Yū

"Hi, my name's Yū. I come from the nearby town, but I like to play here a lot."

- Yū

Yū (ゆう, Yū) is one of the main characters in, being the only male human. He appears to be a reference to how in the games, a player can connect through Wi-Fi, so players from other towns can come visit their town. He does not live in Animal Village, but visits often, as he loves to play with Alfonso by competing for collectibles such as fossils and bugs.

Appearance
Yū changes his outfit daily, as throughout the film, he dressed as a ninja, a pirate, in camouflage, and as a snow bunny. When Yū is not wearing a hat, his brown hair features a small strand of spiky hair. He has large, anime-styled eyes that each have one small brown eyelash. He does not have a triangle nose as with many players in the, instead opting for a small, round nose.

Role
Yū first appears doing a bug catching contest with Alfonso the alligator when Ai is on her way to deliver a package during her part-time job. When a bug crawls on to Ai, Yū catches the bug on Ai and thanks her, giving her another bug in return. Ai, freaked out by the bug Yū gave him, screams in fright.

Later, the two friends are seen digging for fossils, but they are interrupted when Resetti pops out of the ground, and lectures the duo for destroying his tunnel. After Rosie reminds them about a fossil in the cave, Yū and Alfonso unsuccessfully attempt to dig up a Seismosaurus fossil, and they are forced to leave the cave as soon as it starts to collapse.

Shortly after Margie the elephant moves away to become a fashion designer, Ai ends up falling down into one of Yū and Alfonso's pitfalls. The two friends teasingly laugh, but Ai, still depressed about Margie's departure, gets herself out of the pitfall and walks away in depression, leaving the two friends shocked. A few months later, Yū and the other Animal Village citizens stumble upon a U.F.O, which had crashed when the Miracle Festival was happening. Following a plead by Gulliver to get his U.F.O repaired, Yū and the other Animal Village citizens search around the entire town for the missing pieces of the U.F.O. With help from Margie, who had moved back in temporarily, the citizens manage to return to the cave where Yū and Alfonso unsuccessfully attempted to take the Seismosaurus fossil from. From there, Yū successfully manages to obtain one of the pieces for the U.F.O from the top of the fossil. However, his snow bunny mask suddenly falls off, leaving Ai and her friends to remark on seeing his actual, un-disguised face for the first time. The group soon returns the U.F.O part they found to Gulliver, which surprisingly turns out to be an smaller U.F.O.-like alien that ultimately ends up flying off into space, back  to the other U.F.Os like it.

Trivia

 * Yū and Ai's names may be a pun on the English words "you" and "I".