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"Say hello to my little friend!"
—Kuromi goes to attack a candy monster during the episode Kuromi's Night of the Living Desserts in Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures.

Kuromi (クロミ, Kuromi) is a character from the My Melody universe. She is My Melody's rival, and manifests as a white rabbit or imp-like creature wearing a black jester's hat with a pink skull on the front and a black devil's tail. The skull's facial expression changes to match Kuromi's mood. Fittingly, her birthday is Halloween (October 31st). Her name translates from Japanese to English as "black beauty".

Kuromi's appearance is also similar to those of cartoon characters from the 1990s such as Impmon from Digimon. She has become a popular character for the punk, scene, and goth crowds due to her appearance.

On October 26th of 2021, a campaign called the KUROMIfy the World Project was started. It is a plan to fill the world with everything Kuromi and her “Kuromies”, which is the title bestowed upon her fans. With the campaign came the official Kuromi Instagram and Twitter accounts, an ad campaign truck in Japan, and Kuromi‘s own original debut song, Greedy Greedy. The song has both an English and Japanese version, and a dance challenge to both versions was created where fans would be able to submit their own videos of themselves doing a set dance routine for a chance to be featured in a music video for the song. A year and three months later in 2023, the project brought Kuromi her own anime called Kuromi’s Pretty Journey, which would also get both an English and a Japanese version.

Personality

Although she may look tough and punk, she is actually very girly and is attracted to good-looking guys! Kuromi enjoys writing in her diary and is hooked on romantic short stories. Her favorite colors are black and hot pink. Her favorite food is shallots, all kinds of meat, and in recent Kuromi merchandise, cherries have been shown. Despite being a villain, Kuromi is mostly into food and even cooks. You might call her a rowdy free spirit.

Kuromi is the "punk" tomboy counterpart to My Melody. Although My Melody can get along with Kuromi, Kuromi's feelings are more inclined to rivalry to look tough.

Friends

Kuromi is the leader of a biker gang known as "Kuromi's 5." Other members include a purple cat named Nyanmi (Kuromi's best friend), a pale orange dog named Wanmi, a white fox named Konmi, and a grey and white rat named Chumi. They all wear black and drive around in a menacing fashion. They love riding their tricycles and causing havoc at breakneck speeds, similar to the yakuza-inspired "bosozoku" girl gang subculture in Japan.

Television Appearances

After fleeing from Mariland to the human world she meets, partners up with, and falls madly in love with Keiichi Hiiragi, a coldhearted bishōnen violinist. After being chosen by the Dark Power to charge Kuromi's weapon, the Melody Key, through his violin playing, Hiiragi assists her in her quest to collect 100 black notes to summon the Spirit of Dark Power and get revenge on My Melody.

Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures

In Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures, Kuromi is depicted as a tough and cool tomboy-like character. Though she is a tomboy and doesn’t like to wear anything too cutesy, she does secretly take an interest in a girly book series called “Sugar Sweethearts Forever,” although at first she is worried that the series would cause her to be seen as a laughing stock. She is often seen hanging around with Badtz-Maru, who she is revealed to have a crush on, and Keroppi. She runs a halloween shop in Sanrio Town and lives next to My Melody, who in this series, is her friend rather than her rival. (This may imply that they have patched their relationship up.)

Kuromi’s Pretty Journey

Kuromi’s Pretty Journey is an anime released publicly on YouTube in February of 2023 which follows Kuromi as she travels the world to find her long-lost big sister, Romina. Kuromi travels to various countries in her big, Kuromi-shaped blimp and the meets new characters along the way, such as Gureco, Koni, and Collimo, as well as bringing her old friend Baku along with her. and season 2 is coming soon!

Ranking in the Sanrio Character Ranking

In the 2013 Sanrio Character Ranking, if Kuromi beats My Melody, My Melody must look like her. However, she failed to beat her.

  • 2006: 5th place
  • 2007: 6th place
  • 2008: 6th place
  • 2009: 7th place
  • 2010: 5th place
  • 2011: 6th place
  • 2012: 8th place
  • 2013: 10th place
  • 2014: 11th place (3rd place in Group A)
  • 2015: 14th place
  • 2016: 10th place
  • 2017: 11th place
  • 2018: 10th place
  • 2019: 7th place
  • 2020: 7th place
  • 2021: 5th place
  • 2022: 3rd place
  • 2023: 3rd place

Trivia

  • Onegai My Melody is the only media that Kuromi appeared in where she is an outright villain.
  • Kuromi's voice actress, Junko Takeuchi, is also known to voice Naruto.
  • In Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures, Kuromi has a crush on Badtz-Maru.
  • In Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures, Kuromi makes a reference to Scarface when she turns her vehicle into a gun and tries to attack a candy monster.

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