Best Hello Kitty merchandise: Plush toys and accessories
Happy Birthday, Kitty! It’s hard to believe that our favourite cartoon kitten has just turned 50 years old. Her official birthday is November 1, 1974, according to the Japanese designer who created her, Yuko Shimizu.
Thinking of Miss Kitty in terms of her real-life, human age is rather jarring – a feeling we can only compare to when we found out that Timmy Turner of the Fairly Odd Parents had made a secret wish to make time stop, a revelation which also made the elementary schooler half a century old. Yikes.
Animated shows have become an integral part of children’s lives across the globe since their invention by Émile Cohl back in 1908. Nowadays, the very first words uttered by little ones aren’t ‘mama’ or ‘dada’ – they’re ‘Peppa Pig’. Over in Japan, however, the history of anime
