Revisiting Sweet Moments With Hello Kitty Fun

Hola and olá, fellow kitties! Now that some of you and some of our animal crossers, including Butters from South Park are relishing in the Summer vibes of Hello Kitty Island Adventure and there is hype for the first season of Lackadaisy as the page for its funding has reached $700,000 for three episodes [7] [30] [31] [40] [42], I believe that now is the time to also revisit the adorableness of Hello Kitty Fun, also known as “Sweet Moments With Hello Kitty” as its fourth anniversary is yet to be marked with a little red heart-shaped stamp. The series began nearly four years ago primarily for Brazilian, Latin-American and Mexican fellow kitties [9] [22] [28] [48] [49]. Nearly a year later, its English version titled “Sweet Moments With Hello Kitty” cuted out English-speaking fellow kitties, including yours truly during a very difficult time for the world [48] [49] [52] [53]. Despite the series’ closure and how it would have been swell to watch a fourth season at some point last year [26], let us fondly reflect on some sweet and fun events with Hello Kitty who can also be referred to as “Hola Gatita” and “Olá Gatinha” during the sales of new Summer-themed Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss merchandise [35] [48] [49].

It is time to look back on the cutest cartoon of 2019 and 2020 that continued to blossom like a field of daisies and buttercups in 2021 [15] [16] [18] [48] [49]! [12] [17]

Since we have already discussed Season One and Season Two of the series [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53], let us warm up for the sporting events in Season Three from 2021 [10] [11] [12] [21] [23] [25]. There may be the absence of Mimmy, Kitty’s twin sister [41], but there is still focus on how the twin with the red or pink bow handles fairly realistic scenarios, making the third season faithful to the previous ones [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53], but in a different theme [26] [27] [28]. The sports she participates in include:

•      Karate [10] [18]
•      Swimming [11] [15]
•      Track running [20] [21]
•      Long jumping [12] [17]
•      Football (also known as Soccer in America) [16] [26] [34]
•      Basketball [19] [25]
•      Skateboarding [14] [27]
•      Gymnastics [13] [23]

Aside from the third time beings the charm after two failures in five shorts [13] [15] [17] [18] [20], others feature her thinking differently during the activity, such as preventing a football from hitting a bee [16], which makes the writing of the third season a little more varied within a sports theme. Despite the difficulties Kitty faces as a pint-sized athlete and how she does not always succeed in every sport [15] [17] [19], she still proves that not only does practice make perfect but that girls like her can do it too. Barbie: The Movie and “No Match For Angelina” anyone [5] [29]? The theme of the third season must have been written that way to keep up with the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games that were delayed to Summer 2021 [38] [39] [54].

As much as I can praise the original Angelina Ballerina for handling rather realistic conflicts a young girl could face at some point in a G-rated manner, such as sexism in sports and conquering the fear of something going wrong during a show throughout its run [1] [2] [29], I can praise the third season of Hello Kitty Fun for being a cute compilation of sports-themed shorts in no particular chronological order [13] [14] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20], especially for a younger audience during the run of the reasonably delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games [38] [39] [54]. [13] [23]

And of course, there was a moment of Kitty White doing a sport before the third season as there was an episode of the first centred on her playing tennis with a tennis ball machine [9] [52] [53]. Too bad there was a missed opportunity to write and animate a short centred on her doing a rhythmic ribbon performance as that would have fitted her character so well [37] [38] [39]. As simplistic as the plots are throughout all three seasons [12] [22] [23] [28] [52] [53], they are still enjoyable to watch. [10] [18]

Let us expand on how the shorts in the third season are written. As an autistic person, I guess chopping a pillow instead of a plank of wood would be a lot more sensory-friendly, which is an example of Kitty coming up with an idea of making an activity much easier for her [10] [18]. Another is how she uses an apple as a goal during her attempts at long jumping [12] [17]. As previously mentioned, Kitty has not always succeeded at the end as she shrugs off the failure to slam dunk the last basketball and giggles sweetly in “Slam Dunk” [19] [25]. I like how she imagines collecting apples on her skateboard in “Eyes on The Prize” as it not only provides some form of creative thinking on her behalf but it also reminds me of how Crash Bandicoot would collect wumpa fruit [14] [27] [43]. Kitty’s experiences show that it is okay to show some weakness and not always find an activity easy [10] [11] [13] [15] [18] [23], but as previously mentioned, they show that girls like her can be sporty and have a chance at excelling at sports too, even though the English title of the third season being “Going For Gold” would be mostly misleading as Kitty has only won a gold award in “The Finish Line” [20] [21].

