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OMORI's creator OMOCAT has a Persona 30th anniversary hoodie out on July 1, 2026, and the OMORI 3rd Anniversary Concert Album is on sale at Fangamer Japan. The game's development alumni have moved on to separate projects.

Synthesized from 19 Yomimono stories · updated Oct 9

OMOCAT, the indie studio behind the horror RPG OMORI, is now best known for a collaboration with Atlus. On June 17, 2026, OMOCAT announced a project with the Persona series during its 30th anniversary year. The collaboration became a specific item on June 20: a hoodie featuring the awakening scenes of all Persona main protagonists, set for release on July 1, 2026. Both announcements identify OMOCAT primarily through OMORI.

OMORI's music also continues to circulate separately. MUSIC ENGINE released the OMORI 3rd Anniversary Concert Album on June 11 at the Fangamer Japan online shop for 5,000 yen. The four-disc set holds recordings from the November 2023 Yokohama concert plus additional studio tracks, with jacket art by creator OMOCAT. That release followed news on June 5 that OMORI lead programmer Cachi Cordova, through his two-person studio Blue Lily, had launched a Kickstarter for the hand-drawn survival horror game Moonlight Pale, set in a late-1800s female seminary. The campaign had raised roughly $15,000 against a $16,000 goal at press time. The three items are unconnected beyond the people and studio involved, and no new OMORI game or continuation has been announced in any of them.

Key facts

OMOCAT collaboration
OMOCAT announced a collaboration project with Atlus's Persona series on June 17, 2026, with no details released at the time. ↗
Persona hoodie
The collaboration item is a hoodie for the Persona series' 30th anniversary featuring the awakening scenes of all main protagonists, scheduled for July 1, 2026. ↗
Concert album release
MUSIC ENGINE released the OMORI 3rd Anniversary Concert Album on June 11 at the Fangamer Japan online shop for 5,000 yen. ↗
Concert album contents
The 4-disc set includes recordings from the November 2023 Yokohama concert and additional studio tracks, with jacket art by creator OMOCAT. ↗
Lead programmer's new studio
OMORI lead programmer Cachi Cordova founded the two-person indie studio Blue Lily. ↗
Moonlight Pale campaign
Blue Lily's Kickstarter for the hand-drawn survival horror game Moonlight Pale, set in a late-1800s female seminary, had raised roughly $15,000 of its $16,000 goal as of press time. ↗

Timeline

Synthesized by Yomimono from the cited Yomimono stories below, each itself sourced, then editorially reviewed. Every fact links the story it came from.

Facts

Announced
collaboration project with Atlus's Persona series · 2026-06-17
Release
music_video · 2026-06-11 · Japan · 2026-06-11

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