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FAN QUESTION:  Is there a band or a singer (dead or alive) that they would like to perform with? If so, who would that be?
AMI:  There are so many artists that I like that it’s too hard to pick.

FAN QUESTION:  Describe your first experience performing live in the United States.
YUMI:  We were very nervous to perform but it was the trigger for us to do things in the US and release these two albums.  So, we are pretty excited.

FAN QUESTION:  What is your #1 favorite Japanese dorama?
YUMI:  We really don’t watch dramas because we are so busy with work and that since dramas are every week and we can’t follow the stories weekly,  it gets pretty annoying if you miss an episode.

FAN QUESTION:  What was it like to have your own drama special “Puffy no Wide de Ikou: Born to be Wild”? AMI:  It was a very good experience and we discovered and learned many things about appearing in a drama and it was a good experience. DENNIS:  Would you like to do another drama again? AMI:  We would like to focus on our music right now but we aren’t thinking of doing another drama right now. FAN QUESTION:  What is your favorite "Quest" spot for Pa Pa Pa Puffy?  I really liked the Ghibli Museum Quest.  AMI:  Probably the Ghibli Museum Quest because we could meet Hayao Miyazaki, who we really admire and so that was our favorite one.

FAN QUESTION:  Have you thought of filming a “Quest” spot in the United States while you are in the US?
YUMI:  It would really be hard because everything is so big in the United States.

FAN QUESTION:  In “Pa Pa Pa Puffy”, which episode do you enjoy the most?  Any certain artists you like performing with?
YUMI:  We met so many artists in Japan and overseas and we are happy to have the opportunity to meet and perform with so many different people.

FAN QUESTION:  I noticed that in your music videos, you seem to like animals.  In your video “RUN! PUFFY! RUN!”.  Is that your dog and in the music video “Circuit no Musume”? Is that your rabbit?
AMI:  They are not ours but we both have pet cats.

FAN QUESTION:  In “RUN! PUFFY! RUN!” did your car really break down and you had to walk in the desert?
YUMI:  Yes, that really happened.  Our car broke down and we had to walk.

FAN QUESTION:  When you were younger, what did you want to be when you grow up?
AMI:  I wanted to be an air stewardess.
YUMI:  I wanted to be an air stewardess as well because of a TV drama that I watched when I was growing up.

FAN QUESTION:  You have several fan websites on the Internet all over the world.  Do you ever visit them?
YUMI:  We visit and check our official sites but for unofficial fan sites, we don’t, because we might get influenced if we see things that are not positive and that will make us feel depressed.  So, we really don’t visit them.

FAN QUESTION:  A question for Ami.  I know that you are big on video games.  What games are you playing lately?
AMI:  I have been playing “Dragon Quest” a lot.  But now I have been playing the Nintendo GameCube.  

FAN QUESTION:  Ami, do you still play a lot of Dance Dance Revolution?
AMI:  Yes, in the past.  But not so much.

DENNIS: Thank you to our readers who submitted their fan questions for Ami and Yumi.  Let’s now go on with another topic.   Many people have watched Ami and Yumi on television via music shows or on their own television show.  Is the Ami and Yumi on TV the same as Ami and Yumi that we see in real life.  AMI:  We would like to say that we’re exactly the same.  Because when we are on TV, we are working but we are not that different from what we are from TV and off-camera. DENNIS: If there is one word to describe the group, what word would that be and why? YUMI:  In general, Puffy is regarded down to Earth like natural.  So for the group, I would say “natural”.

DENNIS: If there is one word to describe each other, what word would that be and why?
YUMI:  Ami…Ami is like a serious older sister.  So, I would say “SERIOUS”.
AMI:  For Yumi, it would be “YOUNG”.  If Yumi was in a crowd with a lot of people and if there was a younger girl in the crowd, Yumi always tries to be the youngest out of all the people.

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