>mid 2000's western-made, somewhat anime-stylized slice of life(ish) cartoon about a musical duo from Japan based off of an actual band (of moderate popularity I'm led to believe?)
I don't know if its weirder that somebody managed to successfully pitch it to CN, or that it actually worked out well enough.
Mid 2000's western-made...
Jack Brown
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Andrew Torres
Reminder that this was the final episode that ever aired in the US
Andrew Cox
IIRC Sam Register heard one of their songs on public access radio one day and fell in love with them. He called their manager and worked out a deal for them to do the theme song for Teen Titans. He was also the executive producer for Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi.
Basically Puffy's involvement with Cartoon Network was entirely due to Sam Register.
Tyler Watson
A lot of viewers knew them from the Teen Titans intro, and that itself was already anime inspired. Why not continue the Japanese interest?
Landon Hernandez
In retrospect it’s a bit weird to remember how they advertised this in the US as a show about the band who made the Teen Titans theme song.
Oliver Sanchez
But why do they seem to be a 1960s mod-fashion girl and a 1980s late-punk girl?
It's like '60s mod vs. rocker but the rocker isn't distinctive enough compared to modern casual fashion so they changed it to something more obvious.
but why 1960s British fashion at all?
Sebastian Cox
What happened to this show? IIRC the show was very popular, and CN aired this on the daily like it was their Spongebob, but then come Season 3, and they stop caring. Not even every episode of S3 was released in America.
Nicholas Taylor
The 2000s were unique.
Evan Hernandez
Hot.
Mason Watson
Dude you obviously don't remember the mid 2000s. There was this weird retro revival of 1960s culture briefly. So the white boots and dress didn't look too out of place.
The 1980s punk girl by contrast would of been considered goth back then so yeah also not too out of place.
Isaac Bailey
The mid 2000s anime boom was wild, while anime is still more or less mainstream in the present, or at least not regarded as kiddy shit. Nothing was like the amount of dubbed anime, or anime-esque shows created during that time. I miss it, Any Forums.
Jackson Watson
How come Season 3 didn't fully air in the US?
Luis Ramirez
Don’t know why but I sorta always attributed this era being the sorta last bit of the Japanese economic bubble effects on the world even though it probably wasn’t the case.
Zachary James
Wasn't the band already considered has-beens in Japan by the 2000s?
Jack Sullivan
Even Teen Titans played with some 60's influence, and the 60's look was just visual shorthand for a happy bubbly girl
Ethan Edwards
Well they needed to make something to jump on anime-kawaii trend without actually making an anime quality show.
Charles Jenkins
Just a reminder that story boarders of this show shipped these two, they even drew a picture of it if o can fins it I'll post it here.
Jackson Ramirez
They did that already. Although they never tried it again.
Gabriel Young
They're actually just Puffy in Japan different overseas cuz of the rapper but yeah weird Cartoon Network give em a show when they weren't that popular anymore in Japan lul cuz they popular in late 90's but yeah they're story kinda odd like how PaRappa the Rapper artist drew lot of their art for albums or how Yumi was married to T.M. Revolution who done shit ton of anime ops but she affair against him and they divorce also Yumi married to singer of Glay and like I guess Puffy didn't like cartoon and their personalities are other way around and they didn't even voice them selves in Japanese versions, whole story wild they also had talk show interviewing celebrities some of them are US/UK the show called papapapa Puffy lul I remember looking into it and finding all this out, they still make music and still look about the same I guess cuz Japanese.
Jonathan Sanchez
They where popular enough in the 90's to be in tons of ads.youtube.com
Asher Wood
Puffy music very 60's vibe, I mean most their tracks sound like riffs from the Beatles, if they aren't doing ska.
Benjamin Wood
Imagine what the cartoon be like if it used Greenblat artstyle. youtube.com
Leo Perry
Those outfits are amazing
Jonathan Taylor
At least they weren't idols.