OK now I have seen everything! A Hello Kitty AR-15 assault rifle?
Hello Kitty –
Hello Kitty is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, first designed by Yuko Shimizu. She is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow.
The character’s first appearance on an item, a vinyl coin purse, was introduced in Japan in 1974 and brought to the United States in 1976 – where it has taken the country by storm.
The character is a staple of the kawaii segment of Japanese popular culture.
At age 36 as of 2010, Sanrio has groomed Hello Kitty into a global marketing phenomenon worth $5 billion a year.
Source: In Search of Adorable, as Hello Kitty Gets Closer to Goodbyehttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/business/global/15kitty.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
By 2014, when Hello Kitty was 40 years old, it was doing $7 billion a year, all without any advertising.
Originally aimed at pre-adolescent females, Hello Kitty’s market has broadened to include adult consumers. She can be found on a variety of products ranging from school supplies to fashion accessories and high-end consumer products. Several Hello Kitty TV series, targeted towards young children, have been produced. Hello Kitty is also the main character at the two Japanese Sanrio theme parks, Harmonyland and the indoor Sanrio Puroland.
Per official character profiles for Hello Kitty, her full name is Kitty White (キティ・ホワイト Kiti Howaito) and she was 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 Mama’s homemade apple pie. She likes to collect cute things and her favorite subjects in school are English, music and art…and apparently hunting people or defending herself and her 2nd amendment gun rights using an AR-15 assault rifle?
Hello Kitty is portrayed surrounded by a large family who all possess the surname ‘White.’ Her twin sister Mimmy is described as “shy and very girly,” interested in sewing and dreaming of marriage.
Hello Kitty – originally aimed at the “pre-adolescent” female market, the Hello Kitty product range has expanded and goes all the way from dolls, stickers, greeting cards, clothes, accessories, school supplies and stationery to purses, toasters, televisions, other home appliances, massagers, and computer equipment, and oh ya – did I mention assault rifles?