>western cartoon based on a japanese pop rock duo nobody in the US had heard of beyond the teen titans theme song
unironically what were they thinking?
Western cartoon based on a japanese pop rock duo nobody in the US had heard of beyond the teen titans theme song
Nathan Perry
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Chase Hall
if you carefully look at the designs, and the style of the show, especially the one in the pilot you can see there's a lot of influence from 70s British culture
Yumi is obviously a Punk rocker, and Ami is styled after British mod
basically what I'm saying is the show was probably originally conceptualized as just being about British musicians but probably choose to bank off the ANIME crazy going on in the in the early 2000s
and what better way than using ACTUAL POPSTARS in the show as characters?
Gavin Young
They still air it on Latin America.
Jordan Jones
Zachary Roberts
and Puffy were already has-beens so licensing their names was probably cheap.
Carter White
I think they were thinking it would be cute and funny, like a lot of old band toons/movies. like Spice World, which was really funny
John Allen
Fun show, to be fair.
Bentley Rodriguez
i thought the goth lookin one was hot so i watched it
Connor Ross
I don't know what they were thinking, but show is tops
Carter Anderson
I despised this show when it was airing. It felt like insulting poor quality, especially since it was replacing timeslots that previously had shows like PPG, Dexters Lab & Courage which were all great shows. A few years ago I happened to catch some episodes as an adult during a trip to Latin America and it was just as bad as I remembered.
Isaiah Morgan
Man, too bad Modifyers flopped. I like this aesthetic so much
Hunter Diaz
I kinda had fond memories of it...is it as bad as most folks make it out to be?
Cameron Bailey
And I thought the pink one AKA Ami was cute so I watched it
I distinctly remember some of the promos, especially the one with Yumi combing and pulling off pieces of Ami’s hair for some reason, probably during one of those CN City commercials
Daniel Gutierrez
IT ALL STARTED WHEN WE FIRST MET
Joshua Roberts
Planet Tokyo is alright.
But for the life of me I don't know how they got this gig, did it start with the TT theme song and snowball from there?
Benjamin Gomez
Threadly whinepost about the lack of a proper english release.
Hudson Peterson
This makes sense, especially since IRL Yumi isn't some sort of edgy hard rocker like they portray in the show, the personalities for the main duo have no connection to IRL and the real people those characters represent seem tacked on after the fact. Musicians from Britain coming to America and interacting with the culture would be incredibly tempting to replace with Japanese during the anime bubble. Unrelated, but I still find it funny they had to call them "Puffy Ami Yumi" instead of just Puffy because of the name Puff Daddy was using that day of the week.
Alexander Jackson
This is an actual storyboard from the show.
Elijah Reyes
>unironically what were they thinking?
Considering the show was from the same guy that produced Teen Titans and Ben 10, both franchises they are still milking today, and got 3 seasons with a 4th having been in production, I bet they were thinking "Making money is easy." It only got canned because Snyder came in and moved to push CN Real causing the old guard to leave the studio.
Lucas Garcia
La la la la labia baby
Liam Robinson
It was the animated equivalent of this:
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Blake Perez
Oh, come on. It wasn't as awful as that show.
Leo Brown
because were fucking weebs
Try to say anything bad about Dragon Ball and thounsands of mexicans will chase and hunt your ass down
Luis Hill
I had never heard of them, but the show stood on its own and I enjoyed it
Sebastian Moore
Sometimes I wish I could experience that. An entire country with a powerlevel high enough to not only understand, but also appreciate, "our prices are lower than Yamchas powerlevel" as a tagline.
But fuck no if I want to spend 16+ hours in a plane for it.
Luis Green
Don't worry, i will send you tacos sometimes
Carter Rodriguez
register is a weeb
Brandon Stewart
Dude Punk is popular in Japan
It's just that Japanese Punk is more based on The Ramones while American Punk evolved into several Genres like Grunge and Metalcore
British Punk is dead, British people preferred Stuff like Oasis and The Smiths
Jordan Davis
So what you are saying is that Anime influence on Western cartoons is good?
Because Teen Titans and Ben 10 are basically western Shounen
David Lee
The songs were catchy, the designs cool and that was only matters.
Jose Ramirez
As a latinanon, I must say no, you don't want, it's fucking unbearable, even If I actually liked koku super I wouldn't stand people sperging and spamming DBZ memes in their facebooks profiles.
David Thompson
>ben 10
>shonen
it's more like a kodomo, yes all the seasons
Camden White
I used Shounen because most Americans don't know about Kodomo as that stuff never aired in the US besides maybe Doraemon
Unless if you are Euro/Latino