SHE IS THE ONE CALLED SAILOR MOON
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scans_dailySailor Moon! Only got into it recently (disregarding how one of my friends always made me play Sailor Mercury in sixth grade) but my inner child totally adores it. Teen girl superheroes and the power of friendship! So, I've been posting some of the manga on tumblr. I figured, why not here too? If anyone likes it, I'll keep posting. I have the full Sailor V Manga too, though I now have better pages than the ones I posted on tumblr, so I'll hold off on that.
The first arc of Sailor Moon has some differences from the anime (mainly, no filler) but they are fairly similar. However, the next 4 arcs are majorly different from the anime. Unfortunately, only most of the first arc has been scanlated properly (Sailor Moon was one of the earliest manga translations- as a result, it is pretty terrible, flipped around with the dubbed names and some really awful flubs- such as when the translators didn't recognize that a character was quoting a poem by William Blake. Sad.)
So! I figure I'll start at the beginning, anyway, Here's some pages from the first chapter.
Enter Usagi Tsukino! She is clumsy and a bit of a crybaby, but secretly an agent of love and justice- y'know the drill
Here is Mamoru, wearing a tuxedo in the middle of the day, which makes it TOTALLY NOT OBVIOUS WHO HE IS. He is casing out the joint to rob it, like any good citizen. Usagi hates his guts, which means she loves him.
Usagi finds herself getting stalked by a cat.
She sorta fails at life. But not at being a superhero. She proceeds to have an adorable video game dream sequence.
FORESHADOWING! She's just rescuing the wrong dude.
PRISM POWER MAAAAKE UP!
Usagi transforms. She has some nifty goggles here that apparently have mad seeing skills. They just sort of..stop being there after a while, though she does pull them out in the second arc to analyze some aliens. From where? Who knows. And her hairpeices amplify sound, again, rarely used.
Usagi doesn't know what the hell is going on and doesn't have a particular motive to be a superhero, but she is determined to help her friend anyway.
It's always very awkward when you realize you don't actually know your superhero name.
THE SPEECH IS VERY IMPORTANT.
Apparently she got all that just from Luna nodding at the moon.
Usagi gets fights a little, gets scraped up and realizes this isn't actually a dream as she'd thought previously. At which point she flips out.
I wish I had supersonic tears. My life would be easier!
Note the lack of rose-throwing. Tuxedo Kamen actually never throws a rose in the manga! He just sort of hangs around being a badass normal in the first arc, and gets a pretty decent magic attack in the second one.
Wonder Woman taught me that move!
Tuxedo Mask hits on her and bamfs away, and Usagi is like "HE IS HOT! ME LIKE!"
AND SO THE LEGEND IS BORN.
Next Chapter is Ami. Should I do her and Mars, or skip straight to Jupiterwho is my favorite. You guys can decide!
The first arc of Sailor Moon has some differences from the anime (mainly, no filler) but they are fairly similar. However, the next 4 arcs are majorly different from the anime. Unfortunately, only most of the first arc has been scanlated properly (Sailor Moon was one of the earliest manga translations- as a result, it is pretty terrible, flipped around with the dubbed names and some really awful flubs- such as when the translators didn't recognize that a character was quoting a poem by William Blake. Sad.)
So! I figure I'll start at the beginning, anyway, Here's some pages from the first chapter.
Enter Usagi Tsukino! She is clumsy and a bit of a crybaby, but secretly an agent of love and justice- y'know the drill
Here is Mamoru, wearing a tuxedo in the middle of the day, which makes it TOTALLY NOT OBVIOUS WHO HE IS. He is casing out the joint to rob it, like any good citizen. Usagi hates his guts, which means she loves him.
Usagi finds herself getting stalked by a cat.
She sorta fails at life. But not at being a superhero. She proceeds to have an adorable video game dream sequence.
FORESHADOWING! She's just rescuing the wrong dude.
PRISM POWER MAAAAKE UP!
Usagi transforms. She has some nifty goggles here that apparently have mad seeing skills. They just sort of..stop being there after a while, though she does pull them out in the second arc to analyze some aliens. From where? Who knows. And her hairpeices amplify sound, again, rarely used.
Usagi doesn't know what the hell is going on and doesn't have a particular motive to be a superhero, but she is determined to help her friend anyway.
It's always very awkward when you realize you don't actually know your superhero name.
THE SPEECH IS VERY IMPORTANT.
Apparently she got all that just from Luna nodding at the moon.
Usagi gets fights a little, gets scraped up and realizes this isn't actually a dream as she'd thought previously. At which point she flips out.
I wish I had supersonic tears. My life would be easier!
Note the lack of rose-throwing. Tuxedo Kamen actually never throws a rose in the manga! He just sort of hangs around being a badass normal in the first arc, and gets a pretty decent magic attack in the second one.
Wonder Woman taught me that move!
Tuxedo Mask hits on her and bamfs away, and Usagi is like "HE IS HOT! ME LIKE!"
AND SO THE LEGEND IS BORN.
Next Chapter is Ami. Should I do her and Mars, or skip straight to Jupiter
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Date: 2010-12-07 12:56 pm (UTC)My best story relating to Sailor Moon is when Cartoon Network finally started showing Sailor Moon S and Haruka and Michiru were introduced, complete with "We're just cousins! COUSINS. THAT'S ALL. REALLY." excuse.
A friend who knew I was into the series tracked me down a while later and asked "Hey... uh... are Neptune and Uranus gay in the original series, too?"
I nearly died laughing.
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Date: 2010-12-07 01:22 pm (UTC)But those two? As we say, it's only subtext if it's SUBTLE!!
One of my favorite 'you aren't fooling ANYONE' moments was in the Doom Tree filler eps, where they're all arguing over who gets the lead of Snow White.
Dub-Lita is making her own argument, saying the lead should be the one with the most 'talent', whilst thrusting out her chest and pointing at it, while everyone else stares at them.