Jonathan J. Baker said:
>Why Hi-Hi? OK, the group is called Puffy in Japan, Puffy AmiYumi in
>the US to disambiguate from Sean "Puffy" Combs, but why "hi hi"? It's
>written on the side of their bus, so I speculate that "Hi Hi" must mean
>"Puffy" in Japanese, either phonetically or pictorially. Any Japanese-
>readers out there to clarify?
Well, phonetically at least, it sounds like "Hai," which is Japanese for "Yes"
or "Yeah" or what have you.
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