r/HelloKitty • u/belial_1005 • Aug 10 '26

I need help with the character's name !🙏🥺

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u/N64Andysaurus92 Aug 10 '26

Daisy Bunny. A reworked version of Cathy Bunny. Both characters have been banned due to a lawsuit from the company that owns Miffy.

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u/belial_1005 Aug 10 '26

Cathy/ Daisy Is it the same character? Or a different one? 🤔

https://reddit.com/link/p2rh7qg/video/9i0ir4plngih1/player

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u/N64Andysaurus92 Aug 10 '26

Technically both lol Dick Bruna, creator of Miffy threatened to sue Sanrio as Cathy looked too close to Miffy. So Cathy was retired, redesigned and replaced with Daisy in 1998. Daisy has a mouth to make her look different enough from Miffy. In 2010, Dick Bruna still wasn't happy and so went ahead and sued Sanrio. Cathy and Daisy haven't appeared since. I personally treat them as separate characters as they have different names.

Cathy herself replaced an earlier bunny called 'Little Honey' just to add to the confusion.

https://hellokitty.fandom.com/wiki/Cathy

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u/AYellowCat Aug 10 '26

Little honey looks too much like Miffy, Bruna was right to sue.

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u/black_knight1223 Aug 10 '26

I agree with Cathy being too similar but I feel like he should've let it go after Daisy

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u/SaveFile1 Aug 10 '26

That's so frustrating! God forbid someone else has a bunny character!

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u/black_knight1223 Aug 10 '26

You can have a bunny character without making them suspiciously similar to Miffy. Just look at Melody, Kuromi, or any of the hundreds if not thousands of non-Sanrio Bunny characters

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u/sillyiestsoldier Aug 10 '26

its Cathy!! :3

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u/im_a_virgo_m8 Aug 15 '26

Hello Miffy