kittypup niko :-)

I feel so much melancholia when I look at Mimic Mike's sweet face. This poor, lonely dog. Just imagining this clothed animal trying to look after himself in a cold Beverly Hills mansion makes my heart sink.

Why are all the descriptions of him so adamant about specifying the fact that he lives alone? Why is that part of the very limited information that we have about this guy?

I remember reading something that said that Mimic Mike doesn't know that he's a dog. Which is even more troubling. He must feel so isolated. I can't find exactly where I found this info, though. So. Grain of salt for sure.

And Hemingway. Why the correlation? The official Sanrio wiki points out the shared birthday, why? Why draw a correlation between a suicidal poet who's life was coloured by war, paranoia and cruelty, to this dog?? This lonely dog?

AND who is he mimicking? humanity? Does his lack of understanding of his canine nature force him into some sort of strange pantomime of copied human behaviour?

What's worse is that he is one of the forgotten Sanrio characters. He was alone at his inception and he had been abandoned by his creators.

It fills me with absurdist rage.

It seems quite obvious that this is meant to be a troupe of deceased pets. Which is quite depressing for a line of cute Sanrio characters. I suppose the aim was to make a unique concept and maybe help destigmatize death. A lot of the Next Kawaii Project characters tried to tackle difficult topic like low self esteem, but Lulu Kurun is truly wild for having dead pets be their central characters.

Maybe some children will see these characters and feel a bit better about their recently deceased pet, but I think the dark subject matter sabotaged these guys from placing any higher in the competition. They lost to the Puripuriunpis, which literally look like shit.