Comments on: Sailor Moon S episodes 96 and 97 are now available on Hulu

By: Karuma Reiji

Karuma Reiji — Mon, 18 May 2015 08:07:12 +0000

Regarding the “All Girl Review Picture Album” I think it is in reference to the famous Japanese all-female theater troupe, the Takarazuka Kagekidan or Takarazuka Revue, where some actresses from the latest musicals, like Yamato Yuuga (Chiba Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask), Hatsukaze Midori (Queen Beryl), Saika Ryo (Zoicite), Mahiro Shun (Prince Demando), and Manami Sora (Saphir), came from.

By: the half moon

the half moon — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 07:32:01 +0000

There’s an episode where Michiru show jealousy but I think is in the Star episodes, when Haruka sees Usagi sad about Mamoru and says may be she should take his place because she wouldn’t let a pretty girl like Usagi alone.

By: Neon Genesis

Neon Genesis — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 21:16:56 +0000

One thing I will say in Sailor Moon’s favor is that the Western fandom in my experience has been incredibly LGBT-friendly. I can’t speak for how the Japanese fandom is but I’ve always felt safe and accepted interacting with the fandom and never experience any homophobia from the fans and I’ve always appreciated how supportive the fandom has largely been on supporting the LGBT community.

By: Neon Genesis

Neon Genesis — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 21:01:24 +0000

Sailor Moon is still much better at it than a lot of other anime shows are and it’s remarkably progressive for a 90s anime but people forget Japan is still a largely conservative society that strongly favors tradition and fitting in with the crowd and being LGBT is seen as undesirable because it’s viewed as being against conformity.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:32:00 +0000

Agreed. There’s a bit of this throughout the season. Such as Makoto’s reaction to Unazuki’s kiss or the shock of learning Haruka is a man. The series sort of plays it for jokes but when things are serious is totally cool with it. It always makes me a bit uncomfortable.

By: Neon Genesis

Neon Genesis — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 04:38:47 +0000

I am a gay Sailor Moon fan myself and Sailor Moon is still my all time favorite anime but I’m not entirely sure it’s as LGBT-friendly as people make it out to be. I mean, I appreciate their positive portrayal of Haruka and Michiru but other than them, who else that is LGBT gets a positive portrayal in Sailor Moon? The show seems to follow the whole “lesbians are cool and sexy and gay men are gross/evil” outdated stereotype. Most of the gay men in the show get portrayed as either evil or stereotypically feminine like the fashion designer couple in SuperS. Crossdressing and gender fluid characters like Fisheye and the Sailor Starlights always seem to be portrayed as either evil or with deep suspicion most of the time. And while manga purist fans might prefer the Starlights as cisgender crossdressing women, I’ve always found Naoko’s attitude towards the concept of the gender fluid Starlights in the anime to be troubling as Naoko seems to be implying that trans women are banned from being Sailor Soldiers.

By: Utena

Utena — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 04:28:08 +0000

Yeah, Usagi and the others’ reaction always bothered me. A rare misstep. As people have been saying the show is usually really good about portraying these sorts of things in a non-judgmental way. I guess fictional characters are allowed to have flaws too, and it’s not unrealistic to see teenagers having that sort of reaction, but I agree it feels out of character for Usagi.

Lol at “Haruka-sexual”. It’s a useful term, since being attracted to Haruka (a very common occurrence) has never felt like it really pins down someone as having been attracted to a girl or a guy.

Also, it must have really stung when Mako found out that Haruka and Uranus are the same person, given her rather contrasting opinions of the “two” of them.

By: Neon Genesis

Neon Genesis — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 23:57:44 +0000

The one problem I have with this episode is that it seems like Usagi and her friends react to Makoto supposedly crushing on Haruka in a rather homophobic way. Rather than reassuring Makoto that they’ll love her and accept her for who she is regardless of who she’s attracted to, they seem to almost scorn her for even possibly liking another woman and basically try to convince her she should stay straight. It plays it off for laughs but it seems oddly out of character to me for Usagi and her friends who have no problems accepting Haruka and Michiru as their friends but seem like they’ll only accept Makoto if she’s into boys.

By: Neon Genesis

Neon Genesis — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 23:53:05 +0000

I think there are some hints with Makoto and Ami or at least I ship them anyway >>

By: Rami

Rami — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:57:29 +0000

You guys all bring up very good points. I’m glad to have had this discussion.