Funny, because some time ago, my brother literally told me that Winx Club was a show all boys watched but never spoke about. His evidence was, that one time when he was a kid, he had been watching it not knowing that our moms friend was coming over, and that she brought her son (who was around my brothers age) along too. The son had walked into my brothers room and caught him watching Winx Club, and the first thing he said was “Oh, you watch that too?”. And then they sat and watched it together.
Dude, that show was my guilty pleasure, no embarrassment about it. Sure, no other boy spoke about it at school... but damn, if I didn't enjoy this magical girl show with the plot and shipping lmao. Now I wanna see it again
As a girl I am suprised that boys had to hide that they liked Winx. I always watched it with my younger brother(2 years younger) just like I watched with him more boy cartoons like Bakugan(I LOVED it). Our parents never said to us it is too girly or boyish to either of us. If the plot and story is good it would be watched by us.😅🥰
You know a guy trusts you a lot when he tells you he watched The Winx Club. I remember him vibing and singing to the intro when he was with me, but when they played it during a school trip he got so quiet 😭😭😭
Back in preschool and elementary school, both the girls and the boys used to argue over which female character they were going to be for playtime. Which led to Bloom and Stella fans always fighting. Fun times.
@@laurencias297 season 4 was still decent in the first half and still felt like the og winx club, second half was when it started to go worse. Then season 5 happened and man did it go bad with the ugly cg.
26 year old male here. Watched Winx Club religiously as a child and loved every second of it, never once did I feel any shame for it. All I cared about was the great story and interesting worldbuilding. ❤ This was one of several shows I loved where the main characters were girls, the others being Totally Spies, W.I.T.C.H. Kim Possible, and so on.
Hey, I'm 26 too and I loved this show a lot as a child. I've been binge watching all seven seasons lately to remind myself how awesome it is, and boy is it a treat. Sure, the story does take a bit of a dive from season 5 onwards, but I still like it.
@@Yingkoos i mean 4kids is definitely the best english dub because of how iconic they made the characters so i agree why you chose it, i grew up with the italian dub aka the original dub (even though i am latino) and it just adds a new level of passion to the voice acting, then again it depends on what vibe you like.
@Ale_Creates I tried watching 4kids dub one time but I couldn't continue it because I wasn't used to Tecna's voice having a British accent 😭 I grew up with the RAI dub
@@mewz6018same lol imo I think the RAI dub was good apart from when they changed Musa and Stormy’s VA I think either in s3 or s4, the voice change made them both sound too old for what age they were
Valtor is genuinely one of the best villains in TV animation history. I would not hesitate comparing him to Bill Cipher and Azula. The dude sees the water stars that can kill him and he f*cking laughs. The dude laughs to his death. That's some Joker tier villain characterization.
Third season was my prefered. Imo best villain for winx and enchantix best transformation scenes. My only problem was the bullshit personality change from sky.
@@roiitzkovich4545 i must have forgotten(or not seen) the episode where it's showes. And other people acted like he was right because he was a prince ?
@@barongeoffrey75 Bloom thinks he might actually love Diaspro due to a mix of her own insecurity and them having dated before. His parents always preferred Diaspro, so it would be difficult to move directly without causing an international incident. They do let Brandon spy on the situation and figure out what's going on though.
I have always known Winx as a little boy and I'd always draw Flora. At age 26, Flora will always remain as my favourite. Edit: I love Flora because she is tanned skin like me. She is my representation. I too love dressing in pink and florals as it looks good on tan skin.
If you start singing the opening of Winks somewhere here in Brazil, a lot of people will start singing along, man or woman, practically everyone knows or grew up watching this cartoon.
OMG, thank you for the Timmy appreciation! As a boy who loved winx club, Timmy was always my favourite amongst the specialists! He was the one I could relate the most. He was surrounded by a bunch of sporty idealised boys, he was less courageous than the others but his strength were in his brain and he was mire than essential to the group, despite being less respected. And even Tecna has to learn to appreciate him for what he really is instead of how everyone think he should be! And yeah, as you said , his behaviour in season 3 is iconic! And it's a shame that even majority of winx fan sleep on this !! (That's also why I 'd never want tecna to be lesbian as some fan think she should be, just because (they think) she's less feminine and have short hair. Nothing against lesbian representation but that would diminish the importance of Timmy to show another side of masculinity! )
I don't want Tecna to be Lesbian because... Well, look at her hairstyle. It would be one of most unoriginal choices. Because many Lesbian girls have hairstyle similar to this. Flora being Lesbian would be a mit more unique. This is why i'm also against Rainbow Dash X Applejack, because out of all Mane 6, choosing TOMBOYS to represent Lesbians is also very unoriginal.
Damn this brought back memories. I remember in 4th grade, I used to walk with my friend to her apartment after school and watch this until my mom picked me up. Before my first time watching this, I was about to leave to play with the other kids and she begged me to stay in the living room and watch it with her. She literally told me I'll be the coolest boy if I watched it. I stayed. 😂
I always get giddy when guys dissect and methodically elaborate little girl shows with great memory and precision. Boys that watched girl shows were like the dark horses of their child peers
I've loved magical girls all my life- grew up with sailor moom and Winx (and Barbie but she's not part of that genre) and I've never been scared of expressing my love for "girly shows'. Mx favorite has been Madoka Magica for years now and its nice to know that I have this passion since my early childhood- anyway
Can't forget about the Precure series. Despite the series not being AS good as it was back then, there are still some entries that are considered the best by the community, like Fresh, Go! Princess, and HeartCatch.
