Hello Kitty Island Adventureis filled with unique Sanrio characters, both widely popular and underrated. One character that you’ll come across is Badtz-maru; this joking little penguin has a birthday on April Fool’s Day, so his love of pranks comes as no surprise.

In this guide, we are going to take a look at how to befriend Badtz-maru in Hello Kitty Island Adventure. This will include all related quests, as well as rewards you will receive for leveling up friendship between the two of you. Badtz-maru is immediately available to befriend at the start of the game; you won’t have to travel far or unlock any features.

A player receiving paper in Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

Where To Find Badtz-maru

Badtz-maru is typically foundat the Seaside Resort on the docks.Here, he runs a comic shop. Directly, nearby, there isa fast-travel mailboxthat you may use to easily reach Badtz-maru.

If Badtz-maru isn’t there, don’t worry! His icon on the map willalways show his current location,so just zoom out a bit and look for him. Once spotted, justhead to where the icon is.

A player looking at Badtz-marus character screen in Hello Kitty Island Adventure

Gifts To Give Badtz-maru

Looking to boost your friendship with Badtz-maru? This can easily be done by giving him daily gifts, with the maximum being three. Overall, any gift with theJoke, Tropical, or Pizzatake will be, at minimum, a one-heart gift.

A few gifts are an exception to this, being two or three-heart gifts. We’ve listed these below; anything else with these tags just has one heart.

A player looking at a fishing quest from Hello Kitty Island Adventure

2 Heart

Pineapple Pizza

In exchange for giving Badtz-maru a gift,he will give you some paper.

Friendship Rewards

There are 20 levels of friendship that you can progress through with Badtz-maru. Each level willunlock some sort of reward, ranging from furniture to new quests.Below, you can check out every reward for the 20 possible levels of friendship with Badtz-maru.

1

Friendship (this basically means Badtz-maru is officially your friend)

2

Magnet item

3

Keep it Reel quest

4

5

Badtz-maru can be your companion now too

6

7

8

Pirate Chair furniture item

9

10

Friendship (you’re now good friends with him)

11

12

13

14

15

Friendship (you are now close friends with him)

16

Pirate Table furniture item

17

18

Pirate Bed furniture item

19

Badtz-maru #1 comic

20

Friendship (you are now best friends with him!)

Gamer gives youone free Ticket use per day,while Fish Whisperer willincrease your chance to attract rare fish.

Quests From Badtz-maru

Through leveling up your friendship with Badtz-maru, you may have noticed that several quests unlock. These quests can helpunlock new features around the island,as well as certaincosmetics or items.Below, we’ve included every quest related to Badtz-maru in the game.

Description

Prank Preparation

This quest tasks you with collecting rubber in order to make Water Balloons for Badtz-maru.

Keep it Reel

This is essentially a tutorial quest that teaches you how to fish,unlocking the use of the fishing rod.

Fish Noir

You need to complete Comic Relief before doing this quest.

This quest will task you with finding a variety of clues for Badtz-maru, with the reward being a detective outfit.

Daily Quests

Daily quests are a bit more simple than normal quests. Typically, theseinvolve gathering or crafting an item, visiting an area, or taking a picture.Overall, Badtz-maru has quite a lot of daily quest options, butyou won’t see every single one at the same time.

Below, you can check out all potential daily quests for Badtz-maru.

Give Badtz-maru 3x paper

Catch a fish in Gemstone Mountain caves

Craft something

Catch a fish at Mount Hothead (at the pier)

Take a picture with Badtz-maru

Take a picture with Kuromi

Catch a fish in the Mount Hothead Caldera

Give Badtz-maru something with the Book tag

Catch a fish in the Spooky Swamp

Collect a comic book