I will never forget the horrified look I got from one of my more intellectual anime-loving colleagues to whom I tried to show this.
I think this might have been the same face I gave my friend when he returned from a year abroad in Thailand raving about this show (which was shortly before it showed up on US TV, I believe). I'd been all behind the whole G-Force and Bubblegum Crisis sides of anime, but even my gay boyfriend couldn't sell me on sparkly sailor scouts.
... Until one day in college when my non-anime fan roommate was watching a borrowed tape from our neighbor and suddenly I WAS sold and it was all over from there. (Incidentally, it would be those scenes in S1 that rate highly on both cheese and sadness [aka drama] factors in the dub that made me realize I had to stop mocking Sailormoon and start loving it.)
I actually have great nostalgic hilarity-love for the dub (in the same way I have it for Yu-gi-oh), even though I own and tout the vast superiority of the JP versions. I am probably more ashamed to admit that I honestly do wish I had bought the dub dvds for posterity's sake than I am to admit I like Sailormoon.
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Date: 2011-05-12 04:25 am (UTC)I think this might have been the same face I gave my friend when he returned from a year abroad in Thailand raving about this show (which was shortly before it showed up on US TV, I believe). I'd been all behind the whole G-Force and Bubblegum Crisis sides of anime, but even my gay boyfriend couldn't sell me on sparkly sailor scouts.
... Until one day in college when my non-anime fan roommate was watching a borrowed tape from our neighbor and suddenly I WAS sold and it was all over from there. (Incidentally, it would be those scenes in S1 that rate highly on both cheese and sadness [aka drama] factors in the dub that made me realize I had to stop mocking Sailormoon and start loving it.)
I actually have great nostalgic hilarity-love for the dub (in the same way I have it for Yu-gi-oh), even though I own and tout the vast superiority of the JP versions. I am probably more ashamed to admit that I honestly do wish I had bought the dub dvds for posterity's sake than I am to admit I like Sailormoon.