About Me
Hello Kitty
Born: 1974
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Best Known As: Popular blank-faced Japanese cartoon cat
Hello Kitty is the popular cartoon character created in 1974 by the Sanrio Company of Japan.
Hello Kitty is a twinkling-eyed cartoonish character which is invented and promoted by a Japanese campany called Sanrio in 1974.
Sanrio is famous for their adorable and cute cartoon characters, which Hello Kitty is one of them along with others such as Keroppi, Melody...etc.
This line of cute little characters soon attracted millions of people around the world, first started in the US then spread very quickly to the Asian countries, then the rest of the world.
Hello Kitty is the most successful out of all the Sanrio characters.
Hello Kitty is a white, mouthless female kitten who lives in a seemingly perfect world.
Kind, friendly and impossibly cute, she offers advice like "Hello Kitty says be yourself!"
Although Sanrio had been producing Hello Kitty products since the 1970s, in the mid-1980s Hello Kitty mania swelled and she became one of the most prominent and recognizable Japanese characters on Earth, found on everything from handbags to bath towels.
Hello Kitty was given an English name (Kitty White) because British culture was popular with Japanese girls when she was created (though the name is rarely used in popular culture).
Kitty's name came from one of the cats that Alice kept in the book Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll.
When Hello Kitty's boyfriend "Dear Daniel" was created in 1999, designers took his name from the 1971 film, Melody, which starred Mark Lester as a character called Daniel and features songs by the Bee Gees.
Hello Kitty's fictional world includes a whole array of friends and family members.
Since 2004 she has even had a pet cat of her own called Charmmy Kitty and a pet hamster called Sugar.
Charmmy resembles Hello Kitty but has more cat-like features.
Charmmy Kitty was given to Hello Kitty by her father, George White, and Sugar by Dear Daniel.
Hello Kitty has produced different products all around the world, in which they include wallets, watches, clothing, fabrics, Polaroid camera, portable cd players/steros, hankerchiefs, different stationaries, cutlerys, lunchboxes, puppets, the list goes on and on.
In Japan, the car company Mira also built a Hello Kitty car, even Hello Kitty cellular phones are available.
About Hello Kitty (character):
Hello Kitty was born on November 1st 1974, in suburban London, England.
She is very energetic and loves to play outdoors, in the park or forest. But you can also find her happily practicing on the piano or baking a cake, too!
Kitty lives in London, England with her mother, Mary, dad, George, and twin sister Mimmy. Kitty is curious whereas Mimmy is shy.
Hello Kitty symbolizes generosity, innocence, kindness and most importantly... friendship.
Her friends are Cathy, Tippy, Joey, Jodie, Fifi, Tracy, Tiny Chum, Rory, Mory, Tim and Tommy. Both Hello Kitty and Mimi are in 3rd grade. They have many friends at school and, together, they share many adventures. When school's out Hello Kitty travels the world making new friends.
Her generosity and kindness endear her to everyone she meets. Her favorite thing is do tea parties and her hobbies include music, reading, eating the cookies her mother bakes, and best of all making new friends. Like she says "You can never have too many friends."
She weighs the same as 3 apples.
