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  1. 1. Which is your favorite PUFFY half?

    • Ami
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Official Japanese Website * Official North American Website

Ami  Instagram * Yumi Twittter * PUFFY Facebook Page

 

 

 

 

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Ami can play:

  • Guitar
  • Drums (PUFFY SPIKE Daisakusen - Owaranai Uta)
  • Harmonica (Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi)
  • Timpani (Jet Tour '98 - Ai no Shirushi)
  • Trumpet (Cosmic*Wonder)

 

Full name Ami Onuki, she married Teru, the vocalist of the rock band Glay, and announced the birth of their baby girl on her blog in March 2003. Rumors of a divorce have persisted on the internet, particularly in the West. These rumors have mostly been ignored by the Japanese media and have never been confirmed by Ami or Teru. On PUFFY's 2007 greatest hits album Hit & Fun, Ami is pictured both on the CD cover and within the CD insert clearly wearing both an engagement and wedding ring on her left ring finger, and she continues to wear her wedding ring in pictures on the PUFFY Staff Diary.

 

List of Ami's Solo Songs

 

AmiYumi

  • Usagi Channel (Rabbit Channel)

Solo Solo

  • Onna no ko, Otoko no ko (Girls and Boys)
  • Love Depth
  • Honey
  • That Sweet Smile
  • Be Someone Tonight
  • Snacks
  • Tadaima (I'm Home)

Jet-CD

  • Lemon Kid

 

Fever*Fever

  • Always Dreamin' About You

The Hit Parade

  • Aishuu Date (NEW YORK CITY NIGHTS)

Spike

  • Destruction Pancake

Splurge

  • Security Blanket

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yumi can play:

  • Guitar
  • Harmonica (Kore ga Watashi no Ikiru Michi)
  • Piano (2001:a halfway of space odyssey - Watashi no Nozomi)
  • Timpani (Jet Tour '98 - Ai no Shirushi)
  • Saxophone (Cosmic*Wonder)

 

 

Her full name is Yumi Yoshimura. From 1999 to 2003 she was married to singer Takanori Nishikawa. After the Japanese media accused Yumi of having an affair, Nishikawa filed for divorce. Yumi remarried a long-time friend and businessman on December 31, 2009. On August 1, 2012, Yoshimura gave birth to a baby boy.
 
Between February and April 2003 she lived in Los Angeles, California and went to school to learn the English language. Yumi speaks Japanese, some English, some Spanish, and a little French. She also speaks some Hungarian and Portuguese.
 
She is left-handed.
 

 

 
List of Yumi's Solo Songs
 
AmiYumi
  • Nagaiki Shitene (I Want You to Live a Long Time)
Solo Solo
  • Tennen no Beauty (Natural Beauty)
  • Kyouki na Futari (Perfect Couple)
  • Hanabi (Fireworks)
  • V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N
  • Sorenarini (Hold Out As Long As You Can)
  • Ai no Aura (Aura of Love)
  • Watashi no Nozomi (My Hope)
Jet-CD
  • Tetsugaku (Philosophy)
The Hit Parade
  • Hi-Teen Boogie (Late-Teens Boogie)
Fever*Fever
  • Nannari to Naru Deshou (Anything can become a habit)
Spike
  • This is the Song of Sweet Sweet Season When Cherry Garcia Blossoms Bloom
Splurge
  • Rakuda no Kuni (Camel Country, Cameland) 

 

 

 

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1997–2000: Saku Saku Morning Call
1997–2002: Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Puffy
2003–2006: Teen Titans
2004–2006: Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
2006: Hi Hi PUFFY Bu
2011: Usagi Drop (Episode 9 voiceover)
2013: Teen Titans Go! theme
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Studio Albums

 

  1. AmiYumi (1996)
  2. Solo Solo (1997)
  3. Jet CD (1998)
  4. Fever*Fever (1999)
  5. Spike (2000)
  6. Hit Parade (2002)
  7. Nice. (2003)
  8. 59 (2004)
  9. Splurge (2006)
  10. HoneyCreeper (2007)
  11. PUFFY AMIYUMI x PUFFY (2009)
  12. Bring It! (2009)
  13. Thank You! (2011)
 
Compilations 
 
  1. Puffy Re-Mix Project (PRMX) (1999) # 28 
  2. The Very Best of Puffy/AmiYumi Jet Fever (2000) #2 
  3. An Illustrated History (2002) U.S.
  4. PRMX Turbo (2003) #179 
  5. Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2004) U.S. (2005) Japan #49 
  6. Hit&Fun (2007) #9
  7. 15 (2011)

 

 

American Albums

 

  1. Spike (2001)
  2. An Illustrated History (2002)
  3. Nice. (2003)
  4. Splurge (2006)
  5. Honey Creeper (2007)
  6. Bring it! (2009)

 

 

 

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Watching Teen Titans GO has made me want to listen to them again

 

I knew them from shorty before the original cartoon and although their own show wasn't that popular I liked it.  It's just fun slapstick with good songs in between.

