As iconic and enduring as Cowboy Bebop and Akira , it has magic that cuts across generations By Josh Morente Cardcaptor Sakura, often abbreviated as CCS In a macho-centric world that releases countless high-octane shōnen animes every season, one would think that a show about a magical girl with a...
Those were the days! There's this song by Troye Sivan that goes, "I just want to go back, back to 1999." With all the stress we’ve all been feeling these days, many of us have been wishing to go back in time, back to when things were simpler or perhaps to our younger days. For many, those younger...
The 'Marimar,' 'Sailor Moon,' and the '90s matinee idol references are so on point For lack of better words, the best way to describe the contents of the Instagram page The 90s Kabaklaan (@90skabaklaan) would be "NSFW for cis folks." But if they are up for any thing that is all about '90s Filipino...
How does celebrity actor Jestoni Alarcon look like now? Though this trend of sharing old photos of their parents started last year, it trended again last month for Pinoy TikTokers. Well, remember Jestoni Alarcon from the '90s? His daughter Jessica posted last month a compilation of photos of her...
Friends tv series reunion got us revisiting looks from the nineties. Even Maris Rascal got into it with memorable hairstyles from the '90s from Hollywood celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie. She was able to pull these off with medium-length hair, caption her TikTok post, "This...
Creator Inoue Takehiko teases, but no one knows if it’s a live-action or an anime film If you grew up in the ‘90s, chances are you caught at least one episode of this basketball anime that aired first in ABC 5 (now TV5) and then later had reruns on GMA 7. That’s right, we’re talking...
That RC Cola commercial has recently been the talk of the town. It was absurd, truly. There’s no other way to describe it. Not of poor taste, mind you, but just plain nonsensical. It didn’t make any sense that there was no point trying to understand why it was done that way. In terms of...
Security Guard with Flashlight (Image by © Colin Anderson/Brand X/Corbis) Eye to eye “Have you heard the story of the guard in our campus?” I asked just to make sure I’m the one who knows about it. “Alin ‘yung inaswang niya ‘yung asawa ng kapitbahay nya?” one of my classmates...
Fetching goddaughters “Okay if you think your stories are scary, you should listen to this!” my classmates from Laguna boasted. “There was a woman who visited a friend whom she hadn’t seen for a long time. This woman was standing by the gate of the house of her friend, who was doing...
Wet Footsteps “I also have a story,” my classmates from Bicol said. “A boy asked permission from her mother to play outside after his afternoon siesta . The mother agreed as long as he’ll come back before dusk, in time for dinner. So, he hurriedly went out to see his friends. “As...
Scary tales from the teens of the ‘90s During the 90’s, stories about creatures like aswang, mananangal, tikbalang, kapre, tiktik, tyanak scared us, especially for those of us who lived in the province. But since we’re doubtful these creatures really exist, because we haven’t seen one, we...
