It's post time! For today's blog post, I will be talking about some planned Sanrio merchandise that hasn't gone over well with the fans. I can't find very much information regarding this topic, since I could only find a couple articles and the original announcement tweet has since been deleted. However, Sanrio was going to be collaborating with a Japanese clothing brand called Its'Demo, and they were going to release some new merchandise for My Melody's mother. All seemed to be going well until fans noticed the phrases on the shirts. Although the new merchandise was supposed to be very cute, it featured terrible advice. Everyone was outraged, but I think the bad life advice was intentional. After all, it's merchandise of My Melody's mother, not My Melody herself. Mothers are known for advice, and not all of them can be good at it. The reason it seems so old fashioned is because it is. She's an older character from an older time, but people are treating her like a young character who has to abide by all of the new rules. It's all just for a bit of fun anyways, and people with half a brain wouldn't follow bad advice. I personally think it's just a weird choice to put such odd phrases on merchandise. But for those of you wondering what this awful, maddening, world-shattering advice is, I'll include the list below. Please note that there are twelve phrases and I'm relatively certain they were translated from Japanese. Enjoy!

1.) Getting a man who mopes after one or two failures will leave you with a lifetime of regret.

2.) When a boy talks to you about other girls, it's just his clumsy way of getting you to pay attention to him.

3.) The enemy of women is always other women.

4.) People always have things to complain about others' relationships.

5.) The more a man talks about the past, the less hope he has about the future.

6.) The best Band-Aid for a broken heart is finding a new love.

7.) The worse a man is, the more women can't leave him alone.

8.) Those not in relationships always worry about others' relationships the most.

9.) A woman's heart is more fickle than the autumn sky.

10.) Never believe a boy when he says "I'm gonna do that someday", because he won't.

11.) Nothing affects a man more than when his pride takes a hit.

12.) If you're testing out someone new, meet them over lunch, never dinner.