Christine R Yano, an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii, has spent years studying the Hello Kitty phenomenon and even she didn’t know. How did she find out? She was preparing a script for a Hello Kitty exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum in LA, and Sanrio “very firmly” pointed out that Hello Kitty is not a cat, but a girl. “She’s never depicted on all fours”, they pointed out, and she “walks and sits like a two-legged creature”. She even has a pet cat of her own, called “Charmmy Kitty”. She also has cat ears and whiskers, though. Yes, they didn’t really explain that bit. Or why they give her height as “five apples” and her weight as an unhealthy sounding “three apples”. Is she perhaps a British girl with some sort of cat-transformation syndrome? Should we all throw ice water on our heads for her? No, she’s just a girl called Kitty White, with parents called George and Mary White, and she lives in the suburbs of London.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 02:38:42 +0000
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