I remember one day in elementary school gym class we had to do some sort of gymnastics exercise and one boy got really excited and said it reminded him of the transformation scene in Winx Club. Next thing you know about 10 boys crowded him and they were all talking about Winx Club and the different things they liked about the show. Even back then I found it really nice :D
As a male fan, I really wish the specialists were written better. In the show, male fairies exist, but their designs are very generic and it's never stated how their magic worked. And the specialists were never really able to help the girls against magical beings since they had no magic themselves. Plus they had interesting story potenial, but it was often ignored (ie Riven' mom abandoning him--not sure if that was canon in every dub, though).
I hear you but at the same time we have to remember Winx Club is a show primarily aimed at young girls. Hence the storyline would primarily feature young girls.
Plus the specialists having no magic is a key factor to how the show works. The Winx are meant to be stronger than the Specialists as the Winx are the main heros and so when the Specialists do show up to help such as Timmy saving Tecna or Red Fountain fighting with Alfea against the Trix it raises the stakes
@@Yingkoos I get that the specialists don't command as much screentime, but I wish they were more than love interests. That's why I'm glad Iginio acknowledged the large male fanbase for the reboot. And your second point is kinda a big issue: the specialists CAN'T fight on the level of the Winx. It's not that the winx are stronger; it'd be different if they had magic but the girls were just harder workers or had more innate talent. It kinda reminds me of how "Miraculous" lifts the female protagonist up by having the male lead be less development/competence, as well as plot armor that makes it so that she has the specific power to save the day the "right" way. Even when he had the chance to save the day, she's very condescending to him about it. But this is just me!
I'm a boy who loved generator rex and ben 10 but best believe Winx Club was on the top of the tierlist for me. Years later, that show is still my favourite and i'm glad to know i'm not the only one who loved it.
I'm a guy who randomly made Winx Club videos back then because this show was my childhood. Fr tho, I'd rewatch Winx 10x over than a lot of female-centric shows in the West.
Season 5 was my childhood especially. I was 7 when it started airing and SAME; when I went to school I never told ANYONE I watched it, since I was thinking they'd all be like: "wth but you're a boy, that show's for girls" Now here I am at 19 wishing I DID tell more people that I watched it.
20 years later I'm lowkey still obsessed with this series: I started learning Italian because of Winx Club, my first online friends were because of Winx Club, the fandom got me through one of the hardest times of my life. I don't think I'd be the same person today, no joke. And also one of the leading major fandom sites I went to was founded by a dude, Michael's Winx Club. AND the show was made by a man ffs. Why shouldn't it be for everyone?
As kid watching some episodes of Winx on Jetix( and in spanish to boot~~ !!), i thought it was so cool seeing girls fight evil witches and monsters. My favorite arc in the show was the darkar arc, and the reason for why i like this arc is because darkar as a villain along with starting my love for red-hair ladies..... Dark bloom realllly corrupted me as a kid and i have no regerts at all !!😏
as I guy, I can confirm. This show was my childhood, I have so many fuzzy memories of going onto the old family computer and binge watching as much of the show as I could find on youtube.
There's was definitely a good amount of guys who watch the Winx club but wouldn't come out and fully admitted because they was not trying to get flamed by their friends or judge by the peers for watching a quote on quote "girl show" but the show was kind of for everybody had something that people can relate to on both ends
You're telling me I could have been kicking my feet, giggling about Winx club lore with guys this entire time?.... I need to rewatch this show and Totally Spies. I completely forgot how serious the series got after season 1. Also for Darcy my beloved!
This is so true. I was drawn to this show from the very beginning by how muscular the specialists were (Season 2), as well as the amazing transformation sequences (I could spend more time than I'm comfortable nerding out about how cool Season 3 was for slowly doling out Enchantix, as well how awesome but undercooked Believix and Roxy were).
I watched Winx Club with my older brother all the time. It was also never weird that I enyoed many boyish series like Ninjago as a girl, so nobody ever got jugded for that
It was kinda mesmerizing to watch for a little kid, now that i am thinking about it. It was SO colorful! None of other shows at the time were as colorful as winx
In this house we stan Timmy 🙈🙏 I also love how you talk about the Trix. It was almost the same for me when I was young and watched Winx for the first time, besides I'm a girl lol. I loved them. I admired them. Little 8yo me wanted to be like them. I even made extra anime or winx themed birthday parties so I could basically cosplay Icy. I was obsessed with these bad bitches and I still am. And of course Stella rules! Love to see how boys admit they enjoyed the show too. It was pretty normal for girls to watch boy's stuff but the other way round was always made up as problematic. But a good show stays a good show, no matter what audience it's made for.❤
My former Bestie was obsessed with Winx Club, he wasn't afraid to say it even though we were in the age where you could get bullied for that, idk if he still does but he was a really cool kid^^
I'm a boy and I was and still am a huge fan of Winx Club. Never saw any reason to hide it. I don't own any merch or anything, but I've seen seasons one through three. I've been meaning to watch the rest for a long time, but haven't been able to just yet.
Man, I remember Winx Club from Middle school days, I still can't get over how hot Bloom was in her "Dark Bloom" mode, straight up Dark Supergirl vibes right there. Also Darcy was a REAL BADDIE ngl, I was so downbad for her LOL 😂
i was so obsessed with this show as a kid - its so cool to hear that boys were enjoying it too! my heart yearns for more winx content, its so sad that the newer stuff is unwatchable :( magical girl transformation esque shows are inspired by anime like Sailor Moon & were always targetted to early teens (like how ATLA is) but now they think they should appeal to 5 year olds.
Video is great, explaining most od the great characters in the show, but i feel like it's a missed opportunity here that you did not mention Musa. She is a great character given her personal conflict about mother, how she misses her. It's actually a pretty touching storyline, making some drama in the series. I also would've pointed out how thanks to her friends Musa managed to open up and become more feminine through first seasons, exploring her girly side more, and not sticking to wearing only jeans, having short hair, and being just a meanie in general. Maybe she is not written as well as Stella, but it deserves some more attention!
