I’ve been listening to a lot of PUFFY (as in Hihi and Amiyumi, respectively) on Apple Music over the past few months. Here are a few of my fave tracks:
I have a lot of nostalgia for these girls! In addition to watching their cartoon as a kid, which I rather enjoyed, my sister also had their sole
American album, which collected several of their mainstream, easy-to-digest hits. Ami and Yumi were already irrelevant in the west by the late 2000s, but it’s always a very pleasant surprise to hear them do legitimate anime OPs/EDs from that era, like for Usagi Drop or Hatarake Man. They come across as two very likeable individuals — they always seemed that way in the show’s live-action segments — and it warms my miserable heart to see that they’re still working together into their 50s, with a new song out
this month! Nothing is impossible, indeed.
I adore this era of 2000s J-Rock — it’s my favourite kind of Japanese music by far, and it’s such a shame that it totally died out by the year 2010. Here are a few more hits I like from THYME, who did the music for To-Love Ru:
I’ve been trying to find a high-quality download of this chick’s album
first 9uality for ages, but to no avail.
I hope pop rock, on either side of the Pacific, comes back some day.