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Hello Kitty (Harō Kiti), also known by her full name Kitty White (Kiti Howaito), is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio. She was created by Yuko Shimizu and is currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi. The Sanrio company depicts Hello Kitty as a young female gijinka, or anthropomorphization, of a Japanes Bobtail cat with a red bow and no mouth.
In 2019, Hello Kitty was the second highest-grossing media frnachise of all time, Pokémon being the first, having generated eighty billion dollars in lifetime retail sales of its product line- clothing apparel, toy-line, manga comics, anime series, popular music, games and other media. There are Sanrio theme parks based entirely on Hello Kitty in Hiji, Oita, Japan and in Tama New Town, Tokyo, Japan.