Witness the greatest Animal Crossing cosplay ever

by Scott Jon Siegel on Mar 6th 2008 9:20AM

We're a bit torn between whether the above image is horrifying or brilliant. On the one hand, someone clearly drew massive eyebrows on this poor animal, whose uncanny likeness to Animal Crossing's resident musician K. K. Slider is certainly no fault of his (or her?) own.

On the other hand, someone did look at this dog, and realize that with the slightest modification they could create a most excellent cosplay. In either case, consider us in awe. Now all he/she needs is an adorable guitar, and a puppy-sized stool. But we suppose the poor thing's been through enough already.

[Via DS Fanboy]

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Tags: animal-crossing, animalcrossing, cosplay, DS, GameCube

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This is disgusting, poor dog. Who the hell gets joy out of this?

Do you also say "poor dog" when they have their testicles removed against their will?

This is far less permanent.

Or better: do you say "poor dog", "this is disgusting" when a poodle is sheered to look like a moron? Or when a long haired cat is shaved to look like a lion?

chrono I couldn't agree more what people to do dogs makes this this seem little nothing

I dress my cats in tuxedos and we have tea parties!

I do that too, we should totally get a party together!

I dress my cats like Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee and we recreate the South's surrender at the Appomattox Court House every April 9th.

@ Tuna / JCD thanks for the laugh.

Garfield, Top Cat,and myself.

I dress my cat like Xena Warrior Princess and we do the "Teeezalalalalalah" cry together all the time. Yes, I failed at typing that with a straight face.

Sharpy-ing your dog is hardly animal abuse, especially compared to the other horrible stuff some people do to animals.

He probably enjoyed it just as much as the owner did doing it. Dogs are like that.

Perhaps, but it's still selfish of the owner, and a stupid thing to do to begin with.

See above for how moronic you sound. There are plenty of things people do to their pets just to make them look good or silly, and being selfish has nothing to do with it.

Thanks for telling me I sound moronic. Sorry to have an opinion different than yours. Good day.

Having an opinion and "free speech" doesn't make you immune to ridicule when your opinion is counter to all logic and actual practice.

If you want to fight animal abuse, then try to do something about breeders who raise "guard dogs" through abuse, or poorly operated kennels, or dog fighting rings, or any number of other blatant abuses.

Claiming putting make-up on a puppy is abuse is absurd.

I don't think it's that bad, but I certainly wouldn't draw on my dog. I do doubt that the dog enjoyed it as much as the owner did as you said above... My gut reaction is negative towards the owner on this one.

I'm really surprised nobody has brought up that marine "puppy throwing" video yet, if you want examples of animal abuse.

Abuse would be beating the dog. Throwing it off of a cliff is murdering the poor pup.

did you really mean 'good day'? i think you piss all over people but somehow care about this dog you don't know or will ever know - easy to care from afar

@ Nigeria
That video's a fake.

Just because worse things are done, doesn't make minor things any less a crime. Just because Bush is a douche, doesn't make JT any less a douche. Any questions?

Eh, it's not like it hurt the dog in any way. I think it's pretty awesome, actually. Much simpler than this, too: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/25820

i don't want to sound like one of those "fake! looksshoppedicantellbytehpixelz" morons, but it is possible that there was no sharpie involved and you're getting your panties in a twist over nothing but a little humorous photoshopping.

of course i do realize that's almost unheard of on the internet.

This is the best thing I have ever seen.

DIAF

I luv this pup

Maybe is a photoshop... can be easily done.

i agree, and the pupils on most dogs arn't that huge. i'm gonna go with shopped as well.

Its a puppy, they eyes are larger proportionally than an adult dog.

Plus the brows make the eyes look bigger anyway.

three days later the dog ends up dead from ink poisoning.

Is that like getting lead poisoning from a pencil?

mmmm, delicious graphite.

You guys realize that dogs can't look at their own faces, and don't have an especially sophisticated understanding of mirrors, right?

I guess you could argue that it's mildly unethical, but you'd have to somehow explain what harm is actually being done. This dog does not know what it looks like.

I bet if that dog cared to look at his reflection he'd be happy of how pimp he looks.

"Now all he/she needs is an adorable guitar, and a puppy-sized stool."

While the guitar might be nice, cleaning up the puppy-sized stool gets old real quick.

eeeek!
poor dog (unlees it was halloween.

I hear that if you visit this puppy on a Saturday night he'll ask you if you want to hea a song and play it for you. Go for K.K. Fusion or K.K. Cruisin'

He'll even give you the aircheck to play it on your radio at home!

At least (s)he didn't dye the entire fur pink or strap a strange ukulele to the dog. And it's not wearing a sweater. That said, it's cute enough as it is. Save the marker for something more important =)

If I saw that dog being walked down the street, I would hand a twenty dollar bill to his owner.

I'll have to throw my hat into the "Poor dog" in the same vein as poodles who get trimmed stupidly, or otherwise. I'm not sure this is something the dog would have really enjoyed, but for the one on one time he got with his owner.

It isn't going to hurt him though, and is ridiculously cute, though I'd probably find it a little creepy as time went on (Especially if that is permanent marker)

Actually, I think the only reason I feel sorry for the dog is that he is probably way more cute without those huge eyebrows.

The image is horrifyingly brilliant.

FTW

What breed is Slider/the puppy anyways? Never thought about it before...

In my professional opinion, I'd call that breed "White Dog".

:)

@Crono

Well, yes, castration is cruel. Not that it has anyhting to do with this.

Cosplay must die.

It's a blight on our hobby, and it does nothing to further the goal of changing people's negative perception of gamers.

I'm embarrassed whenever I see cosplayers. At no time in the good old days of gaming did we have weirdos who ran around dressing up as Space Invaders, Root Beer Tapper or Q*Bert. This whole "let's play dress-up" thing is a recent development, and I wish it would go back to its anime/manga roots and leave gaming alone.

Wearing a t-shirt or some part of a character's costume (a hat or pin or something) is probably OK, but going to the lengths of painting your whole body blue, running around with cardboard hair or elf ears, or drawing eyebrows on your dog..? It's just insane.

Cosplayers are one step above furries on the creepy scale.

Game cosplay = creepy.
Team mascot cosplay = patriotic.
Olympic mascot cosplay = Huh?
Sonic & Mario at the Olympic Games cosplay = OMGWTFBBQ.

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