The Adventures of Hello Kitty & Friends

The Adventures of Hello Kitty and Friends (Traditional Chinese: Hello Kitty 愛漫遊) is a CGI animated series featuring Hello Kitty and other characters from the Japanese company Sanrio. It was produced from 2008 onwards by Sanrio Digital and Dream Cortex, and distributed by Sanrio Digital. It consists of 52 episodes and deals with themes of happiness, family and friendship.

Why it Rocks

 * 1) The series was a good return of Hello Kitty in animation for western audiences after several years after the end of series like Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater and the anime Hello Kitty's Paradise.
 * 2) The series was a great introduction of characters like Dear Daniel, Keroppi, Badtz-Maru, Pochacco and the Little Twin Stars to the west in animation, since Hello Kitty and My Melody were already well known for being protagonists in Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater.
 * 3) The characters still retain their likeable personalities.
 * 4) The episodes have educational themes giving moral lessons and positive themes.
 * 5) Some funny moments, mostly from Badtz-Maru.
 * 6) Many of the songs in the episodes are very good and catchy.
 * 7) Decent voice acting for the characters.
 * 8) Just like other Sanrio animations, this one has several cute moments.
 * 9) Other Sanrio characters can often be seen appearing in the background, including Cinnamoroll who gains more prominence as the series progresses.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The CGI animation is mediocre, even by 2008 standards.
 * 2) Sometimes the episodes feel very slow-paced and get boring easily.
 * 3) The series tends to focus too much on the 6 main characters. Other Sanrio characters like Pompompurin, Chococat, Cinnamoroll (in the early episodes), CorocoroKuririn, Pekkle and others appear only as background characters, and some are not even seen speaking.
 * 4) For unknown reasons Tuxedo Sam who was one of the main characters in Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater along with Kitty and Melody does not appear in this series, even though he is a official character of Sanrio. The same is with Mimmy, Hello Kitty's sister who doesn't seem to exist in the series.
 * 5) The CGI models of the characters can look too uncanny and lazy, as for example My Melody doesn't have a mouth just like Kitty and Pochacco and Mr. White is a rip-off of Anthony, Hello Kitty's grandfather.
 * 6) The songs were not dubbed in the Brazilian dub, having been kept with the audio in English.