WEBVTT - Episode 13: Intro To Sailor Moon 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:14.000 Hey, what's up everybody. Welcome to Nerdificent. It's sitting across 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.960 from me as always, Danny Fernandez, and today we are 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.279 joined up top by one of our really good friends. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:21.759 She's a voice actor, a host and producer at Geek 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:23.759 and Century and a lot of other channels. Eric is 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.840 she hello. I'm so happy to me guys. I'm so 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.240 glad that you're here for the Sailor Moon episode because 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.400 I don't know if people know, but you are a 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.239 voice actress on Sailor Moon. That is that is a 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.680 new thing. It's just it blows my mind. We're allowed 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.080 to announce that, right, Okay, okay, it was It was well, 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.560 it was wild because usually you have to wait months 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:46.640 and months to announce anything and you have to wait 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:48.760 for it to come out. But because Sailor Moon is 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.960 such a huge property and the anime fans are like, 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.600 they want to know they're They're so lovely and supportive 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.720 of the voice actors, and I want to know who 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:02.720 they are. So almost immediately after I recorded, they announced 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.640 at Anime Boston, and so I started getting you were 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.400 still you were in the booth and they were like 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.000 surprised at jury, and I was like, yes, you can't 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:16.640 recast me. Yeah, smart, smart smart. So yeah, we'll get 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:18.880 into all of that and how you got cast and 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.160 and your involvement with us. But yeah, actually let's start 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:23.920 with your involvement. Like what was your first introduction to 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:28.640 Sailor Moon. Oh gosh, So growing up, I am Japanese American, 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:33.560 and so I would get little bits and pieces of 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.600 Japanese culture a little bit before they hit the United States, 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.240 because I had, you know, friends that would go and 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.800 family members that would be like, oh, this is the 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.520 newest toy that's popular over there here it is um. Yeah, 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.160 so Sailor Moon. I I started getting the toys and 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.080 things before I actually got to see it, before it 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:54.920 started coming over here, because back in the day, you 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.600 really just couldn't get anime unless like you happen to 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.840 get like a VHS. And I did have I think 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.600 at some point I did have bootleg VHSS or some 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:09.320 recording of it. Um. But I I had a toy 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.320 one of one of the sailors sent she wants. I 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.240 think I was actually like on a commercial that was 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:20.800 I was like playing a Japanese girl that you yeah, 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:26.320 we're a child actor, And so they let us keep 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.359 the little toys that it's it's in Japan. It's it's 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.920 a thing where you get lots of little toys with 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:36.000 their candies. And it happened to be uh, Sailor Sailor 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.760 Mercury's SENTI pen and I was like, what is this? 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.079 And and you know, I'd get a little dolls and everything, 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:47.160 and so that I guess Sailor Moon very very early on, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:48.880 and then it was one of my first anime that 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:52.440 I ever got to watch, and I love it so much, 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.519 has such a special place in my heart because I mean, 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.880 it's this kick butt team of girls and then that 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:06.080 and and also it was one of the early mainstream 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.960 Japanese pieces of culture that hit in the United States. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:11.880 And I had a hard time of it growing up 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.000 in a mostly white area and I got teased for 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:19.239 being Asian American. And then suddenly Sailor Moon and dragonball 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:23.720 Z hit and Pokemon and it was really cool and 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:27.200 people were like, oh, I understand Japanese culture now. Oh man, 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:28.760 you could have been like, oh, you were talking all 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:36.480 that s before we get into Sailor Mercury and you know, 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.960 the Sailor Sunshi and everything that you mentioned I do 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:42.160 want to say, so we I remember seeing you. Oh, 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.640 you like posted one of your acting when you were 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:49.320 like a little What else were you in? I was 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.600 about okay, yes, so you were in full house. Yes, 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:57.240 I remember, Okay, Yeah, I remember seeing little Erica ishi Um. Okay. 