It's finally here! It took a lot to get to this point but I'm glad the video is out now. Thank you so much for watching and I hope you learn something! Let me know what you think, and maybe comment your fav Sanrio character (or your new fav if you found one from this video you like!) ♡ SOCIAL MEDIAS ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ ♡ Twitter: heypinku ♡ Instagram: hey.pinku Please don't go out and harass anyone mentioned in the video. Thanks! Edit: I refer to MeiAIDs as he/him in the video but someone in the comments informed me that they don't go by that anymore, but they go by she/her. Regardless of what MeiAIDs goes by, please be respectful in the comments. Thank you :) Edit 2: Another lovely commenter said they saw people with real merch with the "Sanrio Characters" tag. I said it was an indicator because I saw two fake plushies with it, but I'm still not sure it's a good indicator anymore because of this. Please let me know if you do know about the Sanrio characters tag tho! But for now, some definite signs of fake merch are if it has a "cinnamoroll" tag and it's not cinnamoroll, and if the copyright dates on the tush tag and the hanging tag are different. Also if you are still unsure about your plushie, you can ask the Sanrio subreddit about it. ✨ Edit 3: As you can see, I'm not a native Japanese speaker and it's not my second language so I apologize if I don't pronounce some things correctly. I do try my best though! And if I get things wrong I definitely look them up to see the correct pronunciation. (Not me pronouncing pompompurin wrong LOL ok I've learned 😂) Edit 4: A cool commenter mentioned that Sanrio Boys isn't officially BL because there isn't any love arcs in there, but it just appeals to that audience. I haven't watched it but I appreciate them letting me know and everybody else :) The source I used called it that tho and while it isn't officially BL it makes sense it appeals to that audience with an all male cast!
You forgot about Tity and Lulu that were twin witches. They were around for a Halloween event and then never seen again. Probably cause of there name. Hahah
@Erika Zirkelbach Remember that this Iceberg is made by someone else, and Pinku is only reviewing it. There are many other Sanrio-Designed Characters that weren't covered in their Iceberg Article, and it's not that uncommon to find incomplete Icebergs - UA-camrs often combine multiple of these articles together into a somewhat more 'comprehensive' form before doing their videos...
There's something about the older, simpler characters like Little Twin Stars, Pochacco, Vanilla Bean, Button Nose, Tuxedo Sam, Keroppi and Badtz Maru that I just find so charming I adore them.
I screamed when you mentioned Nekomura Iroha. Fans these days are busy mistaking project sekai characters for legit Vocaloids or thinking Miku is originally a FNF character. Hearing that someone remembers and listens to Iroha is very rare.
Just a warning, Kitty(the backrooms entity) dont jumpscare you at all, it just follows you throught the level looking at you, she is not agressive at all, but because her appearence, I see a lot of people saying that she tries to kill you or scares you, she doesnt. The level and the entity is not bad at all, the level itself is a safe level where you can stay for how much time you want, as I said, Kitty only stares at you, leaving you with a unconfy feeling, but she doesnt harm you at all. Ik is not so important, but Kitty is so loveable, and seeing people portrait her as an agressive entity makes me sad :(
Ik im like a year late but I was looking to see if anyone else commented this before I did cuz I know that like most backrooms entities are hostile so I get the confusion but Kitty is one of the few nice ones so we gotta do him justice
I know a little bit more about kittys level for the backrooms, so basically it’s a safe level that if you bring kitty a soft cute pink toy ( like a plushie or something) he will befriend you and follow you around. You can actually live in this level, there’s like wifi, food, and other stuff in there. There’s like a video on this and it’s not really hard to find. Just look up “kittys level backrooms” and I’m sure you will find it.
29:32 This level of the backroom is actually one of the few safe levels, the entity doesn't harm you and in the level there's almond water and electricity, kitty kida just follows you around
RE: “Miffy” I know this video is about Sanrio, but living in the NL, I can’t resist sharing some fun facts! Miffy’s original name is Nijntje (pronounced “NINE-tcha”). She is a beloved Dutch children’s cartoon character! In Dutch, the word for rabbit is “konijn” (ko-NINE), and adding a “je” or “tje” at the end of a word makes it diminutive. She also has a last name, Pluis (pronounced like the name “klaus,” but with a p instead of a k), the Dutch word for “lint.” So essentially, Miffy’s real name is Dust Bunny. Which I find so damn precious. Great video!!
When I was a little kid, my family visited Amsterdam and my dad took me to a shop full of miffy merch. From the shop I got a small miffy plush and carried it around with me during our trip. However, somehow I ended up accidentally leaving it on the plane back home never saw it since. I wonder if she’s still traveling the world…
I'm glad you do! I want to make sure nobody sees what they don't want to see, especially since I know those topics can be heavy (✿^‿^) I actually had a hard time researching those, but I've grown a little bit thicker skin because of this vid.
@@HeyPinku I can only Reccomend you actually say it out loud, because Iceberg videos are usually played in the background and there's a chance someone doesn't see the TW, but hears the content
One of the things that's missing in the iceberg is the movie Chirin No Suzu (Ringing Bell). The film was made by Sanrio and is about a lamb who's mother gets killed by a wolf. The lamb wants to get revenge on the wolf for killing his mother and actually gets trained alongside the wolf himself to become stronger. It's probably one of the darkest things Sanrio has produced as far as I know.
Wait Sanrio produced that movie?? whaaaat thats fkn cool, Loved that movie when i was a teen, It is dark but I only think things are dark if it has a bleak ending, I think the ending was happy? its been a while mannnn
FINALLY someone makes a video like this, sanrio is a company with LOTS of history that needs to be more well known. amazing work on the video! some additions: -unico was created and produced by osamou tezuka, whom you may know for creating astroboy. unico himself is a bit of a tragic character, mostly because his whole thing is that he's destined to be alone. unico had a manga series and 4-5 movies -there was an official set of hello kitty tarot cards -beetroid. robot beetles. not much else to say. -kero kero kerroppi and freinds, a straight to video cartoon series featuring keroppi, and shorts about other characters suck as pekkle and badtz-maru. this series had an English release, that for some reason left out badtz-maru -hello kitty animation theater(not to be confused with furry tale theater), a show made in 2000 featuring sanrio characters who portrayed fairy tales, including... the little match girl, for some reason. -during the 1970s and 80s, sanrio video produced a bunch of children's animated films, such as the mouse and his child, the ringing bell, the water prince and the fire child, and a journey through fairyland. almost all of these films have some sort of dark or sad subject matter. - sanrio can be really stingy with copyright, and tends to crack down on independent creators who use their characters in products. -caribadix. a product line featuring button-eyes cat characters, it was later adapted into an anime that i for the life of me cannot find anywhere. -hello kitty's mouth-having status is WILDLY inconsistent throughout most cartoons. in shows like furry tale theater, hello kitty's paradise, and growing up with hello kitty, kitty is shown with a mouth. -dear Daniel. hello kitty's boy(?)friend, not much else to say about him. -sanrio is the license-holder for peanuts(snoopy, charlie brown, that whole deal) in japan! -hello kitty's furry tale theater is one of the only western-animated sanrio productions -crossovers. so many crossovers, from naruto to pusheen, hello kitty has probably met them -hello kitty is british. she lives in England. i'm a bit of a huge nerd on this subject, i'm sure there's tons of stuff even i missed. but enjoy these fun facts.
hello kitty crossovers could be a whole hour+ iceberg vid in it of it self . my favorite has to be the MacDonald's 2014 world cup Collab , look it up it's pure gold . man , Daniel is so forgettable you forgot he was mention in the vid
Also, if we want to talk about offensive caricatures, then there's an obscure character called Little Sue (Sioux?). While not as bad Sambo and Hannah, it's still very much a stereotype of a Native American girl. For to be also be used for a kawaii aesthetic rubs me the wrong way.
You mentioned furry tale being one of the only western animated shows, but hello kitty and friends is a current show, i think direct to youtube that is animated by a brazillian studio, i worked on it for a short bit
@@misiotis oh! i was unaware of that. i figured there was probably one that i didn't know was western animated, but looking at the style that definietly makes sense. thank you for your hard work on the series!
I think I had a My Sweet Piano or My Melody pocket electric piano as a kid in the 80s. It would fit in the palm of the hand of an adult and came with a tiny book with music notes. I remember London Bridge Is Falling Down being one of the songs.
22:28 The fact that you put Charmmy Kitty in the iceberg really made my day, she's one of my favorite Sanrio characters next to Hello Kitty, CinnamoRoll, and Badtz-Maru
Should've mentioned that Pompompurin has a crush on Hello Kitty, lol!! This video was great, I would've loved to see you dive more into the Cinamoroll Angels! ALSO the lore of Hello Kitty and CVS having collabs during holidays is very interesting, I hope you make more videos on Sanrio!
