{"id":659,"date":"2015-06-24T05:46:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T05:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kittyblog.asinglelion.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2015-06-24T05:46:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T05:46:20","slug":"sanrio-other-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Sanrio Other Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When one thinks of Sanrio , what come to mind? Usually Hello Kitty and other\u00a0 cute characters, but \u00a0while\u00a0 Hello Kitty was just barely\u00a0 off the\u00a0 drawing board, the owner Shintaro Tsuji had other plans: <a href=\"http:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/sanrio-and-me\">Media and Hollywood<\/a>.\u00a0 From the\u00a0 mid 1970\u2019s to 1980 Sanrio\u00a0 cranked out\u00a0 a number of\u00a0 films\u00a0 most\u00a0 had moderate success\u00a0 but one film\u00a0 in particular Metamorphoses \u00a0was a bomb.\u00a0 Eventually\u00a0 Mr. Tsuji\u00a0 put his\u00a0 film making\u00a0 ambitions on the back burner, shut down\u00a0 its California office, \u00a0and concentrating the growing popularity \u00a0of Hello Kitty. Now Sanrio wants to reenter\u00a0 the\u00a0 entertainment\u00a0 business.\u00a0 First Sanrio is releasing one of\u00a0 their early\u00a0 attempt\u00a0 of filmmaking: The \u00a0Nut Cracker.\u00a0 Second\u00a0 Sanrio is reentering\u00a0 the entertain business with\u00a0 Sanrio Pictures Entertainment, and there\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funimation.com\/shows\/show-by-rock\/home\">Show by Rock.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Show by Rock is anime\u00a0 is about Cyan, a shy and timid high school sophomore \u00a0who\u00a0 while playing \u00a0and rhythm\u00a0 \u00a0game, she is awarded with a guitar call Strawberry Heart, she is suddenly whisked \u00a0away, a la Tron, to an alternate \u00a0reality called \u00a0Tokyo Midi City. \u00a0Where she discover her playing\u00a0 is a weapon against monsters. She\u00a0 wanders around\u00a0 until she is picked\u00a0 up by Maple Arisugawa, the BSDM loving manger of Braded recodes. She spends her time with her new band mates while\u00a0 trying to unravel why and he purpose\u00a0 in\u00a0 Tokyo Midi City. \u00a0\u00a0One interesting\u00a0 fact is the target of the \u00a0show is young\u00a0 men who are anime and game fans.<\/p>\n<p>Hello Kitty doesn\u2019t make a showing except for a\u00a0 slight reference in the first episode\u00a0 in a kittyish plush.\u00a0 The show seems un-sanrio like in\u00a0 the character Maple Arisugawa, who is known for having a BSDM session with his secretary who happens to be a dominatrix and in the second episode obviously drunk. Show may have found\u00a0 it stride in Japan\u00a0 , during the\u00a0 30th annual \u00a0character ranking Shingan Crimsonz (Show by Rock) is first, Plasmagica (Show by Rock) is fourth \u00a0and Hello Kitty is 10th at this\u00a0 time.\u00a0 Perhaps\u00a0 Sanrio\u00a0 is making the right call in the age of declining but still dominant\u00a0 in popularity of Hello Kitty It also appears Funimantion\u00a0 is\u00a0 streaming \u00a0a \u00a0dub version of Show By Rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one thinks of Sanrio , what come to mind? Usually Hello Kitty and other\u00a0 cute characters, but \u00a0while\u00a0 Hello Kitty was just barely\u00a0 off the\u00a0 drawing board, the owner Shintaro Tsuji had other plans: Media and Hollywood.\u00a0 From the\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/?p=659\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,142,132,5],"tags":[201,200,199],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-hollywood","category-media","category-sanrio","tag-hollywood","tag-media","tag-show-by-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/kittyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}