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:03.320 Now I'm ready to move on you. I can't tell, 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.240 I can't tell, Okay. So let's talk about the history 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.960 of Sailor Moon. So, Sailor Moon is a Japanese show 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.320 Joe manga, which manga for those that don't know, it 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.720 was essentially comics that were created in Japan and show 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:20.279 Joe being manga targeted mainly towards a younger female demographic. Now, Erica, 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.040 did you read the manga? I did. I read the 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.599 original Sailor Moon manga. It was being put out in 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.280 English when I was younger. And it's it's a very 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.440 different arts style than the original show was the new 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.800 show Sailor Moon crast Crystal, Yeah, is a lot closer 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.680 to the art style of the original manga. And the 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.279 original manga was a little more adult and darker and 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:51.480 just really beautiful and and I just have fond memories 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.719 of like tracing it and and like trying to replicate 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.000 that art style. Yeah, I did that with the manga 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.240 that I read as well. What did you read, Uh well, 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:04.560 Dragon Ball? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was so obsessed with 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.159 it and my I think I've told this story before, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.160 but so I was introduced to it from Tounami and 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.279 they would accept art submissions from kids that they would 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.080 then feature on cartoon. And so my brother actually had 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:23.000 drawn these beautiful transformations of Goku, the main character, and 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.880 all of his saying like transformations, and I was like, 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.159 why don't you submit this? Oh, my gosh, is so good. 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:30.760 It was like my older brother and I was like, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.919 this is He's amazing, you know, Like I looked up 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.039 to him and I kept bothering him to submit, and 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:40.159 then finally, Erica, he was like, I traced them. And 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.640 that's when you find out that like your hero, you know, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.440 it's a fraud. Um. That was the realization. That was 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:51.159 the realization that your heroes can hurt you. That's so 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.080 funny because I feel like that was a big thing 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.600 at that age because I remember there was this kid 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.440 in my elementary school who drew the So there's a 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.520 school out here called Long Beach Pole and their mascot 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.560 is the jack Rabbits, and he had a folder from there, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.120 and I didn't realize that he had the folder, but 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.960 I remember he drew the jack Rabbit and everyone was like, oh, 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.159 he's so good at drawing, so good. Remember the tracing 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.120 paper you would get right, That's what he did it on. 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:17.520 And so I was like, oh, can you draw me one? 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.240 He was like yeah, but I just need a paper 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:23.240 like this to do. Yeah, but I was this was like, 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.960 I think third fourth grade, so I could not connect 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:27.880 the dots. I was like, okay, I guess if I 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.159 find the paper. And then it was was until like 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:31.880 years later I thought back and I was like he 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:36.520 was tracing. Um. I think another one was Tenshi Mulo 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.960 so into the women in Timo, like I just wanted 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.000 to be them um and I used to draw their 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.360 like hairstyles and I loved it so much. But yeah, 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.720 moving back to Sailor Moon, so that was created. The 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.800 original manga is written illustrated by Nako taka Uchi, who 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:59.080 is married to Yoshahiro Togashi, who created You You Haka 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.159 Show and Hunter x Hunter. I would that I had 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.960 no idea that they were together. They were together This 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.560 is because, like you know, Show Joe is the is 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.600 the girl's manga on Show nin is the boys manga, 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.440 and Hunter x Hunter and you Haka show are like 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:21.280 huge boys manga, so they're like the power interesting. