Hello Kitty is not a cat - she's a British school kid

"Hello Kitty emerged in the 1970s, when the Japanese and Japanese women were into Britain," said Yano.

"They loved the idea of Britain. It represented the quintessential idealized childhood, almost like a white picket fence.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/28963085

Disturbing revelations.

Did you have to tell me that.

You have totally ruined my whole life and i am crying copious tears.

I may have to listen to very sad music now.

You will get over it Patsycat. Time heals,

I am shattered.