Is Anyone in Sailor Moon Straight? | A Sailor Moon Video Essay
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Sailor Moon is one of those anime that really pushed the boundaries in terms of LGBTQA 90s media -- at least, on American airwaves. But it still drew an entire audience of young gay fans into its fold, resulting in a show that's beloved for generations.
But as we get older, a question remains: is anyone in Sailor Moon straight? Who is bisexual, asexual, a lesbian, gay -- find out all that and more -- kinda -- in this extremely goofy Sailor Moon video essay about how Usagi Tsukino drew a friend group of bisexual disasters.
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Chapters:
0:00 Anime Showed You Things You Couldn't See Anywhere Else
3:48 The Same Sex Villains in Sailor Moon
5:18 The Nature of Love in Sailor Moon and Magical Girl Anime
10:50 The Love Lives of the Sailor Guardians
14:52 The Outer Guardians (Sailor Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Saturn)
17:58 The Inner Guardians (Sailor Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus)
22:00 Sailor Moon is a Disaster Bisexual
23:07 What Can We Learn From Sailor Moon - Фільми й анімація
Venus was like " Being into haruka isn't gay it just means you have a pulse"
I HAVE A PULSE! LOL
"Why are you booing me, I'm right"
"Everyone is gay for Haruka" is literally the most correct statement anyone could ever say about Sailor Moon.
and a far more fitting permutation of it than the original holder of that phrase, Bridget, since Bridget always presented as female, and eventually found herself as a trans woman; vs Haruka who presents NB, wearing both feminine Senshi garb and masculine clothing.
@@jaymiechan So, we categorize people based on their clothes - got it 👍
@@kumada84 go away troll.
Fr 😂
Lets not forget Mamoru and Fiore; that alien boy was absolutely in love with Tuxedo Mask!
The sailors even gossip about it in the original dub. Not even a doubt, let alone him passing on him to bunny , and mamoro as damsel.
I was shocked they didn’t mention that relationship in the video haha. Even as a kid with the original heavily censored dub, I knew something was up with those two haha
@@MikeOfMichigani saw that movie in adult swim it was very much censored (and. One of the only times I was allowed to actualy watch adult swim (Ofc I then convinced them to let me watch it 6.6 bcs technically cartoons
Rei could be biromantic and asexual, which are not mutually exclusive. Naturally, this makes her what we call "based."
Fair point there!
Real
Me who loved her and identifies as both: Well… it’s all starting to make sense…
High quality pun-work right there. I will be stealing this one.
Gray romantic bisexual is more likely based on her chapter in the Dark Moon Circus arc. She fights her mirror self who wants to get married and defeats them and decides she has no interest in having a partner outside of her servant relationship with Usagi (the manga has a lot of Arthurian Neo-platonic chivalric romance theming).
Ah yes. Sailor Uranus and Neptune. The "cousins." My sister and I grew up on Toonami and the Sailor Moon censorship. And we STILL were like, "nah! We don't buy it! They're definitely gay." Lol.
In a way, alabamafication is even more woke in the eyes of the west, no?
Making it incestual is localizing apearently 😅
too bad the actual setting is that haruka is both male and female. Neptunes own words in the comics.
I remember in the early 2000’s when the internet was in it’s infancy hearing from a friend “Did you know in Japan Uranus and Neptune are lesbians?” Like it was so scandalous but also “oh, that makes more sense”
@@Souten66
and yet they arent really lesbians if you read the comics, but dont let facts get in the way of your kosher brainwashing.
Luna isn’t actually a cat, she is an alien that takes a form of a cat. Her Artemis and their kid all have human forms
Artemis also has two wives - Lunda... and the blonde disaster-zone Minako.
@@peterwindhorst5775 Who's Lunda? XD
I’ve seen Sailor Moon in Japanese, Cantonese, and both English dubs, and never did I get the impression that Naru’s attraction to Nephrite was reciprocated.
I think he exploited her feelings to manipulate her, but getting into her pants was never even a blip on his radar. When he turns and becomes protective of her, it’s far more about him coming to understand humanity, kindness, and protecting those you care about.
Yeah, he said he’d go get a chocolate parfait with her, but I don’t think he was committing to a date and all it implies. I think she told him it was something she wanted to do, and he wanted to make that happen for her.
