Hello Kitty Island Adventure Gift Guide

Learning your friends’ favorite gifts in Hello Kitty Island Adventure can take some time, between the sheer volume of characters and the amount of resources across the sunny island setting. Since we’re your friends, we’re gifting you what you want most, a Hello Kitty Island Adventure gift guide. Below, you’ll find every character’s likes and all Hello Kitty Island Adventure favorite gifts, so you can earn their friendship in the life game and unlock quests fast.

All Hello Kitty Island Adventure gifts

If you’re looking for a specific character, we’ve got gift guides for all Hello Kitty Island Adventure characters:

Hello Kitty My Melody Chococat Tuxedosam Badtz-maru Pochacco Keroppi Kuromi Cinnamoroll Pekkle Pompompurin Retsuko Hangyodon Other characters

Character’s favorite gifts check all three of their likes, but other gifts may actually raise their friendship faster. We’ll list the best gifts for each character below. If you’re short of the best gifts, plenty of other items that meet your friends’ requirements still increase your friendship. Remember to give each friend three gifts a day to make the most of your daily cap.
If you really need to increase your friendship with a specific character, you can also give them a Friendship Blossom, allowing you to gift that friend an additional three gifts that day. Similarly, a Friendship Bouquet can be used to reset all characters’ daily gift cap.
Top tip: If you’re good enough friends with Hello Kitty, ask her to come with you when you craft food recipes and give gifts, as she can increase the number of items you cook and increases friendship XP from gift giving by 10%. When crafting items, ask Chococat to join you as he can increase your chance of gaining an additional item from the workbench.

Hello Kitty gift guide

Likes: Fruit, Bakery, Fancy Favorite gift: Red Bow Apple Pie Highest value gift: The Future of Everything Best gift: Candied Banana Coffee Cooking recipe: Candlenut, Banana, Candy Cloud

Despite neither being Hello Kitty’s favorite or highest value gift, the best value gift for the return is Candied Banana Coffee.

My Melody gift guide

Likes: Sweet, Pink, Dreamy Favorite gift: Pink Clouds Ice Cream Dessert Recipe: Cactus Cream, candy Cloud, Sakura

To obtain Sakura, you must first unlock Merry Meadow by completing the Revive the Oasis and Curious Caverns quests upon reaching friendship level 11 with My Melody.

Chococat gift guide

Likes: Device, Book, Chocolate Favorite gift: Interactive History of Chocolate Crafting recipe: Mechanism, Blank Book, Spark, three Chocolate Coins Highest value gift:  Interactive History of Chocolate

To unlock the recipe for Chococat’s favorite gift, you must reach level three with Tophat, which can only be done after reaching and unlocking Icy Peaks. A good value alternative both before and after you’ve unlocked the recipe is Ancient Inventions, as it’s much cheaper at only one less friendship value.

Tuxedosam gift guide

Likes: Cloth, Tropical, Fancy Favorite gift: Designer Island Doll Crafting recipe: Unknown

The Designer Island Doll is unlocked after by reaching friendship level 16 with My Melody, but you can also obtain one by crafting one of each of the other dolls: Aquatic, Rocky, Tropical, Swampy, and Volcanic.

Badtz-maru gift guide

Likes: Joke, Tropical, Pizza Favorite gift: Ultimate Joke Pizza Highest value gift: Quattro Formaggi Pizza Pizza recipe: Dough, Pineapple, Tofu

The pizza oven is located on Hothead Island, and is unlocked by making friends with Retsuko. It requires dough, which can be obtained by giving gifts to Retsuko. While the Quattro Formaggi pizza provides a slightly higher friendship increase, Badtz-maru’s best gift is still the Ultimate Joke Pizza in terms of value and return.

Pochacco gift guide

Likes: Sports, Healthy, Veggie Favorite gift: Pochacco Energy Pop Highest value gift: Soda recipe: Fizzy Crystal, Tofu, Spinip

The Soda machine is located on Gemstone Island, and requires Fizzy Crystals to operate. These are obtained by riding the minecart through Gemstone Mountain, and using a crafting bench to turn Fizzy Ore into crystals.

Keroppi gift guide

Likes: Critters, Swampy, Wood Favorite gift: Critter Totem Crafting recipe: Woodblock, three Coconuts, five Mushrooms

The crafting plans for the Critter Totem are obtained by reaching friendship level 10 with Keroppi himself.

Kuromi gift guide

Likes: Soda, Fall, Spooky Favorite gift: Pumpkin Spice Soda Soda recipe: Fizzy Crystal, Pumpkin, Cinna Bloom

The Soda machine is located on Gemstone Island, and requires Fizzy Crystals to operate. These are obtained by riding the minecart through Gemstone Mountain, and using a crafting bench to turn Fizzy Ore into crystals.

