Wendell is a starving artist who sells wallpaper and carpet. While walking along the beach, Ai discovers him lying against the rocks famished. She proceeds to invite him to her house where he is fed onigiri, and later disappears out Ai's window when she answers a knock at her door.      In Animal Crossing the game, if you feed him fish he will give you free wallpaper. He is part of the game's trading event as well. In Animal Crossing: Wild World, he gives out designs if you give him fruit or fish. If given a red radish, he will give you either a turban or a country guitar.

Ai is a self-reliant girl that moves to Animal Village. She makes friends with the various villagers as she settles into 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.<br><br>
(Source: Anime News Network)

Passed away on August 29th, 2011 due to stomach cancer.

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