Me personally, I'm as straight/cis/hetero as they come. I also grew up in a christian household. But sailor moon does something profound with breaking relationship societal norms. It normalized all types of sexualities and orientations. Everyone in the anime just accepted it and I always thought that was beautiful. Definitely ahead of its time. Sailor moon taught me at a young age to keep an open mind towards others. Love this show so much ❤.
As an aside: In the LATAM dub, Zoycite was made a woman because the Dub director saw the episode where he dresses up as Sailor Moon first, with no context, to do the dub cast, and honestly thought he was a woman. Later, when she was informed of the truth, she expressed the wish to redub and leave him as a man. Later, the second Dub director asked which characters were male and which were female, and treated Fisheye as either a NB character or a trans woman, letting them have a female voice, BUT when it came to the episode when their gender is revealed, leaving he/him pronouns. Haruka and Michiru were left as girlfriends.
That's an interesting story. Wow
They did censor a bit of dialogue in the SMR movie though, namely a scene with Ami/Mercury saying that Mamoru is so attractive that even boys are interested in him.
@@minako10 That was a choice by the translator, as far as I know. My first dubbing job was in fact telling the Dub director which characters were male and which were female, and also, translating the powers from R to SuperS :)
@@JustinW332 Thank you! all true! The LATAM Anime Dub scene is quite interesting :D
I knew your name ringed a bell. You are Adalisa Zarate. You along with Gabriela Maya interviewed Gloría Rocha years ago and disclosed that topic about Zyocite.
Ah, Pluto in the manga was in love with King Enydo.
Yep. Plus I think think in the manga Ami gets an allergic reaction to a love letter. To which my ace self has to say: same girl.
I'm glad someone said this.
@@marcusmoutra Her love for King Endymion It is an unrequited love that makes her lonely existence that much sadder. It's a vague reference, with depictions of Pluto blushing when she's around the King, as well as her reaction when he rushes to her side as she passes.Apr 20, 2018
@@marcusmoutra It is also hinted at in artwork that features her, Endymion, and Queen Serenity. In the two Sailor Moon musicals, Eien Denetsu and Shin - Densetsu Kourin, there is a song called "Onna no Ronsou" ("Woman's Conflicts") where the love that Sailor Pluto has for Endymion is explicitly stated. The actors in those musicals also played up those unrequited feelings.
Came here to say this. She could still be ace, I don't think we really have evidence one way or another, but she definitely had feelings for a man and is at least straight.
wake up bisexuals new anthony gramuglia essay dropped
“Is Anyone in Sailor Moon Straight?” I sure hope not
Artemis is straight? He just has two wives - Luna and the the blonde... of the two, the latter is the one he actually obeys.
@@peterwindhorst5775 Depends if we also count Luna the Dog from the manga.
Why not?
Careful there buddy. Just like discriminating against anyone LGBT+ is a big no no. Doing it to the heterosexuals who are the majority people in the world is a huge no no.
Lol why would you care so much if there is a straight person??
Great video! As an asexual woman I always find amusing how any ace representation in anime is often a mystical, magical being beyond the confines of existence and understanding. Whelp, I guess that makes me some sort of spiritual chaos being. Also, please kindly note that asexual people can be aromantic, homoromantic, biromatinc, and panromantic. Asexuality is a huge spectrum.
Came here to say this, or the last part. Being Ace has nothing to do with the romantic aspect, but rather if they enjoy s*xual intimacy or no. Whether they are comfortable or not with doing so, as some do if it's with folks they love, or do so for bonding rather than gratification. Aromantics, like Aces, are on a spectrum, but focuses on what level of romantic feelings they have, if at all.
@@ThatFlamingFroggoIn my experience ace isnt necessarily whether they enjoy sexual intimacy, but whether they feel sexual attraction. There are some sex positive aces who love sex and sex negative aces who are super uncomfortable with it in general.
@@TheNinjaKitsune Yeah, yeah you right. Sometimes I struggle with wording things.
@@TheNinjaKitsuneI was going to say the same thing as a biromantic ace lol
@@TheNinjaKitsunewait I do heard ace can get horny/sexual urges at random times but I never heard they can get sexually attracted to someone... It's quite contradicting ace definition, sorry I'm not bashing anyone but just curios about this topic cuz I may identify as an ace as well and need guidance
As a very flirty ace, Rei is my spirit sailor
I find it hilarious how in the Dub they changed Sailor Uranus and Neptune to "cousins" and apparently that was more acceptable than lesbians.
