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INTEREST: While Hello Kitty Isn't A Cat, She Isn't Not A Cat, Either




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mangamuscle



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 1:29 pm Reply with quote
Kitty is a little girl, and definitely not a cat ... She's not even, really, not a cat.

Sooooo, she is a variation of schrodinger's (not) cat?
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Dark Absol



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 3:42 pm Reply with quote
This article's head title's confusing me. Anime dazed
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Aquasakura



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 4:59 pm Reply with quote
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While Sanrio does insist that Kitty is a little girl, and definitely not a cat, she's at least not a human little girl. Or really, any particular type of little girl. She's simply an anthropomorphization or personification. She's not even, really, not a cat.


Well at least Sanrio is giving people clarification. I was going to go into rant about their correction and how less of sense it makes, but even then she still a cat. Yes Kitty is not a cat cat, but she's still a cat no less. This is like if Sega stress that Sonic is not a hedgehog, but an anthropomorphization of one, but totally not a hedgehog. Really not a hedgehog. Definitely not! My sister said it best when I showed her this. They are overcomplicating this, and as such both of us are still going to regard her as a cat regardless of what Sanrio says.

And yes Bamboo this does remind me of the article that told us of Yoshi's real name and what species Mario actually is. Yet the reveal of Mario not being human, but apart of another species that's in the same genera as ours makes more sense then Sanrio explanation of Kitty's identity as a species.
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Splitter



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 5:05 pm Reply with quote
So it's like how Totoro is a Totoro. Hello Kitty is a Hello Kitty. Makes sense to me.
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IchigoKurosakiHollowfi



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 5:58 pm Reply with quote
Splitter wrote:
So it's like how Totoro is a Totoro. Hello Kitty is a Hello Kitty. Makes sense to me.


Oh, I see. :O
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Shay Guy



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 5:59 pm Reply with quote
And Mokona is Mokona and Kyubey is Kyubey.

Snoopy, meanwhile, continues to be a dog.
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machetecat



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 6:35 pm Reply with quote
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CrownKlown



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 7:16 pm Reply with quote
machetecat wrote:


Ah even stevens, when Shia Labeouf was still a watchable actor.
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the-antihero



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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:15 pm Reply with quote
Cut the crap guys, she's a kitty.
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unready



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 1:49 am Reply with quote
... and Stuart Little is NOT a mouse ...

Well, he's not, because he definitely isn't not not a mouse, while Kitty definitely is not not a cat.

So EB White beat Sanrio by half a century.
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