5 reviews
I'm just a dude whos a casual fan of My Melody and Cinnamonroll. I liked seeing them pop up on my Twitter feed or as stickers that people placed on their belongings. Out of nowhere I suddenly got the need to search them up on YouTube and I stumbled upon this show. I kind of just think of Sanrio characters as merchandise brandings, so I didn't expect anything more than just a glorified commercial. I was wrong! This show has really endearing stories and cute animation. I loved seeing how Melo interacts with Kuromi, or Hello Kitty running her cafe. It's fun just seeing what situations these characters get into. The writing is just sooo charming. The same goes for the voice acting, everybody was really well cast. I could probably just listen to this show and enjoy their performances alone, but I don't wanna miss out on the funny visual gags either. This thing just has a really cute art style, whether it be the faces everybody makes or the playful directing, it's all really appealing. Again, I sorta figured this would just be a throwaway commercial but no, there's a lot to enjoy here. I hope the cast and crew know that this show doesn't go underappreciated, it always brightens up my day.
Hello Kitty, (along with Transformers, Pac Man etc,) was that early taste of "Japanese cool" in America at a time when the anime/manga style was not nearly as normalized. My wife & I are both enjoying seeing these usually stationary, (or "stationery" as the case may be,) characters come to life conveniently on Youtube. Thankfully, Sanrio has always strived to be inclusive with age/gender, & this show is no different. I can see why so many adults are tuning in. There are so many jokes & references for us older fans. (And the bite sized episodes fit well into busy adult life & are great for unwinding after a stressful day!)
- AnimeAintKidStuf
- Sep 8, 2024
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My God, this show is sooooo freaking adorable! I love it so much! I have quite the soft spot for anything Hello Kitty and Sanrio so this show is perfect for me, and you if you love Hello Kitty. I love how every character gets their "moment", as in they all get their own episode centered around them and that's great since they all get an established personality. All the characters have hearts of gold and are super sweet, which makes the show easy to watch. The best part is, while it's mainly aimed at a younger audience, anyone can watch it! It's really for all ages. I absolutely recommend this show, it's great and can make anyone smile.
- MaeBorowski
- Aug 3, 2022
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I really love Sanrio characters, including Hello Kitty and these all just are the best thing on YouTube! If I'm having a bad day, I'll put any of them on and it instantly makes me happy again! I really love the voice work in these and the episodes are just so adorable and precious! I love how the characters are written and even some of the comedy in it. I love how they call things "cute tube" and "cute tok". I love how Kuromi is written to be basass yet sweet and caring! As I've already said, this is the best thing on YouTube! I hope Sanrio never stops making these, I'm going to watch them until the end of time!
- austinschenkel
- Dec 10, 2022
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This is pretty much what you'd expect, supercute adventures! It's fun, light hearted, and hilarious too. Seriously some of these jokes will fly over kids heads, it's that clever in the writing department. This is coming from someone who had no clue about much of Sanrio (other than Hello Kitty because she was everywhere when I was little LMAO) up until March 2024 when I first watched it (In part because of my girlfriend and the fact I was playing VRChat and they had a Hello Kitty Popcorn Machine in a waiting room that played the theme song over and over again). Now, I'm gonna go out and say that I'm a guy, who's 18 and a senior in school and has autism, so If it was February 2024, I would have not even heard of this show. It was after I started playing VRChat with some friends that I noticed that popcorn machine in the lobby (it was a limited time btw) and heard the theme song play over and over again. The only thing related to Hello Kitty that I had seen was in a commercial that featured other characters like Felix The Cat and Danny And the Dinosaur in a bunch of CD Rom games from Fox Interactive that played right before my VHS Of Dr Suess On The Loose (A VERY Random VHS For it to appear on but moving on), which I absolutely loved as a kid and still do now btw, and that was it. That was the only memory of Hello Kitty I had as a kid. There are other moments in my life where I remember her briefly but I always associate my earliest memories of Hello Kitty with that commercial on a Dr Suess related VHS. But getting back to this, upon seeing the popcorn machine in VRChat, my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to check out some of the hello kitty shows, and I came across this one. I was really impressed by how well written it was, even for modern kids show standards. It almost reminds me of Bluey in a way, where it's incredibly wholesome, not to the point of "oh this is gonna make you cry" but to a point of "aw that's cute and cozy." The voice acting is also really good (Shoutout to Jenny Yokobori's amazing performance of Kuromi I loved it so much and she's the best Sanrio character and no one can change my mind!), they all sound like what the characters would sound like. Badtz Maru has a devious, but still somewhat caring tone to his voice, Hello Kitty has a sweet, innocent, charming, and good nurtured tone to her voice, My Melody has a fun, adorable, and light hearted tone to her voice, and Kuromi has a feisty, yet good meaning tone to her voice. The voice acting is among the strongest I've seen in anything in a long time, you could tell they were having a blast! I could go over all the characters but we'd be here all day! The animation is also really nice to look at. I've always loved 2D animation more than Computer Animation (Peanuts fanatic talking here lol) so It was nice to see them go with the 2D route (then again, 95% of Sanrio's TV Series are either 2D animated or pure Anime). I also like that all the characters get time to shine. This is the best show Sanrio has done and that's saying a lot. (Onegai My Melody is one of the funniest things I've ever seen, I literally watch that show for the facial expressions and memes alone LMAO, and the 1990s Hello Kitty and Friends is also REALLY wholesome and emotional at times too, trust me that's a topic for when I review it here on IMDB). Highly recommend this show even if you haven't watched anything related to Sanrio, I think this is a nice introduction to those who are curious about it. I was defiantly one of those people. 10/10, highly recommend.