Also, I love how Sailor Moon emphasizes so many different types of love between both genders.
Plus so much Yes to queer anime.
Gay is alright if incest 😏
Okay but there are more than two genders, so "both" may not be the best word there
Pluto has a thing for King Endymion in the manga/Crystal. It’s not a huge plot point, but it’s canon.
She doesn’t seem to have any feelings toward teenage Mamoru though, so there’s probably something timey-women going on there.
Before watching the video: Hmm, I wonder what Ant has to say about Usagi as I think she’s probably my favorite characters in Sailor Moon.
*Sees Sailor Moon is a Disaster Bisexual in the UA-cam chapters.*
Oh, now it makes sense.
I really can't help but see the Senshi as anything other than Usagi's harem at this point.
She's a kin of mine fr fr
Mamoru is such a chad, being chill with his wife’s harem…
@@deathwish-fs1ibI mean the manga finale can be read as her not just marrying Mamoru but all the other Senshi. Those weren't bridesmaid Dresses, those were wedding gowns. Don't lie to me Naoko.
For me, as a closeted trans kid, Sailor Moon was an outlet for a femininity I wasn’t allowed to express. I still cherish it to this day & is the ONLY anime from my childhood I don’t get bored of.
Usagi being bisexual makes so much sense. It’s just another reason she’s my favorite character 🌈🏳️🌈💖✨
Can we all appreciate the 90s transitions and overlays used in this video? The nostalgia is hitting hard. 😅
Hearing someone smarter than me explain how Sailor Jupiter might be Ace is exactly what I needed to hear today.
FACTS💚
Her entire goal in life is to get married. 🤦♂️
@@kumada84Lots of Aces want to get married, dude. Ace doesn't mean Aro. Please don't conflate the two.
@@jeanyve_person Oh, sorry - I made an assumption about someone 😱 but now I know we're not supposed to do that...unless we're assuming they're "ace" or "aro" or whatever, in which case it's fine 👍 The fact that Makoto is shown to have had a daughter in one continuity means nothing - maybe it was IVF! Or parthenogenesis! ❤️
@@kumada84 ....lots of aces have kids, dude.
Lol it wasn't seeing gay people on tv that made kids gay, it was Haruka being on screen. Of course! (Joking)
Every Non-Ace person was "gay" for Haruka, no if's or but's.
@17:41 I honestly never really thought of Chibiusa as being older than Hotaru in a meaningful way. Like yes, there's timey-wimey shenanigans and she's hundreds of years old, but we also know that she's the daughter of two people who we see age at a normal human rate. She looks like a young child and by all accounts has a personality and maturity that match her visual age rather than her literal age, so it's always seemed to me that the age difference between her and Hotaru is in the opposite direction. Chibiusa looks and acts and functionally is old enough to be in elementary school, whereas Hotaru looks and acts at least a few years older.
Tbh I normally hate the "this person who looks like a child is actually centuries old" trope, because it's usually taken in extremely gross directions, but the reason I don't mind it here is because it's not used to justify any creepy relationships.
Even if she's centuries old, everyone seems to be aware that as far as romance is concerned, she should be treated and protected like the child she is.
Wasnt she sent back because she kinda was in stasis and still a child there.
And yep hotaro was more mature than her age, thanks to a not great life
So both are older in a sense but not.
She wan encharmed to keep her mind as young as her body, so she really should be counted as a child.
The funny thing for me is how they tried to censor Zoicite for example but ended up showing a powerful and villainous woman character, effectively still Breaking traditional gender roles
SM will always disrupt gender norms no matter how badly they attempt to cut it down
I feel like Usagi is a pan with a slight gravitation towards individuals who present themselves more masculine: she was into Mamoru, Seiya, Haruka, I also felt something between her and Makoto, and her and Rei, who are a bit more masculine between all girls
but also, like you said, everyone is kinda bi/pan in this story~
The one thing I’ll say is that Luna isn’t Really a cat, neither is Artemis. They take the forms of cats because they can’t live on earth any other way. Lunas human form in the S movie is actually her True form. Weather that was conveyed in the show at any point, is another story. But it is made clear in the manga
I think it's implied in most material that Pluto has a crush on King Endymion? I googled to double check and that seems to be the general consensus and even gets a whole paragraph on her wikipedia page. But I think it's just this one off thing with that specific version of Mamo.
