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In the 1990s, the target market for Hello Kitty was broadened to include teenagers and adults as a retro brand. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures Trailer | Supercute Adventures". The first was Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater, an animated television series with 13 22-minute episodes that premiered in 1987. Special-edition consoles such as the Hello Kitty Dreamcast, Hello Kitty Game Boy Pocket, and Hello Kitty Crystal Xbox have also been released exclusively in Japan.

In 2002, Hello Kitty lost her place as the top-grossing character in Japan in the Character Databank popularity chart. Hello Kitty: Cinderella released in 1989, Hello Kitty no Oyayubi Hime released in 1990, and Hello Kitty no Mahō no Mori no Ohime-sama released in 1991. As of 2014 [update], more than 50,000 Hello Kitty product lines were available in over 130 countries. Another explanation Sanrio has given for Hello Kitty's lack of a mouth is that she "speaks from the heart. Mercis, the firm that managed copyrights for Bruna, took Sanrio to court over their Hello Kitty-associated character Cathy, a rabbit which made her first appearance in 1976 and which Mercis argued infringed the copyright for Miffy.Hello Kitty has her own branded album, Hello World, featuring Hello Kitty-inspired songs performed by a collection of artists including Keke Palmer, Cori Yarckin, and Ainjel Emme under Hello Kitty's Lakeshore Records record label. The character's first appearance on an item was in March 1975 on a vinyl coin purse sold in Japan, where she was pictured sitting between a bottle of milk and a goldfish bowl. Hello Kitty's Paradise [ ja] was a long-running live-action children's program that aired on TXN from January 1999 to March 2011. A year later, EVA Air introduced one of their 777-300ERs as another Hello Kitty Jet, which featured other Sanrio characters as well as Hello Kitty. Sanrio decided to make Hello Kitty British because foreign countries, in particular Britain, were trendy in Japan at the time of Hello Kitty's creation.

In 2010, The New York Times attributed the character's relative decline in Japan to her biography not being "compelling enough to draw many fans. The Hello Kitty Stratocaster guitar, originally released in 2005, was initially aimed at pre-teen girls, [79] but has since been used by notable guitarists including Krist Novoselic, Courtney Love, Dave Navarro, and Lisa Loeb.At that time, several celebrities, such as Mariah Carey, had adopted Hello Kitty as a fashion statement. In July 2008, the Dutch artist Dick Bruna, creator of Miffy, alleged that Hello Kitty is a copy of Miffy, being rendered in a similar style. Following reports that interpreted this to mean she was human, a Sanrio PR representative said that the organization had "never said she was a human", explaining anthropomorphization by comparing the character to Mickey Mouse: "No one would mistake the Disney character for a human–but at the same time he's not quite a mouse.

In 2020, Skechers collaborated with Hello Kitty releasing chunky-soled style shoes with brand's logo and Hello Kitty's face and bow. In late 2011 and early 2012, EVA Air revived their "Hello Kitty Jets" with their three new A330-300s. SFGATE said in 2004 that in light of the level of success of Hello Kitty, her fictional biography "seems almost too modest – or irrelevant" and "doesn't seem to have played much of a part" in the success. Sanrio's motto is "social communication," and Tsuji wanted the brand name to reflect that by including a greeting. This contemporary revision of the nativity scene [109] demonstrated Sachs' interest in the phenomena of consumerism, branding, and the cultural fetishization of products.

There are Sanrio theme parks based on Hello Kitty: Harmonyland in Hiji, Ōita, Japan, [19] Sanrio Puroland in Tama New Town, Tokyo, Japan, and Hello Kitty Shanghai Times in Shanghai, China. Hello Kitty is featured on the receiving blankets, room decor, bed linens, birth certificate covers, and nurses' uniforms. The game allows players to create and customize characters, then use them to battle monsters, socialize with one another, mine for ore, do domestic chores like farming or cooking, and participate in quests. The Hello Kitty media franchise has grown to include a number of animated series targeted towards children, as well as several comics, animated films, video games, books, music albums and other media productions. Hello Kitty was designed by Yuko Shimizu and was added to the lineup of early Sanrio characters in 1974.