Noise
From The World Ends With You
The Noise are a race of beings incarnated on the Underground plane of Shibuya. They are the manifestation of people's negative emotions as monsters, existing in the Underground while affecting living humans at the same time.
In battle, each Noise typically has two incarnations, one on each screen. The two incarnations share HP, meaning that attacking the same creature in both screens simultaneously is a quick way to defeat single enemies.
However, some enemies have only a single incarnation on a single screen. Examples are:
- Sprogs (which exist on the bottom screen and are automatically defeated when the frog they appear with is defeated)
- Shrews (appears from different holes, 4 on the bottom screen and 2 on the top)
- Reapers (who can exist on one screen at a time, switch screens, appear on one screen with a shadow on the other, or be so massive they take up both screens)
If there's more than one Noise of the same type on each screen, you can sometimes find out which Noise on the upper screen corresponds to which Noise on the bottom screen -- for example by using Joshua's locking ability. This proves useful for targeting one Noise at a time to eliminate it faster.
When scanning on the bottom screen, five different types of Noise symbols appear:
- Chump Noise, as red
- Boss Noise, as blue
- Negative Noise, as yellow (Chump Noise which are possessing a person, or object and are typically key to advancing the story)
- Pig Noise, as green
- Taboo Noise, as black
With the exception of Taboo Noise (which float towards Neku to force him into an encounter), Noise symbols float about a small radius awaiting a tap from the stylus to initiate combat.
In addition to their color, Noise symbols come in various shapes, each shape typically holding a certain Noise combination depending on the location and day.
Noise possessing people drag down the emotions of the possessed. These Noise are also drawn to hotspots of negative emotions.
Taboo Noise are especially powerful Noise. They cannot be born naturally and must be refined using techniques forbidden from Reaper knowledge. Taboo Noise will attack any target, Reaper or Player, that their creator designates. It is impossible to run from them.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
This section contains information from the Secret Reports.
All Noise are composed of Soul, just as all consciousness is in the Underground, and are born when Soul is bounded to the code of a Reapers' pin or the negative emotions of people. However, these monsters do not have any free will of their own and exist only to multiply and consume the Soul of people in the Realground by possessing them. Even after they are erased, the Soul the Noise consume is destroyed permanently, but the freed human experiences a rush of euphoria.. They exist on a special plane that is on both the RG and the UG. Though the RG and the UG exist in the same space, the Noise plane is split into two separate spaces. Every Noise exists in both spaces at the same time, and though they share the same life force they can move around individually.
Noise Lists:
