RPN-9's hit Dragonball Z has produced a lot in its 7 years
of airing, such as the flow of DBZ products in the
market, contests in RPN-9, and the showing of
DBZ movies in cinemas.
Emergence of Anime Hits
After being exposed to anime mostly through home videos, the Filipinos hunger for anime grew even more as Philippine TV slowly brings out great animes one by one, as if it does it on purpose to whet our appetites more.
| RPN-9's hit Dragonball Z has produced a lot in its 7 years of airing, such as the flow of DBZ products in the market, contests in RPN-9, and the showing of DBZ movies in cinemas. |
Dragonball Z was the first, and by far the most popular at that time, to be aired on Philippine TV that really made the Filipinos draw the line between anime and the typical cartoon because of 1)really great animation, which in turn gave Dragonball Z really great and cool fighting scenes that Filipinos have never seen in american cartoons and 2)very developed plot that was not present in most american cartoons. RPN-9 aired the Dragonball series for 7 years and had a very great response from Filipino audiences, even though it was dubbed in english and even when RPN-9 just did reruns of it!!!
Other channels had their share of anime hits. ABS-CBN had Magic Knight Rayearth, which was dubbed in tagalog. ABC-5 aired Sailormoon, also dubbed in tagalog and had its own share of followers, and Yaiba which was dubbed in english. And IBC-13 aired the very successful Ghost Fighter(YuYu Hakusho), also dubbed in tagalog. Ranma 1/2, which was mostly watched by Filipinos on VCR, also made it to Philippine TV thru RPN-9.
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