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. 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, Yū and Alfonso are seen digging for fossils, but they interrupted when Resetti pops out of the ground, and lectures the duo for destroying his tunnel. After Rosie alerts them about a fossil in the cave, Yū and Alfonso unsuccessfully attempt to dig up a Seismosaurus fossil, and are forced to leave the cave when 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. Yū and Alfonso teasingly laugh, but Ai, still depressed about Margie's departure, gets herself out of the pitfall and walks away, leaving the two friends shocked. A few months later, Yū and the others encounter a U.F.O, which had crashed during the Miracle Festival. With a plead by Gulliver to get his U.F.O fixed, Yū and the other Animal Village residents search around the entire town for the lost pieces of the U.F.O. With help from Margie, who had moved back in temporarily, the group manages to return to the cave where Yū unsuccessfully attempted to take the Seismosaurus fossil. From there, Yū successfully manages to obtain the piece for the U.F.O from the top of the fossil. However, his bunny mask suddenly falls off, leaving Ai and her friends to remark on seeing his actual face for the first time. The group then returns their U.F.O part to Gulliver, which turns out to be an smaller U.F.O.-like alien that ends up returning 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".