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No clue but he definitely has these as wall hangers
I'm 44 and I still don't really know what Hello Kitty is. A cartoon? A book? I've never understood it.
Via Wikipedia.
“ Hello Kitty (Japanese: ハロー・キティ, Hepburn: Harō Kiti),[6] also known by her full name Kitty White (キティ・ホワイト, Kiti Howaito),[5] is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio,[7] created by Yuko Shimizu and currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi. Sanrio depicts Hello Kitty as a young female gijinka (anthropomorphization) of Japanese Bobtail with a red bow and, notably, no mouth.[8] According to her backstory, she is a perpetual 3rd-grade student who lives outside of London.[9] Kitty and her twin sister, Mimi, have their birthday on November 1.[10][11] Since the cartoon character's creation, Hello Kitty has become a media franchise including a product line, clothing apparel, toy-line, manga comics, anime series, popular music, games, and other media.
Shortly after her creation in 1974, the Hello Kitty vinyl coin purse was introduced by Sanrio on March 5, 1975. Sanrio brought the character to the United States in 1976.[12][13] Hello Kitty is a staple of the kawaii segment of Japanese popular culture.[14] By 2010, Sanrio had groomed Hello Kitty into a global marketing phenomenon,[15] worth US$6 billion a year.[16] By 2014, when Hello Kitty was 40 years old, she was worth about $8 billion a year.[17] As of 2019, Hello Kitty is the second highest-grossing media franchise of all time (behind Pokémon), having generated $80 billion in lifetime retail sales.[18]
First aimed at pre-teenage girls, Hello Kitty's market included adolescent and adult consumers. A variety of products ranging from school supplies to fashion accessories feature this character. Several Hello Kitty TV series, targeted towards children, have been produced, as well as several manga comics and anime films. There are Sanrio theme parks based on Hello Kitty: Harmonyland in Hiji, Ōita, Japan,[19] Sanrio Puroland in Tama New Town, Tokyo, Japan, and a former one, Sanrio Hello Kitty Town in Iskandar Puteri, Johor, Malaysia.[20][21]‘
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