#the one from Puffy Amiyumi

[bae-del-moon]

🎶 they’ve got the bad guys on the run

they never stop till the job gets done

‘Cause when the world is loosing all control… 🎶

[thousandth-island]

May or may not have just watched episode one of HiHi Puffy AmiYumi..

The battle of the bands is finally here in chapter 5 of And They Were Bandmates! Will they slay or will they flop?

[bonus: versions without text and spotlights]

[multiversal-pig-outing]

Jessica strolled into the anime district of Toontown as the streetlights lit up. She was always on the lookout for new restaurants to order from and heard good things about a trendy izakaya. She dressed casually with the largest sweat pants she had and a loose t-shirt that exposed a hefty amount of midriff.

She arrived at the establishment and was greeted to the joyful tune of drunken revelry and early 2000s rock music. Jessica took a seat in the lobby and waited for a table to open up. Hopefully there would be one big enough for her.

*The place Onumura Delights defiantly has seating for someone like her and bigger. And it didn't take to long before she was seated. From the looks of it there were a mix of toons from anime and toons from shows who were anime inspired. The place had some stuff on display. Such has some props from old anime such has the tea kettle from ranma 1/2, robin from teen titans belt, Hi Hi puffy amiyumi musical equipment and a replica of the fire rat pelt that inuyasha wears in his show. She was greeted by the person who runs the place. Who was Yumi of puffy amiyumi a cartoon who was base on actual live musicians.*

Welcome to Onumura delights so what are you having miss.

[noirstarre]

Meet LoserGirl!

The star of my upcoming comic about a struggling influencer who calls herself LoserGirl because no one else can call her that ever again without her permission.

NeonPunk RaveCore

Inspired by :

-Invader Zim

-Noodle from the band Gorillaz

-The work of artist Anna Cattish

-Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi

Edit: Tumblr changed the colors and made them more saturated and harsh , Idk why but it’s not that off putting in the original versions

[c4ts4ndstuff]

okay, so first i found out i'm not crazy. Teens Titans from 2003 would alternate between two versions of their theme song, one in English and the other in Japanese. no wonder i thought both were familiar

second. i found out that the theme song was composed by a duo known as Puffy AmiYumi. which, if that sounds familiar, it's because the main characters from Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi WAS BASED ON THEM

[fly-pow-bye]

From Play Ball, one of the stories in Together Forever, a Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi book. No artist is credited in the book.

[popculturebuffet]

Next up for Cartoon Network era of shows, who is your favorite character from each of the mid-2000s CN City-era shows you've seen like: Megas XLR, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Life & Times of Juniper Lee, Camp Lazlo, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Ben 10 2005, Squirrel Boy, and Class of 3000?

Okay since I didn't fuckup last time we can jump straight in

Megas XLR: Coop. He's a fun walking disaster and voice acted amazingly. As for the show itself.. it's pure gold to me. A classic. A fun, nonsensical mech show with a clever premise and beautiful animation. It could use a tweak or two if it was revivied, but I dig it.

Fosters Home for IMaginary Friends; Wilt. He's one of Phil Lamar's best rolls, has a great design and the good wilt hunting special fleshed him out heartbreakingly. As for the show itself it's pretty good: it does suffer from that issue the earlier cn shows had where sometimes it's a bit too mean spirited, but it's not nearly as frequent and the colorful character design, wonderful premise, and truly outstanding cast from Frankie, everyone who was into women's crush as a kid, to Herriman who I hated as a kid (and still do at times, he's a prick), but now respect as a more complicated genltemanly prick who simply need to ease up a bit, but you get WHY he's like this as he's running a pretty wacky boarding house and madam foster while kind isn't really doing the day to day stuff. A truly great cartoon.

Hi HI Puffy AmiYumi: I like yumi. As for the series itself..ehhh. Besides the obvious of "You shoudln't of had two american women, even really talented ones, play two japanese women', it's just kinda .. there? the music's good, the character design is great, but it's got no real substance. Maybe on a rewatch i'd be wrong, but it's just kinda eh.

