Alfonso

"Slow and steady wins the race."

- Alfonso

Alfonso is a lazy alligator villager from the. He has appeared in every Animal Crossing game to date. He appears in as a major character and Yu's best friend. His catchphrase, "it'sa me," is a reference to the famous Nintendo character, Mario.

Appearance
Alfonso's design has elements of Nintendo's mascot Mario from the Super Mario series. Alfonso not only mimics Mario's "it's a me" quote as his initial phrase, but he also wears the Big Bro Shirt, which features the "M" emblem on Mario's cap. He is a burnt-umber orange with a white jaw, cheeks, and stomach. There are darker circles of orange on his face, legs, arms, and tail.

Personality
As a lazy villager, Alfonso will be easy to get along with due to his laid back lifestyle. Like all lazy villagers, he shares a love of food and relaxing. In, he will mention his dream of diving in, for example, a pool of chocolate. He will enjoy partaking in the usual hobbies, usually for relaxing reasons or for food, when fishing. He will get along well with other villagers, but may offend or confuse jock villagers, who have a conflicting lifestyle of exercise and fitness, compared to the lazy lifestyle of relaxing and food. He will get along with other lazy villagers with whom he will talk about food, comics or superheroes. He will also get along well with normal, smug, uchi and peppy villagers, but may from time to time annoy snooty and cranky villagers, who disagree with the lazy lifestyle.

In
Alfonso was a major character in, as Yu's best friend. As the movie was only released in Japan, his name in the movie is Albert. He was voiced by Takatoshi Kaneko. Albert is first seen when Ai delivers 500 pies to him, after which Yu runs by chasing a butterfly to catch it. Albert runs back into his house to get his net and follows suit. Later, they dig holes all over the place by the beach to find an ammonite. Rosie, known as "Bouquet" in the film, says she's seen many more of them somewhere else. Albert, Yu, Bouquet, Ai, and Sally search for the ammonites in a giant cave. During a Fireworks Show, Albert is seen with Yu when Crazy Redd sells him a fake golden slingshot. After Sally moves out, Albert and Yu play tricks on the villagers with pitfalls, and Ai falls into one, but she just gets up with barely any reaction at all. At the Winter Festival, Albert helps find Johnny's lost UFO parts.