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I'm a girl and DragonBall z got me into anime. It was on before another show and I use to try to avoid it because I thought it was just a boy show (how different were the times) but I had nothing to one day but wait for the other show to come on so I gave in and watched it..... That choice resulted in not only a newfound love of a genre but friendships and a community I'm glad to be a part of even though these somewhat taxing times. What I've always liked about Anime is that it's never been the kind of genre to skimp over the gritty. It uses its style to utilize a form of story telling live action and cg can't ever fully do on their own (not to discredit those in anyway as they have their own perks). Anime captures the eye and attention, I won't lie and say every show out there is a masterpiece that deserves the upmost respect but damn if there aren't more than just "some" good ones.
Sailor Moon was awesome for another reason: She was always super relatable! She was clumsy, over ate, was late, didn't do great in school but she always had time for her friends. She would make sure if someone was upset or hurt, to comfort them and not dismiss their feelings. She didn't have amazing offensive powers like her friends (fire, lightning, etc) but she had heart and conviction.
OMG. Good point! Because she is a soldier of love. She doesn't need offensive powers to destroy enemies like her friends have, yet she win the battle by manifesting her love & kindheartedness. That being said, love conquers all. ❤️
@@RoseAurora91 sailor moons flaws truly does make her relatable but when it comes to protecting everyone she loves in her life. She truly does come out of her shell especially when she defeated queen beryl with the help of all her friends. Still the most best and epic memorable moment. Love all the friendship goals they have.
yup, thanks to sailor moon i think im about to become an obsessed anime fan (hope that doesn't happen because i experienced kpop obsession, and honestly.. it's real fun!)
Like Dragonball wasn't but it was a more powerful drug it left a lot of my close familiars a huge tumor in their brain and felt biasness toward Son Goku.....and I facepalmed myself.....BADLY.......NUMEROUS OF TIMES......EVERY DAY........WITH HIGH INTENSITY. Unlike the immature little kiddos, I chose the mahou shoujo path with Sailor Moon on the line and made me become an overly romantic saliva machine and later on got to love being the hero of these girls like Tuxedo Mask. (Good old roleplay times with pre-schooler girls) Sure, nowadays I'm a burnt out TF2 Sniper, but somewhere deep down in my heart I wish every girl would behave like anime girls because that is real woman-like quality and every mens dream unlike real life girls who are commonly hysterical, gold diggers or trashtalkers with fat and lazy lifestyle. Yep, that's how a man feels with full of disappointment of faulty image and expectation of the girls compare to reality.
I didn't like Sailor Moon as a kid, because Serena was an idiot, Amy was a bore, and the rest of their friends had annoying voices. Also, I was born in 94, so Sailor Moon was already starting to release reruns out of order, which was another annoyance. I liked One Piece, for a while, owned the Digimon Movie on VHS, and honestly couldn't get into DBZ at all. Between the ages of 12 and 13, I nearly went cold turkey on anime completely. But then, during the summer when I was 13, I learned that you could watch One Piece online, without the dumb voices and fake guns. The only problem? It was in Japan and you had to _read._ *I **_loved_** reading.* And searching for the Subbed version of One Piece ended up with me discovering Ranma 1/2. And me wanting more after finishing all of the Ranma episodes on that site led me to stumbling across a story called "Sailor Ranko." My very first fanfiction was a Ranma/Sailor Moon crossover. And that is where I learned the names Usagi, Minako, Makoto, Ami, and Rei. Sadly, it took me until 2009 and tripping over a forum thread called "IWIW Sailor Moon" by Shadowjack before I actually went back and fell in love with the OG anime, and I found those posts because my fanfiction journey had led me to a Sailor Moon/Dungeon Keeper crossover that I was reading called Dungeon Keeper Ami, and the site I usually read it on was down for maintenance. So yeah, my history with Sailor Moon is _very_ different from everyone else, lmao.
I don't even know if Sailor Moon was my 1st because it was 1 of the anime I was watching the year I was born alongside my older brother. Sailor Moonatic & Anime Fan for life!
And ever since then, you've been a little anime slut. Just going around watching various anime series, not wearing protection. And you go both ways - you watch both Shonen and shoujo series. You like being a nasty little anime slut watching all types of series don't you?! You're a naughty girl.
Sailor Moon was the first cartoon I ever saw that had a story arc that spanned individual episodes - that even with the very formulaic plot within an individual episode, each episode is a part of a larger story. It was the first cartoon I ever saw that had relatable characters - the sailors have hobbies, interests, phobias, quirks, etc. Sailor Moon is a crybaby, klutz, and procrastinator, Mercury is an introvert, Jupiter is a chef, Venus dreams of stardom, etc. They go to school. They worry about tests and going to school and sibling rivalries and finding love and being accepted. These characters have relatable flaws. In many ways, the success of Sailor Moon is similar to the success of Spider-Man (and many other Marvel comics vs. their DC counterparts) - people might long to be Batman, who is both a hero and multi-billionaire, or long to be Superman, who is a demigod in spandex, but they identify with Peter Parker struggling to do the right thing and still pay rent every month. The other unique thing that Sailor Moon brought to the table was a feminine approach to confronting her enemies. So many heroes solve problems by punching things (e.g. most comic book heroes). The problem is that most of the super heroines approach things the same as their male counterparts - punch and punch and punch. From a few steps back, Superman and Wonder Woman are incredibly similar in their "problem solving techniques". There is, of course, a time and a place for punching things - this is why we have armed forces and police officers - but this is a traditionally a very masculine way of solving problems. Sailor Moon would rather see her enemies be redeemed than be destroyed, she would rather talk than fight. Most of the big fights are more contests of will and determination (or unity and friendship) than brute force. Especially with Ail+Ann, the Dark Moon family, Amazon Trio/Quartet, Nehelenia, and Galaxia - the fight is won through empathy and pity - which is traditionally a much more feminine approach to problem solving.
"which is traditionally a much more feminine approach to problem solving." And by common sense, I daresay, a much more reasonable approach...just looking at my own work, about 25% of the troubles arising can be solved by a display of power and/or intimidation. The other 75% need a more subtile approach.
Let’s also not forget that the Kindness of the Characters would be repaid when/if they decided to help out the Lower Ranked Villains who never had such kindness expressed to them. Such as the case when Usage/Serena nearly died when her inner Mirror shattered! And the Villains were going to be killed by Their ruthless master who decided to replace them! So knowing that the end was near, they used the last of their powers to revive her, knowing she was the only one that could stop them.
Naoko Takeuchi (The creator of Sailor Moon) also helped Yoshihiro Togoshi (The creator of Yu Yu Hakusho) outline the plot and world building for Hunter x Hunter as well. That's why the series is so awesome.
Naoko Takeuch literally woke up one morning and said, "I wanna make history!" Then in 1991, Sailor Moon stepped onto the scene and said, "I AM THE STANDARD!"
Actually, Naoko Takeuchi did very little when it came to shaping Sailor Moon. She's not a particular good writer, she merely came up with the general concept of Sailor Moon as a story. Most of the memorable identity and what we love about Sailor Moon (identical designed Sailor fuku uniformls, was suggested to her by her editor, Osa-P. He's like the Bill Finger to her Bob Kane. Without him and his suggestions, Sailor Moon would've more like than likely been a forgettable flop.
As a 40 year-old, I was 15 when Sailor Moon premiered. I was already pretty into Anime, having first seen Akira at age 13. So I was hooked right away. It helped me connect to my little sister over the years. Five years later, I met my wife, and we shared a love for it. We watched a lot of Toonami over the years, especially when they added Tenchi.
I'm 35. Woke up early for school 1 morning and found Sailor Moon. One of the 1st shows I saw with transformations and actual story that carried over through episodes. Thought yup this is good stuff.
I grew up in Italy, and Japanese anime were 95% of our streamed cartoons. They aired from 6 am to 10pm at alternate times on every major or regional channel. All the 70s and 80s classics, every world masterpiece theater series, mecha shows, magical girl shows, Tom Sawyer, Ranma ½, Kimagure Orange Road, Hello! Spank, Candy Candy, The Rose of Versailles... we had it all. Then came Sailor Moon. It had the BEST dub. Look it up. Usagi’s monologue at the end of S1 is gut wrenching. It had some censure, but not drastic to the plot line (sadly, the most blatant LGBT themes). I think Sailor Moon defined a new era of animation not only in the US, but worldwide. Sailor Moon explored every facet of the human experience. In that lies its broad appeal. It still elicits strong emotions in all of us, now adults, because it is the show that taught us the meaning of friendship, of love, of sacrifice, of pursuing a dream, and perseverance.
Omg, I loved this video and the little analysis. 80s and 90s Anime were so damn good. I just went down the NGE rabbithole again and it's so unique! And of course Sailor Moon is one of the classics
Sailor moon was the reason i got into drawing the damn show helped made me who i was back than forreal.Dbz too but mainly sailormoon.I was drawing before i could write😂sadly i miss it i got arthritis im my drawing hand at 16 and i havent been able to draw the same since.I haven't even really been myself since.UA-camrs like yourselves bringing fire content helps me hold on to a part of myself that i lost a long time ago. im 27 now and ive changed alot but im still that same anime,nerdy, loner, weird girl at heart that listened to japanese music all day and drew manga styles all week.I miss me sometimes lol forreal though the 90s and early 2000s was a great time
Dude I'm gay too but I think sailor moon isn't just for girls at first I find it girly but as it progress it's not it has a dark touch to it too and guys will definitely enjoy the transformations, they even made a hentai dargonballs vs sailor moon.
