Editing Hello Kitty (section)

==Character==
Hello Kitty is a ''[[gijinka]]'', an [[anthropomorphism]] or personification of a [[Japanese Bobtail|Japanese Bobtail cat]].<ref name="rocketnews24">{{cite web|title=Hello Kitty isn't a cat!? We called Sanrio to find out!|date=28 August 2014 |url=http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/08/28/hello-kitty-isnt-a-cat-we-called-sanrio-to-find-out/|accessdate=29 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="kotaku">{{cite web|last1=Ashcroft|first1=Brian|title=Don't Be Silly, Hello Kitty Is a Cat | website=[[Kotaku]] |date=28 August 2014 |url=http://kotaku.com/dont-be-silly-hello-kitty-is-a-cat-1627820750|accessdate=29 August 2014}}</ref><ref name="npr">{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2010/12/03/131755914/hello-kitty-hooks-generations-on-cute-kitsch |title=Hello Kitty Hooks Generations On Cute, Kitsch |publisher=NPR |date=3 December 2010 |access-date=13 August 2012}}</ref> Official character profiles list her full name as {{nihongo|Kitty White|キティ・ホワイト|Kiti Howaito}}, born in the suburbs of [[London, England]], on November 1. Her height is described as five apples and her weight as three apples. She is portrayed as a bright and kind-hearted girl, very close to her twin sister Mimmy. She is good at baking cookies and loves her mama's homemade apple pie. She likes to play the piano and collect cute things, and her favorite subjects in school are English, music, and art.<ref name="sanriocharacterdetails" /><ref name="sanriofamily">{{cite web|title=Sanrio - Hello Kitty Family |url=http://www.hellokitty.ne.jp/english/kt_family.html |publisher=Sanrio |accessdate=25 July 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816230401/http://www.sanrio.co.jp/characters/hellokitty/english/kt_family.html |archivedate=16 August 2011}}</ref><ref name="sanriofriend">{{cite web | url=https://www.sanrio.com/blogs/sanrio/sanrio-friend-of-the-month-hello-kitty | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220919093230/https://www.sanrio.com/blogs/sanrio/sanrio-friend-of-the-month-hello-kitty | archive-date=19 September 2022 | title=Sanrio Friend of the Month: Hello Kitty |website=Sanrio}}</ref>

Hello Kitty is portrayed with a large family with the surname ''White''. Her twin sister Mimmy is described as "shy and very girly", interested in sewing and dreaming of marriage. While Hello Kitty wears a red bow on her left ear, Mimmy wears a yellow one on her right. Their papa George is described as dependable, humorous but also absent-minded. Their mama Mary is portrayed as a good cook who loves doing housework. Grandpa Anthony likes to tell stories and grandma Margaret likes sewing.<ref name="sanriofamily" /><ref name="sanriofriend" /> In addition to family, Hello Kitty is also depicted with several animal friends, including the mice Joey and Judy, the bears Tippy and Thomas, the raccoon Tracy and the squirrel Rorry.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.sanrio.com/character/1970/hello-kitty?_=1543031153298 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124034601/https://www.sanrio.com/character/1970/hello-kitty?_=1543031153298 | archive-date=2018-11-24 | title=Hello Kitty &#124; Sanrio Timeline }}</ref>

Aside from the core Hello Kitty characters, several spinoff characters have been created: Hello Kitty's boyfriend [[Dear Daniel]] in 1999, [[Charmmy Kitty]], Hello Kitty's pet cat, and Sugar, her pet hamster, both in 2004, and her superhero alter-ego [[Ichigoman]] in 2011.<ref name="glamour2014" /><ref name="ichigoman2016" />

[[SFGATE]] said in 2004 that in light of the level of success of Hello Kitty, her fictional biography "seems almost too modest – or irrelevant" and "doesn't seem to have played much of a part" in the success.<ref name="sfgate2004" />

In 2014 an anthropologist was told by Sanrio that Kitty White was not simply a cat (i.e. "depicted on all fours"), describing her as a little [[England|English]] girl called Kitty White, from outside London.<ref name="latimes" /> Following reports that interpreted this to mean she was human, a Sanrio PR representative said that the organization had "never said she was a human", explaining [[anthropomorphism|anthropomorphization]] by comparing the character to [[Mickey Mouse]]: "No one would mistake the Disney character for a human–but at the same time he's not quite a mouse. Just like Hello Kitty isn't a human, she's not quite a cat either."<ref name="rocketnews24"/> Sanrio stated further, "Hello Kitty was done in the motif of a cat. It's going too far to say that Hello Kitty is not a cat."<ref name="kotaku"/>