Yume Nikki:The Mall

The Mall
Basic Info
Japanese Name(s)	デパート; デパート; Department Store
Effects	Flute
Events	The Witch's Flight
Notable NPCs	Mall Shoppers, E-Man, Toriningen, O-Man, Tokuto-kun, The Black Cat
Other
Connecting Areas	Graffiti World; Dense Woods B (Frog Path); The Underground World ⛔;
BGM	🔊 BGM_036くろいデパート ; 🔊 ☆メニュータイプチェンジ☆ – Mall Rooms ; 🔊 なつかしいうた – Flute Room ; 🔊 ほうき飛行 – Mall Rooftop ; 🔊 このまま、どこまでも〜ほうき飛行〜 – Witch's Flight ;
Map ID	0076, 0077, 0078, 0079, 0080, 0082, 0177, 0178, 0179
Map Type	Medium, Non-looping, Multiple maps
Version Added	0.01
Extras +
YNOproject Badges
	Black Cat
	Tokuto-kun
	Shop 'til You Drop

The Mall is a deep location found by going through the elevator in Graffiti World.

Map of The Mall

Features

The Mallis a black-floored, purple-walled complex resembling a mall or store. The Mall's layout is quite strange, having several pathways like a maze with walls facing diagonally, similar to the Checkered Tile Path. The location's music is very eerie and atmospheric, giving the location a slight creepiness. There are multiple floors of the Mall, which are entered through escalators:

Elevator Room

Upon entering the Mall from the elevator in Graffiti World, there will be two escalator entrances. One leads to the main floor, which contains entrances to different rooms. The other escalator will usually be blocked by a traffic cone, though there is a 1/4 chance that the cone will be absent and the escalator can be used to get to the Mall's rooftop. If the player has entered this room through the elevator in Underground World, the cone will never be present.

The background music in this room is the same as Shield Folk World's music, albeit played at half the speed.

Main Floor

The main floor of the Mall is an almost labyrinthine area full of people-like NPCs known as the Mall Shoppers. This are also has two escalators: one leading back to the elevator room and one leading to a room with a manhole that takes Madotsuki to a path in the Dense Woods where one of the two frogs giving the Frog effect resides.

A doorway in the main floor's southwest section will lead to an area resembling a reception room with strange posters on the wall. E-Man will be here, sitting on a sofa, while a lunatic Toriningen works at the desk. Despite being in its lunatic state, the Toriningen can be peacefully interacted with to change Madotsuki's menu theme. Going into the room left of the reception room will lead to a smaller room with a framed picture and O-Man, who will be playing a chiptune song. Next to him is a flute, which can be picked up to gain the Flute effect.

Another doorway in the main floor's east section will lead to a small room with a sofa chair, a pit filled with red liquid, and Tokuto-kun, an NPC that can be interacted with to make them tip over and spill red liquid from their head. Tokuto-kun will remain standing in place once interacted with, so it is possible to get stuck in this room without waking up if they were interacted with near the doorway, unless the player has the Knife or Medamaude effect. The sofa chair in this room can also be sat on.

The gallery below consists of fanmade enlargements of the art found through the main floor's rooms:

Poster to the right of E-Man.
Poster to the left of E-Man.
Poster in O-Man's Room.
Poster in Tokuto-kun's Room.

Mall Rooftop

Going through the second escalator in the elevator room normally blocked by a traffic cone will lead to a room that leads to the Mall's rooftop. It is a small area with a background consisting of a cityscape, mountain range, and clear sky accompanied by exhilarating music. A black cat in this area can appear either on top of the entrance that the player came from on some air conditioning units next to the entrance, with there being a 1/2 chance of it appearing in either position. There is also a 1/64 chance the cat will appear on the main level, allowing the player to interact with it.

If the player has the Witch effect, they can fly off the edge of the rooftop and activate the Witch's Flight event. This event and the rooftop share the same music, with the rooftop having its music slowed down 30% from the event's music.

The entrance to the Mall's Rooftop.
The rooftop.
The black cat.
The background used for the area.

Directions

The Nexus → Graffiti World → The Mall

Trivia

In the English Steam release version of the game, if the player equips the Stoplight effect, switches it to its red light, and interacts with the desk Toriningen to make their menu theme red, the popup text for changing the menu theme will appear as garbled, untranslated text.
The background for the Mall's rooftop was discovered by a Japanese Twitter user to resemble a photo taken from atop Senkoji Temple, a Buddhist temple located in Kyoto, Japan. Link to the original Tweet.
If debug mode is enabled, the player will always initiate the Witch's Flight event when they walk off the roof, even if they don't have the Witch effect.
In a Thumbs.db file of version 0.04 of the game, there are two images of earlier versions of E-Man's room: one that looks completely different and another with E-Man's sofa on the side of the map for some reason.

An earlier version of the room, reconstructed by Vasili of #LaInvestigaciónYN.
Another earlier version.

Theories

The Mall is speculated to resemble a hospital setting rather than a mall. This is especially apparent in the Mall's rooms.

The posters in the Mall's rooms are sometimes speculated to resemble medical diagrams or pictures of body parts. The most notable ones appear in E-Man's room, which are referenced in theories relating to Madotsuki's sexuality or past. The posters in the room have been noted to resemble acts of fellatio, which suggests that Madotsuki is familiar with the imagery. It is possible that this suggests that she has experienced or witnessed these sexual acts somewhere, which has made an impression on her and been mixed in with lots of other things in her mind. The poster in Tokuto-kun's room also resembles a diagram of sperm cells surrounding an egg cell, which could relate to the E-Man room posters.

Some of the Mall's residents appear to reference the hospital theme as well. The Mall Shoppers grow distorted when interacted with, often twisting their bodies in unusual ways or having visual physical injuries (such as having open stomachs or twisted heads). Tokuto-kun also leaks a red liquid from their head, which may allude to a head injury. E-Man, while they do not appear to have any injuries, sneezes as they sit on the sofa.

Gallery

E-Man and the nice Toriningen.
The Flute Room with O-Man.

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