Evil Mani Mani

Mani Mani Demon (Mani Mani Demon) is a fictional foe that appears only in the SNES game: EarthBound, and in the Japanese version of Mother 2 in the compilation Mother 1+ 2. In the game

This gold statue appears for the first time in the cottage of a neighbor of Ness: Lier X. Agerate, an Onett treasure hunter who unearthed the statue in the underground bottom of his house. One of the characteristics of the statue is to spread the influence of Giygas through hypnosis to its victims.

The first victim was Mr. Carpainter. He was hypnotized by the statue, he is making Carpainter believe that the blue painting of Happy Happy Village was the key to happiness. When Ness gets a pin from Paula, Ness survives Carpainter who recovers memory and regains normalcy in Happy Happy Village. In Twoson, an inhabitant of the main park (Mr. Everdred) mentions Ness that he would steal the statue that (according to him) was still on Onett. In the end he gives Ness a bundle of bills with $ 10,000.

The next appearance of the statue is in Moonside (the parallel world of Fourside). This universe in turn is an illusion provoked by the Evil Mani Mani who kept hypnotized to the mayor of Fourside: Geldegarde Monotoli. Ness and Jeff decide to defeat the statue that is finally destroyed, the illusion is over and Ness realizes that all the time they were in the warehouse of a cafe.

Later they go to the desert and then return to the Monotoli building in which Paula remained captive. Paula explains to her friends that she is not wrong, only the statue had bad influence on the mayor. This in turn explains to Ness that he was so afraid of the power of the statue that hid behind the "Café de Jackie" where he used to pray, that the statue stole your soul and the energy of the heart, head appeared messages of order where the name of Ness was repeated and said: Curiosities

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