List of Sanrio characters
[2][21][17] Hello Kitty is portrayed with a large family including her twin sister Mimmy, who wears a yellow bow, papa George and mama Mary.
[18][24] Little Twin Stars (ja:リトルツインスターズ, Ritoru Tsuin Sutāzu) also known as Kikilala (キキララ, kikirara) in Japan[25] are a pair of angel-like characters.
[28] In their first publication the characters were unnamed, and their names originate from a survey in the Strawberry Newspaper (ja:いちご新聞) where readers could send in their suggestions.
According to official character profiles, her birthday is January 18 and she lives in the forest of Mariland with friends like My Sweet Piano (a sheep), and Flat (a mouse).
The game's primary function is as a day planner designed for young girls to keep track of appointments, class schedules, and mini diary entries.
In 2014, Sanrio celebrated the character's 40th Anniversary by creating a special line of merchandise where she is given a different hood where her ears are dropped down and wears either a bonnet or a flower pin and sometimes depicted with eyelashes.
In 2019, My Melody became a radio DJ on TOKYO FM with a show called "My Melo Therapy" (マイメロセラピー) where she answers questions from listeners and offers advice.
In the Western-market, Michelle Marie became the official voice of the character beginning with "Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures" web series.
[62] Tuxedo Sam (ja:タキシードサム, Takishīdosamu) is a plump blue penguin character who is drawn wearing a bow-tie and a sailor hat.
[81] The first book in the series, Minna No Tabo's Sai Kon Tan (今も昔も大切な100のことば みんなのたあ坊の菜根譚) by Sanrio founder Shintaro Tsuji is based on the 16th century Chinese compilation of aphorisms Saikontan by Hong Zicheng.
Official profiles say she was born March 21, lives in New York City, likes fashion and is friends with a cat named Sassy.
[122][125] Bad Badtz-Maru (ja:バッドばつ丸, Baddo batsu maru) is a male penguin character drawn with spiky hair.
[165] Other characters in the series include Cappuccino (カプチーノ, Kapuchīno), with a mouth that looks like a cup of cappuccino, Chiffon (シフォン, Shifon) with ears that are fluffy like a chiffon cake, Espresso (エスプレッソ, Esupuresso) with a Mozart hairstyle, Mocha (モカ, Moka) with chocolate-brown fur, and Milk (みるく, Miruku), a white baby puppy.
[173][174][175] Usahana (ja:ウサハナ) (also stylized as U*SA*HA*NA) is a rabbit character drawn with different colored ears, one pink and one blue, and a flower on her head.
[185][186] In 2007, Sanrio created an anime series based on the franchise which aired on TV Tokyo and Kids Station on April 3, 2007, and ended later that year with 27 episodes.
[citation needed] In the 2020 web series Hello Kitty and Friends: Supercute Adventures, Kuromi is one of the main characters where she's voiced by Jenny Yokobori.
According to fiction, they belong to magicians and live in a mystical place called Jewel Land, attending a school to learn more about magic and each of them are paired with their own human partners.
[222] A full-length feature film titled Jewelpet the Movie: Sweets Dance Princess (映画ジュエルペット スウィーツダンスプリンセス, Eiga Juerupetto: Suuītsu Dansu Purinsesu) which was directed by Hiroaki Sakurai (Director of Daa!
[225] In 2019, a limited-edition 18k gold Yoshikitty figurine was released in collaboration with precious metal company Ginza Tanaka, with an estimated retail cost of US$10,000.
[244] According to official profiles Bonbonribbon's birthday is August 8 and she is a fashionable girl who likes to sing and dance, and wants to become an accessory designer.
[269][272] A theme song and a music CD with the character, performed by voice actor Tsubasa Yonaga (ja:代永翼), were released in 2014.
[274][275] Plasmagica (プラズマジカ, Purazumajika) is an all-girl fictional band who debuted in Sanrio's iOS game Show by Rock, which is geared towards young boys.
[279] In 2015 Sanrio posted an 8 episode digital picture book with stories of Hummingmint in the Forest of Discovery (はっけんのもり, hakken no mori).
She is portrayed as an administrative assistant in a Japanese business, relieving the stress of an oppressive and frustrating working life by drinking and singing angry death metal in a karaoke bar.
[286] Cogimyun (ja:こぎみゅん) is a Cogimuna (コギムーナ) wheat flour fairy character who is white and fluffy and floats in the air.
[292] The series features many different flour based food characters, like Gyoza-kun (ぎょうざくん) the Takoyaki Sisters (たこやきシスターズ) and Udon-san (うどんさん.
[306] The fictional story depicts the group as beginning with the unassuming Kōta Hasegawa (長谷川康太), who loves the character Pompompurin, coincidentally running into the My Melody-loving Yū Mizuno (水野 祐) and bonding over it.
[333][90] The name Hapidanbui is short for happī ni naritai danshitachi, bui ji kaifuku o nerau (ハッピーになりたい男子たち、V字回復をねらう)[333][91] which roughly translates to "boys who want to become happy aim for a V-shaped recovery".
[91] In 2020 a manga series called Bokutachi Hapidanbui (ぼくたち はぴだんぶい) began in Sanrio's Strawberry Newspaper (ja:いちご新聞).
All characters are depicted as living in a three-story house, owned by Landlord (大家さん, Ōkasan), whose design looks like the CEO of JO1's management company, Choi Shin-hwa.
