Joan

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Boar	Female
Favorite saying	"A rotten turnip is still a turnip."
Role	Selling turnips
Main appearances
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Other appearances
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	Name in other languages カブリバ; 무파라; Nella; Sigrid 曹谷; Porcella; Juana; Joan 曹谷; Porcella; Juana; Джоан

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"I've been selling turnips here on Sunday morns for 'bout 60 years now. Maybe even more! Come to think of it, I forget just how long... No matter!"

— Joan, Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Joan, also known as Sow Joan, is a boar in the Animal Crossing series who visits the player's town each Sunday morning to sell turnips. The name "Sow Joan" is a reference to the real-life stock market index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average. She often mentions how she has been selling turnips for around sixty years.

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Joan's role of selling turnips is instead fulfilled by her young granddaughter, Daisy Mae.

Characteristics

Appearance

Artwork of Joan from Doubutsu no Mori.

Joan is a brown boar who wears a blue dress with a white hood, and work pants with pound-sign patterns. She has a yellow nose, black hair, large orange cheeks, a pair of white tusks and a basket with turnips on her back. Her hands and feet are also yellow. Her eyes have beige circle linings, white rims, and black pupils shaped like diamond stars.

Personality

Joan likes selling turnips, sharing this trait with her granddaughter, Daisy Mae.

Voice

Joan is one of two characters in Animal Crossing who has a unique voice from all other characters. The other character who shares this trait is Farley.

Appearances

In Animal Crossing

Artwork of Joan from Animal Crossing

In Doubutsu no Mori and Animal Crossing, Joan appears in town every Sunday before noon, selling turnips to the player. Unlimited white turnips can be bought each week from Joan, which can be sold to Tom Nook, which will have different prices depending on the "Stalk Market." These turnips are only profitable between Monday and Saturday.

If the player travels on the train, Joan can be seen sleeping in the background, occasionally waking up in surprise, before going back to sleep.

In Wild World and City Folk

Joan selling turnips in Animal Crossing: Wild World

In Animal Crossing: Wild World, she continues to sell turnips, though she now also sells red turnip seeds for 1,000 Bells which can be planted in the ground and must be watered each day so they can grow to their full potential and later sold to Tom Nook for profit. Only one red turnip can be sold to the player each week. Her appearance in Animal Crossing: City Folk is functionally identical to Animal Crossing: Wild World.

In New Leaf

Joan selling turnips in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Joan no longer sells red turnips. However, she will let the player buy more than 990 turnips, unlike Wild World and City Folk. Joan can be asked to explain her business and turnips. She wishes not to explain how it works, but will not complain if prompted.

In New Horizons

A quote for a three-star island from Daisy Mae in Animal Crossing: New Horizons that mentions Joan

Joan is sometimes indirectly mentioned by her granddaughter, Daisy Mae, who refers to her as "Gram-Gram." Additionally, Joan's poster can be obtained from Nook Shopping after inviting her to Photopia via her amiibo. Since the 2.0 Update, Joan can visit The Roost. She will bring Daisy Mae along if invited to The Roost. She can also be scanned into Photopia via her amiibo card.

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise, she can be found in the hospital every Monday. If talked to, she will give the player turnips for free. Joan will have a 50% chance of giving the player 30 turnips, 30% chance of giving the player 50 turnips, and 20% chance of giving the player 100 turnips.

In amiibo Festival

Joan visiting town on a Sunday to sell turnips in Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival

In the Board Game mode in Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival, Joan visits town each Sunday to sell turnips to the players. She also appears as a standard visitor; if a player lands on a special-event space while she is visiting, she either gives the player 10 to 30 turnips or makes them pay 1,000 Bells to "help make things right" after her turnip field was vandalized.

Other appearances

In Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Joan appears as a trophy and a sticker in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

#280

Joan

Description	Investments in town are made by buying and selling turnips. Joan's an elderly boar who comes to town every Sunday morning to trade in these valuable vegetables. She's easily recognizable by her bandana, work pants, and the basket she carries on her back. Her down-to-earth speech endears her to all her customers. She's been in the turnip business for 60 years.
Acquisition	Random

#520

Joan

Effect	Fighters
[Battering] Resistance +12	All fighters

In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Joan appears as a trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

#540

Joan

Description	NTSC-U: Joan has been in the business of selling turnips for about 60 years now, and she'll happily explain the basics when you talk to her. Taking the risk is entirely up to you, though. If you take the plunge, you'll want to check the prices often. It doesn't hurt to ask your friends about their prices too. PAL: Joan has been in the business of selling turnips for about 60 years now, and she'll happily explain the basics when you talk to her. It's entirely up to you if you want to take the risk, though. If you do decide to, you'll want to check prices often. And it doesn't hurt to ask your friends about their prices too.
Acquisition	Random

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Joan appears as a spirit in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

#842

Joan

Battle information
Category	Class	Slot cost
Support Spirit	Advanced (★★)	1 (⬢)
Ability	Stats ↑ after Eating
Acquisition	Battle via World of Light (The Light Realm) Battle via Spirit Board Purchase from the Vault Shop for 1000G
Enemy fighters	Blue Peach Chartreuse Villager
Type	Attack
Power	3,800
Stage	Town and City
Rules	N/A
Conditions	The enemy favors down specials
Music	Town Hall and Tom Nook's Store - Animal Crossing: Wild World

Villager information

In New Leaf

A rotten turnip is still a turnip.

