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On a lark I'm rewatching some of the anime music videos I have saved on my harddrive, and I'm currently looking at one to the song "Carry On Dancing" by Savage Garden. The vid draws almost totally from the Sailor Moon R Movie. It's reminding me of a couple of things from my younger (middle school) days of being in love with this rather embarrassingly bad series.

1.) I forgot how gay they made Darien's/Mamoru's character. And the fact that practically every villain fell in love with him. Whereas I think the only villain to fall in love with Serena/Usagi was Prince Diamond. The SMR movie was especially slashy, though mostly in an unrequited-on-Darien's-side way. Dude, all.those.flowers. But he's not gay in the funny, witty, someone who has better taste in clothes than straight men or women way, instead he's gay in that asshole, self-destructive, manipulative, pity-me way that resembles the stereotypical straight man. I used to vascillate between loving Darien for his woobie angst (he does have reason to angst, tis true)f and the fact that he sometimes gets to use a sword and wear armor, and wanting to smack Serena for running back to him like the good little woman because really she could do better.

2.) I still kinda think he's hot and he and Serena have Teh True Love ::cue sparkles::....even though he doesn't deserve her cause he's a jerk and she would never get a date with him in a million years if he were a real guy because he'd be going out with Mina or Ami instead...but they still have Teh True Love!

3.) I loved that whole dynamic of inner scouts versus outer scouts, especially the past life speculation of canon and fanon, where the inners were the princess's bodyguards and loyal to her, and the outers were the somewhat amoral and not-to-be-trusted warriors (and possibly dirty-work-doers) of the crown, with loyalty to the cause but not their princess.

4.) I also loved the whole past life thing in general. I don't think I've yet seen an anime or movie that uses the idea of a past life so heavily in the cannon mythos of the main storyline-- I mean, shit, the tragedy of the past life is the whole baseline for the canon of the current timeline. Maybe that's why season one was my favorite. The only comparable use of past-life in a series that I've seen is the Daggerspell books by Katherine Kerr. Which were, might I note, much better than Sailor Moon.

5.) Truly, everything was more interesting before Rini. Rini sucked the fun right out of SM. And they kept her and brought her back for like 2 or 3 seasons anyway.

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[zebeckras.livejournal.com]

LOL - that's funny, 'cause i was just rewatching the Super S movie (I think it was Super S. Whichever one has the Three O'Clock Fairy in it) and thinking, man, this was watchable... but every now and then no matter how you feel about it you just HAVE to stop and go "Oh, COME ON!" ;D I never was into SM as a youngster. The dub sent chills of horror down my spine. ;) The fansubbed versions I was given access to a little while later convinced me that the series was not as bad as it had been made to be in English, but still I generally avoid it; at the same time, there are things about it I remain amused by, most notably The Gay that does not exist in English. ;)

4) Re: Past lives as a determination for the present plot; have you seen or read "Please Save My Earth"? I haven't seen most of it and thus can't vouch as to the quality, but my understanding of the plot is that it's HEAVILY tied into the past lives of a group of high school students and one little boy. I saw a couple of episodes, but midway through the series so I was totally lost. ;D I think I heard the manga was better.

5) Rini/Chibi-Usa must DIE. :P She had a cute kitten though.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I never was into SM as a youngster.

Like many people of the 19-24 age range, Sailor Moon was my first anime. I think I started in 7th grade. Dub, of course (uuh...fansub? What's that?), and I loved Sailor Moon. Even though I knew it wasn't great cinema, I got sucked into in that soap opera addiction way. Actually I've read the manga for it since (not all, but quite a bit), and while its pretty, the manga has the same problem as the Trigun manga-- too scrunched together in events with not enough lead-in to let the audience understand what's going on.

but still I generally avoid it; at the same time, there are things about it I remain amused by, most notably The Gay that does not exist in English.

I remember finding out that Zoicite was a man by reading fanfic. I don't think my poor FCC-filtered 8th grade mind was ready for that. It would have been healthier for my little innocent soul if they'd just said he was a guy in the first place and then it wouldn't be a "thing." Of course, as soon as I realized it was true, it just amused me.

Whichever one has the Three O'Clock Fairy in it

I've seen that one! In both languages, I think. I even wrote an outline for a long fanfic for that movie, centered around the good fairy with the pipe (the ne Chibi-Usa was crushing on) being tried for treason by his fellow fairies afterward. I was big into the "shakespeare between the lines if you just look for it"-drama of SM.

Speaking of that movie, do you know what the music was that the good fairy played on his pipe to lure the children? I've tried to find that tune online but haven't been able to. I swear I recognized the melody from some other piece of music.

I did like the whole fairy-tale aspect of that movie, with the Pied Piper storyline and the references to Hansel and Grettel.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I've never seen or read Please Save My Earth.