Sunday, 31 August 2014

Hello Kitty Is Not a Cat: She Is a "Personification of a Cat," Say Creators, Plus More Facts About the Cartoon

Baffled! It was revealed this past week that Hello Kitty, the popular cartoon character with whiskers and triangular-shaped ears, is not a cat.


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"Hello Kitty is not a cat," Christine R. Yano, an anthropologist and the author of Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific, told the L.A. Times on Wednesday, Aug. 27. "She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat."


Yano even dissected Hello Kitty's behavior. "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."


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Yano said this bombshell revelation actually came directly from Hello Kitty's creators. "I was corrected -- very firmly," she recalled of the company's fix in her text for an exhibit. "That's one correction Sanrio [the company behind Hello Kitty] made for my script."


Hello Kitty fans around the world reacted to the news with shock.


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A spokesperson for Sanrio Tokyo responded to the news and explained what Hello Kitty really is -- sort of. "Hello Kitty was done in the motif of a cat," the spokesman told gaming website Kotaku . "It's going too far to say that Hello Kitty is not a cat. Hello Kitty is a personification of a cat."


Still confused like Us? Below is a primer of what fans should know about Hello Kitty, nee Kitty White.


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Hometown: London

Parents: Mary and George White

Sibling: Twin Sister Mimmy

Pets: Charmmy Kitty and Pet Hamster Sugar

Birthday: Nov. 1

Blood Type: A

Sign: Scorpio

Height: 5 apples

Weight: 3 apples

Favorite Color: Red


This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Hello Kitty Is Not a Cat: She Is a "Personification of a Cat," Say Creators, Plus More Facts About the Cartoon






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