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This is a list of characters from Sanrio, a Japanese company specialized in creating kawaii (cute) characters. Sanrio sells and licenses products branded with these characters and has created over 450 characters. Their most successful and best known character, Hello Kitty, was created in 1974. Most Sanrio characters are anthropomorphized animals, while a few are humans or anthropomorphized objects. Sanrio began creating characters to increase sales of its merchandise. Typical merchandise featuring the characters include clothing, accessories, toys and stationery. The characters subsequently appeared in media such as books, animation and video games. Beginning with ''Jewelpet'' in 2008, Sanrio started collaborating with Sega Toys in creating characters intended to become media franchises. Notable designers of Sanrio characters include Yuko Shimizu, original designer of Hello Kitty, Yuko Yamaguchi, lead designer for most of Hello Kitty's history and Miyuki Okumura, original designe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanrio Character Rankings
The Sanrio Character Rankings are an annual popularity poll in which users vote for their favourite Sanrio character. The popularity poll has been conducted every year since 1986. Previously conducted via Sanrio's official monthly newspaper, the '' Strawberry Newspaper'', the ranking is now conducted online. From the official Sanrio Character Ranking 2025 website FAQs: "The Sanrio character ranking is an annual, popularity contest for Sanrio characters and this year marks its 40th year! The 90 characters included have been chosen after careful consideration from various perspectives." The Character Cinnamoroll has been incredibly popular in the rankings in recent years, having won seven out of eight times between 2017 and 2024. Hello Kitty topped the list for the first time in 1998 and remains in the all-time lead, having topped the list fifteen times as of 2024. Previous top ten winners Leaderboard {, class="wikitable sortable" , + !Character !Number of 1st place Wins !Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanrio Puroland
, also known as ''Hello Kitty Land'', is an indoor theme park located in Tama New Town, Tokyo, Japan. Opened on December 7, 1990, it hosts attractions, live shows, shopping outlets, and restaurants dedicated to List of Sanrio characters, Sanrio characters such as Hello Kitty, My Melody (character), My Melody, Cinnamoroll, Gudetama, and Aggretsuko, in a manner akin to Disney Parks, Disney theme parks. Sanrio Puroland attracts over 1.5 million visitors per year, and is ranked among the major theme parks in Japan, along with both Tokyo Disney Resort parks and Fuji-Q Highland. Sanrio also operates Harmonyland (Sanrio theme park), Harmonyland, an outdoor theme park in Oita Prefecture. History Sanrio Puroland was a "bold attempt" to challenge the Walt Disney company and its theme parks. During its conceptual phase, Sanrio Puroland was known by many names - first as Sanrio Communication World, as well as Sanrio Heart Park and Sanrio Piero Land. The original theme was going to be "comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinnamoroll
is a character series created by Sanrio in 2001, with character designs from Miyuki Okumura. The main character, Cinnamoroll, is a white puppy with chubby and pink cheeks, long ears, blue eyes, and a tail that resembles a cinnamon roll. He starred in his own manga series, an anime movie, and various animation shorts. In its initial run, the series expanded into two official side series: in 2005, which focuses on Azuki, Mocha, and Chiffon and in 2007, which focuses on both Berry and Cherry. Story Cinnamoroll is a white dog who lives at Café Cinnamon. He is friends with Chiffon, Mocha, Espresso, Cappuccino and Milk over there. He fell out of the sky when wandering on the clouds and landed near Cafe Cinnamon. Chowder saw him and Ms. Anna picked Cinnamoroll up. Ms. Anna then introduced him to his new friends, Chiffon, Mocha, Espresso, Cappuccino, and Milk. ; : (Japan), Sunday Muse ("The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends"), Jenny Yokobori ("Hello Kitty and Friends: Sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanrio
is a Japanese entertainment company. It designs, licenses, and manufactures products focusing on the ''kawaii'' ("cute") segment of Japanese popular culture. Their products include stationery, school supplies, gifts, and Fashion accessory, accessories, which are sold worldwide, including at specialty brand retail stores in Japan. Sanrio's best-known character is Hello Kitty, a cartoon cat and one of the most successful marketing brands in the world. Besides selling character goods, Sanrio takes part in film production and publishing. They own the rights to the ''Mr. Men'' characters and Japanese licensing rights to the ''Peanuts'' characters. Their animatronics branch, Kokoro Company, Ltd. (''kokoro'' being Japanese for "heart"), is best known for the Actroid Android (robot), android. The company also runs several KFC franchises across Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture. History Shintaro Tsuji founded Sanrio on August 10, 1960, then known as the Yamanashi Silk Company using in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Hello Kitty Animated Series
There are several different Hello Kitty animated series, featuring the cartoon character Hello Kitty, from the Japanese company Sanrio. ''Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater'' (1987) ''Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater'' is a Japanese-American animated series co-produced by DIC Entertainment, DIC Enterprises and animated by Toei Animation. The series involved Hello Kitty and her friends doing their own version of popular fairy tales and stories. Each of the 13 half-hour episodes consisted of two 11-minute cartoons, and they first aired on CBS from September 19 to December 12, 1987. ''Hello Kitty and Friends'' (1989–1998) ''SANRIO Animation Series'', also known as , is a series of 80 Japanese OVAs produced between 1989 and 1998, and animated by Gropuer Production. 30 of these OVAs (and two Sanrio Anime Festival films) were dubbed in English under the title ''Hello Kitty and Friends'' and aired on YTV (Canadian TV channel), YTV in Canada. The series featured Hello Kitty and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London, England
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Yuko may refer to: * Yuko (judo) (''yūkō''), a score in judo competition * Yuko (Ukrainian band), a Ukrainian band * Yūko, a Japanese female given name (including a list of persons with the name) * Yuko, a Belgian band * Yuko people Yukpa is an Amerindian ethnic group that inhabits the northeastern part of the Cesar Department in northern Colombia by the Serranía del Perijá bordering Venezuela. Their territory covers the eastern areas of the municipalities of Robles ..., an Amerindian ethnic group * Yuko, a famous cosplayer See also * Yukou (Japanese citrus) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
