Sailor Moon From Manga to Anime: What does systemic villainy look like?
In effect, Sailor Moon’s narrative asked if individuals commit acts of evil or if evil is an inevitable force, and came up with two separate answers.
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Forcing Yourself for Love: Hotaru, Sailor Moon, and “Overcoming Disability” Narratives
Hotaru’s story represents the tension between our desire for comforting narratives of disabled people healing and the reality of disabled life as shaped by capitalism and the limits of our bodies.
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Clothes Make the Guardian: Fashion and femininity in the Sailor Moon franchise
The silhouettes and clothing styles from the original 1990s Sailor Moon anime, as well as the manga, are consistent and intentional. What is feminine becomes something powerful. Unfortunately, this idea doesn’t carry through to much of modern Sailor Moon media. The new adaptations betray the purposeful fashion of the original series in a way that undermines the story’s overall gender commentary.
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Flowers for Zoisite: How Sailor Moon’s iconic queer villains raised the bar
While the romance between Sailors Uranus and Neptune has rightfully earned praise,Sailor Moon’s other explicitly queer relationship gets little notice. And that’s a shame, because Zoisite and Kunzite were remarkably progressive compared to both their contemporaries and what had come before.
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Chatty AF 73: Sailor Moon Season One Retrospective (WITH TRANSCRIPT)
Vrai, Dee, and special guest Anne at Shojo Power discuss the first season of Sailor Moon.
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By returning to their roots, Dark Magical Girls could provide hope
Instead of focusing on suffering, dark magical girls can inspire young female audiences by showing that they have the power to overcome their personal pain.
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The Problem with the Dark Magical Girl Genre
Murder and despair are normally nowhere near the magical girl archetype, but that’s changing in some recent and disturbing developments.
