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Hello Kitty is NOT a Cat! - Twitchin Kitten - 08-28-2014
I had no idea. Those crazy Japanese!
Hello Kitty is not a cat - she's a British school kid <-- clicky for full story
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The facts
Name: Kitty White
Blood Group: A
Birthday: 1 November
Weight: About three apples
Hobbies: Baking, origami, making friends, collecting cute things
Motto: You can never have too many friends
By Amelia Butterly
Newsbeat reporter
28 August 2014
Last updated at 07:46
After all, she does kind of look like one - and she is called Kitty.
But her creators Sanrio are adamant. She is a British school kid called Kitty White and she lives just outside London (although no-one is saying exactly where).
In fact, she has a whole life story and a family that includes a twin sister called Mimmy.
Although Sanrio has a whole website dedicated to Kitty's biography, her appearance has suggested that she is animal rather than human - an assumption that also fooled Christine R Yano.
She is an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii and is curating an exhibition about the cartoon character.
"That's one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show. Hello Kitty is not a cat," she told the LA Times.
"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."
Yano claims a lot of people don't know Kitty's really a person and that many of her fans who are aware "don't care".
And the reason Kitty is British?
"Hello Kitty emerged in the 1970s, when the Japanese and Japanese women were into Britain," said Yano.
"They loved the idea of Britain. It represented the quintessential idealized childhood, almost like a white picket fence.
"So the biography was created exactly for the tastes of that time."
So now you know - Hello Kitty lives in the suburbs of London, is approximately five apples tall and was born on 1 November. And she's certainly not a cat.
RE: Hello Kitty is NOT a Cat! - Twitchin Kitten - 08-28-2014
And a different take on the explanation.
I still say she's a cat.
http://kotaku.com/dont-be-silly-hello-kitty-is-a-cat-1627820750
RE: Hello Kitty is NOT a Cat! - LKTraz - 08-30-2014
Why is anyone even arguing about this?
The only picking point here is that "Hello Kitty" isn't the character's name. Kitty White is the main character in the Hello Kitty franchise.
That aside.........I guess that people have nothing better to discuss.
RE: Hello Kitty is NOT a Cat! - Twitchin Kitten - 08-30-2014
* Twitchin Kitten is still waiting for twist to chime in with, "I'd hit that" for those girls.
RE: Hello Kitty is NOT a Cat! - LKTraz - 08-30-2014
(08-30-2014, 10:38 AM)Twitchin Kitten Wrote: * Twitchin Kitten is still waiting for twist to chime in with, "I'd hit that" for those girls.
He hasn't seen the post yet.
RE: Hello Kitty is NOT a Cat! - Medicine Woman - 03-10-2015
I'd hit that.
RE: Hello Kitty is NOT a Cat! - Twitchin Kitten - 03-10-2015
LOL @ Medicine Woman.
twist - he beat you to it.
RE: Hello Kitty is NOT a Cat! - twisteroo - 03-10-2015
Wait, Medicine Woman is a guy?!?!?
RE: Hello Kitty is NOT a Cat! - AnthonyG - 03-11-2015
Dont worry twist I thought the same thing, until he started posting and realized otherwise. Anyway, back on topic I would smash those Asian girls too minus their wigs.
RE: Hello Kitty is NOT a Cat! - Twitchin Kitten - 03-11-2015
You guys catch on quick. How long has he been a member? oy