Kapp'n

Kapp'n
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Appearances	Animal Forest+, Animal Forest e+, Animal Crossing (GCN), Animal Crossing: Wild World, Animal Crossing: City Folk, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Template:AM
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Kapp'n (カッペイ, Kappei / うんてんしゅ, Chauffer) is a green turtle (kappa in the Japanese versions) that features in the Animal Crossing series as a driver of various forms of transport. He has been known to row boats, drive taxis and also drive buses.

Kapp'n himself is a sailor by nature, referring frequently to his life on the sea and speaking in stereotypical pirate tones. He has also expresses a fondness for women and singing old sea shanties.

Appearances

In Animal Crossing

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Kapp'n from Animal Crossing

In Animal Crossing (GCN), he is the ferry operator who sails visitors and the player to the island (commonly known as Animal Island) through the Game Boy Advance cable. During the voyage to the island he sings a sea shanty, usually about his life on the sea and women.

In Animal Crossing: Wild World

In Animal Crossing: Wild World, he drives the black taxi to the town and acts as the introducing character responsible for the gender and appearance of the playable character, as well as the name of the town. This is a role he takes on from Rover. He can sometimes be seen in the The Roost drinking coffee. He will talk about his life at sea upon talking to him and will sometimes seem a bit grumpy.

In Animal Crossing: City Folk

In Animal Crossing: City Folk, he first appears driving the bus to the town, while Rover talks to the playable character determining the gender, and appearance of the character, as well as the name of the town. He will then appear again driving the bus to the city when going to the Bus Stop. During the journey to the city, he will talk about women, the city and modern day youngsters to male players. If the

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Kapp'n at the Roost in City Folk

 player is female, he will subtly flirt with them, calling them 'cute', 'pretty' and that a 'manly bus-driver is available'. If the player does not respond, he will begin to whistle his sea shanty.

He also appears in The Roost, as he did in Animal Crossing: Wild World, where he will talk about his life in more detail. He will appear there at 15:00 (3:00pm) to around 18:00 (6:00pm)

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf Kapp'n now drives a motorized boat, and will give you a ride to the ride to the island, while singing a little tune along the way. He now has a wife, named Leilani, a daughter named Kuku, and not features his mother, Grams living over at the shack, with a portside in the front entrance.

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Kapp'n is seen at the beginning of Template:AM driving Ai to Animal Village in his black taxi, like the one in Animal Crossing: Wild World. He appears later on in the film during the festival, as a member of the audience listening to K. K. Slider singing.
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Trivia

• While rowing to the Island in Animal Forest+ and Animal Crossing (GCN), Kapp'n sings one of a few random songs. A line to one of his songs is that he sings better than Mario.
• One of his sea shanties is about cucumbers. In Japanese folklore, cucumbers were thrown into rivers with the names of children and/or families on. This would spare a family when bathing in a river with a Kappa in it. Children, and sometimes adults, are believed to be one of their favorite foods - cucumbers being their favorite. They would also help humans and not break an oath. This may relate to how friendly he is towards humans in the Animal Crossing series series.
• In the middle of his songs, Kapp'n says something to the player, one time which he claims he hates squirrels.
• Though Kapp'n says, or rather sings, that he loves cucumbers, at the end of his songs, sometimes, he sings that zucchinis give him the spooks, "Zucchini spooks."
• If in City Folk the player leaves the game idle long enough, Kapp'n will begin to whistle Totakeke's Song, which also appears as K.K. Song.
• While riding on the bus, in City Folk, Kapp'n is interested in celebrity gossip, and will question the player for juicy secrets, shortly before arriving at the City.
• In Wild World there is a small figurine in his taxi of him and his boat from Animal Crossing.
• In Animal Crossing: Wild World, taking a certain amount of time, (usually longer than needed.) the figurine falls off when your just about to leave the taxi. The reason is unknown and most likely random.
• On the bus in City Folk, there is a poster with Lyle on it.
• He is seen on the Animal Crossing: New Leaf Japanesse Box-art in his boat near the Islands.

Name

The word 'Kappa', from which Kapp'n derives, is the name for a river imp in Japanese folklore. They are mischevous in nature, and reptilian in appearance. His name could also be the sailor pronounciation of 'captain', where letters are missed out in certain words which is how sailors in the past were believed to have talked, saying things like 'yar!', 'sprat', 'garr' and will sometimes refer to the player as fish or sea creatures, such as 'scallop', 'Sea Bass', 'Sea Cucumber', and 'urchin'. He also wears a cap on his head, which may be of some relevance to his name.

Gallery

• Kapp'n in Animal Crossing: Wild World

  Kapp'n in Animal Crossing: Wild World

• A player about to board Kapp'n's boat in Animal Crossing

  A player about to board Kapp'n's boat in Animal Crossing

• Kapp'n driving his taxi at the beginning of Wild World

  Kapp'n driving his taxi at the beginning of Wild World

• Kapp'n driving the bus to the City in City Folk

  Kapp'n driving the bus to the City in City Folk

• Kapp'n's appearance in Template:AM, driving a taxi

  Kapp'n's appearance in Template:AM, driving a taxi

• As he appears in Animal Crossing: New Leaf at the dock.

  As he appears in Animal Crossing: New Leaf at the dock.

• Singing his sea shanty in New Leaf

  Singing his sea shanty in New Leaf

• Artwork for Kapp'n

  Artwork for Kapp'n

• Kapp'n transporting 4 players in New Leaf

  Kapp'n transporting 4 players in New Leaf