Warner Brothers alongside Newline Cinema also have the film rights to future works starring Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters. An upcoming live-action/CGI hybrid film by Warner Bros., Newline Cinema, and Flynn Pictures Company.Both were animated in 3D and introduced two new characters named Pinkylilrose and Rioskypeace. It included two anime series named Hello Kitty to Pinky to Rio no Fushigina Kagi no Himitsu and Hello Kitty to Pinky to Rio no Youkoso! Ponpon Town. In 2017, Sanrio created a new children's block called Sanrio Characters: Ponpon Jump.An English dub was released in 2018 on DVD by Sentai Filmworks under the name of Hello Kitty and Friends: Let's Learn Together. It was streamed on Hikari TV in Japan in 2017. Kiti to Issho ni Manabi, Kangaete Iku, another educational series.It was promoted frequently on the SanrioTown website. Like Growing Up with Hello Kitty, it was also about teaching kids life lessons. The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends, an All-CGI Cartoon produced by Sanrio Digital and Hong Kong company Dream Cortex in 2008.It had three seasons called Fantasy, Mystery, and Parallel Town respectively. Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori, a series about Kitty and Mimmy's adventures in the apple forest.What sets it from other series starring Kitty is that there is no dialogue between the characters instead a narrator describes the events of the episodes. Hello Kitty Stump Village, a 2005 Stop Motion Japanese/South Korean co-production.Hello Kitty's Paradise, a series of animated shorts that originally aired between 19 as a part of the children's block of the same name in Japan.It's actually both reasonably good and fairly well-reviewed, and employs tropes such as Good Angel, Bad Angel as part of its stories. 12 episodes were dubbed into English and released as a two-part DVD called Growing Up with Hello Kitty in 2011. Hello Kitty to Issho, a series of educational videos made between 19.The film stars Tuxedo Sam and Chip racing against various Sanrio characters with Dachonosuke as the main announcer. Kitty and her sister Mimmy are supporting characters in the 1990 OVA Sam and Chip's Great Messy Race.These were released in Video and DVD in Japan. 13 of these OVAs, including two from the Sanrio Anime Festival, would air in the US and Canada as a TV series called Hello Kitty & Friends. Kitty has starred in various Sanrio OVAs in both the '80s and the '90s.Some home video releases would pair this with Unico: Black Cloud and White Feather (which was also Unico's animation debut). It's also Sanrio's first ever animated project focused on a Sanrio character. Kitty to Mimi no Atarashii Kasa ( Kitty and Mimmy's New Umbrella in English), a 24 minute stop-motion short released in March 1981 which marked Hello Kitty's animation debut.In Japan, she has merchandising all over the place ( usually pink), including Fairytale Wedding Dresses. At the time of her creation, foreign countries like the UK were trendy in Japan, so her backstory depicted her as a 3rd grade student living outside London. Then again, the character was originally a British fashion label. Strangely enough, her biography states that she was born and raised in London. One of the most heavily merchandised things on the planet, creating all forms of insane craze in Singapore and Philippines when Hello Kitty dolls were attached to Happy Meals. One explanation given by Sanrio spokespeople for why she doesn't have a mouth is because they want people to "project their feelings onto the character" and "be happy or sad together with Hello Kitty." The other explanation given by Sanrio for being depicted without a visual mouth is that she speaks from the heart as Sanrio's goodwill ambassador to the world, she isn't bound to any particular language. It's more commonly seen when she's animated, just like Dilbert's. Unlike American cartoon animal mascots (like Snoopy, Garfield, or Mickey Mouse), she started out as a marketing icon, with actual media (including quite a few cartoons and Video Games, including an MMORPG) all coming later.Ĭontrary to popular belief, she does have a mouth, it's just like Dilbert's: very small and not drawn often. For many non-Japanese, this was some of the first tastes of anime chibi art. Hello Kitty is a long running Cash-Cow Franchise mascot in Japan.Ĭreated by Yuko Shimizu and licensed by Sanrio, this little cat has been marketed in America just as long as she has been in Japan.
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