Here's hoping the lucky tykes bouncing along in the audience were paying close attention to the whole wonderful spectacle. What made Puffy AmiYumi's show so incredibly joyful was its deep embrace of rock's goofy trappings - from pogoing around the stage to giving the heavy metal hand salute - while completely tossing aside all of the genre's artifice. Yes, Puffy AmiYumi is the Japanese Green Day, only the duo would rather sing about being your best friend or going on vacation than making a stink about a war. Early in the set, there was something vaguely familiar about the aggressive guitar pop of ''Planet Tokyo.' In true connect-the-dots fashion, the band eventually completed the picture with an impressive cover of Green Day's ''Basket Case' in the encore. Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi follows the adventures of two Japanese female pop stars and best friends: Ami Onuki, a peppy optimistic, and cute schoolgirl and Yumi. Individually, their voices are thinner than velum, but together (and especially with a boost from their ace five-piece band), the duo is surprisingly powerful. The band's Somerville Theatre set was a keen demonstration of these powers, particularly when Onuki and Yoshimura provided the helium harmonies to ''True Asia,' the best song that Jeff Lynne never wrote or produced.Д«ecause they are now stars of ''Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi' on the Cartoon Network, their audience included hipsters in ill-fitting T-shirts, soccer moms, J-pop aficionados, and toddlers ready for their first brush with tinnitus. Instead, they carefully tear the sleeves off bands such as Cheap Trick, the Ramones, Green Day, the Go-Go's, and ELO, then metaphorically sew them into their own Frankenstein-like blouse of beatific rock. Lennon and Ono staged their spectacle to promote peace, but Puffy AmiYumi restaged the scene for a far more noble cause: To give punk-pop a big, warm hug and a demure smile.ДЄmi Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura, who are simply known as Puffy in Japan, don't simply wear their influences on their sleeves. SOMERVILLE - On the cover of its 2003 album ''Nice,' Japanese pop duo Puffy AmiYumi perfectly re-creates John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 bed-in. Then in 2004, the girls provided the inspiration for Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Cartoon Networks most successful kids animation launch ever, which has been.

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