Wednesday, August 27, 2014

MUST READ: Hello Kitty is actually not a cat! Sanrio reveals

A big revelation is about to change the way you think what Hello Kitty is. Sanrio reveals that Hello Kitty IS ACTUALLY NOT A CAT.

Hello Kitty is actually a human girl, she is not a cat.

Hello Kitty is not a cat, she's a human girl
Getty / Astrid Stawiarz


Yes, Hello Kitty is a human girl. Here's the story why:

An anthropologist from University of Hawaii, Christine R. Yano, is organizing an exhibit of Hello Kitty at the Japanese American national Museum in Los Angeles.

The Sanrio company proofread her texts that will be used in exhibits and she got corrected by them in the part where she described Hello Kitty as a cat.
I was corrected — very firmly, she told the Los Angeles Times.

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.
Christine R. Yano said.

According to BuzzFeed, it is allegedly that Hello Kitty is actually a human British girl named as Kitty White with a background story of her own. It turns out that Hello Kitty was created during the time when Japanese women romanticized the life in England.

Kitty White, twin human girl who lives outside of London
Getty / Stephen Dunn


She is a perpetual third-grade girl living outside London.
She is a Scorpio. She loves apple pie. And she is the daughter of George and Mary White. -Times

But when the anthropologist asked why Sanrio chose to portray the little girl as a cat with no mouth, she did not answer.


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