Life and Times of Juniper Lee: Out of the regular cast, Dennis, who evolved from "just kinda being there" to "a fun addition to the main cast". Supporting it's Kai Yee, as most of June's rogue's gallery is weak (Aunti Roo and Loki accepted), but he was the shot in the arm the series needed and had the series stuck around I wouldn't be suprised if we saw him again. The show itself is solid though: Judd WInnick copied Buffy's notes well, while adding his own spin to things, and the tragic idea of June being stuck is heartbreaking but intresting. IT has a good mythology, a solid lead and it's only weakness was June's friends being locked out, which is something they WERE going to work on but got canclled. Not in the highest tier of the animated superhero shows at the time (Jake Long eats it's lunch), but still worthy of being part of them all the same.

Camp Lazlo: Hard choice as everyone is pretty great, but I have to go with Edward who started as just a generic bully but evolved into this petty dick who can't accept no one likes him for good reason that just stands out to me. I do mean it when I say I love pretty much everyone though. This show is a fond part of my childhood, one I wish was streaming on max and given hbo's current practices, will hopefully land on Tubi as it's underated. Admiteely I love a good summer camp story, and this series might be why, so i'm biased.. but my love for Joe Murray's other big work helps me see it was also just THAT good, a fun summer camp adventure. Ignore the finale I haven't seen and don't intend to, but enjoy everything else. This series is a treasure that's on rocko's level, at least from memory and deserves all the praise.

My Gym Partner's A Monkey: MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY. I like Ingrid for her having to lean down and crush on Adam and I like Principal Bulfrog for both being hilarous and being at the center of the only episode I really loved so let's call this a tie. Their both great. And as you can tell by that last part yeah.. I hate this one. It has a decent if stupid premise, but it leans way too heavily on kafka comedy: adam tends to get buffeted around for no reason, jake is an asshole, and most of the cast follows suit. Even Bullfrog is a dick, he's just at least you know.. funny. The episode with the robot teachers is the one I like.. because it's just wacky nonsense and ends with a wizard for some reason. The show had chaotic energy but squandred it on making adam miserable when he'd done nothing wrong.

Ben 10: Vilgax. Max was close, he's a great mentor.. but Vilgax is such a memorable villian despite only showing up as an ominous guy in a tube for most of season one and only in his full glory four times, one of which I haven't seen. But Steve Blum leaves an impression for him, this unstoppable MONSTER who easily tears through Bens creatures. Ghostfreak is also close, but Vilgax has more personalitY: While his goals are simple, to conquer you get a sense of arrogance and superiority he ENTIRELY backs up. The series made their own thanos or darkseid and it was glorious. He suffers a bit in the sequels as the mouth thing was a BAD design choice, but man is he great. As for the series itself.. also great. Really need to rewatch it at some point, but it's a solid superhero show and sets itself apart from the other kid sueprhero works of the time.. by having it be a child instead of a teen, with all the impulsivness, over the top names and enthusasim that entails. Ben's a brat, but he's not a bad kid and his childish impulsivness lets the series go more places. The concept of taking dial h for hero and applying truly awesome alien designs to it is fucking brilliant and improves on the original idea amazingly. Add in tons of lore, great villians 3/4 seasons, and you can see why Cartoon Network milked this series as long as it did and why it'll probably return some day after some cooling off.

Squirrel Boy: Kurtwood Smith dad only for virtue of being voiced by Kurtwood Smith. I almost picked no one. This show wasn't good, it was boring and I don't like it. A waste of everyone involved and not one I really care to revisit. It's probably not bad as my memory but lord it isn't good.

Class of 3000: SING, NA NA NA NA NA. Principal Luna both for being consitantly funny and his awesome music number. And I only didn't see season 2 because I wasn't aware it happened till it was too late. I need to rewatch this one. A true cult classic that deserved better: Andre 3000 was clearly all in and game for whatever, the series itself had a great cast, and the musical numbers are all bangers all the time.

So that ends this one. Next I see a LOT more superhero shows coming, robots in disguise and more. I actually love doing this as it givces me a chance to talk about great shows I simply haven't yet.

[volleypearlfan]

Boys Like Girl Leads Too

Recently, an animated adaptation of the comic strip Phoebe and Her Unicorn was cancelled by Nickelodeon, who claimed that boys won't watch cartoons with female protagonists. This incident shows how out of touch TV executives are with the audiences of their shows.

