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1. Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi 18
2. Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi Episode 36
3. Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi Episodes 25

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi follows the adventures of two very cool, but very different, pop stars as they travel from gig to gig or just hang out in their hometown, Tokyo. Being famous rock stars, Ami and Yumi tour the globe in their customized Puffy bus, a veritable condo on wheels with all the major amenities and an ever-changing interior.

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Jungle Prom; Truth or Dare; Sumo Kaz

June 27, 2006

The girls help organize a wild dance; Ami and Yumi play a game of “Truth or Dare” that gets out of control; and Kaz wants to become a sumo wrestler.

Motor Psycho Mamas; Oldie Ami Yum; Trouble with Mimes

April 28, 2006

Ami and Yumi work to get rid of a group of thugs with the help of a scooter gang; the pop stars see themselves as senior citizens and are forced to retire; and a bunch of admiring mimes surround the band.

Spree; Granny; A Grave Mistake

April 21, 2006

Amy and Yumi win a lot of money, but they have to spend it quickly; the girls want to keep their rock-star lives a secret from Yumi's grandmother; and the Talent Suckers use zombies to help promote a show.

The Golden Fleas (Part 1) The Golden Fleas (Part 2); Sitcomi Yumi

April 7, 2006

Ami and Yumi's alter egos from Greek mythology go on an odyssey; Kaz turns the girls' lives into a TV sitcom.

Manga Madness; Junior Tapeworm; Kazalot

March 10, 2006

Manga characters come to life and endanger Tokyo as they battle each other; a scouting troop is annoyed by its newest member, Harmony; and Ami and Yumi travel back to medieval days, where they protect Kazalot from a dragon.

Puffy BC; Duplicats; Agent Y

March 3, 2006

Ancient versions of Ami and Yumi form a band; the cats clone themselves in a music sampler and try to get rid of Domo; and Yumi is mistaken for a spy.

Movie Madness; Stop the Presses; Hired Help

February 24, 2006

Yumi likes being a movie star; Ami and Yumi try to prevent an unflattering newspaper photo of Ami from being seen by the masses; Ami asks Wall to help as part of the crew, but he lacks the skills.

Secret Origin; Legend of Mei Pei; Under the Hood

February 17, 2006

Flashbacks reveal how Ami and Yumi met Atchan. Also: Yumi goes on an unusual quest to get a new guitar; Ami and Yumi try to figure out why their bus keeps breaking down.

Puffy vs. Machine/Kas Loses his Glasses/Sea Sick

December 1, 2005

Kaz drops his glasses down the toilet; a music machine steals Puffy's fans; Kaz books the band on a sea cruise.

Soap Box Derby; Talent Suckers Return; Prisoners of Yoyovia

November 25, 2005

The Talent Suckers create havoc for an arena owner; Ami and Yumi receive honorary citizenship in another country, but soon regret it; the gang enters a soapbox-derby race.

Rock Lobsters; Phantom of Rock; Fungus

November 18, 2005

Ami and Yumi rescue lobsters from a restaurant; Kaz brings the gals to a haunted mansion to meet a mysterious producer; Ami befriends a fungus monster living in the tour-bus shower.

Run Cat Run; Driving School; Record Breakers

November 11, 2005

Yumi and Kaz go cat-racing; Ami offers driving lessons; Ami and Yumi try to set world records.

Super Zero; Artist Ami; Ikkakujuu

November 4, 2005

Acha thinks he is a superhero; Ami gets into the art business; Ami thinks she saw a unicorn.

Domo; Yumi Goes Solo; Cat Feud

September 16, 2005

Kaz gets a bulldog; and Yumi thinks about being a solo artist. Also, Kaz tries to get the cats in trouble.

Ski Sick; Claw and Order; Janice Jealous

September 9, 2005

Yumi refuses to take ski lessons; the girls sour Chad's romance; and the cat gets a new scratching post.

Ami Yumi 3000; The Ride Stuff; Were Kaz

September 2, 2005

Kaz' hair-growth tonic turns him into a werewolf; Kaz and the girls sneak onto an amusement-park ride; Ami and Yumi travel into the future.

Univited; Camping Caper; Cell Block Rock

August 26, 2005

Kaz has a party but the girls can't attend; Ami and Yumi go camping; the girls find themselves in jail---and Ami likes it.

In Harmony's Way; Home Insecurity; Time Off

June 17, 2005

Ami and Yumi stalk their No. 1 fan, Harmony; Yumi installs a security system on the tour bus; Yumi accidentally moves Ami into the past, then into the future.