@@nehv78sm63 Sailor Moon & The 7 Balls was the name IIRC. I did eventually get more into Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, I really liked how dark that was and offensive for Westerners it was thematically (and also I thought it had a cool concept behind it to begin with) XD
Sailor Moon was my first anime too!!! I was obsessed with the show!! The colors,the characters, the girls, the transformations!!! Made countless drawings of them in kindergarden, but no one understood them, cause they never heard about the show. In my country it was only available on RTL2, a german kids channel...let me just say, i live nowhere near Germany and did not speak or understood German at the time i was watching the show (still don't speak German lol)... But it was the only way i could watch it, and every late afternoon i was waiting impatiently for Sailor Moon to start so i could see the new episode. When my mom somehow got me some Sailor Moon coloring books and also comic books made from screen captures of the tvshow....you cannot imagine the amount of excitement i have felt back then....ohh myy, the nostalgia is hitting hard now...Thank you for this video, it brought back pleasant memories!
As a 35 year old gay dude, I still watch sailor moon to this very day. I remember getting up early, before I had to go to school watching Sailor Moon. It was so exciting watching something I had never seen before. I knew they were different, but it felt relatable because I also felt different as a kid but at that time, I didn't know why. Reflecting back, It helped me understand more about myself than I realized. I may have not known I was gay as a kid then, but I knew that it was okay to be different because usagi and the rest of the senshi were different. It wasn't patronizing as you said, and that's why I loved it. It was a place I could go at that time where I didn't need any walls to pretend to be anyone other than myself. If that makes sense. P.S. did anyone watch Ronin Warriors? I watch it around the same time and loved it as much as Sailor Moon!
Same here. I'm 35, gay and a dude. Watched it in the morning before heading to school (but actually had to record the last 10 minutes every time since it would overlap with the start of school).
@@jimbolic0809 Not quite the same here (33 hetero male). We had afternoon-airings and I recorded them because I would come back home after the time-slot. Those records were my sacred treasures.
I always wanted to be a Sailor Scout more than a Z Fighter. I called myself Sailor Titan and asked my mom to get me an orange Sailor uniform. Probably raised more questions in her than I wanted. Anyway, villains didn't even die most of the time in Sailor Moon (the anime). They would become major supporting characters. Meanwhile, main characters would be forgotten in Dragon Ball if their power level wasn't high enough. Remember Launch? Because Toriyama didn't.
My first experiences were Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sailor Moon, Shaman King, and Tokyo Mew Mew. Only got 5 or 6 channels growing up, and seeing these on WB and Fox Kids in the afternoons or Saturdays were the bomb. Knew it was different than regular cartoons, and still loving anime to this day. :) Good times. Thanks for the nostalgia, Mike. Keep up the fun. God bless yours and you all at Treesicle! :)
I never really watched Sailor Moon when I was a kid, but I was a huge DBZ fan. My wife was a huge Sailor Moon fan when she was younger, so recently we decided to watch both together. It's amazing how much these shows revolutionized anime.
My first exposure to anime was back around 1970, when a block of anime shows appeared on an indy broadcast channel. They included Speed Racer, Astro Boy, and Kimba the White Lion, as well as as several of Gerry Anderson's 21st Century shows, like Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, and Fireball XL5.
I was a 10 years old child back in Rio, Brazil when I watched Sailor Moon for the first time! Right on the first episode I was mesmerised and fell in love with it! I would strategically save part of my lunch money just to buy magazines that featured Sailor Moon and I would read it again and again for hours. Sailor Moon was my life! I am 33 years old now and Sailor Moon holds a very special place in my heart!
@Bittencourt Sailormoon is also big in Brazil, right? Back in the early days of youtube, I would scour the site for full episodes & download them illegally so I could watch them again & again! For nostalgia! 😳 The English dub usually gets taken down very quickly so I'm left with the only sub available in full-Portuguese! 🇧🇷 Oh, man! Someday, I wanna meet Latino fans of Sailormoon, starting with Brazil! 🤞🏽🤞🏿🤞🏼 I'm gonna *study your language just so I can geek out about Sailormoon in Portuguese! Hahaha! (*I'll try, at least 🙄) lol Someday! 🤞🏽🤞🏿🤞🏾 Obrigado! 🌙❄️🔥⚡🧡⛰️🌊🌫️
You've put into words all the feels I've had for Sailor Moon since first watching it on UPN. It was the only show that got me up and ready early in the morning just so that I could sit and watch it uninterrupted before school. The chills EVERYTIME at the transformation scene, even though it's the exact same clip and sequence every time. Your video was also very informative - I did not know that Sailor Moon eventually aired on Toonami, I didn't have cable like that. Thank you so much for sharing! Very nostalgic and also a confirmation of the great things our gen has grown with. :)
I'm down for this journey!You really brought back some memories, and I think you are spot on with how that period of anime exposure really was an amazing time of discovery and wonder.
I'm an older guy, in my mid-40s. So for the "Were you a Toonami Kid?" question: No. I was an adult with newborn kids at that time. :) I remember watching Speed Racer when I was younger, though don't remember much about it. The first anime that I do remember watching was Voltron when it first aired in 1984 when I was 10 (aka target audience for shows like Transformers, He-Man, etc. of which I also liked). That was my first taste in long-term animated storytelling. I then remember watching Robotech the next year, at least the first season and recognized this season-long story arc vs. "episode of the week" format and that brought me in. After that, I didn't even know of any anime going on around me until 2000 when a co-worker suggested I watch Evangelion. After that, I was hooked and started reaching out for more anime to watch and still do to this day. Currently playing catchup on Digimon Tri. I watched the first five parts as they were released, but never watched the 6th. So I'm re-watching all of it from the start so I remember what happened. :)
That's awesome man, I watched a ton of voltron as a kid with my uncle who's a bit older than you, he loved the mech anime and really helped me find my way into it
Wow this is such an awesome Gen X Anime Experience (for some reason most of them just claim Akira & it sounds so fake), it is incredible that you experienced G1 Transformers & other series like that when they were new.
I was exposed to anime for the first time on one of those late night blocks as a small kid suffering from insomnia and sneaking out to the living room . Sailor moon , Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragonball , CC Sakura, Pokemon, the list goes on and on to this day. It is crazy to see how much the medium has changed. But yes, Sailor moon legitimately (and InuYasha) changed my life. Ps same age (27) and rewatching SailorMoon and other classics now and they still rock!😎✌😘 thanks for this video. It used to be hard to be an anime fan 😋😋
If you love Sailor moon and Dragon ball Z then watch PreCure its like the girly aspect of Sailor Moon with good actions scenes (sometimes better than) Dragon ball Z
Srta. Z i remember watching that show before going to school when I was in pre-school. I was in the afternoon classes so I have all the time to watch morning shows.
I learned a lot watching this! It’s always great to be entertained and learn something at the same time. Thank you! I’m a youtube creator too, and I can tell you put a lot of time, thought, and energy into the research, editing, and delivery. 💪🏾💯♥️
When I was 4 my grandma recorded it on the VCR for me. I was OBSESSED. I have been a huge otaku since. I'm 28 and my kids and husband are all anime fans and yes we cosplay at conventions once a year lol. Sailor moon was so much more then an anime eye opener and I thank my grandma for me seeing it
I'm a heterosexual guy,but some of the best memories from elementary school, are of my older sister and I sitting down in front of the television on weekday afternoons after I got home from school and watching sailor moon together!!!
You took the words right out of my mouth. I came home from school one day and was looking for something to watch. We had just moved to a new town and I hadn't made friends yet, so I'm channel surfing and I find this cartoon like none I had ever seen before. It was action-packed, funny, suspenseful, and had all the glittery-rainbow-magical-beautiful-fantasy adventure that I never even knew I wanted. I was utterly captivated. And as you mentioned, the toonami slot opened the doors to Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, and so much more. It would be several years till I learned the word "Otaku", but the instant I saw sailor moon, that's what I was. And I never looked back😁😁
It goes but a different name ugh omg I can't remember it. I happened upon it in an anime DVD rental shop in Japan town. I'm sorry but it was a generic name. I loved the Ronin Warriors!
This guy knows... 😎 Okay, so I've probably dropped this story in the comments elsewhere, so here's the Cliff Notes. Ronin Warriors was the anime that got me into anime. After it mysteriously disappeared, I survived off my friend's bootleg collection and Sailor Moon until I moved off Camano Island and rediscovered cable, the internet, and, y'know, civilization. You know about the Ronin Warriors action figures, right? 'Coz I had them ALL. When I was 16. And I totally took them out of the original packaging like a doofus. I regret nothing.
When I was around 5-6 years old in 1987..I was flipping through the channels late night..and on HBO I saw this awesome "cartoon" called Vampire Hunter D for the first time, my child mind was blown! After that, I was hooked! But it was a struggle growing up, I could never find it again..Until the early 90s when I finally learned what "Japanimation" was thanks to the Sci-Fi channel. But it was so hard finding any other anime, until Sailor Moon came out in 1995, it filled a void that was long overdue, but it was only a few seasons..and on the internet, you saw all these other Sailor Scouts that you would NEVER see until the 2000s in America. It was a struggle being an Anime fan back then.
First anime I saw was Tenchi Universe. Blockbuster was having a special "rent 7 vhs instead of 3 for the weekend" special. I stumbled across Tenchi Universe, rented it, and got hooked.
Watching this amazing vid, I have realized that I owe my love of anime to my older brother. Me being born in the early '96 I would have never found out about Sailor Moon, Cowboy Bebop, DBZ, and others if my brother hadn't have tv rights over me when we were kids. I remember having to watch DBZ and Sailor Moon and hating them, wondering why we had to watch them instead of Sesame Street or Mr Roger's Neighborhood. As I grew up a bit, I realized how amazing the shows really were. To this day, I still do and always will love anime and manga. Just don't tell my brother, he'll never let me live it down.
