History Franchise / HelloKitty

Contrary to popular belief, she ''does'' have a mouth, it's just like Comicstrip/{{Dilbert}}'s: very small and not drawn often. Usually. [[http://www.prattle.net/prattlepix/kitty-mouth.jpg It's more commonly seen when she's animated,]] just like Dilbert's.

* ''Kitty and Mimmy's New Umbrella'', a 24 minute stop-motion short released in March 1981 which marked [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQQfjwSq_hg&t=946s Hello Kitty's animation debut]]. It's also Sanrio's first ever animated project focused on a Sanrio character. Some home video releases would pair this with ''Unico: Black Cloud and White Feather'' (which was also Manga/{{Unico}}'s animation debut).

* SantasExistenceClause: The ChristmasEpisode of ''Hello Kitty and Friends'', titled "Santa's Missing Hat", has Kitty and Mimi get into an argument with their friends over whether Santa exists. Then the hat on their school's Santa decoration gets blown off, and Kitty and Mimi get lost as they go out to find it. Santa appears to them and gives them a magic reindeer sled toy to get back home; they meet their friends after Christmas Eve mass and tell them what happened, but they still don't believe Santa is real until they see him flying in his sleigh that night.

* An [[https://deadline.com/2021/03/hello-kitty-movie-directors-jennifer-coyle-leo-matsuda-new-line-1234704997/ upcoming live-action/CGI hybrid film]] by Creator/WarnerBrothers, Creator/NewlineCinema, Flynn Pictures Company. Warner Brothers alongside Newline Cinema also have the film rights to future works starring Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters.

* AdultFear: One of the Japan-only ''Hello Kitty & Friends'' episodes, called ''Hello Kitty no Shiawase no Tulip'', has Kitty running out to the street to get a ball and almost getting ran over.

* PottyEmergency: In "Going to the Bathroom" from ''Growing Up with Hello Kitty''. Her PottyFailure is not onscreen, but you can tell because in the next scene, her clothes are in the washer. Mimmy and Fifi only do the first, as both go to the bathroom when they need to.

** ''Furry Tale Theater''. Hoo boy. The only Hello Kitty series to have a set of villains, and the stories are compressed version of films like StarWars and Film/{{ET}}.

* ''Kitty and Mimmy's New Umbrella'', a 24 minute stop-motion short released in March 1981 which marked Hello Kitty's animation debut. It's also Sanrio's first ever animated project focused on a Sanrio character. Some home video releases would pair this with ''Unico: Black Cloud and White Feather'' (which was also Manga/{{Unico}}'s animation debut).

* ''Kitty and Mimmy's New Umbrella'', a 24 minute stop-motion short which marked Hello Kitty's animation debut. It's also Sanrio's first ever animated project focused on a Sanrio character. Some home video releases would pair this with ''Unico: Black Cloud and White Feather'' (which was also Manga/{{Unico}}'s animation debut).

* An [[https://deadline.com/2021/03/hello-kitty-movie-directors-jennifer-coyle-leo-matsuda-new-line-1234704997/ upcoming live-action/CGI hybrid film]] by Warner Brothers, Newline Cinema Flynn Pictures Company. Warner Brothers alongside Newline Cinema also have the film rights to future works starring Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters.

* FurryDenial: It has been stated by her creator that Kitty isn't an actual cat, but a little girl... Who looks like a cat.

* ImplausibleDeniability: Somehow, she is ''[[http://www.people.com/article/hello-kitty-not-a-cat not a cat]]'' simply because she [[FunnyAnimal doesn't walk around on all fours.]]

** Kitty will appear in ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall Banana Mania'' as a DLC playable character.

* FunnyAnimal: Technically subverted, as WordOfGod is that she's just a girl who looks like a cat rather than an actual anthropomorphic cat.

* ''Hello Kitty's Paradise'', a series of animated shorts that originally aired in 2000 as a part of the children's block of the same name in Japan.

* ''Daisuki! Hello Kitty'', Sanrio's first children's block which aired on TV Tokyo between 1993 and early 1994. It mainly consisted of programs starring Puroland/Harmonyland mascots.

** ''Loving Life with Hello Kitty & Friends'' (2011), a Nintendo DS game.

** ''Loving Life with Hello Kitty & Friends'' (2011), a Nintendo DS game [[MarthDebutedInSmashBros which also marked the western debut of the]] [[Toys/{{Jewelpet}} Jewelpets (Ruby, Garnet, and Sapphie)]].

