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  2. List of Sanrio characters - Wikipedia

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    Most Sanrio characters are anthropomorphized animals, a few are humans or anthropomorphized objects. Sanrio began creating characters to increase sales of its merchandise. [3] Typical merchandise featuring the characters include clothing, accessories, toys and stationery. The characters subsequently appeared in media such as books, animation ...

  3. Sanrio - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Category:Sanrio - Wikipedia

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  5. Talk:List of Sanrio characters - Wikipedia

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    This would also mean not adding new characters only sourced to Sanrio's fictional bios, but of course if more sources are found, characters can be restored or added. Any thoughts or comments on this are very welcome. Siawase 09:30, 7 December 2022 (UTC) Did the removal as per the above, diff: . Notes on a few of the removed entries for future ...

  6. The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends - Wikipedia

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    The Adventures of Hello Kitty and Friends (Chinese: Hello Kitty 愛漫遊; Japanese: ハローキティと仲間たちの冒険) is a 3D animated preschool television series featuring Hello Kitty and other characters from the Japanese company Sanrio. It was never actually dubbed in Japanese at all.

  7. San-X - Wikipedia

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    In 2010 The New York Times described San-X as a smaller, nimbler company, with potential to surpass the Sanrio corporation. The San-X characters Tarepanda and Rilakkuma were described as "huge hits in Japan" that were rising in the Character Databank character popularity charts while Sanrio's Hello Kitty character slumped in popularity ...

  8. List of highest-grossing media franchises - Wikipedia

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    Comic book Bob Kane Bill Finger: DC Entertainment (Warner Bros. Discovery) Hello Kitty: 1974 $29.3 billion: Merchandise sales – $29.3 billion [af] Box office – $61,487 [143] Cartoon character [144] Yuko Shimizu Shintaro Tsuji: Sanrio: Spider-Man: 1962 $26.8 billion: Merchandise sales – $14.526 billion [ag] Box office – $11.125 billion [ah]

  9. Yuko Shimizu - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Hello Kitty is Sanrio's most successful and best known character. Shimizu based her name on Alice's black 'Kitty' from Through the Looking-Glass. Hello Kitty was designed to be a kawaii (cute) symbol to be used on merchandise. [2] [3] [4] In 1975, the design made her debut in Japan with her image on a coin purse. [2] [3]