The dub for Sailor Moon is DIC ENTERTAINMENT and that's why I freaking love it. Also, since this is DIC ENTERTAINMENT related, who here remembers Liberty's Kids?
sailor moon was my first anime ever! i was introduced by my mom in 2004 when I was only two years old. she also got me “Meet Sailor Moon” book from library in our town, I was obsessed for a very long time. im now 21, AND still fan of Sailor Moon. i currently have a lot of sailor moon collection in my room! i honestly couldn’t count how many I have! thanks to sailor moon for the best childhood ever
I was watching with my brother before I was even 2 thanks to Toonami. Did you wear Sailor Uniforms too when you were in school? Nice to hear the stories of other Sailor Moonatics on UA-cam as the series shaped so many of our lives.
Great video! As Canadian I grew up with YTV instead of Cartoon Network, but they had some awesome anime on there too. Sailor Moon was my first. Forever holds a special place in my heart
I’m very new to anime I only discovered it 2017 late in the year with fairytale, now have a full list of 20 plus anime’s I want to watch and will probably keep growing.
In Canada it was on YTV in a prime after school time slot and one of the hosts of the tv channel was actually the english voice of Chibi-Usa. It was really cool because kids were so used to seeing her, Stephanie Beard, as the host of "The Zone" on YTV and there she was introducing episodes of an anime she voiced a character for! All of the boys I was friends with in grade school actually thought the sailor scouts were cool and wanted to pretend to re-enact episodes and as a little girl it was so great having female superheroes that people thought were strong and cool. I grew up hearing that girls are weak and boring but most of the boys had to admit that Sailor Moon was awesome. I think it was a really important show. It also played around with gender expression with Fisheye and obviously showed a healthy and really romantic lesbian relationship... The dub confused me because I knew "cousins" didn't do romantic things for each other so I asked my poor mother if it was incest, which I had just learned about ... she tried to explain it away as if "cousin" was just a "silly nickname" and they were not actually related. Who would have guessed that something like that would confuse children even more than just letting the characters remain regular ol lesbians??? My mom thinks it's hilarious looking back now though. Having your 7 year old point to the TV and worriedly ask if two of her favourite characters are in an incestuous relationship must have been a shock.
How I got introduced to anime?? I love telling this story. Pull up and chair, put your phone down(not literally) and open your ears(eyes) up So I think the year was like 98 or 99, I was in the mall with my dad and at this time there was a video store called Suncoast Videos, and I wandered off from my dad to pick a movie I wanted to see. On the shelves towards the back of the store I found these weird looking cartoons on the cover boxes and immediately got intrigued. There was a guy nearby (another black man mind you) who told be what I was looking at was this cool show called Dragonball Z. For about 15 minutes he explained what the show was about, cool moments that happened, the things that go down during fights, the rivalries. 15 minutes felt like hours to me because I'm only seeing what he's telling me in my imagination(which already had become strong due to my passion for video games) and not long after this I eventually saw the show. My dad showed up and had to drag me out of Suncoast but I never forgot that guy and how cool he seemed to me being an adult black man and watching things that I liked. It was refreshing for me because everyone around me either liked sports and music videos, neither of which interested me. My cousins often made fun of me for my lack of skill in bball or whatever new rap song I hadn't heard. But after going into Suncoast I had something that was my own, something I didn't have to enjoy just because others around me did.
When you said I'm talking about the super hantai power couple Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z JonTron saying "I don't like where this is going" popped in my head
Yo this guy has sold me. Just got back into anime recently (watching Promised Neverland) and this is exactly the kind of youtube channel I need right now. Good information/analysis on the anime classics and some good anime recommendations here too. Bam.
I'm 30 and I love anime! Sailor Moon is my first anime too, I still love it and it is my second favourite series after FMAB. My brothers loved DBZ and I remember them watching it and me pretending I was annoyed, but secretly loving it too.
I wanted to go back and re-watch the original DiC 90's sailor moon, and I realized that the re-mastered version is EVERYWHERE. It is impossible to find the old Terri Hawkes english dub anywhere. I finally went onto ebay and ordered what I hope is all the original seasons. It is nice they went in and re-mastered it, but sometimes I want to hear the old voices and the names like Serena, Rini, and Darien. The new Sailor Moon Crystal is okay since it follows the manga and has less filler (by a lot) but it has lost all the charm of the original.
DIC dub is just too nostalgic best version tbh I dont like the other versions however the Viz dub doesnt filter out some of the fights and more voilent or desturbing scenes and has alot more episodes they should do a new DIC dub but with less filtering.
Any English Dubbed VHS Tape will be the 90's Dub. Additionally many old questionable streaming sites will carry the old DiC Dub. Keep in mind the year that the new dub came out as anything from prior will be what you are looking for.
for me she was the next level of a modern princess, here we already had saint seiya, samurai troopers and shurato 2 years before sailor moon we already know how anime works for boys but not for girls, and disney princess are all from old medieval times and sailor moon had all the good things and new things, cause every other anime or series (we already had tokusatsu super heroes shows before power rangers) are so focused on fight there isn't human side there isn't a day in the school, sailor moon was a heroine that need to live as real girl and save the city, we saw something on spiderman 90's but it was only peter already in fight angry with his hard life, We don't watch the hard life part, but we found this on sailor moon, she connect with us in a way no other can she was a pretty human super hero, real human teenager and the other girls helps they are less imperfect but still human but powerfull to kill any enemy with one hit, they are complete!
I grew up with older siblings and a nerd/geek dad. My dad actually lived in Japan for a time and I absolutely had access to Toonami and Sailor Moon was my show. Still is.
I LOVED Sailor Moon as a kid! I still do, every now and then I go watch out when I'm feeling frustrated and out just makes me feel better. We love her because she is a klutzy, lazy girl who loves her friends and never gives up 😻🌙
My first anime was sailor moon on upn and dragonball z on channel 9 saturdays or slayers on the international channel. Didn't see toonami untill I got cable in 2001.
quickly loving this channel! Being born in 87 and growing up in the US I had a similar introduction to anime. My earliest memories of seeing anime was probably around 2nd grade so 1994 I guess. I remember watching the OG Dragon Ball (before Z) and Mega Man on I don't what channel. Shortly after that I started watching Sailor Moon, Speed Racer, and Slayers. After that I was hooked. I didn't really understand what anime (Japanimation) was at that time and was teased about it plenty, but I loved it. Around 95 or 96 I got my first taste of Ghibli. I got to watch Totoro for the first time at my daycare in 3rd grade and picked up Princess Mononoke from the local Blockbuster and Kiki's Delivery Service came out shortly afterwards.The late 90's brought Pokemon and Digimon and I started collecting cards and playing in tournament battles at the local Wizards of the Coast collecting my badges. Of course around this time anime started picking up in the US and even some American shows inspired by anime picked up like Aeon Flux. But it was Dragon Ball Z that really got me hooked. The hype reached an all time high... then I moved to Montana to live with my dad. I had no cable TV but continued my obsession by drawing DBZ fan art. Montana was not a place for anime fans though, which made me an outcast, and when 7th grader me got caught looking at porn my dad was convinced "japanimation" (DBZ really) was the devil and a bad influence. Fast forward to 2001 or 2002, in 9th grade I moved back to the civilized world in Seattle and immediately dove back into it. Yu Yu Hakusho, Gundam Wing and G Gundam, Big O, Tenchi in Tokyo/ Muyo/ Universe, Zoids, etc. Once I started high school I found friends who were also into anime and borrowed VHS tapes of Trigun, got ahold of Vampire Hunter D and of course Ghost in the Shell. I discovered gems like FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Cyborg 009. I graduated in 2005 and shortly after I joined the army. Out on my own with new found freedom I met my best friend who introduced me to fansubs and mIRC. I was downloading like crazy! Beck, Hellsing, NANA, Death Note, FMA, Gundam Seed, Armitage III, Black Lagoon, Blood +, Hakaru No Go, Rurouni Kenshin /Samurai X OVAs ( way better), Saikano, Gantz, Elfin Lied, Welcome to the NHK, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzamiya, and Ergo Proxy to name a few lol. Of course the 2010s changed a lot as I deployed to Afghanistan and shortly after returning I started a family. I fell out of touch with anime occasionally watching back through a classic and occasionally being introduced to something new and somewhat keeping up with Naruto / Shippuden. That being said, after the last 7+ years I am completely behind. I find it harder to get into stuff now even though its easier than ever. I prefer older stuff as well, but it might just be my bias having grown up with it. In the last couple years, after living in Japan for a little while, I got into Gunpla and Gundam, but I do feel a desire to get caught back up. It is a little intimidating now with how much anime there is and how much more popular it is now, but I look forward to what the last 10 years of anime have to offer. Thanks for reading my whole anime life story lol
Sailor Moon was my first anime, I was 3 when it came out and i just happened to be one of those "lucky" kids that was up at like 5 or 6 am cause my mom needed to get me ready for preschool so she could go to work. So i guess my mom introduced me she told me that i would grab my bowl of cereal and just sit front of the tv and watch it while i ate /while she did my hair. I was a Toonami kid (well kind of i think i really only watched Sailor Moon...)I remember one time Toonami had a sailor moon Marathon of every episode through the end of the 2nd season and my mom being the amazing woman that she is recorded like 2 vhs(at least 2-3 hours worth if not more ) worth of episodes for me and R is my favorite season so you best believe i watched those tapes over and over. It's really cool to look back on those tapes now cause they also have the Toonami bumpers(no commercials cause it was a commercial free marathon i thi nk) and it's just a nice little slice of my child hood i can hold onto :)
I was in elementary school when Sailor Moon aired in the US (I was born in 1986, in LA). I had Sailor Moon folders in high school and remember being being made fun of because I had "cartoons" on my folders. I didn't really have too many super heroes to look up to, except for Storm from X-Men and of course Sailor Moon. She made me feel like I could take on the world, and she still does :3 Also, I can confirm that anime was niche and difficult to find back before Toonami. My cousins and I (they are half Japanese) would download VCDs to get episodes or sometimes rent videos from Mitsuwa. It would take a few days to download say 1 episode of Gundam Wing and a week for a whole season of Tokyo Mew Mew. Sailor Moon was a hot commodity. I remember my cousin visiting her grandparents in Japan and telling me of every Sailor Moon promo she saw and what their outfits looked like in newer seasons. Good times :)
Wow for me i was born in Fairfield nj in 1989 i was turning 6 when i started watching sailor moon I watched it all the time before school and power rangers came a after school thing for me have you watched power rangers to cause i myself watched that to and i watched it mostly at my grandparents house
Thank you so much man, I'm writing a story about a couple of kids in the late 90s and early 00s and I wanted to learn about the Pokémon, Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon Era, when anime first hit the west! your video was super helpful!!!
