Sailor Newbie

Ok

So I don't watch anime.

Like ever.

I didn't like the look of it, first off. I was raised on American cartoons, specifically the now classic 80s shows like Voltron, Thundercats, G.I.Joe, Jem, and others. I remember watching the cheesy Spiderman cartoon as a kid, heck I can even sorta sing the theme song...

Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can...

Second, the reactions the characters had well, kinda freaked me out. The bulging eyes, the wild hand movement, the times when the background just goes weird, that stuff is freaky. American animation style has characters reacting in more natural, human ways, not overdone because this is all a drawing ways.

 Third, and probably what I disliked the most, was having to read the subtitles. Anime - or I've heard it called Japanime - is of course, all done in Japanese, a language I have no comprehension of. So as a kid growing up, when such things began to air on American tv, I wouldn't watch.

As a adult, I've got a little more patience for the style - much of it is very artistic and painterly - and I can generally keep up with subtitles. And I realize that all of those many cartoons I loved as a kid, save for the shows like the truly classic Looney Tunes, have a great deal in common with anime - half of them were even drawn by the same animation companies. So yes, it's an irrational bias I have.

But I still really just don't care for it. Recently I tried watching a currently very popular show, Attack On Titan, and both times I tried, I couldn't get through the first 20 minutes of it.

But I've got a lot of friends, both in the fandom worlds and on the "real life" side that have been very excited for the new adaption of an anime that first aired here in the US in 1995 - Sailor Moon.

Up until now, I'm pretty sure off and on that I've seen bits of Sailor Moon here and there. I know enough to get by at a comic con - I can take a decently educated guess as to which Sailor Scout you're dressed as, or if a guy is rocking Tuxedo Mask. And I think Luna is cute.

But that's about it.

So for whatever reason, maybe because we have Hulu Plus (thanks dad!) I've decided to start watching the new version of it, Sailor Moon Crystal.

I intend to try and watch all of the episodes and blog about it here. Hulu has the new version as well as the non-dubbed original version, so I'm covered to see both. I've even gone and found a site that has a link for all of the English dubbed version too. So I'm gonna try to compare them all as I go.

Moon Prism Power Make-Up!