Birthday	Gender	Species
January 8	Female	Boar
Pic version added	Welcome amiibo update
Coffee preferences
Joan does not order coffee at The Roost.

In Happy Home Designer

Happy Home Designer client information

A rotten turnip is still a turnip.

Official example

Joan
Birthday	Gender	Species
January 8	Female	Boar
Umbrella	Paper parasol
House request
Client's vision	I'll leave it up to you!
Favorite song	K.K. Lament

Unlocked items
Furniture:	Turnip K.K. Lament Joan's pic
Clothing:	Pinafore Paper parasol
Starting house:

RV in Welcome amiibo

Exterior of Joan's RV in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Interior of Joan's RV in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Description:

You can only spend so much time growing and selling turnips (99.9% of your time, it turns out). In her spare 0.1%, Joan loves a good camping trip.

Items:

Daimyo's Tray	Floor Seat
Hearth	Lucky Cat
Paper Wall Lamp	Tokonoma
Zen Tea Set	Zodiac Boar

Wall:

Shoji Screen

Floor:

Tatami

Music:

K.K. Folk

Joan's "Order furniture" list in Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome amiibo

Item	Type	Buy price	Sell price^{[nb 1]}	Available from
Shoji screen	Wallpaper	3 MEOW Coupons	1,875 Bells	Saharah RVs
Tatami	Flooring	3 MEOW Coupons	2,125 Bells	Saharah RVs
Daimyo's tray	Furniture	3 MEOW Coupons	400 Bells	RVs
Floor seat	Furniture	3 MEOW Coupons	400 Bells	RVs
Hearth	Furniture	3 MEOW Coupons	400 Bells	Timmy and Tommy's store RVs
Lucky cat	Furniture	3 MEOW Coupons	425 Bells	Timmy and Tommy's store RVs
Paper wall lamp	Furniture	3 MEOW Coupons	200 Bells	Timmy and Tommy's store RVs
Tokonoma	Furniture	3 MEOW Coupons	575 Bells	Timmy and Tommy's store RVs
Zen tea set	Furniture	3 MEOW Coupons	400 Bells	RVs
Zodiac boar	Furniture	3 MEOW Coupons	120 Bells	Isabelle RVs

The player can only order from campers up to three times per day. The items arrive via mail.
Includes data sourced from the Data Spreadsheet for Animal Crossing: New Leaf, compiled by TimeSword3D, AlexBot2004, AlgebraManiacABC, Chubby Bub, Cuyler, HylianAngel, Kalina70, PanchamBro, SuperHamster, and vmario.

In New Horizons

A rotten turnip is still a turnip.

Birthday	Gender	Species
January 8	Female	Boar
Initial NookPhone	Green
Final NookPhone	Traditional 1 - Fabric 16
Happy Home Paradise traits
Umbrella	Paper parasol
Hobby	Education
Book	Novel

In Happy Home Paradise

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise, Joan will share a house with Daisy Mae.

Happy Home Paradise client information

Joan
Client's vision	Vacation-Home Concept
Shares house with	Daisy Mae

Unlocked items
Furniture:	Joan's photo Joan's poster

Card profiles

Animal Crossing e-Reader card

Card back

#065 Joan - Series 2
Gender:	Female
Sign:	Capricorn
Profile:	As sure as the sun shines, you can count on Joan showing up every Sunday to peddle her turnips. While savvy investors can make a mint playing the turnip market, casual buyers may end up with a rotten-turnip ant farm.
Password:	`nupmZbPN8DPSIo`
	`NqHe6SVb@4sxuS`

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064 Saharah

e-Reader card
#065 Joan

066 Jingle

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amiibo card

Card back

#007 Joan - Series 1

Star sign:	Capricorn
Birthday:	January 8
Dice value:	2
Hand sign:	Scissors

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006 Resetti

List of amiibo cards
#007 Joan

008 Timmy

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Gallery

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Doubutsu no Mori
Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
amiibo card artwork
Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Welcome amiibo

Trivia

Joan is one of four characters in the series with a voice specific to themselves, alongside Farley, Luna, and Lloid. Joan's voice is much lower and gruffer than that of the rest of the female characters.
Joan is the second character to appear in Doubutsu no Mori, Doubutsu no Mori+, Animal Crossing, and Doubutsu no Mori e+. She appears in the background of the train sleeping after K.K. Slider introduces the game.
Joan shares her birthday with Pierce.

Names in other languages

	カブリバ Kaburiba	From カブ売り婆, kabu uri bā (old woman selling turnips) and 株売り場, kabu uriba (stock counter)

	무파라 Mupara	From 무 팔아 (to sell turnips)

	朱萝卜 (iQue) Zhū luóbo	-

	曹谷 Cáo Gǔ	Homophony with 炒股 chǎogǔ (stock trading)

	Джоан Dzhoan	Same as English name

	Joan	Same as English name

	Sigrid	-

	Juana	Same as English name

	Porcella	From Porc (Pork)

	Nella	From ravanello, "turnip"

Notes

↑ Re-Tail sell price; if item can be sold at Timmy and Tommy's store, it is 80% of the sell price; if item can be sold to Leila at Tortimer Island, it is 5% of the sell price.