Before Spongebob, Dora the Explorer, and Ben 10 became popular, cartoons during the 90's are like no other - leaving us trademarks, moral lessons, and "Ako si [cartoon character]" attitude way back then. These cartoons are usually adapted from novels or anime manga and then translated to different languages. Here is the list of memorable Tagalized cartoons you've probably watched as a kid.
Cedie, Ang Munting Prinsipe
This Japanes anime series is
based on the novel “Little Lord Fauntleroy” by Frances Hodgson Burnett. On the
story, Cedric Errol (also known as Cedie) is an American boy who at an early age finds that he is the sole heir to
a British earldom and
leaves New York to
take up residence in his ancestral castle. After some
initial resistance, he is joined by his middle-class mother, widow of heir
James Errol. His grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, intends to teach the boy
to become an aristocrat, but Cedie
inadvertently teaches his grandfather compassion and social justice, and the artless simplicity and motherly love of
dearest warms the old man's heart.
Sarah, Ang Munting Prinsesa
The story is based on another
Frances Hodgson Burnett novel, where the main character Sara Crewe was brought
to London all the way from India to have a formal education. Sara is an
intelligent and polite daughter of a wealthy soldier, Captain Ralph Crewe. She
is treated as a princess on the boarding school until the news came about her father’s
bankruptcy and death in India. Since then, she is forced to be a servant by
their headmistress, Miss Minchin. She remained strong with the help of her
friends, both seen and unseen. Her sufferings then ended when one of her father’s
friends rescued her and recovered their family’s fortune.
Julio at Julia: Kambal ng
Tadhana
The story
begins in Peking, China in 1895. Two children, Julio (a Chinese boy), and Julia
(an English girl) are born, fulfilling the first part of a prophecy foretold by
the soothsayer Lowtzay. The prophecy describes two children, born to different
parents, but in the same place at the same hour (when the moon is at its
highest point in the night sky) and whose mothers both perish at birth will end
the tyrannical rule of the Empress of China. In addition, the prophecy also
states that for this dethronement to occur, the so-called "Twins of
Destiny" must replace two stone tablets at the Temple of Heavenly Harmony
in the Forbidden City.
However when the Empress hears of the prophecy,
she hires people to find the twins and kill them. The twins, through the kind
hearts of those around them manage to escape peril and live abroad. The two
grow up in England and as they reach their 12th birthday, their powers start to
manifest. When their adoptive father dies of a heart attack, the twins discover
their true destiny and are required to work together to overcome many
obstacles in their journey to fulfill the prophecy.
Remi: Nobody’s Girl
The story
is adapted from Sans famille, an 1878 French novel, written by Hector Malot. It
tells the story of Remi, a cheerful and
tender-hearted young girl, who is an excellent singer and lives in a French
country town of Chavanon with her mother. One day her father returns to the
town after a long period working away from home in a city. She discovers that
she was a "foundling" or an abandoned child and was adopted by Mother
Barberin. Her step father Jerome leaves to work in Paris and expects Mother
Barberin to send Remi to the workhouse. He returns 10 years later and finds
that Remi is still there, and becomes furious and Remi is almost sold to an
evil slave trader. It is Vitalis, a strolling entertainer, who helps Remi.
Vitalis discovers her talent for singing and decides to take her in with his
troupe. Remi starts her journey with Vitalis and his troupe animals such as the
monkey Georicoule and the dogs Capi, Dolce, and Zelbino. On her journeys with
Vitalis and his company she must endure and overcome many difficulties while looking
for her real family.
Mga Munting Pangarap ni
Romeo
Romeo’s Blue Skies (also
known as Romeo and the Black Brothers in English translation) is a Japanese
anime series based on the novel Schwarzen
Brüder ("The Black Brothers") written in 1941 in Switzerland by the Jewish author Kurt Held but
published under the name of his wife Lisa Tetzner. To get the money to
pay for a doctor for his father, Romeo bravely sells himself as a chimney
sweep. On the way to Milan he meets Alfredo, a mysterious boy on the run
heading to the same fate. Upon being separated and sold to their new bosses,
the two boys swear eternal friendship. Romeo has to learn the hardships of a
chimney sweep's job. His boss' daughter, Angeletta, is a girl with a heart
illness who is not allowed to leave her room. She asks Romeo to bring the blue
sky to her. Alfredo unites the sweeps in a secret union, the "Black
Brothers" to face together the "Wolf Pack" gang, who constantly
attack them. With their help, Romeo succeeds in bringing Angeletta's dream to
her. Soon the brotherhood faces more hardships than cruel bosses or street
hooligans. Alfredo reveals his secret: he has sold himself in the name of his
sister Bianca. It is now up to the "Black Brothers" to stand up for
the truth, to save Bianca and to protect their leader's life with their own.
