I hate that this is cropped, but this is the only time I’ve found this on the internet.
When I was a little girl, my parents came back from San Francisco with a collection of Sailor Moon merchandise. If I remember correctly, they gave me a sticker sheet and an over-sized t-shirt. And, I think, paper dolls.
I would lay them out in front of me in the den and just marvel at them all. This was before Sailor Moon came to Toonami, so I found myself totally fascinated by this magical, foreign thing that I didn’t understand, that was just out of my grasp. I would draw these characters over and over again, trying to figure out who they were. I even remember what my awful copied picture of Saturn looked like.
This image was always my favorite on the sticker sheet. I still have these things, and I’ve brought most of them with me to college. I guess magical girls, and moreover, Sailor Moon, really means a lot to me. No, like seriously. I can give fucking lectures on the themes of this piece of work, on the characters and why they are the way they are; I could media studies the shit out of this.
So I’m just going to say, Sailor Moon was a really important show for me as a kid, and I’m pretty sure it probably is for a lot of other girls, too. It’s probably how I first got into comics, and I know it was the first of two media works (the other being Zelda) that really influenced my creative development throughout adolescence for a very significant amount of time.