Helping Hand; Neat Freak

June 10, 2005

Yumi loses the use of a hand; Ami tries to change Kaz and Yumi's personal habits; and Kaz gets hypnotized.

The Oddyguard; Rock Lobsters

June 3, 2005

A bodyguard proves too protective; and Ami and Yumi rescue lobsters from a seafood restaurant.

Ami Ami; Song Sung Bad; Hungry Yumi

May 27, 2005

Yumi gets hit on the head and thinks she's Ami; Yumi looks for burgers; Kaz thinks he can write songs.

Kitty Kontest; Arbor Day; Helping Hand

April 22, 2005

Kaz signs up cats for a dog show; Ami and Yumi try to save a tree; Yumi loses the use of her hands.

Eye Sore; Mean Machine; Sea Sick

March 25, 2005

Kaz loses his glasses and uses cats as dust mops; a music machine steals fans from the girls; Ami and Yumi are booked as entertainment on a cruise ship.

Scowlitis; Rock and Roe; Brat Attack

March 14, 2005

Yumi wears a forced smile; the pair hallucinate after eating bad sushi; a bratty kid befriends Ami and Yumi.

Kaz Almighty; Allergic; Spaced Out

March 4, 2005

Hawaiians think that Kaz is a legendary ruler, and he starts to believe it; Kaz thinks Yumi might be allergic to Ami; Ami and Yumi are abducted by aliens.

Fan Clubs; Cat Naps; Cursed!

February 4, 2005

Elaborate fan-club gifts cause jealousy; Kaz keeps the cats awake; Ami and Yumi invoke an ancient curse.

In the Cards; Team Teen; Showdown!

December 10, 2004

Ami and Yumi have a crush on the same person.

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Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is an American animated television series created by Sam Register for Cartoon Network. Produced by Renegade Animation and Cartoon Network Studios, the series stars fictionalized and animated versions of the Japanesepop rock group Puffy AmiYumi. The series premiered on November 19, 2004 and ended on June 27, 2006 with a total of three seasons and 39 episodes, leaving a total of 34 episodes aired and five episodes unaired in North America.

During its run, the series has been nominated for an Annie Award three times. The series was met with mostly positive reviews, and has developed a strong cult following. Merchandise based on the series has also been produced during its run, such as video games, home media releases, toys, and clothing.

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Premise[edit]

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi follows the adventures of two pop stars and best friends: Yumi Yoshimura (Grey DeLisle), a cynical, sarcastic, rough and tough punk rocker; and Ami Onuki (Janice Kawaye), a peppy, optimistic and cute schoolgirl. Both are based off the real Japanese pop duo Puffy AmiYumi, but with different appearances and exaggerated personalities. They travel around the world on their customized tour bus along with their well-intentioned yet greedy manager Kaz Harada (Keone Young). From rocking out at a concert to hanging out in their hometown of Tokyo, the duo take the world by storm with their musical talent, trend-setting style, and humor, dishing out lessons in J-pop justice and establishing the international language of 'cool' along the way.

Secondary characters include: Jang-Keng (Grey DeLisle) and Tekirai (Janice Kawaye), the duo's pet cats who enjoy tormenting Kaz; Harmony (Sandy Fox), a six-year-old girl who is the self-proclaimed 'Number One Fan' of Puffy AmiYumi and (later) Kaz and constantly stalks them; Eldwin Blair (Nathan Carlson), a sinister land developer who tries to tear down beloved places for his own selfish needs; King Chad (Katie Leigh), a selfish 'bad boy' who is a master of the card game Stu-Pi-Doh! (a parody of Yu-Gi-Oh!); the evil Talent Suckers (Nathan Carlson; Corey Burton), a vampire rock trio from Transylvania; and Atchan (Rob Paulsen), a caricature of Vo Atsushi (lead singer of the pop band New Rote'ka) who speaks in third-person and thinks he is a superhero.

The animated Puffy AmiYumi travel all over the world in their tour bus. While appearing the same size as a regular bus on the outside, it appears to have enough internal space to house the girls' rooms (including full-sized beds), Kaz's room, their equipment, televisions, and computers, among other things. In the episode 'Domo', Kaz refers to an upstairs area. It also seems capable of running on autopilot, as Kaz, Ami, and Yumi are sometimes sitting in the rear cabin of the bus while traveling. Occasionally, the rear door has been opened to receive packages delivered by a boy on a scooter.

