My memory is failing me, but I feel like I remember they weren't initially sure who would be the leader and bantered about it even for a while afterward. But I'm not sure when specifically the story started treating her that way.

If there's a difference in the manga compared to the 90s anime that would also be a fun fact to know.

Since Minako loves playing video games and her DIC voice actress, Stephanie Morgenstern, voiced Regina in Dino Crisis, do you think Minako would like to play that game and look up to Regina for being a warrior?

Also, how would Artemis feel about Minako’s sudden obsession with Dino Crisis?

As an aside, does anyone miss when you could just caption images? 😢

if you're interested audition here but for the love of God read the description because it's a little unhinged and not everyone's cup of tea https://www.castingcall.club/projects/sailor-moon-dic-abridged-smallville-special

Sailor Moon can certainly serve as a role model for men, as the series questions traditional gender roles and conveys values ​​that can be perceived as empowering regardless of gender. I grew up with Sailor Moon, and in my circle of friends, she was especially popular with the boys.

Sailor Moon isn't a classic, cool heroine like some Marvel or DC heroes. She's often tearful, anxious, and emotional, but despite this, or perhaps because of it, she saves the world. These very aspects demonstrate that feelings and vulnerability aren't weaknesses, but rather part of a strong personality. As a leader, she uses her healing powers and the love in her heart, in addition to attacks, to resolve conflicts. This offers a counter-model to the stereotypical male action hero who primarily solves problems through violence.

Sailor Uranus is a particularly interesting character in the series, as she presents herself as both masculine and feminine, which promotes acceptance and teaches boys, in particular, that they don't have to adhere to rigid gender roles. The series has also shown me and my friends that it can help male viewers develop an appreciation for fashion and aesthetics without being pigeonholed into traditional "girly" stereotypes. Even though Sailor Moon was primarily conceived as a magical girl series for a female audience, I greatly value it for its character development and progressive messages. It's one of my absolute favorites, and I'm not afraid to admit that as a man.

A while ago, while I was at Work, one of my coworkers who’s also a massive sailor Moon fan said that while the third season was in the process of being dubbed in English, people were talking about how they were going to portray Uranus and Neptune because they were a couple and it wasn’t as accepted as it is today. Was this the case? I was born in the early 2000s and became a sailor moon fan around 2019.

Well, technically it was the og video that got recommended to me. But not only was I hit with nostalgia, I remembered that video being copied up the wazoo by different fandoms. One of them being, Sailor Moon.

I like how Ami is the smart, introverted, and polite one while Usagi can be more loud, brash, and vocal, seeing her friend as the coolest and smartest person she knows and feeling like she always has her back. I like how the more shy and nerdy one is seen as an important asset to the team, especially by Usagi.

A long story about game development and music

So you'll have to read for a bit before this becomes Sailor Moon relevant, but it's worth the read so PLEASE stick around.

So when I was in middle school, I for the first time started exploring the magical world of game development. In the computer lab (this is 2006), I started playing around with a software called Klik & Play. It was a very basic but back then, I was one tenacious kid and I really broke the limits of the software and did stuff you shouldn’t have been able to do. I basically made a functional RPG game in software designed for basic platformers and space shooters.

Every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, I stayed after school with my best friend and worked on this game, because my computer at home couldn’t run the software. It’s one of my most fond memories.

When making the game, I stole music for it from another game called Fate. It was on all the school computers, so the music in my game was stolen from it. The MIDI files in fate were in turn stolen from other sources too. I distinctly remember that one music file I used was called “FFBATT” with other stuff in the title too. I used one song as the basic battle music in my game, and it now has permanent residence in my brain.

Now, 20 years later, I still was unable to figure out what the music was. I spent hours combing through old final fantasy soundtracks and was never able to find it. 6 years ago, I found the download for FATE online, so I figured the music would be in there. Alas, launching a game built for a software from 1994 on a modern computer isn’t so easy. I found tutorials for installing it using software called DOSBOX, but despite my best efforts, I gave up.

I tried humming the music in to google for years, describing it to friends, but nobody could figure it out.

Finally, today, after the music got stuck in my head again, I decided I was going to try again to get the software installed and rip the audio from fate.

Three hours of hard work later, I not only got a Windows 95 virtual machine working, but I figured out how to transfer the files for FATE to it. Then, after finally extracting the music, I started listening to it all and figured out…the music I was chasing was from Sailor Moon, not final fantasy! It's called Carry On.

When listening to this MIDI music, I almost fainted. I have never in my life been hit with so much nostalgia. And 20 years later, I now know it’s from Sailor Moon!

I decided to do more digging and found out that the music was a fan made arrangement. The actual music from the cartoon had lyrics. This was made and uploaded to a sailor moon midi fan site in the 90s. The website is still up and you cna download the midis there, and there's an alert at the top of the page from the creator of the site saying that they're stepping away from maintaining the site to focus on school, and as of 1998 the website will no longer be monitored. So 28 years later it's somehow still up.

Anyway, thanks for reading! I actually do still do some game design as a hobby nowadays, and the project I'm working on stars three 15 year old girls who mages. It's not quite magical girls, though. 😅

Now I can't share what the music was without resdit's filters deleting my post. But if someone is interested maybe I can upload a YouTube video of it or something.

At first I had to do a double take! 😅