Blue Blink
Blue Blink is a sci-fi
anime series created by Osamu Tezuka. The anime is based from classic film
Konjok-gorbunok by Ivan Ivanov-Vano. The story opens with the meeting between our hero,
Kakeru, and a mystical pony named Blink. Kakeru saves Blink from a thunder
shower and in gratitude, Blink tells him that if he is ever in trouble, all
Kakeru needs to do is call out his name and he will appear. At the end of the
summer when Kakeru returns home, his father, a writer of children's stories, is
kidnapped. Kakeru, weeping, calls out Blink's name and, as promised, Blink immediately
appears, and the two set out on the trail of Kakeru's father. Only at the end,
when Kakeru woke up from his deep sleep found out that all his adventures with
Blink was only his father’s writings that shown in his dreams.
Judy Abbott
The story is based on
Daddy Long-Legs, a 1912 novel by the American writer Jean Webster. Jerusha Abbott was brought up at
the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage.
The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to wear other people's
cast-off clothes. Jerusha's unusual first name was selected by the matron off a
gravestone (she hates it and uses "Judy" instead), while her surname
was selected out of the phone book. At the age of 18, she has finished her education
and is at loose ends, still working in the dormitories at the institution where
she was brought up.
One
day, after the asylum's trustees have made their monthly visit, Judy is
informed by the asylum's dour matron that one of the trustees has offered to
pay her way through college. He has spoken to her former teachers and thinks
she has potential to become an excellent writer. He will pay her tuition and
also give her a generous monthly allowance. Judy must write him a monthly
letter, because he believes that letter-writing is important to the development
of a writer. However, she will never know his identity; she must address the
letters to Mr. John Smith, and he will never reply.
Tom Sawyer
Thomas
"Tom" Sawyer is the title character
of the Mark Twain novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." The story features Tom Sawyer's best
friends Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn and classmate
crush Rebecca “Becky” Thatcher. He lives with
his half brother Sid, his cousin Mary, and his stern Aunt Polly (sister of Tom’s
mother, who already passed away) in the (fictional) town of St. Petersburg,
Missouri. In addition, he has another aunt, Sally Phelps, who lives
considerably farther down the Mississippi River, in the town of Pikesville.
Vontrapp Family Singers
It is an
adaptation on the novel "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria von Trapp, which has also inspired the world famous musical, "The Sound of Music".
Little Women
Based on the novel by Louisa
May Alcott, the story focused on four sisters namely Meg, Jo, Beth,
and Amy March who are living with their mother in New England. Their father is
away serving as a chaplain in the Civil War, and the sisters struggle to
support themselves and keep their household running despite the fact that the
family recently lost its fortune. In the process, they become close friends
with their wealthy neighbor, Theodore Laurence, known as "Laurie."
As the girls grow
older, each faces her own personal demons and moral challenges. Jo, our beloved
protagonist, must tame her tomboyish ways and learn to be more ladylike while
pursuing her ambition to be a great writer. Meg, the oldest, must put aside her
love of wealth and finery in order to follow her heart. Beth, the shy one, must
conquer her bashfulness, while Amy, the youngest, has to sacrifice her
aristocratic pride. The girls are guided in their personal growth by their
mother, "Marmee," and by their religious faith.
Sailor Moon
The story
of the various metaseries revolves around the reborn defenders of a kingdom that
once spanned the Solar System, and around the evil forces that they battle. The
major characters — the
"Sailor Soldiers”, composed
of the chosen teenage girls
— can transform into heroines named for the moon and planets. The use of
"Sailor" comes from a style of girls' school uniform popular in
Japan, the sera
fuku or Sailor Outfit, on which Takeuchi (the creator of Sailor Moon) modeled
the Sailor Moon's uniforms. The elements of fantasy in
the series are heavily symbolic and
often based on mythology.
Mojacko
Mojacko is a manga series
that tells about Sorao, an ordinary student who
lives an ordinary everyday life of a typical kid then accidentally makes
friends with two aliens stranded here on Earth. His life changes as he decides
to help them find a way to get home. As the story progresses, wherein they do
reach the aliens' homeworld, Sorao along with his friend Miki, discovers a
blood feud between two different tribes. Things gone awry as the tribes'
representatives try to outdo one another in search of the missing treasure of
the past with the help of an uncovered clue.
How about you Fosters, what is your favorite cartoons during the 90's? Feel free to comment or share something! :)
It is due to the changes related to
languages in the service. However, most people in Thailand preferred to set English then as
their device language, which is larger than Thai (since this is also the
universal language). That’s the reason why it’s banned in Thailand, and not the
rumors related to Thai government and politicians.
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