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Not a big surprise after yesterday...



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. (And this, should I say, from a colleague who could appreciate the exquisite irony of the Marmalade Boy/Level C mashup I inadvertently exposed her to.)

Yeah, the barbie-doll aesthetics of the naked girl transformation scenes are appalling, the monster of the week plots are repetitive, the makers of the dub should be shot. (And that's not even taking into account Sailor Says. Sailor Says!) But behind all that, there is some surprisingly epic backstory, great moments of drama (if few and far between), and some not-too-shabby character development. And, well, back in the days of 1994 when it was on Fox Kids or whatever it was right after Bananas in Pajamas, it was all I had. (It's too bad I didn't know there were such a thing as fansubs until much, much, later, since I probably would have appreciated it even more if I could have made the transition from dubs sooner. As it is, I have never yet met Sailors Uranus and Neptune.)

Date: 2011-05-12 04:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mangaroo.livejournal.com
Randomly...there's something hilarious about the hugeness of the image you selected to illustrate the day of shame. It fills an entire browser "page" on my laptop and demands to be gazed upon without intervening text. LOOK AT ME! I AM THE ANIME OF SHAME. I DARE YOU NOT TO LOVE ME!

Date: 2011-05-13 02:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com
LOL, that was completely laziness on my part (I hotlinked to an image, which I usually don't do, but it happened to be a wallpaper, and then I was too stressed to try to figure out how to resize it...) but I will happily take credit for intentionally subverting the trope.

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