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Hello Kitty ( Japanese: ハロー・キティ, Hepburn: Harō Kiti), [6] also known by her real name Kitty White (キティ・ホワイト, Kiti Howaito), [5] is a fictional character created by Yuko Shimizu, currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi, and owned by the Japanese company Sanrio. [7] [8] [9] Sanrio depicts Hello Kitty as a British ...
Born. ( 1946-11-01) November 1, 1946 (age 77) Kyoto, Japan. Yuko Shimizu (清水 侑子, Shimizu Yūko, born 1 November 1946) is the Japanese designer who created Hello Kitty . She was born in Japan. After graduating from Musashino Art University, she joined Sanrio. She designed the first original Sanrio character, Coro Chan, a bear which was ...
The Hello Kitty murder case (Chinese: Hello Kitty藏屍案; Jyutping: Hello Kitty cong4si1ngon3; lit. 'Hello Kitty hidden body case') took place in Hong Kong in the spring of 1999, when a nightclub hostess was abducted in Lai Yiu Estate, tortured and raped in an apartment in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, after stealing a wallet owned by one of her frequent customers.
All Hello Kitty products -- make that all 50,000 or so products -- are licensed by Sanrio. It's proven to be a lucrative venture for the Japanese company. Last year, Sanrio saw $5 billion in ...
Hello Kitty is not a cat. She’s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat,” said Yano. “She’s never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a ...
Sanrio has created over 450 characters as of 2022, the best known of which is the white cat character Hello Kitty from 1974. Other well-known characters include the pink rabbit My Melody from 1975, the frog Keroppi from 1988, the penguin Bad Badtz-Maru from 1993, the white dog Cinnamoroll from 2001, the black rabbit Kuromi from 2005, the animal series Jewelpet from 2008, the egg character ...
In the episode 307 of Crayon Shin-chan, "Nene-chan is the Tragedy Heroine" (1999), the story inspires Nene-chan to play the Cinderella game with her friends. In Hello Kitty's Animation Theater an episode is an adaptation of this tale, complete with its grim ending.
List of Sanrio characters. Various Sanrio characters, from left to right, top to bottom: Bad Badtz-Maru, My Melody, Cinnamoroll, Charmmykitty, Hello Kitty, Usahana, Shinkansen, Keroppi, Pochacco, Little Twin Stars, Pompompurin, Corocorokuririn, Minna no Tabo. This is a list of characters from Sanrio, a Japanese company specialized in creating ...