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There are thousands of Sailor Moon sites out there, and there is also a lot of other anime series. Series that are considered by many to be much better than Sailor Moon, series that don't have many (or any) sites to inroduce them to new viewers. Despite all this, this overly popular shoujo anime managed to spark enough interest in me to create a site. It has captivated me enough, that even after more than a year and several other series later, I am still obsessed with it.

On one hand, it is a silly little anime. You know that, no matter what, the Sailor Senshi will win, the Prince and the Princess will get married and live happily ever after. The animation (particularily in the first season) isn't all that great (although it did get some great seiyuu). Yes, the English dub is the worst dub job I've ever seen on an anime series, and the fan community seems to consist mainly of young girls who will yell "I WILL PUNISH YOU IN THE NAME OF THE MOON!!!!!!" for mentioning anything against the series.

If that's how you viewed the series when you first saw it, that's all you will get out of it. That's not quite what I saw in it, though.

Like many other U.S. fans, I first saw the DiC dub. I had known for years what anime was, and was interested in getting into it, but I didn't know where to start. Take a look around the Internet some time. There really aren't any resources for anyone with no former knowledge. Since my cable company didn't carry the Cartoon Network, I didn't have access to the Toonami segment. However, a couple of my cousins did get it, and had gotten into the series. That summer, when we all got together, they showed my sister and I some of their tapes (I'm probably one of the few people on the planet who gets along very well with her family).

Ok, so the music was cheesy, and some of the voices annoyed me right off the bat (Nephlyte and Lita, mainly), but it was cute. Then again, since I wanted to get into anime, I was almost determined to like it, cheesyness nonwithstanding. Then a few things happened that really grabbed my attention.

First Zoycite appeared, with her infamous giggle. Nothing to spectacular there (besides the, "ooh, a subplot with some friction between the bad guys... cool!"), until one of my cousins mentioned, "She's a man in the original."

My cousins had been doing a lot of research online, and knew about some of the major alterations that DiC had made. They also pointed many of them out as they came up. It didn't take much explaining to show me why he had become a she. Being a gay-rights activist, my reaction was somewhere in between, "There's a gay couple? Wow!", "Stupid homophobic North American culture...", and "Poor, Zoi, I wonder what he sounded like origionally?"

I started seeing what the dub had cut out, what the Japanese were willing to put into their children's shows, and not have any problems with it. I've long been an advocator that violence and the like in the media is not the cause of social or moral decline, so it was great to watch a show that offhandedly threw these items right into the midst of the innocent little children.

I started seeing a lot of dark aspects to the show. As I started surfing the internet, I noticed that no one seemed to be adressing these. Well, maybe it's just my twisted mind that saw it all, but my interest in the series kept growing, and it needed to find a creative outlet.

That outlet is this site. I want to show another side to this anime series, and hopefully reveal that it can be more than the Barney of anime. Then again, that's the lens that I see it through. How do you see it?




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