History Characters / KatamariDamacyCousins

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A cotton-candy pink cousin with a big, bow-shaped head. [[CuteClumsyGirl Its awkward size makes her incredibly clusmy, but she gets]] EasilyForgiven [[TheCutie because of her cuteness]]. Tends to appear around candies, cakes and other sweet treats.

%% * SweetTooth

%%* StrawberryShorthand

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Strawberries, naturally. She's been taking to eating on the strawberries in her strawberry shortcakes as a result.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Very downplayed but his face gets longer and longer with each game. Originally, his head was like the Prince's but turned sideways. By ''Katamari Forever'', it's about twice as long.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Johnson's head extends outwards from the rest of his body, making him look like a... [[GagPenis well...]] His name is also a [[MeaningfulName euphimism for the same body part.]]

A carefree cousin covered in blue polka-dots, and a complete and utter innocent. Jokes are completely lost on her. Loves playing in the rain, and may even have some influence over the weather, as the King says "She likes going out on rainy days, or maybe it just rains when she goes out." Also likes birds; many of her Presents have a 'white bird' theme.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: His original appearance was more in line with most other cousins, with only his coloring indicating his metallic nature. Subsequent games gave him wheels for feet, claws for hands, batteries, and a more distinct head and body. The ''REROLL'' re-releases changed his cylindrical head to be more boxy and removed his batteries, likely to match his in-game appearance with his artwork.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In ''Katamari Damacy'', he has a cylindrical body like most other cousins. In subsequent games, he has a pointy butt. The ''Reroll'' re-releases use his original design.

* OrwellianRetcon: ''We Love Katamari'' changed Ace's design to the pointy butt version that was used for subsequent games. ''We Love Katamari REROLL'' negates this change by restoring Ace to his original design.

* MeaningfulName: The ''fuji'' in his name refers to Mount Fuji, which his head resembles. In ''We Love Katamari'', he is introduced riding the clouds above Mount Fuji in the Cloud stage.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Originally, in ''Katamari Damacy'', Havana had a pill-shaped head like most of the other Cousins, although it was still much longer, with yellow stripes. In the sequel, ''We Love Katamari'', his head turned into a cylinder with flat sides and blue stripes but his face got much wider. More recently, his face width was toned down while still staying wider than most Cousins.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In ''Katamari Damacy'', her head only had one knob on either side and a darker fuschia/magenta color. Subsequent games gave her two knobs on either side of her head. The ''Reroll'' re-releases use Honey's original one-knob design while lightening her coloring to a softer pink.

* InconsistentColoring: Some games she's magenta, other times she's pastel pink. Sometimes, artwork have her as a color that differs from her corresponding in-game model. The ''Reroll'' re-releases seem to have settled on the pastel pink as her permanent color.
* MeaningfulName: The King's comment when you roll her up in ''Beautiful Katamari'' indicates that she smells sweet, which would match her sweet namesake. Plus, the shape of her head resembles a wrapped candy. In ''We Love Katamari'', she's introduced in Hansel and Gretel's stage, which is filled with sweets. In ''Me & My Katamari'', she's introduced in the Ant stage standing on a cake, further referencing her sweetness.
* OrwellianRetcon: ''We Love Katamari'' changed Honey's design to the two-knobs-on-each-side version that was used for subsequent games. ''We Love Katamari REROLL'' negates this change by restoring her to her original body shape.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In the original game, Ichigo had a cylindrical body like most other cousins and pink legs/tights. In subsequent games, her body was changed to be strawberry-shaped and her legs became green. Ichigo's design in the ''Reroll'' re-releases use her original design rather than her modern one.

* OrwellianRetcon: ''We Love Katamari'' changed Ichigo's design to the strawberry body version that was used for subsequent games. ''We Love Katamari REROLL'' negates this change by restoring her to her original design.

%% * SweetTooth: Takes to eating

* AnimalMotif: White birds, as many of her Presents are themed after them and her vehicle in ''We Love Katamari's'' Racing stage is a seagull.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In ''Katamari Damacy'', her arms and legs were navy blue. In subsequent games, her arms and legs are the same color as her face, implying that they're uncovered. The ''Reroll'' re-releases use her original design.

* HappyRain: Noted to be always playing in the rain, or maybe it always starts raining when she's playing? She can be found in certain stages across multiple games dancing under rain clouds or around umbrellas. In ''We Love Katamari'', she's introduced in the Cloud stage.
* InconsistentColoring: Her artwork for ''We Love Katamari'' show that her polka-dots bleed onto the sides of her head, but her in-game model has the sides of her head white with a navy blue border. In other games, sometimes the sides of her head have an additional navy blue circle in the middle, making it look like a white and navy bull's eye. Even the portrait being used for her entry here has a blue center and a navy border; none of her in-game models use this coloring.