Doesn’t Rei have a side story called Casablanca in the manga where she falls for one of her dad’s employees when she was like 13?
Yes. 👍 But people who have points that they want to make sometimes ignore things that contradict what they're saying. It's implied that her insistence that she isn't interested in romantic relationships is because of the situation shown in Casablanca Memory.
@@kumada84 Sometimes people don't memorize every single page and every single frame, sometimes people don't have access to all of it to begin with, or don't know a specific bit exist. I haven't seen a single side story of any manga until about 2-3 years ago because let's just say my only available sources were not the official prints and I wasn't devouring volumes just dabbling
@@kumada84 nice
I do think Usagi's bi/pan-ness was evident fairly early on when she met Rei because of a rumour of a pretty girl, and then followed Rei off said bus because she was so pretty Usagi legit couldn't think straight (badumtiss).
You don't look when you see a good looking person or aren't interested in seeing what the person looked like if someone told you there was?
@@luma222 If someone told me they saw a beautiful girl, I'd tell them "neat." If I saw a beautiful girl somewhere I'd probably give an appreciative look and move on with my day, maybe give them a compliment if I can break through my inherent shyness. (And the reason I'm specifying "girl" here is a total lack of attraction to men, including aesthetic attraction. I've tried, just to see, but nothing doing.)
I've learned in the past few years that I have a very weak libido. I still have interest, I'm not ace (that would be my wife), but I just don't feel The Urge a lot of people apparently do.
@@Bardic_Knowledge If someone told me there was a pretty girl to the point it was a pretty big rumor I'd wonder what she looked like and that's Usagi she's 14 and just curious
I'm honestly surprised you didn't bring up the R movie with Mamo and Fiore's relationship.
As a kid I did relate to Ami being more reserved with relationships and dicussing boys compared to her friends. Took me awhile to find out I'm aro/ace.
As someone old enough to have watched Sailor Moon before the Toonami days, can confirm the scheduling nightmares. If you wanted to watch this show, you had to chase it around the dial. You had to look it up in TV guides ahead of time and schedule your time accordingly. And the movies? Roll the dice and hope the big box stores had them for sale.
Worth the effort though.
All I want to say is as an ace girl so many ppl think I’m lesbian because I’m not « actively heterosexual » and that’s both weird and funny.
the way i found this video on usagi's birthday, june 30th. kinda iconic
Now there seems to be a question that was unanswered...
Is Mamoru also bisexual? 🤔🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐
He probably is
Honestly I always read him as demi (and probably also bi, but that one's harder to be confident about).
The number of gorgeous people who just absolutely throw themselves at him and he doesn't even get flustered... personally, I can't relate, but from what I've heard that fits with being demi.
Sure, why not - I mean, apparently everybody is. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🙄🙄🙄
Why are you people so obsessed with labeling everything?
@@kumada84 because there's like, a whole ass MOVIE, with a guy crushing HARD on him and he didn't flat out refuse him, That's why.
While I don't disagree with the majority of your essay, I would say you have Setsuna-san ALL WRONG. Not only does she have a deep love and affection, unrequited of course, with King Endymion, but in the musicals, she almost outright says it in a duet with Queen Beryl. Not to mention an ACE SCORPIO?! NO SUCH CREATURE.
Some note on the homophobia of anime fans:
Some do it in an extremely performative way to "gatekeep" the community to keep it from changing. Some wants us to look away from the underlying economic system that causes real and unrelated problems. Some outright just realized they can recruit people into their leagues, to "gatekeep" other things, like neighborhoods and whole countries.
I watched Sailor Moon around 1995-1996 (when I was 2 and 3). My fiance was confused when I told him because of how it aired in the US, being more familiar with the Toonami airing. Turns out Canada dubbed it and it was successful there 😂 which is where I'm from. The old YTV ads are gold.
I still remember when anime used to be called Japanimation and was marketed towards straight boys, so I appreciate how it's opened up in the west a bit more
Is anyone in sailor moon straight answer no everyone is gay including tuxedo mask that boy is a walking bisexual disaster like his wife tho i personally see mercury as ace
I used to wake up at 4am to watch this on a local news channel. And no matter how much they tried to white wash Neptune and Uranus' relationship, I was left with the intense knowledge of "cousins don't do that!"
