Animal Crossing (film)
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| Directed by | Jouji Shimura |
| Release date(s) | December 16, 2006 (Japan) |
| Language | Japanese |
Animal Crossing (Dōbutsu no Mori lit. Animal Forest) is an anime film based on the Nintendo video game series of the same name. The director is Jouji Shimura who has worked previously on Master Keaton and Shin Angyo Joshi. It will retain the themes of the video game, in which a villager moves to a town and interacts with the animal villagers. It will be in theaters in Japan on December 16, 2006. Release dates for other countries have not yet been announced[1].
The confirmed characters are Ai (Female Character) along with Kapp'n, Tom Nook, Pascal, Mabel and Sable Able, Mr. Resetti, Tortimer, K.K. Slider, Brewster, Margie, Alfonso, Rosie, Whitney, Saruo (Monkey), as well as an unknown ninja and a pirate-like character.
By watching the trailer, it appears that the film is widely based on Animal Crossing: Wild World, due to the fact that Kapp'n only drives a Taxi in the Nintendo DS game[2]. In the GameCube version, he only has a boat.
[edit] Story
The following is a translation of the story from the Japanese site (see discussion):
One day, a young girl called Ai moves into the Animal Village. While working at Tom Nook's shop "Nook's Cranny" she begins her living life away from her family. To begin with she doesn't know left from right but under the guidance of Mayor Tortimer, the angry (but correct) Mr. Resetti and the wandering musician K.K. Slider among others, she is eventually accepted as a member of the village. Along the way she meets Margie, who dreams of being a designer, and the straight-talking Rosie and the three of them become good friends.
One spring evening Ai finds a bottle on the beach. She picks it up, opens it and finds a mysterious message written inside. “Plant a Conifer and on the night of the Snow Festival something miraculous will happen”
Time passes and soon it's winter. The Snow Festival. This year it will be one very special day and send an uproar throughout the village. Ai, following the instructions in that mysterious message, has planted a Conifer. What kind of miracle will happen on the night of the Snow Festival...?
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[edit] Reference
- ^ IGN News Report "Animal Crossing reaches three million. IGN (May 13, 2006). Retrieved on 14 May 2006.
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