My first ever was Sailor Moon, but I watched it way before Toonami, when I was just a 2 or 3 year-old little girl. By the time Toonami came into the picture, I was already way long obsessed with anime. Rurouni Kenshin, Yu Yu Hakusho, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Captain Tsubasa, InuYasha... Wow, I'll never forget these shows. They made me who I am today. Luckily, my older sister really liked anime too and back then she had some sort of a network of friends that had a bunch of never-seen-before anime recorded on VHS tapes. Then through these tapes I got to know other classics like Fushigi Yuugi, Ayashi no Ceres, Kare Kano, Kodomo no Omocha... And to think that back then I actually forced myself to learn English to be able to read translated mangas online. Such great memories...
Sailor Moons means SO MUCH to me. I know that sounds weird but I could identify with her. I actually had this really really insane blond angelic hair and I was clumsy and emotional and loved food. I basically WAS Sailor Moon (and Sailor Venus). This sounds stupid but I really looked like them as a kid or I thought I did :)
"THE ORIGINAL HENTAI POWER COUPLE" MIKE! YOU ARE OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE OVER GRANT WITH THAT LINE (sorry grant i still love your stuff i promise) Edit: to answer your questions, Sailor Moon was definitely my first anime. I'm barely a year older than you, so I'm also a Toonami Kid. That entire block (even when it pseudo morphed into Adult Swim's anime block) changed my life: Sailor Moon, DBZ, Kenshin, Outlaw Star, Inuyasha...all of it helped form my weeb phase which I've now re-entered thanks to my wife.
Great video!! Thanks for uploading! Sailor Moon was one of my favorite cartoons when I was younger. I watched the anime in german where they kept the original japanese songs but made a german version of them. The english songs are great too but I liked that they still kept the original soundtracks. I did a lot of Sailor Moon flip books as well.
I got introduced to anime through a kid in 8th grade, I knew it existed, I often read manga in my library, even before I knew what that was. But he really showed me some cool shows. I started with the original FMA and never looked back.
Robotech was my first anime. It was followed by surprisingly Sailor Moon, Super Dimensional Fortress Orguss, Orguss 2, Akira, Ghost in the Shell,etc. I do agree that a lot of the older animes we're more grittier and more better quality than many of the American ones which were only aimed at kids. These animations didn't feel like children's animations, which is what drew me into the genre. More or less everything you stated was point on
I remember getting super confused because I didn’t realize Tenchi Muyo, Tenchi in Tokyo and Tenchi Universe were different shows so I’d have no idea what was going on whenever I ended up watching one of the spin-offs. I still loved Tenchi Muyo though!
Holy shit this is good content! I remember watching Dragonball and Sailor Moon when they first aired on YTV in Canada back in the 90s. There really was something magical about meeting some else who was a fan of the series, like seeing a unicorn. My dad and I would drive for 4 hours to one of the only video stores that rented out anime just so we could rewatch Robotech and Macross Plus. I went to my first convention in 2001 and was floored with how many other people liked anime! That's a feeling I'll never experience again.
I was right there with you up at 5:30 a.m. everyday to watch sailor Moon and Pokemon. I was in kindergarten then. as an adult I have found all the sailor Moon manga and read through them. Really good stuff.
Totally agree bro and I can’t wait for the yyh review. My first anime was rurouni kenshin and DBZ. Top 10: 1) cowboy bebop 2)outlaw star 3)trigun 4) fam brotherhood 5)gurren Lagan 6) yu yu hakusho 7) samurai champloo 8)flcl(season 1) 9) rurouni kenshin (up to the shishio arc)- I still wish they did the enishi arc from the manga 10) welcome to the NHK Others: Steins gate Hellsing and H ultimate Panty and stocking Soultaker(the ending could’ve been better)
phoenixfireblazer hhmmm good question. I think I’m just a sucker for the art style, op and references to Halloween and horror and thriller pop culture ...it does but unfortunately the series takes a dip away from the manga for usual reasons...I just wish the ending was better but it’s ok. Keep your expectations low and I think you’ll enjoy it.
oh. lookie here. this video was recommended to me. subbed. nice job with this video and look forward to watching more content. i was a toonami kid, tho i’m a bit younger so i was a few years behind. i was watching toonami when inuyasha, yuyu hakosho and cowboy bebop came on. introduced me to many anime’s that i consider my all time favorites.
I'm doing a general education class at uni called "popular culture in Japan" and I have to do a tutorial leadership session on Sailor Moon 🥰 I linked this video as one of my fun resources to teach the class for the day. It's such a perfect video
@Dez Donovan You probably were the first fan, because I'm 30 and I started watching DBZ in '96... And didn't learn about the original DragonBall until I rented Curse of The Blood Rubies from BlockBuster two years later...
actually Sailor Moon was my first anime and one of my favorite till the day today I still love it and I don’t know where I would be if I hadn’t watch Sailor Moon because you know it’s an amazing series❤❤❤
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Also, no. Sailor Moon aired at 4PM, not 5.
You should do a video about made in abyss
8 videos, 20000 subscribers!
Congratulations man! Well done!
That's actually probably a new high score of subscribers for such a low video number as 8 videos! (as in guineas world record!)
I never find guys that love Sailor Moon... it is very mind expanding, got me to figure out I'm a gay lady haha
I'm a girl and DragonBall z got me into anime. It was on before another show and I use to try to avoid it because I thought it was just a boy show (how different were the times) but I had nothing to one day but wait for the other show to come on so I gave in and watched it.....
That choice resulted in not only a newfound love of a genre but friendships and a community I'm glad to be a part of even though these somewhat taxing times.
What I've always liked about Anime is that it's never been the kind of genre to skimp over the gritty. It uses its style to utilize a form of story telling live action and cg can't ever fully do on their own (not to discredit those in anyway as they have their own perks).
Anime captures the eye and attention, I won't lie and say every show out there is a masterpiece that deserves the upmost respect but damn if there aren't more than just "some" good ones.
Sailor Moon was awesome for another reason: She was always super relatable! She was clumsy, over ate, was late, didn't do great in school but she always had time for her friends. She would make sure if someone was upset or hurt, to comfort them and not dismiss their feelings. She didn't have amazing offensive powers like her friends (fire, lightning, etc) but she had heart and conviction.
Beautifully said!!!
OMG. Good point! Because she is a soldier of love. She doesn't need offensive powers to destroy enemies like her friends have, yet she win the battle by manifesting her love & kindheartedness. That being said, love conquers all. ❤️
It's almost poetic
@@RoseAurora91 sailor moons flaws truly does make her relatable but when it comes to protecting everyone she loves in her life. She truly does come out of her shell especially when she defeated queen beryl with the help of all her friends. Still the most best and epic memorable moment. Love all the friendship goals they have.
Yess!!! And she taught us the meaning of love, friendship, peace, team work, .... I can go on.
Sailor Moon is the gateway anime drug.
yup, thanks to sailor moon i think im about to become an obsessed anime fan (hope that doesn't happen because i experienced kpop obsession, and honestly.. it's real fun!)
Especially if you marathon it without commercials. 😻
Like Dragonball wasn't but it was a more powerful drug it left a lot of my close familiars a huge tumor in their brain and felt biasness toward Son Goku.....and I facepalmed myself.....BADLY.......NUMEROUS OF TIMES......EVERY DAY........WITH HIGH INTENSITY.
Unlike the immature little kiddos, I chose the mahou shoujo path with Sailor Moon on the line and made me become an overly romantic saliva machine and later on got to love being the hero of these girls like Tuxedo Mask. (Good old roleplay times with pre-schooler girls) Sure, nowadays I'm a burnt out TF2 Sniper, but somewhere deep down in my heart I wish every girl would behave like anime girls because that is real woman-like quality and every mens dream unlike real life girls who are commonly hysterical, gold diggers or trashtalkers with fat and lazy lifestyle. Yep, that's how a man feels with full of disappointment of faulty image and expectation of the girls compare to reality.
Sailor moon and ouran high school host club are really good gateway drugs to anime
Kirby: Right Back at Ya'! was my gateway anime drug. No offence to Mr. Sakuri but to me, Ted Lewis will always be the true King Dedede.
Let’s not forget that sailor moon has one of the best soundtracks ever in anime!!!! The music captivated you and really brought it to life!!!
Sailor moon took my anime virginity lol. She will always have a special place in my heart
yes I love Sailor Moon and didn't even realize I loved anime until I was an adult and found other ppl like me
I totally agree.
I didn't like Sailor Moon as a kid, because Serena was an idiot, Amy was a bore, and the rest of their friends had annoying voices.
Also, I was born in 94, so Sailor Moon was already starting to release reruns out of order, which was another annoyance. I liked One Piece, for a while, owned the Digimon Movie on VHS, and honestly couldn't get into DBZ at all. Between the ages of 12 and 13, I nearly went cold turkey on anime completely. But then, during the summer when I was 13, I learned that you could watch One Piece online, without the dumb voices and fake guns. The only problem? It was in Japan and you had to _read._
*I **_loved_** reading.*
And searching for the Subbed version of One Piece ended up with me discovering Ranma 1/2. And me wanting more after finishing all of the Ranma episodes on that site led me to stumbling across a story called "Sailor Ranko." My very first fanfiction was a Ranma/Sailor Moon crossover. And that is where I learned the names Usagi, Minako, Makoto, Ami, and Rei.
