Hello Kitty is not a cat, says Sanrio

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MANILA — Just recently, an announcement from Japanese brand Sanrio made rounds in social media. According to Sanrio, Hello Kitty is not a cat.

Christine Yano, an anthropologist at the University of Hawaii, is currently curating a Hello Kitty exhibit to be held at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

She shared that Sanrio corrected the texts of the script which she will use for the exhibit.

“I was corrected — very firmly,” she told the Los Angeles Times.

“That’s one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show.

Hello Kitty is not a cat. She’s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She’s never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature.

 She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it’s called Charmmy Kitty.”

As a matter of fact, Hello Kitty is a British girl named “Kitty White” and has her own fair share of personal story.