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7Hello Kitty is a long running CashCowFranchise mascot in Japan.
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9Created by Yuko Shimizu and licensed by Creator/{{Sanrio}}, this little cat has been marketed in America just as long as she has been in Japan. For many non-Japanese, this was some of the first tastes of anime [[SuperDeformed chibi]] art. Unlike American cartoon animal mascots (like [[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} Snoopy]], Franchise/{{Garfield}}, or Franchise/MickeyMouse), she ''started out'' as a marketing icon, with actual media (including quite a few cartoons and VideoGames, including an MMORPG) all coming later.
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11Contrary to popular belief, she ''does'' have a mouth, it's just like Comicstrip/{{Dilbert}}'s: very small and not drawn often. Usually. It's more commonly seen when she's animated, just like Dilbert's.
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13One explanation given by Sanrio spokespeople for why she doesn't have a mouth is because they want people to "project their feelings onto the character" and "be happy or sad together with Hello Kitty." The other explanation given by Sanrio for being depicted without a visual mouth is that she speaks from the heart; as Sanrio's goodwill ambassador to the world, she isn't bound to any particular language.
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15One of the most heavily merchandised things on the planet, creating all forms of insane craze in Singapore and Philippines when Hello Kitty dolls were attached to Happy Meals. Strangely enough, [[ButNotTooForeign her biography states that she was born and raised in London]]. Then again, the character was originally a British fashion label. At the time of her creation, foreign countries like the UK were trendy in Japan, so her backstory depicted her as a 3rd grade student living outside London.
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17In Japan, she has {{merchandising}} all over the place ([[PinkProductPloy usually pink]]), including {{Fairytale Wedding Dress}}es. Think this is a joke? See [[http://www.kittyhell.com/2009/11/23/hello-kitty-wedding-dress/ here]].
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21[[folder:Her works]]
22[[AC: AnimeAndManga]]
23* ''Kitty to Mimi no Atarashii Kasa'' (''Kitty and Mimmy's New Umbrella'' in English), 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 ''[[Anime/UnicoBlackCloudAndWhiteFeather Unico: Black Cloud and White Feather]]'' (which was also Manga/{{Unico}}'s animation debut).
24* Kitty has starred in various Sanrio [=OVAs=] in both the '80s and the '90s. 13 of these [=OVAs=], including two from the Sanrio Anime Festival, would air in the US and Canada as a TV series called ''Hello Kitty & Friends''. These were released in Video and DVD in Japan.
25* Kitty and her sister Mimmy are supporting characters in the 1990 [=OVA=] ''Sam and Chip's Great Messy Race''. The film stars Tuxedo Sam and Chip racing against various Sanrio characters with Dachonosuke as the main announcer.
26* ''Hello Kitty to Issho'', a series of educational videos made between 1994 and 1998. 12 episodes were dubbed into English and released as a two-part DVD called ''Growing Up with Hello Kitty'' in 2011. It's actually both reasonably good and fairly well-reviewed, and employs tropes such as GoodAngelBadAngel as part of its stories.
27* ''Hello Kitty's Paradise'', a series of animated shorts that originally aired between 1999 and 2000 as a part of the children's block of the same name in Japan.
28* ''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.
29* ''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 aired between 2006 and 2008 in Japan.
30* ''The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends'', an AllCGICartoon produced by Sanrio Digital and Hong Kong company Dream Cortex in 2008. Like ''Growing Up with Hello Kitty'', it was also about teaching kids life lessons. It was promoted frequently on the [=SanrioTown=] website.
31* ''Kiti to Issho ni Manabi, Kangaete Iku'', another educational series. It was streamed on Hikari TV in Japan in 2017. An English dub was released in 2018 on DVD by Sentai Filmworks under the name of ''Hello Kitty and Friends: Let's Learn Together''.
32* In 2017, Sanrio created a new children's block called ''Sanrio Characters: Ponpon Jump''. It included two anime series named ''Hello Kitty to Pinky to Rio no Fushigina Kagi no Himitsu'' and ''Hello Kitty to Pinky to Rio no Youkoso! Ponpon Town''. Both were animated in 3D and introduced two new characters named Pinkylilrose and Rioskypeace.
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34[[AC: Live-Action Film]]
35* 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, and Flynn Pictures Company. Warner Brothers alongside Newline Cinema also have the film rights to future works starring Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters.
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38* ''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 various Sanrio Characters as their appeared at Sanrio Puroland/Harmonyland.
