Hello Kitty is NOT A KITTY

[ARNie]

Uh, what?

I am talking about Hello Kitty, the adorable cultural force that began life as a character on a coin purse in Japan 1974. Produced by Sanrio, she arrived in the United States two years later. And she's been a part of global popular culture ever since...

...his year, Kitty turns 40 — and her power as icon and brand shows no sign of abating.

But there's a lot we don't know about Hello Kitty. And, Yano, who is currently wading through hundreds of objects for the exhibition at the the Japanese American National Museum (including the famous Gaga dress), gives us the lowdown:

Hello Kitty is not a cat.

You read that right. When Yano was preparing her written texts for the exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum, she says she described Hello Kitty as a cat. "I was corrected — very firmly," she says. "That's one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show. 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. She's never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it's called Charmmy Kitty."

I grew up with Hello Kitty everything and all I have to say is, MIND BLOWN.

Hello Kitty is British.

Kitty is actually named Kitty White and she has a full back story. She is a Scorpio. She loves apple pie. And she is the daughter of George and Mary White.

"She has a twin sister," adds Yano. "She's a perpetual third-grader. She lives outside of London. I could go on. A lot of people don't know the story and a lot don't care. But it's interesting because Hello Kitty emerged in the 1970s, when the Japanese and Japanese women were into Britain. They loved the idea of Britain. It represented the quintessential idealized childhood, almost like a white picket fence. So the biography was created exactly for the tastes of that time."

Oh...........kay...

The full article at LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ar ... tml#page=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

How does this make you feel?

[Hypercat-Z]

I dunno. I did know they made another character who is a cat on all her four but has the same face of Hello Kitty.
Her name is "Charmmy Kitty", with two Ms (how the hell are you supposed to pronunce that?).
You don't have to belive my words. Just goggle for "Charmmy Kitty".
When I saw her the first time I thought she was a blatant knock-off of Hello Kitty
But then, after seeing her a lot, I made some internet research and I discovered she was an official character

[Interrogator]

Next thing you'll tell me, Mickey Mouse is not a mouse.
Or Arther Reed is not an Aardvark,
or Huckleberry Hound is not a (doggone) dog

[Truthseeker]

I dunno. I did know they made another character who is a cat on all her four but has the same face of Hello Kitty.
Her name is "Charmmy Kitty", with two Ms (how the hell are you supposed to pronunce that?).
You don't have to belive my words. Just goggle for "Charmmy Kitty".
When I saw her the first time I thought she was a blatant knock-off of Hello Kitty
But then, after seeing her a lot, I made some internet research and I discovered she was an official character

They did :p If you actually had read what Arnie posted or even the article you'd see they did make Charmmy kitty. She's supposed to be Hello Kittys cat. Still how can Hello Kitty not be a cat when she EVEN HAS WHISKERS!!!

[Bill K.]

I'm sorry, "anthropomorphized feline" just doesn't roll off the tongue.

[Chris]

Like pluto and Goofy are both dogs but goofy an antropromickey dog it hard to belive he started live as an old helecker and pluto a prison dog