Happy Mother’s Day!
(via strange-and-amazing)
Tuxedo Mask’s Speech Failures
i have been waiting for this gif set all my life oh my god
when the ball just runs over the rose
“WHAT?”
he’s SO cONFUSED.
MY ROSE SHOULD BE INVINCIBLE my life is a lie
(via euglassia--watsonia)
…wow anno really was a fan of Sailor Moon wasn’t he
(Source: doujinshi, via azuresquirrel)
I’m really happy my thesis is recieving such positive response!!!
I worked really hard on it, possibly harder than I’ve ever worked on anything school related, so it makes me very happy! thanks guys!
I just really wanted to sum up all the things I find really interesting examining the series. It was my goal to make this the ultimate summation of my relevant Sailor Moon thoughts to an outsider. SO I GAVE IT MY BEST SHOT. I’m glad it held together for the most part!
"In My High Heels, I will Punish You": The Cultural Importance of Gender Presentation in Sailor Moon
The Cultural Importance of Gender Representation in Sailor Moon
Here’s the Wordpress version of my Sailor Moon thesis! IT INCLUDES THE ENDNOTES so if you want to see those go to this version. No idea why it’s blue and some formatting weirdness but otherwise cool.
Here’s my updated annotated bibliography.
This thesis is painstakingly researched, for real. It basically covers three major things: gender presentation in Sailor Moon, queer presentation and dub censorship. It compares the anime and manga and goes into the history of the magical girl genre, quotes from Ikuhara and Naoko, tons of academic sources, all that. There are several sections, labeled with titles like “Jumping around in a Short Skirt”: Power in the Feminine” and “Girls and Cousins Too”: Queer Censorship in the Dub” so it’s easy to tell I’m a giant dork. There’s also pictures and all. In reality it averages to about 35-36 pages double spaced (w/o pictures). So it is long.
Here it is! For some reason the google doc leaves off the end notes and also formats it weird. But I’ll try to reformat it on Wordpress sometime in the near future. In the meantime, here’s my updated annotated bibliography.
This thesis is painstakingly researched, for real. It basically covers three major things: gender presentation in Sailor Moon, queer presentation and dub censorship. It compares the anime and manga and goes into the history of the magical girl genre, quotes from Ikuhara and Naoko, tons of academic sources, all that. There are several sections, labeled with titles like “Jumping around in a Short Skirt”: Power in the Feminine” and “Girls and Cousins Too”: Queer Censorship in the Dub” so it’s easy to tell I’m a giant dork. There’s also pictures and all. It looks longer than it is mostly because of the added pictures and formatting ish, in reality it averages to about 35-36 pages double spaced. So it is long.
This paper is so mean to Mamoru though
Sailor Moon is comprised of five major story arcs. Throughout these five story arcs, Tuxedo Kamen contributes little to the efforts of the team of Sailor Senshi in their quest to vanquish evil. He is, instead, a liability. In four out of five of these arcs, Sailor Moon must save Tuxedo Kamen. He is abducted, brainwashed, and forced to fight Sailor Moon in the first story arc.30 He gets lured into a trap, brainwashed, and thinks that Sailor Moon is his enemy in the second story arc.31 In the fourth story arc, he is affected by health issues that mysteriously coincide with the appearance of a new villain.32 As a result, Sailor Moon ends up having to split time between fighting evil and looking after his health. Tuxedo Kamen’s alter ego, Chiba Mamoru, intends to go abroad in the final story arc, but he is once again abducted, brainwashed, and later becomes evil.Ironically, none of the characters seem to realize what a burden Tuxedo Kamen is and that if it were not for Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Kamen would probably be seriously injured or perhaps even dead.
okay that’s all true (except for the last line) but really harsh HE TRIES REALLY HARD OKAY and he helps a lot too. Poor guy. And I dunno where they got that last part, because Manga Mamoru is pretty darn aware he’d be dead without her and also freaks out about being a burden ALL THE TIME.
It is also worth pointing out that Tuxedo Kamen takes Sailor Moon’s
efforts for granted, never bothering to thank her
nuh uh
that was like, as early as the fourth chapter too
"Takeuchi Naoko, the creator of Sailor Moon, herself believes that what makes the heroines in Sailor Moon stronger is their attitude that girls should not depend on men, and a girl’s best friend is another girl."
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The interview this quotes from is not available online, but I assume it’s accurate since it’s someone’s thesis and they appear to know Japanese.
Naoko is an endless font of misandry in her interviews, I love her.
always remember that when Usagi imagines Motivational Mamoru TM in the R manga, he’s apparently naked
that girl is not shy about what she wants out of him
“YEAH I BELIEVE IN MYSELF AND MY POWER GOTTA GET IT TOGETHER AFTER ALL I STILL HAVE MY GIRLS TO GET BACK AND I HAVE SEX TO HAVE WITH MY BOYFRIEND!”
who says that ain’t punk rock
