Cranston

Cranston
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Gender	Male
Personality	Lazy
Species	Ostrich
Birthday	September 23rd
Star Sign	Libra

“Camping in the winter gets pretty chilly... But the cold just makes the fire feel even nicer.”
― Cranston, while camping in the igloo, Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Cranston (トキオ, Tokio) is a lazy ostrich villager who first appeared in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. His name is likely a reference to the crane. His Japanese name, Tokio, is similar to Tokyo, a famous city in Japan.. He has the nature hobby.

Appearance

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Cranston in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Cranston is a crested ibis, as evidenced by his pink and white feathers with red face markings around his yellow eyes and black beak ending in a distinctive red tip. He has pinkish-orange feet and his tail consists of white feathers graduating to peach. He initially wears a Lotus Tee in Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and an Oversized Shawl Overshirt in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. He carries the Maple Umbrella on rainy days.

House

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Cranston has the Daisy Meadow carpet and the Sky Wall wallpaper. He has a pineapple bed, a clothesline pole, a dice stereo that plays Steep Hill, a fire hydrant, a picnic table, a fish, and three baby beds.

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Cranston has an elegant red and white room with many items from the Imperial furniture series. This includes the bed, partition, low table, chest, decorative shelves, and dining lantern. He has a red carpet running down the middle of his house, leading from the doorway to a pink hanging scroll on the back wall with a red anthurium plant sitting below it. His Imperial chest holds an incense burner and red portable record player, which will now play his new favorite song, K.K. Faire. His right-hand side window has a wall-mounted TV (50 In.) hanging above it, and he also has a paper lantern sitting by the left of his door. He uses the White Subway-Tile wall and Stone Tile flooring.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons (interior)	Animal Crossing: New Horizons (exterior)

Pocket Camp

Cranston's preferred theme is harmonious. His profile says:

Cranston is extremely dedicated to the slacker life. He once spent weeks designing a device to keep him from having to walk to the fridge for a soda.

Campsite Invitation Requirements

Friendship Level: 0

Friendship Rewards

• At level 7 friendship, he will reward the player with a lotus tee and sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 9, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 15, he will request that the player craft a deer scare.
• At level 20, he will reward the player with a pic of Cranston and sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 25, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 30, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 35, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 40, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 45, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 50, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).

amiibo Card

amiibo Card
Back	#392 Cranston Type Ostrich Star sign Libra Birthday 9/23 Roll value 2 Hand sign Paper Request A place to grow rice
← 391 Gayle #392 Cranston 393 Frobert →

Trivia

• Cranston's Japanese name (トキオ, Tokio) is a pun on the common name of the crested ibis (トキ, toki). The crested ibis is a popular symbol of wildlife conservation in Japan due to its endangered status.
  • His English name is a pun on the crane, a different type of water bird.
• The baby beds in Cranston's New Leaf house may be a reference to a common myth of storks (yet another type of water bird) delivering newborn babies to their parents. It may also be a reference to the nationally acclaimed first hatched chicks of Japan's Sado conservation program for crested ibis were born just six months prior to the original Japanese release of Animal Crossing: New Leaf, wherein Cranston debuted.
• Interestingly enough, his initial catchphrase would make more sense if he had been a jock villager, thus suggesting it's possible that he was initially intended to be a jock, but was changed to lazy at some point, or that his catchphrase may have been switched with another villager by mistake.
• His house in Animal Crossing: New Horizons has a Japanese style exterior and a Chinese style interior, which might suggest the conservation programs of the crested ibis developed by the two countries.

In other languages

Cranston
Language Name Translation Japanese トキオ (Tokio) - French Gabin - Spanish Carmelo - German Guido - Italian Carmine - Template:Nl Dutch Cranston - Template:CN Chinese 朱禄/朱祿 (Zhūlù) - Template:KR Korean 타키 (Taki (from tajo - ostrich)) -

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