There's a good article from a week or so ago down at the SFGate on author Angela S. Choi and her novel "Hello Kitty Must Die" where this just sticks out at me:
"I always saw (Hello Kitty) as embodying a lot of the stereotypes of what Asian women are about," Choi says. "You're supposed to be nice, you're not supposed to have a mouth - and you're certainly not supposed to go around enjoying killing people."I would agree.
Killing people is not really in the spirit of Hello Kitty.
Read it in full here.