The gifts that Kelly decides to give to her staff members on Corporate's behalf are laptop sleeves, featuring the popular fictional character Hello Kitty, which is produced by the Japanese company Sanrio.
On August 20, 2006, Sugi played a new character, called Ahii, in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), the result of a cooperation between Sanrio Company Ltd. and the AJPW.
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Case has worked at a variety of studios including Disney, MGM, Walter Lantz, Tempo, Calvin Co., Academy Studios, ERA Productions, Hanna-Barbera, UPA, Warner Bros., Sanrio, DePatie-Freleng (and its later incarnation, Marvel Productions), Graz Entertainment and New World from 1934 until 1999.
In 2012, Chaotic Moon worked with Majesco Entertainment to develop Hello Kitty Picnic with Sanrio Friends, the first Hello Kitty game on Nintendo 3DS.
In January 1999, as a Hello Kitty craze swept through Hong Kong, Maxim's partnered with Sanrio and opened three branches of the new Hello Kitty Café in Tsuen Wan and Kowloon.
Onegai My Melody, a 2005 Japanese anime series based on the Sanrio character
It is Sanrio's first anime film to have a dark plot, only two other films produced by the company, The Ideon: A Contact and The Ideon: Be Invoked also follow suit.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, merchandise such as key chains and T-shirts with Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters—My Melody, Keroppi, and Chococa—were sold in Yogurtland stores during the month of August.