Sadly, it took me until 2009 and tripping over a forum thread called "IWIW Sailor Moon" by Shadowjack before I actually went back and fell in love with the OG anime, and I found those posts because my fanfiction journey had led me to a Sailor Moon/Dungeon Keeper crossover that I was reading called Dungeon Keeper Ami, and the site I usually read it on was down for maintenance.
So yeah, my history with Sailor Moon is _very_ different from everyone else, lmao.
I don't even know if Sailor Moon was my 1st because it was 1 of the anime I was watching the year I was born alongside my older brother. Sailor Moonatic & Anime Fan for life!
And ever since then, you've been a little anime slut. Just going around watching various anime series, not wearing protection. And you go both ways - you watch both Shonen and shoujo series. You like being a nasty little anime slut watching all types of series don't you?! You're a naughty girl.
Sailor Moon was the first cartoon I ever saw that had a story arc that spanned individual episodes - that even with the very formulaic plot within an individual episode, each episode is a part of a larger story. It was the first cartoon I ever saw that had relatable characters - the sailors have hobbies, interests, phobias, quirks, etc. Sailor Moon is a crybaby, klutz, and procrastinator, Mercury is an introvert, Jupiter is a chef, Venus dreams of stardom, etc. They go to school. They worry about tests and going to school and sibling rivalries and finding love and being accepted. These characters have relatable flaws. In many ways, the success of Sailor Moon is similar to the success of Spider-Man (and many other Marvel comics vs. their DC counterparts) - people might long to be Batman, who is both a hero and multi-billionaire, or long to be Superman, who is a demigod in spandex, but they identify with Peter Parker struggling to do the right thing and still pay rent every month.
The other unique thing that Sailor Moon brought to the table was a feminine approach to confronting her enemies. So many heroes solve problems by punching things (e.g. most comic book heroes). The problem is that most of the super heroines approach things the same as their male counterparts - punch and punch and punch. From a few steps back, Superman and Wonder Woman are incredibly similar in their "problem solving techniques". There is, of course, a time and a place for punching things - this is why we have armed forces and police officers - but this is a traditionally a very masculine way of solving problems. Sailor Moon would rather see her enemies be redeemed than be destroyed, she would rather talk than fight. Most of the big fights are more contests of will and determination (or unity and friendship) than brute force. Especially with Ail+Ann, the Dark Moon family, Amazon Trio/Quartet, Nehelenia, and Galaxia - the fight is won through empathy and pity - which is traditionally a much more feminine approach to problem solving.
"which is traditionally a much more feminine approach to problem solving."
And by common sense, I daresay, a much more reasonable approach...just looking at my own work, about 25% of the troubles arising can be solved by a display of power and/or intimidation. The other 75% need a more subtile approach.
Let’s also not forget that the Kindness of the Characters would be repaid when/if they decided to help out the Lower Ranked Villains who never had such kindness expressed to them.
Such as the case when Usage/Serena nearly died when her inner Mirror shattered! And the Villains were going to be killed by Their ruthless master who decided to replace them!
So knowing that the end was near, they used the last of their powers to revive her, knowing she was the only one that could stop them.
The creator of yuyu hakusho and sailor moon are married! (Don’t know if I spelt that correctly)
My two favorite animes lol
Wait what!?
Naoko Takeuchi (The creator of Sailor Moon) also helped Yoshihiro Togoshi (The creator of Yu Yu Hakusho) outline the plot and world building for Hunter x Hunter as well. That's why the series is so awesome.
Not entirely true. They're married _to each other._
@@denelson83 ...as opposed to?
Please do more Sailor Moon videos. This was my first ever anime before I even knew what an anime was back in the 90s
OMG!!! Same!!!
Naoko Takeuch literally woke up one morning and said, "I wanna make history!" Then in 1991, Sailor Moon stepped onto the scene and said, "I AM THE STANDARD!"
Actually, Naoko Takeuchi did very little when it came to shaping Sailor Moon. She's not a particular good writer, she merely came up with the general concept of Sailor Moon as a story. Most of the memorable identity and what we love about Sailor Moon (identical designed Sailor fuku uniformls, was suggested to her by her editor, Osa-P. He's like the Bill Finger to her Bob Kane. Without him and his suggestions, Sailor Moon would've more like than likely been a forgettable flop.
As a 40 year-old, I was 15 when Sailor Moon premiered. I was already pretty into Anime, having first seen Akira at age 13. So I was hooked right away. It helped me connect to my little sister over the years. Five years later, I met my wife, and we shared a love for it. We watched a lot of Toonami over the years, especially when they added Tenchi.
Excuse me but the art/animation in Sailormoon is STUNNING and nicer than most anime's could ever DREAM of being.
Sailor moon is champion of justice for all our heart
Yes, Sailor Moon for life!
@@sailorcat was tust du hier ? :D
@@herbertziege2371 Es ist ein Sailor Moon Video, was erwartest du? XD
@@sailorcat ich habe mit einer deutschen Person in diesem Kommentarfeld nicht gerechnet :)
Love Sailor Moon!
I'm 35. Woke up early for school 1 morning and found Sailor Moon. One of the 1st shows I saw with transformations and actual story that carried over through episodes. Thought yup this is good stuff.
I'm 29 and about to turn 30 i used to get early for school to and found sailor moon was one of my frist anime shows
Weird. 35 as well and I came here to say this.
cardcaptor sakura, dragonball or sailormoon, I didn't know which is my first but I do know I got childhood crush on all 3 series.
I grew up in Italy, and Japanese anime were 95% of our streamed cartoons. They aired from 6 am to 10pm at alternate times on every major or regional channel. All the 70s and 80s classics, every world masterpiece theater series, mecha shows, magical girl shows, Tom Sawyer, Ranma ½, Kimagure Orange Road, Hello! Spank, Candy Candy, The Rose of Versailles... we had it all.
Then came Sailor Moon. It had the BEST dub. Look it up. Usagi’s monologue at the end of S1 is gut wrenching. It had some censure, but not drastic to the plot line (sadly, the most blatant LGBT themes). I think Sailor Moon defined a new era of animation not only in the US, but worldwide.
Sailor Moon explored every facet of the human experience. In that lies its broad appeal. It still elicits strong emotions in all of us, now adults, because it is the show that taught us the meaning of friendship, of love, of sacrifice, of pursuing a dream, and perseverance.
Omg, I loved this video and the little analysis. 80s and 90s Anime were so damn good. I just went down the NGE rabbithole again and it's so unique! And of course Sailor Moon is one of the classics
The DIC dub may of been badly censored buuuuut the voice acting were amazing
No.
Sorry, but I can't watch the English old version, they ruined it. And I also don't like the voice actors.
Who could ever forget the amazing soundtrack?!
yeah the dic dub was so fun
The new Viz Media dub is far more superior.
Sailor moon was the reason i got into drawing the damn show helped made me who i was back than forreal.Dbz too but mainly sailormoon.I was drawing before i could write😂sadly i miss it i got arthritis im my drawing hand at 16 and i havent been able to draw the same since.I haven't even really been myself since.UA-camrs like yourselves bringing fire content helps me hold on to a part of myself that i lost a long time ago. im 27 now and ive changed alot but im still that same anime,nerdy, loner, weird girl at heart that listened to japanese music all day and drew manga styles all week.I miss me sometimes lol forreal though the 90s and early 2000s was a great time
Same also video games
I identify so much w this I could tear up 😭♥️
OMG That's so awful you got a disease like hand arthritis!
As a gay guy, it's so refreshing to see a heterosexual Male express his appreciation for Sailor Moon. Kudos to him, I love it!
Dude I'm gay too but I think sailor moon isn't just for girls at first I find it girly but as it progress it's not it has a dark touch to it too and guys will definitely enjoy the transformations, they even made a hentai dargonballs vs sailor moon.
Anthony Cruz
I think a lot of guys watched and loved sailor moon, BUT dont talk about it 😂
I know many male Sailor Moon fans^^
@@nehv78sm63 Sailor Moon & The 7 Balls was the name IIRC.
I did eventually get more into Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, I really liked how dark that was and offensive for Westerners it was thematically (and also I thought it had a cool concept behind it to begin with) XD
I'm a straight male and loved SM for...reasons. 😂 My favorite Sailor Scout was Sailor Jupiter.
Sailor Moon was my first anime too!!! I was obsessed with the show!! The colors,the characters, the girls, the transformations!!! Made countless drawings of them in kindergarden, but no one understood them, cause they never heard about the show. In my country it was only available on RTL2, a german kids channel...let me just say, i live nowhere near Germany and did not speak or understood German at the time i was watching the show (still don't speak German lol)... But it was the only way i could watch it, and every late afternoon i was waiting impatiently for Sailor Moon to start so i could see the new episode. When my mom somehow got me some Sailor Moon coloring books and also comic books made from screen captures of the tvshow....you cannot imagine the amount of excitement i have felt back then....ohh myy, the nostalgia is hitting hard now...Thank you for this video, it brought back pleasant memories!
As a 35 year old gay dude, I still watch sailor moon to this very day. I remember getting up early, before I had to go to school watching Sailor Moon. It was so exciting watching something I had never seen before. I knew they were different, but it felt relatable because I also felt different as a kid but at that time, I didn't know why. Reflecting back, It helped me understand more about myself than I realized. I may have not known I was gay as a kid then, but I knew that it was okay to be different because usagi and the rest of the senshi were different. It wasn't patronizing as you said, and that's why I loved it. It was a place I could go at that time where I didn't need any walls to pretend to be anyone other than myself. If that makes sense.
P.S. did anyone watch Ronin Warriors? I watch it around the same time and loved it as much as Sailor Moon!
