AnAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayer has imagined what a movie poster for the game may look like that shares some similarities with the anime that was inspired byAnimal Crossing: Wild World. Though it has received a film adaptation in Japan, theAnimal Crossingfranchise hasn’t gotten the same treatment in the West, and one fan has an idea of what it may look like if it was based onAnimal Crossing: New Horizons.
Reddit user Lopsided-Lab5745 recently shared anAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsfan art that looks like a movie poster showing the game’s Japanese title,Dobutsu no Mori. The Japanese filmGekijoban Dobutsu no Morihit some theaters in 2006, and it celebrated some of the themes and characters fromAnimal Crossing: Wild World, but it never received a follow-up despite multiple games in the series having been released since. WhenAnimal Crossing: New Horizonswas released back in 2020, it broke franchise records and eventually saw the release of anadd-on calledHappy Home Paradise, and some fans are hoping that it gets an even bigger anime release thanWild Worlddid.
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Lopsided-Lab5745’sAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsshows multiple characters that fans of the game would be familiar with like Ankha, Audie, Gulliver, Isabelle, and Ione. Given that three of theAnimal Crossing: New Horizonscharacters included in Lopsided-Lab5745’s movie poster are villagers, it’s likely that they would play the role of friends to the protagonist which isn’t featured in the fan art. Some of the finer details of Lopsided-Lab5745’s fan art are an item leaf that could be one of the countless pieces ofAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsfurniture, multiple flowers derived from the game, coconut trees, a fruit tree, and a Squeakoid which is part of the Gyroid library.
Similar toNew Horizons, Lopsided-Lab5745’s fan art features an airport near the beach which would be the first place any protagonist of a potential anime would visit as theAnimal CrossingDodo Airlinesseaplane comes in for a landing. Unlike the plot ofGekijoban Dobutsu no Mori,Animal Crossing: New Horizonsgives players a monumental role as the island pioneer that turns a messy small piece of land into a functioning village, and that may be the direction aNew Horizonsanime would have to take. Although Nintendo could effectively tell much of the plot fromAnimal Crossing: Wild Worldin the original Japanese anime release,New Horizonsmay require a miniseries or multiple movies given the many details involved in the game.
In celebration of the fan art that does theoriginalAnimal Crossinganime filmjustice, Lopsided-Lab5745’s fan art has garnered nearly 4,000 Reddit upvotes. While it’s currently unclear if Nintendo may revisit theAnimal Crossingseries as an anime, fans would likely get advanced notice if a movie were to make its way to theaters.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsis available now for Nintendo Switch.
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