One of Hämsterviel's schemes unintentionally ends up making him out to be a hero to the islanders. My Melody is also a rabbit character, and one of the Sanrio character editors mentioned that they could be brother and sister but the manager disagreed with the opinion of the editor. Notable designers of Sanrio characters include Yuko Shimizu, original designer of Hello Kitty, Yuko Yamaguchi, lead designer for most of Hello Kitty's history and Miyuki Okumura, original designer of Cinnamoroll. PaRappa is the lead character of PaRappa the Rapper 2, which was released for the PlayStation 2 in 2001 in Japan and 2002 in North America and Europe. PaRappa is the lead character of an eponymous 30-episode anime television series, produced by J.C. Critics noted that PaRappa was created at the very moment in which Japanese hip-hop transitioned from a small subculture to a mainstream phenomenon. After finding out that Tigerlily is afraid of lighting, Stitch and Yuna chase a cloud to try and capture Raijin's son, also named Raijin, from it, but he's small and not very scary. He is a small white duck with a blue T-shirt with the letter P on it. Sony also announced several PaRappa promotions throughout the summer of 2007 to promote the release of the first game's PSP port, including a limited edition t-shirt featuring PaRappa by Paul Frank Industries.

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Caron, Frank (August 25, 2007). "PAX: the characters of day one". Per official character profiles his birthday is August 26 and he was born in the Northern woods. He was the official mascot for the 2006 FIBA World Championship of basketball, which was held in Japan. In a video uploaded to the Official PlayStation Europe YouTube channel which coincided with the launch of PaRappa the Rapper Remastered for PlayStation 4 in April 2017, several interviewees discuss PaRappa's cultural significance. Greenblat was not impressed to see the character portrayed in a weapon-filled battle game, although he was pleased that PaRappa appeared to be making a comeback with further video game appearances and he did consider Battle Royale to be a fun game. Sony published an interview with Rodney Greenblat on its website to promote the release of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) port of the original PaRappa The Rapper. The show was intended as a tie-in with the release of 2001's PaRappa the Rapper 2 and to increase merchandise sales, and marked the first instance that PaRappa was voiced in Japanese. The TV series marked the first appearance of PaRappa's sister Pinto and her pet Uee.

Like Crash Bandicoot, whose debut game was released on the same day, PaRappa went on to become an iconic mascot character for the PlayStation brand due to the international commercial success of the first PaRappa the Rapper game. In 2000, Greenblat released a standalone collection of comics called RodneyFun Comic Collection 1, which features PaRappa and several supporting characters dealing with relatable albeit eccentrically portrayed life problems. Greenblat expressed a hope that Sony would realize PaRappa's "golden true potential" in the rhythm game genre, and that he would given further opportunities to design some new games. In the 2017 publication 100 Greatest Video Game Characters, Ted Dickinson and Robert Mejia said PaRappa's design offers insight into the transnational uptake and circulation of both African American and Japanese cultures. In 2013, Foxx led a social media campaign to persuade Sony into commissioning a new game in the rhythm action series. Apollo Chungus from Hardcoregaming101 praised the reprisal of Dred Foxx as PaRappa and the character's overall presentation, but felt that the shading of his colors to fit in with the rest of the game ends up with a "gauche" look. Um Jammer Lammy, which remixes many of the game's songs from stages and cutscenes to include full-length rap routines performed by Dred Foxx as PaRappa.

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In one of the segments of the show, PaRappa is picked over his competitor in a freestyle battle by 50 Cent, who appears as himself, and is signed to his G-Unit label. Sanrio sells and licenses products branded with these characters and has created over 450 characters. Hangyodon is one of the members of Hapidanbui, a group Sanrio created in 2020 to promote older characters. Japan. It's split into two separate standard-length episodes, "BooGoo, Part One" and "BooGoo, Part Two", in the international version. The popularity of mascots like yuru-chara in Japan has been linked to historical emotional bonds to non-human characters, such as in ancient polytheism. Each character has its own quirky traits; for example, Momobuta is a pig with a head shaped like a peach, who enjoys karaoke and painting her nails. Bad Badtz-Maru (ja:バッドばつ丸, Baddo batsu maru) is a male penguin character drawn with spiky hair. The little pink experiment causes a really bad aroma on the island and Stitch gets jealous of his cuteness once again. His name comes from the croquettes on his cheeks, which he might eat when he gets hungry. His name comes from his chocolate-colored nose.