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Shintaro Tsuji was born in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, [1] to a manageress of three ryokan. [2] He was a student of a kindergarten affiliated with the Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin . [ 3 ] As part of a wealthy family belonging to the Saegusa clan, Tsuji, as their first child, lived a life of luxury, yet he was secluded. [ 2 ]
In 1962, Shintaro Tsuji, founder of Sanrio, began selling rubber sandals with flowers painted on them. [21] Tsuji noted the profits gained by adding a cute design to the shoes and hired cartoonists to design cute characters for his merchandise. [21] Hello Kitty was designed by Yuko Shimizu and was added to the lineup of early Sanrio characters ...
Tsuji says he doesn’t know why his grandfather chose to make her British—“Hello Kitty was born 50 years ago and I'm only 35!” he laughs—though prevailing wisdom is that Japanese products ...
Then, in 2020, Tomokuni Tsuji inherited the role as Sanrio's boss. He is the grandson of the firm's founder, Shintaro Tsuji, and was just 31 at the time, making him the youngest chief executive of ...
Sanrio has created over 450 characters as of 2022, the best known of which is the white cat character Hello Kitty from 1974. [35] Other well-known characters include the pink rabbit My Melody from 1975, the frog Keroppi from 1988, the penguin Bad Badtz-Maru from 1993, the white dog Cinnamoroll from 2001, the black rabbit Kuromi from 2005, the animal series Jewelpet from 2008, the egg character ...
Minori Matsushima (Barbara Goodson in the English dub) as Chirin (チリン), a young, cheerful and innocent lamb who has no understanding of life and death. He always wears a bell around his neck. Akira Kamiya (Gregg Berger in the English dub) voices Chirin as an adult ram. As a result of his quest to kill the wolf, he grows into an antelope ...
He was created as an alter-ego for Sanrio founder Shintaro Tsuji, and has the same birthday as him, December 7. [10] Official character bios describe him as "the king of the beautiful and peaceful Strawberry Kingdom" who "spends his days bringing messages of peace and friendship to all". [53] The Strawberry King rarely appears on merchandise. [54]
The Legend of Sirius) is a 1981 Japanese anime film by Sanrio, based on a story by Shintaro Tsuji. It is said to be a loose retelling of Romeo and Juliet, itself a European version of many tales of star-crossed lovers in a variety of cultures and eras. In this story, the children of the gods of fire and water fall in love and fight to stay ...