Contrary to popular belief, gender doesn't matter. A good show is a good show, and if it's good, then anyone, including boys, can watch it, and history has proven that time and time again. Here are just a few examples:

Winsome Witch is a series of Hanna-Barbera shorts that aired during The Secret Squirrel Show. Even in the 1960s, Hanna-Barbera knew that boys can watch shows with female leads. Winsome Witch is about a witch named Winnie, and the magical mishaps she gets into. She's just as clumsy and hilarious as any other male H-B character, and she doesn't have a sidekick. While she is obscure nowadays, that's just because the various backup segments in Hanna-Barbera shows aren't very well-known in general.

Also from Hanna-Barbera is The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, a spinoff of Wacky Races, featuring one of the most popular characters, Penelope Pitstop. She dresses in pink and is often a damsel in distress, but she's still able to save herself, and sometimes even saves the all-male Ant Hill Mob. If there's one thing H-B was good at, it was keeping in touch with their audience. If you look at the Amazon reviews for the complete series DVD, you'll find a lot of male reviewers praising the show, if only because they found Penelope to be hot. Guys WILL watch your cartoon if it has an attractive female character.

Speaking of which, there are a whole bunch of anime starring cute girls (known as 'moe' or 'bishoujo') and guess what? They're targeted at male demographics (such as shonen, young boys, or seinen, adult men). Shows such as Azumanga Daioh, Lucky Star, and K-On! are popular with boys and men not just because of their cute girl characters, but because they're funny and relatable. In particular, Konata Izumi from Lucky Star behaves a lot like the average otaku.

Going back to Nickelodeon, they don't have very many Nicktoons with female leads. Just one of them is The Mighty B! It's a show about a young girl, Bessie, and is just as absurd and slapstick-filled as SpongeBob. Though short lived, it was a big hit for the network, getting 1.92 million viewers in the 2–11 demographic AND beating out Bakugan, a male-oriented anime, in the ratings.

Another short-lived 2000s female-led cartoon is Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. At the time it premiered, it was the Cartoon Network's top-rated hit for kids 6–11. It has a cult following today, a good chunk of which are guys who think the characters are cute. Again, guys WILL watch your cartoon if the girls are cute.

A much more notable Cartoon Network show is The Powerpuff Girls. Admittedly, the pilot didn't do well with a test group of 11 year old boys, but the actual show became a huge hit with everyone including boys. Everyone can enjoy watching little girls beat up bad guys.

Lauren Faust, who worked on PPG, would go on to create My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. And we all know how the story goes: it was bashed for being "the end of creator driven animation" and "smarts-shaming" by people who hadn't even watched the show. A certain image board watched the show to see what all the fuss was about, and thus, Bronies were born. It's important to note that Faust deliberately made the show in such a way that everyone, from boys to adults, can enjoy it. And did she succeed. Once again, guys like to watch cute girls kick ass.

Exactly ten years ago, a spinoff of Avatar: the Last Airbender premiered: The Legend of Korra. Nickelodeon was hesitant with the show at first. They thought that boys wouldn't like the show because Korra is a girl. They were dead wrong - the boys in the test audience didn't care that she was a girl -- they thought she was awesome.

Despite all of these girl-led cartoons being popular with guys, TV executives still seem to believe that boys don't want to watch cartoons about girls. In a Discord server I'm in, someone noted that The Casagrandes was forced to shift its' focus from Ronnie Anne to her cousin, Carl, so that boys would watch the show (I don't watch the show, so I wouldn't know). Compare that with its' parent series, The Loud House. We have one boy and ten girls, but boys still like it, even after the sisters got just as much, if not more, focus than Lincoln. Despite all of that, Lincoln still gets over-promoted and put in the title cards, even if he doesn't appear in the episode. Nickelodeon is so out of touch, it's not even funny.

Cartoons transcend gender. Whether its' cute girls doing cute things or girls in action, a good show is a good show.

[bergeronprocess]

10/18/24

I’m thinking a bit more about the themes behind one of this season’s magical girl anime shows, The Stories of Girls Who Couldn’t Become Magicians aka Mahonare.

There is a whole lot to like about this show. It has a really pretty color palette and visual style that feels a bit like a storybook illustrated with watercolor paintings. It’s a magic school show, but without the baggage of that one transphobic lady who wrote that one series of books. It has animals that look cute and make funny noises. The character designs are fun. The opening theme is a bop that gives me 90s anime song vibes and features Puffy - yes, from Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi!

