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Sanrio Taps Lauren Faust for Hello Kitty and Friends Reboot.

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1st Apr 2012

Sanrio Taps Lauren Faust for Hello Kitty and Friends Reboot.

Sanrio’s  Brony Play?

In a surprising press release   Shintaro Tsuji standing aside with Janet Hsu,  Sanrio  first Female  COO for  it US.  subsidiary announces the tapping Lauren Faust to Reboot Hello Kitty and Friends  currently shopped to Viacom. Miss Faust, known for her work on Power Puff Girls, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends and My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, will serve as Chief Executive for the New Adventurers of Hello Kitty and Friends.

Some in the animation world are surprised by the news yet information leaked Sanrio’s corporate office hint the reason is the wildly success of My Little Pony especially among its most unlikely demographic: 15 to 30 year old men who are fans of My Little Pony. One executives speaking on condition he remains anonymous, say Sanrio has been studying Hasbro and it response to the male demographic. We covet the untapped men’s market and feel Sanrio can do a far superior   job of reaching males with Hello Kitty than the Ponies.  If indications show a building a similar male fan base, Sanrio is better in a position to respond.  Sanrio can have a male line in Sanrio stores within four months and leverage our strength and expertise   in collaborations with popular men’s retail lines, for example a collaboration with Nike.  A Japanese blog, Nandesuka carries the same message.

Could a Hello Kitty X MY Little Pony be in the cards?

 

About SANRIO

SANRIO, best known for global icon Hello Kitty® and home to many more endearing characters including Chococat®, My Melody®, and Keroppi®, is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year. August 2010 marks the golden anniversary for the worldwide lifestyle brand that was founded on the “small gift, big smile®” philosophy – that a small gift can bring a big smile to people of all ages. Today, over 50,000 Sanrio-branded items are sold in over 70 countries around the world. In the Western Hemisphere SANRIO character-branded products are sold in upwards of 12,000 locations including department, specialty, national chain stores and over 95 Sanrio boutiques. For more information, please visit www.sanrio.com.

Truck Broken Into My Big Hello Kitty Stolen.

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My truck was broken into on Sunday March 17 while parked in the Church parking lot. Item were stolen including my CD/ radio my giant Hello Kitty Cherry bow plush, a 6″ plush with strap, and a Red Hello Kitty kimono phone strap. Also missing is my registration.

In addition as a result my plushies will no longer ride with me unless I can take them with me and no leave them in the car.

The plot thickens.

There been a few twist in my tuck break in. a weak before our deaconess had her car, which was parked in the North church parking lot, was broken into. Last Sunday my truck, which was parked in the South church parking lot, was broken into. Last Saturday somebody smeared feces on the Church doors. With the items stolen and the number of crimes I cannot discount that the robber has a grudge with the SDA or Anglican Church.

Please pray for the prowler or prowlers that they come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and receive forgiveness of their sins.

Please pray for the safety of Mt Tabor Seven Day Adventist Church (where we, St. Matthews, meet on Sunday) and my Church St Mathews Anglican Church.

Finally Pray for me that I have peace in this matter.

i’ll miss her

Are we helping feminist by Liking Hello Kitty

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While zipping through my friends I found and interesting post leading to an article My Little Feminist: Cartoons are Magic.

“My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has done more for the cause of feminism than any writer, artist, theorist, activist, or anything or anyone else in the Last Ten. Years”
“There’s one cause that feminists have never really managed to achieve, though. One victory that has ever eluded us.

And that is the cause of making girl stuff cool, too. In particular, the cause of making girl stuff cool without simply reinforcing particular gender roles for women. After all, it’s difficult to say, “Cooking can be really fun,” when there are people seemingly crouched by (in? under?) the eves ready to bellow, “…Because women belong in the kitchen!”” 

http://stormingtheivorytower.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-little-feminist-cartoons-are-magic.html?spref=fb 

While the article applies to My Little Pony Friendship is Magic I wonder how the same can be applied to we male fans of Hello Kitty, are we helping the cause of hello Kitty. There is one huge caveat with the feminist argument as pointed by one poster: certain radical feminist rejection of expressions of femininity. Many other feminists would disagree. A good example is  

“The absence of Hello Kitty’s mouth is a prime example of the oppressed, docile, and obedient female, a stigma that has been explored by many feminist scholars”  

The view above is pure rubbish as Yuko Yamaguchi points out. 

Why doesn’t Hello Kitty have a mouth?
Sandi Saksena, Dubai
It’s so that people who look at her can project their own feelings onto her face, because she has an expressionless face. Kitty looks happy when people are happy. She looks sad when they are sad. For this psychological reason, we thought she shouldn’t be tied to any emotion — and that’s why she doesn’t have a mouth.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1834451,00.html#ixzz1jVvoByMV

Charlize Theron Having a Bale, Clooney, Cruise Moment

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First of up, we know about how some celebrities who love Hello Kitty  now we have a hater,  Charlize Theron   has a message to all you adults fans,  to 30-something women: Drop the Hello Kitty

“In “Young Adult,” Charlize Theron plays a depressed aging mean girl who isn’t all that likable. And she plays it really well, according to The Washington Post’s Michael O’Sullivan.

At a New York Times’s TimeTalks panel last Friday, Theron revealed her one demand for the stunted character’s wardrobe: a Hello Kitty T-shirt.

But it’s not because she’s a fan of 30-something women wearing Sanrio’s pervasive cute cat. Quite the opposite.

“I’m pretty amazed by Hello Kitty. Here’s why … I see so many women in their 30s walking around in Hello Kitty [expletive] and nobody’s concerned for them,” Theron said, as the film’s director Jason Reitman and the audience laughed. “It’s the one teenage iconic thing that’s okay for 30 year olds to have.” 

Now as I was driving home thinking about this it dawn on me how Thoron ordered her character’s hello kitty shirt to troll and impugn 30-year-old hell kitty fans. Oh how mature is that. Sound like a immature playground squabble and Mr Theron needs a timeout.  It makes me wonder what her response to about Kitty us loving men; it my give her a heart attack.

Anyway, time will tell if she is having a Bale, Clooney, Cruise moment.

It a free country, we adults like Hello Kitty, deal with it.