who needs to grow up?

while channel surfing the other night, i chanced upon playhouse disney's  animal mechanicals (my cute little nephews love this show) and disney channel's pucca. yes, i watched, and i actually enjoyed watching them :)

and i thought, "how simple life was before." you know, back when we didn't have to worry about work, bills, work, chores, work, weight, work, laundry, work... that sort of stuff. when all you had to do was finish studying right away so you could watch your favorite television shows.

hence, the flashback of my fave shows. i'd love to watch these again! (and not think of grown-up stuff please)

hmmm... lemme see... let's start with my super duper favorites. of course, first and foremost would be mighty morphin power rangers! woohhhh! i super duper love this show! well, basically because Tommy (green/white ranger) was my first ever ever ever crush. i think i was in love with him for most of my elementary years haha! (for those who know me well, you could see that my preference is consistent ever since. haha!) damn, i remember one time, it was the week before my final exam. so i had to study some more even if it was a friday night. meaning (gasp!) i'm going to miss the episode where tommy reveals that he is actually the white ranger! i cried that night. hahahahaha! seriously! (hmm... come to think about it... tommy's the first guy to make me cry. biruin mo yun! epiphany!) now there all sorts of power rangers. power rangers: dino thunder. power rangers: mystic force. power rangers: jungle fury. what the? basta! mighty morphin power rangers is still the best (biased much? haha) ooh, i loved their ninja costume too!

  

second, rurouni kenshin. my love for traditional japanese culture started here. samurais, ninjas, sakura trees, kimonos, honor. all in here. i remember searching for fanfictions of this series. well, aside from all the japanese culture stuff, i think i liked this anime because of kaoru and misao. i know that in the old times, japanese women were "just women". born to find a husband and serve him good tea and give him children (sons, preferably). but these two chicks are so kick-ass! i love them! plus of course, it doesn't hurt that kenshin (especially in battousai mode) and aoshi look great :D 

then there's card captor sakura. this is totally cute! i love sakura and syaoran and all this puppy love going on. and kero is just adorable :) i remember wanting to buy my own deck of sakura cards then. my favorite episode (yes, i still remember it) was when sakura and syaoran were trapped in the elevator. and then magically, the elevator shook and began to disappear. then sakura fell into the dark space (?) and syaoran wasn't able to grab her. and his face looked so lost. and i was like "aww..." hahaha!

and who would forget sailor moon? "parurusahan kita, sa ngalan ng buwan!" i'm not really fond of usagi though. i think her powers are weak (bwahaha!) my favorites are makoto (sailor jupiter) and setsuna (sailor pluto), although the latter appeared only late into the series. and whew! what a long series this is! ilang taon atang pinalabas ito e haha :)

then there's:

ghost fighter/yuyu hakusho - gosh, because of this anime, "spirit world" became so popular. my favorite would definitely be vincent :)

flame of recca - i'd like to have mikagami and kirisawa and recca's powers! all of em! wind, water and 7 fire dragons under my command. bwahaha!

pokemon - i used to memorize a whole lot of pokemons. but i think i actually started analyzing (yep, that's what i do for a living) stuff early on. i mean, at first i had no idea why ekans and arbok were named as such. but then after some thought... it dawned to me. ekans is snake spelled backwards, and arbok is kobra. how brilliant!

cinderella - the series aired by abs-cbn has a slightly different story. in this series, cinderella is already friends with the prince, although she doesn't know that he is actually the prince. prince leonard usually goes to town dressed as a commoner.

she-ra - omg this is so old school! i think this is one of the few american cartoons that i loved.

gundam wing - i think aside from the big-ass, cool robots, i watched this series because of hiro. he has the same detached personality like that of squall leonhart's (who i also uber love, by the way)

shaider - who didn't watch shaider back then? with annie and the shigi shigi thing going on? 

maskman - "kami ang mga bayaning magiting! walang takot! sa bangis ng kalaban di umuurong!" and "michael joe!"

bioman - i usually prefer pink rangers. but for bioman i liked the original yellow one. just because i think women archers are kick-ass.

x-men - i love their opening theme. "tenenenenen-nenen. tenenenenen-nenen. tenenenenen-nenen. tenen!" how come the timeline of the new x-men cartoons seem messed up? why is nightcrawler young?

ok ok. so i think some are looking for dragon ball z. yes i watched it too, pero hindi ko inabangan talaga. but i think trunks and vegeta are cool :) fushigi yuugi? ok lang. but i don't like miaka. love hotohori though, such a martyr :)   the classics princess sarah & cedie? ummm... i just watched it because there's nothing else to watch. pero ok na rin. naruto? hell yeah i love naruto! but that's pretty recent, so not counted :)

wow... that was fun. being a kid again while writing this blog :) what was your favorite kiddie show?