* OrwellianRetcon: ''We Love Katamari'' changed June's design to have naked limbs, which was used for subsequent games. ''We Love Katamari REROLL'' negates this change by restoring her to her original design.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Originally, he wore a brown and green camo pattern. In subsequent games, his texture would change to match whatever's happening in the center of the screen. The ''Reroll'' re-releases replace this with an UnmovingPlaid of a sunny countryside, likely to match his in-game appearance with his artwork.

* OrwellianRetcon: ''We Love Katamari'' gave Kuro two antennae instead of one, which was the design used for subsequent games. ''We Love Katamari REROLL'' negates this change by restoring him to his original one-antenna design.

* PronounTrouble: Perhaps intentionally. The King's dialogue tends to avoid referring to Lalala by third-person pronouns across games, [[AmbiguousGender leaving the gender undetermined.]] Only the official website and ''Beautiful Katamari's'' matching game refer to Lalala as "she".

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: His original appearance was more in line with most other cousins, with only his coloring indicating his metallic nature. Subsequent games gave him wheels for feet, claws for hands, batteries, and a more distinct head and body. The ''Reroll'' re-releases changed his cylindrical head to be more boxy and removed his batteries, likely to match his in-game appearance with his artwork.

* BigEater: In stages, he's often found around food and/or empty bowls. In ''We Love Katamari'', he's introduced in the Sumo Wrestler stage, which is all about collecting food and gaining calories.

* SuddenNameChange: Is named "Njamo" (ンジャモ in Japanese) in ''We Love Katamari Reroll" due to his name being Simular to an old Japanese racial slur, but isn't explained in-game.. His planet is renamed Lalanja to reflect this.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Like Johnson, his head gets longer with each game. The ''Reroll'' re-releases adjusted his height to be somewhere between his original and his later appearances.

* OrwellianRetcon: ''We Love Katamari'' got rid of the hole in his torso, gave him less bandages, and a cast on one leg. ''We Love Katamari REROLL'' negates this change by restoring him to his original appearance of having the hole and being covered in bandages.

* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: She originally had no legs and floated off the ground. Subsequent games gave her legs. ''Katamari Damacy REROLL'' uses the legless design original to that game. ''We Love Katamari REROLL'' uses the design with legs original to that game.

* AnimalMotifs: Birds. His weird body shape is vaguely bird-like, an animation on the official website has him sitting in a nest with eggs, and his mask in ''We Love Katamari'' is a toucan.

* DependingOnTheArtist: Sometimes she's depicted with black Cousin hands, other times she has black hooves. ''We Love Katamari REROLL'' gave her black front hooves and white back hooves.

* TorpedoTits: ''We Love Katamari REROLL'' has an icon of her shooting her "Mystery Globe" like a missile.

* MaskedLuchador: Obviously. His mask in ''We Love Katamari'' is also a luchador's mask.

* SpiritedCompetitor: Always looking for a good fight. In ''We Love Katamari'', he's introduced at the top of a bunch of stacked wrestling rings that have various people fighting on them. In ''Beautiful Katamari'', he's introduced trying to fight a kangaroo.

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Subverted; while she doesn't quite reach her goal of top three, top ''six'' isn't so bad when you consider how many Cousins she's likely competing with.

* TheQuietOne: Never talks, and rolling him up doesn't make a noise.

* SuddenNameChange: Is named "Njamo" (ンジャモ in Japanese) in ''We Love Katamari Reroll'' with no explanation. His planet is renamed Lalanja to reflect this.

!Cousins

[[folder:Njamo (originally Colombo)]]
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A cousin covered head-to-toe in shaggy black fur, so that he resembles a literal black sheep -- though there's no indication he's actually considered as such. Dislikes summer due to the heat. In later games, his fur takes on subtle camouflage-like tones, most likely in order to make him a bit more visually interesting. He's also complimented on his neatness and immaculate grooming, which may also have something to do with that added effect.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Usually appears around animals.
* KissingCousins: He and Lalala are stated to be "mutually attracted" to one another, likely because they're both nudists (unless you consider the former's hair his clothes since it ''does'' cover him up). It's possible they're both related to the Prince but not each other, but it's never explained.
* MeaningfulName: His new name "Njamo" (ンジャモ). Shift the last three characters around, and and you get "moja" (モジャ), the Japanese onomatopoeia for something shaggy or hairy, which he certainly is.
* SuddenNameChange: Is named "Njamo" (ンジャモ in Japanese) in ''We Love Katamari Reroll'' with no explanation. His planet is renamed Lalanja to reflect this.