@@mushmush2874 I know right well macaroon is like his friend but we know that they are more than that but it's like tuxedo Sam I think that she Said that people ship them with hellokitty when she was with dear Daniel so maybe it just that fans shiping them
@@bunndleofbunnies Tuxedo Sam was created to be Hello Kittys boyfriend before Dear Daniel existed, so I headcanon Tuxedo Sam is Hello Kittys ex and she's with Daniel now/whoever you ship her with
as part of the splatoon fandom, i can confirm the marina whitewashing controversy was a big deal. it sucks that the few black characters that we have end up being whitewashed for an "aesthetic". u can have a pastel aesthetic no matter ur skin color.
Yoooo sick video! It was definitely worth the wait. Also, thank you for covering my iceberg! I'm glad I could also help with explaining some of the entries to you!
Thanks so much! It was fun talking to you about it and you definitely were helpful with those entries. I'm glad I could do it justice since the iceberg was really cool! Thanks for watching :)
I think the ones with gory/horror/nsfw/controversial elements should be on the last tip of iceberg 😭 the hello kitty murder and the kuromi saw sounds so creepy even from the description :( I feel bad for the less popular/cancelled characters, they're so cute and they deserved more 🥺 thank you for this video this giving me more knowledge abt Sanrio and u must be getting through many hardwork of editing and looking up sources to make sure it's accurate, especially on lost media stuff!
TYSM FOR NOT SHOWING ANY PICTURES! I don’t really mind listening about things but photos really trigger me, and I wanted to know more about saniro without shaking after
Same! As long as I don't actually see the pictures, but still getting to know about them is fine by me, it also helps my mind to not actually think about certain images
me too, i really appreciate the low amount of details and the lack of images, as that type of thing tends to make me nauseous :( its not something most channels do, but i appreciate the thoughtfulness when they do 😊
you missed a few characters which makes me kinda sad lol, but i feel like theres only a couple that are kinda worth knowing so, Lloromantic are two little devil characters from the Cinnamoroll world, they serve as antagonists as well. Their names are Cherry (a pink devil with a fashionable hat) and Berry (a black devil with horns) they also have the ability to change their appearance to be more evil I guess, but I dont really know. And the other character is Cogimyun who is a little character made out of wheat flower! She's super cute and underated :)
@@HeyPinku i really hope my comment didn't sound rude, but i feel like it would be a fun idea to make a video on all of the sanrio characters and their origins! especially since sanrio has so many cute, cool, and really wtf why characters :)
In the 90s Hello Kitty did a Happy Meal Collab with McDonald's in Singapore that nearly lead to stampedes because everyone was rushing to get the Hello Kitty plushie. It put the Singaporean term "kiasu" (fear of missing out, but like intensified) on the map!
Thank you for mentioning Show By Rock!! In this video !! Some information about the project that where possibly omitted (and just general funfacts not commonly known) and I wanted to mention as well as clearing some possible misonceptions: -(clarification)The project is targeted at both male, and female, as well as the general mature audience (working adults), and not just the male audience itself. -In the spirit of Sanrio collaborating with many companies, Show By Rock!! has collaborated with bands such as Silhouette from the Skylit, Maximum the Hormon, and BIGMAMA to name a few (the in-universe bands to these ones would be called "tie-in bands and their counterparts have a different name to their irl band names as well as mascots to represent each band member). They've also have collaborated with individual performers as well (the singing voice for the character "Marimari" is Marie Ueda, for example). -(clarification)The project's official release year is 2012 (not 2013), with them releasing the very first rhythm mobile game "Show By Rock!!" under the company "Geechs (ギークス株式会社)", the bands "Plasmagica" and "SHINGANCRIMSONZ" being the main faces of the franchise at that time. This rhythm game ended its service in Decemeber 2019 and 2020 was when "SHOW BY ROCK!! Fes A Live" (the one showcased in the video) took its place and was under the company Square Enix until its recent shutdown in November 2022 (an offline mode is available for those who have already played the game and downloaded the data before its shutdown). -The franchise currently has a total of 4 Live Musical (2.5D Stage Plays) adaptations, mainly centered around the boy bands (Show By Rock!! Fes II Thousand XVII, Kyousou no Bloody Labyrinth, Abyss's Cross Ambivalence, and -DOKONJO NORTH HIGH SCHOOL- The Reflection of Night and Black (a digest video with english subtitles can be watched on their official channel) ). -Show By Rock!! has an official youtube channel under the name "SHOW BY ROCK!! Official Channel" (@ showbyrock4835). -(somewhat off topic but also still related) Sanrio has two official VTubers "Mashima Himeko (となりの研究生マシマヒメコ。)" and "Natsumerenge (なつめれんげ)". Himeko was later integrated into the Show By Rock!! project (along with her song "Arco Color"), while Natsumerenge remains as his own thing (he's a lot newer, debuting in August 2021). -The franchise currently has a PIXIVFANBOX you can subscribe to for more content, which is cool because it generally has a lot of lore of the franchise. -Currently the franchise has roughly around 36+ bands (including original and tie-in bands), and most likely still counting. -Fans of the franchise are named "Rockers". I hope this information is useful and anyone that reads this has learned something new! Show By Rock!! is currently underatted even amongst Sanrio fans, and I hope more people can give this IP a look beyond the anime adaptations, especially for the music :) Bonus general Sanrio facts: -Sanrio Virtual FES is virtual event held on VRChat. Started in 2022, they basically recreated Sanrio Puroland and they host a lot of events and concerts over the course of 2-3 days! -Aside for the general sanrio stores, there is also the Sanrio Anime Store (サンリオアニメストア) as well! They have an online shop as well as physical ones in JP :D -Sanrio started a new project called "Maimaigoen (まいまいまいごえん)". I'm currently not too familiar with this IP, but as far as I know, it's their first ever project that leans a bit towards the horror-esque route. There's currently a manga and game out for this IP. Thank you for reading and Have a Nice Music (day)!
@@obentomagnum Likewise! Always happy to share with others about Show By Rock!!, its music, and other projects outside the anime adaptations :) よろしくお願いしますー！！！👊‼️
Wikipedia says that the primary target audience of Show by Rock is young boys. I think their claim is sourced although I'd have to double check. Where did you read that it was aimed at mature audiences>
Gonna add a few more here, since I kind of came here just for Show By Rock as well. The franchise name is often -nicely- abbreviated in Japanese as _SB69_, as "69" can be pronounced "ro-ku" using goroawase. Its reputation as being for older audiences is mainly because it features and homages genres of music that wouldn't appeal to young children. -There were actually two Show By Rock games. The original was active from 2013 until its end of service in 2019, and _Show By Rock!! Fes A Live_ launching shortly afterwards in 2020 and retaining most of the previous game's content, before ending service last November. The third and fourth anime seasons are adaptions of _Fes A Live_ specifically. -The SB69 games were only released in Japanese, though the anime was both released globally both with subtitles and dubbed. I'm not sure whether that was due to a language barrier, all songs in the game being in Japanese, or due to copyright issues. -Both games are rhythm genre mobile games in the same vein as the TapTap series, but contain gacha mechanics. The player assembles a band out of a number of obtainable cards each representing a band member. -Characters in Show By Rock have both a human (or humanoid, rather, seeing as how most are kemonomimi) form, as well as a more chibi form in the style of more traditional Sanrio characters, which is called a "Myumon". Most characters are animal Myumons, though nonanimal or otherwise esoteric Myumon forms are not uncommon, including eggs (with intact shells unlike Gudetama), a sentient mountain, or a crab who is actually made of imitation crab meat. -Characters in the game are in their Myumon forms most of the time, appearing in their human forms mainly in card art and promotional images. -However, in the anime, main characters are usually in their human forms and Myumon segments are done in 3d, usually for when a band is performing in concert. Background characters and a few notable non-musicians will appear in Myumon form in 2d parts of the show. -Songs in the franchise are all attributed to an in-universe band. Real-life acts and their members who contribute music have in-universe counterparts with different names. The aforementioned Marie Ueda/Marimari is part of a band called "Shinimonogurui" here, for instance. Other notable bands and their SB69 versions include Clammbon (here called Labomunch), babymetal group Alice Juban (AliceBeans), and yksb feat.MiLO×31STYLE (Rapezziauto). -Kana Yaginuma/Yaginupan of A crow is white/Shirorakurosuka? is the only musician known to have requested a specific Myumon species. She wanted to be a panda, her favorite animal, but as Shirorakurosuka? is a group composed of migratory birds, she became a panda/bird hybrid as a compromise. -If you've ever seen a GIF of Cyan (the girl at 25:42) doing a cute little dance, it's from the anime's Season 2 opening.
as a hardcore sanrio fan this entire video had me screaming with joy 😭 I went crazy when beatcats were mentioned!! my #1 favorites, but they’re super underrated sadly 🥺 thank you for making this video!! very informative and enjoyable
wow!! lots of cool interesting stuff about sanrio I never knew! you did a great job explaining everything, glad you took the time you needed for this! Great video
Tysm!! Glad you learned something and thanks for feeding the algorithm too with your comment ✨ Also no foxes allowed sorry I don't make the rules 乁| ･ 〰 ･ |ㄏ
Oh my god, I remember Cathy!! My parents didn't have much money when I was a kid, so any Sanrio merch I had was a lot older. When I got older and was able to get more up-to-date merch, I was so upset to not see her, especially because I never knew why she was gone. Thanks for mentioning her, and letting me find out what happened to her. I miss her, but get why she was retired.
