Japanese crossword «Hello Kitty»

Very sweet!

That wasn't easy

Very tricky with all that white!!

pretty challenging, considering that I knew what it was within the first ten lines...a good challenge though...

Really thought it was going to be another character with yellow skin and blue overalls!

One of my favourite characters, but I think that made it even harder. Bottom half was pretty easy and distinctive and I knew who it was as soon as I got that and the pink in place... but the top half was so difficult that I actually could not find a way forward without guessing--possibly unaided by how visible the finished product would be between the familiarity of the image and the symmetry of style. I did fight with myself for a while to cross off the boxes and follow the logic to get it in, but I had to give in on a few spots to just input the colour as befit the image to proceed.