10:22 she's also 14 just like Usagi lol
19:06 I seem to remember a back story for Rei (maybe Infinity or Dream Arc?) where she fell for someone and he broke her heart. This, coupled with the lack of decent male role models in her life, just led to her not being interested in pursuing romantic relationships.
As a 7-10 year old who did not use the internet I knew Uranus and Neptune were not cousin.
That's because they made it blatantly obvious on purpose. 🤫 (Most cousins don't whisper to each other seductively)
I own a page dedicated to Sailor Moon and I was recently surprised finding homophobic fans, even knowing that there are LGBT characters in the franchise.
one of the funniest parts about the 90s show is what an absolute disaster bi usagi is throughout the whole thing
In the manga and somewhat in the anime that Pluto was actually in love with King Endymion. Pluto admired him and had feelings for him, but because of her role and her duties at the Time Door, she knew it was never a possible thing.
Fun fact, I was very young when I first saw sailor moon. Like all my peers were watching baby cartoons on the kid’s channel but my mom specifically sat me down and put on Sailor Moon with the words "Watch this instead. It’s closer to the truth". I instantly fell in love with it. I didn’t even know what she meant by those words back then tbh, but I did love the show wholeheartedly and I definitely instantly connected to the characters - way more than I knew back then XD when I finally came out to my mom 20 years later she looked me dead in the eye and said "Gurl, you serious? I always knew that" And thinking back on it, I wondered if she knew BACK THEN already and wanted me to know, it’s okay
I found out I was bi when I had a...formative dream involving the sailor scouts and a spa. That is when the questions started.
I started sailor Moon when i was 11 years old. I was instantly attached to the Starlights and Haruka. took me 8 years to realize i was genderfluid. oops
Ironic Sailor Moon being my favorite and starter anime, as well as my favrotie Senshi. Then years later me as a teenager realizing I'm bisexual. lol I'll be 31 the beginning of next year and I still can't get enough of this series.
I remember watching (Sailor Moon on Toonami) the scene where Haruka is like "my hands are covered in blood" and then Michiru says something like "they seem clean to me" and just thinking who do they (Cartoon Network) think they're fooling with the 'cousins' thing. Like they change one word but don't bother getting rid of the romantic lighting or music and think it's believable? I think someone had already told me that they were lesbians and were censored, but I don't think I'd have noticed that.
You made a long as video just to say that in Sailor Moon there are miracle romances.
Please make a breack down of the original OP song I swear everyone talks about the english one, but man the japanese one slaps so hard and the visuals for the 2nd OP of season 1 is a work of pure art.
I'm a fairly masc presenting bisexual guy but growing up, I strongly identified with Zoisite and, unexpectedly, Neptune. Still love this show ... Naoko Takeuchi deserves all her millions. ❤
We didn't know the show was censored. Even with the internet, people didn't speak languages here back in those days. But those Japanese comic pages we found. Looked very interesting to say the least
This was such a really interesting video! However, I disagree about Setsuna and (manga) Rei. Setsuna clearly has a crush on Endymion while in one of the short stories, Rei is in love with her father's colleague.
Usagi’s a disaster bisexual. Oh look it’s me 😅
This video reminds me that Sailor Moon completely shaped my view on romantic love and gender. I’m thankful for that.
Anthony: "How many friend groups do you know where everyone happened to come out later in life?"
Me: "Of course that happens. Stand users are drawn to other Stand users, it's called 'Gravity'."
(Yes, this is me "subtly" asking for an analysis of JJBA and how none of the characters are straight)
Me, before hitting play: I think most of them are straight? Idk
15 seconds after hitting play: the man is not wrong, the math is mathing none of these people are straight.
I half agree half disagree but it’s so hard to assume if they’re close or .. closer lmao I’m so close to my friends and keep saying I think they’re so pretty and cool and all... but I know I’m not lesbian. Humans are weird.
@@Krantzingoing The thing is though, the sailor moon characters don't just compliment each other, they take that shit to extremes, like Usagi following rei off that train
I didn’t watch sailor moon ever until 2019 when I binged it. I was already a college student by this point, but I still connected with it a lot and it did make me feel seen. I’ll always feel a connection to the story and to the characters for what they represent
Also it’s perfectly normal to be 14-16 years old and have not have physical attraction or want to date not anyone yet. Especially when you are literally fighting for your life every 3 months
Interesting on how you brought up the girls since there was an art book by naoko where she have the senshi x generals paired and we're supposed to be cannon
- mercury x zosite
- Mars x gedite
- Jupiter x nephrite
- Venus x kunzite
But your points on the girls in the manga is on point about those guardians
It makes me so happy to see someone else reads Ami as ace. All the times the other girls are going heart-eyes over someone pretty and Ami's just standing to the side confused.