It was cool seeing them! I had never seen a good chunk of those before this video. Also LOL YEAH I'm actually surprised at how many human characters there are 😂
When it came to the Maria skin color I feel like it was meant to compliment the dream aesthetic vibe ((which also explains why pearl was pale)) But when it came to the final product 👁️👁️👁️ I have no reasoning on how it was miss seen They literally turn Maria white
I feel like even if they didn't turn her white there would still be controversy because the "usual suspects" might call it blackface and get it cancelled anyway for the sake of it.
This video is super well-made and well-researched! The content warnings and lack of disturbing images are also hugely appreciated. I've been a huge Sanrio fan my whole life but there were definitely a lot of things in here I'd never heard about! So many of these characters I've never seen before are so cute, it makes sad because I know they probably hardly have any merch. I have a hard enough time finding Tuxedo Sam merch :(
I was hoping I would hear of Hello Kitty's twin sister Mimmy in the video! It was an amazing video but I grew up having watched this one Sanrio anime from the early 2000s called "Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori" or Hello Kitty : The Apple Forest. It went over Mimmy and Kitty's adventure in their world, using a special charm and powder and eventually go in another world inhabited by human looking fairy-like beings. I vividly remember the two evil chipmunks from it too, it was hilarious... The villain Akuro (Mimmy turned evil by a really scary villain for a child) just wanted to turn everything black it was pretty wild
This was a really fascinating video! I’d also like to point out that Sanrio has 2 mobile games, Hello Kitty World 2 and Hello Sweet Days. I’m pretty sure they aren’t all that well known but I stumbled across them recently and have really enjoyed playing them
About that spinning Cinnamonroll video, there is a mechanical plush toy wich sings and spins just like in that video. Maybe it was a toy commercial, maybe the cafe commercial got that popular that Sanrio made the toy. Amazing video! Thank you so much!!
Hell yeah I’m the one the wrote the lost media wiki article on rion chan I decided to check your sources cause I had a feeling, I’m glad it could be of use to you!
The other Sanrio stores out of Japan, which I believe was even before the US markets, were in the Philippines under the chain Gift Gate, who are the official distributors of Sanrio and Lego products during the late 70s and early 80s.
I think the idea of a Splatoon x Sanrio collab is cool...but I hope if they ever do another one they don't fuck it up like they did with the Splatoon 2 collab, I would love plushies of Shiver, Frye and Big Man under the circumstance that Frye isn't given pale white skin 😓
I agree but i can understand why Marina had a lighter skin tone it's pastel after all, if they kept her original skin tone it would look really weird. (Except the plushie that was just goofy)
@@pascuala. I do believe that they could’ve made the pastel colors work with a soft color of brown. personally, I think that pastel colors can work with any skin of tone ^^
@@cubedkiwis Brown also has a pastel shade tho And it would look weird if they just kept it dark while surrounded by all the soft pastel shades, after all the franchise has some rules...
There is also a Sanrio character called Cogimyun ! Japan Sanrio made a channel separate one just for this character and by searching it up , u can see short animated videos of her and Cogimyun has made covers on that channel too ! Everything is in Japanese just so you know ! 🌸
Aggretsuko/Aggressive Retsuko started out in 2016, not 2018. There was a series of 90-second long shorts that released weekly up until the first season of the full-length anime aired. It has the same cast, but there are differences to some of the characters, most obviously their names. It got released worldwide, but I think it had a different distribution channel which is why it isn't as well known and unfortunately probably doesn't belong in the top layer.
such an amazing iceberg video! i got really interested in sanrio like a year ago, and this was really informative and cute! thank you so much for the content and trigger warnings btw, those made me really comfortable!
I learned a lot watching this, thank you! It was my first time viewing your channel. Having grown up with these products and knowing many people who appreciated them (including my Mom), it was very educational to learn more about something that surrounded my life!
I especially liked your comments on Charmy Kitty, who I thought was just a fancy or more feline version of Hello. You didn’t discuss her sister Mimi though!
Very uncommon opinion but chococat is my fav Sanrio character ever! And has been sense I was little. I own a ton of his merchandise including a backpack, wallet, sweatshirt, shirt, bucket hat, bracelet, earrings, necklace, plushies and more! I can’t tell you haw much I love this character and it’s very sad that he is not very popular and I think he deserves way more popularity.
i can’t be the only one who grew up watching the fairy tale theater growing up & they were sold in target. i remember loving tuxedo sam & hello kitty together lmaoo
wanted to mention that sanrio has produced quite a few movies that weren’t mentioned. i’m a big fan of the sea prince and the fire child in particular. there’s even a scene in this movie where creatures very similar to cinnamoroll are seen flying through the sky/ocean. unico is in two movies and there’s some really cute characters in those. a journey through fairyland is another sanrio movie and this one actually featured several sanrio characters in a brief musical sequence, namely hello kitty, little twin stars, my melody, strawberry king, and more. i’m a big fan of sanrio movies and i never hear them talked about so i just wanted to mention these lil fun facts :)
This video made me discover "Hello Kitty Suicide Club". I listened to the first song, and burst out laughing in the first 3 seconds. Thank you for introducing me to that masterpiece of a band. It is truely the musical definition of "so bad its good"
thank you for this!!! i wanted to know more about sanrio since i only grew up with hello kitty! i appreciate the Trigger Warnings too since im very sensitive to horror (mostly from comfort characters) so i appreciate it
I love how you show us hilarious toys. I really want the puppets :(( 21:20 WHEN U SAID MY HELLO KITTY CAFE I SCREAMED CUZ IM ADDICTED TO THAT GAME AND ITS ONLY THE FREE SANRIO THING I CAN HAVE LMAO
Sanrio also did a collab with Nintendo of a game called Splatoon 2, a multiplayer online game. During this collab, they did a splatfest event and if anyone did know what splatfest is? It basically having two team theme of you having a option of which is the best theme during this event. For example, Ketchup vs Mayo, Cats Vs Dogs, and so on. Back of this collab, is based on popular characters from Sanrio and during the final result, My Melody won the whole splatfest event. Unfortunately this event was only a Japanese exclusive event, but latest they have gameplay footage on UA-cam. That's pretty much it about this collab, love the iceberg narrator from covering up the history of Sanrio!
Thank you for making this video, there is a lot that I did not know. Beat Cats was a great discover for me. I was aware of Jewel Pets, SB69, and "RealReal Fairily" in the musical sense, but had no idea the Beat Cars existed until your video! Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
Idk if it's my autism or ocd but all of this felt so weirdly out of order and randomized. I kinda wanted a chronological, super in depth timeline of the progression of sanrio but things seemed to jump from point to point. i still appreciate the loads of information and fun facts in this video though. Ive learned a lot of new things between this and the comments
Adding onto the sugarbunnies: In addition to the anime shown in the video, there are 2 more seasons. In the intro of either season 2 or 3, Shirousa & Kurousa meet Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll, and Badtz Maru. I never got to watch seasons 2 & 3, so i’m not sure what exactly happens. The intro also includes Hello Kitty’s parents, Mimmy, Fifi, Badtz maru’s parents, cinna’s friends, and a few more.
I thank you for not adding any sensitive imagery. It is very hard to watch videos like these without imagery that could be very sensitive to people like me.
29:22 Kitty is pretty scary, but he is actually harmless. The only weird thing about Kitty is that he stalks the wanderers as they rest in level 974. I did heard from ppl on tiktok that Kitty is actually pretty helpful and if you give Kitty a gift (has to be an item resembling cute/kawaii aesthetics and in the color pink), Kitty will be able to help you to the next level and doesn't mind that you rest in this level; however, I don't know who accurate that information is. You will even find food in this Level.
There used to be Sanrio Stores in Indonesia, I visited some. They closed around 2015-2016, from what ive heard; they didn't get new item stocks from the official Sanrio warehouse so they were basically left ignored and they soon closed.
@@HeyPinku yeah! Also, when I heard you talk about the Pakistani McDonald's commercials, I lost it. Because there isn't just one Hello Kitty Pakistani commercial, there are technically two. There's this other commercial for (I'm assuming) the girl and boy happy meal toys, and the girl toys were hello kitty temporary tattoos.
There is one collab Sanrio did that may not be of importance to you, but in 2016, Sanrio did one with P&G (the company that owns the Pampers brand) to make Hello Kitty-themed Pampers Easy Ups training underwear, which is fancy talk for "training pants" or "pull-ups". They were redesigned with the same Hello Kitty brand in 2017 with different designs of the character on them, until in 2018 onward they were replaced with DreamWorks Trolls characters for the designs, and then MLP:FiM. Not saying the MLP ones outshine the Hello Kitty ones, but they're equal in cuteness. And don't worry, Nintendo once owned a chain of love hotels for adults in Japan when they first started out as a company. They made hanafuda cards as Nintendo Playing Card Co., and they own the Seattle Mariners.
