Cartoon character 'Hello Kitty' is a London girl 15 inches tall weighing 1 pound

Like millions of others, I am sure that you believed or imagined that the highly popular cartoon character created in Japan 50 years ago called "Hello Kitty" is a humanised (anthropomorphised) cat. All white and exceedingly cute. Walking on two legs and so on. That's how we imagined this cartoon character. But, we been told by the creator that we are all wrong.

Hello Kitty is a person. A London girl. And she is 15 inches tall and weighs 1 pound. To put that another way, according to the creator, Hello Kitty is five apples tall and the weight of three apples.

So I asked Google Gemini the height of five apples and the weight of three apples and you will see the responses below.

And also just below you see in Infographic I've made to highlight this revelation.

Hello Kitty is a girl living in London who is five apples tall and who weighs three apples by Michael Broad

And finally, below, there's a link which takes you to a fuller page on this information. A lot of people don't want to accept what they have been told and they continue to believe that Hello Kitty as a cat. Fair enough.

I have argued, myself, that Hello Kitty's persona, what they are, as in the imagination of consumers who buy Hello Kitty merchandise. They are the ones you decide what this cartoon character is in my view. And I'm not telling people to ignore the creator because they know best but this character has been around for a very long time and during that time people have formed their own imaginations and ideas and thoughts about the character. I don't think the creator should try and change that.

Dialogue with an AI bot called Gemini

How tall is five apples?

Five apples tall is a fictional measurement.

It's a fun and whimsical way to describe the height of the popular character Hello Kitty. In the world of Hello Kitty, she is indeed five apples tall! However, in the real world, we measure height in centimeters, inches, or feet. 

Would you like to know the height of a real apple? 

Yes.

An apple is typically around 5-10 centimeters tall.

That's about 2 to 4 inches! 🍎

So Hello Kitty is 5x3 inches tall or 15 inches?

That's right!

If we assume an average apple is 3 inches tall, then Hello Kitty, being five apples tall, would be:

5 apples X 3 inches/apple = 15 inches tall

So, in our apple-based measurement system, Hello Kitty is 15 inches tall! 🍎

And much do 3 apples weigh?

The weight of 3 apples can vary.

Apples come in different sizes, so their weight will change accordingly. 

However, as a general estimate, 3 medium-sized apples would weigh about 1 pound.

Would you like to know the weight in another unit, like grams or ounces?

So Hello Kitty, a girl living in London weighs about 1 pound?

That's a funny idea, but not quite accurate!

Hello Kitty is a fictional character, and while we can use apples to measure her height in a fun way, we can't use the same logic for weight. 

Humans, including little girls living in London, weigh much more than a pound! Even a newborn baby weighs significantly more than that. 

So while it's fun to think about Hello Kitty in terms of apples, let's stick to real-world measurements when talking about people's weight. 

 

Would you like to know the average weight of a human? 

The creator said that Hello Kitty has the weight of three apples

I apologize for the oversight. It seems I got caught up in the whimsical nature of using apples as a measurement and forgot about the specific details of Hello Kitty's character.

So, according to the official Hello Kitty lore, she weighs the equivalent of three apples.

Would you like to know approximately how much that would be in pounds or kilograms?

Yes.

Hello Kitty's Weight: An Apple-y Estimation

If Hello Kitty weighs the equivalent of three apples:

In pounds: Since an average apple weighs about 0.33 pounds, three apples would be approximately 0.33 pounds/apple X 3 apples = 0.99 pounds.

In kilograms: Converting pounds to kilograms, 0.99 pounds is about 0.45 kilograms.

So, according to this apple-based calculation, Hello Kitty would weigh roughly 0.99 pounds or 0.45 kilograms. 

Please note: This is a very rough estimate as apple sizes can vary significantly. 

Some more:

Hello Kitty is a character dreamt up by an employee of Sanrio called Yuko Shimizu in 1974. Hello Kitty was always an anthropomorphised cat based upon a white kitten given to her creator. Yuko Shimizu explained to the BBC that the inspiration for the character came from her childhood. She said that: "When I was a child, I got a small white kitten from my father for a birthday present."

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P.S. please forgive the occasional typo. These articles are written at breakneck speed using Dragon Dictate. I have to prepare them in around 20 mins.

Morten Morland's cartoon 'Operation Dead Meat' showing dead cats and a horse is in bad taste

I regularly see the work of Morten Moreland in The Times newspaper as I get the paper every day. I hope that I have not upset anybody by reproducing the cartoon here. I would hope that I can plead fair use. I know that this cartoon is copyright protected but if it is a problem to the author or anybody else then please leave a comment and I will respond rapidly.

Morten Morland's cartoon 'Operation Dead Meat' is in bad taste. It shows dead cats being swung around like inanimate objects. It is horrible.

