One more "Small Oddities of Music" post: Puffy, the Japanese pop-rock duo of Teen Titans theme song fame in the US, now has its very own cartoon show on Cartoon Network called "Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi" (yes, that's what it's called). Un(?)fortunately, I don't get that channel, so I can't actually comment on the show itself, but this NY Times article and going through the official web site for the show make it come off as some very bizzare US/Japan hybrid - a non-animé styled cartoon version of a modern day Monkees show that has English voice actors for the main characters, but also features the duo singing their songs in the songs' original language as well as doing "live-action skits in a mixture of Japanese and strongly accented English". Utterly bizarre.