Cranston

“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

For who Italian name is Carmelo (Cranston's Spanish name), and French name is Guido (Cranston's German name), see Clay, another lazy villager.

Cranston is a lazy ostrich villager in the Animal Crossing series. He first appeared in Animal Crossing: New Leaf and has appeared in all subsequent games. He is the only lazy ostrich villager in the series. His name, may come from the word "crane" which he resembles as a crested ibis, on his appearance. His name may come from a crane which ostriches are related to cranes. In New Horizons, Cranston has the nature hobby and may be found reading a book pertaining to an item he is studying, which can be either flowers, bugs, fish, or fossils.

Cranston
Gender	Male
Personality	Lazy
Species	Ostrich
Birthday	September 23rd
Star Sign	Libra
Catchphrase	"Sweatband"
Clothing	Lotus Tee (Animal Crossing: New Leaf) Oversized shawl overshirt (Brown) (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
Umbrella	Maple Umbrella (Animal Crossing: New Leaf) Camo umbrella (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
Favorite saying	"Hard work beats talent."
Favorite song	Steep Hill (Animal Crossing: New Leaf) My Place (Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer) K.K. Faire (Animal Crossing: New Horizons) Welcome Horizons (Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Happy Home Paradise)

Characteristics

Appearance

Artwork of Cranston from Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome Amiibo.

Cranston is an ostrich with white feathers with a pink tip graduating to a peach. He has a red mask, yellow eyes, and Cranston is Asian. Cranston is not supposed to be an ostrich. However, Cranston has a black beak with a red tip, with pinkish feet, he resembles as a Crested ibis. He wears the Oversized shawl overshirt (Brown) In New Horizons. In New Leaf, Cranston initially wears the Lotus tee.

Personality

Below is a brief description of the lazy personality. For more information, click here.

As a lazy villager, Cranston has a relaxed, laid-back lifestyle and will appear friendly toward the player. He often talks about food and is humorous or naïve during conversations. During conversations with other villagers, he generally gets along well with peppy, smug, and cranky villagers, while snooty and jock villagers may not get along with him due to their conflicting lifestyles. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Cranston goes to sleep at 11 PM and wakes up at 8 AM.

Villager information

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Favorite saying "Hard work beats talent." Biography Family Talent Dream job Fear Second of four Back flipping CEO Monster mask Tastes Favorite style Hated style Favorite color Modern Official Red Coffee Type of coffee Milk quantity Amount of sugar Mixture Nothing Nothing Description ???

In Happy Home Designer

Customer Topic Availability A place to grow rice. After building the school. Required furniture Rack of rice Scarecrow Rice bales

In Pocket Camp

Cranston was added to Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp in the December 27, 2020 update.

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).
• At level 55, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 60, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 65, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 70, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).

In New Horizons

Favorite saying "Hard work beats talent." Favorite styles Favorite colors Simple and Cool Beige and Brown

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)

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 Animal Crossing: 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.
• 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 Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Cranston's preferred styles are Cool/Simple, and his preferred colors are Beige/Brown.

Gallery

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Names in other languages

Carmelo
Gabin
Carmine
Guido
Animal Crossing: New Leaf Cranston
トキオ (Tokio)
Template:ZH 朱禄 (Zhū Lù)
朱祿 (Zhū Lù)
Template:RU Крэнстон (Krènston)