Me waiting for mention of Cinnamoroll universe or Cinnomoangels: I remember finding a character named mocha, she looked so cute! I love her! I saw someone mention her on Twitter and seeing her designs made me love her instantly, so I googled her and she’s apart of this group called cinnamoangels, it’s a band I assume? But the group has trio named, Mocha, Chiffon and Azuki who are cute! But mocha is my favorite and I need more artworks of her And apparently there’s a lil whole universe of cinnomoroll universe according to the hello kitty wiki, maybe they named it since the characters have similar design base as cinnamoroll, There are characters such as espresso, milk, coco and nuts, cappuccino and ofcourse, the cinnoangels They’re all so cute! My favorite is mocha!!! I need more of her
Don't forget that Sanario and Bandai had a collaboration and did Tamagotchis. Best Tamagotchi is Tamagotchi On, meets, Ssome and there are Sanario meets too. Mixing all the caracters with dating and breed tamagotchis with appearance from both the male and female ones. ^^ Ouw! ♡
Ur so underrated and I'm so glad I'm your 750th subscriber, I'm glad UA-cam recommend your channel!! I hope u get more attention from ppl who are interested in what u make! Much love
How do you only have 903 subscriber?! I watched the video and i checked your channel. Your videos are so cute i think you deserve more likes and subs because you put very much effort in it! Sanrio is such a big topic ✿
5:45 OH There's ONE (1) Sanrio store in Tijuana, Baja California right on the border of Mexico and USA. It's small in a plaza called Plaza Rio but frankly it was the only way Mexican Sanrio fans could buy Sanrio merch for years before international shipping was available.
I was so excited when I was at a local ComicCon and came across a full stationary set with Charmy Kitty on it! It was so freaking cute and I'm so happy I found it! Love this video, it had so much info that I didn't know on it, like Pierrot!! He's so adorable, I wish they would bring him back!
One thing that wasn't mentioned was Sanrio and Cocome's mobile game Hello Sweet Days! It's a lot of fun if you like fashion and decorating and don't mind gacha mechanics, honestly there could be a whole other iceberg just for Sanrio mobile games XD Loved the video!!!! :D
40:26 I'm pretty shocked to see this in the seventh layer, of all places. I still have several memories of watching this show on Cartoon Network with my siblings. I've always assumed everyone's seen the English dub already so it was a little surprising (and a bit eerie) to find out that no, apparently one of my childhood shows-or its dubbed version at least-is now lost media with little to no recorded proof of its existence...
Sanrio Boys was a dang masterpiece and I'm both bitter that it wasn't as popular as it should have been and thankful that it wasn't as popular as most BL-esque media gets.
One of these things that icebergs don't mention is the character "Delmin Devilmintkiryu", which was a character created for the "Devilmintkiryu project"! She's essentially a character that's intended to be used for crossovers with games, including Bandori and NND Compass. She's a super cute monster girl, I'm surprised she isn't more popular.
I’ve been waiting for a long time for someone to make a video on the iceberg since I saw on Reddit and I’m glad someone finally did a video on it :D it’s well structured and the trigger warnings were a nice welcome. You’ve definitely earned a sub!!
I feel like this Iceberg should have included the episode in "Hello Kitty's animation theater" where Hello Kitty is the little match girl cause that episode traumatised me as a kid
really great video! i do think in the future organizing everything you want to touch on into categories will be really helpful though. jumping from introducing characters in random order with theme parks and tv shows and tiktoks in between them got really confusing
1. I was expecting the iceberg to cover the South Park "Hello Kitty Island Adventure" and the official announcement Sanrio made referencing it, as well as the actual video game Sanrio made. Regardless... 2. This is a great iceberg! Very informative, thank you! Unfortunately the most vivid Hello Kitty memory I have was the time it gave me a crippling fear of characters being turned into stone. One time I watched an episode of the Hello Kitty anime where there was an evil witch who turned a character into stone. That (as well as Narnia perhaps) has made me unable to sleep a few nights.
Thank you so much for mentioning Show by Rock! It’s one of my favorite series ever and it’s so special to me and nobody talks about it. And it gave me one of my favorite characters ever, Shu⭐️Zo. Tbh I just clicked on this to see if you’d mention it
It's finally here! It took a lot to get to this point but I'm glad the video is out now. Thank you so much for watching and I hope you learn something! Let me know what you think, and maybe comment your fav Sanrio character (or your new fav if you found one from this video you like!) ♡
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Please don't go out and harass anyone mentioned in the video. Thanks!
Edit: I refer to MeiAIDs as he/him in the video but someone in the comments informed me that they don't go by that anymore, but they go by she/her. Regardless of what MeiAIDs goes by, please be respectful in the comments. Thank you :)
Edit 2: Another lovely commenter said they saw people with real merch with the "Sanrio Characters" tag. I said it was an indicator because I saw two fake plushies with it, but I'm still not sure it's a good indicator anymore because of this. Please let me know if you do know about the Sanrio characters tag tho! But for now, some definite signs of fake merch are if it has a "cinnamoroll" tag and it's not cinnamoroll, and if the copyright dates on the tush tag and the hanging tag are different. Also if you are still unsure about your plushie, you can ask the Sanrio subreddit about it. ✨
Edit 3: As you can see, I'm not a native Japanese speaker and it's not my second language so I apologize if I don't pronounce some things correctly. I do try my best though! And if I get things wrong I definitely look them up to see the correct pronunciation. (Not me pronouncing pompompurin wrong LOL ok I've learned 😂)
Edit 4: A cool commenter mentioned that Sanrio Boys isn't officially BL because there isn't any love arcs in there, but it just appeals to that audience. I haven't watched it but I appreciate them letting me know and everybody else :) The source I used called it that tho and while it isn't officially BL it makes sense it appeals to that audience with an all male cast!
Thank you!!!
Ayyyyyyyyyy Daniel rizzz 🗿🗿🗿
Hello Kitty having a pet like Charmmy is like humans who have monkeys, gorillas, chimpazees..as pets. It isn't weird hahaha.
You forgot about Tity and Lulu that were twin witches. They were around for a Halloween event and then never seen again. Probably cause of there name. Hahah
@Erika Zirkelbach Remember that this Iceberg is made by someone else, and Pinku is only reviewing it. There are many other Sanrio-Designed Characters that weren't covered in their Iceberg Article, and it's not that uncommon to find incomplete Icebergs - UA-camrs often combine multiple of these articles together into a somewhat more 'comprehensive' form before doing their videos...
Fun fact: Hello Kitty’s Furry Tale Theater was one of Tara Strong’s first voice acting roles (She voiced Hello Kitty)
Really? I never new that! I watched both around the same time but I never made the connection!
@@Princessitaandreitayeah! I was shocked when I found out abt it! A lot of series I’ve enjoyed has her featured in them :)
Also one of Cree Summer's first voice acting roles: Catnip.
Good to know.
Woah, didn’t know Twilight Sparkle was once Hello Kitty.
There's something about the older, simpler characters like Little Twin Stars, Pochacco, Vanilla Bean, Button Nose, Tuxedo Sam, Keroppi and Badtz Maru that I just find so charming I adore them.
Same
Omg finally someone likes tuxedo Sam and Badtz Maru they are such icons !
I LOVE KEROPPI
you forgot aggretsuko ,🏃😢
@@milingain4aggretsuko is adorable, but she's still a relatively recent character
I screamed when you mentioned Nekomura Iroha. Fans these days are busy mistaking project sekai characters for legit Vocaloids or thinking Miku is originally a FNF character. Hearing that someone remembers and listens to Iroha is very rare.
Pink diva still slaps
I was excited, too. I didn't think anyone remembered her. I came here to comment it but you already did.
ahh the old days of vocaloid, she was my wallpaper on my old flip phone
@moraeza back when I made shitty amvs on Windows movie maker.
Huh, I still see her being mentioned a lot! ^^ Her voicebank is really nice imo
Just a warning, Kitty(the backrooms entity) dont jumpscare you at all, it just follows you throught the level looking at you, she is not agressive at all, but because her appearence, I see a lot of people saying that she tries to kill you or scares you, she doesnt.
The level and the entity is not bad at all, the level itself is a safe level where you can stay for how much time you want, as I said, Kitty only stares at you, leaving you with a unconfy feeling, but she doesnt harm you at all.
Ik is not so important, but Kitty is so loveable, and seeing people portrait her as an agressive entity makes me sad :(
I am pretty sure kitty is a he and I really love kitty too! He is not that scary and he is adorable!
he just gets aggravated when you stay there too long. he will try to get you out with violence if he needs to
He is the ultimate introvert. He is comfortable with people but their is a time that he wants you out of his house lol.
