Kicks

"It'll just take a kick or two"

- Kicks

Kicks (シャンク, Shank) is a new character, introduced in. He is a male skunk, who shines shoes for a living in the city on fair weather days. He can be found outside the run-down building between Lloid's auction house and Shampoodle. This building used to be owned by Brewster, as he reveals when he says he used to own a place in the city that did bad business and is boarded up now. He wears a brown hat, along with brown suspenders, and brown boot-like shoes. He has black fur with white patterns on his belly, tail, and hair. The name "Kicks" is a pun on the slang word for tennis shoes, "kicks."

City Folk
If the player buys his services for 500 Bells, Kicks' shoe-shine will change the color of the player's shoes to match his or her hair or outfit (not including pattern-made shirts which produce the defaults). If the shoes do not change colors, Kicks will not charge for his services. There are only a select number of shoe patterns which can match each hair and outfit combo. Kicks only comes on fair weather days, and even if the player time travels, Kicks will still appear. Your shoes' appearance can only be changed once a day and affects Gracie's appraisal. He will sometimes ask if the player would like a masculine or feminine shine.

New Leaf
In Animal Crossing New Leaf Kicks has his own store called Shoe Shank. Here you can buy shoes and socks to customize your character further.