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:27.080 that she created She created this iconic, truly iconic and 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.760 one of the first really superhero team of women in 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.920 in Japanese manga that became so popular. And I like 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.400 that you said girls because they were so the Sailor 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:42.000 Moon followed um young teenage girls and the fact that 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.679 they were vulnerable but still powerful. You know, they still 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.160 worried about dates with guys. And it's a common theme 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.000 in a lot of I guess both Show Nan and 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.280 but specifically in Show Jo it's that you have to 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.920 balance being this superhero or living in this fantasy world 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:06.640 with your mid terms and liking boys. And it's so 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:10.760 relatable though. Yeah, yeah, if he did. You want to 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.120 talk about our hero Sagi? Yeah yeah. The series follows 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.960 a young girl named Usagi Sakina, also known as Serena 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:21.120 in The Dove. That's who I know. Yeah, I don't 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.640 know your original americanized names from The Deak Dove. Yeah, 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.200 all I know is Serena. I never also because I 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.160 never was into Sailor Mones. I never was like, I 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.640 gotta go back and watch the subs like it. I 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.240 just watched in passing because it would be on and 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:41.280 it was like paired with DBZ sometimes so but Serena 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.199 who meets Luna, a magical talking black cat that is 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.000 searching for the Moon Princess. Luna reveals that Usagi is 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.080 destined to save the Earth from the forces of evil 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.320 and gives her a broach to transform into Sailor Moon. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.600 She asked Usagi to form the Sailors Soldiers and find 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.160 the princess and protect the Silver Crystal, and as Usaki mature, 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.600 she becomes a power full warrior and protects her adopted 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.439 home planet Earth from villains who wished to harm it. 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.880 Usagi is depicted as a carefree and cheerful when at ease, 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:12.760 but promptly serious and strategic minded when fighting. Yeah, that 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.960 was one thing I always really liked and related to. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.319 Saki was the original sort of adorable heroine. Oh yeah, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.679 yeah yeah. And and because she was really kind of clumsy, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:27.040 yams and she was bad at cooking and just silly 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:31.480 and she ate a lot and I just like overslept. Yeah, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.200 like the first episode, right, her like oversleeping for school 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.840 and running downstairs and being a mess. Yes, yeah, she 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.080 was very likable. But I also remember in that first 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.439 episode her like crying. I think that was the title. 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.319 Let me look it up. I think that was like 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.200 the first episode, like was talking about her crying. She's 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.640 a cry baby. She was totally a cry baby. Yeah, 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.679 I think that was in the title. But anyways, yeah, 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:59.360 just her being a vulnerable superhero, you know, and how 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.080 how and age girl might act if she then found 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.920 out that she was, you know, in charge of of 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:11.160 finding um the rest of these Sailor Soldiers. So, Usagi's 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.080 critical reception has been largely positive, and she's recognized as 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.840 one of the most important and popular female superheroes of 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.800 all time. The names for Sailor Moon's attacks sent around 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.240 the Moon, Love, Mystery, and Light. Starting Out as a frightened, 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.080 reluctant girl often in need of help, she gradually accepts 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.920 her full identity. She eventually becomes the most powerful Sailor 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.000 Soldier in the galaxy, but her capacity for caring for 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:37.880 others is shown to be more powerful. Still. Yeah, I 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.520 just remember kind of getting taste of the beginning of 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.200 Sailor Moon and taste towards the end when it just 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.640 seemed like it got so intense, like there was like 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.400 a little girl who was with her, that's her daughter 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.599 from the future. Yeah, and so so things get really complicated, 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.920 and I guess Whi's nice is there's usually a monster 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:58.840 a week, and so you don't necessarily need to know 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:03.440 everything that happened that you know the overarching storylines for 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.440 for different parts of it. So so she finds the 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.000 Sailor Scouts and then I guess spoiler alert, it turns 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:13.440 up she she's the queen, Queen Serenity. Uh. And and 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.880 then there's like a bunch of different storylines that go 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.319 from there. Yeah. And then there's Tuxedo mask. He came 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.480 into the picture. Yeah, why don't we talk about tuxedo 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.240 masks if he that's the next thing up. Oh yeah, 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:29.720 So mam Aru Chiba in the DUB he was Darren Shields, 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:35.079 d Dairy Darien Oh my gosh. Yeah, and then Mamo 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.880 because like the thing is about the new Dub and 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.800 about the New Sailor Moon. Like re issuings is they 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.839 all have their original Japanese name. It's cool. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:49.880 it was interesting that they nicknamed him Darien. Yeah, I'm like, 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.000 is that just what fit with the because sometimes they'll 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.640 change their names to like whatever fits with the lip movements, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.000 you know what I mean when they're dubbing. Yeah, but 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.280 I don't know. But that's like haw and in the 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.920 past where it was like, oh, this looks like Dari. Yeah, 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.160 I actually don't know about that because like Serena makes 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:13.000 sense because that's the moon goddess from Greek mythology. Or 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:17.280 Serena is like and Serenity and the moon and Selena. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.480 It's like els and rs or a thing anyway. But yeah, 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.560 Darry and I don't know why Darien. Well, I will 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.720 let you know that Darien was a student somewhat older 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.800 than Usagi. As a young child, he was in a 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.040 car accident that killed his parents and erased his memories. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.280 He possesses a special psychic rapport with Usagi and consents 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.640 when she's in danger. This inspires him to take on 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.640 the guys as tuxedo mask and fight alongside the Sailor 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.920 soldiers when needed. After an initially confrontational relationship, he and 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.480 u Sagi remember their past lives together and fall in 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.560 love again. I had the biggest crush on him everyone day. 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.840 Yeah me too, if he did you as well. I 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.560 just knew all the all the girls at my school 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.840 would be like Tuxedo. He's kind of like, you know 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:07.200 before negging had a term like that was Yeah he 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:11.720 called her well, who was meatable? Head? Yeah, but but 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.880 it's like the dongle like dongo buns. Yeah, he would 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.560 call her head. Yeah. They would fight whenever they saw 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.960 each other. I love those I'm always mean, you know, 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.679 I always love those types of relationships. It's like the 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:31.439 Vegeta Boma, the Aladdin Princess Jasmine. It's the original, Like, no, 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.320 I don't want anything to do with you. It's true, 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:38.280 So you jerk for me. Beatrice and Benedict from What 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:44.400 You Do About Nothing from Shakespeare's Is I think that? Really? Yeah? 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.079 I was gonna say Darcy and Eliza, yes, of course, 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:53.080 and like definitely Jane Austen heroine and all. It's like, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.040 how dare you now I have a crush on you? 0:13:55.640 --> 0:14:00.360 It's so hard. I think you can change them. They're 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.160 so troubled. Yeah. So, so we had Tuxedo mask who 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:08.679 as you can guess at a mask and wore head tuxedo. Um, 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.960 he had like the stereotypical like mask, you know, like, um, 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:13.680 what am I thinking? Like Phantom of the Opera? No, 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.360 that was like a half dominant mask. Yeah, yeah, there 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.800 we go, There we go, There we go. Um. Moving on, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.920 let's talk about some of the sailors. So there's several. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:27.080 We have Ammi Mazzuno who goes by Amy Amy Anderson, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.920 who is Sailor Mercury. So she's a quiet, but intelligent 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.560 fourteen year old boocorm in Usagi's class with a rumored 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.520 i Q of three hundred um. She can transform into 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.280 Sailor Mercury, soldier of water and wisdom, and she hopes 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.320 to be a doctor one day like her mother, intends 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:46.000 to be the practical one in the group. Was there 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:51.560 a particular sailor that you gravitated. Yeah, yeah, she's the 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.560 next one that we were going to talk about, Rayheno, 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.800 Sailor Mars And because I love fire and my favorite 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.040 col it was Red and she was just the fire 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:07.040 and rebellious and I really loved her growing up. Yeah, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.280 if you don't want to tell us a little bit 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.480 more about Ray, was Bay for me, So I didn't like. 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:15.520 I was like, that's always like always like the like hardcore, 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:20.440 you know, don't give a ding like RPG not RPG, 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.560 But anime characters are like, I'm always like yes, but 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:28.120 yeah Ray, you know who was Ray? He know in 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.000 the dub. You know, they really worked hard on switching 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:34.320 it up for the dub. So um. She was elegant 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.960 fourteen year old Miko, which I do need to point 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.920 at the time, I was around the same age, you know. Uh. 