The Friendship Club (Hello Kitty and Friends, Book 1): 01

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Who Are We- We are Andrew and Kirsty, Hello Kitty fans from the UK. Our store, Dizzy Pink, has been selling Hello Kitty items since 2004 and we try to provide the more unusual and retro items. A large number of our items you will not find anywhere else in the UK. For a long while afterwards, Sanrio made no particular effort to replace Hello Kitty's designer. Soon Yuko Yamaguchi joined Sanrio in the midst of the Kitty boom in 1978, at the age of twenty-two, hoping to get a job focused on advertising. When Tsuji had learned of the team planning to abandon Kitty, he fought to keep her and decided to hold an in-house competition for new concepts for Hello Kitty. For years, it was only associated with males. But then, obviously, that has changed over the past 30 or 40 years, and now it’s no surprise at all to see women playing electric guitar.”

Hello Kitty was also chosen by AH-Software to become a Vocaloid. The choice was attributed to the fact it was their 50th year anniversary. The Vocaloid was named Nekomura Iroha and was released in Japanese. Hello Kitty cameos with Keroppi and Badtz-Maru in the first few minutes of the 2018 film Ready Player One. Kitty also gets a few more appearances in the film such as a motorcycle decal and as a costume.

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There are also many songs based on Hello Kitty. 2 of the most popular are by Slayyyter & Avril Lavigne In 2015, she made a playable appearance in Super Mario Maker in the form of a Mystery Mushroom costume in the "Super Mario Bros" theme exclusively. When the player plays as her (or My Melody, who also appears as a costume) the jungles have Hello Kitty effects. On April 21, 2020 Hello Kitty made an official crossover live action video called Shimajiro & Hello Kitty in Exercise with Friends in which the mascots of Shimajiro and Hello Kitty joins together to get people to dance and exercise during the Coronavirus pandemic. In May 2008, Japan named Hello Kitty the ambassador of Japanese tourism in both China and Hong Kong, which are two places where the character is exceptionally popular among children and young women. This marked the first time Japan's tourism ministry had appointed a fictional character to the role.

The guitars were available at first only through Sanrio, which owns the Hello Kitty brand. “Then Newsweek, at the end of 2005, gave it the top spot for the Christmas list of gifts for the musically obsessed,” Bacon said. “That did them no harm, and they began to sell them generally in January the next year. The Hello Kitty brand rose to greater prominence during the late 1990s. At that time, several celebrities, such as Mariah Carey and Lady Gaga, had adopted Hello Kitty as a fashion statement.As of August 2007, Thai police officers who have committed minor transgressions such as showing up late or parking in the wrong place are forced to wear pink Hello Kitty armbands for several days as penance. In 2019. Hello Kitty appeared on the Funko Pop toys in 2019. The Funko Pop ranges from Hello Kitty with the Cup Noodles, Classic Hello Kitty, Rainbow Pride Hello Kitty which appeared in the America Market including Hot Topic, Box Lunch. As the mascot of Sanrio, Hello Kitty has never fallen below top 10. Hello Kitty also has the most consecutive wins, being 11 wins in a row. The character's first appearance on an item was a vinyl coin purse in Japan, which ended up being the hottest selling item that year which came as a surprise to everyone. Fender gave away several of the guitars at a Billboard awards ceremony, and soon Slash from Guns N’Roses and Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers posed with them. But that seems to have had little impact on the value of the guitars until more recently.