 

My fave songs probably have to be Planet Tokyo, Your Love is a Drug and Urei.  I honestly haven't listened to their stuff for the last couple of years though but I am starting again.

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any history on how they were made their own cartoon??

are they really popular on japan???

 

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 The show was created by Sam Register, who also serves as the series' executive producer.

 

According to Register, the target audience of the show is boys and girls from six to eleven years old. However, the show also has a following of fans of the real-life Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura who make up the Japanese pop duo PUFFY, known as "Puffy AmiYumi" in North America. Register, a fan of the band, wished to spread its fame to other parts of the world and thus produced the cartoon.

 

- Wikipedia

 

Cute lil interview with PUFFY and Narduwuar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woo~ They used to be. There was a period called "PUFFY MANIA" which was similar to the the Spice Girls Craze, they were everywhere and on everything. Dolls, video-games, clothes, costumes, cups and plates, candy, multiple variety shows, a cartoon show, had floats during the MACY parades, became goodwill ambassadors.... I mean, shit. They were like the "it" factor, not only in Japan but globally as well.

 

Everyone can talk about how PSY, Girls' Generation, Hikaru Utada, BoA and whoever else is the one that would/will make it big in the States, but PUFFY is the only act to have not only introduced their country's genre to the world but to be so damn successful at it. PUFFY sold millions (in their ENTIRE career), toured around the world (they jut performed in Cali and Texas in 2017)... And they can't even speak English. AmiYumi was a very successful group. Most people can barely sell a single  but PUFFY dropped 6 damn albums in the USA.

 

But around 06', the momentum died (They completely left the US market) and PUFFY seemed to have disappeared though I think it' because the girls started to focus on their personal lives. Ami and Yumi are both married women (Well Yumi is twice divorced now...) with Yumi having a son (2012) and Ami with a daughter (2003).

 

A few theme songs here, a few appearances there. Their last album was 2011 and charted #25, which I think is pretty good (especially since they debuted in 96'). According to their website they dropped a single both this year and last but most Japanese videos and songs are blocked in the USA so I haven't heard them. Their still active and about and still do well though.

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PUFFY AmiYumi live @ Cartoon Network Fridays!

 

 

 

"Nori!"

It all started when we first met,
And strapped on our guitars!
We made music so great and good
That soon we were rock stars.

The biggest in Japan,
Yumi: Sona kota Nia!
With tons of screaming fans.
Ami: Ama A-Geme!
We're out on tour around the world,
So come and join the band!
Ein! Zwei! Drei!

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Anything is possible!

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Anything is possible! NOW!

Put your bag in the back let's go
we got some gigs to play
With the stage and the microphone
we rock out everyday

Back to NYC
Concerts and TV
Let's hit the road we'll rock the globe 
with songs to sing!!!
Dos! Tres! Quatro! (Spanish)

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Anything is possible!

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Anything is possible!

Packed halls, strip malls,
Paparazzi, flash bulbs,
Cool clothes, video,
Every night a rock-show,
On-stage, backstage,
After party, every night
Big fun, Media,
Tokyo to London,
New tunes, old tunes,
Animated cartoon life

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Anything is possible!

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show!
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi say "GO!"
Anything is possible!

We've grown so powerful,
Make yourself comfortable,
NOW!!!

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The full PV for "SWEET DROPS", which is also the theme song for both the movie and anime version of "Usagi Drops".

This unique PV centralizes on a story of a girl who goes on a date with unique elements at play, such as encountering a construction worker with nunchucks, a large hair dryer, and a heroic robot.

 

 

 

 

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 The show was created by Sam Register, who also serves as the series' executive producer.

 

According to Register, the target audience of the show is boys and girls from six to eleven years old. However, the show also has a following of fans of the real-life Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura who make up the Japanese pop duo PUFFY, known as "Puffy AmiYumi" in North America. Register, a fan of the band, wished to spread its fame to other parts of the world and thus produced the cartoon.

