Season 4 Trailer

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So I might be jumping into this conversation relatively late, but since we’re talking about lost media, can I just… I don’t know. I’ve been trying to find this show I saw when I was younger, and like… Okay, I’m trying to be normal about this, and I’m weirdly not good at being normal. Or not weirdly. It’s wholly expected from me because I am just not  a normal person. 

But I’ve seen the TikTok videos of people trying to remember books or shows from their childhood. It’s a refreshing break from the FYP page I had the last time you heard my voice, so yay on that front, but it’s also been a different type of frustrating because I want to do that. I want to make one of those videos just so I can find this stupid show again, but like, ‘brain says no,’ or whatever the meme lingo would be. Like I know I don’t have to make a TikTok with my frustrated face front and center or with the text on screen sort of thing. Black backgrounds with texts are great for people who don’t want to blow up on that app.

But I would need to blow up, right? Because if it’s an obscure show then I would need all the help I can get. I would need a superhuman reach to find the maybe seven other people who can remember this show.

And right as that self-created despair set in, I remembered having this podcast. And like, this show doesn’t have a huge reach, but it’s more help than I’ll get having an existential crisis on that quick form video app. Maybe it will even inspire me to get my act together.

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So okay. There was this show I was watching when I was growing up, right? And when I describe it, you might think it was Rugrats or Calliou or something in that vein, but it wasn’t. It was actually worse than those shows in so many ways, but it was my show. It was something I loved, so even though it was canceled for completely justifiable reasons, I want to watch it again. As an adult, who definitely knows to not try that shit at home. 

But it was about this kid, right? She had a bright green ribbon in her hair, and she used to go on adventures. Except she wasn’t supposed to go on those adventures. She would break free from her parents, escape and then somehow would fall into this wild journey. Sometimes it was fantasy-based, sometimes science-fiction, and sometimes it was the real world just being the same mess it always is. And by the end, the little girl would make it home, usually to her uncle. 

And don’t ask me while the uncle gave her back to her parents who were either outright neglectful or just woefully out of their element. The show never went into that, at least not from what I can remember. It wasn’t the sort of show that had any sort of development or growth from episode to episode. There was no overarching plot really. The only thing close was the story beats the little girl would hit on her adventures, which I guess is a plot and not something close to a plot. Except I don’t remember it that way? I don’t know. Maybe I’m just uncomfortable with the fact that this girl’s situation never really got better for all of her exploits. 

Maybe it would have. I think it only had one season. Or less than that. The number of episodes I remember makes me think it got canceled relatively quickly. And look, when you consider the parts I do remember, It is a completely justifiable cancellation. There is absolutely no need to in any way encourage that behavior lest some little kid get lost forever or taken by some evil force they couldn’t beat like this little girl somehow managed to. 

I think she used a crayon in that fight. Or maybe it was a colored pencil or a marker. I really don’t remember. The show comes back to me in flashes at best. And look, maybe it was even worse than I remember, but I’d like to know for myself. 

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I think this might be the next series of ramblings on this channel. Give me a chance to try and find that show again, even if I can’t. I probably can’t. Let's be real here. We live in an age of lost media, of things being ripped off of streaming services and chucked into digital voids for the sake of a tax write off. And the ones that are disappearing now are the sorts of shows and movies thatare worth keeping. This show probably wasn’t. 

It’s worth a try anyway though, right?

So season 4 of Aishi Online is coming September 29th. And sticking around for now…

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