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.440 And because of her work as a Shinto princess, Ray 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.680 had limited precognition and could dispel or nullify evil using 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.880 special of fudo scrolls. Even yeah, I'll say it for you, 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:56.120 she's a priestess. But yeah no, So even in her 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.720 civilian form she was able to like handle and then 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.520 she transformed into Sailor Mars, which is the soldier of 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.840 fire and passion. She's very serious and focused and easily 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:08.000 gets annoyed by Usagi's laziness, although she cares about her 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.040 very much. In the anime adaptation, Ray is portrayed as 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.440 boy crazy and short tempered throughout, while in the manga 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.200 and live action series she has depicted as uninterested in 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.720 romance and more self controlled. She attends a private Catholic school, 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:25.360 separate from the other girls that I didn't know actually, yeah, 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.560 but I do know that they all wear their uniform 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.160 from their school. Yeah, so this is so, this is 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.720 the one that you were sailor Mars was the one 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.080 that you had the most like growing up, that you 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.280 identified with them. I identified with her the most, definitely 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.520 the passion and the fire. In the manga, she is 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.960 a lot more dutiful. She's like a dutiful shrine maiden priestess. 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:52.400 But in the anime she's definitely the fiery one. Yeah, 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:57.480 I will say, you know, there was some uh controversy 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.720 I feel like when it came over here, just because 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:05.119 we're so weirdly obsessive with censorship, like about their outfits 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.320 being too flirtatious. I do know that in the dub 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.400 they also like there are a couple of scenes where 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.639 they kind of like made it look like they didn't 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:16.680 have boobs, which is so I didn't like the outline, 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:20.160 just just even like the outline yeah yeah yeah, which 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:23.240 I'm just a transformation. Girls have boobs, like I got. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.640 My first brawl was like eleven or twelve but um, yeah, 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.479 like it's so weird, how like they couldn't even have 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.720 that like outline of it, and it wasn't even like 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.520 a sexual way. It was just in that's how the 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.280 female anatomy works, right when you're in high school. But yeah, 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:38.879 there were a lot of things that they ended up 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.160 in the dub because one of our researchers had linked 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.040 a video to like some of the changes that had 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.280 been made from the sub to the dub. And it's 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.600 just so weird, Like we see this a lot in 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.000 especially with anime when it comes over here, like just 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:54.119 how censored we are about things because we're so weird 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:58.040 about sexuality and bodies. Oh and I mean the real 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:04.400 big one, of course is Uranus and Neptune. Yea cousins. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.520 Yeah yes, um, do you want to talk about that 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.280 a little bit more? Man? Okay, Yeah, So so Sailor 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:15.280 Sailor's Uranus and Neptune in the original manga are lesbians 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:20.880 their lovers and uh. In when it was brought over 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:25.760 to America, I guess they were still really uncomfortable with that, 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.240 and and so they made it so that they were 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:32.040 cousins and they constantly say things and do things in 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.000 their body languages, such that I don't know what kind 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:39.399 of relationship you have with yourka, but that let me 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.960 tell you, I make out with my cousin often, and 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.160 it was it was just so obvious. And then also 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.679 in the manga they're still even when it was translated, 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:52.920 they were still lovers and you could tell. So it's 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:58.600 a very important relationship. Honestly, it is um for LGBTQ representation, 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.520 and and so it was really heartbreaking that they felt 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.000 that they had to change it coming over here. But 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:08.480 now with the reissue, they are once again lesbians. Oh 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.720 that's great. Yeah, and that's the one that you're getting 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.320 to Boiston. