Sanrio fans need to brace themselves, because this summer it is not Hello Kitty taking center stage. Netflix is set to debut My Melody & Kuromi, a new anime series starring the pastel-pink bunny ...

One of Hello Kitty's biggest rivals and 2000s icon, Rilakkuma, has announced an upcoming new anime by major Japanese studio Production I.G.

IN THE 1970S, just as Hello Kitty came on the scene, teenagers and particularly adolescent girls across Japan started to abandon the precision of formal penmanship for a sketchy, balloony script ...