During the first season, the show included live-action clips of the real Ami and Yumi making childish commentary (in English and non-subtitled Japanese) at the beginning and end of each episode. They only performed short clips at the beginning of the show during the second and third seasons. Starting with the second season, the duo was sometimes shown holding title cards introducing the cartoon segments. At the end of the episode 'Sitcomi Yumi', Ami and Yumi watched television and saw the animated Kaz with the real Ami and Yumi. All of the live-action clips were produced by Freegate, Ltd.

The real PUFFY performs the cartoon's theme song (which is also in Japanese, German, Spanish, and Portuguese in the respective regions), and many episodes feature one or more of the duo's songs playing in the background, along with music by Andy Sturmer.

Though the characters speak English, the script intersperses their vernacular with Japanese speech, especially when the characters react to events that they find to be surprising. Calling out 'Tasukete!' instead of 'Help!' is commonly used.

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

According to Register, the target audience of the show is boys and girls from 6–11 years old.^[1] However, it also has a cult following of teen and adult fans of the real-life Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura who make up the Japanese pop duo Puffy AmiYumi. Register, who was a fan of the band, wished to spread its fame to other parts of the world and thus created the series.^[2]

Series developer Shakeh Haghnazarian has also worked as a character designer for several other Cartoon Network shows prior, such as Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, and Samurai Jack.

The series features the adventures of animated versions of the duo, who have been immensely popular in Japan since making their debut in 1996. The group now has its own U.S. albums, including a 2004 companion album to this program, and was known to viewers of Cartoon Network in the USA for performing the theme to the Teen Titans animated series. During production of the series, DeLisle learned some Japanese from Kawaye and Young, both of whom speak the language fluently.

The cartoon was one of the few cartoons at the time produced entirely in the United States (thus making their choice of characters quite ironic), with a number of characters designed by famed Canadian artist Lynne Naylor which got the show nominated for the coveted Annie Award.^[3] It used a combination of Macromedia Flash and traditional cel animation.^[4] Each program was 30 minutes long (with commercials) and featured three seven-minute segments that are anime-influenced^[5] in their visual style, borrowing inspiration from works animated in Japan such as Pokémon, the Sunbow Productions animated series based on Hasbro properties and ThunderCats.^[6] Other inspirations included old MGM and Warner Bros. cartoons, as well as Hanna-Barbera cartoons, UPA shorts, and the works of Jay Ward.

Some of the show's crew members included various writers from Nickelodeon's CatDog, including Steven Banks, Kit Boyce and Robert Lamoreaux.

Sam Register originally pitched the idea of Puffy AmiYumi having their own television series on Cartoon Network and afterwards Renegade Animation developed a test short on April 22, 2003 in hopes of making the channel greenlight the show's production. Renegade Animation originally, at first, created other Cartoon Network pilots before Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi; two of which feature Captain Sturdy; one in 2001, entitled 'Back in Action', and the other in 2003, entitled 'The Originals', but they were ultimately rejected, and Renegade Animation then started working on Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi starting with its pilot on April 22, 2003. The pilot was not broadcast, but was initially successful, and got the green-light from Cartoon Network. Finally, it was shown in non-full version as a preview on Cartoon Network DVDs and VHS tapes.^[7] The entire pilot was found by series' director, Darrell Van Citters, and was uploaded to Vimeo on April 5, 2018.^[8][9]

The series was officially announced at Cartoon Network's upfront on February 26, 2004. It was originally planned to premiere in December 2004,^[10] but was later pushed back to November 19.^[11]

Cancellation[edit]

On October 2, 2006, the show's crew announced on their blog (puffycrew.blogspot.com) that Cartoon Network had cancelled Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi after three seasons and 39 episodes due to Sam Register leaving the channel. Afterwards, the network removed all mention of the series from its website.

Cartoon Network didn't acknowledge the series again until 2012, when Ami and Yumi appeared on the channel's 20th anniversary poster.^[12]

Yumi later made a cameo appearance in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes special Crossover Nexus.

Episodes[edit]

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network on November 19, 2004.^[11] After ending on June 27, 2006, the show continued to rerun until December 22, 2006, where it aired in reruns normally, and occasionally, would be one of the few non-Cartoon Cartoons to air in reruns on The Cartoon Cartoon Show before being removed from the network's schedule.^[13]

Since Cartoon Network is available worldwide, the show has been dubbed into multiple languages and aired on Cartoon Network worldwide. In Canada, the series premiered on YTV on September 5, 2005.^[14] In Japan, the show began airing on Cartoon Network in English with Japanese subtitles in 2005. A dubbed version began airing on TV Tokyo's Oha Suta block on October 6, 2005, and started to air on January 8, 2006 on Cartoon Network Japan.

