Mascotpedia: Charmmy Kitty

Hello Kitty has a pet cat. Let that soak in for a minute. Ready? Hello Kitty has a pet cat. Still doesn’t sound strange? Well let’s delve a little deeper. Unfortunately we can’t delve too deeply because like all Sanrio mascots, complex characters and convoluted back stories are hardly their focus. Still, this thankfully leads to hilarious and ridiculous scenarios such as a cat having a pet cat.

As you can see Charmmy Kitty is far more cat-like than her owner, less into wearing human clothes and going shopping for example. She is clearly a few rungs lower on the evolutionary ladder than Ms. Hello, but far prettier. The only direct analogy that can rationally be made then is to compare this situation to Michael Jackson and his pet monkey Bubbles. Except that even Michael wasn’t straight-jacket-wearing crazy enough to call his pet Bubbles Jackson. Well, at the time anyway. Anyway, it’s hardly the most flattering comparison for Hello Kitty to be crazy enough to give her pet the same family name as herself, when even Michael resisted the temptation.

As for actual information, she is a white Persian cat that was given to Kitty by Papa, wears the key to Hello Kitty’s jewelry box around her neck, and likes bright and sparkly objects. Apparently she was born on October 31st 2004. Whether that means that she will pass away within the next decade or so has neither been confirmed or denied.

Oh, another fitting analogy would have been ‘The Planet of the Apes’ (the original version as opposed to the hideous monstrosity that was the Tim Burton re-imagining).

And Charmmy Kitty seems to have a pet hamster. Sigh.