There are several different Hello KittyTV series, featuring the character Hello Kitty, from the Japanese company Sanrio.
''Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater'' (1987)
Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater is a Japanese-American co-produced animated series. The series involved Hello Kitty and her friends doing their own version of popular fairy tales and stories. Each of the 13 half-hour episodes consisted of two 11-minute cartoons, for a total of 26 shows; each show was a spoof of a well-known fairy tale or movie.
''Hello Kitty and Friends'' (1991–1995)
Hello Kitty and Friends is an OVA which was exclusively on home video in Japan in 1994. It also aired on Toon Disney in the United States and in Canada on YTV in 1997. In the video series, Kitty is a little girl kitten living with her mother, father, and twin sister Mimmy, who is identical to Kitty but has different colored clothes and wears a yellow bow under the opposite ear. Only 13 episodes were imported to the US. The first series was also broadcast on ZDF and Super RTL and Canal de las Estrellas
Growing Up With Hello Kitty is series of OVAs by Sanrio featuring Hello Kitty and her twin sister Mimmy as they learn life lessons. In 2012, AnimEigo released the series on DVD in North America with an English dub by Coastal Studios. Each disc contains six episodes focusing on issues such as learning how to talk on the phone, cleaning up a messy room and playing nicely. The production has been generally well-reviewed, with viewers pleased by both the quality of the production as well as the educational content.
Hello Kitty's Paradise is a children's variety series that officially ran from 1999 to 2011. Saban Entertainment and MGM Television adapted the third season's shorts into a TV series in the U.S. The show was the longest running weekly children's program in TV Tokyo's history, and aired on Tuesday mornings at 7:30 AM JST throughout its 12-year run. Following the series finale on March 29, 2011, it was immediately replaced by Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream in its timeslot on April 9, 2011.
Hello Kitty's Animation Theater is an anime produced by Sanrio Digital and licensed by ADV Films.
''Hello Kitty's Stump Village'' (2005)
Hello Kitty's Stump Village is a Japanese/South Korean clay-animated series produced in 2005 by Sanrio, SOVIK Venture Capital and Studio Tomorrow. It was acquired for North American distribution by Geneon and released on DVD with an English dub by Bang Zoom! Entertainment between October 31, 2006 and September 4, 2007. In Japan, the series was released on DVD on April 25, 2007 by Tohokushinsha Film. It later premiered on Cartoon Network in the country on May 3, 2008. In South Korea, the series debuted on Champ on October 1, 2007. Unlike other series, there is no dialogue in this one. Instead the narrator tells the events of the episodes.
Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori was a anime series divided into three seasons. The seasons are: Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori no Fantasy, Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori no Mystery and Hello Kitty: Ringo no Mori to Parallel Town. The anime was a production of Asahi Production. The third season Parallel Town has appearances from other Sanrio characters: Keroppi and U*SA*HA*NA, this was also the only season to be dubbed in other languages such as Spanish, Italian and Arabic.
''The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends'' (2008-2009)
The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends is a 3D CGI animated series from 2008 developed by Sanrio's digital entertainment entity Sanrio Digital.
''The World of Hello Kitty'' (2016-2019)
The World of Hello Kitty is a flash animated webseries of shorts produced by Sanrio and the Brazilian animation studio Plot Kids. It started streaming on the Latin American Hello KittyYouTube channels in 2016 and ended in 2019, lasting 4 seasons with 76 episodes and 19 video clips. The last season was themed to honor the character's 45th birthday. An English dubbed version began streaming on the Southeast Asian Hello Kitty YouTube channels in April 2020. This animation has appearances of other Sanrio characters such as Keroppi, Badtz-Maru and Chococat, and also My Melody and Little Twin Stars.
Hello Kitty & Friends - Let's Learn Together is a series of animated educational webshorts by Sanrio that began streaming in Japan on Hikari TV on July 28, 2017. A total of 21 seven-minute episodes were produced. The show was later released on DVD in Japan by Nippon Columbia. On July 25, 2018, Sentai Filmworks acquired the rights to release the series in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. An English dubbed version was then released on DVD in November 2018.
''Gundam vs Hello Kitty'' (2019)
In January 2019 a limited Original net animation series in three episodes entitled Gundam vs Hello Kitty was launched featuring a crossover between Hello Kitty with the classic 1979 anime series Mobile Suit Gundam. The animation was part of a cross-promotion to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Gundam and the 45th anniversary of Hello Kitty. The episodes were made available on its own YouTube channel with animation made by Sunrise.
''Hello Kitty Fun'' (2019)
Hello Kitty Fun is another flash animated webseries of shorts also exclusive from Hello Kitty's Latin YouTube Channels. The series was created as a replacement for The World of Hello Kitty, however different from the previous one this series uses a hand-drawn art style, and it has no dialogue. The series is a production made between Sanrio and the Brazilian animation studio Split Studio. The series had only one season with 16 episodes and was followed by Hello Kitty & Amigos: Chef Star in 2020.