* Kitty has starred in various Sanrio [=OVAs=] in both the '80s and the '90s. 13 of these [=OVAs=], including two from the ''Sanrio World Masterpiece Theater'', would air in the US and Canada as a TV series called ''Hello Kitty & Friends''. These were released in Video and DVD in Japan.

** Most of Kitty's friends and classmates have suffered from this in recent years. Special mention goes to Kathy, a bunny character who was accused of being a ripoff of ''Literature/{{Miffy}}''. Her only notable animated appearance is in the 90s ''Hello Kitty & Friends'' specials. She has been slowly phased out and replaced with Daisy, another bunny character who is much smaller than Kitty and usually wears similar clothes to her in merch. It doesn't help that Daisy gets frequently mistaken for Kathy.

** ''Loving Life with Hello Kitty & Friends'' (2011), a Nintendo DS game [[MarthDebutedInSmashBros which also marked the western debut of the]] [[Franchise/{{Jewelpet}} Jewelpets (Ruby, Garnet, and Sapphie)]].

** Most of Kitty's friends and classmates have suffered from this in recent years. Special mention goes to Kathy, a bunny character who was accused of being a ripoff of ''Literature/{{Miffy}}''. Her only appearance is in the 90s ''Hello Kitty & Friends'' specials. [[note]] Although she occasionally appeared in artwork for ''Ringo no Mori'' but not the actual anime itself. [[/note]] She has been slowly phased out and replaced with Daisy, another bunny character who is much smaller than Kitty and usually wears similar clothes to her in merch. It doesn't help that Daisy gets frequently mistaken for Kathy.

* ''Hello Kitty's Paradise'', a children's variety series. It aired in Japan between 1999 and 2011. The animated shorts from the third season were dubbed in English and released in North America under the same title.

* ''Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori'', a series about Kitty and Mimmy's adventures in the apple forest. It had three seasons called Fantasy, Mystery, and Parallel Town respectively. It originally aired between 2006 and 2008 in Japan and received various European dubs.

** Most of Kitty's friends and classmates have suffered from this in recent years. Special mention goes to Kathy, a bunny character who was accused of being a ripoff of ''Literature/{{Miffy}}''. Her only appearance is in the 90s ''Hello Kitty & Friends'' specials. [[note]] Although she occasionally appeared in box art for ''Ringo no Mori'' but not the actual anime itself. [[/note]] She has been slowly phased out and replaced with Daisy, another bunny character who is smaller than Kitty and usually wears similar clothes to her in merch. It doesn't help that Daisy gets frequently mistaken for Kathy.
** Pretty much every character who wasn't Kitty, Mimmy in the ''Ringo no Mori'' series have fallen under this trope.

** Most of Kitty's friends and classmates have suffered from this in recent years. Special mention goes to Kathy, a bunny character who was accused of being a ripoff of ''Franchise/{{Miffy}}''. Her only appearance is in the 90s ''Hello Kitty & Friends'' specials. [[notes Although she occasionally appeared in box art for ''Ringo no Mori'' but not the actual anime itself. [[/notes]] She has been slowly phased out and replaced with Daisy, another bunny character who is smaller than Kitty and usually wears similar clothes to her in merch. It doesn't help that Daisy gets frequently mistaken for Kathy.

* ''Hello Kitty's Paradise'', a children's variety series. It aired in Japan between 1999 and 2011. The animated shorts from the third season were dubbed in English and released in North America.
* ''Hello Kitty Stump Village'', a 2005 StopMotion Japanese/South Korean co-production. What sets it from other series starring Kitty is that there is [[VoiceGrunting no dialogue between the characters]]; instead a narrator describes the events of the episodes
* ''Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori'', a series about Kitty and Mimmy's adventures in the apple forest. It had three seasons called Fantasy, Mystery, and Parallel Town respectively. It originally aired between 2006 and 2008 in Japan. The third and final season, Parallel Town, was dubbed in Spanish, Italian, and Arabic.

* NoMouth: Subverted, Kitty's mouth does usually pop up in animation.
** Played straight in ''Ringo no Mori'', ''The Adventures of...'' and ''Supercute Adventures''