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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 ...
The first episode aired on Monday, October 26 at 3pm PST with an all-star cast of Hello Kitty, Keroppi, Badtz-Maru, My Melody, Pompompurin, and Kuromi. In season 2, Chococat and Cinnamoroll joined the main cast, while in season 4, Pochacco joined the cast.
The animation works together with real actors in teaching children from age two to six about words, simple math, shapes, colors and foreign languages like Chinese & Japanese. The series offers an entertaining way for younger viewers to learn about social interaction and behavior while following the adventures of Hello Kitty.
A Uni Air plane painted in a Badtz-Maru motif, 2016. Bad Badtz-Maru (ja:バッドばつ丸, Baddo batsu maru) is a male penguin character drawn with spiky hair. [123] Designed by Hisato Inoue (ja:井上・ヒサト) who also designed Hangyodon. [87] In Japanese, "badtz" (batsu) is a term for "X", the cross signifying a wrong answer. "Maru ...
My Melody & Kuromi (Japanese: マイメロディとクロミ, Hepburn: Maimerodi to Kuromi) is an upcoming Japanese stop-motion original net animation series co-produced by Toruku Studio, based on the Sanrio characters My Melody and Kuromi. [2] The series is slated for a July 2025 premiere on Netflix.
The name "Gudetama" is derived from two parts: the first is the ideophone gudegude (Japanese: ぐでぐで), which is used to evoke the impression of something lazy and lacking energy. The second part is from the Japanese word tamago (Japanese: たまご) which means egg. [8] [17] Therefore, Gudetama can be translated to English as "lazy egg".
Kuromi (クロミ, Kuromi) / Kurumi Nui (クルミ・ヌイ, Kurumi Nui) Voiced by: Junko Takeuchi (Japanese); Emily Woo Zeller (English) Kuromi is My Melody's Rival (or so it seems), a rabbit who wears a black joker's hat with a pink skull at the center of her forehead. The skull's facial expression changes to match Kuromi's mood.
The characters gained a Japanese anime series in 2007. The series is directed by Hiroshi Kugimiya, the key animator of Death Note , and is a produced by Asahi Production . The original series premiered on TV Tokyo and Kids Station as a segment of the program Kitty Paradise Plus on April 3, 2007, and ended later that year after 27 episodes.