Same here. I'm 35, gay and a dude. Watched it in the morning before heading to school (but actually had to record the last 10 minutes every time since it would overlap with the start of school).
@@jimbolic0809 Not quite the same here (33 hetero male). We had afternoon-airings and I recorded them because I would come back home after the time-slot. Those records were my sacred treasures.
@@schwarzeseis4031 Totally relatable!
Sailormoon is the Gay Icon of Anime. I'm also 35 and gay. 😆
I'm about to turn 31 I'd still watch anime
Sailor Moon is my favourite anime ever! I remember waking up early every morning to watch it before going to school.
Same!!! Every single morning with my cereal
Same! It was on a channel that I never thought it be on I think usa way back in the early 90's
I always wanted to be a Sailor Scout more than a Z Fighter. I called myself Sailor Titan and asked my mom to get me an orange Sailor uniform. Probably raised more questions in her than I wanted.
Anyway, villains didn't even die most of the time in Sailor Moon (the anime). They would become major supporting characters.
Meanwhile, main characters would be forgotten in Dragon Ball if their power level wasn't high enough. Remember Launch? Because Toriyama didn't.
@@saintfighteraqua I agree, and a fair amount of them were killed by their own side as well.
Lol poor Launch 🤣
Jellal
This is what I see happening a lot of times in One Piece as well.
Tien, Piccolo, Vegeta, Androids, Buu and (sigh) Frieza were all converted to a supporting cast...
My first experiences were Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sailor Moon, Shaman King, and Tokyo Mew Mew. Only got 5 or 6 channels growing up, and seeing these on WB and Fox Kids in the afternoons or Saturdays were the bomb. Knew it was different than regular cartoons, and still loving anime to this day. :) Good times. Thanks for the nostalgia, Mike. Keep up the fun. God bless yours and you all at Treesicle! :)
Iiiii totally forgot about Shaman King... I miss my childhood and Saturday morning cartoons! 😊😊😀😀😨😰😱😱😵😦😧😧😤😤😭😭😭😭
@@bleu1306 Life was simple back then. :P
I never really watched Sailor Moon when I was a kid, but I was a huge DBZ fan. My wife was a huge Sailor Moon fan when she was younger, so recently we decided to watch both together. It's amazing how much these shows revolutionized anime.
My first exposure to anime was back around 1970, when a block of anime shows appeared on an indy broadcast channel. They included Speed Racer, Astro Boy, and Kimba the White Lion, as well as as several of Gerry Anderson's 21st Century shows, like Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, and Fireball XL5.
I was a 10 years old child back in Rio, Brazil when I watched Sailor Moon for the first time! Right on the first episode I was mesmerised and fell in love with it! I would strategically save part of my lunch money just to buy magazines that featured Sailor Moon and I would read it again and again for hours. Sailor Moon was my life!
I am 33 years old now and Sailor Moon holds a very special place in my heart!
@Bittencourt
Sailormoon is also big in Brazil, right?
Back in the early days of youtube,
I would scour the site for full episodes & download them illegally so I could watch them again & again! For nostalgia! 😳
The English dub usually gets
taken down very quickly so
I'm left with the only sub available in full-Portuguese! 🇧🇷
Oh, man! Someday, I wanna meet Latino fans of Sailormoon,
starting with Brazil! 🤞🏽🤞🏿🤞🏼
I'm gonna *study your language just so I can geek out about Sailormoon in Portuguese! Hahaha! (*I'll try, at least 🙄) lol
Someday! 🤞🏽🤞🏿🤞🏾
Obrigado! 🌙❄️🔥⚡🧡⛰️🌊🌫️
I grew up with Sailor moon cause I grew up with female cousins.
it was either Sailor Moon or DBZ. With Pokemon. And yes, I was Sailor Mercury.
Since I was born in 84 I guess my first anime was Voltron. By the way I also use to wake up at 5 a.m. just to watch Sailor Moon.
Yup, Voltron was my first anime, too!
"...and I'll form the head!"
I was born in 1989 my 1st anime was sailor moon and I would get up every morning right before school to watch it and 2nd grade i watched dragon ball z
"*Gasp* lesbians!" Lmao😂😂😂 Man, I'm sick as a dog right now, stuck in quarantine.. thank you for making me smile. 😊💕
You've put into words all the feels I've had for Sailor Moon since first watching it on UPN. It was the only show that got me up and ready early in the morning just so that I could sit and watch it uninterrupted before school. The chills EVERYTIME at the transformation scene, even though it's the exact same clip and sequence every time. Your video was also very informative - I did not know that Sailor Moon eventually aired on Toonami, I didn't have cable like that. Thank you so much for sharing! Very nostalgic and also a confirmation of the great things our gen has grown with. :)
I'm down for this journey!You really brought back some memories, and I think you are spot on with how that period of anime exposure really was an amazing time of discovery and wonder.
Im a 90s baby! Sailor moon all the way! FIGHTING EVIL BY MOON LIGHT!
I was into it in the '90s, and I was already over 30!
James Matthews nothing wrong with that 😎
@Prettynerdylady betrand never running from a real fight
@Prettynerdylady betrand she will never turn her back on her friends
@@tomkinwilliams7298 she is always there to defend!
I'm an older guy, in my mid-40s. So for the "Were you a Toonami Kid?" question: No. I was an adult with newborn kids at that time. :)
I remember watching Speed Racer when I was younger, though don't remember much about it. The first anime that I do remember watching was Voltron when it first aired in 1984 when I was 10 (aka target audience for shows like Transformers, He-Man, etc. of which I also liked). That was my first taste in long-term animated storytelling.
I then remember watching Robotech the next year, at least the first season and recognized this season-long story arc vs. "episode of the week" format and that brought me in.
After that, I didn't even know of any anime going on around me until 2000 when a co-worker suggested I watch Evangelion. After that, I was hooked and started reaching out for more anime to watch and still do to this day. Currently playing catchup on Digimon Tri. I watched the first five parts as they were released, but never watched the 6th. So I'm re-watching all of it from the start so I remember what happened. :)
That's awesome man, I watched a ton of voltron as a kid with my uncle who's a bit older than you, he loved the mech anime and really helped me find my way into it
forgot that I watched harlock and starblazers back then too..along with tranzor z also known as mazinger z
Anime fan before it was way cool.
Interesting hearing about anime from a gen x perspective.
Wow this is such an awesome Gen X Anime Experience (for some reason most of them just claim Akira & it sounds so fake), it is incredible that you experienced G1 Transformers & other series like that when they were new.
I was exposed to anime for the first time on one of those late night blocks as a small kid suffering from insomnia and sneaking out to the living room . Sailor moon , Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragonball , CC Sakura, Pokemon, the list goes on and on to this day. It is crazy to see how much the medium has changed. But yes, Sailor moon legitimately (and InuYasha) changed my life. Ps same age (27) and rewatching SailorMoon and other classics now and they still rock!😎✌😘 thanks for this video. It used to be hard to be an anime fan 😋😋
Thank you soooo much for this video!! I needed to see this. Hardcore sailor moon fan and lover of DB
If you love Sailor moon and Dragon ball Z then watch PreCure its like the girly aspect of Sailor Moon with good actions scenes (sometimes better than) Dragon ball Z
hermol XII is that the two superhero girls, one with black costume and the other with white?
@@yourmajesty7604 Yeah! Theyre from season 1 and 2, but each season (except season 2 and GoGo Precure) has a different story with different girls
Srta. Z i remember watching that show before going to school when I was in pre-school. I was in the afternoon classes so I have all the time to watch morning shows.
"In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!" I am a Toonami kid and damn proud of it.
I learned a lot watching this! It’s always great to be entertained and learn something at the same time. Thank you! I’m a youtube creator too, and I can tell you put a lot of time, thought, and energy into the research, editing, and delivery. 💪🏾💯♥️
PERFECT description of "anime as a medium". Love the cultural contextualization.
When I was 4 my grandma recorded it on the VCR for me. I was OBSESSED. I have been a huge otaku since. I'm 28 and my kids and husband are all anime fans and yes we cosplay at conventions once a year lol. Sailor moon was so much more then an anime eye opener and I thank my grandma for me seeing it
Sailor Moon was my first...thanks to Toonami.
Me too
Really? I watched sailor moon on UPN like bonsai and also samurai warriors
I'm a heterosexual guy,but some of the best memories from elementary school, are of my older sister and I sitting down in front of the television on weekday afternoons after I got home from school and watching sailor moon together!!!
You took the words right out of my mouth. I came home from school one day and was looking for something to watch. We had just moved to a new town and I hadn't made friends yet, so I'm channel surfing and I find this cartoon like none I had ever seen before. It was action-packed, funny, suspenseful, and had all the glittery-rainbow-magical-beautiful-fantasy adventure that I never even knew I wanted. I was utterly captivated.
And as you mentioned, the toonami slot opened the doors to Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, and so much more. It would be several years till I learned the word "Otaku", but the instant I saw sailor moon, that's what I was. And I never looked back😁😁
There was a male Sailor Moon: Ronin Warriors.
So that wasn't my imagination! Whew! I've been hanging on to that one for a long time.
It goes but a different name ugh omg I can't remember it. I happened upon it in an anime DVD rental shop in Japan town. I'm sorry but it was a generic name. I loved the Ronin Warriors!
This guy knows... 😎
Okay, so I've probably dropped this story in the comments elsewhere, so here's the Cliff Notes. Ronin Warriors was the anime that got me into anime. After it mysteriously disappeared, I survived off my friend's bootleg collection and Sailor Moon until I moved off Camano Island and rediscovered cable, the internet, and, y'know, civilization.
You know about the Ronin Warriors action figures, right? 'Coz I had them ALL. When I was 16. And I totally took them out of the original packaging like a doofus. I regret nothing.
@@TopsideCrisis346 I remember those! Each character had an animal companion lmao
@@Danae78 Samurai Troopers I believe.
