Latest PUFFY Releases at CDJapan

6.6.2010 - Puffy on Twitter, more

Puffy now has an official Twitter account, featuring Tweets in both Japanese and English, so be sure to follow them if you are on Twitter.

This is a little bit older, but the web address to Puffy's official site has changed -- it is now http://puffy.jp, so be sure to update your bookmarks.

1.2.2010 - Official site update, new fan club, Yumi marries

So after laying low for a while, the New Year has started out with some new news on the Puffy front!

First, Puffy's official Japanese and U.S. web sites have been redesigned, and feature a new picture of Ami and Yumi. Second, in celebration of Puffy's 15th anniversary, a limited time fan club has been announced, due to open on May 13, 2010 and run until December 31, 2011.

And saving the biggest news for last, according to a post on Puffy's web site, Yumi has gotten married again! Not much information is given, other than she was apparently married on December 31st, and her husband is 29 years old. Here's wishing Yumi and her new husband much happiness in their new lives together!

7.22.2009 - Belated Spring Cleaning

Once again, I've gone a few months without really doing too much to this place. You may noticed I haven't updated the discography to reflect Puffy's latest releases yet, nor did I mention their upcoming single. The discography hasn't been updated because I haven't ordered Puffy's latest album yet, and I kinda forgot about the single. I should rectify these things in the near future.

Second, as the title of this update implies, I went through some pages (mostly the discography), either fixing links or taking down old ones -- for example, removing tons of links in the CD and DVD sections, since most of Puffy's pre-2004 discs are totally out of print now (so eBay or Amazon Japan's marketplace are probably your best bets now, unless you have a place that sells used J-Pop CDs near where you live).

Lastly, I finally bit the bullet and joined CDJapan's affiliate program, so you'll see the CDJapan link at the bottom of every page, and also find links to purchase CDs in the disography section. If you feel like helping out and placing an order after clicking on a banner or whatnot, cool. If not, that's cool too. I know I've been a bit lacking in updates the past several months -- especially to the discography, which was sort of my pride and joy on this site. Of course, the same could be said for most of the "major" Puffy fan sites now; kinda funny how we all started up at around the same time, and are now going into a funk at around the same time!

The latest Puffy releases from CDJapan will be shown at the top of the news page, as seen above.

4.2.2009 - New Album "Bring it!"

Puffy's long-awaited new album has been formally announced, and is to be called Bring It! The record is set to be released on June 17, and is available for pre-order from CDJapan in both limited edition and regular versions. The limited edition is said to come with a DVD with footage from Puffy's tour of the U.S. West Coast back in 2005. As for the album itself, CDJapan's description would seem to indicate all the recent A and B-sides dating back to "All Because of You" will be included (not counting remixes) -- that would mean "All Because of You," "My Story," "Twilight Shooting Star!," "Hiyori Hime" and "Doki Doki" are all included, and perhaps "Frontier no Pioneer" as well.

12.6.2008 - New Puffy Single: Hiyori Hime

It was announced today on Puffy's official page that a new single - entitled "Hiyori Hime" - will be released on February 25, 2009. The song will be the opening theme to the anime "Genji Monogatari Sen'nen ki GENJI."

The single, like Puffy's previous two singles, will come with a bonus DVD featuring footage from their December 2007 honeysweeper tour stop at Shibuya-AX. Also of note is the fact that "Hiyori Hime" was written and composed by none other than Ringo Shiina.

9.7.2008 - Discography Update, Etc.

After a hiatus of several months, I have updated the Discography section with pages for both All Because of You and My Story. With the recent Cyndi Lauper tribute appearance and upcoming Snuff tribute appearance, I'll try to update the miscellaneous "Covers" section in the Music area soon.

I also managed to purchase first press editions of both solosolo and Jet CD recently, so I added scans of the picture discs to the respective pages.

4.3.2008 - "All Because of You" Pre-Order

Puffy's latest single, "All Because of You," is now available for pre-order on CDJapan, in both the limited edition (with DVD) and regular edition versions. According to Puffy's home page, the DVD will be of live footage from last year's "honeysweeper" tour; additionally, there will be two more singles coming this year, and both will have more live footage on them (apparently there's a contest going on in Japan for those who buy all three special edition singles).

3.24.2008 - New Single - "All Because of You"

According to Puffy's official site(s), on May 21st their new single -- "All Because of You" -- is set to be released. The track was written by Butch Walker and Avril Lavigne, and presumably produced by Walker. The B-sides are "Frontier no Pioneer" (see post below for a bit more info on that song) and the "Closet Full of Love" remix that was available for download in Japan last year.

Some are probably going to be up in arms over Avril's involvement with Puffy...but really, how is it any different than Butch Walker writing and producing for them? honeycreeper featured songs written by Butch Walker and Kara DioGuardi, who have both written for Avril in the past. I'm not saying the single is going to be some magnificent piece of work, but claiming that Puffy are being ruined because Avril Lavigne wrote the lyrics to one of their songs is silly...especially when they've been working extensively with one of Avril's collaborators over the past two years.

3.12.2008 - Notes

If you've been keeping up with the "Diary" section at PuffyAmiYumi.com, then you know all about Puffy's upcoming commercial campaign featuring a cover of Tamio Okuda's song "Frontier no Pioneer." Also, Ami and Yumi are in the process of working out the details of their new project.

In a related note, updates around here have been very sparse lately. Part of that is Puffy have been working mostly behind the scenes up until now. A larger reason is that Puffy's English language site is actually being updated with news and notes very frequently now, unlike when I first started this page (back then, their site was virtually ignored). I don't like simply copying news straight from the official site -- as I find it a little lazy -- and there's not a whole lot else going on right now (there are still one or two unfinished bits on this site, but nothing major). Lastly, there are a couple other major Puffy fan sites that keep on the ball about news and stuff, usually posting things before I have a chance, and I don't want to simply parrot them either.

So, I'm not going away, but expect things to be far less busy around here than they were last year, at least unless Puffy's English site takes a nosedive again (though that's unlikely). I'll keep things like the discography updated as new things are released, and I still make the occasional wallpaper, so keep checking in every so often.

3.6.2008 - New Compilation CD Appearance

Puffy are set to appear on the all new compilation CD entitled Drivin' J-Pop for love & joy, due to be released on April 9th. The disc -- which also includes songs from Tamio Okuda, Kaela Kimura, Do As Infinity and others -- features Puffy's track "Koi no Etude," from 2006's Splurge.

Meanwhile, Ami and Yumi have been hard at work in the recording studio for much of the new year, which probably means a new release of some sort is on its way this year (in addition to the long-awaited U.S. release of honeycreeper)!