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But, back to Sailor Moon. This show has played a very
important role in my life. One day last June, my phone rang at about five minutes to four
one fateful Tuesday afternoon. My friend Allison called and ordered me to turn Cartoon
Network on. I was to watch a show called Sailor Moon that Allison was completely
obsessed with. I had never seen the show before, but I had heard about it. They advertised
dolls on TV for the show, and I vaguely remembered making fun of those dolls at one
point in time. However, it was a boring summer day with no apparent plans pressing my
schedule, so I decided to watch the show. My viewing of Episode 21, �Jupiter Comes
Thundering In� changed my opinion on the show forever. Now, less than a year after I
made fun of those Sailor Moon dolls, I have many items of Sailor Moon merchandise,
including notebooks, soundtracks, pins, pictures, all 82 American episodes, and
keychains.
That merchandise, especially the keychains, since
they�re on my bookbag, have gotten me many weird looks and questions. For some
reason, Americans today have this delusion that cartoons are made just for children under
the age of 10 and that Sailor Moon is a cartoon. They�re wrong on both counts. Like I�ve
said, Sailor Moon is anime, not a cartoon. Most of the fans in Sailor Moon�s originating
country, Japan, are teenagers and adults, not children. People ask me �Why do you like a
cartoon?� After telling them that Sailor Moon is not a cartoon, I tell them why I do like
Sailor Moon.
First off, there are five main characters in Sailor Moon,
each with an intricate set of character traits and attitudes and personalities. And all of
these personalities interact with each other in different ways with different moods, just
like in real life. There are episodes where Sailor Mars and Sailor Moon, who usually are
at each other�s throats since Sailor Mars, whose name is Raye, cannot stand Sailor
Moon�s immaturity and constant whining, act like best friends and work together without
bickering with one another once. Also, the characters remind me of people I know
personally in real life.
For example, the main character, Serena, who is also
Sailor Moon reminds me of my friend Allison. Allison is also the girl who got me hooked
onto Sailor Moon in the first place on that fateful June afternoon I mentioned above.
Anyway, Serena, before transforming into Sailor Moon, is probably the clumsiest and
ditziest fictional character ever. For example, in one episode she nearly drops her
Crescent Wand, which is the weapon she uses to heal possessed humans, over a bridge,
and her talking cat Luna had to catch the Wand. Allison is also incredibly clumsy. Allison
is also constantly late, and nearly every episode of Sailor Moon begins with Serena
running to school, praying that the bell hasn�t rung yet.
Hitting even closer to home is the character of Amy or
Sailor Mercury. Amy is the first Scout to come along besides Serena in the show, and she
met Serena after transferring to Serena�s school, Crossroads Junior High. Amy is a very
smart girl, even considered a genius. And she knows how to use a computer well and can
type extremely fast. Before meeting Serena and the rest of the Scouts, Amy basically
lacked a social life, had no friends, and didn�t know how to act around other people. After
changing schools and being forced to join a group of friends, she learned how to act and
socialize. I just described Amy; however, I also described myself. I�m good with
computers and I�m smart. Also, before I transferred to St. John the Baptist in seventh
grade, I had no friends and was very shy. However, I was forced to join a group of
friends, and ever since then we have remained the best of friends and I�m starting to break
out of my shell.
Another excellent feature of Sailor Moon is the
complex storyline and plot. When I tell people this, they ask how a cartoon can have a
complex storyline. The problem with their thinking is they assume Sailor Moon is another
Looney Tunes cartoon, in which in every cartoon something is dropped on someone�s
head or someone falls over a cliff and miraculously lives. Sailor Moon, however, has a
plotline that spans 200 episodes and three movies in Japan. Sadly, in America we have
only have the first 89 episodes (7 of these 89 have also been eliminated, so in America
there are only 82 Sailor Moon episodes) and no movies. This plotline spans over 3,000
years of time and all nine of our planets, plus the moon. So, like I�ve said, there are no
anvils materializing out of thin air and dropping on our heroine�s head in this series.
Sailor Moon is a wonderful show which has greatly influenced
my life. Nowadays, my other Moonies (that�s what we Sailor Moon addicts call
ourselves, Moonies) and I go to the mall scouting out stores for Sailor Moon
merchandise. Our other non-Moonie friends get sick of our long conversations about
Sailor Moon and our constant references to the show. Every aspect of the show from the
voices of the characters, the actions, the facial expressions, and the dialogue all combine
to create a show so great that people of all ages can enjoy watching the successes of the
graceful, speech-making heroine Sailor Moon and the failures of her other self, the
clumsy, air-headed ditz Serena.
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