Hello Kitty is a Cat, Right? Wrong, Says Her Creator
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Hello Kitty is a Kawaii version of a human girl. It's a girl's idea of what she could be if she could max out her adorable setting - the cuteness of cats has been exploited to produce a $7 Billion a year product, while "merely human" Japanese girls get to constantly modify themselves to achieve a fraction of Hello Kitty's attention and success.
Yeah no..she has cat ears and whiskers..she's a damned cat.
Stop trying to troll your fans, cause it doesn't work like that.
Stop trying to troll your fans, cause it doesn't work like that.
it's a cat.. maybe what the creator said was lost in translation.. or messed up.. or maybe she doesn't know what a cat looks like. cause while i don't want anything to do with hello kitty, hello kitty is clearly a cat... an anthropomorphic cat but a cat nonetheless ...or else the character wouldn't be called Hello KITTY as in kitty cat
I read that Kotaku article, and yeah, it seems the implication was never so much that Hello Kitty was a human girl, but... why would the representative get antsy about that to the anthropologist person?
Hello Kitty is a cartoon character that represents an anthropomorphized and stylized cat. This much is clear. What I wanna know is why was the person discussed in the original story so hung up on the semantics. The representation? Everyone old enough to count on their fingers knows that's a cat, and that calling it a cat doesn't detract from her humanity. And saying that won't turn the kids into furries (other things will surely do that), so...
The head company has confirmed that "she's not a cat" is going too far, and "she's a human" is going way too far. But if so, what in the sam-shit started the whole thing?
Hello Kitty is a cartoon character that represents an anthropomorphized and stylized cat. This much is clear. What I wanna know is why was the person discussed in the original story so hung up on the semantics. The representation? Everyone old enough to count on their fingers knows that's a cat, and that calling it a cat doesn't detract from her humanity. And saying that won't turn the kids into furries (other things will surely do that), so...
The head company has confirmed that "she's not a cat" is going too far, and "she's a human" is going way too far. But if so, what in the sam-shit started the whole thing?
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I just want to know what bug crawled up Sanrio's collective bums that would make them take issue with this. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's probably a duck, right? Lets see...kitty whiskers? Check. Kitty ears? Check. Sometimes-visible kitty tail? Check. But no, I suppose it isn't a cat because it doesn't walk on all fours, crap in a litter box, and spray in your shoes.
Seriously, they act as if cartoons have never depicted animals with humanistic traits. Guess what: they're still their respective species, regardless of the fact that they wear clothes and walk on two legs.
I guess Angry Beavers wasn't a show about...angry beavers. It was a remake of The Odd Couple.
I just want to know what bug crawled up Sanrio's collective bums that would make them take issue with this. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's probably a duck, right? Lets see...kitty whiskers? Check. Kitty ears? Check. Sometimes-visible kitty tail? Check. But no, I suppose it isn't a cat because it doesn't walk on all fours, crap in a litter box, and spray in your shoes.
Seriously, they act as if cartoons have never depicted animals with humanistic traits. Guess what: they're still their respective species, regardless of the fact that they wear clothes and walk on two legs.
I guess Angry Beavers wasn't a show about...angry beavers. It was a remake of The Odd Couple.
Whatever Japan. Hello Kitty is a cat. You can't troll me. Next you'll be saying that Badtz-Maru is actually a little boy.
Look at him Japan! That's a fucking bird! Just look!
Look at him Japan! That's a fucking bird! Just look!
Yeah, if the creator says it's not a cat, I'm going to go with what the creator says about their own creation. I don't have the authority, so to speak, to dictate what someone else's creation is.
Not being sarcastic either.
(Assuming this wasn't lost in translation or anything.)
Not being sarcastic either.
(Assuming this wasn't lost in translation or anything.)
I'm calling mistranslation/misunderstanding on this one.
Either that or it's some kind of Japanese cultural thing that we have difficulty wrapping our western heads around, those tend to happen.
Either that or it's some kind of Japanese cultural thing that we have difficulty wrapping our western heads around, those tend to happen.
The strangest part is some of her friends are still referred to as animals, like the bear and monkeys. They clearly don't give a fuck about consistency.
She is actually a being of unfathomable power, brought forth from another dimension to claim this universe as her own. All hail our overlord, Hello Kitty!
