Wednesday, June 18, 2025

New day, new post! In yesterday's post, I briefly mentioned that I was disappointed with the lack of space buns in Animal Crossing New Horizons. I said I didn't like that they only had afro puffs available now, but I think I should talk about this in more detail. For those of you who don't know, space buns are a very common hairstyle to see in the anime community. The hairstyle is basically just two very round buns on top of each side of the head. Afro puffs look similar, but they're not the same thing. Afro puffs are really just pigtails that puff naturally, while space buns are specifically hair buns. Even in games, they're textured differently. In Cozy Grove, this doesn't matter too much, since the afro puffs hairstyle comes in different colors, and doesn't look unnatural regardless of what type of character you have. However, in Animal Crossing New Horizons, they added cornrows, which looks a bit odd on some characters. The texture doesn't match as well, but it's fine if the players don't mind. What isn't fine, is that these are the closest things you will get to space buns in this game. Other Animal Crossing games do have space buns, and taking them out of New Horizons, one of their most popular games in the series, is a slap in the face to players who wanted cute space buns. This is one of my favorite hairstyles, and it was really disappointing to know they left it out on purpose for no reason. This decision caused a lot of chaos within the community, and I really hope they just add the hairstyle next time to prevent this from happening again. But, those are mostly just my thoughts on this topic. Nonetheless, I hope you all still enjoyed this blog post!

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