When I was around 5-6 years old in 1987..I was flipping through the channels late night..and on HBO I saw this awesome "cartoon" called Vampire Hunter D for the first time, my child mind was blown! After that, I was hooked! But it was a struggle growing up, I could never find it again..Until the early 90s when I finally learned what "Japanimation" was thanks to the Sci-Fi channel. But it was so hard finding any other anime, until Sailor Moon came out in 1995, it filled a void that was long overdue, but it was only a few seasons..and on the internet, you saw all these other Sailor Scouts that you would NEVER see until the 2000s in America. It was a struggle being an Anime fan back then.
First anime I saw was Tenchi Universe. Blockbuster was having a special "rent 7 vhs instead of 3 for the weekend" special. I stumbled across Tenchi Universe, rented it, and got hooked.
Watching this amazing vid, I have realized that I owe my love of anime to my older brother. Me being born in the early '96 I would have never found out about Sailor Moon, Cowboy Bebop, DBZ, and others if my brother hadn't have tv rights over me when we were kids. I remember having to watch DBZ and Sailor Moon and hating them, wondering why we had to watch them instead of Sesame Street or Mr Roger's Neighborhood. As I grew up a bit, I realized how amazing the shows really were. To this day, I still do and always will love anime and manga. Just don't tell my brother, he'll never let me live it down.
The dub for Sailor Moon is DIC ENTERTAINMENT and that's why I freaking love it. Also, since this is DIC ENTERTAINMENT related, who here remembers Liberty's Kids?
sailor moon was my first anime ever! i was introduced by my mom in 2004 when I was only two years old. she also got me “Meet Sailor Moon” book from library in our town, I was obsessed for a very long time. im now 21, AND still fan of Sailor Moon. i currently have a lot of sailor moon collection in my room! i honestly couldn’t count how many I have! thanks to sailor moon for the best childhood ever
I was watching with my brother before I was even 2 thanks to Toonami. Did you wear Sailor Uniforms too when you were in school? Nice to hear the stories of other Sailor Moonatics on UA-cam as the series shaped so many of our lives.
Great video! As Canadian I grew up with YTV instead of Cartoon Network, but they had some awesome anime on there too. Sailor Moon was my first. Forever holds a special place in my heart
I’m very new to anime I only discovered it 2017 late in the year with fairytale, now have a full list of 20 plus anime’s I want to watch and will probably keep growing.
In Canada it was on YTV in a prime after school time slot and one of the hosts of the tv channel was actually the english voice of Chibi-Usa. It was really cool because kids were so used to seeing her, Stephanie Beard, as the host of "The Zone" on YTV and there she was introducing episodes of an anime she voiced a character for! All of the boys I was friends with in grade school actually thought the sailor scouts were cool and wanted to pretend to re-enact episodes and as a little girl it was so great having female superheroes that people thought were strong and cool. I grew up hearing that girls are weak and boring but most of the boys had to admit that Sailor Moon was awesome. I think it was a really important show. It also played around with gender expression with Fisheye and obviously showed a healthy and really romantic lesbian relationship... The dub confused me because I knew "cousins" didn't do romantic things for each other so I asked my poor mother if it was incest, which I had just learned about ... she tried to explain it away as if "cousin" was just a "silly nickname" and they were not actually related. Who would have guessed that something like that would confuse children even more than just letting the characters remain regular ol lesbians??? My mom thinks it's hilarious looking back now though. Having your 7 year old point to the TV and worriedly ask if two of her favourite characters are in an incestuous relationship must have been a shock.
How I got introduced to anime?? I love telling this story. Pull up and chair, put your phone down(not literally) and open your ears(eyes) up
So I think the year was like 98 or 99, I was in the mall with my dad and at this time there was a video store called Suncoast Videos, and I wandered off from my dad to pick a movie I wanted to see. On the shelves towards the back of the store I found these weird looking cartoons on the cover boxes and immediately got intrigued. There was a guy nearby (another black man mind you) who told be what I was looking at was this cool show called Dragonball Z. For about 15 minutes he explained what the show was about, cool moments that happened, the things that go down during fights, the rivalries. 15 minutes felt like hours to me because I'm only seeing what he's telling me in my imagination(which already had become strong due to my passion for video games) and not long after this I eventually saw the show. My dad showed up and had to drag me out of Suncoast but I never forgot that guy and how cool he seemed to me being an adult black man and watching things that I liked. It was refreshing for me because everyone around me either liked sports and music videos, neither of which interested me. My cousins often made fun of me for my lack of skill in bball or whatever new rap song I hadn't heard. But after going into Suncoast I had something that was my own, something I didn't have to enjoy just because others around me did.
Im almost 40. And still love watching sailor moon.. 💖🌙💖
I was a toonami kid and sailor moon 🌙 was my favorite! Dope video 🔥
When you said I'm talking about the super hantai power couple Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z JonTron saying "I don't like where this is going" popped in my head
Sailor Moon is fantastic show.
I can't imagine how much this show means to me.
Sailor Moon is a Saint Seiya reference.
I absolutely love it.
I loved the DiC dub of Sailor Moon😩😩 so much nostalgia
Same but everyone hates dic
Yo this guy has sold me. Just got back into anime recently (watching Promised Neverland) and this is exactly the kind of youtube channel I need right now. Good information/analysis on the anime classics and some good anime recommendations here too. Bam.
You capture why i love anime so well! It’s like you reached in my brain and explained everything. Great videos. I’m on a binge
I'm 30 and I love anime! Sailor Moon is my first anime too, I still love it and it is my second favourite series after FMAB. My brothers loved DBZ and I remember them watching it and me pretending I was annoyed, but secretly loving it too.
I'm about to turn 30 this year and I watched both of those shows to I'm guessing you were born in 1989 to like me
I wanted to go back and re-watch the original DiC 90's sailor moon, and I realized that the re-mastered version is EVERYWHERE. It is impossible to find the old Terri Hawkes english dub anywhere. I finally went onto ebay and ordered what I hope is all the original seasons. It is nice they went in and re-mastered it, but sometimes I want to hear the old voices and the names like Serena, Rini, and Darien. The new Sailor Moon Crystal is okay since it follows the manga and has less filler (by a lot) but it has lost all the charm of the original.
DIC dub is just too nostalgic best version tbh I dont like the other versions however the Viz dub doesnt filter out some of the fights and more voilent or desturbing scenes and has alot more episodes they should do a new DIC dub but with less filtering.
Any English Dubbed VHS Tape will be the 90's Dub. Additionally many old questionable streaming sites will carry the old DiC Dub. Keep in mind the year that the new dub came out as anything from prior will be what you are looking for.
for me she was the next level of a modern princess, here we already had saint seiya, samurai troopers and shurato 2 years before sailor moon we already know how anime works for boys but not for girls, and disney princess are all from old medieval times and sailor moon had all the good things and new things, cause every other anime or series (we already had tokusatsu super heroes shows before power rangers) are so focused on fight there isn't human side there isn't a day in the school, sailor moon was a heroine that need to live as real girl and save the city, we saw something on spiderman 90's but it was only peter already in fight angry with his hard life, We don't watch the hard life part, but we found this on sailor moon, she connect with us in a way no other can she was a pretty human super hero, real human teenager and the other girls helps they are less imperfect but still human but powerfull to kill any enemy with one hit, they are complete!
I grew up with older siblings and a nerd/geek dad. My dad actually lived in Japan for a time and I absolutely had access to Toonami and Sailor Moon was my show. Still is.
Sailor Moon was absolutely my first anime. I pretty much had the same experiences that you did. 33yrs old.
I LOVED Sailor Moon as a kid! I still do, every now and then I go watch out when I'm feeling frustrated and out just makes me feel better. We love her because she is a klutzy, lazy girl who loves her friends and never gives up 😻🌙
I really hope your hopes and dreams aren't dead, cuz I wanna read that comic
My first anime was sailor moon on upn and dragonball z on channel 9 saturdays or slayers on the international channel. Didn't see toonami untill I got cable in 2001.
3:40 Well, you didn’t have a strong boy like me to defend you guys.
quickly loving this channel! Being born in 87 and growing up in the US I had a similar introduction to anime. My earliest memories of seeing anime was probably around 2nd grade so 1994 I guess. I remember watching the OG Dragon Ball (before Z) and Mega Man on I don't what channel. Shortly after that I started watching Sailor Moon, Speed Racer, and Slayers. After that I was hooked. I didn't really understand what anime (Japanimation) was at that time and was teased about it plenty, but I loved it. Around 95 or 96 I got my first taste of Ghibli. I got to watch Totoro for the first time at my daycare in 3rd grade and picked up Princess Mononoke from the local Blockbuster and Kiki's Delivery Service came out shortly afterwards.The late 90's brought Pokemon and Digimon and I started collecting cards and playing in tournament battles at the local Wizards of the Coast collecting my badges. Of course around this time anime started picking up in the US and even some American shows inspired by anime picked up like Aeon Flux. But it was Dragon Ball Z that really got me hooked. The hype reached an all time high... then I moved to Montana to live with my dad.
I had no cable TV but continued my obsession by drawing DBZ fan art. Montana was not a place for anime fans though, which made me an outcast, and when 7th grader me got caught looking at porn my dad was convinced "japanimation" (DBZ really) was the devil and a bad influence. Fast forward to 2001 or 2002, in 9th grade I moved back to the civilized world in Seattle and immediately dove back into it. Yu Yu Hakusho, Gundam Wing and G Gundam, Big O, Tenchi in Tokyo/ Muyo/ Universe, Zoids, etc. Once I started high school I found friends who were also into anime and borrowed VHS tapes of Trigun, got ahold of Vampire Hunter D and of course Ghost in the Shell. I discovered gems like FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, and Cyborg 009.
