Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi

The Beatles had their own cartoon in the 60's, Jackson 5 in the 70's, Kidd-Video in the 80's, and M.C. Hammer in the 90's with HAMMERMAN. Now there is HI HI PUFFY AMIYUMI, with their own cartoons. At the time when Godzilla was 50 with the release of GODZILLA FINAL WARS, I saw previews of this show. It looked like fun. So fun that it out shined THE POWERPFUFF GIRLS. Because at that time, I was losing interest to PPG do to the "PPG style" fashion trend. Ever since I watched this show since day one, I loved it and got glued to it. I not only laughed but learned Japanese. "Toktejama" means "Shut up". "Kora" means "Stop it" or "Cut it out". "Daskatey" means "Help". Before I ran into that show, Godzilla and other kaiju taught me Japanese. After I watched the show, I researched and listened to samples of other Puffy songs. This show introduced me to J-Pop (Japanese pop music). The way the character were designed, were trying to be anime, but it is 0% percent anime. It lampoons it. If you look at the J-Pop princess, they look anime-like, but they are not 100% anime. Kaz looks like as if he is created by Fujio Akatsuka (creator of TENSAI BAkABON). Now, just look at the other characters, like Blair, King Chad, Professor Marvelous, Teen-Team, and Harmony. The same goes to their pet cats Jen-Keng and Tekiai, and their dog, Dommo. The don't look like anime, they look like something off from our modern-day American wacky cartoons, that can make CODENAME: KIDS NEXT DOOR look like a Disney creation. At the beginning of the show after the opening sequence, you get to meet the girls, the live-action versions. The fool around with some shenanigans, or give the viewer a behind the scenes look at their day in the life, and on with the cartoon. Ami (voiced by Janice Kawayne, who did Jenny in MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE ROBOT) is this pink-haired girl who is sweet and nice, Yumi (voiced by Grey Deluise, who did the voice of Mandy in THE GRIM ADVENTURES OF BILLY AND MANDY)is this purple-haired girl who looks like a Gothic punk, and is sometimes nasty, and Kaz (voiced by Keone Young), who is modeled after their manager, Kaz Hadara, is a hilarious money- hungry manager, and hates two things, taking care of their cats and loosing his money. He is also their dysfunctional father-figure. The story lines in every episode are imaginative and wacky. Everybody is bashing this show on various message boards, but I find nothing wrong with this show. It is clean and hilarious. Well except the part where the Vampire rock-stars put glue-gunned the sandwiches for the opera-singers and when they ate them them their mouths were stuck and they can't sing. That freaked me out because if you attempt to do that, you will feel extreme pain and misery that it will scar you for life! All in all, this Flash- animated show taught me to do some thinking outside the box. Sadly, this show went off the air circa. June 2006. It was such a great show, and Cartoon Network pulled it off the air. Here are the reasons: Everybody was bashing the cartoon and were wondering why can't the girls themselves do their own voices. It got predictable (e.g. episodes like "Cats vs, Kaz", "Claw and Order", "A Harmony Cartoon", and "Spree"). No one bought their franchising. The concerts and albums were under-promoted. I mean for crying out loud, I would love to buy their albums and go to their concerts. I even saw them on the Macy's 2005 Thanksgiving Day Parade. Another reason, is the ratings went down. Why did the ratings went down? Here's why. This is because no one in America could not afford to get cable. My previous reasons on why people hated the show. Parents bickered constantly to their kids prohibiting them to watch TV (shows like that). This show, like INVADER ZIM and MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE ROBOT, had some episodes that aired in other countries, but not America. "Surf's Up" was said to air on December 31st 2004, but it got replaced by a rerun due to the tsunami incident in Thailand. Here the girls go surfing and a Tsunami leaves them lost at sea! This episode came on Comcast's Cartoon Network On Demand on May 2005. I was lucky I taped it! Bottom line: This show is fun for the entire family. Rated TV-Y7 for crude humor, comedic down-played violence, mischief, and all manner of wacky going-ons.

Overall, I give HI HI Puffy AmiYumi a thumbs up! Sure, it is not the most memorable show to come out of Cartoon Network, but it certainly has its great moments. The characters are generally great, even Kaz. And he is the greedy one. However as the later seasons progressed, you realize that he sees Ami & Yumi as family. The other great thing about this show is that, well, it's funny! It's a gag based cartoon, and most of the gags in the show give me the giggles. Sure there are a few duds like the episode "Treasure Map" (my least favorite episode of the series.... >:/) but it does have some genuinely funny moments. Sure they slip some pop culture references here and there, but it doesn't RELY on references. Overall, good show, I recommend. Nice Job, Puffy AmiYumi! C=

As you see, almost half of the people around here doesn't like it, and the rest like it. But trust me, it's a extremely good show.

I hate the recent shows released by CN, like Ben 10 and Juniper Lee. It's just plain boring. If you're going to watch a quality show, with a lot of background music, singing and humor, try this. It's the best TV-show you can ever get on CN. Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends is the second best show there, just in case you ask :) It's about a rocking group called 'Puffy Ami Yumi', and their 'wacky' adventures. Kaz is the greedy manager, Ami is the happy little optimist rocker and Yumi is the serious person.

Don't care about what other says. I mean, it's your opinion that counts for you. So, at least try to watch 2-3 episodes of this show before you judge it.

I didn't like it in the first time, because i thought it was a girl show. But after i gave the show a try, i loved it. And so should you.

So turn on you TV, look for the show and start watching it now. If you can't find it (Because it was canceled by CN), buy the DVD's or whatever you have to do to watch it.

this is what i believe to be the last great cartoon network show, it is called Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi it is the last modern cartoon that feels really classic to me, each episode is 7 minutes long and they all feature great songs and that is why i became a fan of Puffy Ami Yumi

The animation of this show is very unique, however some people complain that the background characters are really ugly, what would you expect? many good shows have ugly background characters, like the Powerpuff Girls or Samaraui Jack

Even though Ami and Yumi are different as day and night, they are best friends, Katz on the other hand, is very greedy and will do anything for money, but he is still like able

At first i wasn't interested in this show but one day i watched an episode and loved it

Sadly CN cancelled this show after only 3 seasons and the last episodes never aired, low ratings weren't the reason though, because all seasons got high ratings, also the thing is they ordered the 4th season was ordered but the creator left CN in 2006

Two girls named Ami and Yumi that play in a band the bad Points are that Kass can be unlikable and greedy just like Mr Krabs from Spongebob Squarepants and some bad episodes like Julie amiyumi. But the theme song is catchy and not bad this is one of the best Cartoon Network shows from 2004 along with Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends.