Obscurity, much?/Sanrio

Sanrio, the company responsible for Hello Kitty, has gotten a reputation for obscuring Sanrio-based anime that *isn't* Hello Kitty-related in the US. Hence, after *Mewkledreamy* premiered, Sanrio deserved its own page.

A few restrictions for this page (and related subpages):

* Just because it was pulled from streaming (be it Funimation, Crunchyroll, Netflix, etc.) doesn't make a show an automatic candidate for this trope. There needs to be evidence that the series garnered low viewership during its time on the service.
* With the exception of legacy examples (documented before January 1st, 2023) and anime that haven't been exported (in which they can be documented 3 months after their Japanese premieres), only ended/cancelled anime and manga can be documented.
	+ If an anime/manga without much of an audience ends before the character(s) it's based on stop being acknowledged by Sanrio, the example should almost exclusively be about the anime and/or manga. This especially goes if the character on his/her own is still popular with his/her target demographic.

*Jewelpet* now has *its* own page.

* *Aggretsuko* (the shorts, not the Netflix series): The shorts are almost completely obscure outside of their native Japan.
* One word, two syllables: *Beatcats*. Especially outside of Japan. Their debut single has 487K views according to YouTube as of this writing. The full version has slightly less at 383K. It wouldn't be until January 2021 (a gap of *three months* after their debut) that they would bother releasing another song, which eventually overtook their debut single in popularity (with *798K* views and counting as of February 9th, 2021). The kicker? This is a Sega/Sanrio collaboration, which usually do not become subject to this in *Japan itself*.
	+ That said, Sanrio's *other* idol singer group, OTMGirls, have also had small amounts of views for their music on YouTube (though thanks to OTMGirls being *Aggretsuko* characters (the protagonist even joins them in season 3), this is remedied somewhat, plus they have a better music catalog than the Beatcats as of this writing).
* *Button Nose*: While Saban Entertainment licensed it, when Saban's license expired no one wanted to rescue-license it.
* *Cinnamoroll* as a whole averts this, but try saying to the character's American fans that it has an anime film. And a manga.
* *Flint the Time Detective* is also one of those Jetix shows that no one wanted to rescue-license upon Jetix becoming Disney XD, though since Sanrio has the Japanese rights and given their reputation for not releasing certain anime in North America...
* Not even certain *Hello Kitty* anime is safe- *Hello Kitty's Paradise* was once licensed by Saban, but went out-of-print not long after Disney bought Saban out.
* Despite almost any anime being simulcast in 2020 (even a *Tama and Friends*-related anime and eventually *Healin' Good Pretty Cure*), the only episode of *Mewkledreamy* that saw any kind of official release in the US was the fifth episode, and even then it was because the episode was subtitled as a *licensing pitch*.
* *Onegai My Melody*: Despite being made a meme on YouTube for a while, it wasn't enough to convince Sanrio to license it out in the US. This has the knock-off effect of My Melody-related characters that aren't My Melo herself being obscure in North America.
* This proved a major factor in the undoing of *Rilu Rilu Fairilu*- even in Japan, the ratings were not as strong as other Sanrio anime. The premiere of Aggretsuko (which got the opposite treatment Fairilu got) only amplified matters, and by the end of its third season (which aired on Tokyo MX instead of TV Tokyo due to TV Tokyo giving the slot to another anime), Fairilu was over and done with.
	+ Unlike the overstock Amazon had on its predecessor when that anime ended back in 2015, *Fairilu* merch is almost non-existant, or expensive, on online sites. What happened above did not help.
	+ It also doesn't help that as of 2020, *Panel de Pon* came out in the US (albeit untranslated), possibly preventing *Fairilu* from American release- despite both *Panel de Pon* and *Fairilu* originating from Japan.
* *Show by Rock!!*: While Funimation was able to get any entry of the anime fine and dandy, most of the games are Japan-only.
* *Sugarbunnies* is obscure among English-speaking anime fans, to the point where the anime (save the third season for some reason) doesn't even have English fan-subs.