I have the first season of Sailor Moon and as I was watching it today, I started to think about when I was about 5 years old and how much I really loved Sailor Moon. I have the remastered dubbed with the original animation. None of that, North American lets make this friendly for kids crap. Though I do have 2 VHS tapes of the original english dubb. Now those were the days. I honestly don't know why I fell for the show, but as an adult now I realize that it's probably because Usagi herself reminded me of myself and I felt I could connect with her. To this day she is still one of my favorite protagonists.
Usagi is 14 years old and she is dating a high school kid but for some reason my little kid head always thought he was already in collage cuz he looked so mature......wait was he? Idk. That's besides the point. The original dub was horrible kinda like what happened when 4Kids tried to mess with One Piece. Did not go over well. Strangely enough both horrible dubs I really liked and they are the reasons I got into the series but than again I am not that critical about things like this as I prefer the dubbed version of an anime compared to the subbed if I can help it as I can multitask while watching.
The one thing that does tick me off more so than the dubbed was the fact that they decided to mess with the show so much. Is the fact that they choose to A) change the sexual orientations of characters to fit their hetero normative perspectives by changing one characters gender to be female so it could be a hetero rather than homosexual relationship, B) changing the relationship between characters who are clearly lesbian lovers as cousins because somehow that seems more appropriate like really? how stupid do you think kids are? and lastly not even dubbing the final season because of GENDER! Just because 3 characters went from male to female in the last season as they transformed, they chose not to dub the series because they simply could not manipulate that to their will. Honestly North America, your transphobia is really kicking you in the ass especially considering some American states bathroom policies.....like really? I pretty much would need to bring my birth certificate with me everywhere I went to prove that I am a biologically born female. Honestly disgusting. A pervert won't try to look like a women to try to access the women's washroom. He will do it anyway. That is just being bigoted and ignorant.
That's my anime related rant for the day.
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