Well, the boys of my class back when we were like 10-12 all loved Sailor Moon... it wasn't just because of the skirts however. We actually fought who "the best girlfriend" would be, and defended personalities and traits. That innocent time when boys suddenly want to be with girls but do not yet understand why (beyond kissing).
Ugh! This was the video that needed to be made. Everyone acts like Winx Club was only for the girls and that if guys watched it then it was just because it had the Specialists. Truth is, a good show is a good show and Winx knew how to make it interesting for EVERYONE… until season 5 but that’s a whole other thing in itself.
Honestly, the only bad thing in the video is the way you characterize Stella. my queen of the sun and moon is not a spoiled brat! and Brandon in the original dubbing only pretended to be Sky because he wanted to see what it was like to be a normal boy (and depending on the version, they change identities for political reasons). I know the dubbing you grew up with is nostalgic, but the 4Kids dub changes a lot of things from the original.
Pretty sure that the wanting to pretend to be a normal guy it's from 4kids, in the original Italian dub and most of dubs sky changes identities with Brandon because he was in danger because a terrorist group from his planet was target him
Thanks for the comment but I do distinctly remember Brandon being nervous when he had to reveal his true identity to Stella who accepted him gladly afterwards because she loved him
I remember this show because of (if I remember correctly) a Christmas special and the fact that one of my friends tried to get me to sing along to the winx club op about 20 times in a car ride. Yes, we're both boys. And no, I never quite got the lyrics.
u just unlocked a childhood memory for me lol also I enjoyed it as a boy tbh Ig boys might be scared to be called gay for liking it or something. Nothing gay about it tho, juat enjoy what u wanna enjoy :)
Boys watched Winx Club?! I love this ❤ and honestly shouldn’t be surprised. It just shows that if you write a well developed story with good characters it doesn’t matter who the target audience is. Great video! Had a great time singing the theme song with ya and excellent discussion on the series. P.S. it’s Layla not Aisha and I will die on this hill 😂
As a kid (cca. 2009), my best friend was a boy in my class who loooved Winx Club as much as all the girls at school did. He got bullied for it by the other boys, but that didn't stop him from playing pretend Winx on the playground with the rest of us. All the girls in the class were happy that they finally had someone who wanted to play the Specialists and villains like Darkar and Valtor, and we appreciated him for it. He was a real one. As a girl myself at the time, I loved shows ''for boys'' like Ben 10, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Power Rangers, Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, Bakugan etc. and all the boys were always happy that they had a girl in class who would play pretend with them, while the other girls would constantly give me weird looks for it. I never understood the need to separate shows ''for girls'' from shows ''for boys''. We all loved all kinds of different kids' shows as children/teens, regardless of what kind of audience they were meant for. There shouldn't be any shame or prejudice when it comes to liking or watching cartoons.
When I was young I consumed pretty much any type of cartoon based content, didn't matter if it was for kids, adults, girls... whatever you name it, but for me my guilty pleasure was card captor sakura
As a kid I watched it, felt ashamed thinking it was for girls. Yet still watched it. Now I realize that I wasn't ashamed of watching it but felt fear that others will bully me for watching it.
Just an interesting fact about my country's dubs. The first national television that aired Winx Club only made Seasons 1-3. But once we got the Nickelodeon version, it went from Seasons 3-7. Yes. There is 2 versions of Hungarian Dub in my country. And also, this cartoon not only had an impact on me, but it also helped me inspire my OCs in many ways. Mixing it with my favorite tastes. Majorly Winx Club was the magical power section. Dragon Ball Z was the Super Saiyan like transformations. And Sailor Moon inspired the Crystal Knight transformation for my OCs.
Heck yes! As a kid I always hid the fact that I liked it and wanted to watch the show only to find out way after my school career that all my guy friends loved it too😂 Thanks for this video!
Alright here’s a funny one. I watched all the “girl” shows Kim possible, winx, and totally spies. I would only watch them when my mom wasn’t around because I was worried she might think I was actually a girl. Not sure how that would work but that’s what 3 year old thought.
Yeah winx was and always had been my favorite. Never talked about it to other boys but later discorverd we all watched it and loved it. And had diffrent favroite characters as well.
when i was a child winx was always my escape from reality for me as an child i loved that show and still do i always watch winx when im sad and wil keep that show in my heart forever
Thanks to my older sister I grew up watching Winx club, Sailor moon, cardcaptor sakura, ranma 1/2, Inuyasha... As she grew up, I also became one of those guys who also watched things like pretty little liars and vampire diaries. Also, my childhood friend (a girl) who also had two younger sisters made me love things like monster high and miraculous ladybug later down the line, which were popular shows amongst girls more my age. I blame those two for my particular preference in shoujo and josei anime/manga, which is the media I consume the most now as an adult.
I liked the fairies, sure, but the boys with their hard light armor and weapons were SO cool to me. The powers were also really cool. So, suffice it to say, having little sisters who enjoyed the show was a blessing in disguise. I could watch it without getting weird looks from my parents. Unfortunately, I only watched it when they did, and they mostly liked Disney Channel.
Winx club, sailor moon, totally spies, powerpuff girls, the life and times of juniper lee, braceface, Kim Possible! The list goes on. Although I had no intrest whatsoever in My little pony.
Man This show takes me back and its definitely true when I was a kid, while at a CD vendor I pointed at a winx club movie and the vendor said "Are you sure? It's for girls." In my local language. But me having a kid brain just enjoys this shit and kept pointing at it until my parents bought it for me. Also most of my neighbors were girls so at playtime we roleplay the characters. Good old times
Bloom gets a pass for the forst 3 seasons for me, but the other girls deserved their own arcs in those; Stella was the only one to have a mini-arc in season 3, even though they could've introduced Tritannus polluting Tides/Andros, Icy freezing Linphea, and Valtor deriving Tecna of her emotions and making Musa deaf (instead of making Aisha blind).
