Tom Nook

Tom Nook' is one of the major characters of the Animal Crossing series.

He is the owner of Animal Crossing's main store. He also remodels player's houses once they pay off their current loan. Tom Nook is known by many as a filfy swine in the game who enjoys seeing the player suffer to pay off his home loan, though in reality, he's just an honest business man/racoon. While Tom Nook is referred to as a raccoon in English, he is actually a tanuki, a canine native to Japan that resembles a raccoon. His name is a reference (Tom Nook = tanuki). Tom Nook is also a Gemini.