Animal Crossing: New Horizons Player Recreates Demon Slayer Intro
Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizons is as popular as ever, with additions like swimming and sea creatures this month giving players reason to keep visiting their once-deserted islands. A big spark for the game's success has been its potential for unbridled creativity in the right hands, with players all over the Internet uploading custom designs based on their favorite pop culture properties and even recreating things like the intro to popular manga and anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.
There have been a lot of similar projects uploaded online, from recreations of introductions for cartoons like Adventure Time to live-action series like 90s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. However, the Demon Slayer intro recreation by YouTuber Sneaky Egg has received a fair amount of attention in just a short period of time, garnering over 500,000 views since being uploaded June 1, as of this writing.
The first minute or so of the recreated intro in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is simple, making great use of custom outfits, camera sweeps, and player character reactions alongside different color gradings to capture the anime opening, set to a cover of LiSA's song Gurenge by fellow YouTuber Nanaru. Towards the end, it ramps up with extra editing effects to add things like weapons and flashy screenshots of cut-up tarantulas that help the production stand out.
While introductions to television shows and cartoons are a fairly ubiquitous thing, Japanese anime openings and credit sequences are particularly popular thanks to the combination of good music with artistic visuals paying homage to events and characters in each series. The style has been adapted by fans for properties like Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch and SpongeBob SquarePants in the past.
Demon Slayer, which follows Tanjiro Kamado as he becomes a titular demon slayer to get revenge for the death and corruption of his family, is a fairly recent hit having only begun to publish as a manga in 2016. It has become so popular that there are even plans for a Demon Slayer game to release for Japan on PS4 in 2021.
Fans of the series should get a kick out of Sneaky Egg's production, but even those who don't know much about Demon Slayer will appreciate what they were able to accomplish using Animal Crossing. The game has lots of anime-based content as well, including design codes for series like One Piece and Naruto.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now on Nintendo Switch.
Source: Nanaru Cover
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