There is absolutely nothing wrong with making a sport more inclusive for you, especially if you are a beginner. Heck, Sonic the Hedgehog wears a life jacket during the swimming events in Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games and Mario & Sonic At The London 2012 Olympic Games [36] [37]. [11] [15]

A trophy full of apples [20] [21]! How enrichingly sweet! Could the next trophy Crash Bandicoot wins be full of wumpa fruit [6]? [20] [21]

The series has always been easy on the eyes and ears of a fellow kitty. The visuals are once again simplistic with very little detail in the backgrounds and objects that are crudely coloured in to provide some humbles vibes of a child’s drawings [13] [14] [18] [19] [20]. In “Diving In!”, the water of the swimming pool she eventually jumps into is in a nice light tint of blue that fits nicely into the plain white background [11] [15]. The same applies to the sand’s pale colour in “Jumping For Apples” [12] [17]. I just love it when red hearts appear around her, along with how a bee drew a bigger one for her with their trail in “Goal!” [16] [26]! Kitty’s movements are rather basic due to her kawaii art-styled anatomy but quite elegant enough to challenge Angelina from Angelina Ballerina to a dance-off [1] [2] [13] [23]. Aside from some fitting sound effects and others that are far quirkier beyond realism [14] [20] [21] [27], there is a variety of short but pleasant musical samples that are heard throughout each of Kitty’s progresses to elevate her moods and further increase the wholesomeness [13] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]. Looks like some dialogue for the fashion icon feline is not necessary when her determination in each premise is self-exploratory. With some good use of cheery audio and a simplistically cute art style, the series maintained its individuality throughout all three seasons [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53].
 

The grass in “Goals” may not be literally green [16] [26], but it can be considered already greener when it comes to maintaining Kitty’s likeability [22]. And again, Kitty stands out from the plainly designed backgrounds like a star in the night sky [48] [49]. [16] [26]

And not to mention that Kitty is a fashionable young lady as she wears appropriate attire for each sport [10] [13] [14] [18] [23] [27]. [19] [25]

Overall, revisiting the third season of Hello Kitty Fun, also known as “Sweet Moments With Hello Kitty” two years after its run is quite convenient as this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand kicked off the day before the theatrical release of Barbie: The Movie [5] [16] [20] [32]. For those cartoon lovers who consider themselves more like dog people, Scooby-Doo and his fellow investors, also commonly referred to as “those meddling kids” by those who get caught red-handed are yet to solve another case with the aid of Krypto the Superdog this September [44]. As for Hello Kitty and her fellow Sanrio stars, there is a lot to do on their vacation on Apple Arcade [45], from baking cakes to taking photographs. Who can forget her promotional appearance at Apple Omotesando in Tokyo [8]? Not me, fellow kitties! To this day, Hello Kitty Fun, also known as “Sweet Moments With Hello Kitty” deserves some recognition for being such a cute and wholesome cartoon on the internet [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53]. Reviewing the third season two years later after its run is better late than never [13] [14] [15] [17] [18] [19]. Sometime afterwards, I am sure that I will be starstruck at the sixth episode of the second season of Helluva Boss [3] [4]. Stay sweet and have fun, fellow kitties!

Hello Kitty can never have too much praise for being wholesome, adorable, and fashionable! [14] [27]

And of course, I shall look forward to the first episode of the first season of Lackadaisy soon [30] [31] [33] [46] [47]. Until then, go for your own kind of gold, fellow kitties! [16]

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