Cartoon
Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi

Animal
Harajuku Girl
Man you've got some wicked style!
Despite being born in Osaka
Which is not actually Harajuku

Outfit: guitar / combat boots / Super Mario Bros. "Blooper" T-shirt

Tagline: "Boring people make me want to cry.  But I am too cool for tears!"

Plot summary:  Hoping to satiate Cartoon Network viewers' desires for more and more shows that look like the Powerpuff Girls Doing Things, "Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi" features the fictional cartoon adventures of two real-life fictional rockers Ami and Yumi, who use their "world tour" as an excuse to get into comic mischief with other moderately Japanese looking characters who all look like Dexter built a roll of masking tape in his Lab and used it to make his eyes slanty.

The animated portions of the show focus on Ami and Yumi (who speak perfect English) performing for their fans and helping young people understand the importance of things like confidence, determination, and fun.  The live-action portions of the show focus on Ami and Yumi (who cannot say the word "the" without ching chong ching music starting and Godzilla falling out of their mouths) doing something odd and Japanese like staring at an umbrella for forty seconds before turning to the screen, yelling "AM-BOO-LANCE-OO," and collapsing.

Cartoon Network recently renewed the show for 13 new episodes.  Or maybe they didn't and I'm accidentally jacking off to "Code Name: Kids Next Door."  I can barely tell the difference in these things.  (more)

User Comments: Yumi's strangest animated feature is her eye-makeup.  I assume it's an anime exaggeration of her raccoon eyes, but very quickly she goes from "Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi" to "Hi hi hi Mr. Deltoid."

Depressingly enough Ami and Yumi have a short shelf-life here in the States, given our inability to accept the culture of other countries as anything other than a guideline of what the extras should be doing when Vin Diesel arrives in an airplane.  Right now America can't find the balance (or difference) between Jet Li and Connie Souphanousinphone, so we have to think of Asian people as crazy television characters and not as normal people who by all right shouldn't be playing JPop on Cartoon Network when they're over thirty.  It's funny how the coloreds of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

User Rating: 7.5/10 (575,198 votes)