First, a number of American cartoons and anime is available with alternate language tracks. In Region 1 DVD encoding (US and Canada,) this usually means a main English language track plus Spanish and possibly French for American cartoons, and an English language track and subtitled Japanese language track for anime. In many cases there will be significant differences in tone, voice acting style, flow, etc. between langauge tracks. Since you are in Taiwan, I assume there are DVDs there with similar multilanguage tracks (involving different languages).

Second, I’m reminded of an episode of My Life As a Teenage Robot (an American made cartoon that aired on Nickelodian) in which the main character, Jenny (a teenaged robot, duh), loses her English language disk while fighting monsters in Japan. As a result she can only speak Japanese and runs into difficulties back in the United States. However, in the Japanese version they reverse the languages.

Episodes of this cartoon are broken into two seperately titled stories. If someone wanted to use this episode it originally aired with parts entitled Party Machine and Speak No Evil. Speak No Evil is the title of the story involving Japanese.

Finally, unrelated to cartoons but in Blade Runner, Edward James Olmos character Gaff speaks a “street” language which combines aspects of Chinese, Spanish and some other languages.

A more recent anime series to look for is Bleach. It’s really quite interesting to see how much English is used, particularly since it’s not marked out as anything special. I hadn’t realized modern Japanese used so many loanwords from English. Also, Bleach is a fantasy about the supernatural and I think some of the spells or mantras the characters use are in older Japanese or something. Oh yes, and some of the dark supernatural stuff have names in Spanish or English (for example, monsters are called “Hollows” and the world they’re from is “Hueco Mundo” [sic], or Hollow World in attempted Spanish). The use of Spanish is even more pronounced in the comic book with bad guys called arrancar (Sp., to remove or to rip off) introducing themselves in Spanish (“Yo soy arrancar numero trece, Eduardo Leones”).

DVD’s of Bleach would probably be harder to get since it’s actually being shown on Japanese tv right now. If you absolutely must get it then you can find episodes for downloading at the usual places online you’d look to download stuff from (i.e., it starts with a B and a T). I’m not really up to date on anime so I can’t give you more examples, but I hope they help.

Sarapen (formerly known as Jesse on SM back when I used to be active on it)