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Best. Show. Ever.
Are you ready for “Hello Kitty: The TV Series”?
Are you beyond ready? Have you been waiting for it all your life? Or is that just me?
Actually, the name of the show is “Hello Kitty, Stamp Village”, Sanrio reports. The series will air in several countries, with world peace no doubt soon to follow.
I hate to interject any troubling notes into such a lovely scenario, but a couple of things must be said.
First, consider this quote from the Yahoo! News story:
“The series to be done in clay animation revolves around Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters including the red-hooded bunny My Melody and the mischievous penguin Bad Badtz-Maru.”
When I started reading that paragraph, my thought was “Badtz-Maru had better be part of this, or I’m declaring eight kinds of boycotts.” That thought quickly changed to “Bad is part of Badtz-Maru’s name? Since when?”
Am I just not up on my Sanrio lore? I thought he was just good ol’ Badtz.
There is also this: The show is set in a forest.
Forest. Hello Kitty lives in a forest? I always imagined that Hello Kitty lived in a cute little cottage in a gentrified neighborhood or maybe a fourplex apartment building with her bike parked out front. And that she would ride her bike to her job, which would be at a fashion boutique (maybe one that she runs with Chloe Dao! And they would be my best friends and give me discounts!) or a bakery painted sunny yellow. And then after work she would ride her bike to a cute cafe and have tapas with Badtz-Maru and Chococat and then they would go dancing at the club where Badtz-Maru deejays. What’s she going to do in a forest?
This had better be good, Sanrio.
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By Ellen
February 23, 2006 09:21 AM | Link to this
Oh a forest is certainly all wrong. I picture Hello Kitty living in Barbara Novak's apartment from Down With Love. Or is that me?