To advance Hello Kitty Island Adventureyou need to Increase your friendship level and every Characters who live on the island by giving them gift. By doing so, make sure you unlock lots of things, such as creating stations, recipes for certain items, or even upgrading other characters, and give them a character every day.
To understand what to give to different characters, we have put together a list for you. We divided the best gifts to offer them and the options of the early game when you don’t have lots of resources. Please note that at the time of this writing, some characters have different “best” gifts in the Nintendo Switch version of the game. (The update that aligns the Gift Points system across the platform will switch on May 22nd.
Also, for spoiler reasons, we list all the characters that can be unlocked later under the cut. Some of these characters have appeared in trailers and other things for the game, but we don’t want to suppress your surprise.
The following is explained Perfect gift for a variety of things Hello Kitty Island Adventure character And how to make them (or get their recipes).
Batz Mal’s best gift

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Favorite gift: The ultimate joke pizza (pizza oven dough + pineapple + tofu)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): Quattro Formaggi Pizza (Dough + Moon Cheese + Coral Milk in the Pizza Oven)
Good early game gift: Pineapple pizza (dough + pineapple)
Batzmal is one of the starting characters at Seaside Resort, and most often strolls around the comic book stands at the dock.

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Favorite gift: Interactive History of Chocolate (Craft Table Recipe Unlocked from Level 3 Friendship with Tophat)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): The interactive history of chocolate
Good early game gift: Blank Book
Chococat is one of the starting characters in Seaside Resort. He usually hangs out around the craft table.
The best gifts of Cinnamoroll

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Favorite gift: Chocolate Chai (Candle Nets + Chocolate Coin + Magma Bloom/Sinna Bloom of Espresso Machine)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): Spicy Pumpkin Latte (Espresso Machine Candle Nets + Sinna Bloom + Pumpkin)
Good early game gift: Spicy pizza (dough + Shinna Bloom/Magma Bloom Pizza Oven)
Gift reward: Candy Cloud
Cinnamoroll roams the island and makes deliveries for leaks to various locations.

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Favorite gift: Mermaid diagram (Craft table recipe is locked through friendship level 13 in my melody)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): Mermaid drawing
Good early game gift: Rare Tag Aquatic Fish (Sand Beach Pahuru, Galaxy Grouper, Briny Jellyfish)
Hangyodon is accessible once you unlock swimming and diving.
Hello Kitty’s best gift

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Favorite gift: Red Bow Pie (Wheat Flour + Apple + Oven in Magma Bloom)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): All Future (Craft Table Recipes in Chests on Cloud Island require Friendship Level 2 with Lala)
Good early game gift: Strawberry Shortcake (Oven flour + strawberries)
Hello Kitty is one of the starting characters for Seaside Resort, and has been found mostly in her cafe.

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Favorite gift: Critter Totem (Craft Table Recipe Unlocked at Friendship Rank 10 with Keroppi)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): Swampy Music Box (Craft Table Recipe in a Treasure Chest near the Nature Reserve)
Good early game gift: Bush Veignde creature (captured from evening to night in a maze of spooky swamp hedges)
Kelloppi lives in a creepy swamp, but you can often see him strolling around at Batz Mal’s comic shop.

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Favorite gift: Pumpkin spice soda (Crystal carbonated + pumpkin + Soda machine with shinna bloom)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): Spicy Pumpkin Latte (Espresso Machine Candle Nets + Sinna Bloom + Pumpkin)
Good early game gift: Pumpkin Pie (Oven flour + pumpkin)
Kuromi lives in a creepy swamp, and she is most frequently found in potion sheds.

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Favorite gift: Pink Cloud Ice Cream (Cactus Cream + Candy Cloud + Sakura from the Dessert Machine)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): Starry Sky Swing (Cactus Cream in the Dessert Machine + Snowman + Star Fruit) or Quattro Formaggi Pizza (Dough + Moon Cheese + Coral Milk in the Pizza Oven)
Good early game gift: Pink Latte (Espresso Machine Candle Nets + Strawberry/Sakura)
My melody was one of the starting characters at a seaside resort and was commonly found in her furniture store.

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Favorite gift: Mountain Soundtrack (Craft Table Recipe Unlocked at Friendship Level 8 with Retsuko)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): Mountain Soundtrack
Good early game gift: Calm crystal (located in the crystal cave)
Peckle can be found at Gemston Mountain in front of the dancehall.

