Hello Kitty: Stump Village

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Hello Kitty: Stump Village is a South Korean-Japanese television series that was produced in 2004 for the Hello Kitty franchise. It is animated via stop-motion and comes in Korean, Japanese, and English. Throughout its run, Kitty White the Japanese bobtail, My-Melody the rabbit, Pompompurin the golden retriever, and Cinnamoroll the flying dog go on many adventures throughout their residence, which is in a forest.

Tropes used in Hello Kitty: Stump Village include:

• Bamboo Technology: During certain episodes, the gang makes many things that logically shouldn't work, such as cars from kiwi skins and a hot air balloon from dough.
• Big Ball of Violence: During "Goodie Town," the gang decides to make some miniature buildings out of snacks, resulting in a miniature city. However, there seem to be too few biscuits, and they fight over the last biscuit, merging into a smoke cloud until they stop fighting.
• Big Friendly Dog: Pompompurin may be fat, but he does genuinely care about the gang. His only antagonistic role was in Heart Shaped Fruit, which had him use the titular object for his tennis game, which Kitty finds to her horror.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Pompompurin is the big guy due to his size. Kitty, My-Melody, and Cinamoroll are the "little guys."
• Black Bead Eyes: The gang has beady eyes.
• Bootstrapped Leitmotif: Various remix of the song that plays during the intro can be heard at certain points in the episodes themselves. When Kitty and company undergo a sad event (such as when Kitty loses the heart fruit that she got in Goodie Town after Cinnamoroll accidentally smashes it in Heart Shaped Fruit), a quieter, slower remix of the theme plays. Happy events are typically accompanied by bouncy remixes of the intro theme.
• Break the Cutie: Kitty White is devastated when the heart fruit that she treasured from "Goodie Town" is destroyed in "Heart Shaped Fruit."
• Brown Note: Inverted when Kitty's friends play music during the fifth episode, "Friends Again" in an attempt to reconcile with her, causing the destroyed heart fruit's remains to grow into a tree.
• Cranial Eruption: Kitty White gets this during the series' pilot episode, Seesaw Nutcracker, when she and My-Melody try to crack some walnuts during the first episode and Kitty gets struck in the face by the rebounding nut, causing a bump to grow on her head. To combat this, Kitty and My-Melody try wearing masks to protect their heads.
• Cute Kitten: Kitty White is this, being quite the friendly Japanese bobtail.
• Downer Ending: Combined with Four Is Death. Pompompurin steals the heart fruit that Kitty got from the tree in the third episode for his game of tennis much to her horror, leading to the fourth episode ending badly when her heart fruit crashes into the floor.
• Ear Wings: Cinnamoroll can use his ears to fly.
• Expository Theme Tune: The intro plays this.
• Fat Bastard: Inverted. Pompompurin may be fat, but he does have a golden heart. There was that one episode that had him steal the heart fruit that Kitty treasured to use as a ball for tennis, much to her horror...
• Feathered Fiend: Downplayed, but Badtz-Maru was antagonistic during his debut, stealing some treats that Cinnamoroll made, then making a break for it. During a few episodes where the gang goes for a trip in a balloon, they encounter a bird that damages the balloon.
• Four Is Death: Heart Shaped Fruit, the fourth episode, concludes when the heart fruit that Kitty got from the tree in the previous episode, Goodie Town, gets smashed during a game of tennis. As a result, she cuts ties with Pompompurin, so My-Melody and Cinnamoroll help him make amends with her in the next episode.
• Funny Animal: The characters are much smarter than their base animals.
• Genki Girl: Kitty is usually very perky, but things change when she gets her heart broken...
• Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress: Strange Penguin concludes as Badtz-Maru steals some treats that Cinamoroll made. The penguin makes a break when he gets caught... and then falls after he ends up in mid-air after realising he's running on nothing.
• Grows on Trees: Goodie Town features this when the gang breaks the biscuit that they were trying to reclaim. Kitty then gets an idea: maybe she can put the shattered biscuit's remains in some dirt. This causes a tree to sprout with more biscuits and a heart fruit that would become important later...
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Pompompurin, who has yellow fur and helps the gang.
• Hallucinations: My-Melody has one when the series' fifth episode, Friends Again, starts up, where she looks at herself in the mirror and suddenly sees the sad face that Kitty made after the latter lost her heart fruit.
• Heavy Sleeper: Pompompurin is often seen sleeping during scenes that do not have him play with his friends.
• Incredible Shrinking Man: Pompompurin shrinks to half his regular size when he plays with a magic wand in "Little Twin Stars." Kiki calls him out for it.
• Jerkass Ball: Pompompurin steals the heart fruit that Kitty got in Goodie Town for a tennis game in Heart Shaped Fruit. She is understandably horrified, especially if you know how this plays out.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Strange Penguin ends with Badtz-Maru stealing some treats that Cinnamoroll made, then accidentally stuffing himself into a trash can by falling from a great height.
• Made of Iron: The biscuit city that the gang made during "Goodie Town" survives the Big Ball of Violence they merged into when fighting over the last biscuit.
• Made of Plasticine: The heart fruit that Kitty treasured from "Goodie Town" breaks during the episode "Heart Shaped Fruit" when Cinnamoroll spikes it into the ground with his tennis racket.
• No Mouth: Zig-zagged. Kitty White tends to be portrayed mouthless during scenes where she doesn't need a mouth. However, when she opens her mouth or speaks, Kitty gets one.
• Reality Ensues: During the first episode, Pompompurin sinks to his waist landing from a great height. If you drop them into a soft floor, expect heavy objects to sink a bit. He's lucky to have landed feet-first, otherwise he would've been embarrassed should he survive.
• Surprisingly-Sudden Death: The heart fruit that Kitty got gets this treatment during the episode "Heart Shaped Fruit" in a non-character example. Kitty is shown burying it after Cinnamoroll smashes it on accident.
• The Cameo: Despite not making a proper appearance, Mimmy can be seen on the hot air balloon that Kitty and her friends make.
• The Lost Woods: The series takes place here.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Kitty plays the tomboy role for this series, while My-Melody takes the girly girl role.
• Who's on First?: My-Melody is derived from "my melody," while Kitty White derives her nickname from "Hello, Kitty." As usual.
• Wingding Eyes: Kitty has her eyes changed to look like a spiral in one eye and a cross in the other when she gets bashed on the head by a walnut that My-Melody tried to crack.
• You Don't Look Like You: Downplayed. Kitty retains her trademark bow, but this time, she has a yellow shirt and red dungaree, as Mimmy had in Hello Kitty and Friends.