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Hello Kitty (Japanese: ハロー・キティ, Hepburn: Harō Kiti), [6] also known by her real name Kitty White (キティ・ホワイト, Kiti Howaito), [5] is a fictional character created by Yuko Shimizu, currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi, and owned by the Japanese company Sanrio.
In 1974 Shimizu made the original design for Hello Kitty, whose fictional birthdate is November 1, the same as Shimizu's. [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 ...
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 ...
By 2014, when Hello Kitty was 40 years old, she was worth about $8 billion a year. [23] UNICEF has appointed Hello Kitty children's ambassador and the Japanese government appointed her ambassador of tourism. [22] The Hello Kitty media franchise has grown to include several animated series, video games and other media productions. A variety of ...
Hello Kitty Island Adventure is a 2023 video game. Based on the Hello Kitty brand, it was released for Apple Arcade on July 28, 2023. A version for Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows also released on January 30, 2025, and a version on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 will be released later in 2025.
Stickers are commonly downloadable for free, but some services may offer premium options via microtransactions, often described as stickers as a service.Sets may be devoted to specific themes, characters, as well as popular brands and media franchises such as Hello Kitty, Psy, and the Minions of Despicable Me.
Hello Kitty Online was a free-to-play [1] massively multiplayer online role playing game active from 2008 to 2017, developed by Sanrio Digital and Typhoon Games. [2] The game is tied to the SanrioTown website, where players are required to register a free account.
"Hello Kitty" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, taken from her self-titled fifth studio album, Avril Lavigne (2013). It was written by Lavigne, Chad Kroeger , David Hodges and Martin Johnson .