Ik im like a year late but I was looking to see if anyone else commented this before I did cuz I know that like most backrooms entities are hostile so I get the confusion but Kitty is one of the few nice ones so we gotta do him justice
He'll get annoyed if you stay there for too long without giving him any cute or pretty items and will jumpscare you from what I read
I know a little bit more about kittys level for the backrooms, so basically it’s a safe level that if you bring kitty a soft cute pink toy ( like a plushie or something) he will befriend you and follow you around. You can actually live in this level, there’s like wifi, food, and other stuff in there. There’s like a video on this and it’s not really hard to find. Just look up “kittys level backrooms” and I’m sure you will find it.
he helps you get out too, shows you to other safe level exits cuz youre inside his house and he wants you out
@@who_is_evie_anyway_9816 Ty I forgot that lol
yup
Also you leave this level by gifting the cute item you have to Mr.Kitty. After gifting the item, you fall asleep and wake up in another “safe” level
29:32 This level of the backroom is actually one of the few safe levels, the entity doesn't harm you and in the level there's almond water and electricity, kitty kida just follows you around
Thanks for letting me know!
@@HeyPinku all good :D
the entity actually harm you if you stay too long in there
@@mintminttsontson does it? the sources I heard from say it doesn't, I guess it might vary from person to person
RE: “Miffy”
I know this video is about Sanrio, but living in the NL, I can’t resist sharing some fun facts!
Miffy’s original name is Nijntje (pronounced “NINE-tcha”). She is a beloved Dutch children’s cartoon character!
In Dutch, the word for rabbit is “konijn” (ko-NINE), and adding a “je” or “tje” at the end of a word makes it diminutive. She also has a last name, Pluis (pronounced like the name “klaus,” but with a p instead of a k), the Dutch word for “lint.”
So essentially, Miffy’s real name is Dust Bunny. Which I find so damn precious.
Great video!!
Cool facts, they are definitely welcome here! Also I'm glad you enjoyed the vid ✨
She also was popular in the UK and some what still is
omg i used to love miffy when i was little!!!
i live miffy! i still watch that show lmao and sometimes read the books for fun.even tho it seems childish i still love the characters.
When I was a little kid, my family visited Amsterdam and my dad took me to a shop full of miffy merch. From the shop I got a small miffy plush and carried it around with me during our trip. However, somehow I ended up accidentally leaving it on the plane back home never saw it since. I wonder if she’s still traveling the world…
I really appreciate the trigger warnings you add, very considerate of you!
I'm glad you do! I want to make sure nobody sees what they don't want to see, especially since I know those topics can be heavy (✿^‿^) I actually had a hard time researching those, but I've grown a little bit thicker skin because of this vid.
@@HeyPinku I can only Reccomend you actually say it out loud, because Iceberg videos are usually played in the background and there's a chance someone doesn't see the TW, but hears the content
@@Hj4ck69 I agree “x y and other things” isn’t that helpful
@@HamiltonIsLife You like,, get told there's a trigger warning but not what it means. I only knew because it was on screen
@@HeyPinku no trigger warning for the blackface tho?
One of the things that's missing in the iceberg is the movie Chirin No Suzu (Ringing Bell). The film was made by Sanrio and is about a lamb who's mother gets killed by a wolf. The lamb wants to get revenge on the wolf for killing his mother and actually gets trained alongside the wolf himself to become stronger. It's probably one of the darkest things Sanrio has produced as far as I know.
Wait Sanrio produced that movie?? whaaaat thats fkn cool, Loved that movie when i was a teen, It is dark but I only think things are dark if it has a bleak ending, I think the ending was happy? its been a while mannnn
…WHAT!?
yeah i was honestly expecting films like Chirin no Suzu and Sirius no Densetsu to appear in this iceberg lol
I WAS WAITING FOR THAT ONE TO BE MENTIONED
FINALLY someone makes a video like this, sanrio is a company with LOTS of history that needs to be more well known. amazing work on the video!
some additions:
-unico was created and produced by osamou tezuka, whom you may know for creating astroboy. unico himself is a bit of a tragic character, mostly because his whole thing is that he's destined to be alone. unico had a manga series and 4-5 movies
-there was an official set of hello kitty tarot cards
-beetroid. robot beetles. not much else to say.
-kero kero kerroppi and freinds, a straight to video cartoon series featuring keroppi, and shorts about other characters suck as pekkle and badtz-maru. this series had an English release, that for some reason left out badtz-maru
-hello kitty animation theater(not to be confused with furry tale theater), a show made in 2000 featuring sanrio characters who portrayed fairy tales, including... the little match girl, for some reason.
-during the 1970s and 80s, sanrio video produced a bunch of children's animated films, such as the mouse and his child, the ringing bell, the water prince and the fire child, and a journey through fairyland. almost all of these films have some sort of dark or sad subject matter.
- sanrio can be really stingy with copyright, and tends to crack down on independent creators who use their characters in products.
-caribadix. a product line featuring button-eyes cat characters, it was later adapted into an anime that i for the life of me cannot find anywhere.
-hello kitty's mouth-having status is WILDLY inconsistent throughout most cartoons. in shows like furry tale theater, hello kitty's paradise, and growing up with hello kitty, kitty is shown with a mouth.
-dear Daniel. hello kitty's boy(?)friend, not much else to say about him.
-sanrio is the license-holder for peanuts(snoopy, charlie brown, that whole deal) in japan!
-hello kitty's furry tale theater is one of the only western-animated sanrio productions
-crossovers. so many crossovers, from naruto to pusheen, hello kitty has probably met them
-hello kitty is british. she lives in England.
i'm a bit of a huge nerd on this subject, i'm sure there's tons of stuff even i missed. but enjoy these fun facts.
hello kitty crossovers could be a whole hour+ iceberg vid in it of it self . my favorite has to be the MacDonald's 2014 world cup Collab , look it up it's pure gold .
man , Daniel is so forgettable you forgot he was mention in the vid
Also, if we want to talk about offensive caricatures, then there's an obscure character called Little Sue (Sioux?). While not as bad Sambo and Hannah, it's still very much a stereotype of a Native American girl. For to be also be used for a kawaii aesthetic rubs me the wrong way.
@@gege1178 OH MY GOD HE WAS??? that's hilarious
You mentioned furry tale being one of the only western animated shows, but hello kitty and friends is a current show, i think direct to youtube that is animated by a brazillian studio, i worked on it for a short bit
@@misiotis oh! i was unaware of that. i figured there was probably one that i didn't know was western animated, but looking at the style that definietly makes sense. thank you for your hard work on the series!
I think I had a My Sweet Piano or My Melody pocket electric piano as a kid in the 80s. It would fit in the palm of the hand of an adult and came with a tiny book with music notes. I remember London Bridge Is Falling Down being one of the songs.
That's so cool!
22:28 The fact that you put Charmmy Kitty in the iceberg really made my day, she's one of my favorite Sanrio characters next to Hello Kitty, CinnamoRoll, and Badtz-Maru
My favorite are the Mr men and little misses
Should've mentioned that Pompompurin has a crush on Hello Kitty, lol!! This video was great, I would've loved to see you dive more into the Cinamoroll Angels! ALSO the lore of Hello Kitty and CVS having collabs during holidays is very interesting, I hope you make more videos on Sanrio!
he has a crush on her but he already has a gf ??? (Macaroon)
Yes, what a sleaze bag 😭
@@mushmush2874 I know right well macaroon is like his friend but we know that they are more than that but it's like tuxedo Sam I think that she Said that people ship them with hellokitty when she was with dear Daniel so maybe it just that fans shiping them
@@bunndleofbunnies Tuxedo Sam was created to be Hello Kittys boyfriend before Dear Daniel existed, so I headcanon Tuxedo Sam is Hello Kittys ex and she's with Daniel now/whoever you ship her with
@Byakuya Togami I didn't know that, but that's kinda weird. I mean, EX....
I never knew mr men and little miss had any correlations to Sanrio! I grew up with the books ahh the nostalgia
There was a cartoon on Cartoon Network too! It was a series of shorts. My little brother loved it. It was called the Mr. Men Show
I had the little miss sunshine book bc Sunshine is my actual middle name lol
as part of the splatoon fandom, i can confirm the marina whitewashing controversy was a big deal. it sucks that the few black characters that we have end up being whitewashed for an "aesthetic". u can have a pastel aesthetic no matter ur skin color.
Cope
@@xXDJllamap3tt3rXxbro thought he cooked
I don't get why'd they change the colors for an aesthetic though... Sanrio has a lot of black colored characters
Yoooo sick video! It was definitely worth the wait.
Also, thank you for covering my iceberg! I'm glad I could also help with explaining some of the entries to you!
Thanks so much! It was fun talking to you about it and you definitely were helpful with those entries. I'm glad I could do it justice since the iceberg was really cool! Thanks for watching :)
i love how you were so considerate
I'm so happy you were comfortable! It's no problem at all adding those warnings if it helps. ♡⸜(˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝
I think the ones with gory/horror/nsfw/controversial elements should be on the last tip of iceberg 😭 the hello kitty murder and the kuromi saw sounds so creepy even from the description :(
I feel bad for the less popular/cancelled characters, they're so cute and they deserved more 🥺
thank you for this video this giving me more knowledge abt Sanrio and u must be getting through many hardwork of editing and looking up sources to make sure it's accurate, especially on lost media stuff!
