History WebAnimation / NightmareCity

The first movie, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHeWogmwVOI Nightmare City]]'', features [[TheHero Giko]], an orange male cat fighting against Morala while protecting his [[LoveInterests love interest]] Shii, a pink cat. The two of them conspire to leave the virtual world together, but Shii remains behind at the end of the video to confront Morala, while Giko promises to return soon. A hidden scene accessible through an Easter Egg in the Flash version shows a boy (who looks vaguely similar to Giko) waking up in some kind of machine, confirming that the city is a virtual reality. The song used is "Southern Cross" by Japanese band ''403 Forbiddena''.

The first movie, ''Nightmare City'', features [[TheHero Giko]], an orange male cat fighting against Morala while protecting his [[LoveInterests love interest]] Shii, a pink cat. The two of them conspire to leave the virtual world together, but Shii remains behind at the end of the video to confront Morala, while Giko promises to return soon. A hidden scene accessible through an Easter Egg in the Flash version shows a boy (who looks vaguely similar to Giko) waking up in some kind of machine, confirming that the city is a virtual reality. The song used is "Southern Cross" by Japanese band ''403 Forbiddena''.

The second movie, Nightmare City: Catastrophe, picks up where the first movie left off. We see that Morala had survived Shii's attack on him at the end of the first video (or possibly was resurrected somehow), and has now recruited a team of minions. A small resistance group battles said minions, Giko returns to face off and ultimately defeat Morala, though not without cost... The song used is "Northern Lights" by ''403 Forbiddena''.

* PsychoKnifeNut: Tsuu, in spades. His primary weapons are energy knives, which he uses to terrorize and maim people. Judging by the constant SlasherSmile, he seems to be doing it just for fun rather than because of whatever goals Morala might have in mind. This ends up being his downfall: he's so distracted with hurting people he fails to realize he didn't actually incapacitate Pistol Girl, [[BoomHeadshot who puts him down a surprise bullet to the skull]].

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** Some 2channel users found Morala's smile creepy and [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation portrayed Morala as ]]AxCrazy due to this, so Morala's Adaptational Villainy is likely a refrence to this.

* CurbStompBattle: Morala handily defeats or at least holds off Giko multiple times. [[spoiler: Giko stomps him back after absorbing Shii's soul energy]].

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Shii sacrifices herself to save OGiko's life. Giko then apparently absorbs her soul, causing him to be able to turn into his human form (though still with cat ears) and defeat the villain.]]

* KissMeImVirtual: [[spoiler: The end to ''Nightmare City: Catastrophe'' shows that Shii was actually just a program in the virtual world, which explains why she couldn't leave at the end of the first video.]]
* LaResistance: There seem to be a few disorganized ones opposing Morala and his White Cat minions.

* RedSkyTakeWarning: After [[spoiler:Blue Cat kills Pink Cat]], the sky goes from a starry nightscape to ominous red with swirling clouds.

* WasOnceAMan: Potentially [[spoiler: Shii, who showed her human form at the end of the series, which might have meant that she used to be a human at some point.]]

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Because they are anthropomorphic cats, most of the cast can seem ambiguous to viewers who aren't [[AllThereInTheManual well-versed in 2channel lore]].
** Tsuu doesn't have a consistent gender in 2channel memes, although they're usually depicted as female.

!This series provides examples of:

* WasOnceAMan: Potentially [[spoiler: Shii, who showed her human form at the end of the series, which might have meant that she used to be a human at some point.]]

** Some 2channel users found Morala's smile creepy [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation portrayed Morala as ]]AxCrazy due to this, so Morala's Adaptational Villainy is likely a refrence to this.

'''Nightmare City''' is a series of two Flash animations created by Clairvoyance. In a nutshell, they feature cats (and one human girl) fighting to protect a virtual world from an AxCrazy blue cat who wants to trap them in the world forever. The animations are both music videos and feature no sound apart from the song and very little dialogue - most of the story is told through the visual.

The first movie, ''Nightmare City'', features TheHero (an orange, male cat) fighting against the blue cat while protecting his supposed girlfriend, a pink cat. The two of them conspire to leave the virtual world together, but the pink cat remains behind at the end of the video to confront the blue cat, while the orange cat promises to return soon. A hidden scene accessible through an Easter Egg in the Flash version shows a boy (who looks vaguely similar to the orange cat) waking up in some kind of machine, confirming that the city is a virtual reality. The song used is "Southern Cross" by Japanese band ''403 Forbiddena''.

The second movie, Nightmare City: Catastrophe, picks up where the first movie left off. We see that the blue cat had survived the pink cat's attack on him at the end of the first video (or possibly was resurrected somehow), and has now recruited a team of minions. A small resistance group battles said minions, while the hero returns to face off and ultimately defeat the blue cat, though not without cost... The song used is "Northern Lights" by ''403 Forbiddena''.

