K.K. Slider
From Animal Crossing City
| K.K. Slider | |
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| Gender | Male |
| Species | Dog |
| Service | Songs |
| Appearances | Animal Forest Animal Crossing Animal Crossing: Wild World Animal Crossing: City Folk Animal Crossing: The Movie |
K.K. Slider, also known as Totakeke, his Japanese name, is a hip, white, singing, guitar-playing dog that appears in all of the games in the Animal Crossing series. He loves playing his concerts for free and is totally cool with us because even he is opposed to the record company- "Those industry fat cats try to put a price on my music but I want it to be free," he may say after the finale of his performance. He is the most famous character and is beloved by any of the inhabitants of the town. He also made an appearance in the movie as well as a guest appearance in the Wii game, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, appearing in the Smashville stage, which is based off of the Animal Crossing series, singing a song at the time he appears in the games. In Brawl he had his own trophy and a sticker in the vault.
In Animal Crossing, he will sit by the train station, on an orange crate, on Saturdays from 8pm to 1am. In Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, he sits on the small stage in The Roost at the Museum from 8pm to midnight, every Saturday night. You can simply have him play any random song, or you can interrogate a request. Make sure you spell the song 100% correctly though- if you forget punctuation, capitalization, spaces, or accents, he won't play the song you wanted and will make up a random song right then. He can be seen at 7:30 but will not play a song, as he is soundchecking for his performance. After staging his melodic track, he will give the player a bootleg to apply to their stereo and play in their house. For the misspelled song you wanted him to play, you won't receive a bootleg- sorry - it's just a made-up, random song as said earlier. In City folk he now performs encores, but will not give the player a copy of the encore bootleg. Each player from the house can only obtain one bootleg per week of his performance.
Listening to one of K.K. Slider's song will roll the credits while the background changes seasons (Animal Forest, Animal Crossing). The camera pans around The Roost in (Animal Crossing: Wild World, Animal Crossing: City Folk) while the lights are dim and the few spotlights illuminate the center of the diminutive stage where K.K. Slider executes his performance.
[edit] K.K. Songs
K.K. songs are obtained from K.K. Slider (as said in the other article). There is a total of 70 songs in Wild World and 75 in City Folk. See the full article here.
[edit] Trivia
- He is based on Animal Crossing sound designer, Kazumi Totaka. His Japanese name is taken from the fact that, in Japan, last names are written first, so it would be Totaka Kazumi. That can be shortened to "Totaka K.", which sounds like "Totakeke".
- His songs only use the sounds 'Queh', 'Quay, 'O', 'Ah', 'Me', 'Na', 'Now', 'Le', and, in some songs, he will howl, whistle, click, and hum.
- He is on the cover of Animal Forest, Animal Crossing: City Folk, and Animal Crossing: Wild World.
- Giving him a country guitar during the trading event in Wild World will allow the player to obtain his picture.
- The only song with actual lyrics is K.K. Bossa, which was renamed K.K.'s Rhythm in the Animal Crossing Movie.
- Though his name is K.K. Slider, his name box reads K.K.
- K.K. Slider plays either an acoustic or a country guitar.
- Because K.K. Slider wants his music to be free (and therefore doesn't charge the player for a copy of his music), Tom Nook does not charge a single Bell for his songs.
