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.

News Time

Well it had been a while before I had some Hello Kitty news.

First, up, it is not just Tiger Woods that had a comeback in 2019; Hello Kitty takes the top spot in Sanrio 34th Annual Sanrio Character Rankings. She beats out Cinnamonroll, who was last year’s winner.

Every year Sanrio polls it fans using the top 100 Sanrio characters.  For the last few year s, Hello Kitty languished in the top 10, never making in the top three.  I wonder Hello Kitty’s win has to do with becoming a popular virtual Youtuber.  I dare say the Annual Sanrio Character Ranking is a barometer of Sanrio’s character Campaign, noting Yoshikitty taking third place last year coinciding with the band X Japan revival.

The second piece of news is Mattel obtaining license to manufacture toys games and others items base on Sanrio’s portfolio of characters. This will start in 2020, just in time for the Hello Kitty Movie and possible TV show.  This good thing; I hope this will bring a higher quality to Sanrio’s toy and game offerings.

Himouto! Umaru-chan X Marumofubiyori Coincidence?

Marumofubiyori  Also know by his nickname, as Mopu is a one of Sanrio’s latest creations.  He is a young anthropomorphic   Polar Bear living at one of the Zoo Keepers home. He is known for his laziness wanting to just to chill out and sleep in.  While Marumofubiyori has been released in Japan recently Sanrio released subs of the first few videos, in a promotion to release Marumofubiyori items in the US. Like Umaru, both wear hoods or blankets and both are lazy at home, and often scolded by their caretakers for being too lazy.  In one video, Marumofubiyori was tasked to go out to buy a can of curry powder for dinner; instead, he orders it on Amazon.

In other news Aggretsuko, our favorite 20 something death metal singing Red Panda has been picked up by Netflix for a series of 15 Anime epodes. I  Hope they will be good and wonder will this Sanrio X Netflix corroboration mean Netflix will pick Hello Kitty, Friends, and other shows.

News Dump Time

First up

Hello Kitty’s Superhero Alter Ego Ichigoman Gets Web Manga.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-03-15/hello-kitty-superhero-alter-ego-ichigoman-gets-web-manga/.99807

The first  episode is live here

http://comip.jp/15/manga/comics/?title=ichigoman-01

It is interesting  that Sanrio is bring back Ichigoman  and combining with the  Chogokin  (think giant robot line.  Sanrio also will bring back  Dark Grapeman (I missed out getting the plush) and Hony Momo

By the way  I do have an Ichigoman plush in my collection.

Next up She is not your typical cute and cuddly Red Panda

 

Sanrio Debuts Aggressive Retsuko TV Anime Shorts on April 2

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-03-18/sanrio-debuts-aggressive-retsuko-tv-anime-shorts-on-april-2/.99949

What not to like a cute  Red Panda that works in accounting office, has to put up with a load of crap and  blows  off  steam  with a little Death Metal karaoke.   The first episode is  upon Youtube.

 

Finally

Sanrio Boys Get Their Own Line of Merchandise

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2016-04-06/sanrio-boys-get-their-own-line-of-merchandise/.100740

Sanrio has announced  in the past  the  Sanrio Danshi” (Sanrio Boys). The main plot is :

“The story is simple. It introduces Kōta Hasegawa, a high school boy that loves the yellow Pom Pom Purin dog. By mere coincidence, he ends up attending the same school as Yū Mizuno, a boy who likes the bunny My Melody. Yū tells Kōta that there’s nothing to be ashamed of for liking Sanrio’s cute  characters. Together, Kōta, Yū, Shunsuke Yoshino, Ryō Nishimiya, and Seiichiro Minamoto learn to accept their love of the characters instead of feeling embarrassed.”

My question is what  is the message  is this just Bishōnen /Yaoi  bait aimed  at a female audience or a positive reinforcement  of hey guys it OK to like cute Sanrio characters.   If it was me,  one of the boys will send a strong message I can be masculine  and like Sanrio characters.