@@OpticalSorcerer but when bloom got jealous with layla that pissed me off like girl she wasn’t flirting with your ugly banana hair man and also she was mean to diaspro
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Funny, because some time ago, my brother literally told me that Winx Club was a show all boys watched but never spoke about. His evidence was, that one time when he was a kid, he had been watching it not knowing that our moms friend was coming over, and that she brought her son (who was around my brothers age) along too. The son had walked into my brothers room and caught him watching Winx Club, and the first thing he said was “Oh, you watch that too?”. And then they sat and watched it together.
Shush don’t tell nobody 🤭
This is so cute!!
nah my older brother openly watched it with us
I didnt watch it. Totally Spies is the girlyest show I watched.
It was one of the two girly shows boys watched as kids, Winx Club and Totally Spies. Witch too I forgot, so 3 main girly shows.
Winx Club & Totally Spies was every boys guilty pleasure in the 2000s
Totally Spies was my shit fo real
Ain't that the truth.
I'd throw in the classic Barbie movies as well.
@@hailmendoza6106 My man
@@spiritwildfiregaming1975fuck your right
As a girl who adored the show as a kid I'm happy to hear about boys enjoying it too because well good shit is good shit
Good shit is good shit indeed 😂
PREACHHHHH
Perfectly said sister
DAAAAAAMN RIGHT
Dude, that show was my guilty pleasure, no embarrassment about it. Sure, no other boy spoke about it at school... but damn, if I didn't enjoy this magical girl show with the plot and shipping lmao. Now I wanna see it again
Didn't this show have monsters, superpowers, and fight scenes. Of course, boys watched it.
Don't forget it had cute girls too
@@BranBal Meh, didnt care about girls till I was 17.
@@BranBalyou think little boys cared about girls like that? I highly doubt that they are little kiddos
@@bituinllitterally the reason I liked it
@@bituinli did lol
As a girl I am suprised that boys had to hide that they liked Winx. I always watched it with my younger brother(2 years younger) just like I watched with him more boy cartoons like Bakugan(I LOVED it). Our parents never said to us it is too girly or boyish to either of us. If the plot and story is good it would be watched by us.😅🥰
nice
As a guy I possessed the entire season 1 dvd 😂
My brother and I had a similar dynamic when we were kids, except that it was with Monster High and Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.
I see your a girl with taste.
@@rossjones8656 W RIZZ Bro
You know a guy trusts you a lot when he tells you he watched The Winx Club.
I remember him vibing and singing to the intro when he was with me, but when they played it during a school trip he got so quiet 😭😭😭
Winx Club was pretty much the Sailor Moon of the 2000's well considering that Sailor Moon influenced Winx Club.
As a boy who had his first half of his life consumed entirely by winx club i can 100% agree with the title
Nice we got a first class witness here 😅
Are you gay?
Same! But i was also watching totally spies!
Same, I unironically enjoyed Winx Club as a fellow boy myself. And I still do
Omg sameeeeee I memorized all of the Enchantix spells and pretended I could fly on my trampoline
Winx Club was not only a great show, it was one of those special shows young boys could bond over with their sisters
so true!
Facts
W.I.T.C.H was a good one too
i knew boys liked totally spies and ppl, but i never knew that winx club was liked by them.
What is ppl?
People @@LilacSreya
i meant to say ppg as in powerpuff girls @@LilacSreya
@@xLadyRaine Oh ok 👍
Witch too
Back in preschool and elementary school, both the girls and the boys used to argue over which female character they were going to be for playtime. Which led to Bloom and Stella fans always fighting. Fun times.
Ah memories. I played as tecna in the playground lol
Aahhh, I was Flora, good old times, in our class, boys wanted to be Musa or Tecna😂❤
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO TALKS BOUT TECNA AND TIMMY THEY DESERVE MORE LOVE
Super Timmy is the biggets Chad
second half of season 4 and season 5 was pretty bad not gonna lie. Season 6 was ok and season 7 just became a show for toddlers for some reason.
They were my favourite
@@DemiCape To me everything ended the moment they end season 3. After that Winx Club was never the same :(
@@laurencias297 season 4 was still decent in the first half and still felt like the og winx club, second half was when it started to go worse. Then season 5 happened and man did it go bad with the ugly cg.
26 year old male here. Watched Winx Club religiously as a child and loved every second of it, never once did I feel any shame for it. All I cared about was the great story and interesting worldbuilding. ❤ This was one of several shows I loved where the main characters were girls, the others being Totally Spies, W.I.T.C.H. Kim Possible, and so on.
Hey, I'm 26 too and I loved this show a lot as a child. I've been binge watching all seven seasons lately to remind myself how awesome it is, and boy is it a treat. Sure, the story does take a bit of a dive from season 5 onwards, but I still like it.
Same here🔥🐉🧚🏻♀️💙🧡🩷❤️💜💚
If you limit yourself to only the 4kids dub, you miss out on the amazing original soundtrack.
True but I grew up on the 4kids voice acting and when I tried watching the other ones…… well just watch @1:49 again
@@Yingkoos i mean 4kids is definitely the best english dub because of how iconic they made the characters so i agree why you chose it, i grew up with the italian dub aka the original dub (even though i am latino) and it just adds a new level of passion to the voice acting, then again it depends on what vibe you like.
@@Ale_Creates very true all about which dub got to you first 😂😂
@Ale_Creates I tried watching 4kids dub one time but I couldn't continue it because I wasn't used to Tecna's voice having a British accent 😭 I grew up with the RAI dub
@@mewz6018same lol imo I think the RAI dub was good apart from when they changed Musa and Stormy’s VA I think either in s3 or s4, the voice change made them both sound too old for what age they were
*As a kid:* _"Geez, this girls rock"._
*As a teenager/young adult watching it back:* _"Daaaaaaaaaaamn!"._
I'm a junior in college this is a hundred percent true. About 16 boys in my dorm are fans of the show.
