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Toei adapated Hana Yori Dango to an animated show back in 1996. What's unique about this version of the show are the toys added not only to each episode but even during the opening itself. The photos shows scenes from the show as well as the ads that aired during commercial breaks promoting the Hana Yori Dango toys and merch that Bandai is trying to sell to young girls. The show aired on TV Asahi on Sundays at 8:30AM and a thing common to all shows that have aired on it's timeslot is the aspect of selling Bandai toys to kids (and specifically to young girls since the mid-90s) and being animated by Toei. The timeslot is currently occupied right now by Star Detective Precure still going strong with its Bandai Toys.

Hana Yori Dango isn't the only property of it's kind that got this treatment by Toei and Bandai. Marmalade Boy and Gokinjo Monogatari, both from Ribon, were adapated in similar fashion (both with character designs by Umakoshi for the animated versions) with a lot of toys being shoved into the shows themselves though among the three, Marmalade Boy was the most successful.

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May hypothesis na nag-lilink sa mga languages sa Pilipinas sa languages ng Thailand, pero at first glance mukha siyang malayo. Pero kung oobserbahan, kapag tinanggal ang first syllable ng Tagalog word, tila ba makukuha mo ang Thai cognate nito (tagalog "manok" ~ thai "nok"; tagalog "utot"~ thai "tot" ). Sa ngayon, hypothesis pa rin siya.

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Yung manga na Marmalade Boy inadapt both into an animated TV series and a live action Taiwanese drama (called Miki Loves Yu) at parehas silang pinalabas sa GMA around 2003 to 2005. Wala akong makuhang information about the GMA airing of these shows and honestly hindi ko naman sila napanood sa GMA during this time. May haka-haka na nagsasabing hindi tinapos ang Marmalade Boy anime sa GMA, tapos may nagsasabi rin na linipat siya sa QTV 11. Hindi ko ma-verify. May makakapagsabi ba sa inyo?

Ang masasabi ko lang, sa Taiwanese live action version, ang main actor ay si Ken Chu ng F4. Ang anime version naman ay animated by Toei with aid of Toei Philippines (then called EEI-TOEI) kaya if mapapanood niyo ang end credits ng show na ito, makakakita ka ng mga pangalang Filipino although written in Japanese.

As a kid, I used to watch this show a lot on non-cable public network tv in the mornings. Very interesting for the audience surrogate in the show to be 1st graders, probably related to how the show is marketed towards the same age range in its country of origin. This show aired in a lot of countries so probably it's the childhood of show many children worldwide. I think this even aired in the main Cartoon Network feed (not Adult Swim) in some European countries. After all, it is a kids' show.

Did you watch Detective Conan as a kid?

As a kid, I used to watch this show a lot on public network tv in the mornings. Very interesting for the audience surrogate in the show to be 1st graders, probably related to how the show is marketed towards the same age range in its country of origin. This show aired in a lot of countries so probably it's the childhood of show many children worldwide. I think this even aired in the main Cartoon Network feed (not Adult Swim) in some European countries. After all, it is a kids' show.

Did you watch Detective Conan as a kid?

(Context for the footage: It's from an animated TV show that aired on Sunday Mornings at 8:30 am on public network tv in the 90s and the ads shown are the ads promoting the toys from the show that aired in between the commercial breaks of the show itself. The top left text in the ads show the time as it was airing on air).

The 90s ushered in the era of creator-driven tv animated shows coming off from the 80s which is known as the era of toy commercial shows. Still though, these shows still existed in the 90s.

The thing with these shows is that they were made with funding from toy companies to sell their toys, and live or or die depending on the success of the toys. Being the one that's funding the shows, the toy companies, such as Bandai in the video shown, can meddle in what is actually shown in the show themselves which can stifle creative freedom. They are of course compelled to direct the animation staff to give more screentime to the toys they're trying to sell. Of course, a lot can be said about commercialism with children which is a matter that's even separate from the quality of these types of shows.

So what do you think of cartoons made just to sell toys to kids?

The 90s ushered in the era of creator-driven tv animated shows coming off from the 80s which is known as the era of toy commercial shows. Still though, these shows still existed in the 90s.

The thing with these shows is that they were made with funding from toy companies to sell their toys, and live or or die depending on the success of the toys. Being the one that's funding the shows, the toy companies, such as Bandai in the photos shown, can meddle in what is actually shown in the show themselves which can stifle creative freedom. They are of course compelled to direct the animation staff to give more screentime to the toys they're trying to sell. Of course, a lot can be said about commercialism with children which is a matter that's even separate from the quality of these types of shows.

So what do you think of cartoons made just to sell toys to kids?

A very satisfying thing for me about the series is the satisfying way the games show a slow motion effect with an accompanying sound effect after dealing the final blow to a boss fight. It's just very stylish.

Which one among the games does the slow motion effect the best when finishing a boss battle?

