the hamster and birds in the cages and cat toy situation reminds me of pluto being a pet dog but goofy not being one lol- it’s like if people had little humans as pets😭 (or is it like having monkeys?)
For Disney characters it's the ones who wear gloves are considered more human than the ones who doesn't. For example as you said with goofy and Pluto. Goofy is wearing gloves, Pluto does not that's why he is a pet.
@@awesomeocelot7475But animals like dogs are sentient, sentience is just feeling emotions and pain. It just boils down to intelligence, or higher sapience I guess.
my personal theory is that like. villagers are anthro animals right? human is also technically an animal. so the villager we play as is just an antro/exaggerated idea of a human, like the animal vilagers
I like the silly idea that the world of animal crossing is technically post-nuclear apocalypse, kind of like Adventure Time, and that all the villagers/people are just mutated humans (explaining why there are normal animals, they were just not mutated or something idk). The stuff representing humans that look like we do are just relics from before the bombs fell. Also, the TV shows having realistic humans on them could be explained by being old recordings.
the tanuki, peach, and bamboo ones really aren't odd considering nintendo is a japanese company. it always makes me roll my eyes as an asian person when someone goes "its so weird!" when it's.. literally just cultural items we see/have commonly. it's no different than whites keeping crosses in their homes, or having certain "lucky" items like rabbit's feet.
@@NemesisOgreKing no, you silly-billy. the point is that its only as "weird" as anything else, which isn't really weird at all. weirdness is a matter of relativity and perspective. that's all.
@@ZJCitricAcidGraf.E.T. THANK YOU I WAS SO IRRITATED AT HOW IT WAS PRONOUNCED IN THE VIDEO 😭 like no that's not an English word it's pronounced differently
My favroite item in the games is the 7/11 tie-in barbecue bed that was only in New Leaf. Idk why it's funny that they would make a giant barbecue take out box that also doubles as something to sleep on
The raccoon statue is indeed a tanuki, a raccoon dog. While they have similar markings, they are not related to raccoons. Tom Nook is also supposed to be a tanuki and not a raccoon, although in western versions he is referred as such. Also I think the tulip surprise box is a nod to Thumbelina, the tale of the tiny girl that was born from a flower
Yeah I have no idea how he could say "it's so weird a tanuki is in the game!" when 1. It's a Japanese game, Tanukis are very popular. And 2, Tom Nook. T. Nook. Tnooki. Dude says he did a lot of research but it really doesn't feel like it.
@@bugjams i'm glad someone else agrees. it's hard to take the statements "this video was SO hard to make!" and "i did a lot of research!" seriously....
after clicking on this video curious to see whether the thumbnail was just clickbait or what, i can firmly say that none of these things are at all bizarre.
One time I got the moldy shirt in wild world because I gave Gracie 1 bell when she came to town 💀 I didn’t want to spend my bells and I didn’t know what she did so I suffered the consequences
I don't remember that in WW. I thought you had to answer her questions and if she didn't like your answers she gave you the moody shirt. I always thought she was a bitch for that
Is it me or does the villager always looks like shit after getting dressed by Gracie? I always gave her/him bells, because you're getting a new shirt which can't be bought from the Able Sisters.
I completely understand why the King Tut mask what's considered a bad luck item given the mummy's curse but it was just too perfect for me as an Egyptian mythology lover I toughed it out through tumbles and falls. We just need more Egyptian decor and outfits 😂😅😂
The tanuki figure is pretty normal considering animal crossing is a japanese franchise, it's not the only game they put it in And I mean, Look at tom nook, his name, his design, his job bro is a tanuki and i'm sure he has humongus balls- i mean bells
On the topic of the tulip dolls, it may be based upon the Anderson fairy tail "Thumbellisa." She was born from a tulip flower after a woman made a wish for a child since she could not have her own. While not necessarily a princess, she goes on to be sought after by bachelors of many small creatures, including a cockroach, a mole, and a toad that says nothing but "koax koax brekkle-kee-kex!"