Better start your college's first Winx Club club 😭
@@Yingkoosnot a bad idea.
Valtor is genuinely one of the best villains in TV animation history. I would not hesitate comparing him to Bill Cipher and Azula. The dude sees the water stars that can kill him and he f*cking laughs. The dude laughs to his death. That's some Joker tier villain characterization.
Third season was my prefered. Imo best villain for winx and enchantix best transformation scenes. My only problem was the bullshit personality change from sky.
@@barongeoffrey75 That's because of the love spell Valtor gave to Diaspro. After the spell is gone, Sky returns to normal.
@@roiitzkovich4545 i must have forgotten(or not seen) the episode where it's showes. And other people acted like he was right because he was a prince ?
@@barongeoffrey75 Bloom thinks he might actually love Diaspro due to a mix of her own insecurity and them having dated before. His parents always preferred Diaspro, so it would be difficult to move directly without causing an international incident. They do let Brandon spy on the situation and figure out what's going on though.
what a man of culture
*men of culture, we all recognised peak fiction in Winx Club
@@Yingkoos the first 3 seasons were great , 4 season not so much
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Winx Club, Powerpuff Girls, K-On, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Kim Possible were the Big 5 of my generation.
Winxclub,Powerpuff Girls,K-On,Cardcaptor Sakura,and Kim Possible were the Big 5 of my generation.
I have always known Winx as a little boy and I'd always draw Flora. At age 26, Flora will always remain as my favourite.
Edit: I love Flora because she is tanned skin like me. She is my representation. I too love dressing in pink and florals as it looks good on tan skin.
Haha yes! For real, she's the og baddie 🔥
my favorite has always been the tech girl. Always loved her first transformation.
Yeah it's sick! Remember liking her too.@@DemiCape
@@Andy00HThe tech girl first transformation is just iconic in my opinion, always been so memorable. Sadly they stopped using it in later seasons 😭
Stella was where it was at tbh
If you start singing the opening of Winks somewhere here in Brazil, a lot of people will start singing along, man or woman, practically everyone knows or grew up watching this cartoon.
gotta start learning Portuguese then for my Brazilian princess
OMG, thank you for the Timmy appreciation! As a boy who loved winx club, Timmy was always my favourite amongst the specialists! He was the one I could relate the most. He was surrounded by a bunch of sporty idealised boys, he was less courageous than the others but his strength were in his brain and he was mire than essential to the group, despite being less respected. And even Tecna has to learn to appreciate him for what he really is instead of how everyone think he should be!
And yeah, as you said , his behaviour in season 3 is iconic! And it's a shame that even majority of winx fan sleep on this !! (That's also why I 'd never want tecna to be lesbian as some fan think she should be, just because (they think) she's less feminine and have short hair. Nothing against lesbian representation but that would diminish the importance of Timmy to show another side of masculinity! )
Glad you enjoyed the video 😊
Yes.
Realest, especially on that last point. I honestly don't really think she gives off those vibes. Their relationship was littterly the cutest
I don't want Tecna to be Lesbian because... Well, look at her hairstyle. It would be one of most unoriginal choices. Because many Lesbian girls have hairstyle similar to this.
Flora being Lesbian would be a mit more unique.
This is why i'm also against Rainbow Dash X Applejack, because out of all Mane 6, choosing TOMBOYS to represent Lesbians is also very unoriginal.
Damn this brought back memories. I remember in 4th grade, I used to walk with my friend to her apartment after school and watch this until my mom picked me up. Before my first time watching this, I was about to leave to play with the other kids and she begged me to stay in the living room and watch it with her. She literally told me I'll be the coolest boy if I watched it. I stayed. 😂
I liked the show but my father wouldn’t let me watch it cuz it was too girly. So I watched it in secret
Should’ve shown in Sky and Brandon’s bro code, would’ve won him over
Why is this so relatable😭
LOL what a weird father.
L Dad
And now alot of men watch Yuru Camp
I always get giddy when guys dissect and methodically elaborate little girl shows with great memory and precision. Boys that watched girl shows were like the dark horses of their child peers
I've loved magical girls all my life- grew up with sailor moom and Winx (and Barbie but she's not part of that genre) and I've never been scared of expressing my love for "girly shows'. Mx favorite has been Madoka Magica for years now and its nice to know that I have this passion since my early childhood- anyway
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Ooooo, I love madoka magica. The music and story is fantastic and I love their abilities
I watched the crap out Swan Lake and I ain't gonna hide that fact... But the REAL REAL goat is and always will be Kim Possible.
Don't forget W.I.T.C.H, Mew Mew Power, Sailor Moon, Magical Do Re Mi 🤣🤣🤣
Can't forget about the Precure series. Despite the series not being AS good as it was back then, there are still some entries that are considered the best by the community, like Fresh, Go! Princess, and HeartCatch.
I remember one day in elementary school gym class we had to do some sort of gymnastics exercise and one boy got really excited and said it reminded him of the transformation scene in Winx Club. Next thing you know about 10 boys crowded him and they were all talking about Winx Club and the different things they liked about the show. Even back then I found it really nice :D
As a male fan, I really wish the specialists were written better. In the show, male fairies exist, but their designs are very generic and it's never stated how their magic worked. And the specialists were never really able to help the girls against magical beings since they had no magic themselves. Plus they had interesting story potenial, but it was often ignored (ie Riven' mom abandoning him--not sure if that was canon in every dub, though).
I hear you but at the same time we have to remember Winx Club is a show primarily aimed at young girls. Hence the storyline would primarily feature young girls.
