Hello Hellooo

My hubby brought these back from his recent trip to Korea. He used to say that Hello Kitty was yet again symptomatic of the way Japanese view or like to view their women, i.e. without lips or mouths hence voices, but what does it say when both woman and man, clad in Korean attire no less, are lipless?

I think they're cute, regardless. They were for my niece but she was decidedly less excited about them as I was. She even offered to give them to me. I don't think I can do that to a kid, though.