Copy cat
I heard that Hello Kitty is now beloved in more than 30 countries, and this is the 30th anniversary year of the birth of Kitty. Great! ...Sorry, I'm not so much interested in it. But I've been wanting to say only one thing about Hello Kitty for these 30 years.
Kitty's design was just a crib from this!!!This is "Musti" created by the Belgian animator/director Ray Goossens (1924-1998). Musti was started as an animation series on TV in 1968, and its picture books were also published. I read some of that books and loved it in my childhood. Although it is evident to everybody that Kitty was an imitation of Musti, Sanrio, the publisher of Hello Kitty have not touched on it.
It is said that the total copyright fee for Hello Kitty reaches around 15 billion yen (13.7 million USD) per year, and Sanrio got 23.7 billion yen (21.6 million USD) gross sales in second quarter of 2004. I wonder why they don't feel shady about hiding the fact. I can say boldly that I stole these images from their official websites!! (Did I say something wrong?)
Kitty's design was just a crib from this!!!This is "Musti" created by the Belgian animator/director Ray Goossens (1924-1998). Musti was started as an animation series on TV in 1968, and its picture books were also published. I read some of that books and loved it in my childhood. Although it is evident to everybody that Kitty was an imitation of Musti, Sanrio, the publisher of Hello Kitty have not touched on it.
It is said that the total copyright fee for Hello Kitty reaches around 15 billion yen (13.7 million USD) per year, and Sanrio got 23.7 billion yen (21.6 million USD) gross sales in second quarter of 2004. I wonder why they don't feel shady about hiding the fact. I can say boldly that I stole these images from their official websites!! (Did I say something wrong?)
Jasmine yell this out @ 12:36 AM
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