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Like how are those so high up in the list? 😭
TYSM FOR NOT SHOWING ANY PICTURES! I don’t really mind listening about things but photos really trigger me, and I wanted to know more about saniro without shaking after
Same! As long as I don't actually see the pictures, but still getting to know about them is fine by me, it also helps my mind to not actually think about certain images
me too, i really appreciate the low amount of details and the lack of images, as that type of thing tends to make me nauseous :( its not something most channels do, but i appreciate the thoughtfulness when they do 😊
I saw the picture when I was 15 years old, and not gonna lie it dramatize me.
@ProfessionalLunaRDZ
What picture? There’s a lot of sensitive images in the iceberg.
@@michellesteele485 The Hello Kitty murder
you missed a few characters which makes me kinda sad lol, but i feel like theres only a couple that are kinda worth knowing so, Lloromantic are two little devil characters from the Cinnamoroll world, they serve as antagonists as well. Their names are Cherry (a pink devil with a fashionable hat) and Berry (a black devil with horns) they also have the ability to change their appearance to be more evil I guess, but I dont really know. And the other character is Cogimyun who is a little character made out of wheat flower! She's super cute and underated :)
Omg I know those characters too and I'm surprised they weren't on it either! But hey, glad you brought them up now :)
@@HeyPinku i really hope my comment didn't sound rude, but i feel like it would be a fun idea to make a video on all of the sanrio characters and their origins! especially since sanrio has so many cute, cool, and really wtf why characters :)
@@snuffedlamb I was thinking the same!
Stan Cogimyun
In the 90s Hello Kitty did a Happy Meal Collab with McDonald's in Singapore that nearly lead to stampedes because everyone was rushing to get the Hello Kitty plushie. It put the Singaporean term "kiasu" (fear of missing out, but like intensified) on the map!
Thank you for mentioning Show By Rock!! In this video !!
Some information about the project that where possibly omitted (and just general funfacts not commonly known) and I wanted to mention as well as clearing some possible misonceptions:
-(clarification)The project is targeted at both male, and female, as well as the general mature audience (working adults), and not just the male audience itself.
-In the spirit of Sanrio collaborating with many companies, Show By Rock!! has collaborated with bands such as Silhouette from the Skylit, Maximum the Hormon, and BIGMAMA to name a few (the in-universe bands to these ones would be called "tie-in bands and their counterparts have a different name to their irl band names as well as mascots to represent each band member). They've also have collaborated with individual performers as well (the singing voice for the character "Marimari" is Marie Ueda, for example).
-(clarification)The project's official release year is 2012 (not 2013), with them releasing the very first rhythm mobile game "Show By Rock!!" under the company "Geechs (ギークス株式会社)", the bands "Plasmagica" and "SHINGANCRIMSONZ" being the main faces of the franchise at that time. This rhythm game ended its service in Decemeber 2019 and 2020 was when "SHOW BY ROCK!! Fes A Live" (the one showcased in the video) took its place and was under the company Square Enix until its recent shutdown in November 2022 (an offline mode is available for those who have already played the game and downloaded the data before its shutdown).
-The franchise currently has a total of 4 Live Musical (2.5D Stage Plays) adaptations, mainly centered around the boy bands (Show By Rock!! Fes II Thousand XVII, Kyousou no Bloody Labyrinth, Abyss's Cross Ambivalence, and -DOKONJO NORTH HIGH SCHOOL- The Reflection of Night and Black (a digest video with english subtitles can be watched on their official channel) ).
-Show By Rock!! has an official youtube channel under the name "SHOW BY ROCK!! Official Channel" (@ showbyrock4835).
-(somewhat off topic but also still related) Sanrio has two official VTubers "Mashima Himeko (となりの研究生マシマヒメコ。)" and "Natsumerenge (なつめれんげ)". Himeko was later integrated into the Show By Rock!! project (along with her song "Arco Color"), while Natsumerenge remains as his own thing (he's a lot newer, debuting in August 2021).
-The franchise currently has a PIXIVFANBOX you can subscribe to for more content, which is cool because it generally has a lot of lore of the franchise.
-Currently the franchise has roughly around 36+ bands (including original and tie-in bands), and most likely still counting.
-Fans of the franchise are named "Rockers".
I hope this information is useful and anyone that reads this has learned something new! Show By Rock!! is currently underatted even amongst Sanrio fans, and I hope more people can give this IP a look beyond the anime adaptations, especially for the music :)
Bonus general Sanrio facts:
-Sanrio Virtual FES is virtual event held on VRChat. Started in 2022, they basically recreated Sanrio Puroland and they host a lot of events and concerts over the course of 2-3 days!
-Aside for the general sanrio stores, there is also the Sanrio Anime Store (サンリオアニメストア) as well! They have an online shop as well as physical ones in JP :D
-Sanrio started a new project called "Maimaigoen (まいまいまいごえん)". I'm currently not too familiar with this IP, but as far as I know, it's their first ever project that leans a bit towards the horror-esque route. There's currently a manga and game out for this IP.
Thank you for reading and Have a Nice Music (day)!
So happy to see a Show by Rock fans in the wild like this haha! Have a nice music & よろしくおねがいしまーす !!
@@obentomagnum Likewise! Always happy to share with others about Show By Rock!!, its music, and other projects outside the anime adaptations :)
よろしくお願いしますー！！！👊‼️
Wikipedia says that the primary target audience of Show by Rock is young boys. I think their claim is sourced although I'd have to double check. Where did you read that it was aimed at mature audiences>
Gonna add a few more here, since I kind of came here just for Show By Rock as well.
The franchise name is often -nicely- abbreviated in Japanese as _SB69_, as "69" can be pronounced "ro-ku" using goroawase. Its reputation as being for older audiences is mainly because it features and homages genres of music that wouldn't appeal to young children.
-There were actually two Show By Rock games. The original was active from 2013 until its end of service in 2019, and _Show By Rock!! Fes A Live_ launching shortly afterwards in 2020 and retaining most of the previous game's content, before ending service last November. The third and fourth anime seasons are adaptions of _Fes A Live_ specifically.
-The SB69 games were only released in Japanese, though the anime was both released globally both with subtitles and dubbed. I'm not sure whether that was due to a language barrier, all songs in the game being in Japanese, or due to copyright issues.
-Both games are rhythm genre mobile games in the same vein as the TapTap series, but contain gacha mechanics. The player assembles a band out of a number of obtainable cards each representing a band member.
-Characters in Show By Rock have both a human (or humanoid, rather, seeing as how most are kemonomimi) form, as well as a more chibi form in the style of more traditional Sanrio characters, which is called a "Myumon". Most characters are animal Myumons, though nonanimal or otherwise esoteric Myumon forms are not uncommon, including eggs (with intact shells unlike Gudetama), a sentient mountain, or a crab who is actually made of imitation crab meat.
-Characters in the game are in their Myumon forms most of the time, appearing in their human forms mainly in card art and promotional images.
-However, in the anime, main characters are usually in their human forms and Myumon segments are done in 3d, usually for when a band is performing in concert. Background characters and a few notable non-musicians will appear in Myumon form in 2d parts of the show.
-Songs in the franchise are all attributed to an in-universe band. Real-life acts and their members who contribute music have in-universe counterparts with different names. The aforementioned Marie Ueda/Marimari is part of a band called "Shinimonogurui" here, for instance. Other notable bands and their SB69 versions include Clammbon (here called Labomunch), babymetal group Alice Juban (AliceBeans), and yksb feat.MiLO×31STYLE (Rapezziauto).
-Kana Yaginuma/Yaginupan of A crow is white/Shirorakurosuka? is the only musician known to have requested a specific Myumon species. She wanted to be a panda, her favorite animal, but as Shirorakurosuka? is a group composed of migratory birds, she became a panda/bird hybrid as a compromise.
-If you've ever seen a GIF of Cyan (the girl at 25:42) doing a cute little dance, it's from the anime's Season 2 opening.
Also, probably my favorite fun fact:
Shingan managed to nab the 2nd place in the Sanrio Character Poll, 34 points behind the first place Pompompurin.
as a hardcore sanrio fan this entire video had me screaming with joy 😭 I went crazy when beatcats were mentioned!! my #1 favorites, but they’re super underrated sadly 🥺 thank you for making this video!! very informative and enjoyable
wow!! lots of cool interesting stuff about sanrio I never knew! you did a great job explaining everything, glad you took the time you needed for this! Great video
Tysm!! Glad you learned something and thanks for feeding the algorithm too with your comment ✨ Also no foxes allowed sorry I don't make the rules 乁| ･ 〰 ･ |ㄏ
Oh my god, I remember Cathy!! My parents didn't have much money when I was a kid, so any Sanrio merch I had was a lot older. When I got older and was able to get more up-to-date merch, I was so upset to not see her, especially because I never knew why she was gone. Thanks for mentioning her, and letting me find out what happened to her. I miss her, but get why she was retired.
