Hello Kitty

Hello Kitty (ハローキティ, Harō Kitī), also known by her full name, Kitty White (キティ・ホワイト, Kitī Howaito), is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, created by Yuko Shimizu, and designed by Yuko Yamaguchi. She is a perpetual 3rd-grade student who lives outside of London. Kitty and her twin sister, Mimi, celebrate their birthday on 1 November 1974.

Why She Rocks

 * 1) Similar to Pikachu, Hello Kitty is often considered a fan favourite amongst the Sanrio brand, mostly because of how cute she looks.
 * 2) She is a very nice and caring person to everyone around her, and unlike Peppa Pig, who encourages bad behaviour towards friends and family, Hello Kitty on the other hand actually encourages kids to be nice and caring to others.
 * 3) *She is shown to have a healthy relationship with her twin sister Mimmy, which is most notable in most of the anime cartoons.
 * 4) *She also is very caring towards her friends too, the best example of this is her relationship with My Melody.
 * 5) **Furthermore, she is a great role model for children and a great influence towards them as she can teach children to be kind and caring to their friends and family.
 * 6) Her design is very well done, it's a pretty simple design, but is also pretty cute to look at and is also iconic, the simple design is done quite well as it can make people identify the fact that it is Hello Kitty if they ever saw her by looking at her face.
 * 7) She never resorts to getting angry and worked up whenever a problem gets in her way, and she always tries to fix that problem no matter what.
 * 8) She manages to avoid coming across as a complete Mary Sue in a few cartoons that she's presented in.
 * 9) *An example of this is shown in "Growing Up With Hello Kitty", where in each episode, she ends up learning life lessons.
 * 10) Not only is she one of the most popular characters in Japan, but she is also one of the most popular characters of all time.
 * 11) *In fact, her brand is currently the second highest grossing media franchise of all time.
 * 12) She has even made some appearances in video games, some games include I Wanna Be the Boshy, mh:awesomegames:Super Mario Maker and Sonic Dash.
 * 13) She has had crossovers with other pieces of media, such as mh:greatestmovies:Ready Player One, Animal Crossing, Splatoon Sonic the Hedgehog and Gundam in Gundam vs. Hello Kitty.
 * 14) Many of the actors who portray her in the cartoons all do great jobs at voicing her.
 * 15) *What is quite interesting is that Tara Strong actually had Hello Kitty as her first ever major voice role in Hello Kitty’s Furry Tale Theater.
 * 16) Her character does not only appeal to children, but also to adults too.
 * 17) As shown in Gundam vs. Hello Kitty, she hates the idea of people fighting with each other, and she always tries to stop the fight.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) As cute as her design may be, the lack of a mouth can be kind of unsettling for some viewers.
 * 2) *Though, her creator has stated that the reason that Hello Kitty has no mouth is because it makes the person who sees her project their own emotion onto Hello Kitty.
 * 3) *However, some cartoons have Hello Kitty have a mouth in them.
 * 4) Despite what we said earlier about her not being a Mary Sue in a few cartoons she is presented in, she can be treated as a Mary Sue in a few other cartoons she is in.
 * 5) Her crying voice can admittedly be quite annoying.
 * 6) Much like Pikachu, she has faced some controversies:
 * 7) *The Dutch artist Dick Bruna, creator of The Dutch artist Dick Bruna, creator of Miffy, has suggested that Hello Kitty is a copy of Miffy, being rendered in a similar style, stating disapprovingly in an interview for the British paper "The Daily Telegraph".

Reception

 * Hello Kitty is one of the most popular fictional characters in the world, and is a universally loved character due to her cute design and caring attitude.

Trivia

 * Hello Kitty is one of the most popular fictional characters in the world, and her brand is currently the second highest grossing franchise of all time.
 * Despite having Kitty in her name and her looking like a cat, the creator has actually stated that Hello Kitty is in fact not a cat at all.
 * Due to her popularity, she has been referenced in tons of other pieces of media:
 * She has been most notable referenced a few times in some episodes of The Simpsons, a few examples include the "Hello Kitty factory" in "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", Marge replacing all of Bart's trophies with items from the Hello Kitty expansion in "Marge Gamer" and Marge saying her line "What the Hello Kitty?!" in "Homer's Paternity Coot".
 * Robot Chicken has made a few sketches involving Hello Kitty in them, these include "Enter the Fat One", which has Hello Kitty fighting Joey Fatone as a part of Joey's training, and "Straight From Hello Kitty's Mouth", which has Hello Kitty throwing up a furball.