TheImpressiveX@piefed.socialM to movies@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 month ago"Hello Kitty" movie announced at Warner Bros. — in theaters July 21, 2028deadline.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up123arrow-down1external-link"Hello Kitty" movie announced at Warner Bros. — in theaters July 21, 2028deadline.comTheImpressiveX@piefed.socialM to movies@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square7linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoI have never known Hello Kitty to be anything other than a merchandise mascot. Was it originally a show or comic or something?
minus-squareHeartyOfGlass@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·1 month agoHello Kitty is indeed a marketing ploy. It has since gotten its own animated series, comics, and so on, but the reason it exists was to try and sell stuff to pre-teens.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoNo it was always a merchandise mascot. There was a 1981 animated short “Kitty and Mimmy’s new umbrella”. Stop motion, well made. There were also a couple of anime shows later on, starting in the late 1980s.
I have never known Hello Kitty to be anything other than a merchandise mascot. Was it originally a show or comic or something?
Hello Kitty is indeed a marketing ploy. It has since gotten its own animated series, comics, and so on, but the reason it exists was to try and sell stuff to pre-teens.
No it was always a merchandise mascot.
There was a 1981 animated short “Kitty and Mimmy’s new umbrella”. Stop motion, well made.
There were also a couple of anime shows later on, starting in the late 1980s.