Plus the specialists having no magic is a key factor to how the show works. The Winx are meant to be stronger than the Specialists as the Winx are the main heros and so when the Specialists do show up to help such as Timmy saving Tecna or Red Fountain fighting with Alfea against the Trix it raises the stakes
@@Yingkoos I get that the specialists don't command as much screentime, but I wish they were more than love interests. That's why I'm glad Iginio acknowledged the large male fanbase for the reboot.
And your second point is kinda a big issue: the specialists CAN'T fight on the level of the Winx. It's not that the winx are stronger; it'd be different if they had magic but the girls were just harder workers or had more innate talent. It kinda reminds me of how "Miraculous" lifts the female protagonist up by having the male lead be less development/competence, as well as plot armor that makes it so that she has the specific power to save the day the "right" way. Even when he had the chance to save the day, she's very condescending to him about it.
But this is just me!
@@OpticalSorcererdon’t worry too much creators of Winx Club made another show called Huntik that got a lot of competent male characters
@@Yingkoos I've seen Huntik, but it doesn't really have the fun, colorful, fantasy magic that WC did. It was a traditional "guys show."
To this day the opening songs lives rent free in my head
Me too, that’s why I had to sing it
I loved Winx Club as a kid, I even started showing it to my bestie who likes magical girls
Wine Club definitely fit the magical girls trope
And now your gay
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@@bestianegra3725 Fellas is it gay to enjoy shows featuring lots of cute and attractive girls? 🤔
@@raccoonchild "thegayghost" 💀 u probably r 2
I'm a boy who loved generator rex and ben 10 but best believe Winx Club was on the top of the tierlist for me. Years later, that show is still my favourite and i'm glad to know i'm not the only one who loved it.
I'm a guy who randomly made Winx Club videos back then because this show was my childhood. Fr tho, I'd rewatch Winx 10x over than a lot of female-centric shows in the West.
Funny enough Winx Club is also a Western show as it was made in Italy but I get what you mean 😂😂😂
Hell yeah haha! Totally spies anyone?
The amount of happiness and relief I feel knowing that way more guys watched it like I did
AS A GUY that watches winx as kid now i did whole rewatch of season 2-5 and i still love it (season 3 is my fav!)
season 3 was amazing
second half of season 4 and season 5 is when it started to go bad not gonna lie and season 7 just switched demographic completely.
Wait other guys watched this too?!!! I thought I was the only one, this show was my guilty pleasure as a kid lol
Nope you're not the only one. It still is my guilty pleasure to this day. whenever I get that sense of nostalgia for the old days
Season 5 was my childhood especially. I was 7 when it started airing and SAME; when I went to school I never told ANYONE I watched it, since I was thinking they'd all be like: "wth but you're a boy, that show's for girls"
Now here I am at 19 wishing I DID tell more people that I watched it.
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About to unlock a lot more when you watch this video 😂😂😂
Tecna is my favorite, she’s one the reasons I grew up loving tomboys.
But tecna’s not a tomboy
The girls were drawn adorable and hot, also totally spies was 100% designed with boys in mind 😂😂😂😂
I'm from the italian region where Winx Club was made. I've never watched it lol but god was it ubiquitous with the merchs and commercials.
Winx club is something that I remember fondly, but will never rewatch because that will fit sure ruin my nostalgia
20 years later I'm lowkey still obsessed with this series: I started learning Italian because of Winx Club, my first online friends were because of Winx Club, the fandom got me through one of the hardest times of my life. I don't think I'd be the same person today, no joke. And also one of the leading major fandom sites I went to was founded by a dude, Michael's Winx Club. AND the show was made by a man ffs. Why shouldn't it be for everyone?
Fellow Aisha enjoyer 🤝
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@@lotusbloom6800bro she had one of the best character arcs of them all. No slandering here
Aisha deserved the world.
Bruh.....I loved this show so much. I remember hanging out with the girls and boys in my class geeking tf out. Good times.
As kid watching some episodes of Winx on Jetix( and in spanish to boot~~ !!), i thought it was so cool seeing girls fight evil witches and monsters. My favorite arc in the show was the darkar arc, and the reason for why i like this arc is because darkar as a villain along with starting my love for red-hair ladies..... Dark bloom realllly corrupted me as a kid and i have no regerts at all !!😏
Dark Bloom was a generational talent
I mean bloom was a icon too
@@Bluemoonplayz Heyyyy....That's what's up !! 👌🏼
@@alejandrodeleon6648 ill never forget when bloom just bullied everyone in that one scene in the libbary . Also dark bloom was the best desing ever
@@Bluemoonplayz Well, Dark bloom was that mean....it was kinda hot and I love it so much~~😏🤌
as I guy, I can confirm. This show was my childhood, I have so many fuzzy memories of going onto the old family computer and binge watching as much of the show as I could find on youtube.
There's was definitely a good amount of guys who watch the Winx club but wouldn't come out and fully admitted because they was not trying to get flamed by their friends or judge by the peers for watching a quote on quote "girl show" but the show was kind of for everybody had something that people can relate to on both ends
You're telling me I could have been kicking my feet, giggling about Winx club lore with guys this entire time?....
I need to rewatch this show and Totally Spies. I completely forgot how serious the series got after season 1. Also for Darcy my beloved!
This is so true.
I was drawn to this show from the very beginning by how muscular the specialists were (Season 2), as well as the amazing transformation sequences (I could spend more time than I'm comfortable nerding out about how cool Season 3 was for slowly doling out Enchantix, as well how awesome but undercooked Believix and Roxy were).
