Whoa.
If you were to take Cibo Matto and legendary Japanese rock band Guitar Wolf, get them both really hopped up on sugary cereals, and mate them together with Hello Kitty as the midwife only to then raise the resultant child exclusively on cartoons, you would get Puffy AmiYumi.
I attended their show last night at Irving Plaza. It was, in a word, INSANE. Despite a terrible opening band with three white guys whining about something, the crowd - which was surprisingly diverse both racially and in terms of age - was fantastically invested in the show. When Ami and Yumi took the stage, the audience went ballistic; I thought everyone there was going to explode when the band rocked out on a song called "Energy" and then slipped into the opening organ riffs of the Teen Titans theme song.
I couldn't stop smiling for the duration of the concert. They played the theme song to some new Pokemon movie, a cadre of really fun and energetic songs, and finished with the theme song for their own show on the cartoon network, "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi." Of course the audience wanted an encore, and Ami took the mic and said, "Thank you for the encore. We'd like to play our favorite song." Which, oddly enough, turned out to be "Basketcase" by Green Day. I'm not complaining.
This was ridiculously fun, and I cannot encourage you more strongly to see this group live if you get the chance.
T-e-e-n t-i-t a-n-s, Teen Titans, Let's GO!
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