The Bird stuck on the minute hand is a minor, unnamed character from the Hello Kitty and Friends anime. He only appears in The Day the Big Clock Stopped, where he serves as the closest character in that particular episode/OVA to a "main antagonist", although he isn't really antagonistic.
Description[]
The bird is a small bird with blue feathers, white feathers on the face, lighter blue or lavender feathers on the belly, and small black beady eyes. His adoptive siblings and mother look different compared to him, as their feathers all look blue and they have slightly different body shapes.
History[]
When the bird is first seen, he is stuck on Big Ben's minute hand, jamming it and therefore causing all of the clocks to malfunction. When spotted by Kitty White while she and her sister Mimmy were investigating the place, the bird reveals that he is not in fact injured and explains that he is just unable to fly. He then goes on to say that he used to live on the roof and tried to fly away but ended up getting stuck on the minute hand after failing. The bird from the clock shop then flies up to find a next with an egg's cracked shell close by.
The bird explains that his mother found him abandoned (implying she is actually his stepmother), and his siblings managed to beat him to hatching first, and their appearances were, in his words, "completely different" compared to his own. Since they hatched sooner, they were able to get more of her flying lessons than the bird himself did, so his knowledge of how to fly was stunted. His siblings tried to help him catch up, but failed. After a botched takeoff, the bird landed on the clock's minute hand, jamming it, while his siblings and mother flew away. Watching his stepfamily fly off, the bird gave up.
When they hear the bird's story, the White twins and the bird from the clock shop proclaim that the bird has to overcome his insecurities and learn how to fly; the twins use their trek through the dark woods as proof. During an attempt to demonstrate, the two Japanese bobtails nearly fall to their demise but manage to hold on briefly enough that the bird finally overcomes his insecurities and dives down. He and the bird from the clock shop grab the twins' dungarees and flap their wings in an attempt to slow the cats' descent, allowing Big Ben's minute hand to work again. The clocks chime six as their cuckoo birds come out to help carry the twins back home.
The bird is later seen again while the twins are sleeping in. When he reveals that the White family's clocks are working, Kitty and Mimmy are excited, jumping on their bed.
Trivia[]
- Birds would be too light to jam the minute hand just by sitting on it in real life.