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Favorite gift: Pochacco Energy Pop (soda machine carbonated crystal + spinip + tofu)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only):Pochacco Energy Pop
Good early game gift: Tofu Bread (Oven flour + tofu)
Gift reward:strawberry
Pochacco is one of the starting characters you can find around the beach resort.
The best gift of Ponpan Pudding

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Favorite gift: Mama’s Pudding (Dessert Machine Cactus Cream + Banana + Coral Milk)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): Starry Sky Swing (Cactus Cream + Snowman + Star Fruit in the Dessert Machine)
Good early game gift: Dessert Pizza (Dough + Candy Cloud/Sugarkelp in Pizza Oven/Swamp Malo)
Ponpamp pudding strolls around Desert Boat or surrounding Gemston Mountain.

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Favorite gift: Volcanic Guitar (Craft Table Recipe Unlocked at Friendship Level 4 with Tophat)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): Sounds of Steel (Craft Table Recipe on the Chest of a Lava Cave)
Good early game gift: ingots, but more preferably volcanic soundtracks (create recipes for tables found in lava cave treasure chests)
Retsuko is usually on Hothead mountain and laments the loss of her luggage. If you help her, she will wander around the hot springs.
The best gift from Tuxedo Sam

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Favorite gift: Designer Island Doll (Craft Table recipes are locked at Friendship Rank 16 in my Melody)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): All Future (Craft Table Recipes in Chests on Cloud Island require Friendship Level 2 with Lala)
Good early game gift: “Unusual” tag (coastal crumbfish, tropical sunfish, summer sole))
Tuxedo Sam was one of the first characters and was almost always found in his clothing store.
The following characters unlock via a specific story quest. Spoilers are available at the bottom of the image.

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Best Gift for Unlocked Characters Through Quest (Spoilers)
I wish Mell the best gift

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Favorite gift: Any Rare Candle (Creation Station Recipe is locked through Friendship Level 10 with Wish Me Mell)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): Unusual candle
A good early gift: Rare tagged fish (swamp crumbfish, burning perch, cave crumbfish, etc.)
To unlock Mell, you will need to hit Friendship Rank 11 in My Melody and complete the “Dessert-Ed Boat”, “Parched” and “Revive the Oasis” quests. After this, the “Inquisitive Cave” in the quest line unlocks and ultimately leads you to her.
My best gift for sweet piano

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Favorite gift: Colorful lamb stuffed toys (Craft table recipes are locked through friendship rank 10 on my sweet piano)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): Quattro Formaggi Pizza (Dough + Moon Cheese + Coral Milk in the Pizza Oven)
A good early gift: Critter Totem (Craft Table Recipe Unlocked via Friendship Level 10 with Keroppi)
To unlock my sweet piano, you need to reach friendship rank 15 in my melody and complete the quest series that begins with “really friends.”
Great gift for a big challenge

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Favorite gift: The Greatest Challenge (creates recipes for locked tables with Friendship Rank 4 with LALA)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): All Future (Craft Table Recipes in Chests on Cloud Island require Friendship Level 2 with Lala)
A good early gift: Resilience Meditation (Craft Table recipes are unlocked via friendship and locked in two ranks 2 with big challenges)
Gift reward: A small challenge
To unlock major challenges, you will need to complete a story quest that leads to ice peaks. This involves functionally “fixing” all areas of the island and obtaining a fragment of each star.

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Favorite gift: All Future (Craft Table Recipes in Chests on Cloud Island require Friendship Level 2 with Lala)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): All future
Good early game gift: Candied Banana Coffee (Espresso Machine Candle Nuts + Candy Cloud + Banana)
Tophat will begin to appear as a buddy once you clear the Big Challenge storyline above.

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Favorite gift: Quattro Formaggi Pizza (Dough + Moon Cheese + Coral Milk in the Pizza Oven)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): 4 pizza cheese
Good early game gift:Almond Pound Cake (Wheat Flour + Candy Cloud + Toasted Almonds in the Oven)
Lara appears in the story snippet before they actually meet, but once they unlock Cloud Island, they can start giving the gift. This happens after saving big challenges, gaining rank 17 friendship with Hello Kitty, completing the given quests and completing the “Stargazing” quest.

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Favorite gift: Starry Sky Swing (Cactus Cream + Snowman + Star Fruit in the Dessert Machine)
The best gift for enhancing friendship (Nintendo switch only): The starry sky shaking
Good early game gift:Almond Pound Cake (Wheat Flour + Candy Cloud + Toasted Almonds in the Oven)
Kiki unlocks the lock in the same way as Lala above.
Best Gifts for Usahana (iOS only)

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Favorite gift: Rainbow Dango (Rainbow Beam + 3 Mochi)
Good early game gift:Colorpillar Critter
Usahana is a character locked in the Apple arcade version Hello Kitty Island Adventure For now, however, she will come to the other versions on an unreleased date. Since I played the Steam version of the game, information about Usahana has been compiled with the help of the Hello Kitty Island Adventure Wiki.