Sailor MoonFollow

One of the better magic girl animes, considering it's age. Think Full Moon wo Sagashite is still my favorite in that category.

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Shut up, my wife likes them. That's right, I'm blaming her.

Embarrassingly, it was the first anime I ever watched and got me into anime. I loved the first season, the second was ok, but I stopped watching it (times didn't work out) after that point. I really must try to find the series again online sometime. Unfortunately, like most of the genre the overall story moves slowly because each episode is 80% dedicated to the Bad Guy of the Day and only 20% to character development/plot movement. Makes it a very long series, but pretty good too... just slow.

The question is, do I still have Princess Tutu somewhere? The answer is, probably.

FMWS also has the distinction of remaining one of my favorites of all time. SM was definitely up there but I got a little tired of the formulaic episodes. One of the reasons why I liked Sailor Stars a lot was because it got away from them for most of the season.

The series is 39 episodes long, 13 normal 20 minute episodes and then 26 half length episodes. The half length episodes really tend to be highly continuous, but were broken up for broadcast reasons.

What I like about Princess Tutu is that it can be appreciated from two completely separate perspectives.

You can laugh at the series, most everything that occurs in the show is ridiculous. The main character can be summed up as "Duck is a duck is a girl is Princess Tutu." An anteater ballerina starts dating a boya and nobody seems to care. In one supposedly poignant seen Mytho leans out the window with Ahiru looking up at him adoringly, but since he isn't wearing any pants it seems like she's looking at his dick. The early heart pieces she recovers are something like suffering, fear, and loneliness; so instead of Mytho feeling nothing at all, he now ONLY feels these emotions. Way to go, Princess Tutu.

It's also a fairly deep story for a mahou shojo. SpoilerThe main characters are ambivalently driven to both meet and break their fate. Ahiru attempts to simultaneously resolve the problems inside and outside of the story within a story. Ahiru faces a major dilemma in wanting to both succeed in saving Mytho and prolong the story.

Edited, Apr 4th 2009 12:22am by Allegory

I watched it a couple years ago with my gf. It was quite hilariously bad, which made it awesome. CGI Luna is one of the best parts.

And here I thought I was the only straight male who liked Sailor Moon.

Unless the rest of the posters in this topic are either non-straight or non-male, in which case I still am.

Nope. There's at least two of us.

There are 4. My fiance was a big fan of the live action series.

Live action Sailor Moon was simultaneously marketed toward two separate demographics: 12-14 year old girls, and their 45 year old fathers.

For mahou shoujo, Sailor Moon more or less set the bar for the standards. I didn't like the 5th season (aside from the catchy opening) because the transgendered space scouts were too weird.

But my favorite shoujo really isn't even mahou shoujo at all . . . Revolutionary Girl Utena! I can't get enough of it.

I used to get stuck years ago watching the last few minutes of this show every once in awhile back when I used to watch DBZ religiously (back about 2001ish). It came on before DBZ so sometimes I caught the end of it. I thought it was pretty generic. Every single episode seemed to end with the exact same animation of the pink haired sailor summoning Pegasaus for help. It would summon him and he would do some sort of attack and kill the bad guy.

Fairly lame IMO. Maybe it was just that particular season or something I don't really know but I thought that was pretty lame to have the exact same thing happen in every single show.

Someone that watches Dragonball Z complaining Sailor Moon is generic is hilarity incarnate.

Add another straight dude to the Sailor Moon watching list. It's what got me into anime*. Worked out well... my wife had all of it on VHS when I met her :)

CN putting Sailor Moon back to back with DBZ though.... guess they figured the guy's watching SM needed something to get their masculinity back.


*Well, Robotech and Voltron and Thundercats really, but I was 20 when I found out those WERE anime XD.

Edited, Jun 5th 2009 9:57pm by CwellThor