Geek Out!

So…I’m going to Geek Out for a moment. I recently discovered that my all time favorite anime is being remastered and redesigned in a no holds barred reboot. I am of course talking of Sailor Moon.

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Excuse me, while I have a Stewie Griffin going to Disney Land moment.

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For me, Sailor Moon was my first introduction into Japanese Anime. It is the reason I love shows like Cowboy Bebop, Gundam Wing, The Big O, and many more. In fact, I love the show so much it translated into a love of the Japanese culture which snowballed, culminating in studying the Japanese language in college.

I think there is a point in every young girl’s life where you wish for more. The elusive “more” that a teenager yearns for, but doesn’t quite understand. This transition takes place when you realize fairy tales aren’t real and that there is no White Knight coming to take you away. Sailor Moon kind of filled this void. The beauty of Sailor Moon was that Usagi was also trying to be more than what she really was and as a preteen in the late nineties I could relate to the want to be an adult while still gripping, if only a little, to the fairy tale aspects that resided in the story line.

Sailor Moon went off American airways more than a decade ago when Cartoon Network opted for a more modern anime approach in for their Adult Swim programming. That wasn’t the end of my Sailor Moon experience though. With the help of the expanding World Wide Web (hehe) I was able to dive head long into a new version of Sailor Moon--one never before released in American. Soon I was engulfed by the amazing art work, manga’s, and the original Japanese version of Sailor Moon. I, like many other Moonies back then, taught my self HTML and dedicated many self made websites on Geocities and Angelfire. These sites were crude compared to the new standards of web development, but they were my first taste of what my online experience and presence was going to be.

After exhausting every aspect of the Sailor Moon online experience (which included watching the subtitled version and the live action version on YouTube and Veoh) I succumbed to the inevitable and let my love of Sailor Moon drift to the past, with the rest of my childhood.

So it came as a big shock to find out that for the 20th Anniversary of Sailor Moon some particular Moonies were trying to revive the great, long since gone, show. I followed this information as best as I good, which was few and far between for a very long time. So long that I thought maybe the rumor was just that, a rumor.

Then, last week my younger brother (also an anime junkie) told me that Sailor Moon was really going to return. It wasn’t just a rumor. I immediately searched every current bit of information. Articles from every Nerdy blog, Anime Reviews, and Facebook posts exclaiming the return of the great show. I jumped for joy, as though I was thirteen again, running home from school to watch my favorite girls at 2:30 in the afternoon. Since then, I’ve been following the news and even watching the remastered originals on Hulu. My childhood returned in a blink of an eye and I could really appreciate those years where Sailor Moon was one of my few refugees from the horrors of puberty.

So, here's to all those girls who came of age in the late nineties watching Adult Swim’s anime. I hope a revival of your favorite show, which ever it may be, comes to a streaming network near you!