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'CEO of supercute': Hello Kitty turns 50

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By Katie Forster, Hiroshi Hiyama and Paula Ramon

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Hello Kitty is adorable however, just how she eats her favorite food, apples, without having a mouth has never been explained.

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Fortunately, my wife has any of those characters, a criteria when I was dating a long time ago

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Hello Kitty is adorable however, just how she eats her favorite food, apples, without having a mouth has never been explained.

LOL. However, they give her and others mouths in the cartoon.

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Didn't know Hello Kitty was that 'old'. Another cultural phenom Japan has given the world; along with Pac-Man, Pokémon, Godzilla, Shonen Knife, Transformers, SONY, karaoke, etc.

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Another cultural phenom Japan has given the world; along with Pac-Man, Pokémon, Godzilla, Shonen Knife, Transformers, SONY, karaoke, etc

Not much of a list, is it really?

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Her height measured in apples blatantly plagiarising The Smurfs.

We were told as ALTs not to play Hangman as it had negative connotations,so we invented Goodbye Kitty.

She's actually British in her backstory, interesting.

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I've known Hello Kitty all my life, but I didn't realize that she is older than me!

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I've always thought Kitty was basically a ripoff of Dick Bruna's Miffy, who was created in 1953. Sanrio did a rabbit version of Kitty in the 1970s, but withdrew it after Bruna sued.

It looks like there was a similar cartoon cat to Kitty that is even older.

https://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/miffy-attacks-hello-kitty

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I knew the whole Hello Kitty thing was off the hinge when I started seeing this pink Sanyo Hello Kitty vacuum cleaner fetching about double its normal price. Good grief !

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