In Germany, the show aired on Cartoon Network Germany with all episodes. It premiered in 2005 on the Cartoon Network's block of Kabel eins. The show stopped airing there after two seasons in 2006. The reason was that Cartoon Network Germany launched and most of the shows moved there.^{[citation needed]}

In Australia, the show premiered on the April 3, 2005.^[15] It stopped airing on Cartoon Network Australia in November 2008. The third season was never shown there. From August to November 2009, the Australian channel GO! showed the last season instead and was abandoned in January 2010.^{[citation needed]}

Reception[edit]

Critical response[edit]

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi received mostly positive reviews from critics and audiences, and became one of Cartoon Network's top rated and most popular series.

Ratings[edit]

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi debuted on Cartoon Network on November 19, 2004 at 7:30 PM ET/PT with two half-hour episodes. The show charted double-digit increases with Girls 6–11 in ratings and delivery for Cartoon Network's Fridays programming block.^[16] During the following week, the show became the network's top-rated hit for kids 6–11. It also increased Cartoon Network's audience among that age group by 49% over the previous year.^[17]

Awards and nominations[edit]

The series has been nominated three times for the Annie Award.^[18] Two of them came in 2005 and one came in 2006.

Merchandise[edit]

CD[edit]

DVD releases[edit]

Video games[edit]

There are two video games released by D3Publisher of America (D3PA) based on the show.

• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Kaznapped! (Game Boy Advance) (2005)
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The Genie and the Amp (Nintendo DS) (2006)

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Marketing[edit]

• A 'falloon' (a float with balloon elements) of Puffy AmiYumi's cartoon tour bus (complete with the supporting characters in puppet form), the cartoon version of Puffy AmiYumi as a balloon, and the real PUFFY appeared in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2005.^[19] A video of this Macy Parade Float in Chicago can be viewed on SUMO.tv^{[permanent dead link]}.
• A line of toys intended for girls was produced by Mattel (makers of the popular Barbie doll and Hot Wheels cars) and released for the 2005 Christmas season.
• Two DVDs, Let's Go! and Rock Forever, featuring various episodes of the show, were released on November 29, 2005.
• The American costume company Rubie's produced a line of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi costumes and accessories for girls for Halloween 2006.^[20][21]

See also[edit]

• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The Genie and the Amp (Nintendo DS) (2006)
• Pink Lady and Jeff, the previous attempt to import a Japanese pop group to US television.

References[edit]

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1. ^'Interview with Sam Register: Page 6'. Archived from the original on June 15, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2009.
2. ^'Interview with Sam Register: Page 4'. Archived from the original on June 15, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2009.
3. ^http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi
4. ^See boards drawings on Puffy Crew Blog.
5. ^'Cartoon Network Turning Japanese with Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi'. Animation Magazine. October 7, 2017. Retrieved November 19, 2004.
6. ^'Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi - What's Cool in Japan'. Web Japan. March 2005. Retrieved June 13, 2009.
7. ^'Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Pilot Promo - YouTube'. youtube.com. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
8. ^'Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi - Unaired Pilot - Lost Media Page'. lostmediawiki.com. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
9. ^'Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi - Full Unaired Pilot - Vimeo'. vimeo.com. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
10. ^'Cartoon Network Unveils New Shows'. Retrieved August 29, 2014.
11. ^ ^ab'Cartoon Network Offers J-Pop Hybrid'. Retrieved August 29, 2014.
12. ^Cartoon Network's 20th Anniversary Poster With Ami And Yumi
13. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20140808191003/http://www.tvschedulearchive.com/
14. ^'Yummy Tumi for YTV'. Retrieved August 29, 2014.
15. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20050403235646/http://www.cartoonnetwork.com.au/asp/tv/default.asp
16. ^''Puffy AmiYumi Show' Ratings Release'. Archived from the original on 2014-09-18. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
17. ^'Mattel to License Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi'. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
18. ^'Awards for 'Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi''. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2006-08-28.
19. ^'Cartoon Network Unveils Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Float For the 79th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade®'. WarnerMedia. 31 October 2005. Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
20. ^'Yumi'. Rubie's. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-08-28.
21. ^'Ami'. Rubie's. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-08-28.

External links[edit]

• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi at Cartoon Network
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi on IMDb
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi at TV.com