Joan

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Boar	Female
Role	Selling turnips
Main appearances
	DnM DnM+ AC DnMe+ iQue; WW CF NL NH
Other appearances
	Film HHD aF PC
	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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"A rotten turnip is still a turnip."

— Joan, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer and Welcome amiibo

Joan is a special visitor who comes to the player's town each Sunday morning (6 AM to 12 PM) to sell turnips. She is a brown boar with large white tusks carrying a basket on her back with white turnips inside. She wears ragged blue clothes and a small, blue bandana on her head. In Animal Crossing and Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Joan only sells one type of turnip, however, in Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, she sells two types of turnips.

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, her role of selling turnips is instead fulfilled by her young granddaughter, Daisy Mae. Daisy Mae often refers to Joan indirectly as her "Gram-Gram"; however, Joan does not appear in New Horizons outside of her poster, which is purchasable from the Nook Stop after scanning her amiibo card.

History

Animal Crossing

Joan is first featured in Doubutsu no Mori, as well as its updated GameCube version Animal Crossing. In both games, she appears in town every Sunday before noon (12 PM), selling white 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.

Animal Crossing: Wild World

In Animal Crossing: Wild World, she continues to sell white turnips, though she now also sells red turnip seeds for 1,000 Bells which will need to be planted like flowers, and 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 player(s) each week.

Animal Crossing: City Folk

Joan returns once again in Animal Crossing: City Folk, functionally no different than her appearance in Animal Crossing: Wild World.

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. Reese now runs the Stalk Market, at Re-Tail.

Joan can be asked to explain her business and turnips. She wishes not to explain how it works, but will not complain if prompted.

Other appearances

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

#280

[[File:100px|100px|Joan]]

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

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

#540

[[File:|100px|Joan]]

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

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Spirits

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[[File:|100px|Joan]]
Joan

Category	Class	Slot cost
Support Spirit	Advanced (★★)	(N/A)
Ability	Stats ↑ after Eating
Acquisition

Villager info

In Happy Home Designer

Happy Home Designer client information

Joan
Birthday	Personality	Catchphrase
No results [[File:Starsign No results NH Icon.png\|32px\|No results\|link=No results]]	[[No results]]	No results
Default clothing	[[File:No Results HHD Icon.png\|30px\|link=]] No results
Umbrella	[[File:No Results HHD Icon.png\|30px\|link=]] No results
House request
Client's vision	I'll leave it up to you!
Favorite song	[[File:K.K. Lament_(Album Cover)_HHD_Icon.png\|x29px\|alt=\|link=]] [[K.K. Lament\|K.K. Lament]]

Unlocked items
Starting house:

Welcome amiibo RV

File:RV of Joan.jpg

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

When visiting Joan's RV at the campground, the bottom screen will display the following:

"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."

Card profiles

Animal Crossing e-Reader card

Card back

#065 Joan - Series 2
Gender:	Female
Sign:	Capricorn
Profile:	As soon as the sun rises, you can count on Joan showing up every Sunday to paddle 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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Happy Home Designer 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

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#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

Names in other languages

	カブリバ Kaburiba	From カブ kabu (turnip)

	무파라 Mupara	From 무 팔아 (to sell turnips)

	曹谷 (iQue) Cáo Gǔ	Homophony with 炒股 chǎogǔ (stock trading)

	Джоан Unknown

	Joan

	Sigrid

	Juana

	Porcella	From Porc (Pork)

	Nella	From ravanello, "turnip".

Trivia

Joan is one of the four characters in the series with a voice specific to themselves: Farley (although Smug villagers now have Farley's voice tone), Joan, 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 can be pushed around without getting angry. Additionally, she is immune to pitfall seeds as she does not fall into them when pushed over one.
Sow Joan is a pun on the real life stock market index, Dow Jones.

One of Isabelle's island rating comments in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is anonymously from Daisy Mae, where she says that when her "...Gram-Gram's knees get better, it'd be swell to bring her with me" possibly hinting at why she does not appear physically in that title.