[[folder:Dipp]]
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A flashy, attention-seeking cousin who has a distinctive style: his shirt is always basic black, but covered in flashy, multicolored designs like polka dots or stars. Sometimes goes clubbing with Peso.

* AttentionWhore: His flashing outfits are designed to draw attention to him. When even the King of All Cosmos says, "We wish he knew the difference between looking good and looking gaudy," you ''know'' you have a problem...
* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: Whatever the pattern might be, it's always cast in bright neon shades and [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles sparkles]].
* InconsistentColoring: In subsequent games following the original, Dipp's legs/tights changed from green to purple. However, this wasn't consistent between games, and sometimes in artwork he had legs that are a different color from his corresponding in-game model. This was possibly a development error resulting from porting over older models and a lack of communication between the 2D and 3D artists.

[[folder:Foomin]]
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A cousin wearing sky blue and orange. Her head is shaped like a U, and her brain is actually divided between the two towers. The King assures us, however, that this doesn't make her ''smarter''. Due to its distinctive shape, she doubles up on most headgear, resulting in dual giraffe hats, flowers and so on.

* BizarreAlienBiology: The King goes between claiming her brain is divided between both "towers" and that she actually has two entirely separate brains. Either way, he adds it doesn't make her any smarter at all.
%% * TheDitz: According to the King, anyway.

[[folder:Fujio]]
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A cone-headed cousin who appears to be the oldest of the lot, seeing as he has a mustache. Enjoys telling stories; sadly, however, his voice is boring and monotonous, making it difficult for him to keep the attention of his audience.

%% * TheComicallySerious
* CollectorOfTheStrange: The Japanese ''Katamari Damacy'' website says that he collects facial hair as a hobby, implying that the mustache you see on his face is fake.
* MeaningfulName: The ''fuji'' in his name refers to Mount Fuji, which his head resembles. In ''We Love Katamari'', he is introduced riding the clouds above Mount Fuji in the Cloud stage.
* TheSmartGuy: Explicitly stated to be one of the most intelligent cousins.
%% * TheStoic

[[folder:Havana]]
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A red-and-white cousin with an extremely long, wide cylinder for a head. This makes it difficult for him to move around, and he's always getting in the way. And he's extremely talkative, loud and annoying to boot. On the plus side, it saves him from ever worrying about falling into manholes!

* DoubleStandard: According to the King, Honey's big head makes her a CuteClumsyGirl, while Havana's big head makes him clumsy and annoying. What makes this even more hypocritical on the King's part is his head's just as big and wide as Havana's (that is, if you consider that colorful cylinder actually part of his biology, or just a headdress).
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Originally, in ''Katamari Damacy'', Havana had a pill-shaped head like most of the other Cousins, although it was still much longer, with yellow stripes. In the sequel, ''We Love Katamari'', his head turned into a cylinder with flat sides and blue stripes but his face got much wider. More recently, his face width was toned down while still staying wider than most Cousins.
* OrwellianRetcon: Havana's original design was replaced with his smaller face incarnation in ''Katamari Damacy REROLL'', retroactively implementing it into his first appearance.
%% * {{Keet}}
%% * MotorMouth
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[[folder:Honey]]
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A cotton-candy pink cousin with a big, bow-shaped head. [[CuteClumsyGirl Its awkward size makes her incredibly clusmy, but she gets]] EasilyForgiven [[TheCutie because of her cuteness]]. Tends to appear around candies, cakes and other sweet treats.
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[[folder:Odeko]]
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A cousin wearing all purple whose head extends straight upward, making him a naturally tall cousin.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Much like Johnson, the shape of his body can seem rather suggestive.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: Like Johnson, his head gets longer with each game. The ''Reroll'' re-releases adjusted his height to be somewhere between his original and his later appearances.
* MeaningfulName: ''Odeko'' can be read as "prominent forehead" or just "forehead" (お凸), which is fitting for this Cousin's tall head.
* {{Pride}}: He's got [[IncrediblyLamePun a big head]] when it comes to his height, despite the fact that the vantage point remains the same, making him no taller than many of his other cousins.

[[folder:Opeo]]
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An accident-prone Cousin who's always covered in bandages, complete with a cast on his leg. Despite being prone to illness and injury, he's got a strong mentality and lots of vitality.