I feel like the weird stuff in new horizons is because of the horror towns people made in previous games. Like the developers saw those and went "oh you guys like the horrors? Aight" and added stuff like the rescue mannequin, big creepy flower, etc
I thought the popular fan theory was that it causes you to trip because King Tut had a limp, and the mask was cursed, thus you trip whenever you wear it
Maybe the difference between the hamster villagers and the hamsters in the cages is how they explain why Pluto is a pet but not Goofy. Goofy and any animal that wears clothes in the Disney universe are like humans in animal form, but any animal without clothes is a pet. The villagers in animal crossing seem to be a sub-human species because they can talk. I think that it can go with any type of villagers.
In general I've only ever noticed this clash of "cutesy cartoon" look with "shockingly realistic" in Japanese media. I'm sure it's not uniquely Japanese, but it's certainly common, especially in Nintendo games (see Mario Odyssey and the random hyper-realistic stuff like the New Donk city humans or the T-Rex, or the realistic cars in Mario Kart). It's a very unique aesthetic that I don't know what to call. It feels almost surreal, because you don't expect hyper-realistic things in a cutesy game, but it's not like horror either. It's just dreamlike.
I always associated the pet items being different from the villagers because of some Disney comic. Donald's silly cousin is pointing a gun at him (lack of gun safety, smh) saying 'Hi Don! I'm goin duck hunting!' and Donald responds that he's domesticated. 'Not you! I mean real ducks!' so that is a thing.
My girlfriend has the rescue mannequin on her beach, and she has the great white shark model next to it with custom blood designs on the ground and when I found it she said there was a tragic shark attack lol 😂
The hamster cage doesn’t weird me out, what confuses me about the birdcage, however, is the fact that it’s CRAFTED. How did I craft something ALIVE out of wood? As far as I’m aware it’s the only item that’s like that too
given the museum's mammal fossil section its probably some kind of Convergent Evolution where each of the animals simultaneously evolved to be distinct but similar "Villager" species so the hamsters and the birds are probably a real world equivalent of Apes to us: we're from the same tree but at different evolutionary branches.
Some observations: 1: The "rescue mannequin" item looks like a CPR training dummy. Still a weird thing to put in your house, but at least we know what it's for. 2: I think the tulip surprise box is a reference to Thumbelina, who came from a flower in the original story.
im so glad i watched this video because you helped me find my favorite children's book of all time ! been looking for years but could never find it because i only had vague memories of it. the peach item based on the peach boy folktale was in that children's book ! and i was able to look it up ! thank you !! haha
I always found the lab chair strange, especially in Wild World where it looks more like an electric chair than anything. There's also the oil drums, which can sometimes bear the biohazard warning label.
my theory on the little animals coexisting with the talking ones is it's like a humans-and-monkeys situation. some evolved to be bipedal and grow larger, others stayed the same.
There is the theory that player characters have "clinical lycanthropy", which is not about werewolves but the belief or delusion that they or someone else is or has turned into an animal. There was actually an animated series of anthro animals that turned out the animal part was all such a delusion of the main character.
I think there are millions of humans in the Animal Crossing Universe, but for some reason, you're the only one on the island, or it's just rare to see a lot of humans together??? Idk but I LOVE watching Theory/Lore videos about the series so much. And the reason our character doesn't look as realistic as the ones seen on TV, and the mannequins etc. is simply because it's a cartoony game
hey you take that back, the sloppy furniture is my favorite set lol. I love how much throwing a few of those pieces into your decor makes it feel more lived-in and realistic. the couch & bed are my favorites
Friendly reminder that if something looks weird, out of place or seems useless it's probably not for you. This mainly applies to disability but it applies in the mannequin situation too. its either that or someone just has a huge hyperfixation on the stuff, maybe its for people like public safety and practicing on dummies reminds them of that and they want it as part of their world.
11:33 - pronounced more like 'sah-keh' 🙂 The Japanese vowels have that 'silent H' sound basically Love your video First time viewer and new sub Keep up the good work 👍
maybe our characters in animal crossing live on a secluded island away from the rest of humanity because our proportions are seen as freakish by the outside world 😔 the only ones that accept us are the anthropomorphic villagers bc they know what it feels like to be different
For the first point : If you look in the last room in the dinosaur exhibit, youll see where certain species diverged from old mega fauna during evolution. Which puts you are a human next to the rest of the villagers at the top of the display. In this sense, the villagers are a separate creature entirely from their animal counterparts. Kind of like how monkeys and great apes exist alongside us, although we're the only hominid lift. So for bird and hamster villagers, they are different diverged evolutionary cousins to the 'pet' hamsters and birds.
