GMA is remaking Shaider
Photo courtesy of JapanHero.com As an 80s baby, I can be very sentimental. And since we’ve recently gone nostalgic, even more so. Imagine my shock when I found out that GMA has acquired the license for one of the most-loved icons of that time: Shaider. From GMANews.TV: GMA-7 acquires Shaider, to air Pinoy version 05/08/2007 | 12:26 PM Shaider, or Uchuu Keiji Shaider (English translation: Space Sheriff Shaider), is a Japanese...
Batang 80s: Takeshi’s Castle with Anjo and Smokey
“Ike!!!” Being the Batang 80s that I am I remember all of naughty boys were convinced General Tani was screaming “Tite!” (“penis” in Tagalog). Well, only for me to find out more than a decade later that it means “Go!” But kids and anatomy would always be a laugh fest. Kilikili (armpit) always solicited a laugh from us tots. Simple laughs and joys probably. Anyway, forget the reality game...
Batang 80s: MacGyver is the ultimate problem solver
He may not be from Japan but as an 80s kid growing up in the Philippines, MacGuyver would definitely be part of my reality. And you have to agree with me, he’s amazing. He’s sugoi. To me, MacGyver is the Renaissance Man. Forget Da Vinci. I didn’t know Da Vinci as a little kid. But I got MacGuyver on RPN9, so screw Da Vanci and his crossdressing Mona Lisa antics. I kind of grew up idolizing MacGyver with all those mad...
Pinoys on TV
I often can’t pinpoint the emotion I feel when I come across a foreign TV show or movie that has a character that makes references to the Philippines or Filipinos? Sometimes it’s amusement, especially when the characters are Filipino themselves and they speak in Tagalog. Remember the following? Ewok in the forest saying “Ito ay puno!” in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) The Filipino cook...
Super Twins or duper twins?
Live action anime-inspired telefantasya on local TV? Wow for Super Twins. Let me see… Twin girls? Check! And they do come in very twin-ny names: Zsahzsah and Tintin. Kids turning to pretty young heroines with the help of a magic object? Check! I haven’t heard of any kid saying they want be Jenilyn Merado or Nadine Samonte when they grow up… yet. The weird “chanting” before transformation. Check! Wala… nothing beats, “Sa ngalan ng...