Hisato Inoue's designs stand out from the rest, theyre not as feminine but still adorabe!
I love that one of them is just a baby 😂
It was cool seeing them! I had never seen a good chunk of those before this video. Also LOL YEAH I'm actually surprised at how many human characters there are 😂
When it came to the Maria skin color
I feel like it was meant to compliment the dream aesthetic vibe ((which also explains why pearl was pale))
But when it came to the final product 👁️👁️👁️ I have no reasoning on how it was miss seen
They literally turn Maria white
I know right! Come on now, let's just keep the integrity of the original character while giving her the cool aesthetic 😩
@@HeyPinku I send ya a friend request on insta
@@Vanilla_The_Star_Bunny I will accept it
@@Vanilla_The_Star_Bunny what’s up dude happy new year. Ready for 2024 buddy?
I feel like even if they didn't turn her white there would still be controversy because the "usual suspects" might call it blackface and get it cancelled anyway for the sake of it.
This video is super well-made and well-researched! The content warnings and lack of disturbing images are also hugely appreciated.
I've been a huge Sanrio fan my whole life but there were definitely a lot of things in here I'd never heard about! So many of these characters I've never seen before are so cute, it makes sad because I know they probably hardly have any merch. I have a hard enough time finding Tuxedo Sam merch :(
30:45 Marina's splatfest art is so good, I have no idea why Sanrio staffed on this collab didn't just use the colors from the Splat team... lol
I was hoping I would hear of Hello Kitty's twin sister Mimmy in the video! It was an amazing video but I grew up having watched this one Sanrio anime from the early 2000s called "Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori" or Hello Kitty : The Apple Forest. It went over Mimmy and Kitty's adventure in their world, using a special charm and powder and eventually go in another world inhabited by human looking fairy-like beings. I vividly remember the two evil chipmunks from it too, it was hilarious... The villain Akuro (Mimmy turned evil by a really scary villain for a child) just wanted to turn everything black it was pretty wild
Im so glad Macaroon was on this list!! She’s my favorite sanrio character and i feel more people need to know about her
Holy crap I’ve been waiting for a Sanrio iceberg since a long time ago, thank you for bringing it to me
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my jaw dropped. i didn't know adorozatorumary existed and i literally love all of ado's songs!! i love her character design aswell ❤️
So glad Unico was on this list. I wish he had merch like the rest of the characters. And Iroha is one of my fav vocaloids
This was a really fascinating video! I’d also like to point out that Sanrio has 2 mobile games, Hello Kitty World 2 and Hello Sweet Days. I’m pretty sure they aren’t all that well known but I stumbled across them recently and have really enjoyed playing them
About that spinning Cinnamonroll video, there is a mechanical plush toy wich sings and spins just like in that video. Maybe it was a toy commercial, maybe the cafe commercial got that popular that Sanrio made the toy.
Amazing video! Thank you so much!!
Oh cool! And no prob glad u enjoyed
GIRL I CANT BELIEVE I WATCHED ALL THROUGH OUT OF THIS 45 MINUTE VIDEO, thanks for this info
i was honestly surprised the stop motion series and other ds games weren’t on it but i learned a lot and your character design is adorable!
Glad you learned stuff! Also thank you 💕
Hell yeah I’m the one the wrote the lost media wiki article on rion chan I decided to check your sources cause I had a feeling, I’m glad it could be of use to you!
The other Sanrio stores out of Japan, which I believe was even before the US markets, were in the Philippines under the chain Gift Gate, who are the official distributors of Sanrio and Lego products during the late 70s and early 80s.
I think the idea of a Splatoon x Sanrio collab is cool...but I hope if they ever do another one they don't fuck it up like they did with the Splatoon 2 collab, I would love plushies of Shiver, Frye and Big Man under the circumstance that Frye isn't given pale white skin 😓
I agree but i can understand why Marina had a lighter skin tone it's pastel after all, if they kept her original skin tone it would look really weird. (Except the plushie that was just goofy)
@@pascuala. I do believe that they could’ve made the pastel colors work with a soft color of brown. personally, I think that pastel colors can work with any skin of tone ^^
@@cubedkiwis yeah i agree, wish i could have a cute sanrio Marina plushie tho 😔
@@cubedkiwis Brown also has a pastel shade tho
And it would look weird if they just kept it dark while surrounded by all the soft pastel shades, after all the franchise has some rules...
There is also a Sanrio character called Cogimyun ! Japan Sanrio made a channel separate one just for this character and by searching it up , u can see short animated videos of her and Cogimyun has made covers on that channel too !
Everything is in Japanese just so you know ! 🌸
Cogimyun is the best
Aggretsuko/Aggressive Retsuko started out in 2016, not 2018. There was a series of 90-second long shorts that released weekly up until the first season of the full-length anime aired. It has the same cast, but there are differences to some of the characters, most obviously their names. It got released worldwide, but I think it had a different distribution channel which is why it isn't as well known and unfortunately probably doesn't belong in the top layer.
Hey! We actually do have Sanrio licensed items in our stores here in Europe! One of the stores is called Miniso ^v^
such an amazing iceberg video! i got really interested in sanrio like a year ago, and this was really informative and cute! thank you so much for the content and trigger warnings btw, those made me really comfortable!
I learned a lot watching this, thank you! It was my first time viewing your channel. Having grown up with these products and knowing many people who appreciated them (including my Mom), it was very educational to learn more about something that surrounded my life!
I especially liked your comments on Charmy Kitty, who I thought was just a fancy or more feline version of Hello. You didn’t discuss her sister Mimi though!
Very uncommon opinion but chococat is my fav Sanrio character ever! And has been sense I was little. I own a ton of his merchandise including a backpack, wallet, sweatshirt, shirt, bucket hat, bracelet, earrings, necklace, plushies and more! I can’t tell you haw much I love this character and it’s very sad that he is not very popular and I think he deserves way more popularity.
i can’t be the only one who grew up watching the fairy tale theater growing up & they were sold in target. i remember loving tuxedo sam & hello kitty together lmaoo
wanted to mention that sanrio has produced quite a few movies that weren’t mentioned. i’m a big fan of the sea prince and the fire child in particular. there’s even a scene in this movie where creatures very similar to cinnamoroll are seen flying through the sky/ocean. unico is in two movies and there’s some really cute characters in those. a journey through fairyland is another sanrio movie and this one actually featured several sanrio characters in a brief musical sequence, namely hello kitty, little twin stars, my melody, strawberry king, and more. i’m a big fan of sanrio movies and i never hear them talked about so i just wanted to mention these lil fun facts :)
This video made me discover "Hello Kitty Suicide Club". I listened to the first song, and burst out laughing in the first 3 seconds.
Thank you for introducing me to that masterpiece of a band. It is truely the musical definition of "so bad its good"
thank you for this!!! i wanted to know more about sanrio since i only grew up with hello kitty! i appreciate the Trigger Warnings too since im very sensitive to horror (mostly from comfort characters) so i appreciate it
I love how you show us hilarious toys. I really want the puppets :((
21:20 WHEN U SAID MY HELLO KITTY CAFE I SCREAMED CUZ IM ADDICTED TO THAT GAME AND ITS ONLY THE FREE SANRIO THING I CAN HAVE LMAO
there used to be a sanrio warehouse kinda like a store in esmoriz, portugal, but it closed a few years ago :(
Aww that's a shame but thanks for letting me know!
girl its closed?!?! i was going there...
Man, I had no idea the Mr. Men and Little Miss series was made by Sanrio! I loved those books as a kid.
Sanrio also did a collab with Nintendo of a game called Splatoon 2, a multiplayer online game. During this collab, they did a splatfest event and if anyone did know what splatfest is? It basically having two team theme of you having a option of which is the best theme during this event. For example, Ketchup vs Mayo, Cats Vs Dogs, and so on. Back of this collab, is based on popular characters from Sanrio and during the final result, My Melody won the whole splatfest event. Unfortunately this event was only a Japanese exclusive event, but latest they have gameplay footage on UA-cam. That's pretty much it about this collab, love the iceberg narrator from covering up the history of Sanrio!
Thank you for making this video, there is a lot that I did not know. Beat Cats was a great discover for me. I was aware of Jewel Pets, SB69, and "RealReal Fairily" in the musical sense, but had no idea the Beat Cars existed until your video! Thank you for taking the time to make this video.
Idk if it's my autism or ocd but all of this felt so weirdly out of order and randomized. I kinda wanted a chronological, super in depth timeline of the progression of sanrio but things seemed to jump from point to point. i still appreciate the loads of information and fun facts in this video though. Ive learned a lot of new things between this and the comments
I would 1000% be down for another one of these videos! There's soooo much information out there 💜
Adding onto the sugarbunnies:
In addition to the anime shown in the video, there are 2 more seasons. In the intro of either season 2 or 3, Shirousa & Kurousa meet Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll, and Badtz Maru. I never got to watch seasons 2 & 3, so i’m not sure what exactly happens. The intro also includes Hello Kitty’s parents, Mimmy, Fifi, Badtz maru’s parents, cinna’s friends, and a few more.
