Hello Kitty Goes Bad: Visual-Kei Kitty
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Mar 8, 2009 17:16 JST
- Tags: Business, Hello Kitty, Marketing, Sanrio, Visual Kei, X-Japan
Sanrio and X Japan have announced that they would be collaborating for the X Japan’s World Tour Live concerts, bringing their renowned Hello Kitty brand into a new world of eccentric hairstyles.
The new look Hello Kitty, or now known as “Visual-kei Hello Kitty” was created by owner Sanrio specifically for this tour.
This is the first time that a Sanrio created character has had a collaboration with a real life band, and the choice of X Japan was regarded as a modernization of the character, which has long been synonymous with “cute”.
Whether or not this is just a ploy to tap a new demographic is not clear, although it hardly seems unlikely. For now further details are being kept under wraps…
The concert itself, delayed some time ago, will continue in Seoul, and will include New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Germany, Finland, Thailand, Beijing, and Taiwan before returning to Japan
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And will they be using Hello Kitty Fender Stratocasters?
http://www.fenderhellokitty.com/gear.html
The standard model is so plain, though. I saw a Fender Custom Shop version that looked great.
Am I the only one who thinks their music is total shit and they look like fags?
I think their music sucks, but no, they don't look like fags at all. And even if they do, they still got more pussy than you ever will.
Shit yeah, X-Japan.
damn they canceled the Hongkong and Taiwan tour =( WHYYYY the Cheapest place for me to watch them is now Korea T_T
HIDE san doko desuka~
hey, why don't they come to latin america???
"This is the first time that a Sanrio created character has had a collaboration with a real life band"
That's false, Sanrio had a collaboration with their famous character "Hello Kitty" and the rock band Balzac from Japan sometime around 2008, they made t-shirts, toys, mugs, pencils...
wtf???? eew?
Meh.
Once you've seen a "Hello Kitty AK-47" then nothing suprises you...
Gotta to love the rock/actor star knock offs in the above picture!
From left to right:
(1) Ronnie James Dio
(2) Tom Cruise
(3) Tom Petty
(4) Ric Ocasek
This band was around when Tom Cruise barely had a career. They look DRASTICALLY different now than they did in their heyday. Do some fucking research.
oh dear lord, no.
ewww...
once again japan is prevail in WTF market!
Does anyone know when they're coming to Finland?
Never understood X Japan. Music sucked, their style sucks, etc.
Seems like the core audience are chicks.
Your music taste sux :)
Hey, even former Japanese Prime Ministers are fans. And Forever Love is awesome
That song reminds me of hide every time I hear it
You totally suck infinitely whoever you are Anonymous.If you don't like them,what's worth of your comments in this area are truly and purely nonsense.Get a life.
I love how people simply presume that a band and/or music style sucks just because they don't like it, but if someone says the same thing about they like, they will bitch without thinking twice.
I'm with you.
*what they like
Wow that's just awesome XD
Can't wait for merchandise~
Wow, that's... lolwut.
yeah...is anyone else thinking:
"Why?"
I'm thinking, "why not?"
Cross-dressing Hello Kitty??
Id hit that lol
Zoophilia.
Furries.
Beastiality
They should have made the hair pink in some place, as a memory to Hide.
Trve
QFT.
X Japan really isn't the same without Hide. =(
Noooo.. Sanrio is whoring out Hello Kitty =o=*
Don't knock Hello Kitty. She's one Badassmotherfucker!
Hello Kitty + Visual Kei = IT DOESN'T ADD UP @@
Hello Visual Keitty?
Hello Kitty is now officially emo.
Because all visual-kei bands are emo...
Congratulations, you know jack shit. Thanks for sharing.
Just because they're visual kei doesnt mean they're emo. You've obviously never heard their music.
People never understand what emo really means anymore, it's become synonimous with 'scene' sadly.
Wheras it -should- be closer to 'harcore'.
But then again, most people think 'hardcore' refers to dance music rather than punk music...
Why am I even trying?! This is a J-blog, not a music-blog.
I'd always prefer my kitty bare. I don't like hair on my kitty.
I see what you did there. What you did there, I sees it.