Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi

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Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi ( ??! ??! ????????? < span>, Hi! Hi! Paf? AmiYumi ) is an animated action-fantasy-animated Japanese animation (anime-influenced) series created by Sam Sign up for Cartoon Network and produced by Renegade Animation and Cartoon Network Studios. It stars the fictional version of Japanese pop rock group Puffy AmiYumi. The show aired on November 19, 2004 and ended on June 27, 2006, for a total of three seasons and thirty-four episodes, leaving five episodes in America.

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Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi follows the adventures of two pop and best friends: Yumi Yoshimura (Gray DeLisle), a cynical punk rocker, sarcastic, gruff, and tough; and Ami Onuki (Janice Kawaye), a vibrant, optimistic, and funny student. Both are based on the original Japanese pop duo Puffy AmiYumi, but with different looks and personalities. They travel around the world with their tailored tour buses, along with their well-meaning but greedy manager, Kaz Harada (Keone Young). From rockin 'out in concert to hanging out in their hometown in Tokyo, the duo brought the world by storm with their musical talents, trend setting style, and humor, dishing out lessons in J-pop justice and building a "cool" international language along the way.

The secondary characters include: Jang-Keng (Gray DeLisle) and Tekirai (Janice Kawaye), a pet pet duo who enjoys torturing Kaz; Harmony (Sandy Fox), a six-year-old girl who proclaimed himself as "Number One Fan" of Puffy AmiYumi and (later) Kaz and constantly stalking them; Eldwin Blair (Nathan Carlson), an evil land developer who tries to destroy loved ones for his own selfish needs; King Chad (Katie Leigh), a selfish "brat boy" who is the master of the Stu-Pi-Doh card game! (a parody of Yu-Gi-Oh! >); The evil Talent Sucker (Nathan Carlson; Corey Burton), a vampire rock trio from Transylvania; and Atchan (Rob Paulsen), caricatures Vo Atsushi (lead singer of pop band New Rote'ka) who talks to third people and considers him a super hero.

The AmiYumi Puffy Trip that animates around the world on their tour buses. Though the size is the same as regular buses outside, it seems to have enough internal space to accommodate girls' rooms (including full-sized beds), Kaz rooms, their equipment, television and computers, among other things. In the episode "Domo", Kaz refers to the upstairs area. It also seems capable of running on autopilot, as Kaz, Ami, and Yumi sometimes sit in the back cabin of the bus while traveling. Sometimes, the back door has been opened to receive packets sent by a boy on a scooter.

During the first season, the show includes live action clips from real Ami and Yumi makes childish comments (in English and Japanese without subtitles) at the beginning and end of each episode. They only do short clips at the beginning of the show during the second and third seasons. Beginning with the second season, the duo was sometimes shown holding a title card introducing the cartoon segment. At the end of the episode "Sitcomi Yumi", Ami and Yumi watch television and see the Kaz animation with the original Ami and Yumi. All live-action clips are produced by Freegate, Ltd.

The original PUFFY plays cartoon theme songs (which are also in Japanese, German, Spanish, and Portuguese in their respective areas), and many episodes feature one or more duo songs playing in the background, along with music by their Puerto Rican muse Andy Sturmer.

Although the characters speak English, the script interprets their regional languages ​​in Japanese, especially when characters react to events they find surprising. Calling "Tasukete!" instead of "Help!" usually used.

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Production

Drafts

According to the Register, the target audience of this event is boys and girls aged 6 to 11 years. However, he also has adolescent and adult fans from Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura who formed the Japanese pop duo Puffy AmiYumi. The list, fans of the band, wants to spread his fame to other parts of the world and thus create cartoons.

The series features an animated adventure of this duo, which has been very popular in Japan since debuting in 1996. The group now has its own US albums, including a 2004 album companion for the program, and is well known to Cartoon Network's audience in US to show themes to the animated series Teen Titans . During the series production, DeLisle learned some Japanese from Kawaye and Young, both of whom spoke fluently.

Cartoons were the only ones that were fully manufactured in the United States (thus making their character choices quite ironic), with characters designed by renowned Canadian artist Lynne Naylor who earned the nominated performances for the coveted Annie Award. It uses a combination of Macromedia Flash and traditional cel animation. Each program lasts 30 minutes (with ads) and features three seven-minute segments borrowing inspiration from Japanese animations (such as Pokémon, animated series Sunbow Productions based on Hasbro properties, and ThunderCats ).

