Hello Kitty

, is a television series featuring Hello Kitty.

A Hello Kitty anime series aired on TV Tokyo in Japan, and CBS in the United States in 1991. It also ran in reruns on Toon Disney. On the show, Kitty is a little girl living with her mother, father, and twin sister Mimmy, who is identical to Kitty but has different colored clothes and wears her bow under the opposite ear. 13 episodes were produced, using animation produced as early as 1991.

On Japanese television, Hello Kitty (and her pals) starred in a variety show titled Kitty's Paradise. This show's animated segments were dubbed in English and aired on Fox Family from March to September 2000 as Hello Kitty and Friends. ADV Films released the English version on home video from November 2002 to March 2003.

Hello Kitty and friends also appeared in Hello Kitty's Animation Theatre, which had Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters appearing in their versions of different fairy tales. Available in the U.S. from ADV Films (who also owned the video/DVD rights to Hello Kitty and Friends & Hello Kitty's Paradise)

Hello Kitty appeared in a new Japanese clay-animated series called Hello Kitty's Stump Village in 2005. At Anime Expo 2006, Geneon Universal Entertainment announced that Hello Kitty's Stump Village was one of the series it licensed for U.S. release. Volume 1 was released in October, and Volume 2 was released in January and in 2008. After Geneon withdrew from the US market at the end of 2007, it was later re-licensed by Funimation Entertainment, who will continue to release it in North America. Hello Kitty appeared for the first time in a full 3D animation The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends developed by Sanrio's digital entertainment entity Sanrio Digital.

By 1996, Hello Kitty had already grossed over 20 million dollars throughout Japan. As time progressed, many more Japanese artists exploited this arsenal of business by creating a second type of Hello Kitty featured in Clay. This version was released in English in 2000, and like many episodes in "Hello Kitty and Friends". Hello Kitty and friends also appeared in Hello Kitty's Animation Theatre, which had Hello Kitty buying other Sanrio characters appearing in their versions of different fairy tales. Overall, the Hello Kitty franchise has influenced many individuals to make similar productions.

On November 1, 2023, seiyuu Megumi Hayashibara announced on her blog that she was ending her tenure as the voice of Hello Kitty after 33 years (she first voiced Hello Kitty in 1990).

Official

 * Official webpage (in Japanese)

News

 * Anime News Network - Megumi Hayashibara Steps Down as Voice of Hello Kitty After 33 Years by Rafael Antonio Pineda 2023-11-01 02:26 EDT