39* ''Asubou! Hello Kitty'' which was a continuation of ''Daisuki!'' and featured similar programs.
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42* Her own series of video games, including:
43** ''Hello Kitty no Hanabatake'' and ''Hello Kitty World'' (1992) for the Famicom
44** ''Hello Kitty no Tanoshii Butoukai'' (1993) for the Sega Pico
45** ''Hello Kitty: Big Fun Deluxe'' (1994) for Windows 3.x systems
46** ''Hello Kitty's Cube Frenzy'', also known as ''Hello Kitty's Cube de Cute'' in Japan, for the [=GameBoy=] Color (July 1998) and Playstation (1999)
47** ''Fairy Kitty no Kaiun Jiten: Yousei no Kuni no Uranai Shugyou'' (December 1998), ''Hello Kitty no Sweet Adventure: Daniel-kun ni Aitai'' (July 2000), ''Hello Kitty to Dear Daniel no Dream Adventure'' (April 2001), ''Hello Kitty no Happy House'' (2002), for the [=GameBoy=] Color.
48** The ''Simple 1500'' series of games - ''Hello Kitty Bowling'', ''Hello Kitty Illistration Puzzle'', ''Hello Kitty Trump'' and ''Hello Kitty Block Kuzushi'' (2001) for the Playstation
49** ''Hello Kitty: Miracle Fashion Maker'' (October 2001) and ''Hello Kitty: Happy Party Pals'' (October 2005) for the [=GameBoy=] Advance
50** ''VideoGame/HelloKittyRollerRescue'' for the [=GameCube=] in North America, Playstation 2 in Japan and Europe, Xbox for Southeast Asia, and the PC in Europe
51** ''Hello Kitty Online'', an MMORPG that was created in 2009, but stopped updating in 2012 and shut down in 2017.
52** ''Hello Kitty Seasons'' (2010) for the Wii
53** ''Loving Life with Hello Kitty & Friends'' (2011), a Nintendo DS game. Notable for featuring Ruby, Garnet, and Sapphie from the [[Toys/{{Jewelpet}} Jewelpet franchise]] [[MarthDebutedInSmashBros making their western debut.]]
54** ''Hello Kitty Kruisers'' for the Wii U, iOS software, and the Nintendo Switch.
55** ''VideoGame/HelloKittyIslandAdventure'' for Apple Arcade.
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57* ''O Mundo da Hello Kitty'', an animated web series co-produced with Brazilian studio Plot Kids and originally uploaded on Sanrio's Latin American Youtube channels between 2016 and 2019. A version dubbed in English is currently streaming on Sanrio's Southeast Asian channels.
58* ''WebAnimation/HelloKittyAndFriendsSupercuteAdventures'', another web cartoon starring Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters. It is currently ongoing and can be watched on the official Hello Kitty & Friends Youtube channel. Notable for being the first Hello Kitty series originally dubbed in English since ''The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends''.
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61* ''WesternAnimation/HelloKittysFurryTaleTheater'' ran for 13 episodes back in '87. The series was also the only western-produced work featuring Hello Kitty and other Sanrio Characters until March 2019, when Sanrio alongside Creator/WarnerBrothers, Creator/NewLineCinema, and Flynn Pictures Company announced on making a English language Hello Kitty movie (New Line Cinema and Flynn Pictures Company also has the movie rights to other Sanrio Characters). This show made the voice acting debut of Creator/TaraStrong.
62* ''Hello Kitty: Super Style!'', a 3D animated series released on [[Creator/AmazonStudios Amazon Kids+]] on December 2022. The series is 52 episodes and a [[InternationalCoProduction French and Italian co-production]], with Music/CarlyRaeJepsen singing the theme song.
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65!! Tropes Exhibited by Hello Kitty Herself:
66* AccidentalGoodOutcome: In a cartoon that's a parody of ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'', Kitty as Alice bawls OcularGushers after she's unable to reach the key to unlock the exit door. [[CryingARiver Her tears flood the room]] and the pressure of the water forces the door open, thus allowing her to get outside.
67* ActionGirl: Kitty is very fond of this, as contrast to Mimmy's GirlyGirl.
68* AnnoyinglyRepetitiveChild: In "Sleeping by Ourselves", the kitten twins (especially Kitty) annoy their parents by demanding more and more bedtime stories. Upon overhearing the father tell the mother not to stay up too late, they decide to drop the habit and read their own bedtime stories instead.
69* ArtEvolution: Her design evolves within each generation. Her current design is done by Yuko Yamaguchi.
