Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (ハイ！ハイ！パフィー・アミユミ? Hai! Hai! Pafī AmiYumi) is an American-Japanese animated fantasy-comedy television series created by Sam Register for Cartoon Network. It premiered on November 19, 2004 and ended its run on June 27, 2006, with a total of three seasons and thirty-four episodes, leaving five episodes unaired. The series was produced by Renegade Animation and Cartoon Network Studios. The show focuses on an animated and fictionalized setting of the real-life Japanese pop rock group Puffy AmiYumi.

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi follows the adventures of two pop stars and best friends: Yumi Yoshimura (Grey Griffin), 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 rockin' 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. Finally, that live-action clips are 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 their Puerto Rican muse 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.

Cast

Image	Character	USA	Mex	Jap	Bra	Ger	Fra	Ita	Pol	Neth	Hun	Swe	Nor	Den	Rom	Russ	Spa	Isr
	Ami Onuki	Janice Kawaye	Leyla Rangel	Kei Kobayashi	Érika Menezes		Béatrice Wegnez	Barbara Pitotti	Magdalena KrylikGruziel	Lizemijn Libgott	Bogdányi Titanilla	Norea Sjöquist	Siri Nilsen	Annette Heick	Anca Sigmirean	Olga Golovanova	Blanca Hualde	May Jacobson
	Yumi Yoshimura	Grey DeLisle	Karla Falcón	Sachiko Kojima	Iara Riça	Tanya Kahana	Nathalie Stas	Perla Liberatori	Brygida Turowska		Szabó Zselyke	Anna Isbäck	Benedikte Kruse	Amalie Dollerup	Linda Gyorgy	Zhanna Nikonova	AnaEsther Alborg	Michal Reshef
	Kaz Harada	Keone Young	JoséLuis Orozco	Akihiko Ishizumi	Márcio Simões	Uwe Büschken	JeanClaude Clierbois	Massimo Milazzo	Aleksander Mikołajczak		László Lippai		Simen Sand		Daniel Vulcu	Mikhail Tikhonov	Abraham Aguilar	Amnon Wolf
	Jang Keng	Grey DeLisle								Grey DeLisle
	Tekirai	Janice Kawaye								Janice Kawaye
	Harmony	Sandy Fox	Liliana Barba		Bruna Laynes						Ilona Molnár		Lena Meieran	Sara EkanderPoulsen		Zhanna Nikonova	Carmen Cervantes	Maya Bar Shalom
	Eldwin Blair	Nathan Carlson												Lars Thiesgaard				Simcha Barbiro
	King Chad	Katie Leigh	Gabriel Ortiz										Christoffer Staib	Donald Andersen
	Wall	Will Ryan																Simcha Barbiro

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