hello kitty is not a cat

[takeru]

hello kitty is a british school kid...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/28963085

Hello Kitty is not a cat - she's a British school kid

You would be forgiven for having thought for your entire life that Hello Kitty was a cat.

After all, she does kind of look like one - and she is called Kitty.

But her creators Sanrio are adamant. She is a British school kid called Kitty White and she lives just outside London (although no-one is saying exactly where).

In fact, she has a whole life story and a family that includes a twin sister called Mimmy.
Earlier this month Hello Kitty was pictured in space for the first time, celebrating her anniversary

Although Sanrio has a whole website dedicated to Kitty's biography, her appearance has suggested that she is animal rather than human - an assumption that also fooled Christine R Yano.

She is an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii and is curating an exhibition about the cartoon character.

"That's one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show. Hello Kitty is not a cat," she told the LA Times.

"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."

Yano claims a lot of people don't know Kitty's really a person and that many of her fans who are aware "don't care".

And the reason Kitty is British?

"Hello Kitty emerged in the 1970s, when the Japanese and Japanese women were into Britain," said Yano.

"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."

So now you know - Hello Kitty lives in the suburbs of London, is approximately five apples tall and was born on 1 November. And she's certainly not a cat.


Hello Kitty: The facts

Name: Kitty White
Blood Group: A
Birthday: 1 November
Weight: About three apples
Hobbies: Baking, origami, making friends, collecting cute things
Motto: You can never have too many friends

 

[IronWing]

She weighs three apples? What is she, a preemie?

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Oh that totally makes sense now. Thanks.

 

[Jodell88]

She weighs three apples? What is she, a preemie?

No, she's fashionably thin.

 

[zinfamous]

I feel enlightened. And now peace descends upon the world

 

[IronWing]

She's either a cat or she is a little girl with facial hair. Which sells better?

 

[dank69]

So, she is a furry?

 

[IronWing]

She's a grossly deformed little girl with ears protruding from the top of her skull.

As a cat, she'd be okay. As a human, she's got a touch of thalidomide and a nip of fetal alcohol syndrome.

 

[Drako]

Why does she have whiskers?

 

[zinfamous]

Japan: what went wrong?

From:

To:

 

[Zee]

Sanrio must have gone through a management change.... or someone is trying to justify their job

 

[IronWing]

Japan: what went wrong?

From:



To:

It's better for everybody this way.

 

[IronWing]

Sanrio must have gone through a management change.... or someone is trying to justify their job

Free marketing.

 

[zinfamous]

It's better for everybody this way.

probably true.

 

[Zee]

Free marketing.

i dont think so. this isnt like the amazon drone nonsense. They are hurting their own brand and image by making a branded kitten to some weak statutory rap... ohhhhh ok.

Freaking Japan. Those arent whiskers. it's tentacles.

 

[mmntech]

Japan: what went wrong?

If you're tying to get into a Japanese college girl's pants, knowledge of Hello Kitty can be surprisingly useful. :sneaky:

 

[utahraptor]

It is fairly evident that the entity known as Hello Kitty is in fact not a cat when one examines its skeletal composition and compares it to an actual cat's.

Hello Kitty Skeletal Exhibit A:

Hello Kitty Skeletal Exhibit B:

Cat Skeleton Exhibit A:

Cat Skeleton Exhibit B:

 

[Imp]

So... is she really white, or is that still fur then?

If skin, where's the red hair? Albinos are more pink than white.

 

[mmntech]

So... is she really white, or is that still fur then?

If skin, where's the red hair? Albinos are more pink than white.

Someone shaved a poor ginger. I heard they've got it really bad over there.

 

[ThinClient]

Sanrio actually REFUTED the claim that Hello Kitty is not a cat. Hello Kitty IS a cat, according to Sanrio.

 

[surfsatwerk]

ok?

 

[IronWing]

Calling Silver Prime! Calling Silver Prime!

Who would win in a Hello Kitty vs. little English girl fight?

 

[kt]

Known that for years now.

 

[alzan]

It is fairly evident that the entity known as Hello Kitty is in fact not a cat when one examines its skeletal composition and compares it to an actual cat's.

Hello Kitty Skeletal Exhibit A:

Hello Kitty Skeletal Exhibit B:

Cat Skeleton Exhibit A:

Cat Skeleton Exhibit B:

Is it just me or does Hello Kitty Skeletal A look like Stewie from Family Man?

 

[kt]

Is it just me or does Hello Kitty Skeletal A look like Stewie from Family Man?

You mean Family Guy?