{"id":16686,"date":"2019-12-31T21:25:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T02:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=16686"},"modified":"2020-01-01T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T03:05:09","slug":"nintendo-releases-tv-ad-for-animal-crossing-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2019\/12\/nintendo-releases-tv-ad-for-animal-crossing-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo releases tv ad for Animal Crossing in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The release of <strong>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/strong> is right around the corner. Sure, it&#8217;s technically more than three months away, but with the launch of a television commercial in Japan for the release of the game &#8211; things have gotten real.<\/p>\n<p>The new commercial is a brief ad which shows Tom Nook presenting his island getaway package to an auditorium of villagers, including Isabelle. It&#8217;s a little teaser but it&#8217;s looking good that the March 20th release date is all but set in stone.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the commercial itself, the above art is also worth taking a closer look at. It serves as the box art for the Japanese release of the game and also teases a few new characters in the game. First off is the beaver who can be seen with the fishing rod, who bares a striking resemblance to Chip. Chip is the character who judges fishing tournaments in the mainline games and in Pocket Camp. This looks like it could be a younger relative of Chip.<\/p>\n<p>Another new character that can be seen in the distance is a bird &#8211; let&#8217;s call him Skipper. He looks like he&#8217;s a pilot as he can be seen standing next to an airplane. Perhaps he is the character that will allow you to visit other players&#8217; islands? Right off to the right of Skipper is Harvey, who seems to be making another appearance. Harvey made his debut in the Welcome Amiibo update for Animal Crossing: New Leaf.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully there are a few new villager characters also added to the game. More is always good.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the ad below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0H4oeZnTLFM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons is right around the corner. Sure, it&#8217;s technically more than three months away, but with the launch of a television commercial in Japan for the release of the game &#8211; things have gotten real. The new commercial is a brief ad which shows Tom Nook presenting his island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1178,1530],"tags":[49,2373,1386],"class_list":["post-16686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nintendo-switch","tag-animal-crossing","tag-animal-crossing-new-horizons","tag-nintendo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/games_animal_crossing_new_horizons.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-4l8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16071,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2019\/06\/e3-animal-crossing-new-horizons-coming-march-20-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":16686,"position":0},"title":"E3: Animal Crossing: New Horizons coming March 20, 2020","date":"June 11, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Nintendo finally lifted the veil on the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch entry of the Animal Crossing series. 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