Small theory I have: perhaps the reason you and other players are the only human villager in your towns is that perhaps humans and animal villagers didn’t have a good past, my main reason for this is with your mom questioning why you decided to move in with animal villagers in the first game, coupled with the fact the villagers in earlier games are much more ruthless, so possibly as the games progress human and villager relations become more positive
A video about the "rare" national items (mostly in acnl) that u could only get in certain areas would be intresting . I remember spending so many bells on some items u could only get from japan-only festivities
With the smaller animals you can have as pet items, I think I’ve thought about them in the way there are animals and Animals in the context of Wicked. Lower case animals are unenlightened, they don’t have the powers of speech or like human level cognition (which is an oversimplification), and capital A Animals are capable of human level cognition and speech, just in the bodies of animals. This doesn’t explain the morphological differences in animal crossing, but I think it’s just existed as an explanation in my subconscious since I read the book as a like 12 year old and fell in love with the musical
Those are tanuki statues and you can actually see them sometimes in Japan (speaking from experience I’ve seen them in cities randomly). They have them to ward off evil spirits so yeah it’s a cultural thing.
My interpretation for why there are human and animal related items that don't look like the human or villager characters is similar to how we have depictions of humans and animals in other art forms that aren't realistic, but still represent us and other creatures. I mean Animal Crossing itself is obviously an example of that, so it's probably a good in universe explanation. It's an exaggerated form of humans or animals in their world that doesn't necessarily look like they do, but gets the idea across for entertainment purposes or otherwise.
6:17 the two flowers are actually flowers from Indonesia!! I know them because I’m Indonesian and i didn’t even know these flowers are in the game !! :D
Suddenly, the hamster cage gives me a great idea for an island with a serial killer vibe. Flurry, Soleil, come here for a second, I want to talk to you about a house redesign
Okay, so my favorite theory for the beginning part actually comes from the Sonic fandom: there are animals, and then there are anthropomorphic animals. But why are there humans that look more cartoony than the other humans? They're anthropomorphic animals, and that animal happens to be a human. Human²
Hi! I use the rescue mannequin on my island because I like the creepiness of it! I put it behind some of my villagers house so only their feet are poking out. Add that along with some custom designs to look like ketchup, and you’ve got a crime scene >:3
I cackled when I saw the rescue mannequin bc I do have it on my beach 💀 like as someone who washed up on the beach lol kinda dark but when I got that item that was the first thing I thought of and he’s been there for years 😂
I always believed animal villagers evolved from regular animals just like humans evolving from apes. Same with how apes still remain as a living species when part of them evolved that’s how it also is for those villagers and the animals they evolved from.
I’ve been waiting for you to finally post 😍
Oh I bet
Not an item but I gave my frog villager a tadpole once. He said he's "always wanted a pet tadpole".
I guess he's a father now.
Just curious which frog villager was it?
I once gave Shino a flea as a joke a long time ago… SHE STILL HAS IT and it’s been almost TWO YEARS
"I've always wanted a pet child"
Lol
I am in love with the raccoon statue, I built him a little shop with a stall. He sells pear jelly and pear smoothies.
This is ridiculously cute and sweet
Same, mine guards the entry to my house
Mine runs the tiki bar on the beach!
the hamster and birds in the cages and cat toy situation reminds me of pluto being a pet dog but goofy not being one lol- it’s like if people had little humans as pets😭 (or is it like having monkeys?)
I feel like it more of monkeys because maybe the villagers have more complex thoughts and emotions then the pets?
Hello Kitty is a little girl and she has a pet cat 😭
For Disney characters it's the ones who wear gloves are considered more human than the ones who doesn't. For example as you said with goofy and Pluto. Goofy is wearing gloves, Pluto does not that's why he is a pet.
To add onto that animals like Pluto clearly aren’t sentient and are more like real life pets and characters like Goofy are sentient beings.
