Mercedes Varnado, who goes by the stage name Sasha Banks as a WWE Wrestler, wore a Sailor Moon inspired outfit on Saturday’s Royal Rumble event. If there was any doubt about the inspiration she later tweeted a photo of herself in the costume with the caption “Sailor Boss”. Watch her entrance in this embedded Tweet from the WWE account.
30-Woman #RoyalRumble Match entrants thread ⤵️
1️⃣ Can #TheBoss go the distance?? @SashaBanksWWE pic.twitter.com/BvI4FoZG40
— WWE (@WWE) January 30, 2022
Born in 1992 she shares a birth year with the original Sailor Moon anime and recalls watching the series at a very young age when it played on TV around 6am. Though I watched Sailor Moon in Canada where it played throughout the day at popular times I also watched the series around 5:30am and 6am on UPN 38 and WPIX back in the mid 90s. She spoke about this in an interview with comicbook.com.
“My first thing wasn’t Star Wars, it was Sailor Moon. When I was maybe like five years old, I started watching Sailor Moon, and I had no idea of what time was or anything. It always came on at 6:00 AM in the morning, but I would stay up all night just because I would know it would come out sometimes dark, sometimes in the morning, I had no idea. But I had to stay up and watch my Sailor Moon because I thought I was just like Serena,” Varnado said. “I was a meatball head, I was clumsy, I was always late for school, and she really taught me how to believe in myself, my own powers, and the powers of the universe and the moon. So still to this day, she is my favorite and I can’t believe how much she’s played a role in my life.”
Are you a fan of Wrestling and Sasha Banks? What do you think of her costume?
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Sasha looks beautiful in that outfit.
Also that’s cool
Not a fan of wrestling, but it’s neat when people show off their fan love. Costume is an interesting take. Still cringe that people reference the DiC/Cloverway dub after all these years, but she’s the right age for it. She should give the Viz one a whirl (if she doesn’t like subs).
Toshiya Ueda died on February 8.
How sad. Thanks for the info Luke.
No problem.
Sad news: Saki Nitta died on February 8.
I mean Saki Nitta died on February 6.
Happy Valentine’s Day
Why is there no news in February?
There’s always news, Luke. It’s just not news you would be able to read/understand/be interested in. The other side of it is that outside of Eternal, the stage musicals, or major re-re-releases of the nineties anime, there’s not much happening with this dying franchise.
Short month?
There you go Luke! 30 minutes to spare! I’m working on a review of the Princess Kaguya’s Lover musical Blu-Ray so that takes a lot of time away from shorter posts. Not sure when that one will be done.
Next Monday is the 30th Anniversary of Sailor Moon.