Still Waters Posted August 28, 2014 #1 Share Posted August 28, 2014 You would be forgiven for having thought for your entire life that Hello Kitty was a cat. After all, she does kind of look like one - and she is called Kitty. But her creators Sanrio are adamant. She is a British school kid called Kitty White and she lives just outside London. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/28963085 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendy Demon Posted August 28, 2014 #2 Share Posted August 28, 2014 (edited) Well..the character was based off of a real person..I get that but the character still looks like a cat, you know, with the whiskers and ears. (most people don't have kitty ears or whiskers) Sill...it's cute. Edited August 28, 2014 by Ryu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginarynumber1 Posted August 28, 2014 #3 Share Posted August 28, 2014 When Kotaku called Sanrio's Tokyo headquarters today and asked whether or not Hello Kitty was indeed a cat, a spokesperson explained, "Hello Kitty was done in the motif of a cat. It's going too far to say that Hello Kitty is not a cat. Hello Kitty is a personification of a cat." http://kotaku.com/dont-be-silly-hello-kitty-is-a-cat-1627820750 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted August 28, 2014 #4 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Well now they're giving conflicting information. Typical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imaginarynumber1 Posted August 28, 2014 #5 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Well now they're giving conflicting information. Typical. I'm gonna go with the company that created the thing instead of the L.A. Times who first reported the story. I just realized that I am expending WAY too much effort on something that I do not even care about.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keel M. Posted August 28, 2014 #6 Share Posted August 28, 2014 They are reporting what they were told by a woman who called the Sanrio company to ask that they fact check captions for an exhibition she was putting on. Christine Yano, an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii, told the Los Angeles Times that she "was corrected -- very firmly" by Sanrio that Kitty was not a cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted August 28, 2014 #7 Share Posted August 28, 2014 A quick look at final fantasy and other Japanese video games and Anime, shows their penchant for tricking out young females as cats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Serenity Posted August 28, 2014 #8 Share Posted August 28, 2014 (edited) She's always going to be a freaking "cat" to me. Edited August 28, 2014 by Princess Serenity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubblykiss Posted August 28, 2014 #9 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Ladies and Gentlemen, this situation is escalating far too quickly. It is natural for tempers to flare in the face of reason as we endure this controversy. We should deploy heavily militarized police forces to quell the unrest surrounding this hugely contentious issue. I would recommend martial law and brutally punishing curfews until such time as we can all agree.....why would a British little girl be a commercial icon used to sell millions of dollars worth of products? What is Hello Kitty, that strange looking girl from Harry Potter or Mary Poppins? Hardly. She is clearly an anthropomorphic Japanese cat used as a marketing device to separate children from their money. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lioness_Heart Posted August 28, 2014 #10 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Really?! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sucksquach Posted August 28, 2014 #11 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Is she a walking seal, or a wombat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabby Kitten Posted August 29, 2014 #12 Share Posted August 29, 2014 It's in the name Hello Kitty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendy Demon Posted August 29, 2014 #13 Share Posted August 29, 2014 It's in the name Hello Kitty Or...if you want to be precise, she looks like a manx kitty. (the stubby tail) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Paranoid Android Posted September 1, 2014 #14 Share Posted September 1, 2014 If it walks like a cat, talks like a cat, quacks like a cat, it's definitely not a duck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlewallflower Posted September 3, 2014 #15 Share Posted September 3, 2014 (edited) I read this somewhere before, but either way she's still a cat to me. D: Edited September 3, 2014 by littlewallflower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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