I think it’s also trying to say something interesting about the value of handcrafting in a technological world. At this magic school, the only students allowed to actually practice magic are these elite students who all seem to have very pointy hair and who all wear extremely dramatic capes, kind of like the students who have earned many Stellas in Spy x Family. They use these notebooks to do magic spells and it seems like the notebooks are computers or something to that effect - the subtitles even refer to an “app” at one point in episode 3.

Our plucky protagonist Kurumi doesn’t get into this elite spellcaster class, even though she was visited by a magician as a child and given one of their notebooks. Instead, she’s in the standard program and everyone around her is telling her she cannot possibly do magic. Only those elite kids can become legally-regulated state licensed magicians, after all. 

Except her quirky teacher Minami Suzuki doesn’t subscribe to this principle. She believes that anyone can do magic by simply mastering the shapes that create the magic and drawing them themselves. (Yeah, she’s basically teaching them geometry. My husband walked into the room at that point and literally said “Oh, that’s magic math” aloud. He caught on to it right away!) She gave all her students magic pens that transform into very Sailor Moon-style scepters for drawing the magic shapes. She can also do a sort of finishing move that combines the 4 elements of magic to calm down weird calamities that keep happening at the school.  

Kurumi has even tried to do some magic already, though not much came of it, but she’s so overjoyed when she does so much as remember the moment. To me, that feels very much like the sense of accomplishment garnered from doing something by hand - whether it’s sewing a messy uneven blanket stitch, taking the first stab at a cross stitch project, trying to bake something complex, attempting to paint a picture, plucking on a guitar, you name it. There is a certain sense of joy that comes from this by-hand approach that you just don’t get through the more technological approaches. Even if it’s not perfect, it’s still a good thing.

In this era of automation and AI, I think that’s a very interesting and good message to send, and I’m very intrigued by this show and I look forward to watching it every week.

[lovelypurplefox]

My favorite HHPAY Season 1 episodes!

Here are my favorite Puffy AmiYumi episodes from season 1!

I will be watching Season 2 tomorrow. I’m like… obsessed with this show 😆! If I had to pick one favorite… I’m in between “Collect All 5” (because of Ami being crazy in this episode) and “In the Cards” (because of the Yu-Gi-Oh parody). Ninjacompoop is also a good one… I love ninja Yumi’s design.

[princess-paige-place-of-fun]

Anne and Yumien

A screenshot edit featuring my Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi OCs, Anne and Yumien.

Anne is an orange-haired girl with a pink flower on her head and she wears a pink and orange dress. She has one orange eye and one pink eye (the different-colored eyes are because of her heterochromia). She has a grey belt with a golden ring on it and she wears pink boots.

Yumien is a Martian from Mars and she is friends with her human friend Anne. She has dark green hair, light-green skin, she has blue eyes, wears a dark green shirt with a blue skull with yellow stars in it's eyes, a light-green spiked collar and light-green spiked wristband, a light-green skirt and dark green boots. Yumien has two antennas on her head, because she is a Martian.

[tawneybel]

Female Cartoon Characters Who Get Possessed

Note: Or infested. Animation, comics, etc. Be free to suggest more. Male list. Female live-action list. Male live-action list.

Frightwig from Ben 10 (“Ghosfreaked out”)

Gwen Tennyson from Ben 10 (“Ghosfreaked out”)

Anya Alstreim from Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2

Sissi Delmas from Code Lyoko (“Contact,” “Cousins Once Removed”)

Tamiya Diop from Code Lyoko (“Music to Soothe the Savage Beast”)

Aelita Hopper from Code Lyoko (“Double Trouble,” “The Pretender,” “The Secret”)

nurse from Code Lyoko (“Contact”)

Yolanda Perraudin from Code Lyoko (“Tip-Top Shape”)

Milly Solovieff from Code Lyoko (“Music to Soothe the Savage Beast”)

Sophie from Code Lyoko (“Music to Soothe the Savage Beast”)

various from Code Lyoko (“Lyoko Minus One”)

Muriel Bagge from Courage the Cowardly Dog (“The Demon in the Mattress”)

Sam Manson from Danny Phantom (“Urban Jungle”)

Paulina from Danny Phantom (“Lucky in Love,” “Public Enemies,” “What You Want”)

various from Danny Phantom (“Urban Jungle”)

Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls (“The Inconveniencing”)

Mandy from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (“Get out of My Head!”)

woman possessed by mummy’s ghost from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (“Get out of My Head!”)

