10 reasons why Okami is a mad masterpiece

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9) Start a fashion craze

In Sei-an city, visit kimono designer Mr. Chic by the canal. Enter his house and he’ll ask you to design a new pattern on an enormous kimono pinned to the wall. Whatever you draw, it’ll start appearing around the city on peoples’ clothes, scribbled on walls, on umbrellas - and there’s even a little girl who doodles your “masterwork” all over her school’s playground with charcoal. And, yes, you can draw a guy’s member.

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