{"id":159440,"date":"2026-10-29T04:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159440"},"modified":"2026-10-29T04:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:41:20","slug":"hello-kitty-owner-sanrio-scraps-japanese-tv-show-vivant-deal-over-china-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159440","title":{"rendered":"Hello Kitty owner Sanrio scraps Japanese TV show Vivant deal over China backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapanese character company Sanrio, owner of popular IPs including Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll and My Melody, has terminated its planned collaboration with the television drama Vivant following strong public criticism in China.<br \/>\nIn an official statement released late on Wednesday evening, the company acknowledged that the Japanese spy drama contained content that \u201cdoes not align with the Sanrio Group\u2019s corporate philosophy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial series includes scenes depicting Chinese intelligence&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3372526\/hello-kitty-owner-sanrio-scraps-japanese-tv-show-vivant-deal-over-china-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapanese character company Sanrio, owner of popular IPs including Hello Kitty, Cinnamoroll and My Melody, has terminated its planned collaboration with the television drama&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}