and I'm not saying this in what was bad about it, more of why did this show not live up to Cartoon Network's expectations. They advertised this show a lot and even made merchandise for it (more so than ones that lasted longer) and while it did get 39 episodes, Cartoon Network kind of gave up on it once season 3 began, with the new episodes mainly only airing once and the last 5 episodes never even aired in the states. They never even really reran the show after the last aired episode in the states premiered (surprisingly though, Squirrel Boy got reran for a little while after it ended)
Because this show was one of many desperate attempts CN tried to not lose to anime when it was dominating the market.
You didn't read what OP said, or did you?
To put it bluntly, the first post has it right.
>congratulating yourself
Wanker.
The ip counter went up, anon.
>what is phoneposting?
>what is a dynamic IP address?
Andy Sturmer of the short-lived band Jellyfish was their producer since they first started in Japan. He's gone on to compose theme songs to other TV shows, particularly CN, during this time and even to this day (Ben 10, Teen Titans, etc.) and was probably the main reason Puffy was able to get a chance at being commercialized for a western audience.
I think people just didn't like it and they realized that.
>losing to anime
CN was pushing anime hard back then and even adopted japanesque branding. You got the feeling that they wanted to bridge Japan and the world.
Maybe licensing rights to the duo’s likeness was too expensive and the show just wasn’t popular enough to keep paying the costs
It was literally only made because the band sung the Teen Titans theme song.
Kinda ballsy that this showed used the ABA 7-minute cartoon format in 2004. By then everyone moved on and used the "2 11 minute segments" format.
ABA?
moronic zoomer. Some cartoons used to have a main segment, a completely different middle segment, then a main segment. Think Garfield and Friends or 2 Stupid Dogs.
1. It would be "ignorant", not "moronic".
2. It makes little sense to list A twice if you want to catalog episodes, which is why I wanted to know exactly what it meant. And giving older examples to person who supposedly isn't old enough to have seen your first example is moronic.
3. I'm probably older than you, that doesn't mean I have to know everything. Nobody knows everything. What is important is not wanting to stay ignorant, which is why you shouldn't give shit to people who want to learn something.
It was a really cheap show, even compared to everything else CN made at the time. It was pretty bad.
Bad art
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Why make an American cartoon show about real people that don't even speak English irl? It's bizarre to me.
Baby's first coomer show
This show was lame, didn't like it while it was airing. It looked cheap.
I like the theme song
I wonder why there was a desire to do a Puffy show. The show was pitched to Cartoon Network around early 2003 before Teen Titans even came out so no kids even knew about Puffy AmiYumi at the time. I know Teen Titans was being produced during that time, but it hadn't come out yet
See
. Basically, an American guy happened to be friends with a Japanese producer. When he was overseas visiting him, they were going through demo tapes together. Andy Sturmer heard Ami and Yumi and immediately went "you have to sign these guys". He came up with the name Puffy and wrote a bunch of their songs, too (he even called up one of his old bandmates from Jellyfish and that guy was their drummer for a while).
Cartoon Network was making a Teen Titans cartoon that looked like anime, so Warner looked into what Japanese bands they had could get in contact with to do the OP. It just so happened Puffy was the BIGGEST group in Japan at the time (no seriously, they were fricking huge) and Andy Sturmer was extremely easy to get in touch with. As you can imagine, they Cartoon Network got very excited about this and that's why the Puffy cartoon idea was first thrown around.
And, as the other anon said, Andy Sturmer made the discovery that his style of music lent itself REALLY well to cartoon theme songs, so that ended up being his thing. He's still doing it to this day.
Should have had more fetish fuel episodes
What part of them was puffy?
The original Nickelodeon executives were right; kids know when they're being advertised to. This show was pushed way too hard so nobody in my friends group wanted anything to do with it.
The show had no point to it and both characters were bland as frick. They had fake one dimensional personalities. Ami wasn't superficially cute and Yumi was a fake gamer girl type. It should've never been greenlit. Save the money for shows that actually matter.
the final episode that aired in the US
A lot of factors, anyway the designs in the pilot were much nicer.
>what went wrong
maybe a western show about a fairly obscure japanese pop rock band is an awkward idea to begin with? what's even supposed to be the target audience? This isn't like Backstreet Boys or a western pop star either and anime was relatively niche around that period. I highly doubt anyone who watched CN at that time have heard them at the first place.
>what's even supposed to be the target audience?
Cartoon Network viewers, anyone who watched Teen Titans had an idea who they were.
>anime was relatively niche around that period
Not to Cartoon Network's demographic, and anime was going through a boom period then.
>anyone who watched Teen Titans had an idea who they were
I watched Teen Titans during it aired and had literal no idea that they were even connected to each other.
>anime was going through a boom period
that was in late 00's. in 2004 japanophilia wasn't strong enough for a cartoon adaptation of a japanese pop band.
Anime outside Japan was "dead" in the late 00's, when it pretty much evolved into an informal economy. Very few new works were getting localized so, predictably, the pirates had to step in. It was very different from the early 00's when anime had backing from networks and publishers.
They could have made the show about Shonen Knife instead.