* AmbiguousGender: Most of the cast. Only Orange Cat and Pink Cat are canonically gendered, though the most ambiguous is the shaggy-haired blond Fighter Cat, who could be male ''or'' female but isn't specified.
* AwfulTruth: As delivered by Brown Cat: [[spoiler:Pink Cat isn't a person, she's a part of system controlling Nightmare City.]]
* AxCrazy: Blue Cat. Might be a bit of a BloodKnight too, given how much he seems to enjoy fighting Orange Cat.
** Red Cat, a PerpetualSmiler PsychoKnifeNut who seems to enjoy hurting people with his energy blades, also counts.
* BilingualBonus: Translating the Japanese on the screen provides more information about the plot, including referencing the fact that the city is virtual and hinting that [[spoiler: Pink Cat is part of the program and not real]]. An English version of the video, made by Clairvoyance, exists for those who don't speak Japanese.
* BittersweetEnding: Orange Cat successfully destroys the all-controlling system of Nightmare City and defeats Blue Cat, freeing the people trapped in the system, but at great cost as deleting the system [[spoiler:means deleting Pink Cat, too]].

* CurbStompBattle: Blue Cat handily defeats or at least holds off Orange Cat multiple times. [[spoiler: Orange Cat stomps him back after absorbing Pink Cat's soul energy]].
* DeclarationOfProtection: Orange Cat to Pink Cat at the start of ''Nightmare City''.

* DestinationDefenestration: An unfortunate White Cat after taking a lunging gut-punch from Fighter Cat is sent flying through a pane of glass and off the roof to his death.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: Orange Cat. ''Twice.'' Both times involving him manifesting a sword.
* EliteMook: Baton Cat, a White Cat with a unique green energy weapon and serves Blue cat hunting down the resistance. He almost takes out Pistol Girl in ''Catastrophe'', only to be vaporized by a timely rocket-propelled grenade from other resistance members.
* EnergyBow: Pink Cat's special power, giving away that [[spoiler:she's part of the program, just like Blue Cat]].
* EyesAlwaysShut: A common design feature, thanks to simplistic faces. The White Cat squad in particular never opens their eyes.

** Note also that Pink Cat stops just before the border to Nightmare City, on the inside.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Inverted, the normally heroic X-on-cheek scar is instead found on the homicidal and sadistic Red Cat.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Most of the male (or at least implied-male) characters are melee warriors (Blue Cat, Orange Cat, Brown Cat, the White Cats) while the two notably female characters (Pink Cat, Pistol Girl) use ranged weapons.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Pink Cat sacrifices herself to save Orange Cat's life. Orange Cat then apparently absorbs her soul, causing him to be able to turn into his human form (though still with cat ears) and defeat the villain.]]
* HopeCrusher: Blue Cat, after he successfully [[spoiler:kills Pink Cat]]. There's a shot of him gloating while a mother and children are visibly terrified and dismayed at this outcome.
* KissMeImVirtual: [[spoiler: The end to ''Nightmare City: Catastrophe'' shows that the pink cat that the hero fell in love with was actually just a program in the virtual world, which explains why she couldn't leave at the end of the first video.]]
* LaResistance: There seem to be a few disorganized ones opposing Blue Cat and his White Cat minions.
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Nightmare City itself seems to be this, as an Easter egg shows humans placed into pods that then transmit their minds into the city. This doesn't seem to be by choice, as Orange Cat suggests to 'get out of this fake city.']]
* {{Mooks}}: The White Cats, a band of minor enemies who serve Blue Cat and only do two things--harass less important (non-combat) characters and get their butts kicked by the martial arts specialists in the resistance.
* NoNameGiven: No one in the series is given any explicit names during the videos. For the purposes of this page their basic descriptions (pink cat, orange cat) are being treated as proper nouns.
* OhCrap: A fair few.
** Orange Cat seeing Blue Cat about to jump down on them at the bridge.
** The White Cats about to get their asses kicked by the martial arts resistance group.
** Red Cat realizing he didn't actually disarm Pistol Girl, who shoots him in the face.
** Blue Cat after Orange Cat's final transformation.
* ParryingBullets: Or energy arrows, rather, as Blue Cat uses his cleaver to parry Pink Cat's attacks.

* {{Sadist}}: ''Red Cat''. Sure, Blue Cat might be out to get Pink Cat, but Red Cat is the one who's always smiling and seems to be actually having ''fun'' drawing blood and terrorizing the resistance.
* ShapingYourAttacks: Characters who are part of the system itself seem to have the the ability to do this, forming weapons out of nothingness. [[spoiler:This is one of the giveaways that Pink Cat is also part of the program]].
* TakeItToTheBridge: The climax of Nightmare City occurs on top of a large suspension bridge, where Blue Cat overpowers Orange Cat and seemingly dispatches him.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Pink Cat for Orange Cat,]] when Blue Cat throws his cleaver in ''Catastrophe''.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Blue Cat throws his giant energy cleaver at Orange Cat [[spoiler:but Pink Cat takes the blow, dying in the process.]]
** Red Cat likes to throw his energy knives as an attack since it's good for injuring a group of people.
* TraintopBattle: Brown Cat and Baton Cat have one in ''Nightmare City''. [[spoiler:Brown Cat loses, but survives]].
* WasOnceAMan: Potentially [[spoiler: Pink Cat, who showed her human form at the end of the series, which might have meant that she used to be a human at some point.]]