 

- Wikipedia

 

Cute lil interview with PUFFY and Narduwuar

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woo~ They used to be. There was a period called "PUFFY MANIA" which was similar to the the Spice Girls Craze, they were everywhere and on everything. Dolls, video-games, clothes, costumes, cups and plates, candy, multiple variety shows, a cartoon show, had floats during the MACY parades, became goodwill ambassadors.... I mean, shit. They were like the "it" factor, not only in Japan but globally as well.

 

Everyone can talk about how PSY, Girls' Generation, Hikaru Utada, BoA and whoever else is the one that would/will make it big overseas, but PUFFY is the only act to have not only introduced their country's genre to the world but to be so damn successful at it. PUFFY sold millions, toured around the world... And they can't even speak English. AmiYumi was a very successful group. most people can barely sell a single  but PUFFY dropped 6 damn albums in the USA.

 

But around 06', the momentum died (They completely left the US market) and PUFFY seemed to have disappeared though I think it' because the girls started to focus on their personal lives. Ami and Yumi are both married women (Well Yumi is twice divorced now...) with Yumi having a son (2012) and Ami with a daughter (2003).

 

A few theme songs here, a few appearances there. Their last album was 2011 and charted #25, which I think is pretty good (especially since they debuted in 96'). According to their website they dropped a single both this year and last but most Japanese videos and songs are blocked in the USA so I haven't heard them. Their still active and about and still do well though.

 

wow really???? :shock:

they even hits better than utada hikaru & boa??

They were that famous???

wowwww

i still find it hard to believe :shock:

Cause i never heard them other than the Teen titans OST or their cartoon show

maybe i was too young at that time (1996)

 

did they ever  sing anime OST or something like that in Japan?

Cause i always heard my anime geek friend listening to utada hikaru,ayumi hamasaki,

but never Amiyumi  :meow:

and they also touring the world despite the fact they never speak english,woww.....

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wow really???? :shock:

they even hits better than utada hikaru & boa??

They were that famous???

wowwww

i still find it hard to believe :shock:

Cause i never heard them other than the Teen titans OST or their cartoon show

maybe i was too young at that time (1996)

 

did they ever  sing anime OST or something like that in Japan?

Cause i always heard my anime geek friend listening to utada hikaru,ayumi hamasaki,

but never Amiyumi  :meow:

and they also touring the world despite the fact they never speak english,woww.....

 

 

*I can't find how much the albums sold, but I do have the chart ranking 

PUFFY

1. #10

2. N/A

3. #20

4. #19

5. #27

6. #17

 

*I can't find the ranking, but I do have the album sales

Utada

1. Japanese sales: 700,000+ (Not sure how much it sold in the USA)

2. Japanese sales: 1,000,000+ (Total US sales: 55,000)

3. Debuted at #178, Japanese sales: 240,000+ (Total US sales: 33,000) Said to have made 300,000 in total (worldwide).

 

BoA

1. Charted #127 and sold 8,000 copies. Reached #1 in Korea though on Hanteo charts.

 

 

 

Now Utada has surpassed thousands of artists on an overall scale, with over 38 million albums sold (BoA has 10 million and PUFFY with 14 million). But speaking of USA only, PUFFY is the only one to have done so, successfully. Most of Utada's "American Success" is due to her strong and loyal fanbase in Japan, people like to say all her albums were certified Platinum and Million but that's only in Japan - Which imo, defeats the purpose of even entering a different market (still a fan of her though). And BoA... As much as I love her, she flopped. Hard.

 

As for themes, they haven't done as many

 

 

  • Recorded the opening theme (Hataraku Otoko, Unicorn cover) for anime Hataraki Man (2006).
  • Recorded the opening theme (Oh Edo Nagareboshi IV) for anime Oh! Edo Rocket (2007).
  • Recorded the opening theme (Hiyori Hime) for anime Genji Monogatari Sennenki (2009).
  • Recorded the theme (Wedding Bell, Sugar cover) for Japanese drama Konkatsu! (2009).
  • Recorded the theme (Dareka ga) for movie Naruto ShippÅ«den 3: Inheritors of the Will of Fire (2009).
  • Recorded the theme (Sweep Drops) for movie Usagi Drop (2011)

 

 

 

 

I don't wanna throw shade, but PSY got lucky with GS. Before that, his highest charted album was his debut album that sold over 100,000 but didn't reach 200,000. Even his last Korean album (EP) didn't make it to 200,000. On a worldwide revenue, GS has made 7.9 million (meaning that technically, he is the most successful Asian act in the USA), totally all his album and song sales, leaves him somewhere in the 8 million (still below the aforementioned women though...)

 

 

 

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