30 Day Sailor Moon meme...START!
Mar. 1st, 2011 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azuriteWell, it's a new month and a new opportunity to try new things and get back into the habit of old (good) things. Like writing on my blog. Like reminiscing. Like commenting with friends!
So, thanks to Sailor Failures on Tumblr, I'm going to spend the first 30 days of March participating in a Sailor Moon meme!
Some of this may be old news for folks that have read my journal(s) for some time, but hey! Nostalgia's fun!
I was probably around 8 or 9 years old when I first started watching Sailor Moon. This was probably 1993 or 1994, so Sailor Moon had already begun in Japan, and was going through its first season I believe, dubbed in the U.S.
My family (my mother, my older half-sister and I) had just gotten an IBM Aptiva, and my sister wanted to spend all the time she could on it. I think this was during some sort of holiday break, because my sister told me there was some sort of "special" on TV featuring these characters she'd shown me from a prismatic sticker. (Little did I know that there were far more characters on the prismatic sticker than I'd see for years on the show, and that the funny way they looked was a trademark Japanese "cute" style: chibi!) Normally, if it had been a weekend, I would have been at my dad's place, and for Thanksgiving, I would have been in Los Angeles visiting my grandparents, so I think this was probably during my winter break from elementary school.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure WHAT episodes I watched, but I do distinctly remember there was a live-action Sailor Moon (or rather a "cosplayer," before I even knew what that was) taking the place of the animated Sailor Moon for the commercial breaks. For those who watched the dub, remember when there was that sparkly background with the Sailor Moon logo over it, and Sailor Moon standing in front of that? Yeah, that one got replaced by a girl in a kinda floppy Sailor Moon costume. But it was cool and funny to me, so I kept watching.
I've been a fan ever since. I wish my sister were still around so I could thank her. Michelle (that was her name) wanted to use the computer and get rid of pesty ol' me, so she distracted me with "teh shiny" and a new TV show. And as a result, I drew more, I started taking Japanese in the 7th grade (and up through high school and college), and I even studied abroad in Japan! And it all began with Sailor Moon, my first anime...which, for quite a while, I had no idea even WAS an anime (or what an anime was)!
I think Sailor Moon will always be precious to me because it's my first fandom.
So, thanks to Sailor Failures on Tumblr, I'm going to spend the first 30 days of March participating in a Sailor Moon meme!
Some of this may be old news for folks that have read my journal(s) for some time, but hey! Nostalgia's fun!
I was probably around 8 or 9 years old when I first started watching Sailor Moon. This was probably 1993 or 1994, so Sailor Moon had already begun in Japan, and was going through its first season I believe, dubbed in the U.S.
My family (my mother, my older half-sister and I) had just gotten an IBM Aptiva, and my sister wanted to spend all the time she could on it. I think this was during some sort of holiday break, because my sister told me there was some sort of "special" on TV featuring these characters she'd shown me from a prismatic sticker. (Little did I know that there were far more characters on the prismatic sticker than I'd see for years on the show, and that the funny way they looked was a trademark Japanese "cute" style: chibi!) Normally, if it had been a weekend, I would have been at my dad's place, and for Thanksgiving, I would have been in Los Angeles visiting my grandparents, so I think this was probably during my winter break from elementary school.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure WHAT episodes I watched, but I do distinctly remember there was a live-action Sailor Moon (or rather a "cosplayer," before I even knew what that was) taking the place of the animated Sailor Moon for the commercial breaks. For those who watched the dub, remember when there was that sparkly background with the Sailor Moon logo over it, and Sailor Moon standing in front of that? Yeah, that one got replaced by a girl in a kinda floppy Sailor Moon costume. But it was cool and funny to me, so I kept watching.
I've been a fan ever since. I wish my sister were still around so I could thank her. Michelle (that was her name) wanted to use the computer and get rid of pesty ol' me, so she distracted me with "teh shiny" and a new TV show. And as a result, I drew more, I started taking Japanese in the 7th grade (and up through high school and college), and I even studied abroad in Japan! And it all began with Sailor Moon, my first anime...which, for quite a while, I had no idea even WAS an anime (or what an anime was)!
I think Sailor Moon will always be precious to me because it's my first fandom.
