This is the story of a young self-reliant girl called Ai, who one day, moves into the Animal Village. While working at Tom Nook's shop "Nook's Cranny" she begins living her life away from her family. To begin with, she doesn't know left from right, but under the guidance of Mayor Tortimer, the angry but correct Mr. Resetti, and the wandering musician K.K. Slider among others, she is eventually accepted as a member of the village. One night as she walked along the beach, she finds a message in the bottle. It sets her off on a quest of planting pine trees around the village to fulfill a miracle on the eve of the Winter Festival
| Crew | Takashi Tezuka | Creator |
| Writing | Aya Matsui | Screenplay |
| Directing | Joji Shimura | Director |
| Sound | Kosuke Ogata | Sound Effects |
| Visual Effects | Sayuri Ichiishi | Character Designer |
| Production | Takuya Yui | Producer |
| Sound | Masafumi Watanabe | Sound Effects |
| Production | Fumiyoshi Kajiya | Producer |
| Sound | Hideyuki Hachisuka | ADR Editor |
| Visual Effects | Yuko Inoue | Animation Director |
| Sound | Masafumi Mima | Sound Director |
| Sound | Kazunari Sengoku | Music Producer |
| Visual Effects | Kazuaki Moori | Animation Director |
| Sound | Naoto Yamatani | Sound Effects |
| Visual Effects | Taka Satou | Animation Director |
| Production | Hime Miura | Executive Producer |
| Production | Makoto Ōmura | Producer |
| Visual Effects | Kazumi Sato | Animation Director |
| Writing | Naohito Takahashi | Storyboard |
| Production | Shinji Hatano | Executive Producer |
| Production | Yu Saito | Executive Producer |
| Art | Reiji Kasuga | Art Direction |
| Writing | Takenori Kawada | Storyboard |
| Visual Effects | Akihiro Tamagawa | Animation Director |
| Visual Effects | Kagetsu Aizawa | Animation Director |
| Editing | Toshio Henmi | Editor |
| Sound | Omoi Yonehara | Sound Effects |
| Sound | Sachiko Nishi | Sound Effects |
| Writing | Koji Fukasawa | Storyboard |
| Visual Effects | Norihiro Matsubara | Animation Director |
| Production | Sai Haraguchi | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Norihide Tanaka | Music Producer |
| Sound | Hiromune Kurahashi | Sound Effects |
| Production | Osamu Kamei | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Jouji Shimura | Storyboard |
| Visual Effects | Takayuki Shimura | Animation Director |
| Production | Yoshishige Shimatani | Executive Producer |
| Production | Yoshio Yasunaga | Executive Producer |
| Visual Effects | Takashi Tezuka | Character Designer |
| Visual Effects | Miyuki Sato | Color Designer |
| Sound | Kazumi Totaka | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Lee Ah-reum | Background Designer |
| Camera | Yasuji Yamagoe | Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Yoko Sakurai | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Chie Maruyama | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Miho Suzuki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Naoko Kakiki | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Isamitsu Kashima | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Junko Isaka | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Midori Nagaoka | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tomoko Takei | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Masami Takebuchi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Akiko Nakamura | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiromi Naganawa | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Chisato Ikehira | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Eikichi Takahashi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Masaaki Iwane | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hiromi Niioka | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Kazuhiro Ohmame | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Takuya Matsumoto | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Hidetoshi Owashi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Naohito Takahashi | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Miwa Sakai | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Tadaaki Miyata | Key Animation |
| Visual Effects | Taro Okuzawa | Compositing Artist |
| Art | Akiko Mikami | Background Designer |