@@awesomeocelot7475But animals like dogs are sentient, sentience is just feeling emotions and pain. It just boils down to intelligence, or higher sapience I guess.
my personal theory is that like. villagers are anthro animals right? human is also technically an animal. so the villager we play as is just an antro/exaggerated idea of a human, like the animal vilagers
They're like calico critters in my head (the lil fuzzy animal dolls in houses with cars and jobs)
I like the silly idea that the world of animal crossing is technically post-nuclear apocalypse, kind of like Adventure Time, and that all the villagers/people are just mutated humans (explaining why there are normal animals, they were just not mutated or something idk).
The stuff representing humans that look like we do are just relics from before the bombs fell.
Also, the TV shows having realistic humans on them could be explained by being old recordings.
the tanuki, peach, and bamboo ones really aren't odd considering nintendo is a japanese company. it always makes me roll my eyes as an asian person when someone goes "its so weird!" when it's.. literally just cultural items we see/have commonly. it's no different than whites keeping crosses in their homes, or having certain "lucky" items like rabbit's feet.
for reallll. these aren't weird items, they're just items that happen to be unfamiliar to some people.
Also...these were in older games too? Most of 'em, the tanuki for sure idr the rest but...
hell i'm not asian but i actually love the traditional japanese items. it has so much spice
So what you're saying is, white people following religion and superstations is weird.
@@NemesisOgreKing no, you silly-billy. the point is that its only as "weird" as anything else, which isn't really weird at all. weirdness is a matter of relativity and perspective. that's all.
sake = sah-kay. it’s japanese fermented rice alcohol. so it’s even funnier that it’s in here
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@Daiton or more like 'sah-keh'
All Japanese vowels can be pronounced with the 'silent H' basically
@@ZJCitricAcidGraf.E.T. THANK YOU I WAS SO IRRITATED AT HOW IT WAS PRONOUNCED IN THE VIDEO 😭 like no that's not an English word it's pronounced differently
Yeah this is the first time I've heard someone mispronounce it 😂
yeah there's quite a ... lack of attention paid during research in this video lol
Bring up Tanuki statue in animal crossing game. Fail to make tie-in that Tom Nook is based off of Tanuki.
Bud, King Tut's Curse is super famous! Please look it up it's insane. Also King Tut was disabled.
Perhaps the “realistic” Manequinns in the animal crossing universe are stylized
I think they are kind of the same thing as the real humans in Super Mario Odyssey? 🤔
My favroite item in the games is the 7/11 tie-in barbecue bed that was only in New Leaf. Idk why it's funny that they would make a giant barbecue take out box that also doubles as something to sleep on
I wanted the 7/11 items so badly that bed looked so cool lmao
The raccoon statue is indeed a tanuki, a raccoon dog. While they have similar markings, they are not related to raccoons. Tom Nook is also supposed to be a tanuki and not a raccoon, although in western versions he is referred as such.
Also I think the tulip surprise box is a nod to Thumbelina, the tale of the tiny girl that was born from a flower
Yeah I have no idea how he could say "it's so weird a tanuki is in the game!" when 1. It's a Japanese game, Tanukis are very popular. And 2, Tom Nook. T. Nook. Tnooki.
Dude says he did a lot of research but it really doesn't feel like it.
@@bugjams i'm glad someone else agrees. it's hard to take the statements "this video was SO hard to make!" and "i did a lot of research!" seriously....
11:34 Sake bottle as in Japanese liquor
Not “sake” but “sa•kay”
after clicking on this video curious to see whether the thumbnail was just clickbait or what, i can firmly say that none of these things are at all bizarre.
with the polnareff pfp you should know
One time I got the moldy shirt in wild world because I gave Gracie 1 bell when she came to town 💀 I didn’t want to spend my bells and I didn’t know what she did so I suffered the consequences
I don't remember that in WW. I thought you had to answer her questions and if she didn't like your answers she gave you the moody shirt.
I always thought she was a bitch for that
Is it me or does the villager always looks like shit after getting dressed by Gracie? I always gave her/him bells, because you're getting a new shirt which can't be bought from the Able Sisters.
I completely understand why the King Tut mask what's considered a bad luck item given the mummy's curse but it was just too perfect for me as an Egyptian mythology lover I toughed it out through tumbles and falls. We just need more Egyptian decor and outfits 😂😅😂
The tanuki figure is pretty normal considering animal crossing is a japanese franchise, it's not the only game they put it in
And I mean, Look at tom nook, his name, his design, his job
bro is a tanuki
and i'm sure he has humongus balls- i mean bells
On the topic of the tulip dolls, it may be based upon the Anderson fairy tail "Thumbellisa." She was born from a tulip flower after a woman made a wish for a child since she could not have her own. While not necessarily a princess, she goes on to be sought after by bachelors of many small creatures, including a cockroach, a mole, and a toad that says nothing but "koax koax brekkle-kee-kex!"
**Thumbelina
@jinkies8655 no, "Thumbelisa" is what the original Hans Christian Anderson book is called.
That would be “Tommelise”, since it’s German/Dutch. It’s also a cockschafer beetle, not cockroach.
I used the recuse mannequin for my Saw bathroom which works perfectly for John Kramer :)
Also, you can catch an octopus while diving and there's octopus villagers
Same thing with fishing for frogs and the fact that there’s frog villagers
items based off of japanese culture in a japanese video game?? shocking!
Tom Nook is a tanuki also. Also known as a racoon dog.
that’s why he has a big….. bell sack.
I feel like the weird stuff in new horizons is because of the horror towns people made in previous games. Like the developers saw those and went "oh you guys like the horrors? Aight" and added stuff like the rescue mannequin, big creepy flower, etc
this man really pronounced sake like that....
8:25 it probably makes you fall because it’s too heavy? Idk…? Considering your body is quite small compared to your head?
I thought the popular fan theory was that it causes you to trip because King Tut had a limp, and the mask was cursed, thus you trip whenever you wear it
Nope, the games have luck and tripping often is part of having bad luck. The mask just lowers your luck.
@@jaredarenas7542 he did??
@Material_melody oh yeah! He was born with a clubbed foot.
Maybe the difference between the hamster villagers and the hamsters in the cages is how they explain why Pluto is a pet but not Goofy. Goofy and any animal that wears clothes in the Disney universe are like humans in animal form, but any animal without clothes is a pet. The villagers in animal crossing seem to be a sub-human species because they can talk. I think that it can go with any type of villagers.
In general I've only ever noticed this clash of "cutesy cartoon" look with "shockingly realistic" in Japanese media. I'm sure it's not uniquely Japanese, but it's certainly common, especially in Nintendo games (see Mario Odyssey and the random hyper-realistic stuff like the New Donk city humans or the T-Rex, or the realistic cars in Mario Kart).
It's a very unique aesthetic that I don't know what to call. It feels almost surreal, because you don't expect hyper-realistic things in a cutesy game, but it's not like horror either. It's just dreamlike.
"sake bottle" tell me you don't drink alcohol without telling me you don't drink alcohol lol
I always associated the pet items being different from the villagers because of some Disney comic. Donald's silly cousin is pointing a gun at him (lack of gun safety, smh) saying 'Hi Don! I'm goin duck hunting!' and Donald responds that he's domesticated. 'Not you! I mean real ducks!' so that is a thing.
11:34 酒 Sahké, not sayke.
Man, you didn't even bring up the old school Apple TV?? The one that would only play a hypnotic drum beat at all times??
My girlfriend has the rescue mannequin on her beach, and she has the great white shark model next to it with custom blood designs on the ground and when I found it she said there was a tragic shark attack lol 😂
Why is there any doubt that the statue is a Tanuki, there are statues that look exactly like that one irl...
Um yeah, you’re pretty uneducated in Japanese styles then,
Most of these just feel very good.
As a kid who didn't know about the luck thing, I always thought my character was falling over because the King Tut mask was just really heavy lmao
The hamster cage doesn’t weird me out, what confuses me about the birdcage, however, is the fact that it’s CRAFTED. How did I craft something ALIVE out of wood? As far as I’m aware it’s the only item that’s like that too
given the museum's mammal fossil section its probably some kind of Convergent Evolution where each of the animals simultaneously evolved to be distinct but similar "Villager" species
so the hamsters and the birds are probably a real world equivalent of Apes to us: we're from the same tree but at different evolutionary branches.
skeletons are clearly previous tom nook loan defaulters
Some observations:
1: The "rescue mannequin" item looks like a CPR training dummy. Still a weird thing to put in your house, but at least we know what it's for.
