#ahiru no pekkle

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Sleepytime♪ 2021 Attendance Roll Plushies

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Kuromi's Shocking Secret Lab ★

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POP MART x Sanrio Characters Fall Asleep Series Blind Box

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Fragaria Memories officials posted a Hapidanbui Version of All So Bad for April Fools!!

Happy April Fools everyone!!

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Aikatsu! x Sanrio Characters ♡

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Sanrio “Happy holidays” Christmas wrapping paper (1993)

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ahiru no pekkle is howard's sanrio buddy

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Today is Ahiru no Pekkle’s birthday! He’s been bringing joy to Sanrio fans since 1989.

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THERE IS A NEW MHA SANRIO COLLAB AND THEY PAIRED HAWKS WITH PEKKLE???? “On time and off balance” Pekkle????? The tap dancing duck???

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Hapidanbui's Colorful Arcade Time

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Sanrio Carnival

Second game I got from Novegro is a freaking Hello Kitty title. Never in my life I would have expected to come back home with Hello Kitty among my convention loot, but it was there for cheap and I figured it was better collecting these kind of games this way instead of also suffering shipping costs for them.

The minimal-styled white cat needs no introduction: designed by Yuko Shimizu for the Sanrio corporation in 1974, Hello Kitty has been an icon for worldwide kawaii culture since then and a fan favourite among children and adults alike, becoming a fixed appeareance in pop culture. Her most remarkable feature is getting her face plastered on anything mankind has ever produced; if an item exists, there's an Hello Kitty branded version of it. No need for me to delve further into the topic, since there's also a plethora of Hello Kitty Game Boy games and eventually, as I collect more titles, I'll come back talking about her sometime in the future. In reality, I hold no grudge against Sanrio characters in general. Really, they're adorable and I am known for liking cute stuff: Badtz-Maru is definitely my favourite in the bunch and I owned- correction, I still own Ahiru No Pekkle branded stationery (which, by the way, has major kidcore vibes. It's amazing). The big flaw here is that I think all minor, secondary or supporting characters Sanrio creates for the Hello Kitty brand look far more interesting than the protagonist who needs to be bland and empty to fullfill the role of "pop culture icon". While others have distinct personalities and attitudes, Kitty needs to be just a face, a signature, a stamp to be placed on items, nothing more. I know there's several anime series trying to give her a family or a story and a setting, but at that point it's just uncanny. It's sorta like watching a cartoon of the Dolce&Gabbana logo coming to life.

Setting my rant aside, the subject of this post is Sanrio Carnival, a classic GB game distribuited by Character Soft in 1991. It appears to be, along with its NES counterpart of 1990, the first title featuring the kitten at least on Nintendo consoles. Unfortunately, searching up info about older Sanrio games is a confusing task as most dedicated sites do not even bother to list them prior to the DS and GameCube era. The game itself, however, is not confusing at all: right after the title screen from where we can choose to play single or multiplayer via Link Cable we're sent to an option screen and then to the actual game- which is a Puyo Puyo clone. Nothing more, nothing less. Icons depicting Sanrio charas fall from the top of the screen in couples and the player can rotate and move them with controls; once three of the same are paired, they disappear.

While it's hard to write anything more about the game itself, I can say that ironically this is the best I got from the Novegro batch o.o I randomly picked all four titles only assuring myself I was getting actual japanese exclusives with no western distribution; I ended up with a text-heavy RPG and two RTS, while Sanrio Carnival is just a simple puzzle game. Granted, it has nothing on Dr.Mario or Tetris, but it's immediate to pick up and it fills the purpose of killing your time if you're a kid in a road trip or waiting in some office. It does its job. Sanrio Carnival is just a simple puzzler, yet it's everything you'd expect about an early title featuring fashion icons.

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Sanrio collab/Say Hello in the SEKAI ♡ Lovely Encounter Gacha cards - Virtual Singer

[Translations from Project Sekai Fandom Wiki]

Hatsune Miku (VS) - feat. Hello Kitty

"Let's talk about a lot of things, Kitty-chan!"

Kagamine Rin (VS) - feat. Little Twin Stars

Kagamine Len (VS) - feat. Little Twin Stars

Megurine Luka (VS) - feat. My Sweet Piano

MEIKO (VS) - feat. nya・ni・nyu・nye・nyon

KAITO (VS) - feat. Ahiru no Pekkle