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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 ...
Nutcracker Fantasy (くるみ割り人形, Kurumiwari Ningyō, lit. ' The Nutcracker ') is a Japanese-American stop motion animated film produced by Sanrio, [1] very loosely based on Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker and E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". [2]
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 rabbit My Melody from 1975, the frog Keroppi from 1988, the penguin Bad Badtz-Maru from 1993, the white dog Cinnamoroll from 2001, the rabbit Kuromi from 2005, the animal series Jewelpet from 2008, the egg character Gudetama ...
Shintaro Tsuji (born 1927), founder of the Japanese company Sanrio; Yasuhiro Tsuji (born 1955), a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan who served two terms in the National Diet; Yota Tsuji (辻 陽太, born 1993), Japanese professional wrestler; Jiro Tsuji, a Japanese chemist who pioneered the Tsuji–Trost reaction
Years later, Sirius (named Syrius in the English adaptation), Glaucus's Most Loyal Warrior, becomes heir to the Sea Kingdom and is given the Eye of Argon to protect. Princess Malta, the daughter of Themis, also becomes the new heir to the Fire Kingdom, being charged with guarding the Holy Flame at the edge of the sea each night until her ...
Taeko Nakanishi (Alexandra Kenworthy in the English dub) as Chirin's mother, a ewe who is very loving towards her son Chirin. Her death at the paws of the Wolf sets the plot in motion. Seizō Katō (Bill Capizzi in the English dub) as the Wolf (ウォー Woe in the Japanese version), an aging black wolf with a scar across one eye. The wolf ...
Zvi died later without telling the world about the real author of The History of Love. In a parallel story, a 15-year-old girl, Alma Singer, named after the Alma in The History of Love, her parents' favorite book, is struggling to cope with the loss of her father due to cancer. Her mother becomes distant and lonely, escaping into her work of ...