For a time, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi was Cartoon Network's biggest hit, being the next Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab in terms of how much of a craze it was, yet despite this, the craze stopped less than 2 years later. Just months after the Macy's Thanksgiving Day float, the two DVDs coming out, a toyline being released, and having a GBA game, the show was canned with 5 episodes unaired in the states. The last thing ever made for the show were costumes which were released in October 2006, but were being made months prior and by the time those were released, Cartoon Network stopped airing it periodI'd compare it to how CatDog was a craze with how it was everywhere back then along with Rugrats and yet, despite that, CatDog stopped at just 68 episodes, but atleast CatDog reran on Nick til like 2005, while Puffy was dropped less than 2 years after it came out
>>152119450Too low-effort. If they wanted to make this succeed, they should have put more budget into it. The quality of the flash animation was worse than Mucha Lucha.
>>152119450was it really a ratings hit, or was cartoon network putting too much money into its marketing?
>>152119450Maybe the network and Register going all in on Ben 10?
>>152119575It did succeed for about a year or so until it just completely suddenly died out in popularity. It was even bigger than Foster's for a time (Foster's wasn't at the Macy's Parade and didn't start getting video games and such until late 2006) and it was definitely bigger than Billy and Mandy and Ed Edd n Eddy. It might have even been bigger than Kids Next Door during this time since Puffy has a Macy's Parade Float and had two video games released very close to one another (where as KND had two games released a year apart from one another). It was also easily bigger than Juniper Lee and Camp Lazlo during 2005
>>152119450No it wasn’t
>>152119835It was huge. It was just a fad. Fads only last a year or so. What I'm asking is why it was just a fad and not something that lasted super long
>>152119972Turns out that the majority of people into anime don't care about Japan.
K-pop > J-pop
>>152119450This was the ranking of how big these CN shows were in 20051.Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi 2.Codename: Kids Next Door3.Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends4.Ed, Edd n Eddy5.The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy6.Camp Lazlo7.Juniper LeeIn 2006, it became1.Ben 102.Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends 3.The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy4.Ed, Edd n Eddy5.Codename: Kids Next Door (still big, but Billy and Mandy and Foster's were bigger, especially with Cheese and Fred Fredburger)6.Camp Lazlo7.My Gym Partner's a Monkey8.Squirrel Boy9.Juniper Lee (it only is above Puffy because it was on throughout all of the 2006 calendar year)10.Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (It dramatically fell from popularity around mid January to mid February and not counting overnights, only aired when there was a new episode starting in late February until late April. Afterwards it was gone aside from an episode that premiered in late June and reran on Labor Day 2006),11.Class of 3000 (premiered so late in 2006 and never did well ever)
>>152119450sex with 3dp puffy ami and yumiat the same time
>>152119450So why did the Puffy craze die out so quickly? Puffy was so big, I was convinced it was going to be the next Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab in terms of being this huge thing, only for Puffy to just die out quickly
>>152120397The Japan weeb wave lasted for a little while and I think Teen Titans was off the air by then, right?
Lowkey it was that typhoon in 2004https://youtu.be/vyZWFWsFIQ4?si=9QI5_vKkYLDRJPiw
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>>152120486I don't even get why Teen Titans stopped at 65 episodes with how huge it was. It had a successful toyline, had a few video games, and it had strong viewership
Sometimes it's just the suits being suits. I do think it would have continued to do well, but it really does boil down to them being idiots. They're the same people who called Billy and Mandy a hateful fart cartoon, and proceeded to greenlight Problem Solvers, and that entire retarded Live Action era.
>>152120616I went by how everywhere they were at the time. Puffy was everywhere in late 2005. It was huge
>>152120676They were also the idiots who greenlit then turned down The Aquabats! Super Show, despite the fact it would have fit Cartoon Network better than the live action stuff they aired since atleast Aquabats was like a live action cartoon
>>152120099I would've preffered JPop Demon Hunters
>>152121561J-Rock Demon Hunters would've been kino
Well it probably had something to do with the fact that they were Japanese pop stars and didn't speak a word of english.
>>152122058Were they even popular in Japan?
>>152122308Even if they were, I can't imagine that lasted longer than maybe 2 years.
Was it?I do remember it being pushed but never being big.
