Sixty Years Since Mighty Atom: 1992

Closing in on the midpoint of this lightweight personal tour of anime, I’ve also got to a title I first saw mere years after it had premiered in Japan. Sailor Moon showed up on TV over here just when I was leaving for university (I have an impression I might have caught a glimpse of it in the last days before leaving, even if I’m a little concerned about the possibility of “reconstructing memory for the sake of making a point.”) After joining the anime club at university and trying to follow online discussions about anime (overwhelmed by everything everyone else already knew and had experienced, I kept retreating to the safer haven of a “Robotech Mailing List”), though, it was easy enough to run into complaints about the multifold compromises of adaptation. There were digs at Sailor Moon on a club poster that fall and in a show video segment (“I think we’ve been punished enough”), but by the end of my time at university things had got to the point of a special “short adventure” being tossed into another show. Years after that, I did manage to get past “I am not in the target demographic for this” and watch the original series, although I’ve never managed to move on from there to the “Sailor Moon R” episodes I recall having seen other glimpses of back on TV.
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