There's a bunch of 90s cartoons which are led by female protagonists, so many of them in fact. I'm not talking about female side characters, supporting characters or love interests from shows that mainly follow male main characters, I'm talking about Main Characters that are girls/women from shows that are about them(if its a show that has two protagonists and she's one of them, it counts). Which one's your favorite?

Ito yung airing ng Fushigi Yugi sa TV5 around 2015. Ang alam ko, dito sa airing na ito tinuloy nila pati mga OVAs. Hindi ko napanood yung airing na ito kaya di ko alam ano ang na-cut. Yung napanood ko ay yung airing sa TV5 around 2008 to 2009.

Inere rin ang Fushigi Yugi noong year 2000 sa GMA and sa AXN. Sa japan, originally inere ito sa TV Tokyo ng Thursdays at 6:00PM noong 1995 (contemporary niya yung Akazukin Chacha na inere rin sa TV Tokyo noong 1995 pero tuwing Fridays naman 6:00PM din).

Yung manga niya by Yuu Watase was serialized from 1991 to 1996 sa magazine na "Sho-Comi" which is a teen girl's magazine na naging notorious sa Japan dahil sa level of sexual content ng mga works serialized dito considering yung target audience nito. Other works sa magazine na ito ay yung "Lady Georgie".

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Nakita ko lang online na may binabash dahil hindi kuno natutunan ng maayos sa school ang paggamit ng "Din" vs "Rin". While it's true na there has been some standardization nito set in stone to an extent by the KWF, I think this is merely just a observation on what Tagalog speakers gravitate towards kung gagamitin ang din o kaya rin depending on the word before and not a fixed rule.

I think it's interesting to compare and contrast both cartoons from the 90s.

Both Doug and Kodocha star 6th Graders, the titular Doug for the former and Sana for the latter. Around the early 50s episode mark (episode 54 Doug while 52 for Kodocha) the cast of both shows progress to middle school. Doug is a boy while Sana is a girl.

Productionwise, Doug aired from 1991 to 1999 while Kodocha aried from 1996 to 1998. Doug's first half aired on Cable on Nickelodeon and then moved to Network TV on ABC during the midpoint while Kodocha aired all it's run on Network TV in the Channel TV Tokyo. Doug was created by Jim Jinkins which started of as sketches but is ultimately realized in animated form while Kodocha was originally created by Miho Obana as a comic. Upon its inception, Nickelodeon had an anti-commercial anti-toyetic attitude (in contrast to 80s cartoons) which reflected in Doug while Kodocha from the onset of the show is very toyetic, shamelessly so.

There's aspects of family, bullying and romance in the first episodes of the two shows, but the starting point is different. Doug is an everyday relatable but anxious 11-year old boy with with a conventional family of a father, a mother, a sister and a let dog. Sana on the other-hand is a hyperactive 11-year old child actress who lives with an adoptive mother and her manager. Interesting how Doug didn't include his school yet in the first episode and instead focuses on the town he moves in and the dynamic of his neighbor and the kids his age. Kodocha's first episode establishes her school life as well as the TV show she's part of. It's kinda interesting to contrast how Doug and Kodocha introduces the bullies and the romantic interest (Doug's dynamic with Patti and Roger and his minions vs Sana's dynamic with Akito and his minions). Doug has a pet dog Porkchop while Kodocha has a mascot in the form of Babbit.

The first episode titles of both shows each have a keyword, Doug with "Neematoad" and Kodocha with ヒモ(himo) which means something like Pimp or Giggolo. Kodocha is the one that in the first episode is explicitly trying to sell toys.

Nakuha ko salamat sa shoppee itong copy ng Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+ para sa PS2.

2 discs sya. One disc for Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix and the other one for Kingdom Hearts RE:Chain of Memories.

Nice lang to have the whole game package, including yung manual.

I watched Fushigi Yugi when I was 10 to 11 during a late 2000s airing on a network non-cable TV channel. That time, the show had a weekend afternoon timeslot, just after airing several Nicktoons.

The show had a re-airing in 2014. By that point, the channel pivoted to airing Cartoon Network and Disney shows as shown in the photo above.

In Japan, the show premiered and aired on TV Tokyo on a Thursday 6PM timeslot. To compare what TV Tokyo aired at that time, on the same channel, Pokemon was at Tuesday 6:30PM while the Japanese dub of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was on Wednesdays at 6:30PM on the same channel.

As we all now, KH2 had elements within it promoting two brand new movies at the time:, Chicken Little in the form of his summon and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children in the form of all FF7 characters (except Cid) donning their AC outfits for the game.

I think Guard Armor is quite iconic as a heartless. It reeappears in multiple other games in the series specially the retread games notably though in its original Purple incarnation.

The fight can be a bit hard on Proud Mode. It's Iconic for being the first fight with Donald and Goofy. Also cool for being a boss with multiple individual moving parts. Feels very satisfying to use Sliding Dash and Slapshot, at least for me.