VERY TRUE
But we all know Minako actually considers it more of a footbridge problem
ME? CRYING? IMPOSSIBLE
Welcome to Sailor Moon! A bright, sunshine, goofy story about five girls who are bestest buddies and fight evil together! Featuring happy elements like:
- dead parents
- neglectful parents
- more death
- mental illness
- fourteen-year-olds made to pay off the karma of a long-lost kingdom where a single generation lived for a thousand years
- and some more death
airyairyquitecontrary replied to your post:
I remember someone pointing out at the time that Venus’ image song was called Katagoshi ni Kinsei, “Venus over my shoulder,” and in this shot Venus appears over MARS’ shoulder and WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
SHE WILL FIND LOVE GAZING AT VENUS
fireyfobbitmedicine submitted to sailormoonsub:
Naoko drew Princess Sailor Moon
AND SHE DID A VERY GOOD JOB OF IT
I’m low-key obsessed with the outfits in SM, and this is no exception. I like the idea that the more decorative the costume gets, the more warrior-like Sailor Moon becomes. This series directly equates femininity with power, from the transformation compact to the red high heels to “Moon Power make up!” This outfit is that same concept taken to the extreme: incredibly girly, but incredibly powerful. She’s not strong DESPITE her femininity, she’s strong BECAUSE of it. I love that Princess Sailor Moon can rock a tiara and pearls and wreak massive destruction with her candy-colored sword.
airyairyquitecontrary replied to your post:
Princess Sailor Moon is amazing and Sawai Miyuu’s performance switching between them is amaze balls.
I am living a Miyuu appreciation life, now and forever.
goldenharmony replied to your post:
Plus did you see how Princess Serenity didn’t even flinch or care that Nephrite just died and it was partially because of her? Like the real Usagi would have felt so bad and guilty. Even the other senshi reacted to his death!
HONESTLY this is really scary to see how un-present Usagi is in her own body. THE DARK KINGDOM WAS JUST A DECOY FOLKS THE REAL ENEMY WAS INSIDE YOU ALL ALONG
OKAY YOU ASKED FOR THOUGHTS YOU ARE GETTING THOUGHTS. (No spoilers please, I’m just going to talk for a little bit!)
First of all, I love that this show makes it VERY CLEAR that Usagi and Serenity are completely different people. As far as I remember, the anime never really addressed this, and the two were functionally interchangeable. Here, they are distinct in looks and in personality. You can even see the moment when the switch happens:
Usagi, her feathers ruffled, and then
BAM BLAM KABOOM SERENITY IS HERE AND SHE TAKES NO PRISONERS
Serenity takes over as soon as her possession of “Endymion” is threatened. She seems to have a single-minded focus of MIRACLE ROMANCE, while Usagi’s interests are slightly more varied (friends, food, cats, family, et cetera). And yet, her obsession doesn’t seem like love; it seems like control. She’s the dormant goddess of horrible all-consuming jealousy that was living in Usagi’s subconscious for millennia.
Sailor Moon also becomes WAY more powerful when under Serenity’s influence, just throwing around balls of flame and creating bolts of energy like it’s just another Tuesday morning. But this massive amount of power comes at the expense of a loss of control. Serenity only wants this one thing, and is willing to risk a lot to get it. Usagi wants many things (the aforementioned friends, food, cats and family). Things that Serenity would perhaps sacrifice if she needed to.
Where I am a little lost is where the MIRACLE ROMANCE is involved. Serenity and Endymion fell in love, and their reincarnated souls found each other again in the bodies of Usagi and Mamoru. So why is Serenity’s portrayal so different from Usagi’s? Maybe Serenity and Usagi DO share a personality, but they choose to focus on different goals. Usagi has a part of her that is dangerously uncompromising, but she pushes it to the side because she wants everyone to be happy. Serenity loves her friends and family, but the bitterness of two young lives cut short turned her mind from love to revenge.
I’m just throwing around words. I don’t really know what’s going on, but hopefully the story will take me where I want to go.
the PGSM: Episode 36 trolley problem
speedsterunlimited replied to your post:
Happy birthday to Nephrite’s actor Hiroyuki!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEPHRITE
so… uh…. who wants to hit up the karaoke parlor
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