I graduated in 2005 and shortly after I joined the army. Out on my own with new found freedom I met my best friend who introduced me to fansubs and mIRC. I was downloading like crazy! Beck, Hellsing, NANA, Death Note, FMA, Gundam Seed, Armitage III, Black Lagoon, Blood +, Hakaru No Go, Rurouni Kenshin /Samurai X OVAs ( way better), Saikano, Gantz, Elfin Lied, Welcome to the NHK, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzamiya, and Ergo Proxy to name a few lol. Of course the 2010s changed a lot as I deployed to Afghanistan and shortly after returning I started a family. I fell out of touch with anime occasionally watching back through a classic and occasionally being introduced to something new and somewhat keeping up with Naruto / Shippuden. That being said, after the last 7+ years I am completely behind.
I find it harder to get into stuff now even though its easier than ever. I prefer older stuff as well, but it might just be my bias having grown up with it. In the last couple years, after living in Japan for a little while, I got into Gunpla and Gundam, but I do feel a desire to get caught back up. It is a little intimidating now with how much anime there is and how much more popular it is now, but I look forward to what the last 10 years of anime have to offer.
Thanks for reading my whole anime life story lol
The 90's Sailor Moon and the DCAU shows are the most top dogs to me!
Sailor Moon was my first anime, I was 3 when it came out and i just happened to be one of those "lucky" kids that was up at like 5 or 6 am cause my mom needed to get me ready for preschool so she could go to work. So i guess my mom introduced me she told me that i would grab my bowl of cereal and just sit front of the tv and watch it while i ate /while she did my hair. I was a Toonami kid (well kind of i think i really only watched Sailor Moon...)I remember one time Toonami had a sailor moon Marathon of every episode through the end of the 2nd season and my mom being the amazing woman that she is recorded like 2 vhs(at least 2-3 hours worth if not more ) worth of episodes for me and R is my favorite season so you best believe i watched those tapes over and over. It's really cool to look back on those tapes now cause they also have the Toonami bumpers(no commercials cause it was a commercial free marathon i thi nk) and it's just a nice little slice of my child hood i can hold onto :)
I was in elementary school when Sailor Moon aired in the US (I was born in 1986, in LA). I had Sailor Moon folders in high school and remember being being made fun of because I had "cartoons" on my folders. I didn't really have too many super heroes to look up to, except for Storm from X-Men and of course Sailor Moon. She made me feel like I could take on the world, and she still does :3
Also, I can confirm that anime was niche and difficult to find back before Toonami. My cousins and I (they are half Japanese) would download VCDs to get episodes or sometimes rent videos from Mitsuwa. It would take a few days to download say 1 episode of Gundam Wing and a week for a whole season of Tokyo Mew Mew. Sailor Moon was a hot commodity. I remember my cousin visiting her grandparents in Japan and telling me of every Sailor Moon promo she saw and what their outfits looked like in newer seasons. Good times :)
Wow for me i was born in Fairfield nj in 1989 i was turning 6 when i started watching sailor moon I watched it all the time before school and power rangers came a after school thing for me have you watched power rangers to cause i myself watched that to and i watched it mostly at my grandparents house
Thank you so much man, I'm writing a story about a couple of kids in the late 90s and early 00s and I wanted to learn about the Pokémon, Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon Era, when anime first hit the west! your video was super helpful!!!
My first ever was Sailor Moon, but I watched it way before Toonami, when I was just a 2 or 3 year-old little girl. By the time Toonami came into the picture, I was already way long obsessed with anime. Rurouni Kenshin, Yu Yu Hakusho, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Captain Tsubasa, InuYasha... Wow, I'll never forget these shows. They made me who I am today. Luckily, my older sister really liked anime too and back then she had some sort of a network of friends that had a bunch of never-seen-before anime recorded on VHS tapes. Then through these tapes I got to know other classics like Fushigi Yuugi, Ayashi no Ceres, Kare Kano, Kodomo no Omocha... And to think that back then I actually forced myself to learn English to be able to read translated mangas online. Such great memories...
I looove this. And like how refreshing that a heterosexual male is talking about this show, and how it affected your life!
Sailor Moons means SO MUCH to me. I know that sounds weird but I could identify with her. I actually had this really really insane blond angelic hair and I was clumsy and emotional and loved food. I basically WAS Sailor Moon (and Sailor Venus). This sounds stupid but I really looked like them as a kid or I thought I did :)
"THE ORIGINAL HENTAI POWER COUPLE"
MIKE! YOU ARE OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE OVER GRANT WITH THAT LINE (sorry grant i still love your stuff i promise)
Edit: to answer your questions, Sailor Moon was definitely my first anime. I'm barely a year older than you, so I'm also a Toonami Kid. That entire block (even when it pseudo morphed into Adult Swim's anime block) changed my life: Sailor Moon, DBZ, Kenshin, Outlaw Star, Inuyasha...all of it helped form my weeb phase which I've now re-entered thanks to my wife.
*Fighting evil by moonlight, Winning love by daylight..Never running from a real fight! She is the one named Sailor Moon!* 🌙
Great video!! Thanks for uploading! Sailor Moon was one of my favorite cartoons when I was younger. I watched the anime in german where they kept the original japanese songs but made a german version of them. The english songs are great too but I liked that they still kept the original soundtracks. I did a lot of Sailor Moon flip books as well.
Dragon Ball Z/Sailor Moon was my start and I was around for the start of Toonami
Australia had Cheese TV, and literally every morning at 6am it was sailor moon, DBZ and Pokémon.
It's was my childhood grew up with sailor moon, cardcaptors, DBZ and Pokemon.
watch PreCure the love child between Dbz and Sailor Moon
Phos s And is done by the same studio.
Actually, it is more like a fusion of Saint Seiya & Sailor Moon.
I've seen Pretear which does have fusion in it
I got introduced to anime through a kid in 8th grade, I knew it existed, I often read manga in my library, even before I knew what that was. But he really showed me some cool shows. I started with the original FMA and never looked back.
Robotech was my first anime. It was followed by surprisingly Sailor Moon, Super Dimensional Fortress Orguss, Orguss 2, Akira, Ghost in the Shell,etc. I do agree that a lot of the older animes we're more grittier and more better quality than many of the American ones which were only aimed at kids. These animations didn't feel like children's animations, which is what drew me into the genre. More or less everything you stated was point on
"I'm talking about the original hentai power couple..."
Why would you say something so controversial yet so true 😄😄😄
Tenchi Muyo shout-out! If you weren't alive then you don't know LOL
YESSS!!! I was starting to think I was the only one who remembered that one!
Yep yep, even the swimsuits, boy did I love those uncensored dvds
I remember getting super confused because I didn’t realize Tenchi Muyo, Tenchi in Tokyo and Tenchi Universe were different shows so I’d have no idea what was going on whenever I ended up watching one of the spin-offs. I still loved Tenchi Muyo though!
Holy shit it took me forever to figure out the name of that show... was but knee high to a grasshopper when i first watched it.
Holy shit this is good content! I remember watching Dragonball and Sailor Moon when they first aired on YTV in Canada back in the 90s. There really was something magical about meeting some else who was a fan of the series, like seeing a unicorn. My dad and I would drive for 4 hours to one of the only video stores that rented out anime just so we could rewatch Robotech and Macross Plus. I went to my first convention in 2001 and was floored with how many other people liked anime! That's a feeling I'll never experience again.
I was right there with you up at 5:30 a.m. everyday to watch sailor Moon and Pokemon. I was in kindergarten then. as an adult I have found all the sailor Moon manga and read through them. Really good stuff.
Totally agree bro and I can’t wait for the yyh review. My first anime was rurouni kenshin and DBZ. Top 10:
1) cowboy bebop
2)outlaw star
3)trigun
4) fam brotherhood
5)gurren Lagan
6) yu yu hakusho
7) samurai champloo
8)flcl(season 1)
9) rurouni kenshin (up to the shishio arc)- I still wish they did the enishi arc from the manga
10) welcome to the NHK
Others:
Steins gate
Hellsing and H ultimate
Panty and stocking
Soultaker(the ending could’ve been better)
Is soultaker worth watching? I watched the first episode and didn't really enjoy it. Does it get better?
phoenixfireblazer hhmmm good question. I think I’m just a sucker for the art style, op and references to Halloween and horror and thriller pop culture ...it does but unfortunately the series takes a dip away from the manga for usual reasons...I just wish the ending was better but it’s ok. Keep your expectations low and I think you’ll enjoy it.
If you like flcl you should try watching Excel Saga.
Gundam Wing was my must-see obsession!
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90’s: Guy wedgied for liking Sailor Moon.
Ancient Rome: Guy gets fed to the lions for being a Christian.
Some things never change.
oh. lookie here. this video was recommended to me. subbed. nice job with this video and look forward to watching more content.
i was a toonami kid, tho i’m a bit younger so i was a few years behind. i was watching toonami when inuyasha, yuyu hakosho and cowboy bebop came on. introduced me to many anime’s that i consider my all time favorites.
I'm doing a general education class at uni called "popular culture in Japan" and I have to do a tutorial leadership session on Sailor Moon 🥰 I linked this video as one of my fun resources to teach the class for the day. It's such a perfect video
I'm 33, and i'm sure I was the first fan of Dragonball in the U.S.
@Dez Donovan
You probably were the first fan, because I'm 30 and I started watching DBZ in '96... And didn't learn about the original DragonBall until I rented Curse of The Blood Rubies from BlockBuster two years later...
Did you just take inspiration from Mercedes Iman Diamond?
Sailor Moon! She. Changed. EVERYTHING
🤣🤣🤣
My favorite toonmai show Yu Yu hauksho
First Anime was DBZ
Enjoyed this so much!!! I don't think anything will make me as happy as watching sailor moon every Saturday morning did as a kid.
actually Sailor Moon was my first anime and one of my favorite till the day today I still love it and I don’t know where I would be if I hadn’t watch Sailor Moon because you know it’s an amazing series❤❤❤