Sanrio Reveals That Hello Kitty Is not a cat

When it was not yet insisted by the company behind the cute icon known as Hello Kitty, everybody actually it is a cat, however, it became trending online that Hello Kitty is not a cat.  But everything people knew about Hello Kitty is about to change.

On Thursday, the creator of Hello Kitty Sanrio revealed and posted on their website that Hello Kitty is not a cat but a human. She is a cheerful little girl,  who is friendly and possess a gold heart.

This statement shocked many people around the world and even got trending in News sites and social media. This  revelation was made clear  when a Hawaii-based academic Christine Yano, who  specializes in the epitome of “Kawaii” (“cute” in Japanese) asked Sanrio to fact-check captions for a presentation she was curating to mark the 40th anniversary of Hello Kitty.

Christine Yano, told the Los Angeles Times that she “was corrected—very firmly” by Sanrio that Kitty was not a cat.

According to Yano, Sanrio corrected her saying “Hello Kitty is not a cat. She’s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She’s never depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature.”

Perhaps people mistakenly recognized her as a cat instead of a cartoon character because of her whiskers and moon-like shape face.  One of Japan’s most renowned exports confirmed her non-cat identity.

A Sanrio spokesperson told AFP in Tokyo that the her design takes motif of a cat, but nothing in the Hello Kitty’s setting is a portion of a cat. But rather is  is a 100-percent personified character. He also said that her real name is Kitty White, and she was born in southern England on Nov. 1, 1974. She is a Scorpio and her blood type is A.

Actually Hello Kitty has a twin sister whose name is Minny White. On her web profile, it was found out that  Minny lives in an unnamed suburb of London with father George and mother Mary.