Cinnamoroll gift guide

Likes: Cozy beverage, Chocolate, Spice Favorite gift: Chocolate Chai Coffee recipe: Candlenut, Chocolate Coin, Magma Bloom/Cinna Bloom Highest value gift: Spicy Pumpkin Latte Coffee recipe: Candlenut, Cinna Bloom, Pumpkin

The espresso machine is located in the Comedy Club, which can only be reached once you have crafted the Snorkel. Another coffee machine is located in the cafe, and can be used once you have reached friendship level 11 with Hangyodon. Cinnamoroll is a great example of choosing the right gift, as the Spicy Pumpkin Latte has a far higher friendship value than his favorite gift and is much more affordable.

Pekkle gift guide

Likes: Music, Rocky, Relax Favorite gift: Mountain Soundtrack Crafting recipe: Mechanism, five Feathers, five Shinies

The crafting recipe for the Mountain Soundtrack disc are unlocked by reaching friendship level 8 with Retsuko.

Pompompurin gift guide

Likes: Dessert, Relax, Dairy Favorite gifts: Mama’s Pudding Dessert recipe: Cactus Cream, Banana, Coral Milk

The dessert machine is located in Pompompurin’s Dessert Boat. All recipes require Cactus Cream, which can be found growing on Cacti just south of the Dessert Boat.

Retsuko gift guide

Likes: Fire, Music, Metal Favorite gift: Volcanic Guitar Crafting recipe: Mechanism, two Ingots, two Sparks

The Volcanic Guitar crafting plans are unlocked once you have reached friendship level 4 with Tophat, meaning you need to reach Icy Peaks before you can give Retsuko her favorite gift.

Hangyodon gift guide

Likes: Aquatic, Fish, Cloth Favorite gift: Mermaid Figure Highest value gift: Mermaid Figure Best gift: Rare fish

The crafting plans for the Mermaid figure are unlocked at friendship level 13 with My Melody. The best give to give Hangyodon, though, is any rare fish, as they’re much lower value for an almost equivalent friendship value.

Other characters

These future characters are spoilers if you haven’t already found them, so we’ve hidden them in their own section. If you don’t want to know who else might be hiding around the island, don’t read on! We’ll also add to this section when more characters are added.

Wish Me Mell gift guide

Likes: Fire, Flower, Rare Favorite gift: Rare candle Crafting recipe: Five Beeswax, five Patterned Flowers

Wish Me Mell is unlocked by completing the Curious Caverns and the Curiouser and Curiouser quests having reached friendship level 11 with My Melody.

Tophat gift guide

Likes: Digital, Fancy, Stars Favorite gift: The Future of Everything Crafting recipe: Three Little Challenges, three Glitches, three Stars

The crafting plans for The Future of Everything are found in a treasure chest on Cloud Island.

Big Challenges gift guide

Likes: Volcanic, Resilience, Book Favorite gift: The Greatest Challenge Highest value gift: The Future of Everything Best gift: Meditations on Resilience Crafting recipe: Three Little Challenges, three Glitches, three Stars

You can unlock the crafting plans for The Greatest Challenge by reaching friendship level four with Lala, while The Future of Everything plans can be found on Cloud Island. However, the best value gift for Big Challenges is actually the Meditations on Resilience book.

Lala gift guide

Likes: Creative, Dreamy, Cheese Favorite gift: Quattro Forgmaggi Pizza Highest value gift: Quattro Forgmaggi Pizza Best gift: Quattro Forgmaggi Pizza Pizza recipe: Dough, Coral Milk, Moon Cheese

Once you discover Cloud Island and unlock Lala and Kiki as friends, it can be quite a slow process figuring out their favorite gifts and leveling up their friendships. Luckily, both are easy to make once you know the recipes, including Lala’s favorite pizza – as long as you have enough Moon Cheese. Maybe try asking the collection Nul to gather some.

Kiki gift guide

Likes: Stars, Dreamy, Frozen Favorite gift: Starry Skies Shake Highest value gift: Starry Skies Shake Best gift:  Starry Skies Shake Dessert recipe: Cactus Cream, Snowcicle, Starfruit

Like Moon Cheese, Starfruit can also be hard to find in the early days of unlocking Cloud Island, as can Snowcicles. As with Kiki’s favorite items, you can ask a collection Nul to help you out.

My Sweet Piano

Likes: Cloud, Wood, Creative Favorite gift: Colorful Lamb Plush Highest value gift: Quattro Formaggi Pizza Best gift: Quattro Formaggi Pizza Pizza recipe: Dough, Coral Milk, Moon Cheese

Since you won’t unlock My Sweet Piano until later in the game anyway, you’ll hopefully already have access to Cloud Island, in which case everyone’s favorite pizza is also a great choice for her.
With this Hello Kitty Island Adventure gift guide, you’ll be able to increase the quality of your friendships from new to close in no time! We can’t do all the hard work for you though, as you still need to go round and find those recipes and resources in the relaxing game. You might also be looking for Hello Kitty Island Adventure Tophat Gudetama while you’re out and about, but we have a handy guide for his current location.