* SlidingBikeStop: Green Cat does this to escape Red Cat, crashing into a building where Red Cat doesn't have room to leap in after him.

** Red Cat, a PerpetualSmiler KnifeNut who seems to enjoy hurting people with his energy blades, also counts.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Inverted, the normally heroic X-on-cheek scar is instead found on the homicidal and sadistic Red Cat.

* TraintopBattle: Brown Cat and Baton Cat have one in ''Nightmare City''. [[Spoiler:Brown Cat loses, but survives]].

* CurbStompBattle: Blue Cat handily defeats or at least holds off Orange Cat multiple times. [[Spoiler: Orange Cat stomps him back after absorbing Pink Cat's soul energy]].

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Inverted, the normally heroic X-on-cheek scar is instead found on the homicidal and sadistic Red Cat.

* AxCrazy: The blue cat. Might be a bit of a BloodKnight too, given how much he seems to enjoy fighting the orange cat.
** Red cat, a PerpetualSmiler KnifeNut who seems to enjoy hurting people with his energy blades, also probably counts.
* BilingualBonus: Translating the Japanese on the screen provides more information about the plot, including referencing the fact that the city is virtual and hinting that [[spoiler: the pink cat is part of the program and not real]]. An English version of the video, made by Clairvoyance, exists for those who don't speak Japanese.
* CrapsackWorld: Nightmare City itself, especially in Catastrophe.

** Note also that the pink cat stops just before the border to Nightmare City, on the inside.
** The pink cat is also able to summon glowing weapons. Only the [=NPCs=] can summon those types of weapons.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The pink cat sacrifices herself to save the orange cat's life. The orange cat then apparently absorbs her soul, causing him to be able to turn into his human form (though still with cat ears) and defeat the villain.]]'
* KissMeImVirtual: [[spoiler: The end to Nightmare City: Catastrophe shows that the pink cat that the hero fell in love with was actually just a program in the virtual world, which explains why she couldn't leave at the end of the first video.]]
* ShapingYourAttacks: Characters who are part of the system itself seem to have the the ability to do this, forming weapons out of nothingness. [[spoiler:This is one of the giveaways that the pink cat is also part of the program]].
* WasOnceAMan: Potentially the [[spoiler: pink cat, who showed her human form at the end of the series, which might have meant that she used to be a human at some point.]]

** The pink cat is also able to summon glowing weapons. Only the NPCs can summon those types of weapons.

* WasOnceAMan: Potentially the [[spoiler: pink cat, who showed her human form at the end of the series, which might have meant that she used to be a human at some point]].

* WasOnceAMan: Potentially the [[spoiler: pink cat, who showed her human form at the end of the series, potentially hinting that she might have been a human at some point]].

* ShapingYourAttacks: Characters who are part of the system itself seem to have the the ability to do this, forming weapons out of nothingness. [[spoiler:This is one of the giveaways that the pink cat is also part of the program]].

* AxCrazy - The blue cat. Might be a bit of a BloodKnight too, given how much he seems to enjoy fighting the orange cat.
* BilingualBonus - Translating the Japanese on the screen provides more information about the plot, including referencing the fact that the city is virtual and hinting that [[spoiler: the pink cat is part of the program and not real]]. An English version of the video, made by Clairvoyance, exists for those who don't speak Japanese.
* CrapsackWorld - Nightmare City itself, especially in Catastrophe.
* {{Foreshadowing}} - "Thank you... but I can't go with you."

* HeroicSacrifice - [[spoiler: The pink cat sacrifices herself to save the orange cat's life. The orange cat then apparently absorbs her soul, causing him to be able to turn into his human form (though still with cat ears) and defeat the villain.]]
* KissMeImVirtual - [[spoiler: The end to Nightmare City: Catastrophe shows that the pink cat that the hero fell in love with was actually just a program in the virtual world, which explains why she couldn't leave at the end of the first video.]]

* Foreshadowing - "Thank you... but I can't go with you."

'''NightmareCity''' is a series of two Flash animations created by Clairvoyance. In a nutshell, they feature cats (and one human girl) fighting to protect a virtual world from an AxCrazy blue cat who wants to trap them in the world forever. The animations are both music videos and feature no sound apart from the song and very little dialogue - most of the story is told through the visual.

NightmareCity is a series of two Flash animations created by Clairvoyance. In a nutshell, they feature cats (and one human girl) fighting to protect a virtual world from an AxCrazy blue cat who wants to trap them in the world forever. The animations are both music videos and feature no sound apart from the song and very little dialogue - most of the story is told through the visual.