He is one of the most popular children's characters in the world. It often appears on our screens because it adorns rooms, clothes, stars in collections, turns years… We refer to it as a kitten. But now it turns out that Kitty is not a cat, So what is it?
Because those pointed ears, the tail and those whiskers that come out in the skunk are quite indicative ... It does not matter if it does not go on all fours, Dartacán or Snoopy did not do it either and nobody doubted that they were dogs.
The "news" has been uncovered following an exhibition that an anthropologist at the University of Hawaii is organizing because Hello Kitty turns 40. Introducing Sanrio, the creator of Kitty, the draft of the exhibition, this company made a clarification. Sanrio revealed that he was not a cat but simply a cartoon character:
Hello Kitty is not a cat. He is a cartoon character. She is a little girl, a friend. But it is not a cat, it has never been presented on all fours. She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. He also has his own cat as a pet.
On the official website of Sanrio, all these statements are confirmed and other data provided by the anthropologist are also confirmed: Kitty is British, has a twin sister, her full name is Kitty White and she likes apple pie.
The character was created 40 years ago to inspire happiness, friendship and to be shared all over the world. It appeared for the first time in a purse and today illustrates the most diverse objects, having become a global phenomenon.
Anyway, we weren't too worried about Kitty's nationality, but her kind ... it was a surprise! When reading that it was not a cat, the first thing I thought was "maybe an albino tigress, a lynx, a cheetah ..." But come on, from the cat family, about the ears, the tail and the whiskers.
We can no longer talk about "the kitten", although what you want me to say, makes me more thanks, Hello Kitty, fictional character is still, but is that ... human? It doesn't seem like it ... It's as if they suddenly tell me Pocoyo is a chimpanzee!
Upgrade: Yaninaxxx warns us that after the stir caused by this "news", the Sanrio company has clarified that Kitty is a kind of kitten, a human-shaped cat, personified, anthropomorphic. After the stir in national and international media, everything is due to a confusion in the translation of their statements and because it is very common in Japanese to call cats cats "girl" (or "boy" to cats). We can see the clarification of the company here.