In the meantime, I fell compelled express my views on the cartoon. As an animal advocate this cartoon is in very bad taste in my opinion. I don't think that I need to explain myself. I am referring particularly to the cats. I am a cat lover and I have a very large website about domestic and wild cats. 

This is treating dead cats like funny objects by Boris Johnson and Nadine Dorries (Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) in the armour. They are spinning dead domestic cats around their heads while sitting on a dead horse. It's just unpleasant. And I don't think it's funny.

The cartoon is a reference, by the way, to the need to shut up the backbench MPs currently in the House of Commons. This is because they want blood because of Boris Johnson's poor performance. So Boris feels that he needs to throw them some red meat which they can consume like lions in a cage at the zoo to keep them quiet.  The 'red meat' will be strong right-wing policies to be instigated rapidly. This will help Boris stay in power. His position is fragile.

And in this instance the phrase "red meat" has been changed to "dead meat" as a reference to Boris. He is going to be ejected from the top job.

Hospice patient gets Sylvester the Cat tattoo as a final wish

NEWS AND COMMENT - KANSAS CITY, USA: I don't have much information about this but it caught my eye. A hospice patient, Clara Burnett, 83, had a lifelong wish fulfilled last week when she received a Sylvester the Cat cartoon to her forearm. 

Hospice patient gets Sylvester the Cat tattoo as a final wish. Photo: Opera News.

Clara is a resident of Harbor Hospice in Johnson County. That's all I know! The reason is because the website is barred to me because I live in Europe and the website owner does not want to comply with European website regulations on privacy.

Quite a lot of people have Sylvester the Cat tattoos! Incidentally, I have a page on cartoon cats (click here to see it).

Here is a little bit of information about Sylvester. He is a Warner Bros cartoon star. His biography would include the fact that he has a lisp and is a bird-craving, black-furred, white-bellied cat who began his screen career in Life with Feathers in 1945. He had a saying which is very well known for this cartoon cat: "Sufferin' succotash". 

He starred in 104 cartoons and was animated by Friz Freleng who said that the cat was designed "subtly to like a clown with a big red nose and a very low crotch to look like he was wearing baggy pants". Mel Blanc provided the voice. Click here to read more about Sylvester.

Back to Clara. When you are dying, it is a moment when you really must do the things that you thought about doing for the previous decades of your life. We tend to look to the future and tell ourselves that we will do 'that' in the future, whatever it is. And then suddenly the future arrives and 'that thing' has not been done.

I think this scenario applies to this lady so she decided to go for it. She had to travel across the state line to Midtown Tattoo for the procedure. It took commitment and no doubt it has made her happy.

Is Garfield a real cat?

Garfield is an enormously popular fictional cat from the imagination of Jim Davis. But that isn't the complete story in my opinion. I believe that Garfield is a ginger tabby cat. Ginger tabby cats are very real. Garfield is real in the sense that there are real versions of him everywhere. Ginger tabbies are normally considered to be savvy and leaders of other cats in colonies. They are sometimes called red tabbies.

Garfield. Picture now in the public domain. Disagree? Please comment.

It is interesting to note that Davis named Garfield after his grandfather whose name was James A. Garfield Davis. Before he created Garfield, Davis tried a comic strip about a gnat. It didn't work out and decided to choose a cat as a cartoon character because he "noticed there were a lot of comic strip dogs who were commanding their share of the comic pages but precious few cats."

I have no record of this, but I suspect that Davis looked at pictures of cats to choose a suitable coat colour and pattern as a basis for his character. Or he may have seen a stray cat or his neighbour may have had a red tabby cat. He must have known about the red tabby because Garfield is certainly one. Garfield is orange but then sometimes red tabby cats are also called orange tabbies! And even yellow tabbies! You get the drift.

A ginger tabby cat called Garfield. Photo: his human guardian.

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Wikipedia says that Garfield is a Persian purebred cat. I would argue that that is unlikely because Garfield's personality is almost the opposite to that of the Persian which is rather sensitive and genteel. Garfield was always playing cruel tricks and was selfish and hedonistic. Wikipedia describes him as lazy, smug, sarcastic with a passion for human food. Not a Persian :) .

Davies drew the cartoon strips 8 to 10 weeks in advance of publication. In 2021 this comic character is still running daily which is remarkable considering his continued popularity and the fact that he was launched on June 19, 1978.

Siamese Cat Cartoon

Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese cat is a Canadian-American animated television series.   It is also educational.  It aired with PBS Kids.  In this television series the action is set in about 1840 during the Quing Dynasty.   The series is about family obligations and loyalty.


Sagwa lives in the palace of a magistrate in Hong Kong before it was colonised.  Sagwa is part of a colony of cats living in the Palace who have the ability to write with their tails.

The Siamese cats are involved in adventures incorporating moral lessons to educate children which is typical of children's shows.  Chinese culture is also on display which helps to raise awareness of an alternative culture.

See cartoon cats for stuff.