List of Hello Kitty television series

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Hello Kitty
Hello Kitty Animation Theater screenshot.jpg
Hello Kitty in a kimono from Hello Kitty Animation Theater vol.1
Hello Kitty ハローキティ
(Harō Kiti)
Anime television series
Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
StudioToei Animation
DIC Entertainment
Original networkCBS
Original run 1987 – 1988
Episodes13
Original video animation
Directed byYasuo Ishikawa
Masami Hata
Fumio Kurokawa
Produced byTakaharu Yoshikawa
Music bySenji Nanba
StudioGrouper Production
Licensed byKaleidoscope Entertainment, Inc.
Family Home Entertainment
Released 1989 – 1994
Episodes13
Anime television series
Hello Kitty's Paradise
Directed byHaruhiko Sakamoto
Music byGō Takahashi
StudioSanrio Digital
ShoPro Entertainment
Bones
Licensed by
Enoki Films/Saban International/MGM Television
Original networkTV Tokyo
TV Asahi
Kids Station
Original run 1999 – 2011
Original video animation
Growing Up With Hello Kitty
StudioSanrio Digital
Episodes12
Anime television series
Hello Kitty's Stump Village
Directed byHan-Jung-Suk
Soo-Hyun Kim
Produced byChris Eum
Luke Han
Written byJu-Young-Ahn
StudioStudio Tomorrow
SOVIK Venture Capital
Licensed by
Geneon
Original run May 5, 2005 – October 27, 2005
Episodes26
Anime television series
The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends
StudioSanrio Digital
Dream Cortex
Original networkTVB Jade
Original run 2006 – present
Episodes32
Anime television series
Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori no Fantasy
StudioSanrio Digital
Asahi Production
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run April 4, 2006 – September 19, 2006
Episodes13
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There are several different Hello Kitty (Hello Kitty ハローキティ, Harō Kiti) TV series, featuring the character Hello Kitty, from the Japanese company Sanrio.

Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater (1987)[]

Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater is a Japanese-American co-produced animated series. The series involved Hello Kitty and her friends doing their own version of popular fairy tales and stories. Each of the 13 half-hour episodes consisted of two 11-minute cartoons, for a total of 26 shows; each show was a spoof of a well-known fairy tale or movie.

Hello Kitty and Friends (1989–1995)[]

Hello Kitty and Friends is a series of Japanese OVAs that were dubbed in English as a TV series. In this series, Kitty is a little girl kitten living with her mother, father, and twin sister Mimmy, who is identical to Kitty but has different colored clothes and wears a yellow bow under the opposite ear. Only 13 episodes were imported to the US. The first series was also broadcast on ZDF and Super RTL (Germany) and Canal de las Estrellas (Mexico).

Episodes[]

  1. Cinderella (22 July, 1989)
  2. The Sleeping Princess (20 July, 1991)
  3. The Circus Comes to Town (21 July, 1992)
  4. The Day the Big Clock Stopped (21 July, 1992)
  5. Mom Loves Me After All (21 August, 1992)
  6. The Magic Apple (21 September, 1992)
  7. Santa's Missing Hat (1 November, 1992)
  8. The Wonderful Sisters (21 May, 1993)
  9. Snow White (21 July, 1993)
  10. Heidi (21 August, 1993)
  11. Alice in Wonderland (21 November, 1993)
  12. The Dream Thief (21 December, 1993)
  13. The Prince in his Dream Castle (12 February, 1994)


Cast[]

Growing Up With Hello Kitty (1994)[]

Growing Up With Hello Kitty (Japanese: ハローキティといっしょ, Hepburn: Harōkiti to Issho, lit. Together With Hello Kitty) is series of OVAs by Sanrio featuring Hello Kitty and her twin sister Mimmy as they learn life lessons. In 2012, AnimEigo released the series on DVD in North America with an English dub by Coastal Studios.[1] Each disc contains six episodes focusing on issues such as learning how to talk on the phone, cleaning up a messy room and playing nicely. The production has been generally well-reviewed, with viewers pleased by both the quality of the production as well as the educational content.

