There’s loads of discourse within the Animal Crossing: New Horizons group about resident store proprietor and mortgage shark, Tom Nook. Opposite to what many Western gamers consider, he isn’t a raccoon. He is a tanuki, a canid that’s native to Japan. However even gamers who’re conscious of his non-raccoon standing by no means appear to say the elephant within the room: his gigantic balls.
I’m not speaking figurative balls right here (although he does have some severe cojones on the subject of charging me 2.5 million Bells so as to add a basement to my residence). I’m speaking about his huge, furry testicles. Or quite, his lack thereof.
Let me clarify. Tanuki are very actual creatures, however in Japanese folklore, they’re usually depicted with a pair of comically enormous balls. I am presently in Japan for the Apex Legends International Collection (ALGS) Championship, and have seen depictions of tanuki everywhere. From statues outdoors retailers to work inside eating places, one factor each tanuki appears to have in frequent is their completely huge balls.
They use them to parachute. They use them to beat down enemies in fight. They throw them over their shoulders like continental troopers. However principally, they only allow them to hand around in full view of anybody with eyes. They principally have big balls as a result of it’s humorous, but it surely’s additionally an emblem of wealth and success, which clearly ties into Tom’s entire capitalist deal. So this is my query: The place the hell are Tom Nook’s huge balls?
I do know what you are considering: Tom Nook’s lack of seen, enormous nuts should imply he is an actual tanuki, not the magical model from Japanese folklore. I can not get behind this clarification, although. Tom Nook is a speaking tanuki who runs his personal comfort retailer. Actual tanuki clearly can not communicate or depend out precise change, so clearly, Tom is a tanuki of the folkloric selection. That is additional backed up by the truth that he owns a enterprise and has a aspect hustle as a mortgage shark for residence expansions.
As for his mysteriously absent big balls, I haven’t got any solutions. Per Japanese folklore, tanuki can shapeshift, so it is potential he is used his shape-changing powers to obscure them from view (one thing I admit I’m grateful for). However I do know one factor: I’m now not going to place off the fee on the basement in my Animal Crossing home, lest I anger Tom and face the wrath of his gigantic balls.
