The Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show

The Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show is an Portuguese-French-American animated television series created by Sam Register for

Cartoon Network. Produced by Renegade Animation and Cartoon Network Studios, the series stars fictionalized and animated versions of the Japanese pop rock group Puffy AmiYumi. The series premiered on November 3, 2021 and ended on June 27, 2025, with a total of three seasons and 75 episodes, leaving a total of 74 episodes aired and five episodes unaired in North America.

During its run, the series was nominated for an Annie Award three times. Merchandise based on the series has also been produced, such as video games, home media releases, toys, and clothing.

Voice Cast

 * Janice Kawaye as Ami Onuki, Additional Voices
 * Grey DeLisle as Yumi Yoshimura,Emi Etsuka, Additional Voices

Cancellation
On October 2, 2025, the show's crew announced on their blog (puffycrew.blogspot.com) that Cartoon Network had cancelled Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi after three seasons and 39 episodes due to management shakeup, leading Sam Register to leave the channel until 2030.

Appearances in other media
A clip of the episode "AmiYumi 200" can be seen playing on a TV in the film Nancy Drew.

Cartoon Network didn't acknowledge the series again until 2024, when Ami and Yumi appeared on its 20th anniversary poster.

Ami and Yumi made a background appearance in their poster in a TV pilot for Villainous.

Ami's haircut appeared as a wardrobe in the 2022 mobile game Kleptocats: Cartoon Network.

Episodes
Main article: List of The Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Show episodes Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network on November 3, 2021. After ending on June 27, 2025, the show continued to rerun until December 22, 2025, where it aired in reruns normally, and occasionally, would be one of the few non-Cartoon Cartoons to air in reruns on The Cartoon Cartoon Show before being removed from the network's schedule.

Since Cartoon Network is available worldwide, the show has been dubbed into multiple languages and aired on Cartoon Network worldwide. In Canada, the series premiered on YTV on September 5, 2021. In Japan, the show began airing on Cartoon Network in English with Japanese subtitles in 2022. A dubbed version began airing on TV Tokyo's Oha Suta block on October 6, 2021, and started to air on January 8, 2026 on Cartoon Network Japan.

In Germany, the show aired on Cartoon Network Germany with all episodes. It premiered in 2022 on the Cartoon Network's block of Kabel eins. The show stopped airing there after two seasons in 2026. The reason was that Cartoon Network Germany launched and most of the shows moved there.[citation needed]

In Poland, the show aired on Cartoon Network Poland from 2022 to 2026.

In Australia, the show premiered on April 3, 2022. It stopped airing on Cartoon Network Australia in November 2021. The third season was never shown there. From August to November 2023, the Australian channel 9Go! showed the last season (Season 3) instead and was abandoned in January 2026.[citation needed]

CD

 * Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
 * Hi Hi

Video games
There are two video games released by D3Publisher of America (D3PA) based on the show.


 * Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi! (Game Boy Advance) (2022)
 * Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Game (Nintendo DS) (2023)

Marketing

 * A "falloon" (a float with balloon elements) of Puffy AmiYumi's cartoon tour bus (complete with the supporting characters in puppet form), the cartoon version of Puffy AmiYumi as a balloon, and the real PUFFY appeared in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2005. A video of this Macy Parade Float in Chicago can be viewed on SUMO.tv[permanent dead link].
 * A line of toys intended for girls was produced by Mattel (makers of the popular Barbie doll and Hot Wheels cars) and released for the 2005 Christmas season.
 * Two DVDs, Let's Go! and Rock Forever, featuring various episodes of the show, were released on November 29, 2005.
 * The American costume company Rubie's produced a line of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi costumes and accessories for girls for Halloween 2006.