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''Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi'' is an American Animated Television Series produced by Renegade Animation for the Cartoon Network , which was created by Sam Register , who also serves as the series' executive producer. According to Register, the show's target audience is boys and girls from 6 to 16 years old, although older people also watch the show, many of who are fans of the real-life Puffy AmiYumi . The series features the adventures of animated versions of the J-Pop musical duo (known as Puffy outside North America due to avoiding legal issues with Sean Combs , who has been called by the nickname "Puffy" at times), made up of Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura . The duo have been immensely popular in Japan since making their debut there in 1996, and now have several U.S. albums to their credit (including a 2004 companion album to this program) and were already known to viewers of Cartoon Network in the USA for performing the theme to the animated series of ''Teen Titans'' comics. CHARACTERS AND PLOTS The cartoon is produced using a combination of Macromedia Flash and traditional Cel Animation , with each program thirty minutes in length (with commercials) and features three seven-minute segments. The animation borrows inspiration from both American cartoons and anime. During the first season, the show included short clips of the real Ami and Yumi making childish commentary (in both English and unsubtitled Japanese) at the beginning and end of each episode. They only perform 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. The real Puffy AmiYumi performs the show's theme song (most of the time in English, although the theme was once sung in their native Japanese, and also in Spanish), and many episodes feature one (or more) of the duo's songs playing in the background, along with music by their American muse, Andy Sturmer . , this version is greedy and well-intentioned.]] ''Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi'' depicts characters with the same name and profession as the actual Puffy AmiYumi, but with different appearances and exaggerated personalities:
Other recurring characters include:
The animated Puffy AmiYumi travel all over the world in their tour bus. This bus seems similar to the TARDIS of '' Doctor Who '' fame; 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' room, their equpment, and several televisions and computers, among other things. In the episode ''Domo'', Kaz makes reference to an "upstairs" area. It also seems capable of autopilot, as many episodes have Kaz, Ami, and Yumi sitting in the rear cabin of the bus while travelling. Several times, the rear door was opened to receive packages, and Ami and Yumi have fallen through the roof of the travelling bus, almost into Kaz' lap. Though the characters do speak English, it is peppered with Japanese speech from time to time, especially when the characters react to adverse situations. While Kawaye and Young do speak fluent Japanese, DeLisle has learned how to speak some of the language in the series thanks to both her castmates. (This is also evident, rather quickly, in an episode of '' The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy ''.) ''Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi'' was criticized as Cliché -ridden by internet board posters during its first season; a new writing staff was brought in for the second season and some improvement was seen. EPISODE LIST (Episodes are in order of airing, with seasonal number, and all premiere dates are in the USA .) BROADCAST DETAILS .]] "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi" premiered in the USA on November 19 , 2004 . Since Cartoon Network is availlable in worldwide, the show dubbed into several languages and aired worldwide including Japan as well as on YTV in Canada , making it one of the few Cartoon Network shows not to air on Teletoon 's English or French services. In Japan, the show began airing on Cartoon Network in English with Japanese Subtitle s in 2005 . A dubbed version began airing on TV Tokyo 's Oha Star block on October 6 of that year, and started to air on January 8 , 2006 on Cartoon Network. MARKETING TIE-INS
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