2: I think the tulip surprise box is a reference to Thumbelina, who came from a flower in the original story.
im so glad i watched this video because you helped me find my favorite children's book of all time ! been looking for years but could never find it because i only had vague memories of it. the peach item based on the peach boy folktale was in that children's book ! and i was able to look it up ! thank you !! haha
I always found the lab chair strange, especially in Wild World where it looks more like an electric chair than anything. There's also the oil drums, which can sometimes bear the biohazard warning label.
Fish drying rack can be customized to have octopus on them. A bit concerning for Zucker, perhaps.
my theory on the little animals coexisting with the talking ones is it's like a humans-and-monkeys situation. some evolved to be bipedal and grow larger, others stayed the same.
Great video, idk how ive never ever come across that rescue mannequin just why lol
The tulip surprise box might be referencing Thumbelina
There is the theory that player characters have "clinical lycanthropy", which is not about werewolves but the belief or delusion that they or someone else is or has turned into an animal. There was actually an animated series of anthro animals that turned out the animal part was all such a delusion of the main character.
The Mouth of Truth furniture always freaked me out as a kid when I got it in GC Animal Crossing, lol
12:30 might be a reference to Thumbelina, which is a fairytale of a girl born inside a flower!
5:12 it's me, i'm using it, i built a morgue in my basement 😭
I have one on my beach at a crime scene😭
I'm pretty sure the hamster cage was in the original animal crossing. The hamster villagers were added in later games.
The drink is produced sah-kay, not sake.
I love all the strange items because im trying to recreate the mystery shack in gravity falls
I think there are millions of humans in the Animal Crossing Universe, but for some reason, you're the only one on the island, or it's just rare to see a lot of humans together??? Idk but I LOVE watching Theory/Lore videos about the series so much.
And the reason our character doesn't look as realistic as the ones seen on TV, and the mannequins etc. is simply because it's a cartoony game
the way you pronounce sake kills me a little inside
The rescue mannequin is good for an autopsy/doctor room, or a mortuary, but otherwise idk what it'd be used for.
Rafflessias are coincidentally my favourite flowers IRL
hey you take that back, the sloppy furniture is my favorite set lol. I love how much throwing a few of those pieces into your decor makes it feel more lived-in and realistic. the couch & bed are my favorites
To make it worse, Hamphrey gave me a hamster once
sloppy furniture series is one of my most coveted furniture series in acnl cuz I want some realistic rooms lol
Friendly reminder that if something looks weird, out of place or seems useless it's probably not for you. This mainly applies to disability but it applies in the mannequin situation too. its either that or someone just has a huge hyperfixation on the stuff, maybe its for people like public safety and practicing on dummies reminds them of that and they want it as part of their world.
11:33 - pronounced more like 'sah-keh' 🙂
The Japanese vowels have that 'silent H' sound basically
Love your video
First time viewer and new sub
Keep up the good work 👍
maybe our characters in animal crossing live on a secluded island away from the rest of humanity because our proportions are seen as freakish by the outside world 😔 the only ones that accept us are the anthropomorphic villagers bc they know what it feels like to be different
It's me, the goth playing animal crossing. You have literally listed every single item i use for my horror themed island in New Horizons.
“Why would anyone want this stuff (about the sloppy set)?”
I use it as a messy work set in the laboratory I have in the basement of my house in ACNH.
“I’m just immature, and I just think poop is funny”
Never felt so identified
Hey! I really like some of the sloppy set, specifically the couch, thank you very much
a fact i love is that in the original games tom nook, a tanuki, is seen wearing nothing except an apron... to hide his giant assets :')
I remember getting the doghouse all the way back in City Folk. it confused me I recall bc when you interacted with it, spooky dog eyes would peer out
For the first point :
If you look in the last room in the dinosaur exhibit, youll see where certain species diverged from old mega fauna during evolution. Which puts you are a human next to the rest of the villagers at the top of the display. In this sense, the villagers are a separate creature entirely from their animal counterparts. Kind of like how monkeys and great apes exist alongside us, although we're the only hominid lift. So for bird and hamster villagers, they are different diverged evolutionary cousins to the 'pet' hamsters and birds.
