Animal Crossing Heroes

Animal Crossing Heroes (Japanese: どうぶつの森ヒーローズ Hepburn: Dōbutsunomori hīrōzu) is a 2025 Japanese- Canadian superhero/magical girl and boy anime television series that is loosely based on the Animal Crossing video game series. It was produced by Nintendo, Nintendo EPD and OLM, Inc. while being association with Toei Animation and co produced as well distributed by Nelvana. The show English dub is also produced by Nelvana. Rather than retaining the main theme of the video games, the series follows the superhero life of Kid Cat, Agent S, Big Top and Rocket in the Village City, whose jobs are to protect the city from supervillains while living in they normal everyday lives. 
The show first show and premiered on April 24, 2025 in Tv Tokyo and the network become the main broadcasting network in Japan. In Canada, the show airs on Teletoon as its main broadcasting network for Canada with its premiere date being April 27, 2025. The series also aired on Adult Swim as part of it shows for Toonami in America with it's premiere date being April 30, 2025, however due to how kid friendly it is and how it was popular across the Animal Crossing fanbase, the show later aired on Cartoon Network and become its main network in the United States. The show later got streams on Netflix internationally after season 1 was finished.
== Plot ==
=== Premise ===
Set place in the city of Village City, 4 major superheroes fans, Kevin Cat, Alyson Squirrels, Benjamin Top and Rebecca have unintentionally become superheroes to themselves after they download a strange new update for they nookphones. With the power of the update, they also accidentally release a dark force, called the Rogues Organization, a ultimate dark force that has a power that can turn any everyday citizens negative energy into monsters and super villains. They now have transform into their superhero persona (thank to the power of the phones) in order to defeat the Animal Force before the Rogues Organization gets them, while trying to live normal lives as fans and students in Village City .Meanwhile doing they best to make everyone in Village City happy to stop Rogues Organization to turning they negative energy into something dangerous.
== Characters ==
=== Main ===
* Kevin Bengal Cat/Kid Cat (voiced by Daiki Yamashita in the Japanese Dub and Ty Olsson in the English Dub) - The self pro claimed cat leader of the heroes. He is very hyperactive and motivated but friendly. However he often come across as self-centered and dense. He is mostly best friends with Benjamin but they friendship is very on off and on again type due to Benjamin lazy lifestyle along with personality With the power of his nookphone, he transformed into his superhero persona, Kid Cat. As Kid Cat, he has the ability to have powerful fighting skills that can destroyed anything no matter how hard or big it is. As his school life, Kevin is mostly well know as a jock of being the lineman of North Village City Middle School Foot Team and his tips on physical fitness.
* Benjamin Circus Top/Big Top - (voiced by Kazuya Nakaki in the Japanese Dub and Brian Drummond in the English Dub) The relaxed and laid-backed elephant of the Heroes, who himself is very naïve, lazy and dumb yet friendly and humorous. He is best friends with Kevin despite being opposites in personalities and has a greedy obsession's on food. With the power of his nookphone, he transformed into his superhero persona, Big Top. As Big Top, he has the ability to have ultra strongness which can make him carry anything heavy or big but due to his lazy lifestyle, he often doesn't pick on fights or battles and preferer other things that doesn't involve him doing any sort of physicals activity. While not fighting the Rougue as Big Top, he is known for being very lazy.
* Alyson Tamias Squirrels/Agent S (voiced by Junko Takeuchi in the Japanese Dub and Tabitha St. Germain in the English Dub) - The energetic, naive and bubbly squirrel of the Heroes. Alyson is known for being very silly and crazy around the city as well the school. She is best friends with Rocket despite her sassy personality and always consider herself as the "sidekick" for the heroes especially for the leader, Kid Cat. With the power of her nookphone, she transformed into her superhero persona, Agent S. As Agent S, she has the ability of supersonic speed that can make her faster than a average cheetah and often uses to catches things and stuff easily with her supersonic speed. As her civilian life as Alyson Squirrels, she probably the most craziest student that North Village City Middle School ever have.
* Rebecca Engine/Rocket
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