70* BigWhat: Hello Kitty reacts to this in "Going To The Bathroom", when finding out Fifi went home.
71-->'''Mimmy:''' Fifi went home, Kitty. She says maybe we can play later.\
72'''Kitty:''' [[BigWhat WHAT?!]] Ah!!
73* CreatorsCultureCarryover: Kitty is supposed to be British and living in London, but many official works and merchandise show her engaging in American and Japanese cultural traditions, such as wearing a kimono during New Years', celebrating Independence Day and Thanksgiving, etc. [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent English dubs of Kitty's anime give her an American accent instead of a British one]].
74* {{Crossover}}: A few plushies have Kitty dress up as famous fictional characters like [[Manga/OnePiece Tony Tony Chopper]] (Likewise, there's a plushie of Chopper wearing a HK hat), [[Franchise/StreetFighter Chun-Li, Akuma]], [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka Langley Soryu]], [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog]]...
75** Not to mention the (in)famous HK X Music/{{Kiss}} merch line.
76** Creator/TakarazukaRevue + Hello Kitty + [[Theatre/{{Elisabeth}} a dark, depressing musical about Austrian historical figures]] that got the LighterAndSofter treatment = Hello Kitty in Crown Prince Rudolf's [[https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Be8Buv7iMwI/UG1TlrFWMwI/AAAAAAAACOo/rHZuIXASS6M/s640/blogger-image-1747711795.jpg costume.]] For the anniversary of the Mayerling Incident, which was the date [[spoiler: Rudolf killed himself and his 17-year-old mistress Mary Vetsera in a MurderSuicide pact.]] Fun.
77** To celebrate its 45th anniversary alongside ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'s'' 40th anniversary, Sunrise animated 3 short episodes of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZxZtc_Sdzw Kitty interacting with Amuro Ray.]]
78** Kitty appears in ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall Banana Mania'' as a DLC playable character.
79* DarkerAndEdgier: The [=OVA=]s that were released in the '90s had a lot of recognition over the character's development. Some of them go to the line on Kitty and Mimmy barging into adult matters.
80** ''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 ''Franchise/StarWars'' and Film/{{ET}}.
81** The crossover merchandise with rock band Kiss could very well count, when compared to typical Hello Kitty merchandise.
82* DemotedToExtra: Mimmy gets very little merchandise, despite being almost identical to Kitty, which would allow companies to use the same molds with only a minor change. Even Ty, which has the Beanie Baby license and has made a rather unbelievable number of variations of Kitty herself, has yet to make Mimmy despite how easy it would be to just sew a bow on the other side.
83** Most of Kitty's friends and classmates have suffered from this in recent years. Special mention goes to Cathy, a bunny character who landed Sanrio into legal trouble with the creator of ''Literature/{{Miffy}}'' due to their similar designs. As a result of a court battle that ruled in favor of Miffy's creator, Cathy was retired in 2011. She was fully replaced with another friend of Kitty named Daisy, who's much smaller than her.
84** Pretty much every character who wasn't apart of the Kitty family in the ''Ringo no Mori'' series has fallen under this trope.
85** Amy, Eric, and Harry, the kids of the Berry family. Their first and only appearance is in ''Let's Learn Together''.
86** Pinky and Rio, who were introduced in the ''Ponpon Jump'' 2017 TV block and haven't been seen since it ended. Although, unlike other examples, they are officially considered Sanrio characters of their own and have their own page on the Japanese website.
87* DownerEnding: In the end of episode 4 of ''Hello Kitty Stump Village'', she gets her heart broken by her friends...literally.
88* FleetingDemographic: Young girls and teenage women. And sometimes.......otakus.
89* FreeRangeChildren: Kitty has been shown in various works doing things such as walking around town, taking trains and buses, driving cars and planes, running stores and cafes, hosting carnivals and amusement parks, and [[VideoGame/HelloKittyRollerRescue even saving the world from an invasion of evil block aliens]], all while still being a little girl and without supervision.
90** FreeRangePets: Charmmy, her pet cat, has also been shown roaming around with no supervision, particularly in her [=OVAs=] . In fact, Charmmy and Kitty are almost never seen together.
91* FurryConfusion: She's a cat....and she has a pet cat called Charmmy. ......[[MindScrew what?]]
92%%* GenkiGirl: Kitty, again.
93%%* GirlyGirl: Mimmy.
94* HotDrinkCure: In the episode "Mom Loves Me After All", Kitty's grandmother wraps her in a blanket and gives her a hot drink after helping her dry off from the rain.
95* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Kitty and Mimmy are both twins, well [[AlwaysIdenticalTwins rather identical to be exact]]. The only difference to tell them both is their ribbons: Kitty wears hers on her left ear, and Mimmy is the opposite.
96* JobSong: In "Eating Nicely", the utensils sing about their job of "delivering" food.
97* KiddyCoveralls: Kitty and her twin sister Mimmy typically wear overalls, and they're elementary schoolers who are prone to childlike behavior such as [[KidsHateVegetables hating vegetables like bell peppers]]. Kitty in particular can be short-sighted and impulsive (particularly in the ''Growing Up with Hello Kitty'' series), though Mimmy tends to be somewhat more level-headed.
98* KidsHateVegetables: In the series ''Growing Up with Hello Kitty'', the episode "Eating Our Vegetables" reveals that the twins hate tomatoes and bell peppers, their classmates all hate various vegetables, and ''none'' of them like bell peppers. However, the twins' mother always looks sad whenever they don't eat their vegetables, so they decide to force them down anyway.
99* ALessonLearnedTooWell: In "Replying Properly", Kitty learns to always answer when called, but then answers when someone calls her name during hide and seek. Also, in "Going to the Bathroom" she learns the importance of going to the bathroom before leaving the house or before bed, but then goes to the bathroom before ''everything''.
100* LostAesop: The episode "Replying Properly". It begins with an obvious Aesop of "always reply when someone calls your name", but then it turns into "slang is bad" (like when Mama says, "Shouldn't you say 'yes' instead of 'uh-huh'?"), which escalates when a monster appears who gets bigger when he hears "Yeah, what?", but smaller when he hears "yes". Then, Hello Kitty [[ALessonLearnedTooWell answers when someone calls her name during hide and seek]] at the end.
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102* MayItNeverHappenAgain: In the cartoon "Replying Properly", Kitty meets a strange creature called the Yeah-what who grows whenever he hears someone say, "yeah?" or "what". Since he appeared when Kitty replied to others too casually, Kitty decides to say, "yes" more often to keep him from coming back.
103* MerchandiseDriven: As one of the biggest franchises on the planet, Kitty has been seen on everything, from fashion and cosmetics, in anime and video games, to books and school supplies, and even in ''vibrators'', of all things.
104* MultipleDemographicAppeal: Much like any other Sanrio series.
105* NeverSayDie: Surprisingly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in "The Sleeping Princess" from ''Hello Kitty and Friends'', where Kitty herself warns the BigBad that the princess will "die of sorrow."
106* NotAllowedToGrowUp: She's been a third grader since 1975.
107* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: In several English dubs of her anime, Kitty and her family speak in American accents despite it being confirmed that they are British.
108* NoMouth: Subverted in her earlier animated works. Played straight in works made after 2005, like ''Ringo no Mori'', ''The Adventures of...'' and ''Supercute Adventures''
109* OutSick: In "Changing Our Clothes", Mama is out of commission because she has a cold, so Papa has to cook the food, but he doesn't know how. He also doesn't know how to dress the twins, so they decide to figure out how to do it on their own.
110* PottyEmergency: In "Going to the Bathroom" from ''Growing Up with Hello Kitty'', Kitty has a couple due to not wanting to stop what she’s doing to go. The first time it happens, her PottyFailure is not onscreen, but you can tell because in the next scene, her clothes are in the washer. Mimmy and Fifi both have their own ones early on, but both go to the bathroom when they need to.
111-->'''Kitty''': Ohhh, BUT I REALLY HAVE TO GO!!!!!
112-->'''Mimmy and Fifi''': ''(gasp)''
113-->'''Kitty''': ''(cries)'' MOMMA!!! ''(The scene then cuts to a washing machine with Kitty's clothes in it.)''
114* RealNameAsAnAlias: WordOfGod states the twin's real names were Kitty White and Mimmy White.
115* 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.
116* SeriesMascot: To the point where most people, in the west at least, don't know that other Sanrio characters exist and even sometimes refer to Sanrio as the "Hello Kitty company".
117* SleepAesop: In "Sleeping by Ourselves", Kitty and Mimmy learn to read their own bedtime stories so that their parents don't stay up too late after Kitty learns the affects of not getting enough sleep.
118* SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: Largely falls into FunnyAnimal and CivilizedAnimal.
119* {{Tomboy}}: Kitty's this to Mimmy's GirlyGirl.

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