She wears a big red bow on her cat-shaped head, her face has whiskers, and her name is Hello Kitty. But once again the iconic character’s parent company is saying she’s no feline.

“That’s one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show. Hello Kitty is not a cat. She’s a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat,” said Yano.

Sanrio's Hello Kitty is perhaps one of the most dominant mascots on the planet, as no one seemingly comes close to matching ...

But this is part of the enigma: Who is Hello Kitty? We can't figure it out. We don't even know if she is a cat," art historian Joyce S. Cheng, a University of Oregon associate professor ...

The fictional character was created in 1974 by Japanese company Sanrio. While she may look like a cat, Hello Kitty is a bright and kind-hearted schoolgirl, who lives in London with her family ...