
She looks a little sheepish and squished in her samurai gear, but still powerfully cute.ĭuring the 16th century, Takeda was a powerful Daimyo or feudal lord over Kai and Shinano provinces (modern day Yamanashi and Nagano prefectures respectively). Her plushie doesn't quite pull-off the whole "tigress-warlord" thing. Look how good a cat looks when they focus their ki/chi.Īs I watched Tigress and then Tai Lung (a snow leopard) shake their tails in the movie theater, I thought this was the perfect time to talk about Japanese Regional Hello Kitty's version of Shingen Takeda. Let the recent Disney/Dreamworks box office smash be a yet another gentle nudge to the Asunaro designers to create a martial-art Kitty.

It was a trifecta of cuteness, food and chop-saki humor. It rolled together my favorite subjects into a fuzzy, giant, tempura-battered futomaki of joy.

I saw Kung Fu Panda last weekend and its no surprise that I loved it.

There she is, invading a classic painting of the Warlord Shingen Takeda
