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Hello Kitty's Paradise [ ja] was a long-running live-action children's program that aired on TXN from January 1999 to March 2011. Hello Kitty was designed by Yuko Shimizu and was added to the lineup of early Sanrio characters in 1974.
Hello Kitty Seasons (2010, Wii): A game in which the playable character is appointed as Deputy Mayor to help Sanrio Town. In 2013 The Wall Street Journal said Sanrio's attitude to copyright was " laissez-faire" compared to companies like Disney, and that they have let artists use Hello Kitty's likeness without interfering.
In 2009, Hello Kitty entered the wine market with a collection of four wines available for purchase online, continuing the expansion of product lines targeted at older audiences. Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams (2008, Nintendo DS): an adventure game published by Empire Interactive developed by Sanrio Digital. New series involving Hello Kitty with different themed designs are released regularly, following current trends. Hello Kitty and My Melody (another Sanrio character) appeared together in Super Mario Maker as unlockable Mystery Mushroom costumes.
Originally, Hello Kitty was only marketed towards pre-teenage girls, but beginning in the 1990s, the brand found commercial success among teenage and adult consumers as well. The Hello Kitty Stratocaster guitar, originally released in 2005, was initially aimed at pre-teen girls, [79] but has since been used by notable guitarists including Krist Novoselic, Courtney Love, Dave Navarro, and Lisa Loeb. In 2014, Sanrio partnered with the Indonesian theme park Dufan to introduce Hello Kitty Adventure, a cinema based attraction. Beginning in 2007, following trends in Japan, Sanrio began using darker designs for Hello Kitty with more black and less pink and pulled away from kawaii styles. According to Character Databank, Hello Kitty was the third highest-grossing character in Japan as of 2013.Aside from the core Hello Kitty characters, several spinoff characters have been created: Hello Kitty's boyfriend Dear Daniel in 1999, Charmmy Kitty, Hello Kitty's pet cat, and Sugar, her pet hamster, both in 2004, and her superhero alter-ego Ichigoman in 2011.
The hospital's owner explained that he hoped that the theme would help ease the stress of childbirth. This contemporary revision of the nativity scene [109] demonstrated Sachs' interest in the phenomena of consumerism, branding, and the cultural fetishization of products. Hello Kitty World (1992, Famicom): a Famicom port of Balloon Kid co-developed by Nintendo and Character Soft.In the game, Hello Kitty moves to the Big City where she meets other Sanrio characters and makes new friends.