Joan

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SpecialSpeciesIconSilhouette.png Joan  
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Species Gender
[[Boar]] Female
Birthday [[|]] January 8th {{{sign}}}
Role Selling red and white turnips
Main appearances

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Joan (カブリバ, Kaburiba) 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, Joan would only sell one type of turnip, however, in Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, she sells two types of turnips

Turnips

Joan's background is unknown, but she appears in town before 12 noon in every Animal Crossing series so far. In Animal Crossing, she sells white turnips. White turnips, however, sell for a different price depending on Stalk Market. The Stalk Market is a play on the existent Stock Market in reality. More than one can be bought a week from Joan. Players can ask Tom Nook what white turnips are currently selling for at two different times of the day, which will have different prices and he will buy white turnips between Monday and Saturday.

In Animal Crossing: Wild World and Animal Crossing: City Folk, she continues to sell white turnips which work the same way as they did in the original games. 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.

Joan can be asked to explain her store and turnips, but she wishes not to explain how her store works. However, she does not act gloomy while explaining.

Other appearances

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

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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


Trivia

  • With the exception of Farley, Joan is the only character in the whole series to have a voice specific to herself. Her voice is much lower and gruffer than that of the rest of the female characters.
  • Joan always tells the player, no matter how many years they have been playing, that she has been selling turnips for over 60 years. This may be because she says over sixty years, which covers any number of years beyond sixty.
  • Joan is part of the Golden axe trading event, and at times she may not have the red turnip seed with her.
  • Joan's name may come from Dow Jones & Company. A female boar (or any female member of the pig family) is called a sow (Sow Joan).
  • Joan is the second character to appear in Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival, Template:AF+, Animal Crossing, and Template:AFe+. 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.

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