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GATSU
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I wonder if it'll get an English publication.
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TsukasaElkKite
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Sailor Moon helped me figure out that I liked girls as much as boys, and ultimately helped me come out to my family as bisexual.
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Lili-Hime
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I can relate; a huge girlcrush on Sailor Mars is what did it for me. Haruka & Michiru being the cool older girls in S really helped to... and then, well... through Sailor Moon I found Utena and the rest is history. (I'm lesbian not bi tho). |
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manapear
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I still haven't sorted out my sexuality (and I'm married), but it did help me understand myself better (and still does) in so many ways, sexuality included.
Curious though, is the book just about the anime, or will it also talk about/include the manga (and even Myu, PGSM and potentially Crystal)? I'm really interested if that includes the manga, but a lot less so if it's just the anime. Curious, but not enough to buy my own JP copy. I certainly hope this gets translated though. It'd be a fascinating read and pretty illuminating. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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The one huge positive impact Sailor Moon had onto myself was that it helped me to become more accepting of homosexuality. After having watching DIC's mangled English version of the show, it wasn't until some time after that closer observation has led me to find out that Haruka and Michiru are actually a yuri couple instead of cousins. It was also that time that Sailor Moon has encouraged myself to watch anime shows that had to do with homosexuality, like Battle Athletess Victory and Revolutionary Girl Utena.
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EricJ2
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I'm a 100% STRAIGHT fan of Sailor Moon (who could look at Jupiter and not be)?) and I don't care who knows it.
I like the characters for the characters and the stories for the stories. Anybody else is just using the series--or one cherry-picked season of the series--to make themselves look good. (And that applies to the "This show taught me girl power!" crowd, even though on closer examination, Usagi would not always seem to be the ideal role model or social depiction for Western girls. With or without the stock "Valley girl" voice from the 90's DiC dub.)
(And that made you more accepting of them? Yuri or cousins, they were the most arrogant, posing, snottypants characters on the entire series! The Senshi spent most of the S series trying to protect the other characters from them!) |
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Sacto0562
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I think what was unusual about Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon was the gigantic breakthrough in depicting same-sex relationships in both anime and manga aimed at very young readers and viewers. Not only Haruka and Michiru from the third season everyone knows about, but the relationship between two of the villains from the first season that was kind of hinted at in the original version of the first season.
I personally think its very success made it possible to have anime that could use the subtext from the old Class S prose stories popular in Japan during the first half of the 20th Century more openly. It probably made it possible for the Strawberry Panic! short story series and the well-known Mara-sama ga Miteru light novel series to be published, too. |
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yaki-udon
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Since there was no Internet at that time, Sailor Moon was a favorite tv show for many 11-13 year old boys in Japan.
I'm bisexual too, but I don't think it's because I watched Sailor moon. I think I've only seen the first half of the first season. |
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enurtsol
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Foreword by Geena Davis
Sailor Moon gave rise to more hot girl on girl action |
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Lili-Hime
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I don't get it |
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Kadmos1
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Technically, there was but it was a lot more limited and primitive. |
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EricJ2
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Back in the day, we ALMOST got a US Sailor Moon movie produced by Geena Davis for her daughter, with Davis playing Queen Beryl. 
(Unfortunately, like most back then, she wasn't aware it wasn't a US show, and negotiations fell through.) |
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enurtsol
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She was a supporter of girl power in Sailor Moon. |
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Zac
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You realize what a wildly awful thing this is to say, right? Who are you to dictate what the show did or didn't mean to anyone else? Or is this another horrible failure on your part, trying to be "funny" about LGBT issues and instead just insulting huge portions of that community? |
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EricJ2
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I'm saying it requires a little more open-mindedness, and instinctive love of the show rather than "using" it to prove points about yourself (which as much for the "Girl power" crowd as anyone else): If you, for example, were to ask a fan and get:
one might have unfair reason to suspect that the fan's love of the entire show was not exactly that sincere. Rather like in fifth grade, when you didn't want to be made to read Tale of Two Cities or Julius Caesar in English class because your biggest complaint was "Who cares about those old characters, what do they have to do with me?" (And before anyone asks, mine were Jupiter, the Nurse Minako episode, and the scene in the R movie where the other Sailors have their own personal flashback reactions to the villain's "You'll never know what it's like to be alone!") |
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