Segments[]

  1. Going to The Bathroom
  2. Changing Our Clothes
  3. Eating Nicely
  4. I Can Share With Friends
  5. Sleeping By Ourselves
  6. Saying I'm Sorry
  7. Cleaning Up My Mess
  8. Replying Properly
  9. Talking On the Phone
  10. Let's Play Together
  11. It's Fun to Help
  12. Eating Our Vegetables


Hello Kitty's Paradise (1999–2011)[]

Hello Kitty's Paradise (Japanese: キティズパラダイス, Hepburn: Kitizu Paradaisu, lit. Kitty's Paradise) is a children's variety series that officially ran from 1999 to 2011. Saban Entertainment and MGM Television (which also owned the home video rights to Hello Kitty and Friends) adapted the third season's shorts into a TV series in the U.S.[2] The show was the longest running weekly children's program in TV Tokyo's history, and aired on Tuesday mornings at 7:30 AM JST throughout its 12-year run. Following the series finale on March 29, 2011, it was immediately replaced by Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream in its timeslot on April 9, 2011.

Episodes[]

Episodes from Pretty Kitty

  1. A Blooming Good Morning
  2. A Storybook Adventure
  3. Kitty's Clean Cuisine
  4. A Day Out with Dad
  5. Underground Kitty
  6. Watch the Birdie
  7. Minding Manners
  8. Streetwise

Episodes from Fun With Friends

  1. The Magic Bags
  2. The Dust Monster
  3. Put On a Happy Place
  4. The Train to Grandma's House
  5. Paper Play
  6. Sizing Things Up
  7. The Broken Robot
  8. What's in Store

Episodes from Share And Care

  1. Shadow Play
  2. Happy Birthday Papa
  3. The Great Kitty Car Race
  4. Adventures in Groceryland
  5. A Trip to Rainbow Park
  6. Birthday Party Time
  7. Making Cookies
  8. Great Shapes!

Episodes from Learn With love

  1. A Stitch in Time Saves Nine Lives!
  2. The Big and Small of It
  3. A Puzzling Day
  4. A Fair Share
  5. Can You Count Them?
  6. Everything Has Its Place
  7. Once Upon A Kitty
  8. A Nice Little Walk in the City


Cast[]

Hello Kitty's Animation Theater (2000)[]

Hello Kitty's Animation Theater is an anime produced by Sanrio Digital and licensed by ADV Films.

Hello Kitty's Stump Village (2005)[]

Hello Kitty's Stump Village is a Japanese/South Korean clay-animated series produced in 2005 by Sanrio, SOVIK Venture Capital and Studio Tomorrow. It was acquired for North American distribution by Geneon and released on DVD with an English dub by Bang Zoom! Entertainment between October 31, 2006, and September 4, 2007.[3] In Japan, the series was released on DVD on April 25, 2007 by Tohokushinsha Film.[4] It later premiered on Cartoon Network in the country on May 3, 2008.[5] In South Korea, the series debuted on Champ on October 1, 2007.[6]

Unlike other series, there is no dialogue in this one. Instead, the narrator tells the events of the episodes.

Episodes[]

  1. Seesaw Nutcracker
  2. Veggie Sunglasses
  3. Goodie Town
  4. Heart Shaped Fruit
  5. Friends Again
  6. Strange Penguin
  7. Shadow Show
  8. Hoop-a-Doop
  9. Domino Game
  10. Please Come Back
  11. Air Balloon
  12. Little Twin Stars
  13. Kiwi Cars
  14. Magical Bowling
  15. Grape Juice
  16. Mask Party
  17. Don't Be Picky
  18. Candy Tree
  19. Stump Theater
  20. Circus
  21. Puppet Show
  22. Scarecrow
  23. Wheat Field
  24. Windmill
  25. Trick or Treat
  26. Keroppi the Frog

Cast[]

Hello Kitty
My Melody
Cinnamoroll
Pompompurin
Badtz-Maru
Little Twin Stars
Keroppi
jewelpet

Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori (2006-2008)[]

Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori was a anime series divided into three seasons. The seasons are: Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori no Fantasy (ハローキティ りんごの森のファンタジー), Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori no Mystery ( ハローキティ りんごの森のミステリー) and Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori to Parallel Town (ハローキティ りんごの森とパラレルタウン). The anime was a production of Asahi Production.

While this series was never released in English, it did receive several dubs in Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Chinese and Arabic.

The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends (2008-2009)[]

The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends is a 3D CGI animated series from 2008 developed by Sanrio's digital entertainment entity Sanrio Digital.

