Catching Up On the News

Sorry folks if I seem to drop off. Without a Sanrio Store and the was not much to talk about all thing Sanrio until Now.

Sanrio 2023 Character Ranking results

As presented at Sanrio Fes 2023 Cinnamoroll with 1st place for the fourth straight year with 4,376,064 votes. Pompompurin took 2nd and my new waifu Kuromi took 3rd. Other finishers were Hello Kitty was 5th, My Melody 6th, Hangyodon, Little Twin Stars, Tuxedosam bring up the rear of the top ten. [Character ranking official page].

Cinnamoroll dominated the overseas ranking by capturing 1st place in nine of the 14 regions including China, South Korea, United States, Brazil, Italy, France, Australia, Singapore, and Spain.  Cinnamoroll and Pompompurin disproves the popularity ranking is base who Sanrio Sanrio promoted the year before. Still, I wonder if Kuromify the World promotion could with her catchy video has anything to do with her third-place finish.

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New Item Two: He’s Back

After seven Years, Mr. Hello Kitty Hell released a post on his Facebook Page. This disproves my theory he hung up his blog for professional reasons, his blog about his dislike for Hello Kitty became a media sensation he never intended or wanted, or the difficulty of running atrocity tourism blog on one mental health. All I have to say is welcome back.

The Strawberry King has vacated the throne; long live the new King.

For those have not heard the news,  Shintaro Tsuji, the owner, founder and driving force of Sanrio  has stepped down as CEO and handed  resigns to his grandson. Tomokuni Tsuji.

We have a lot to  thank  Mr. Tsuji for, but I feel the time for new blood has come, especially the missteps Sanrio took in closing down US retail business and over relied on big box stores like Target , Best Buy and Toys r Us to carry the load.  The  plan worked for a while until Target and Best Buy gave  Hello Kitty the boot and  replaced her with the next big thing. (out Hello Kitty: in Monster High.) In addition, the bankruptcy and liquidation of Toys r Us in the US did not help and poor service for Sanrio.com

 

NPR Story

Asahi Times Story

An Offer of a Pardon and Amnesty To Sanrio and Sanrio fans.

I Richard Brown   as  a natural American of African descent have  a authority to appoint my Hello Kitty plush as my assistant and to act on behalf of Walter E. Williams to offer a Pardon and Amnesty to the Company Sanrio, all Sanrio Fans world wide. Those of  European and Asian descent for all crimes actual and implied  against  Americans of African descent and release them form any shame and obligations to support any activist group including Black lives Lives Matter.

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Hello Kitty Around the Wold POP up Report

Last December 27th  I  was at the Hello Kitty Around the world pop up tour in Bellevue Washington.  The pop-up more like  Hell Kitty  events held  in  Singapore and Taiwan but  with little interactive  pieces and not like museum type exhibit as was the Hello Kitty  Super cute  museum exhibit four years earlier to the date. still it was something to do.