I watched Winx Club with my older brother all the time. It was also never weird that I enyoed many boyish series like Ninjago as a girl, so nobody ever got jugded for that
It was kinda mesmerizing to watch for a little kid, now that i am thinking about it. It was SO colorful! None of other shows at the time were as colorful as winx
In this house we stan Timmy 🙈🙏
I also love how you talk about the Trix. It was almost the same for me when I was young and watched Winx for the first time, besides I'm a girl lol. I loved them. I admired them. Little 8yo me wanted to be like them. I even made extra anime or winx themed birthday parties so I could basically cosplay Icy. I was obsessed with these bad bitches and I still am. And of course Stella rules! Love to see how boys admit they enjoyed the show too. It was pretty normal for girls to watch boy's stuff but the other way round was always made up as problematic. But a good show stays a good show, no matter what audience it's made for.❤
Thank you for your beautifully worded comment
ngl Winx Club, Totally Spies, Barbie and Kim Possible had me by the throat when i was 6 and i loved every second of it
One of the most underrated gems from my childhood
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AND CLOSE KNIT FRIENDSHIPS!!!
That show taught me standards for my ride or dies!
My former Bestie was obsessed with Winx Club, he wasn't afraid to say it even though we were in the age where you could get bullied for that, idk if he still does but he was a really cool kid^^
Former? How come he becomes your former bestie???
winx fashion was really top tier, i remember collecting sticker albums n even my teacher liked them!! my country made somthing good for once
My dad died when I was 10 so nothing stopped me from watching this masterpiece with no shame.
Damn bro
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I have never met a boy my age who didn't love Winx Club - also must not forget W.I.T.C.H., Totally Spies or Kim Possible.
You're absolutely right. But you forgot Barbie and the 12 dancing princesses and skydancers. And then the list is complete. Bratz was lowkey overrated
You are WILD ASF for that opening bit.
I have never felt so called out and yet so well represented.
Funny enough you’re the first person to mention the opening 😂😂😂
@@Yingkoos real recognizes real
I am 29 , im a man and winx club is my all-time favorote cartoon in terms of story and plot.. ofc the first 4 seasons only. ♥️
I'm a boy and I was and still am a huge fan of Winx Club. Never saw any reason to hide it. I don't own any merch or anything, but I've seen seasons one through three. I've been meaning to watch the rest for a long time, but haven't been able to just yet.
I’m a Boy and I watch Winx Club, When I was Young and early in the morning, I watched it. And I do not regret it. I love the nostalgia!
Absolutely, I am proud to say "I love Winx club"
I watched it as a kid and I watch clips of it right now
"just fight that tornado with your bare hands" IS CRAZY 😭😭😭
Winx: Sign me up
totally spies: FUCK YEAH
This was my guilty pleasure show as a kid.
Man, I remember Winx Club from Middle school days, I still can't get over how hot Bloom was in her "Dark Bloom" mode, straight up Dark Supergirl vibes right there. Also Darcy was a REAL BADDIE ngl, I was so downbad for her LOL 😂
i was so obsessed with this show as a kid - its so cool to hear that boys were enjoying it too!
my heart yearns for more winx content, its so sad that the newer stuff is unwatchable :( magical girl transformation esque shows are inspired by anime like Sailor Moon & were always targetted to early teens (like how ATLA is) but now they think they should appeal to 5 year olds.
Video is great, explaining most od the great characters in the show, but i feel like it's a missed opportunity here that you did not mention Musa.
She is a great character given her personal conflict about mother, how she misses her. It's actually a pretty touching storyline, making some drama in the series. I also would've pointed out how thanks to her friends Musa managed to open up and become more feminine through first seasons, exploring her girly side more, and not sticking to wearing only jeans, having short hair, and being just a meanie in general. Maybe she is not written as well as Stella, but it deserves some more attention!
Well, the boys of my class back when we were like 10-12 all loved Sailor Moon... it wasn't just because of the skirts however. We actually fought who "the best girlfriend" would be, and defended personalities and traits. That innocent time when boys suddenly want to be with girls but do not yet understand why (beyond kissing).
Ugh! This was the video that needed to be made. Everyone acts like Winx Club was only for the girls and that if guys watched it then it was just because it had the Specialists.
Truth is, a good show is a good show and Winx knew how to make it interesting for EVERYONE… until season 5 but that’s a whole other thing in itself.
This show really shape my taste in women fr like that style they have and that small waist and wide hips 😭😤 as a kid i had a crush on all of them
Honestly, the only bad thing in the video is the way you characterize Stella. my queen of the sun and moon is not a spoiled brat! and Brandon in the original dubbing only pretended to be Sky because he wanted to see what it was like to be a normal boy (and depending on the version, they change identities for political reasons). I know the dubbing you grew up with is nostalgic, but the 4Kids dub changes a lot of things from the original.
Pretty sure that the wanting to pretend to be a normal guy it's from 4kids, in the original Italian dub and most of dubs sky changes identities with Brandon because he was in danger because a terrorist group from his planet was target him
Thanks for the comment but I do distinctly remember Brandon being nervous when he had to reveal his true identity to Stella who accepted him gladly afterwards because she loved him
And let’s not lie season 1 Stella was very much a spoilt princess but her character growth is one of the best in the series as I’ve shown
Well yeah. Cuz it was a front to keep from having to dealing with her divorced parents @Yingkoos
@@Yvonne-Bellatho I do see that. I feel big part of why Stella is like that is that it’s just apart of her core personality
I remember this show because of (if I remember correctly) a Christmas special and the fact that one of my friends tried to get me to sing along to the winx club op about 20 times in a car ride. Yes, we're both boys. And no, I never quite got the lyrics.
OMG THIS IS VERY TRUEEE STILL NOW... HAPPY 20TH YEARS OF MAGIC WINX.. GUARDIAN FAIRIES OF LIGHT
i did watch a few episodes wen my sister was watching it, but totally spies definitely got me hooked fr
u just unlocked a childhood memory for me lol also I enjoyed it as a boy tbh
Ig boys might be scared to be called gay for liking it or something. Nothing gay about it tho, juat enjoy what u wanna enjoy :)
Bro when I saw Dark Bloom for the first time... I gotta tell you man it changed me. So glad I am not alone!
