Hypno K.K.

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Album cover in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Aircheck
Live Performance
Composed by Manaka Kataoka
Mood It's hard to say
Owned by
Genre Hauntology
Neo-psychedelia
Instruments Reversed cello
Synthesizer
Harp
Main appearances

Other appearances
Names in other languages
 うたたねのゆめ
 白日梦
 Psykéké
 Mírame a los ojos
 K.K. Ipnotico
 Гипноз К. К.
 졸면서 꾸는 꿈
 白日夢
 Psykéké
 Mírame a los ojos
 Schlummerlied
 Hypnotherapie

"Hypno K.K." is a K.K. Slider song that first appears in Animal Crossing: City Folk as a live-only performance, and with an aircheck version in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. "Hypno-" as a prefix relates to sleep, and the original Japanese name, "Dozing Dream", indicates that the song is likely intended to be soothing or lullaby-like. This is also reflected by how Sherb, a sleep-themed lazy goat villager, plays it in his house.

Owing to this, the song may be based on hauntology music. The genre is characterized by distorted psychedelic sounds that may give the listener a sense of nostalgia or inner peace. Specifically, it may be derived from hypnagogic pop, a subgenre of hauntology. The live version of the song is more akin to neo-psychedelia, a genre from the 1980s which modernized psychedelic music from the 1960s by combining it with alternative rock, and was a precursor to hauntology and hypnagogic pop.

Album cover[edit]

Album cover in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

The album cover for "Hypno K.K." features a close-up of K.K. Slider's head, from the nose up. The colors are blurred like bleeding ink, and a blue and black grid is revealed in the shadowed sections of K.K.'s face. The top of the background is checkered light blue and yellow, and it fades to white near the bottom. In New Horizons, green digital-like text that reads "HYPNO K.K." is written in a wave pattern above K.K.'s head.

Appearances[edit]

In City Folk[edit]

In Animal Crossing: City Folk, "Hypno K.K." can only be heard live if the player makes an invalid song request.

In New Leaf[edit]

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, "Hypno K.K." is a secret song that can only be heard and obtained by request, and it is played in the houses of Flurry and Papi.

In New Horizons[edit]

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, "Hypno K.K." is no longer a secret song. It is played in the houses of Flurry, Jeremiah, Papi, and Sherb. The aircheck of this song can be obtained from one of these villagers after visiting their house by their favor. This song's aircheck can also be purchased in Nook Shopping daily selection for  3,200 Bells.

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise, "Hypno K.K." is played in the houses of Bob, Ione, Jeremiah, and Pancetti.

In Happy Home Designer[edit]

In Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, "Hypno K.K." is played in the houses of Alice, Bob, Coco, Pancetti, and Wendell.

Gallery[edit]

Music[edit]

Names in other languages[edit]

Japanese うたたねのゆめ
Utatane no yume
Dozing Dream

Korean 졸면서 꾸는 꿈
Jolmyeonseo Kkuneun Kkum
Dozing Dream

Simplified Chinese 白日梦
Bái rì mèng
Daydream

Russian Гипноз К. К.
Gipnoz K. K.
K.K. Hypnosis

Dutch Hypnotherapie Hypnotherapy

German Schlummerlied Lullaby

European Spanish Mírame a los ojos Look into my eyes

European French Psykéké Psy-K.K.

Italian K.K. Ipnotico K.K. Hypnotic

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