the lights in her room using the light switch found right beside the door. Each time the light is turned off, there is a 1/64 (1.56%) chance the room changes into a distorted version, with Uboa taking Poniko's place, accompanied by a loud droning sound. There is an interval of five seconds after flicking the switch where Uboa's event is prevented from triggering. It is faster to exit Poniko's House and come back in to flick the switch, rather than wait.

Once Uboa is summoned, Madotsuki can not leave the room or flip the light switch back on, with the latter action only causing the screen to flash white. Interacting with Uboa will send Madotsuki to Uboa's Trap, a looping area in the White Desert filled with white liquid and a giant bleeding creature grasping at mountains in the background. Uboa is found here in its distorted appearance. The only way to leave this area is to either pinch Madotsuki awake or to use the Medamaude effect.

Trivia

The empty Uboa event if Poniko is killed first.

• Uboa is often cited as one of the reasons Yume Nikki grew in popularity in the West. Uboa has appeared in Internet memes and edits during the early 2000s, shortly after the character's discovery, typically depicting the character in a more humorous fashion.
• Uboa's event are commonly parodied or imitated in various Yume Nikki fangames. The character itself has also gone on to make cameos in various Internet media^[which?] and appears to have inspired the designs of characters such as the Mystery Man from Undertale and White Face from IMSCARED: A Pixelated Nightmare.^{[citation needed]}
• The sound effect that plays when the player touches Uboa is the same one as when a Toriningen traps the player.
• Uboa will not appear if Poniko is killed. This prevents progression into Uboa's Trap.
• The background noise that plays when Uboa appears is the same as the music for Guillotine World, but slowed down by half.
• Uboa's name originated from a 2channel post describing how to activate Uboa's event. The initial post simply reads the instructions to activate the event before adding "ウボァー" (uboā!, "bwah!") to express the shock the event may give the player. This references a line of dialogue from the character Emperor Mateus from Final Fantasy II, as the phrase was a 2channel meme at the time of the post's creation.^{[citation needed]}
• In the manga, Uboa is depicted with a ponytail and arms, likely to more closely resemble Poniko. Its body is also much more blanket-like, with visible ruffles on its body.

Gallery

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  Uboa in Poniko's House.

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  Uboa as it appears in the manga.