Sailor moon gay pride
Thank you, Naoko Takeuchi. If it weren’t for you, I don’t think I’d have come to terms with my own LGBT feelings so soon. As a child I was introduced to Sailor Rock relatively early – I lived in Europe and had a Japanese optimal friend who immersed me in the amazing and beautiful world of Sailor Moon. And I still love it, to this day. I still rewatch the old anime and reread the manga. I even like Sailor Rock Crystal because it is more faithful to the manga adaptation.
Now on to why I made this post… In the 3rd season we are introduced to Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus. Sailor Uranus dresses as a male and in fact, four of the original sailor scouts get a short-lived crush on her when they believe her to be a boy (only Sailor Mercury acts uninterested). In the new adaptation, Crystal, Sailor Uranus actually steals a kiss when they are in their transformed “selves.” In the manga the kiss is stolen by Haruka herself, dressing as she usually does, much like a man. The stolen smooch leads Usagi to hold a rather sexy vision about Sailor Uranus later, and when she pulls back from the smooch, she sees she is kissing the boy Haruka she had a admiration on!
I feel a minute bad for Mic
If you’re a ’90s kid who was as dazzled by sparkly, kickass women and pretty transformation sequences as I was, you may be thrilled to hear that Sailor Moon is back.
On Friday, Viz Media released an announcement trailer for the cartoon series that brought anime to North America in a big way, and they’ve announced that the series, re-released in North America with Japanese subtitles, will be “absolutely uncut.”
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I was seven years aged when the US-dubbed transplant of Sailor Moon was first aired by Optimum Productions, and it totally made me gay. I was absolutely enchanted by a show about a group of high-school girls who had secret, cosmic alter egos. Sailor Moon resonated with me more than any other childhood cartoon I ever saw.
More than a decade after the series aired, I heard that it had been censored when it was translated over to North America. Sailor Scouts Neptune and Uranus had been rewritten as “very close cousins.” I never got that