Japan sure does love cats … right? There are definitely a lot of them in anime, though usually heavily anthropomorphized — basically humans with cat ears (known as nekomimi). But that doesn’t really feel like it counts. And what about Hello Kitty, you ask? According to Sanrio, the world-famous ch...
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