Reddit user Lopsided-Lab5745 recently shared an Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan art that looks like a movie poster showing the game’s Japanese title, Dobutsu no Mori. The Japanese film Gekijoban Dobutsu no Mori hit some theaters in 2006, and it celebrated some of the themes and characters from Animal Crossing: Wild World, but it never received a follow-up despite multiple games in the series having been released since. When Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released back in 2020, it broke franchise records and eventually saw the release of an add-on called Happy Home Paradise, and some fans are hoping that it gets an even bigger anime release than Wild World did.
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Lopsided-Lab5745’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons shows multiple characters that fans of the game would be familiar with like Ankha, Audie, Gulliver, Isabelle, and Ione. Given that three of the Animal Crossing: New Horizons characters 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 of Animal Crossing: New Horizons furniture, multiple flowers derived from the game, coconut trees, a fruit tree, and a Squeakoid which is part of the Gyroid library.
Similar to New 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 the Animal Crossing Dodo Airlines seaplane comes in for a landing. Unlike the plot of Gekijoban Dobutsu no Mori, Animal Crossing: New Horizons gives 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 a New Horizons anime would have to take. Although Nintendo could effectively tell much of the plot from Animal Crossing: Wild World in the original Japanese anime release, New Horizons may require a miniseries or multiple movies given the many details involved in the game.
In celebration of the fan art that does the original Animal Crossing anime film justice, Lopsided-Lab5745’s fan art has garnered nearly 4,000 Reddit upvotes. While it’s currently unclear if Nintendo may revisit the Animal Crossing series as an anime, fans would likely get advanced notice if a movie were to make its way to theaters.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now for Nintendo Switch.
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