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I am a product of the 80’s.
Yes, I came from that time of bad hair, terrible clothes and the cheesiest(劣等的) marketing campaigns known to mankind.
What’s worse than that? I miss it—a lot, especially the cartoons. Remember waking up on Saturday mornings to watch your favorite cartoons? Remember when you thought you were too old for them and started doing grown up things? Then do you remember when you tried to get up early to watch the cartoons again and you were disappointed in what you found? Yeah, that was me.
And here is a list of cartoons I cannot forget.
Old Master Q (《老夫子》)
As a popular Chinese manhua created by Alfonso Wong(王泽,香港漫画家), the cartoon first appeared in the newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong in 1962, and was later serialized(连载) in 1964. The series features the now well-known characters of Old Master Q and Big Potato(大番薯), as well as Mr. Chin(秦先生), in many different hilarious situations. They are usually portrayed in a variety of social statuses, professions and time periods, ranging from beggars and office workers to actors and ancient warriors, allowing a wide variety of settings and ideas.
The Smurfs (《蓝精灵》)
La la la la la la La la la la la!
So goes the tune that every Chinese child who watched television in the 1980s remembers fondly. It’s the Smurfs. Created and first introduced as a series of illustrated comic strips(连环漫画) by the Belgian(比利时的) cartoonist Peyo in 1958, it’s a comic and television franchise(特许经销权). The storylines tend to be simple tales of bold adventure. The Smurfs fulfill simple archetypes(原型) of everyday people: Lazy Smurf, Grouchy(不高兴的) Smurf, Brainy(聪明的) Smurf, and so on.
Calabash Brothers (《葫芦娃》)
As one of the most popular animations in China in the 1980’s, it was released at a point when the Chinese animation industry was in a relatively low state compared to the rest of the international community. Still, the series was translated into seven different languages. The episodes were produced with a vast amount of paper-cut(剪纸) animations lead by Zhou Keqin, who became the director of paper-cut animations in 1975.
The Transformers (《变形金刚》)
Written and recorded in America, the series was animated(使动画化) in Japan. 1986 would prove to be a big year for Transformers, with the summer release of The Transformers: The Movie. Although a critical and box-office flop (彻底失败), the movie was a turning point(转折点) for the animated series universe, jumping the action forward twenty years to the then-future of 2005 and introducing a new cast of characters that were the first to be originally created for the Transformers line, and not derived from(源自) other toy lines.
Yes, I came from that time of bad hair, terrible clothes and the cheesiest(劣等的) marketing campaigns known to mankind.
What’s worse than that? I miss it—a lot, especially the cartoons. Remember waking up on Saturday mornings to watch your favorite cartoons? Remember when you thought you were too old for them and started doing grown up things? Then do you remember when you tried to get up early to watch the cartoons again and you were disappointed in what you found? Yeah, that was me.
And here is a list of cartoons I cannot forget.
Old Master Q (《老夫子》)
As a popular Chinese manhua created by Alfonso Wong(王泽,香港漫画家), the cartoon first appeared in the newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong in 1962, and was later serialized(连载) in 1964. The series features the now well-known characters of Old Master Q and Big Potato(大番薯), as well as Mr. Chin(秦先生), in many different hilarious situations. They are usually portrayed in a variety of social statuses, professions and time periods, ranging from beggars and office workers to actors and ancient warriors, allowing a wide variety of settings and ideas.
The Smurfs (《蓝精灵》)
La la la la la la La la la la la!
So goes the tune that every Chinese child who watched television in the 1980s remembers fondly. It’s the Smurfs. Created and first introduced as a series of illustrated comic strips(连环漫画) by the Belgian(比利时的) cartoonist Peyo in 1958, it’s a comic and television franchise(特许经销权). The storylines tend to be simple tales of bold adventure. The Smurfs fulfill simple archetypes(原型) of everyday people: Lazy Smurf, Grouchy(不高兴的) Smurf, Brainy(聪明的) Smurf, and so on.
Calabash Brothers (《葫芦娃》)
As one of the most popular animations in China in the 1980’s, it was released at a point when the Chinese animation industry was in a relatively low state compared to the rest of the international community. Still, the series was translated into seven different languages. The episodes were produced with a vast amount of paper-cut(剪纸) animations lead by Zhou Keqin, who became the director of paper-cut animations in 1975.
The Transformers (《变形金刚》)
Written and recorded in America, the series was animated(使动画化) in Japan. 1986 would prove to be a big year for Transformers, with the summer release of The Transformers: The Movie. Although a critical and box-office flop (彻底失败), the movie was a turning point(转折点) for the animated series universe, jumping the action forward twenty years to the then-future of 2005 and introducing a new cast of characters that were the first to be originally created for the Transformers line, and not derived from(源自) other toy lines.