Also I just recently watched the episode clipped at the beginning, where Haruka is hanging over Usagi after she's claimed she's gonna break up with Mamoru. It's so funny to hear that in the 90s dub they had her talk about hitting on Mamoru instead of the Viz dub having her immediately ask "So does that mean I have a chance with you?"
Venus in the prequel manga Codename Sailor V is also a really interesting case! She clearly has a romance with Danburite, but resolves to put her duty to Serenity above any romance. And then she goes on to flirt shamelessly and play with romance. But there's never anything for her as permanent as her devotion to her queen.
Generic gay for the algorithm.
Glad You Got to seeing you make Your Sailor Moon Video & Well Done on it!👍🙂
During crystal Usagi finds her Guardians because she's attracted to them.
Most evil forces just attack Naru.
Growing up in a household that was very “you have the freedom to be religious if you want, your mom and I grew up in different religions we both don’t agree with, but we think that as long as you aren’t hurting others, that you can do whatever with your own life.” So watching Toonami, I definitely spent a lot of time on the internet looking at sailor moon stuff. Once I found out about the gay characters, the show made so much more sense. They didn’t change the writing enough for it to make full sense censored.
I think it would also be interesting to cover other sailor moon material as well if possible, like the live action show. Minako and Rei could easily be read as closer/attracted to each other. Nephrite is also clearly attracted to Queen Beryl and Ami but IIRC there’s some undertones with Mitoki that can either be read as awkwardness or some attraction between the two.
Good on Usagi for teaming up with her Polycule to become queen of the world.
This is one of your better videos. I was especially impressed by the first 7 minutes and the structure kept me interested till the end.
Love that you mentioned the Nostalgia Critic video since that was what exposed me to Sailor Moon… I should have known something was up when the clips shown caught my eye as a 13-year old “boy.” I completely resonated with the ending, because Sailor Moon exposed me to a show that helped me learn so much about myself. This video is awesome, thank you so much for making it :)
*applause* thank you for compiling all this. Only notes are Mamoru and Fiore from the R Movie and Mars and Venus basically being in love in the live action.
"Clamp, why?"
Exactly my thought after watching X/1999. The enemies to lovers ship between a 14 year old and a grown-ass man really squicked me out
Love all the work and details that you did here, great job!
You can't tell me Rika from Pokemon Scarlet & Violet isn't Uranus and Neptune's science baby. Also, gag me, those dub voices.
Omg YES
Oh my god, I LOVE THIS ESSSAY! Can you please do more essays on Sailor Moon? ❤❤❤❤
Very fascinating video. Honestly all the mainline sailor scouts/senshi always gave me bi vibes. Also, I love how perfectly summed up how much this franchise means to so many people at the end. Good work.
Pluto is in love with tuxedo mask it was shown several times.
No it wasn't. It was just a "fan theory" that she was in love with King Endymion because of one brief scene in the comic where she interacts with him. (They did use that idea in the 90's musicals though, and it was brilliant.)
Great video! just one little thing, in the manga, if I remember right, is implied that Pluto is in love with King Endymion.
Even as a little girl, I remember thinking Usagi would have been better off hooking up with one of her girlfriends. (I was not a fan of anime Mamoru)
Wow, your last section really spoke to me. I never understood why I was so obsessed with Sailor Moon characters, specially Fish Eye. I adore the way the character is just... truthful. Sailor Moon definitely saved my life while was I hiding myself. But at the same time, it reallt made me understand a lot about myself.
You just got a new sub, and I cant wait to see your channel grow even more.
when I was a kid I realised that Haruka and Michiru are a couple by seen how seductive Michiru looked at Haruka when she asked her to help her with the dress.
I was one of those kids that read, and wrote SailorMoon fan fiction, and spent most of my free time watching the many many sailormoon AMV's. I also ended up buying the final season from someone who got it on their trip to japan, and recorded them onto VHS for resale. I still love the show, and credit it for the person that I am today. It's so crazy to me that Anime in general is so popular now when back then it was something you would get made fun of for enjoying.