Ami Onuki from HiHi Puffy AmiYumi (“Ami Goes Bad”)

Wonder Woman from Justice League Unlimited (“Dead Reckoning”)

Jody Irwin from The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (“It Takes a Pillage”)

Ophelia Ramirez from The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (“It Takes a Pillage”)

Katie from Martin Mystery (“The Curse of the Necklace”)

Diana Lombard from Martin Mystery (“The Body-Swapper,” “Haunting of the Blackwater,” “Return of the Djini”)

M.O.M. from Martin Mystery (“Beast from within”)

Jenny Wakeman from My Life As a Teenage Robot (“Pest Control,” “The Return of the Raggedy Android”)

Lorna from Over the Garden Wall (“The Ringing of the Bell”)

Hotaru Tomoe from Sailor Moon S

Clover from Totally Spies! (“It’s How You Play the Game”)

Mira from Totally Spies! (“It’s How You Play the Game”)

Maria Kurenai from Vampire Knight

[dennistamayo]

Ideas for a Cartoon Network crossover show

While I’m making 22 episode scripts of Dexter’s Laboratory Season 5 (7 & 8) here in Limay, Bataan, one of my ideas for a Cartoon Network crossover show with Dexter’s sister Dee Dee is to feature characters from one Warner Bros. Animation show & other Cartoon Network shows of the past & not the 2010s like Adventure Time & Regular Show.

Ed, Edd n Eddy

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

Time Squad

¡Mucha Lucha!

Codename: Kids Next Door

Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi

Camp Lazlo

My Gym Partner’s a Monkey

& Chowder.

I will add characters of The Life and Times of Juniper Lee & develop new ones when the proposed 3rd season of Tiny Toons Looniversity started production this summer.

I’ll begin making scripts before I work at Cartoon Network Studios in the new & current Second Century building in Burbank, California & after I give the final title when my mustache will be gone.

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

Music meme

Tagged by @monstrousgourmandizingcats, thank you!

Rules: Mark out the artists you listen to or the free space on the one labeled “Zira”. Then you take a screenshot or picture of that bingo and post it so I can see. Next, take a pic of the empty bingo and write your own music artists in it. Then leave a blank image as well so other people can screenshot the image and keep the game going.

I probably put in way more effort than I had to trying to match the band's logo with my Very Limited Default Windows 10 Home Edition font set (I don't even have Evanescent on this laptop!). Except Evanescence; I copied a png. The fave gets extra effort. But in case it's unreadable, the list is:

Evanescence, Shinedown, Epica, Xandria, Starset, Edenbridge, The Rasmus, Nightwish, Tarja Turunen, Kamelot, After Forever, Amy Lee, Amaranthe, Matias Puumala, Disturbed, Puffy AmiYumi.

I probably could've filled the entire 16-square chart out in symphonic metal bands alone! But I wanted to include SOME genre variation. These aren't even the most statistically accurate ones, as far as time spent listening to music; those would include underground djs and very local bands from sixteen years ago. But I wanted to use bands people would have had SOME chance of hearing about. ;P Puffy's there as a wildcard, and I included Puumala to acknowledge the instrumental stuff I love so much.

I tag, under the condition that you Want to Do It:

@chasm-connected @creepycute-kitty-gf @impulse-goblin @orionsdestiny @sirenianheart @sleepingway

And anyone else who sees this and would like to do a music meme!

[scoobysongbracket]

MOVIE OST ROUND 2

Heya!! Sorry for the delay with the polls, been a little exhausted from work, but I should be able to get the rest out fairly consistently!!

This round's tag will be #"Movie OST Round 2", so be sure to check it out when the polls launch!! (which will either be tomorrow or monday oops)

Now for some fun facts!! The majority of songs going to round 2 are from Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, with exactly ONE song from Scoob! managing to win, I Like It by Pink Sweat$ beating out Flagpole Sitta. Of the SD2 songs, it seemed like an even amount of Liscensed and Original tracks managed to continue, rather than a bias to one or the other. Most Notably, one song failed to gather a single vote, Jack Token's Homies from Scoob! (Friends Forever by Puffy AmiYumi from SD2 smashed it out of the park)

With all that said, please anticipate the polls soon!! Based on my structure poll it seems like its best for each round to drop all at once, so I'll be keeping to that!!

[fly-pow-bye]

From The Boy Band, one of the stories in Together Forever, a Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi book. No artist is credited in the book.