Among the luckiest generations in the arab region are those with in the age interval of 22 to 35 or those born between 1972 and 1985, for a simple reason, the cartoon material that they used to watch.
Whoever you ask from this age group to name a program he/she used to watch, a similar group of answers will be acquired: Grendizer, Jonger, Sasooki, Al Rajol Al Hadidi, Bel & Sebastian, Zeina & Na77oul, Adnan wa Lina, Jazeerat Al Kanz, etcetera etcetera of aimed material that we were brought up with. The thing is, when I watch them nowadays, on youtube.com, I regain the feeling of that child waiting curiuosly infront of the thick-grey-concex TV screen, mesmerized there with a high level of sensational focus. We didn't use to analyze the material during that days; What we knew was that a problem was supposed to take place and the hero or group of heros were supposed to counter-attack the problem and save the world, and thats it. But today, after the great advance in animation technology, a HUGE bunch of material is available, accompanied with an even "Huger" boquet of TV stations ready just to get the tapes and air them for the kids-time interval without, in my opinion, to any kind of material analysis and evaluation for the educational outcome. Old kinds of carefully selected material raised patriotism in us, this is at least what I configured today after reading an intensive analysis of it. Today, its just something aimless, caharacters moving, special effects, illusionary and corruptive concepts, weak language, even weaker dialogue, and most clearly a 100% commercial program that promotes the "heros" of the series and advertise within the same period the presence of chewing gums or lollypops or whatever that has the sticker ot dummy doll of the characters. How silly and cheap I can't imagine.
The idea here is not opposing the new stuff being aired; and not everything Japanese will be a boom; on the contraray, among the various japanese productions that had been selected during the late 60s, the essence of them were chosen carefully and evaluated for the entertainment as well as the educative theme that will follow and definitly brought out by a very careful selection of deviated senarios (language being a big part) that will suit the arabic audience and children in particular.
What we need today, is the revitalization or the recreation of the Gulf Institute of Program Production, which was responsible for the great productions in our days. Such monitored institutes, with the expertise that was invested in them, would regenerate and give the momentum for a new generation of purposeful material to build a solid ground for raising our children on at least peaceful, tolerant, and moderate basis.
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