In an in between illustration of chapters in manga volume three, it shows Minako clutching Usagi’s breast and thigh, totally random, no context ever shown. Don’t believe me? Look it up. I can tell you it had an effect on me as a young girl.
Naru and Umino were the token straight characters in the series, and the show kind of forgot about them once the outer senshi started showing up. Some say they're still out there to this day, doing straight people things...
I kind of liked Naru it’s a shame when you’re a not magical person in a magical show your friends will forget about you rip.
Sailor Venus, Minako, is definitely polyamorous. Well, at least in the 90s anime.
i call usagi omnisexual as well she is a god whos love is infinite towards everything
Actually Pluto had a small thing for King Endymion.
1:05 It's always wild when you know US law and know "bi panic" "gay panic" "trans panic" etc are still-existing legal defenses that state it's okay to murder someone if you found out they were bi/gay/trans and it scared you and then seeing people just straight-up use the name of the it's-okay-to-commit-hate-crimes legal defense for a non-cishet character being flustered. Like, imagine if when a black character was flustered, someone just posted "George Floyd moment" onscreen.
I do like this, but I have to debate a little bit about Setsuna/Pluto being an Ace.
In manga she is in love with King Endymion.
Sure, she could still be a A-romantic, she after all prefer'd to love him from a distance.
But the way how passionatly/intimately she describes King Endymions and his clothes, it feels like she could have possibly also love'd him sexually/physically.
From what I have understood, A-sexuality is also a spectrum, a person may want to have some once in a blue moon, or with a partner s/he/they are with.
And just like she does love her family unit, she also loves Chibi-usa very much in the Black Moon Saga, mostly as a friend who comes to visit her.
But still as family, It's almost as if she is living in the future Crystal Palace's basement.
No wait, she actually is living in there, the Time Doors are one of the most tighly guarded secret of the Silver Millenium and I think that may also ably to future Crystal Tokyo.
Sailor Moon leans heavily into Arthurian chivalric romance (the holy grail is no random inclusion) and Catholic Neo-Platonism (which wasn't straight before the Catholics got hold of it and brought it to Japan around the beginnings of shoujo culture). Its definitely gayer than normal interpretations of that material but contemporary queer discourse isn't suited for interpreting it.
Subserviant asexual love in Sailor Moon operates on the idea that sexual love is lower on the Platonic hierarchy, which isn't how things are generally framed in the Ace identified community.
I grew up watching the German dub of Sailor Moon which was very close to the Japanese original. So no censorshit like presenting Neptune and Ursanus as cousins. I didn‘t find it odd at all, not even when Seya was a guy but then transformed into a female Sailor. Honestly, i wanted Usagi to ditch Mamoru and get together with Seya instead because I loved their dynamic. 😂 Also the voice acting was very fitting that it could pass as a male and female voice for all the Starlights and Haruka.
I didn‘t really think about it because the characters are alle so adorable. So pretty much this show normalized „just being“. It’s beautiful. 😊
This is exactly the Sailor Moon content I want, thank you.
Everyone forgets the four knights and the sailor guardian's Where all together
When you said "ace", I thought AYCE, which stands for All You Can Eat.
I might be wrong but wasn't there a few instances where Pluto had feelings for Endymion? :/
Please analyze Cardcaptor Sakura next! 🌸🌸🌸
And see how kids wb ruined it.
I loved this essay. I would adore to read the article you mentioned. If you would please drop the link to it.
Because in Japan the age of consent is like 14 years old they are not the usa and as creepy as we in the west find it. Culture is very much different in different countries
Sailor Pluto had a crush on King Endymion in the manga.
Great video!! But I think the use of the world “western” should be with a bigger mindset next time, because Brazilian and LATAM versions of Sailor Moon did suffer some censorship, but not to the same extent of the US one. Same with Card Captor Sakura (at least for Brazil, I’m not sure about the LATAM Spanish version for Sakura). Maybe countries in Europe also didnt suffer much censorship, or maybe no censorship at all and, as far as I know, the “western world” is made of many more countries than US and Canada. Sorry, I know this is far from being the video’s main topic, but it kinda bugged me how much you used that word to talk about the anime version you know 😅
Sailor Moon didn't have any timeslot nonsense in the UK either and I'm not sure if or when it was even shown on Toonami here.
Loving this video. The humor is on point.