Fullmetal Alchemist | My lost train of thought...

Childhood would not have been the same without the ever amusing cartoons. They are a part of growing up, which is common to children from all walks of life, in one form or the other. Intended to be humorous, they have evolved into programs which capture a whole lot of human emotions – love, anger, fear, disappointment, joy, misery etc. The world is getting more complicated and so are these animated figures. Cartoons are different from ‘animes‘ and comic books from ‘mangas’. Call an anime a cartoon in front of a fan, and you will have to listen in excruciating details of how different they are and how ignorant you are. 😉 ( No, I am not critical about the difference, I get confused myself !! 😛 )

Life was so simple when all we had to watch were the old classics – Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Tale Spin, Chip n Dale etc. They were the ultimate cartoons. Just relax, watch, laugh and have fun :). Then came Tom n Jerry, Powerpuff girls, Dexters lab, Popeye the sailor man and many others. Followed by the amazing concept of animes, and our cartoon world was never the same. DRAGON BALL Z and POKEMON (gotta catch em all) from what I remember were the first huge hits! Oh I remember how religiously we used to follow pokemon! Get up at 8 am during summer holidays just so we dont miss Ash, Misty and Brock’s new quest for the creatures who lived in tiny red and white balls. Beyblade, Transformers, Digimon, Duel masters, Cardcaptors Sakura, Hungry Heart, God! Save our king, Full Metal Alchemist, Avatar and oh so many!!! Childhood would have been a lot different without them.

Though I love MANY of the animes, and have followed them with extreme devotion, I sometimes find them a little too tedious. Some of them actually get as melodramatic as our saas bahu serials. They just dont have the simplicity and innocence of the first disney cartoons. All the same, I think I was very lucky to have lived and watched both the classics and the animes. I pity the young kids now. A lot of us will agree, cartoon network just does not hold the same charm it once did. Its not that we grew up, its just that the quality of cartoons on it has gone bad. Good cartoons never did and never will have an age bar. If you are 5 or 25, tom n jerry is going to make you laugh. I love cartoons and animes, and always will. 😉