A Narrow, Unfortunate Escape

The news some months ago that Viz had licensed the long officially-unavailable-over-here Sailor Moon caught even my attention; long years of history came to mind. I have a recollection of having first seen a bit of it on TV just before first leaving for university, where I saw some posters not that long after arriving and joined the anime club to at last see more of the stuff I'd seen watching Robotech ten years before, and in connection to that I sorted out (much quicker than with Robotech) that Sailor Moon had also come from Japan. Those first glimpses of it pretty much convinced me I wasn't in the target demographic, though (the line from the song "One Week," "the boom anime babe that makes me think the wrong thing," can seem to cut a little close), and the unimpressed opinions the anime club had about it didn't quite seem to just dwell on the "localization." Within a year or so, though, I was getting the sense that whatever disdain those who held themselves in the know had had to start with, the show really was managing to broaden the anime-watching audience over here. Before I'd left university, the club had just happened to show a "fansubbed" short subject attached to one of the Sailor Moon movies when I was there to see it. Beyond that, though, I still didn't count myself as very familiar with something "everyone else" seemed more so, although when a certain memorable MSTing gaped at Sailor Moon and Daria getting crossed over into a "technothriller" I realised I knew more about the Japanese animated series than the American.
( Not that long afterwards, all things considered... )