Hello Kitty is truly ubiquitous in Japan. During our 2004 trip there, every gift shop we visited carried HK merchandise, tailored to the particular region and its local folklore. Appropriately enough, HK's masters, Sanrio, celebrated HK's 30th birthday by licensing a robot of her. Further, a temp agency in Nagoya is renting out Robo-Kitty as a cybernetic receptionist for a fraction of the cost of her flesh-and-blood counterpart.
To hear her eerie, tinny, piping voice, click here ; click on the furthest square to the left in the bottom menu; and then click on the page where indicated.
If the robots are taking over, let them at least be kawaii.
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