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Upon getting into my car I loaded my new CD into the player, wondering what exactly was going to be coming out of the speakers. Luckily, I found the disc and quickly purchased it. However, I suddenly remembered it while I was buying CDs one day and hunted around for the album. I actually didn't buy the CD until a couple of months later, though I'd forgotten about it not too long after initially seeing it. I was a clerk in a record store at the time, and I remember seeing the cover to that CD and being intrigued, because seeing any Japanese popular music in my store was an extremely rare sight indeed (and I was already into anime and Japanese culture a bit, so seeing a CD by a Japanese artist was a big deal for me). I first became aware of Puffy in early 2002, right around the time An Illustrated History was released.
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"Pooch" isn't my actual name (Somebody online using an alias? SHOCK!) rather, it's a nickname that has stuck with me since high school (it's a rather extreme mutation of my last name, if you must know). I'm not one for overly-lavish bios, but here's some credits (if you're interested): The Bozo Who Runs This Site Though the design and most of the content was provided by me, a handful of great Puffy fans have assisted me over the time my site has been online - whether it be by sending me links to new Puffy videos, alerting me to news items I may have missed, or helpfully translating things that I forget. Pop." Which, when slightly modified, became the name for this site. Inside there's a graphic that says "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Peace. In the end, it doesn't really matter, does it?Īnd if you ever wondered where I got the name of the site from - check the fold-out booklet for the Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi album. My best guess is that it (coincidentally) went live around the same time as Puffy AmiYumi World (if not a little earlier) at least, I seem to recall the two went online nearly simultaneously. I've since forgotten exactly when this site went live - I spent so much time tweaking the design and creating all the sub-sections and pages that it all blurs together. There are a few sites out there that have a wealth of images (because I like downloading pictures of Puffy, too), so I just link to them. Though there are a few places on this site where I use images I got from somewhere else (usually the odd album cover or the like that I don't own), I mostly try to keep everything done by my hand. The answer is somewhat silly, but I generally like to use images that I personally scanned (or captured, in the case of video) - I'm a little uneasy taking scores of images that others worked to scan (or whatever) and present them as my own. So far, the Puffy fans I've had contact with seem pleased with what I cooked up (although honestly, much of what's here is merely translated/regurgitated from Puffy's official site), though I did get one or two emails asking about why I don't have a dedicated gallery of images. In making the site, I decided to focus on stuff that was interesting to me, and hope that others would find those same things interesting as well.
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To me, there was definitely a dearth of Puffy fan sites out there, especially English-language ones (and even the few Japanese ones I found seemed to have stopped updating years ago). In mid-to-late 2006 - not too long after seeing Puffy in concert for the first time - I decided to make a fan site dedicated to them. How Did This Site Come To Be? (And Do You Really Care?)