Forty years of screen work by a dozen studios in five countries, with no story connecting any of it.
There is no order here and there never was one. Hello Kitty is a character licence rather than a story: forty years of screen work made by a dozen different studios in Japan, America, Hong Kong, Brazil, France and Italy, with no shared continuity, no arc and no canon. Nothing requires anything else. So the useful question is not where to start but which one you are thinking of.
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The current one, free on Sanrio's own channel, and what Sanrio itself points people at. Start here if you have no particular memory to chase.
If you want something that looks modern and sits on a streaming service. Fifty-two episodes of eleven minutes, made in France and Italy.
If what you remember is American and from television, this is almost certainly it. Thirteen episodes on CBS.
If what you remember is Hello Kitty doing Cinderella or Thumbelina, it is one of these eighty-three. About thirty were dubbed into English and they ran widely in the 1990s.
If what you remember is clay, it is this one. Twenty-six episodes of stop motion.
Three short episodes, and worth ten minutes purely because somebody actually made it.
Then what? A feature from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. is dated 21 July 2028, which would be the first Hello Kitty film from a major studio.
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