Catching up: Yuko Yamaguchi carries on as nurturing parent of Hello Kitty

There some interesting snippets in the article

Why she was hired:

“She became the third Hello Kitty designer in 1980, two years after joining Sanrio straight out of arts university. With her two predecessors having left the company and with Kitty’s popularity declining, Yamaguchi’s mission was to recover sales.”

And as for the future’

“Asked about her next challenge, Yamaguchi said she wants to attract boys.”

“I want boys to join the superhero Ichigoman fan club. Unlike other Sanrio characters, Ichigoman is a fighting character. We aim to make it into an anime and ultimately making it a TV series of a story about a hero.”

already  Sario Japan had put out an    Ichigoman short

IT kind of cute but can it really reach boys? I think Darkcapeman (the black kitty) is a beet fit.

Link to Story

Antioch teen’s ‘Hello Kitty rocket’ dose it again: Wins at regional

Antioch’s teen creator of ‘Hello Kitty rocket’ takes home regional science award

ANTIOCH — Though it’s been awhile since her weather balloon experiment to send a Hello Kitty toy almost 18 miles above the Earth hit the ground, Lauren Rojas hasn’t come down yet.

Rojas, 13, was awarded first place at the Association of Christian Schools International science fair competition for the Northern California region.

The science fair was held Friday at Cornerstone Christian School — where Rojas is a seventh-grader.

Awards were announced and passed out Friday afternoon. Her experiment beat six others in the junior high physical science category.”

Link to Story

We to go girl congratulations.

A Change in Direction

I had been thinking about the direction of my blog for a while. When I started this blog it was about my love of Hello Kitty and other characters for a standpoint of being a Male fan, and in a way tweak Mr. Hello Kitty Hell.  But as I joined other sites like   Hello Kitty Junkies felt there something missing: in-depth news and commentary on the culture of Hello Kitty and Friends.  Most of site I been to are about shopping a displaying purchases; that fine I wanted more. I guess the issue being a vast majority of participating in the forum and blogs are women, A Men for Mars and Women from Venus is going on.

I going to make some changes to this blog, I still focus my life as a Male Hello Kitty fan but I going to add more new and commentary.

Change one the name: Thanks to an article the name for Hello Kitty fans is Kittilers not Kittyler, I was spelling wrong all this time.

The goals of my blog regardless of how little readers I get is :

1. A place to share my commentary on News and media involving the Culture of Sanrio  and Hello Kitty

2.    Yuko Yamaguchi: answered this question  in  an interview

Q:”What will Hello Kitty be doing in 10 years?

A: In 10 years’ time, everybody around the world will know her. Also, the number of male and female fans will be the same. Men who are still reluctant to be seen with Kitty in public today might be wearing Hello Kitty boxers. But they will eventually stop being shy and will show off Kitty proudly.

My goal is to see this happen.

3.  Still share  my life as a Male Hello Kitty Fan.

4. Have fun while doing 1, 2, and 3.

 

So I invite you to join me in my new endeavor.

 

Turning Attention to the Bathroom

For some time I wanted to puts some Hello Kitty n the bathroom. I missed that last puss at Target in 2009.

Bathroom

Hello Kitty Shower Curtain: $2.50 at an Yard Sale

Bath Mat: $19.99 at Target.

One happy male Hello Kitty fan: Priceless

I would not buy the Shopping style of shower curtain, but for $2.50 the deal was right.