* BandageMummy: Covered from head to toe in bandages.
* MeaningfulName: Opeo as in '''opio'''id or the Office of Preparedness and Emergency Operations (OPEO). His Japanese name, Ope, is short for '''ope'''ration. These all match Opeo's theming as a medical patient.
* OrwellianRetcon: ''We Love Katamari'' got rid of the hole in his torso, gave him less bandages, and a cast on one leg. ''We Love Katamari REROLL'' negates this change by restoring him to his original appearance of having the hole and being covered in bandages.
* TorsoWithAView: In some of the games, Opeo has a large, gaping hole in his stomach.

[[folder:Peso]]
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A gray and red cousin with a bullseye design on both sides of his roundish head. Always seeking attention, he's tried out various hobbies to attract it. Started out as an aspiring dancer at first, but dropped that to try his hand at golfing during ''We ♥ Katamari''; now, he's dropped golfing to focus on ''singing'' and dancing.

* AttentionWhore: He tries everything he can to draw attention to him.
* UsefulNotes/TheEnneagram: A textbook '''Three''': trying whatever he thinks will make him popular.
* IdolSinger: His latest obsession as of ''Beautiful Katamari''.

[[folder:Shikao]]
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An orange cousin with a box-shaped head and a 'V'-shaped antennae, and a television-loving maniac. Good with [=VCRs=], he sets up to record programs for his cousins, like Foomin's fashion shows, so they don't have to worry about missing anything while rolling katamaris. Also loves telling scary stories, though he always ends up scaring ''himself'' instead.

* BizarreAlienBiology: The shape of his head falls under this simply because of how it ''changed'' between games: originally, it was just a flat-on square, but at some point between ''Katamari Damacy'' and ''We ♥ Katamari'', the location ''shifted'' so that it was now on a corner, giving him peripheral vision. According to the King, this shift occurred so he could watch scary movies out of the corner of his eye. Changed in ''Katamari Damacy REROLL'' to match his later appearance, to be more in line with his concept art.
* OrwellianRetcon: ''Katamari Damacy REROLL'' took his original flat-face design from the first game and ended up replacing it with his corner-face redesign, retroactively implementing it into his first appearance.
* TaughtByTelevision: He does nothing but watch television.

[[folder:Velvet]]
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A haughty violet cousin who used to hover about two centimeters above the ground. (She actually did this to hide the fact she was a little bit shorter than the others. By the time ''We ♥ Katamari'' rolled around, however, she'd caught up enough that she didn't have to float anymore) Now, she focuses on acting rich, relaxed and mature to try and impress her cousins. Her skirt flares out like Saturn's ring, giving her a more distinctive shape.

A cousin covered head-to-toe in shaggy black fur, so that he resembles a literal BlackSheep -- though there's no indication he's actually considered as such. Dislikes summer due to the heat. In later games, his fur takes on subtle camouflage-like tones, most likely in order to make him a bit more visually interesting. He's also complimented on his neatness and immaculate grooming, which may also have something to do with that added effect.

* BizarreAlienAnatomy: Twinkle is a little odd but aside from his star-shaped body, he's anatomically similar to most other Cousins. His family, on the other hand, have even weirder body shapes, like the one shaped like a lightning bolt or the one shaped like an hourglass with two faces.

* ShrinkingViolet

* DubNameChange: Originally named "Star".

* BizarreAlienBiology: Just... everything. His face being on his antenna, his arms being on his head, and somehow the King STILL can't tell him apart from the Prince.

* VisualPun: In ''Beautiful Katamari'', you find him standing around a bunch of ''Kendama'' toys, which resembles his body structure.

* GenkiGirl
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Partly averted; while she doesn't quite reach her goal of top three, top ''six'' isn't so bad when you consider how many Cousins she's likely competing with.
* PluckyGirl
* SpiritedCompetitor
* {{Tomboy}}

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}

* MaskedLuchador: Obviously.

* MeaningfulName: He dresses like a luchador and loves wrestling.
* SpiritedCompetitor: Always looking for a good fight.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Has no shirt. In ''We ♥ Katamari'' also has visible nipples.

* ActualPacifist: One of the perks of being a pacifist in a game series that doesn't focus on combat. (Unless you count rolling katamari as violence, which would make him a TechnicalPacifist...)
* GentleGiant: Despite his bulk and strength, prefers to avoid conflict.

* RealMenWearPink: Fuchsia, anyway.
* TopHeavyGuy

* PunnyName

* {{Keet}}
* NiceGuy
* ShrinkingViolet