So when my wife was home unemployed, and she started watching this series on TV called Sailor Moon, I wasn’t all that surprised that we liked it. Friends came to the house with anime we watched popular series like Ranma 1/2 and Tenchi Muyo and it was all laughs and fun and games.
By then I was already making tentative steps into derivative fan work, with some fanfic of Xena: Warrior Princess and, for the first time in many years, found my interest in comics returning…only this time, it was all about manga. It broke all records for animation in America. Cartoon Network used power anime series Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon to spearhead an afternoon anime block. In the late 1990s, anime and manga were starting to become popular here in the US.
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Indie comics were too full of themselves (and had no women either) so I just…stopped. I kind of missed the stories, but not enough to go back. I just left comics and stopped filling the longboxes. Although I stopped collecting, I didn’t get all anti-comics. When Storm joined the Avengers, and the Legion of Superheroes couldn’t tell that Quisling was the traitor among them, I knew I was done. There were fewer and fewer good female characters.
Janet hadn’t killed her asshole husband Hank yet and the Valkyrie still wasn’t lesbian, even though she obviously was. But honestly, by the late 80s my interest was waning. I still have long boxes full of Avengers, Defenders and Invaders. So…what is the big deal about Sailor Moon? Let me tell you my story. I don’t like Dragonball Z and nothing any one of the zillions of fans is ever going to say will change my opinion. Let’s be honest here – if you think Usagi is annoying, and don’t like the premise, the clothes, the romance…there’s nothing I can say to change your opinion. If you don’t like it, don’t “get” it, can’t understand what we’re seeing, you’re not missing anything critical. What’s the big deal?”įirst of all, let me disabuse you of the notion that there is a Big Deal TM about Sailor Moon. However, the refrain I’m hearing over and over from those people who did not catch the wave the first time around, is “I don’t “get” it. For those of us who love this series, no explanation, no reasons, no critical analysis need be applied to the series. Of course there are many fans that are thrilled by this – I count myself among them. More than 15 years after its initial debut in Japan, and just about 10 years since its debut in America, the Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon manga is making a comeback, with a brand new edition in English from Kodansha, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.
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