Sam Register originally pitched the idea of ​​Puffy AmiYumi having their own television series on Cartoon Network, and after that, Renegade Animation's studio developed a brief test on April 22, 2003 in hopes of shaking channels to broadcast their production show. Renegade Animation initially, at first, created another Cartoon Network pilot 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 eventually rejected, and Renegade Animation then started working on Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi beginning with the pilot on April 22, 2003. The pilot was not broadcast, but was initially successful, and received a green light from Cartoon Network. Finally, it is featured in a non-full version as a preview on the Cartoon Network DVD and VHS tapes.

The series was officially announced in front of Cartoon Network on February 26, 2004. Originally planned to premiere in December 2004, but was then pushed forward until November 19th.

Cancellation

On October 2, 2006, the show crew announced on their blog (puffycrew.blogspot.com) that Cartoon Network had canceled Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi .

In March 2018, Cartoon Network has not mentioned a plan to release the final episode of the series in the United States, nor has it mentioned further external support of it in the form of a DVD release. Then, they remove all mention of the event from their website.

In Japan, Latin America, Philippines, Germany, Canada (in YTV), and Australia (on GO!), All of the last five episodes produced have been broadcast on television.

Cartoon Network did not recognize the show again until 2012, when Ami and Yumi appeared on the network's 20th anniversary poster.

Broadcast

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi aired in the United States on Cartoon Network on November 19, 2004. After ending on June 27, 2006, the show continued to play back until December 22, where the broadcast aired back to normal, and occasionally , will be one of several non-Cartoon cartoons to display in reruns of The Cartoon Cartoon Show before being removed from the network schedule.

Since Cartoon Network is available worldwide, the show has been dubbed in multiple languages ​​and aired on Cartoon Network worldwide. In Canada, the series premiered on YTV on September 5, 2005. In Japan, the show began airing on Cartoon Network in English with Japanese subtitles in 2005. The dub version began airing on TV Tokyo Oha Suta on October 6, 2005, and began aired on January 8, 2006, at Cartoon Network Japan. The show is still airing on Cartoon Network Japan.

In Germany, the show airs daily, albeit late at night, at Cartoon Network Germany with all the episodes. It aired in 2005 on the Cartoon Network block of Cable eins. The show stopped showing there after two seasons in 2006. The reason is that Cartoon Network Germany was launched and most of the events moved there.

In Australia, the show premiered on April 3, 2005. It stopped showing on Cartoon Network Australia in November 2008. The third season was never shown there. From August to November 2009, the Australian channel GO! showed last season and was abandoned in January 2010.

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Reception

Critical response

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi received the most positive reviews and became one of the top and most popular series on Cartoon Network. This series earns 6.2/10 on IMDb, and 7.4/10 on TV.com.

Ratings

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi debuted on Cartoon Network on 19 November 2004 at 19.30 ET/PT with two half-hour episodes. During that time, it scored the highest rating of Children's 2-11 and delivery and the second highest Childhood 6-11 rating (4.4) and delivery (1,068,000) ever for the original premier series. The event also charted a double-digit increase with Girls 6-11 in rank and submissions for Friday Network's Friday programming block. Over the next week, the show became a top hit for children 6-11. It also increased the audience of Cartoon Network among those age groups by 49% over the previous year.

Awards and nominations

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

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Merchandise

CD

• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
• Hi Hi

DVD release

Video game

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

• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Kaznapped! (Game Boy Advance) (2005)
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Jin and Si Amp (Nintendo DS) (2006)

Marketing

• A "falloon" from the cartoon bus Puffy AmiYumi (complete with supporting characters in doll form), cartoon version of Puffy AmiYumi as a balloon, and the original PUFFY appeared on Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in the year 2005. A video of Macy Parade Float in Chicago can be seen at SUMO.tv.
• A series of toys devoted to girls are produced by Mattel (popular Barbie doll maker and Hot Wheels car) and released for the 2005 Christmas season.
• Two DVDs, Let's Go! and Rock Forever , featuring various episodes of the show, was released on November 29, 2005.
• American costume company, Rubie, produced a row of costumes and accessories for the 2006 Halloween girl.

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See also

• PUFFY
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: The Genie and the Amp (Nintendo DS) (2006)
• Pink Lady and Jeff, an earlier attempt to import Japanese pop groups into US television.

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References

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External links

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

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