Anime News

Puffy Mania As American Animation Debuts
Date: 10/3/2005
The Cartoon Network TV Animation Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi has began running this month On TV Tokyo. The American producer of the series saw the Puffy video "Boogie-Woogie NO-5" and was inspired to adapt it. Broadcast in the United States from November 19 last year, the animation scored benchmarks in ratings, especially, being popular among young girls. Now, more than 20 kinds of goods such as the character dolls and alarm clocks have been put on the market in the USA. The duo's summer American tour drew 5000 people to the 5 east coast concerts and 9000 people to the 7 west coast dates in April. A member of the Irish rock group U2 took his child to one of the events. Foreigners have been spotted with children at the various recent Japanese concerts as well.
Source: Anime News Service