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, awesome, awesome. Well we'll 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:18.880 actually get into Sailor Yarnus and Sailor Neptune right after 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:28.280 this break and we're back, so let's talk about the 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:33.160 actual Sailor Neptune. So in the dubs, she was named 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:39.399 Michelle Oh my god, I forgot that. Yeah yeah, or 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:44.080 Michelle um So she's an elegant and talented violinist and 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:47.760 a painter with family money. And then um yes, her 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:53.080 partner is Haruka um Sailor Yarness. So Sailor Neptune is 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:57.200 able to transform into Sailor Neptune, soldier of ocean and embrace, 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:00.080 and she worked alone for some time before find in 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:03.879 her partner, and she ultimately given up on her dreams 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:05.960 for the life of a soldier. If you do, you 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:09.720 want to talk about sailor Urinus, Yeah, which I gotta 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:13.000 say most of my life. I just called her sailor Uranus. 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.119 So uranus is how you say it, I think both 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:20.359 scientifically and always. But yeah, how do you got? Tena 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:24.760 called Amara Tenno in the original English stub, is a 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:27.840 good natured, masculine acting girl who was a year older 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:30.120 than most of the other sailor soldiers. She is able 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:33.399 to transform in a Sailor Uranus soldier of sky and flight. 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.520 Before becoming a sailor soldier, she dreamt of becoming a 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.560 racer and she has excellent driving skills. She tends to 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.439 dress in an anime, speak like a man. Now this 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:48.600 who clarified. So there are different speech patterns and grammar 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.720 that you use basic gender and certain like ways of 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:56.639 addressing people or addressing your referring to yourself that is 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:01.560 more masculine or feminine forms. It's different than like Latin languages, 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.480 but there is there are different ways and then also 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.359 but similar like if I if I used Spanish male 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:13.320 pronouns for my or for myself, yeah, instead of being Latina. Yeah. 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:17.240 Like for instance, when you when you say what it's 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:21.400 like I sort of and that's like women and it's 0:21:21.400 --> 0:21:24.080 it's a general use thing. But then like if you 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:29.119 specifically say something like oa wa, that's like I uh 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:32.840 but very like macho. Okay, so there's like what macho 0:21:32.920 --> 0:21:35.280 ways of saying things and she spoke really macho, so 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:38.199 you would agree with cool? Yeah? Absolutely, Okay. I was like, 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:41.080 who wrote this? And what classifies is talking like a man? 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:46.679 Just being powerful? Yeah, there's definitely specifically. I was like, 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:50.080 let me look up this research. Excuse me. Wasn't just 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:53.600 that she liked to lift weights because that's a thing too, 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:56.400 But no, you're saying that this actually does check out 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.879 that she that's how she identifies um Okay, great, she 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.920 was very masculine in her in her forms of speech. Great, great, Great. 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:08.080 Let's talk about um sailor Venus, who I don't think 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:12.600 that we've gotten into yet. So Mina or Minako, who 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:16.520 is a fourteen year old perky Dreamer. She first appears 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.760 as the main protagonist in code named Sailor V. She 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:22.959 has a companion cat called Artemis who works alongside Luna. 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:25.800 So that was the original black cat. Um that first 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:29.040 kind of started this with a Sailor Moon with Usagi 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:34.440 in guiding the Sailor soldiers. Um so, uh, Minako is 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:37.600 that me saying that? Right? Okay? Minacho transforms into Sailor 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:41.719 Venus soldier of love and beauty and lead Sailor Moons 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:45.640 for Inner Soldiers while acting as Sailor Moon's bodyguard in decoy. 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:50.320 Because of their near identical looks, that did always confuse me. Yeah, no, well, 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:53.360 actually it was. It was very intentional for that. They 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.720 were supposed to look alike. And actually it's funny because 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:01.920 originally Minacho was brading as Sailor V sort of this 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:06.320 superhero within their world. Yeah, and she already had her 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.480 sort of sent she outfit, right, and she was wearing 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:12.560 a mask, and I think there was like they're little 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:15.840 plushy dolls of her that Usagi was trying to win, 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:20.440 and I guess they and then eventually they figure out 0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:24.000 that she is indeed one of the Sailors sent she Yeah, yeah, 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:25.840 she was already kind of out like you said, she 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:29.040 was already a known sailor in their world. Sailor like 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:31.919 superhero in their world. Um, if you do you want 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:35.720