Boys watched Winx Club?! I love this ❤ and honestly shouldn’t be surprised. It just shows that if you write a well developed story with good characters it doesn’t matter who the target audience is. Great video! Had a great time singing the theme song with ya and excellent discussion on the series.
P.S. it’s Layla not Aisha and I will die on this hill 😂
If you can’t tell me to my literal face it’s Layla in the next 5 minutes then we’re sticking with Aisha
@@Yingkoos 5 min, 12 days, it's still Layla ;)
Winx Club and W.I.T.C.H had an insane villains and storybuilding
As a kid (cca. 2009), my best friend was a boy in my class who loooved Winx Club as much as all the girls at school did. He got bullied for it by the other boys, but that didn't stop him from playing pretend Winx on the playground with the rest of us. All the girls in the class were happy that they finally had someone who wanted to play the Specialists and villains like Darkar and Valtor, and we appreciated him for it. He was a real one.
As a girl myself at the time, I loved shows ''for boys'' like Ben 10, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Power Rangers, Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, Bakugan etc. and all the boys were always happy that they had a girl in class who would play pretend with them, while the other girls would constantly give me weird looks for it.
I never understood the need to separate shows ''for girls'' from shows ''for boys''. We all loved all kinds of different kids' shows as children/teens, regardless of what kind of audience they were meant for. There shouldn't be any shame or prejudice when it comes to liking or watching cartoons.
It's true. I remember loving Winx club, I secretly watched it when had time, but I never told anyone.
Tecna is my #1 because I just know nobody else would save the universe 🙄
Put my girl Aisha there and she walking out same day 🤧
@@Yingkoos 😯fair actually
When I was young I consumed pretty much any type of cartoon based content, didn't matter if it was for kids, adults, girls... whatever you name it, but for me my guilty pleasure was card captor sakura
I only watched this show once or twice, but there were epic battles. I was also starved of Beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Pokémon at that point.
As a kid I watched it, felt ashamed thinking it was for girls. Yet still watched it. Now I realize that I wasn't ashamed of watching it but felt fear that others will bully me for watching it.
Just an interesting fact about my country's dubs. The first national television that aired Winx Club only made Seasons 1-3. But once we got the Nickelodeon version, it went from Seasons 3-7. Yes. There is 2 versions of Hungarian Dub in my country.
And also, this cartoon not only had an impact on me, but it also helped me inspire my OCs in many ways. Mixing it with my favorite tastes. Majorly Winx Club was the magical power section. Dragon Ball Z was the Super Saiyan like transformations. And Sailor Moon inspired the Crystal Knight transformation for my OCs.
its nice Winx Club got dubbed into so many different languages
Heck yes! As a kid I always hid the fact that I liked it and wanted to watch the show only to find out way after my school career that all my guy friends loved it too😂 Thanks for this video!
Alright here’s a funny one. I watched all the “girl” shows Kim possible, winx, and totally spies. I would only watch them when my mom wasn’t around because I was worried she might think I was actually a girl. Not sure how that would work but that’s what 3 year old thought.
Real
Yeah winx was and always had been my favorite. Never talked about it to other boys but later discorverd we all watched it and loved it. And had diffrent favroite characters as well.
I got into winx in recent times and i love it wishing i saw it sooner
Glad you’re enjoying
when i was a child winx was always my escape from reality for me as an child i loved that show and still do i always watch winx when im sad and wil keep that show in my heart forever
Titles like these make me drop everything I'm doing to watch. I'm glad we can all admit it now.
Me too and thanks for watching
Thanks to my older sister I grew up watching Winx club, Sailor moon, cardcaptor sakura, ranma 1/2, Inuyasha...
As she grew up, I also became one of those guys who also watched things like pretty little liars and vampire diaries.
Also, my childhood friend (a girl) who also had two younger sisters made me love things like monster high and miraculous ladybug later down the line, which were popular shows amongst girls more my age.
I blame those two for my particular preference in shoujo and josei anime/manga, which is the media I consume the most now as an adult.
Word is, the Specialists.
They were awesome
I liked the fairies, sure, but the boys with their hard light armor and weapons were SO cool to me. The powers were also really cool. So, suffice it to say, having little sisters who enjoyed the show was a blessing in disguise. I could watch it without getting weird looks from my parents. Unfortunately, I only watched it when they did, and they mostly liked Disney Channel.
Winx club, sailor moon, totally spies, powerpuff girls, the life and times of juniper lee, braceface, Kim Possible! The list goes on. Although I had no intrest whatsoever in My little pony.
As a guy I LOVED this show. You best believe I got them bombastic side eyes while watching from my family watching this show.
I was a Totally Spies kid, but the Italians were cooking back then...
Man This show takes me back and its definitely true when I was a kid, while at a CD vendor I pointed at a winx club movie and the vendor said "Are you sure? It's for girls." In my local language. But me having a kid brain just enjoys this shit and kept pointing at it until my parents bought it for me. Also most of my neighbors were girls so at playtime we roleplay the characters. Good old times
Aisha,Flora,Stella>>>> Bloom
They have the better powers honestly and are not mary sues
You know it 👍🏾
100% accurate
Bloom gets a pass for the forst 3 seasons for me, but the other girls deserved their own arcs in those; Stella was the only one to have a mini-arc in season 3, even though they could've introduced Tritannus polluting Tides/Andros, Icy freezing Linphea, and Valtor deriving Tecna of her emotions and making Musa deaf (instead of making Aisha blind).
@@OpticalSorcerer but when bloom got jealous with layla that pissed me off like girl she wasn’t flirting with your ugly banana hair man and also she was mean to diaspro
@@OpticalSorcerermaking Musa deaf would have been a crazy plot, I don’t know how they missed that 😂😂😂