Tanoontchi
Forest Field · Forest Roar Species · 6+ mistakes
| Shell | Jade Forest only |
| Field | Forest Field |
| Food type | Peking Meat / Chashu Pork, Peking Meat, Warm Buns |
| Care level | Heavy neglect (6+ total mistakes) |
| Sick chance | 30% |
Who Is Tanoontchi?
A tanuki â the Japanese raccoon dog, famous in folklore as a shapeshifter, a trickster, and a cheerful symbol of good fortune and mischief. Tanuki (ç¸) is rendered here with the -tchi suffix through a characteristic softening of the middle consonant (tanuki â tanoon â Tanoontchi). The design likely carries all the classic tanuki visual cues: rounded belly, straw hat, sake bottle somewhere in the picture, an expression somewhere between satisfied and about to do something you won’t expect.
The heavy-neglect result for the Forest Field’s Forest Roar Species. This fits perfectly: the tanuki in Japanese tradition is the animal that thrives without careful guidance, multiplies through self-sufficiency, and turns its own rough experience into a kind of charm. A tanuki that grew up with 6+ care mistakes is exactly the animal that folklore is about.
Stats
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Hunger drops every | 40 min |
| Happiness drops every | 50 min |
| Sick chance after care mistake | 30% |
Tanoontchi has the most demanding stat profile in the Forest Roar Species â both meters drain quickly, requiring active check-ins roughly every 40 minutes for hunger and 50 minutes for happiness.
How to Get Tanoontchi
Step 1 â Be on the Jade Forest shell
The Forest Field is only available on the Jade Forest shell among the 2025 Paradise launch lineup.
Step 2 â Feed Peking Meat during the Kid stage
Target food type: Peking Meat
Specific foods: Chashu Pork, Peking Meat â from the shop. Warm Buns â cooked.
Feed until you have at least one Peking Meat icon showing in your Tama Cell, then switch to Pellets.
Step 3 â Hit the right care level
Requirement: 6 or more total care mistakes across the Kid and Young stages combined.
Let hunger or happiness hit zero, wait 15 minutes after the attention call, refill, and repeat until you have 6+ spiral icons in Cell View. Once you hit 6, Tanoontchi is locked in regardless of anything else that happens.
Full Forest Roar Species Evolution Line
All four Forest Roar adults come from Forest Roar Young, raised in the Forest Field on a diet of Peking Meat during the Kid stage.
| Character | How to Get |
|---|---|
| Horhotchi (Forest) | Perfect care â 0 mistakes + Hunger maxed 5Ã+ + Happy maxed 5Ã+ |
| Konkotchi | Near-perfect â 0â1 total mistakes |
| Tigaotchi | Moderate neglect â 2â5 total mistakes |
| Tanoontchi â you are here | Heavy neglect â 6+ total mistakes |
Fun Facts
The tanuki holds a place in Japanese popular culture out of proportion to its actual appearance â a raccoon dog that in folklore grows to enormous size, shapeshifts, and brings fortune to restaurants and businesses. Tanoontchi as the heavy-neglect result acknowledges this: the tanuki doesn’t need supervision to thrive. The 30% sick chance on the Jade Forest shell (lower than other fields’ 35%) means that even the neglect-accumulation process is slightly more forgiving here than it would be elsewhere. A benevolent choice for the character that requires the most mistakes to unlock.
Food Preferences
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Favorite type | Hearty/festive items â Chashu Pork, Peking Meat, Warm Buns, Rice Ball (tanuki folklore includes associations with sake and hearty meals) |
| Disliked foods | Refined/delicate items â Sweet Roll, Honey Cake trigger rejection |
| Note | The tanuki’s folkloric image is of an abundant, rowdy creature â heavy food and rice suits it better than elegant sweets. Thematic inference; verify in-game. |
Personality & Raising Tips
Tanoontchi’s 40/50-minute split makes it one of the more demanding Forest Field adults on a daily basis â both meters drain quickly, requiring frequent check-ins. If you’re after heavy-neglect and don’t particularly want a high-maintenance adult, Tanoontchi is the trade-off: you earn it through neglect and then have to pay attention to keep it.
Practical tips:
â Set a 35â40 minute feeding reminder and a 45â50 minute happiness check
â The 30% sick chance gives slightly more margin than other fields if illness triggers|br />
â The 40-minute hunger timer is the fastest in the Forest Roar Species
For intentional Tanoontchi runs: Peking Meat during Kid, then 6+ deliberate mistakes during Young. Watch for illness at the risky mistake counts â the 30% chance applies on Forest characters but still triggers. Six spiral icons in Cell View confirms the adult outcome is locked.
Personality in lore: Jovial, self-sufficient, and operating with a level of confidence that occasionally looks like carelessness until you realize it always worked out. Tanoontchi doesn’t need things to go according to plan â it improvises, shapeshifts around obstacles, and arrives at its destination by routes nobody else would have thought of. The most entertaining character in the Forest Roar Species, and the one that will demand the most consistent attention once obtained.
Who Should Raise Tanoontchi?
Tanoontchi is for experimental players and accidental neglecters â players who miss care calls frequently or who are deliberately going for the tanuki. Getting here requires 6+ mistakes, so patience (or distraction) is the qualifying skill. Once raised, the 40/50-minute split means Tanoontchi is paradoxically one of the most demanding adults to maintain despite being the neglect result â attentive players will need to step up after unlocking it. You must own the Jade Forest shell. The 30% sick chance helps during the neglect accumulation phase â illness is less likely per mistake than on other fields’ 35%.
How Tanoontchi Compares
Tanoontchi’s 40-minute hunger drain is the fastest in the Forest Roar Species and among the fastest in the Forest Field overall. Its 50-minute happiness drain is also demanding, making it the species’ highest-maintenance adult despite being the lowest-care-level result. Compare to Forest Horhotchi (70/60 â very comfortable) and Tigaotchi (90/30 â happiness-heavy but hunger-relaxed): Tanoontchi inverts Tigaotchi’s dynamic entirely, demanding both meters frequently rather than skewing hard toward one. Within the broader Forest Field, Tanoontchi’s 40m hunger puts it in the faster tier alongside Kanokotchi (50m) and below only Kuchipatchi-Forest (30m). The 30% sick chance is the standard Forest Field structural advantage.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does heavy neglect produce the most high-maintenance adult?
The tanuki’s demanding stat profile reflects the character’s energy: it got very little structure growing up and now has very high needs, metabolically speaking. The 40/50-minute split is one of the game’s ways of communicating that neglect has a cost that continues into adulthood â even if the result character is charming.
Can Tanoontchi appear on other shells?
No â the Forest Field is exclusive to the Jade Forest shell among the 2025 launch lineup.
Can Tanoontchi breed?
Yes. All adults in Tamagotchi Paradise can breed with any compatible adult of the opposite gender. After breeding, the egg hatches into Babymarutchi and the evolution cycle starts fresh â the baby’s adult form depends on your field, food, and care choices, not on which parents bred.
About This Character’s Field
The Forest Field is the home field of the Jade Forest shell and is not available on other 2025 launch shells. Forest Field characters have Peking Meat, Bamboo Grass, Pomegranate, and Default Pellet evolution paths. All Forest Field characters have a 30% sick chance (with one exception).
For the complete evolution picture across all fields and shells, see the Full Evolution Chart. For detailed mechanics on how care mistakes work, see the Care Mistake Guide.