It may be shocking, but Hello Kitty was not Sanrio's first icon, and while she is the most famous this underrated character ...

Yuko Shimizu, the Sanrio employee who created Hello Kitty, told BBC that her design for the character was "a white cat with a red bow in its hair." She added how the inspiration behind the ...

Hello Kitty may look just like a cat, but according to Sanrio itself, that assumption about the character could not be further from the truth.