Bombshell news from today's LA Times! Hello Kitty—a brand beloved by innocent children and sarcastic teenagers—is not actually a cat. This from Christine R. Yano, anthropologist and Hello Kitty scholar. "Hello Kitty is not a Hello Kitty! You have seen her on your eight-year-old cousin's backpack and your college roommate's tote bag (“I . . … Read more
In the second, the Japanese cartoon cat best known as Hello Kitty was revealed in the Los Angeles Times to, uh, not be a cat, but rather a little girl. Who just looks like a cat? We guess? It turns out a translation error may have been the problem here Bombshell news from today's LA … Read more
Bombshell news from today's LA Times! Hello Kitty—a brand beloved by innocent children and sarcastic teenagers—is not actually a cat. This from Christine R. Yano, anthropologist and Hello Kitty scholar. "Hello Kitty is not a The Los Angeles Times spoke with Christine R. Yano, an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii who has spent years … Read more
(August 28, 2014) – Globally-popular children's character “Hello Kitty” turns 40 this year — and with that birthday comes a surprise revelation. Her creators say Hello Kitty is not a cat! That's according to Sanrio — the Japanese “Hello Kitty is not a cat. She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is … Read more
Bombshell news from today's LA Times! Hello Kitty—a brand beloved by innocent children and sarcastic teenagers—is not actually a cat. This from Christine R. Yano, anthropologist and Hello Kitty scholar. "Hello Kitty is not a This latest travesty comes courtesy of an article this week in the Los Angeles Times, which is preparing for a … Read more
(August 28, 2014) – Globally-popular children's character “Hello Kitty” turns 40 this year — and with that birthday comes a surprise revelation. Her creators say Hello Kitty is not a cat! That's according to Sanrio — the Japanese Hot news out of Japan: Hello Kitty–a stuffed animal that looks like a cat, talks like a … Read more
According to the Los Angeles Times, Christine R. Yano, a professor and author, has spent years studying Hello Kitty and is studying objects that will be part of the Japanese American National Museum in LA this fall. Yano told Sanrio, Kitty's manufacturer, corrected the curator of an LA exhibit on this ubiquitous icon when she … Read more
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, a Hello Kitty trend expert and anthropologist Christine Yano, who has spoken with Sanrio, says she was told sternly not to confuse Hello Kitty with a cat. While preparing a script The apparently shocking revelation was made in an LA Times article published Wednesday about a retrospective … Read more