I am so glad you actually added warnignand gave some actual time unlike some people who say it then give like a second to skip
I thank you for not adding any sensitive imagery. It is very hard to watch videos like these without imagery that could be very
sensitive to people like me.
Tysm for making this video! I've been trying to catch up to all the background info about sanrio since I adore the aesthetic. This was so helpful!
SUCH A GOOD VIDEO!! deserves so much more attention
Thank you!! ✨
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Kitty is pretty scary, but he is actually harmless. The only weird thing about Kitty is that he stalks the wanderers as they rest in level 974. I did heard from ppl on tiktok that Kitty is actually pretty helpful and if you give Kitty a gift (has to be an item resembling cute/kawaii aesthetics and in the color pink), Kitty will be able to help you to the next level and doesn't mind that you rest in this level; however, I don't know who accurate that information is. You will even find food in this Level.
There used to be Sanrio Stores in Indonesia, I visited some. They closed around 2015-2016, from what ive heard; they didn't get new item stocks from the official Sanrio warehouse so they were basically left ignored and they soon closed.
Yess! I've been waiting for this!
Thanks for waiting hope you enjoy :)
@@HeyPinku yeah! Also, when I heard you talk about the Pakistani McDonald's commercials, I lost it. Because there isn't just one Hello Kitty Pakistani commercial, there are technically two. There's this other commercial for (I'm assuming) the girl and boy happy meal toys, and the girl toys were hello kitty temporary tattoos.
@@LemonnNote TYSM LOL I need to look that up now! I think the commercials are works of art 😂
I'm so glad you included Jewelpet! Great video btw
the most shocking thing to me about this vid is that cinnamoroll is a dog?? I always thought he was a bunny lol
There is one collab Sanrio did that may not be of importance to you, but in 2016, Sanrio did one with P&G (the company that owns the Pampers brand) to make Hello Kitty-themed Pampers Easy Ups training underwear, which is fancy talk for "training pants" or "pull-ups". They were redesigned with the same Hello Kitty brand in 2017 with different designs of the character on them, until in 2018 onward they were replaced with DreamWorks Trolls characters for the designs, and then MLP:FiM. Not saying the MLP ones outshine the Hello Kitty ones, but they're equal in cuteness. And don't worry, Nintendo once owned a chain of love hotels for adults in Japan when they first started out as a company. They made hanafuda cards as Nintendo Playing Card Co., and they own the Seattle Mariners.
Me waiting for mention of Cinnamoroll universe or Cinnomoangels:
I remember finding a character named mocha, she looked so cute! I love her! I saw someone mention her on Twitter and seeing her designs made me love her instantly, so I googled her and she’s apart of this group called cinnamoangels, it’s a band I assume? But the group has trio named, Mocha, Chiffon and Azuki who are cute! But mocha is my favorite and I need more artworks of her
And apparently there’s a lil whole universe of cinnomoroll universe according to the hello kitty wiki, maybe they named it since the characters have similar design base as cinnamoroll,
There are characters such as espresso, milk, coco and nuts, cappuccino and ofcourse, the cinnoangels
They’re all so cute! My favorite is mocha!!! I need more of her
Omg I love Mocha as well. She’s probably my second favorite after Melody. The names of the characters is my favorite thing ever too, it’s so cute!
Don't forget that Sanario and Bandai had a collaboration and did Tamagotchis. Best Tamagotchi is Tamagotchi On, meets, Ssome and there are Sanario meets too.
Mixing all the caracters with dating and breed tamagotchis with appearance from both the male and female ones. ^^ Ouw! ♡
Ur so underrated and I'm so glad I'm your 750th subscriber, I'm glad UA-cam recommend your channel!! I hope u get more attention from ppl who are interested in what u make! Much love
I APPRECIATE YOU TYSM! Glad you enjoyed and welcome (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧
I loved this video, thank you for this. I really enjoy your voice too, it doesn’t sound super fake or forced. You sound so genuine and sweet ❤🥰
How do you only have 903 subscriber?! I watched the video and i checked your channel. Your videos are so cute i think you deserve more likes and subs because you put very much effort in it! Sanrio is such a big topic ✿
5:45 OH There's ONE (1) Sanrio store in Tijuana, Baja California right on the border of Mexico and USA. It's small in a plaza called Plaza Rio but frankly it was the only way Mexican Sanrio fans could buy Sanrio merch for years before international shipping was available.
ahh i love this! your super underrated
Thank you (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡
I was so excited when I was at a local ComicCon and came across a full stationary set with Charmy Kitty on it! It was so freaking cute and I'm so happy I found it!
Love this video, it had so much info that I didn't know on it, like Pierrot!! He's so adorable, I wish they would bring him back!
One thing that wasn't mentioned was Sanrio and Cocome's mobile game Hello Sweet Days! It's a lot of fun if you like fashion and decorating and don't mind gacha mechanics, honestly there could be a whole other iceberg just for Sanrio mobile games XD Loved the video!!!! :D
you have less than 1k and ur putting out some really high quality content whattt-
thats sick ngl:) new sub
Thank you so much!! 💗
40:26 I'm pretty shocked to see this in the seventh layer, of all places. I still have several memories of watching this show on Cartoon Network with my siblings. I've always assumed everyone's seen the English dub already so it was a little surprising (and a bit eerie) to find out that no, apparently one of my childhood shows-or its dubbed version at least-is now lost media with little to no recorded proof of its existence...
I'm so happy u included the beatcats!! they are my fav sanrio characters and i feel like they are super under rated!
Damn. Really just watched an hour long video on something I don’t give a damn about. Great video though. A good classic
It be like that 😩 Thanks so much for watching even tho it's not a topic you cared about! Means a lot, esp since you watched for so long! :)
Sanrio Boys was a dang masterpiece and I'm both bitter that it wasn't as popular as it should have been and thankful that it wasn't as popular as most BL-esque media gets.
One of these things that icebergs don't mention is the character "Delmin Devilmintkiryu", which was a character created for the "Devilmintkiryu project"! She's essentially a character that's intended to be used for crossovers with games, including Bandori and NND Compass. She's a super cute monster girl, I'm surprised she isn't more popular.
I hope you get popular , bc ur vids are super cool
I came across a Sanrio store recently in America! It was super cool and every week they changed products so I kept coming back to it lol
I had a Sanrio store at my favorite mall growing up and I was so sad when it closed. It really is like the cutest store ever! 💗
I work at an official Sanrio shop in New Zealand so this was interesting to see! Thank you for this video
OMG U ARE SO UNDERRATED I THOUGHT U HAD ATLEAST 10k SUBSS!! IM SUBSCRIBING RN
Thank you! 💕💕
Oh my god!! Those puppets brought back memories BECAUSE MY COUSIN HAD THE HELLO KITTY ONE. INSANE
Ayy! 790th sub! Im so glad your blowing up! You honestly demolished this iceberg and its so cool to know this!
Ahh you're too kind! Thank you, this comment is so sweet 🥺 Glad you enjoyed it!! ✨
Your welcome!! Im so glad you came this far in 3 weeks!! Keep going girl!!
I’ve been waiting for a long time for someone to make a video on the iceberg since I saw on Reddit and I’m glad someone finally did a video on it :D it’s well structured and the trigger warnings were a nice welcome. You’ve definitely earned a sub!!
I feel like this Iceberg should have included the episode in "Hello Kitty's animation theater" where Hello Kitty is the little match girl cause that episode traumatised me as a kid
YES. oh my god i was watching that show as background noise and i had to do a double take.
really great video! i do think in the future organizing everything you want to touch on into categories will be really helpful though. jumping from introducing characters in random order with theme parks and tv shows and tiktoks in between them got really confusing
I was patiently waiting for a mention of Kutsushita Nyanko, only to discover he's actually a San-X character. I'm so shocked.
NO WAY YOU HAVE ONLY 2K?! I thought it was 100k+, the video quality is amazing!
Finally I found someone who made a hello kitty iceberg
1. I was expecting the iceberg to cover the South Park "Hello Kitty Island Adventure" and the official announcement Sanrio made referencing it, as well as the actual video game Sanrio made. Regardless...
2. This is a great iceberg! Very informative, thank you! Unfortunately the most vivid Hello Kitty memory I have was the time it gave me a crippling fear of characters being turned into stone. One time I watched an episode of the Hello Kitty anime where there was an evil witch who turned a character into stone. That (as well as Narnia perhaps) has made me unable to sleep a few nights.
Thank you so much for mentioning Show by Rock! It’s one of my favorite series ever and it’s so special to me and nobody talks about it. And it gave me one of my favorite characters ever, Shu⭐️Zo. Tbh I just clicked on this to see if you’d mention it
2:40 HEY EY THAT'S MY FAVORITE! wait what rabbit-
WDYM CINNAMOROLL IS A DOG MALE-?!