The World of Hello Kitty (2016-2019)[]

The World of Hello Kitty (Portuguese: O Mundo da Hello Kitty) is a flash animated webseries of shorts produced by Sanrio and the Brazilian animation studio Plot Kids. It started streaming on the Latin American Hello Kitty YouTube channels in 2016 and ended in 2019, lasting 4 seasons with 76 episodes and 19 video clips. The last season was themed to honor the character's 45th birthday. An English dubbed version began streaming on the Southeast Asian Hello Kitty YouTube channels in April 2020.[7]

This animation has appearances of other Sanrio characters such as Keroppi, Badtz-Maru and Chococat (introduced in the second season), and also My Melody and Little Twin Stars (appearing only in the final season). In 2020 a special season with 6 episodes entitled Hello Kitty & Amigos: Chef Star was released.

Hello Kitty & Friends - Let's Learn Together (2017)[]

Hello Kitty & Friends - Let's Learn Together (Japanese: キティと一緒に学び、考えていく, Hepburn: Kiti to Issho ni Manabi, Kangaete Iku, lit. Learn and Think with Kitty) is a series of animated educational webshorts by Sanrio that began streaming in Japan on Hikari TV on July 28, 2017.[8] A total of 21 seven-minute episodes were produced. The show was later released on DVD in Japan by Nippon Columbia.

On July 25, 2018, Sentai Filmworks acquired the rights to release the series in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.[9] An English dubbed version was then released on DVD in November 2018.[10]

Gundam vs Hello Kitty (2019)[]

In January 2019 a limited Original net animation series in three episodes entitled Gundam vs Hello Kitty (Japanese: ガンダムvsハローキティ, Hepburn: Gandamu vs harōkiti, lit. Gundam vs Hello Kitty) was launched featuring a crossover between Hello Kitty with the classic 1979 anime series Mobile Suit Gundam.[11] The animation was part of a cross-promotion to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Gundam and the 45th anniversary of Hello Kitty. The episodes were made available on its own YouTube channel with animation made by Sunrise.

Hello Kitty Fun (2019-present)[]

Hello Kitty Fun is another flash animated web series of shorts also exclusive from Hello Kitty's Latin YouTube Channels. The series was created as a replacement for The World of Hello Kitty, however different from the previous one this series uses a hand-drawn art style, and it has no dialogue. No other character (besides Hello Kitty) appears in this series. The series is a production made between Sanrio and the Brazilian animation studio Split Studio.

On the English channel the series is presented under the name Sweet Moments with Hello Kitty.

Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures (2020-present)[]

The latest addition to the franchise Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures is an animated web series published weekly to the official Hello Kitty and Friends YouTube. The first episode aired on Monday, October 26 at 3pm PST with an all star cast of Hello Kitty, Keroppi, Badtz-Maru, My Melody, Cinnamoroll, Chococat, Pompompurin, and Kuromi.

References[]

  1. ^ Loo, Egan (January 6, 2012). "AnimEigo Adds Growing Up With Hello Kitty Anime". Anime News Network. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  2. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 402–403. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  3. ^ Macdonald, Christopher (July 2, 2006). "Geneon Anime Licenses". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  4. ^ "ハローキティのスタンプヴィレッジ". Tohokushinsha Film (in Japanese). Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  5. ^ "カートウーン ネットワーク 08年5月目玉番組情報" (PDF). Cartoon Network (Press release) (in Japanese). Tokyo. May 10, 2008. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  6. ^ "챔프 10월 신작 안내". Champ (in Korean). September 22, 2007. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
  7. ^ "The World of Hello Kitty". Sanrio. YouTube. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  8. ^ "ハローキティとあそぼう！まなぼう！知育アニメＤＶＤが発売決定". Nippon Columbia (Press release) (in Japanese). PR Times. August 24, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  9. ^ Ressler, Karen (July 25, 2018). "Sentai Filmworks Launches 'Kids' Label With New Hello Kitty Series". Anime News Network. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  10. ^ "SENTAI FILMWORKS OFFICIAL NOVEMBER SLATE". Sentai Filmworks. July 26, 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  11. ^ https://geekculture.co/the-gundam-40th-vs-hello-kitty-45th-anniversary-crossover-spawns-cool-anime-and-model-kit/
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