Yume Nikki:The Pink Sea

The Pink Sea
浅瀬
Basic Info
Effects	EffectNone
Events	Uboa
Notable NPCs	Poniko, Uboa
Other
Connecting Areas	Snow World NoEntry⛔ White Desert NoReturn➡️
BGM	BGM_023 ゆめのくに？ BGM_027 BGM_028 やさしいこだとおもってた ～ポニ子～
Map ID	Missing
Map Type	Large, Looping
Extras + YNOproject Badges Sweet Pink Waters

Pink Sea BGM

Poniko's House (Lights out)

Poniko's House (Lights on)

The Pink Sea (浅瀬, Shallow Water, also known as the Pastel Sea or Pastel Shoal by some fans) is an openly-looping deeper location of Madotsuki's many dream worlds.

Features

The Pink Sea is dominantly pink, characterized by several pale islands surrounded by a large expanse of shallow, pastel-colored water. The area was added in version 0.07, although it lacked Poniko's house at the time.

Madotsuki starts the area on a balloon-shaped island with a curving path. Down the path are two coral-like structures faintly resembling chromosomes and a pink balloon. Interacting with the pink balloon will warp Madotsuki to the sea itself, right next to a blue balloon. The water will make Madotsuki walk slower, so it is recommended to bring the Frog or Bicycle effects to walk faster through it. Directly north of the blue balloon is a green balloon, which will warp Madotsuki to another island. When interacting with the green balloon, Madotsuki will teleport right next to a light-green balloon on an island containing conical structures and Poniko's House.

Poniko's House

Poniko's House is composed of only one room that is also largely pink in color. The room contains a closet, bed, bookcase, and desk. A yellow carpet is laid on the floor with a pink pillow near it. Two posters decorate the wall and a small window with purple curtains reveals a starry night sky. The only inhabitant of the room is Poniko, who simply walks around the room and does nothing upon interaction.

A light switch next to the door can change the appearance of the room, making the color scheme mostly black. Flipping this light switch upon entering the room has a 1/64 chance to trigger the Uboa event, which will drastically change the room's appearance and replace Poniko with Uboa as a roar-like sound replaces the joyful music playing in the room. The closet will change to resemble a face with strabismic eyes, the contents of the room's posters will change, and both the window and carpet will change to have green eyes on them. Interacting with Uboa here will lead to Uboa's Trap.

Connections

The Nexus → Snow World → The Pink Sea

Trivia

• In real life, a lake colored entirely pink exists, known as Lake Retba.
• The Pink Sea is reminiscent of Magicant from Earthbound Beginnings, which has a pink color scheme and similar conical structures resembling shells.
• The actual background music for the Pink Sea is faster. In-game, it is slowed to 60% its original speed.

The Pink Sea (Fast)

Theories

The conical structures on Poniko's island may be Japanese party poppers

Although it is ostensibly a large ocean, the world seems to be styled along the lines of a young girl's birthday party. The dominance of pink and pastel colors, the floating balloons and the conical structures on Poniko's island that resemble Japanese-style party poppers may indicate that this dream is based on Madotsuki's memory of a birthday party. This may be significant in interpreting the Uboa event and Poniko's relationship to Madotsuki.

Alternatively, it may also be another homage to the Mother series, since it resembles Queen Mary's Magicant from the original Mother game (also known as EarthBound Beginnings), and the exterior of Poniko's house resembles the buildings there as well as Queen Mary's castle.

Gallery

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  Map of the Pink Sea in version 0.07, only connected to the igloo in Snow World.

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  Map of the Pink Sea in the current version.

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  The Pink Sea in the manga.

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  The teleporting balloons in the manga.

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  The outside of Poniko's House in the manga.

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