Hello Kitty English Friends

Hello Kitty (Haro- Kiti, Hello Kitty?) is the most well-known of many fictional characters produced by the Japanese company Sanrio.
Hello Kitty was created in 1974 by the Sanrio Company of Japan in Tokyo, Japan. Registered in 1976, Hello Kitty is now a globally known
trademark.

Hello Kitty was originally to be named “Kitty White” (from one of the cats that Alice kept in the book Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis
Carroll), due to British culture being popular among Japanese girls at the time of her inception. However, this name was not adopted.
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.

Several Hello Kitty anime targeted towards young children have been produced.

In the animated films made by Sanrio from 1977 to 1985, Hello Kitty has made cameo appearances in them (similar to Disney’s hidden Mickey techniques).
The earliest Hello Kitty anime series known was the American-animated (co-produced with Japan) Hello Kitty’s Furry Tale Theatre, which aired throughout 1987.
This show, produced by Sanrio in cooperation with DiC, parodies various famous fairy tales and blockbuster movies from the period.[5] It was broadcast in
the United States on The Family Channel, and a Spanish-dubbed version also aired Saturday mornings on Univision.

On USA television, the Japanese anime series Hello Kitty and Friends aired on CBS in 1991, and also ran on Toon Disney. On the show, Kitty is depicted as
a little girl who lives with her mother, father, and twin sister Mimmy, who is identical to Kitty but has different colored clothes and wears her bow under
the opposite ear. 13 episodes were produced, using animation produced as early as 1991.

On Japanese television, Hello Kitty (and pals) have starred in at least one anime series of their own. Hello Kitty’s Paradise ran for 16 episodes between
1993 and 1994. This version was released in English in 2000. This version, like “Hello Kitty and Friends”, also aired on Toon Disney.

Hello Kitty and friends also appeared in Hello Kitty’s Animation Theatre, which had Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters appearing in their versions
of different fairy tales. Available in the U.S. from ADV Films (who also own the video/DVD rights to Hello Kitty and Friends & Hello Kitty’s Paradise)

Since 2004 the little cat has been featured on a MasterCard debit card from Legend Credit Inc. The card was released to teach young girls how to shop and
use a debit card.

In 2006, it was announced Hello Kitty will be appearing in a new Japanese clay-animated series called Hello Kitty’s Stump Village from Sanrio. At Anime
Expo 2006, Geneon Entertainment announced that Hello Kitty’s Stump Village was one of the series it licensed for U.S. release. Volume 1 was released in
October, and Volume 2 was released in January.