User talk:Kittyandmimmy

== Kittyandmimmys User Subpage 2. ==

Okay, I know it's pretty mean to have 2 user subpgs, but this one is different. For a start, I won't include a rules page (but the same rules apply) and I will print a sponsered artical every week about things I like. Like now: Hello Kitty (ハローキティ, Harō Kiti?), full name "Kitty White",[1] is the best-known of many fictional characters produced by the Japanese company Sanrio. Hello Kitty is a very simply drawn character who was created in 1974 by the Sanrio Company in Tokyo, Japan. Registered in 1976, Hello Kitty is now a globally known trademark.

When Hello Kitty's brother "Dear Fredward Lynn" was created in 1999, designers took his name from the 1971 film Melody, which starred Mark Lester as a character called Matty Boy and features songs by the Bee Gees.

Hello Kitty Kat's fictional world includes a whole array of friends and family members. Hello Kitty is also friends with other famous Sanrio characters, such as Cinnamoroll, Chococat Badtz Maru and others. 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 papa, George White, Mama, Mary White, her twin sister, Mimi, and her grandparents, Anthony and Margret White.

Hello Kitty has been marketed in the United States from the beginning and has held the position of U.S. children's ambassador for UNICEF since 1983. The brand rose to greater prominence during the late 1990s when several celebrities such as Mariah Carey adopted Hello Kitty as a fashion statement. New products featuring the character can be found in virtually any American department store and Hello Kitty was once featured in an advertising campaign of the retail chain Target.

Many American celebrities have contributed to the character's popularity: Ricky Martin[citation needed], Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Cameron Diaz, Heidi Klum, Kimora Lee, Steven Tyler, Christina Aguilera, Carmen Electra, Mandy Moore, Raven-Symoné, Miley Cyrus, Varla Jean Merman, as well as Paris and Nicky Hilton have all been spotted with Hello Kitty. Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton was also spotted with a Hello Kitty handbag while doing a video blog with Ross Mathews. Singer Lisa Loeb, who is marketing the pink Hello Kitty guitar, has admitted to being a fan and has even dedicated a whole album in homage to Hello Kitty named Hello Lisa.

Contents [hide] 1 Hello Kitty as a character 2 Inspiration 3 Cultural references 4 Hello Kitty Online 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Hello Kitty as a character

Hello Kitty being hugged.Several Hello Kitty animated series 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 animated series known was the American-animated (co-produced with Japan) Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theatre, which aired throughout 1986. This show, produced by Sanrio in cooperation with DiC Entertainment, parodies various famous fairy tales and blockbuster movies from the period. It was broadcast in the United States on The Family Channel, and a Spanish-dubbed version also aired Saturday mornings on Univision.

On U.S. 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 Mimi, 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 and in 2008 Hello Kitty appeared for the first time in a full 3D animation entitled the Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends developed by Sanrio's digital entertainment entity Sanrio Digital.

Also in 2008 contemporary artists Martin Sastre provoked the encounter of a Hello Kitty Nun and Madonna in London for The Martin Sastre Foundation campaign Adopt a Latin Artist". [2]

[edit] Inspiration Some claim that Hello Kitty was inspired by Miffy, or Nijntje in Dutch, created by the Dutch artist Dick Bruna in 1955.[who?] And some others claim that Hello Kitty was inspired by Musti, created by graphic artist Ray Goossens in 1945.[who?] Musti is a little cat, living with his mother and father in a little house in a rural village, surrounded by a large garden with animals and trees.

[edit] Cultural references

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (July 2008) 

Hello Kitty is referenced in several television shows, including The Office, The Simpsons,The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Futurama, South Park, Grey's Anatomy, Danny Phantom, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, Robot Chicken, Will & Grace, Zoey 101, Gilmore Girls, NewsRadio, King of Queens and The Big Bang Theory.

The webcomics The Order of the Stick and Achewood also reference Hello Kitty.

The band Goons of Doom created a song entitled "Hello Kitty", presumably relating to the character. Similarly, the band Awaken mentions Hello Kitty in their song "Beppu Nights". Hello Kitty is also referenced in the Too Short song "Burn Rubber" and the song "Amity" from Elliott Smith's album XO. Dave Navarro performed a reunion concert with The Red Hot Chili Peppers as a homage to Hello Kitty, and played a Hello Kitty guitar given to him by Hello Kitty herself.[citation needed] Singer Lisa Loeb has a Hello Kitty Stratocaster guitar, and is featured on the American Sanrio website.[citation needed]

The After Dark screensaver "Hall of Fame", which features several famous After Dark characters portrayed as anime characters, shows an image of Bad Dog that looks like Hello Kitty. Mariah Carey is shown showing off her Hello Kitty themed bathroom on her episode of "MTV Cribs".

Gaia Online features a plushie of a white cat called the KiKi Kitty, as well as a black version called CoCo Kitty, and the game Destroy All Humans! 2 mentions a parody of Hello Kitty called 'Hiya Pussy'.

In Jon Stewart's book America: The Book, a page about Japan labels the Prime Minister and national flower with a Hello Kitty face.

As of August 2007, Thai police officers who have committed minor transgressions such as showing up late or parking in the wrong place will be forced to wear Hello Kitty armbands for several days as penance.[3]

The comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm lampooned Hello Kitty in a line of strips from April 7 to April 12, 2008. In this series, Hello Kitty is portrayed as an overexposed celebrity in the mold of Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan.

[edit] Hello Kitty Online A planned Sanrio themed MMORPG, Hello Kitty Online, is currently in beta testing. The developers are SanrioDigital and Typhoon Games. After creating an account, one can make a character and customize them. In addition to fighting monsters and socializing, one can mine for ores, farm, cook, etc. Quests are a part of the game, being able to meet other Sanrio characters as well. Pets and housing have been implemented too. Among the first to play the game have been hard-core World of Warcraft gamers. [4]

[edit] References ^ "サンリオキャラクターたちの本名、言えますか？" (in Japanese) (2008-07-11). Retrieved on 2008-07-11. ^ http://backseatcuddler.com/2008/05/17/hello-kitty-has-a-message-for-madonna/ ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6932801.stm ^ World of Warcraft invades Hello Kitty Online

[edit] External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hello KittyWikinews has related news: Thai police to wear 'Hello Kitty' armbands as punishmentOfficial Hello Kitty website (Japanese) - Official English Hello Kitty website Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Kitty"

Bye, Again, from Kittyandmimmy (talk) 13:44, 20 February 2008 (UTC)Kittyandmimmy.