Small theory I have: perhaps the reason you and other players are the only human villager in your towns is that perhaps humans and animal villagers didn’t have a good past, my main reason for this is with your mom questioning why you decided to move in with animal villagers in the first game, coupled with the fact the villagers in earlier games are much more ruthless, so possibly as the games progress human and villager relations become more positive
A video about the "rare" national items (mostly in acnl) that u could only get in certain areas would be intresting . I remember spending so many bells on some items u could only get from japan-only festivities
i got your animal crossing controversy tier list on my timeline a little bit ago, opened ur profile and you posted a new video!! excited!!
With the smaller animals you can have as pet items, I think I’ve thought about them in the way there are animals and Animals in the context of Wicked. Lower case animals are unenlightened, they don’t have the powers of speech or like human level cognition (which is an oversimplification), and capital A Animals are capable of human level cognition and speech, just in the bodies of animals. This doesn’t explain the morphological differences in animal crossing, but I think it’s just existed as an explanation in my subconscious since I read the book as a like 12 year old and fell in love with the musical
Those are tanuki statues and you can actually see them sometimes in Japan (speaking from experience I’ve seen them in cities randomly). They have them to ward off evil spirits so yeah it’s a cultural thing.
My interpretation for why there are human and animal related items that don't look like the human or villager characters is similar to how we have depictions of humans and animals in other art forms that aren't realistic, but still represent us and other creatures. I mean Animal Crossing itself is obviously an example of that, so it's probably a good in universe explanation. It's an exaggerated form of humans or animals in their world that doesn't necessarily look like they do, but gets the idea across for entertainment purposes or otherwise.
6:17 the two flowers are actually flowers from Indonesia!! I know them because I’m Indonesian and i didn’t even know these flowers are in the game !! :D
OK, so the Nook's Hot Item of the day was a Stone Stool. I tried selling them a Coprolite, but they wouldn't give me any extra bells for it.
I gave my cat villager a scratching post and a litter box. I gave my dog villager a pet bed and a ball.
Suddenly, the hamster cage gives me a great idea for an island with a serial killer vibe. Flurry, Soleil, come here for a second, I want to talk to you about a house redesign
fun fact sbout the raccoon statue,, when building a home for redd in the hha dlc, he has a shock/love/“!” reaction to the item :3
Tulip surprise box is might thumblina
since the Bamboo doll is Kaguya
I remember when I was in Japan a lot of homes had a tanuki statue next to their front doors especially in Kyoto fushimi
Okay, so my favorite theory for the beginning part actually comes from the Sonic fandom: there are animals, and then there are anthropomorphic animals. But why are there humans that look more cartoony than the other humans? They're anthropomorphic animals, and that animal happens to be a human. Human²
The princess in the flower is likely Thumbelina !
Oh! Someone has probably already pointed this out, but I bet the princess flowers are referencing the Thumbelina folk tale
YOU HAVE KATT? she's my BABY GIRL (my first villager) and I had to reset my island😭😭 miss her so much I've hunted so much for her
my little brother ate a lily of the valley as a small child. he was okay but it was very scary.
this brings me back to old animal crossing videos. finally youtube is letting me feel something
I put two rescue mannequins in my basement bc I turned my basement into a torture dungeon and the mannequins are in cages
Just got “moldy dress” from recycle box the other day😊
Hi! I use the rescue mannequin on my island because I like the creepiness of it! I put it behind some of my villagers house so only their feet are poking out. Add that along with some custom designs to look like ketchup, and you’ve got a crime scene >:3
My theory is that villages are just humans like our character in a fury costume.
I'm mesmerized by your island. It's so cute!!
also the doghouse legit has glowing eyes that flash if you interact with it so theres literally a dog in there 😮
I cackled when I saw the rescue mannequin bc I do have it on my beach 💀 like as someone who washed up on the beach lol kinda dark but when I got that item that was the first thing I thought of and he’s been there for years 😂
Also, I'm surprised you didn't mention any of the fake art or the Australopith. Who both have really..interesting properties at night lol
Tom Nook is a tanukki! I feel like that makes the statue worse 😳
You forgot the lucky cat and it's story!!! He was a hero!
I use the rescue manequin in my house, love it
I always believed animal villagers evolved from regular animals just like humans evolving from apes. Same with how apes still remain as a living species when part of them evolved that’s how it also is for those villagers and the animals they evolved from.
If you touch the dog house it growls and has red eyes😮😂