i dont know why. ...and im ashamed. actually no im not, f*ck you guys, its great.
so i tracked down this series because i love kitagawa keiko and i also thought as it is for kids i could watch it with my neice autumn. now everyone seems to have caught the bug.
usagi (played by the fantastic sawai miyuu) i think is who really makes everyone stop and watch when really they would have liked to have kept on walking past the tv and never looked back.
that girl is truly one baka usagi (stupid rabbit) and we love her for it.
ok, the basic premis is there are these five girls who have to take on the burden of their past lives of when they were once inhabitants of the moon. the disaster that befell the earth and the moon princess unfolds slowly and while the girls are fighting off evil in rubber suits called youma, they piece together the puzzle thus awakening their soldier identities.
there is also this absolute muppet tuxedo kamen (tuxedo mask) who has the worst costume and his mask seems to be held on purely by faith (me and autumn laughed a great deal at this and made one out of play dough to see if it would work. ...it didnt.)
tuxedo kamen (shibue joji) and usagi seem to have a connection that gets increasingly harder to ignore and it causes all maner of problems as the sailor soldiers dont know if he is on the side of good or evil.
usagi - sailor moon
ami - sailor mercury (hama chisaki)
rei - sailor mars (kitagawa keiko squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)
makoto - sailor jupiter (azama myu)
aino minako / sailor venus (komatsu ayaka)
luna - sailor luna (koike rina)
motoki (kikawada masaya)
and his turtle called kamekichi - (not credited)
and also a load of classmates and evil rubber suited youma and a troup of guys made out of crystals that are all the time lorded over by the drag-queen-esque queen beryl (sugimoto aya)
the bad guys are nephrite, jedite (stupidest hair ever), zoisite, and kunzite.
kunzite (pronounced kun-zah-i-toh in jap) has now become a mock swear word for me and autumn as we thought it sounded like one when beryl shouts it *drops vase on the floor* - oh KUNZITE!
lots of laughs to be had - mainly from usagi being generally mental with the biggest smile in the whole of japan
lots of crazy dun dun duh!! scarey moments
and even quite a few tearful emotional bits too. i have to say that any part that brought tears to my eyes was due to kitagawa being such a brilliant actress even back then. man she was always the one to set me off. it gets pretty tense and epic and sad towards the end.
be prepared for half your favourite characters to get picked off one by one and
just you try and hold off the tears when sailor mars is screaming and crying on the floor.
i liked all the bad guys by the end and still loved the main girls too.
there are some rip roaringly funny moments like rei dressed up as aino minako's kuppi thing. me and autumn must have played those scenes over and over so many times just rolling around on the floor laughing. *kuppi*
i wasnt expecting much but it gave buckets full. i did a marathon of 20 or so episodes over a day and a half to finish it and yes i did feel like i had gone a little mental after that
ah its so fun though. it has a good story, a will-they wont-they romance, and lots of pants.
the fighting is basically cartwheels and shouting *huh! huh!* as they land next to a rubber suity youma guy. this is all untill they awaken by the way - then they get sh*t hot zappy CGI powers like fire balls and lightening etc.
im quite happy with pants though.
and yes, me and autumn do the sailor moon moves and phrases when we're out walking the dog. you try hearing 月に代わって、お仕置きよ! (Tsuki ni kawatte, oshioki yo - in the name of the moon i punish you) a million times a week and not saying it in baka usagi voice.
i know they changed a lot for the drama series - no homosexual characters for a start but i dont really have a hang up about changing books for tv etc.
each is an individual piece of art in itself.
though - can i call sailor moon art? i just did that didnt i?
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