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This is a list of characters from Sanrio, a Japanese company specialized in creating kawaii (cute) characters. Sanrio sells and licenses products branded with these characters and has created over 450 characters. [1] Their most successful and best known character, Hello Kitty, was created in 1974. [2]
Sanrio has created over 450 characters as of 2022, the best known of which is the white cat character Hello Kitty from 1974. [35] Other well-known characters include the rabbit My Melody from 1975, the frog Keroppi from 1988, the penguin Bad Badtz-Maru from 1993, the white dog Cinnamoroll from 2001, the rabbit Kuromi from 2005, the animal series Jewelpet from 2008, the egg character Gudetama ...
In his book The Power of Cute, philosophy professor Simon May talks about the 180 degree turn in Japan's history, from the violence of war to kawaii starting around the 1970s, in the works of artists like Takashi Murakami, amongst others. By 1992, kawaii was seen as "the most widely used, widely loved, habitual word in modern living Japanese."
Chiikawa (ちいかわ), also known as Nanka Chiisakute Kawaii Yatsu (なんか小さくてかわいいやつ, 'Something Small and Cute'), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nagano. The main contents of the work are the daily lives and interactions of a series of cute animal or animal-inspired characters.
Hello Kitty's popularity also grew with the emergence of kawaii (cute) culture. [16] The brand went into decline in Japan after the 1990s, but continued to grow in the international market. [17] By 2010 the character was worth $5 billion a year and The New York Times called her a "global marketing phenomenon". [17] She did about $8 billion at ...
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Kuroto Nakano is a young salaryman with a very unhappy and stressful life, almost entirely occupied by his job at the company for which he works. One night, after yet another day spent overworking, the moment he opens the door of his home he finds a seemingly young girl with fox ears and a tail cooking dinner for him – her name is Senko, an 800-year-old fox demigod.
(The Center Square) — New York City is taking the Trump administration to court over its decision to clawback more than $80 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds for migrant shelters.