Speaker 1: Hey, what's up everybody. Welcome to Nerdificent. It's sitting across
Speaker 1: from me as always, Danny Fernandez, and today we are
Speaker 1: joined up top by one of our really good friends.
Speaker 1: She's a voice actor, a host and producer at Geek
Speaker 1: and Century and a lot of other channels. Eric is
Speaker 1: she hello. I'm so happy to me guys. I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that you're here for the Sailor Moon episode because
Speaker 1: I don't know if people know, but you are a
Speaker 1: voice actress on Sailor Moon. That is that is a
Speaker 1: new thing. It's just it blows my mind. We're allowed
Speaker 1: to announce that, right, Okay, okay, it was It was well,
Speaker 1: it was wild because usually you have to wait months
Speaker 1: and months to announce anything and you have to wait
Speaker 1: for it to come out. But because Sailor Moon is
Speaker 1: such a huge property and the anime fans are like,
Speaker 1: they want to know they're They're so lovely and supportive
Speaker 1: of the voice actors, and I want to know who
Speaker 1: they are. So almost immediately after I recorded, they announced
Speaker 1: at Anime Boston, and so I started getting you were
Speaker 1: still you were in the booth and they were like
Speaker 1: surprised at jury, and I was like, yes, you can't
Speaker 1: recast me. Yeah, smart, smart smart. So yeah, we'll get
Speaker 1: into all of that and how you got cast and
Speaker 1: and your involvement with us. But yeah, actually let's start
Speaker 1: with your involvement. Like what was your first introduction to
Speaker 1: Sailor Moon. Oh gosh, So growing up, I am Japanese American,
Speaker 1: and so I would get little bits and pieces of
Speaker 1: Japanese culture a little bit before they hit the United States,
Speaker 1: because I had, you know, friends that would go and
Speaker 1: family members that would be like, oh, this is the
Speaker 1: newest toy that's popular over there here it is um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Sailor Moon. I I started getting the toys and
Speaker 1: things before I actually got to see it, before it
Speaker 1: started coming over here, because back in the day, you
Speaker 1: really just couldn't get anime unless like you happen to
Speaker 1: get like a VHS. And I did have I think
Speaker 1: at some point I did have bootleg VHSS or some
Speaker 1: recording of it. Um. But I I had a toy
Speaker 1: one of one of the sailors sent she wants. I
Speaker 1: think I was actually like on a commercial that was
Speaker 1: I was like playing a Japanese girl that you yeah,
Speaker 1: we're a child actor, And so they let us keep
Speaker 1: the little toys that it's it's in Japan. It's it's
Speaker 1: a thing where you get lots of little toys with
Speaker 1: their candies. And it happened to be uh, Sailor Sailor
Speaker 1: Mercury's SENTI pen and I was like, what is this?
Speaker 1: And and you know, I'd get a little dolls and everything,
Speaker 1: and so that I guess Sailor Moon very very early on,
Speaker 1: and then it was one of my first anime that
Speaker 1: I ever got to watch, and I love it so much,
Speaker 1: has such a special place in my heart because I mean,
Speaker 1: it's this kick butt team of girls and then that
Speaker 1: and and also it was one of the early mainstream
Speaker 1: Japanese pieces of culture that hit in the United States.
Speaker 1: And I had a hard time of it growing up
Speaker 1: in a mostly white area and I got teased for
Speaker 1: being Asian American. And then suddenly Sailor Moon and dragonball
Speaker 1: Z hit and Pokemon and it was really cool and
Speaker 1: people were like, oh, I understand Japanese culture now. Oh man,
Speaker 1: you could have been like, oh, you were talking all
Speaker 1: that s before we get into Sailor Mercury and you know,
Speaker 1: the Sailor Sunshi and everything that you mentioned I do
Speaker 1: want to say, so we I remember seeing you. Oh,
Speaker 1: you like posted one of your acting when you were
Speaker 1: like a little What else were you in? I was
Speaker 1: about okay, yes, so you were in full house. Yes,
Speaker 1: I remember, Okay, Yeah, I remember seeing little Erica ishi Um. Okay.
Speaker 1: Now I'm ready to move on you. I can't tell,
Speaker 1: I can't tell, Okay. So let's talk about the history
Speaker 1: of Sailor Moon. So, Sailor Moon is a Japanese show
Speaker 1: Joe manga, which manga for those that don't know, it
Speaker 1: was essentially comics that were created in Japan and show
Speaker 1: Joe being manga targeted mainly towards a younger female demographic. Now, Erica,
Speaker 1: did you read the manga? I did. I read the
Speaker 1: original Sailor Moon manga. It was being put out in
Speaker 1: English when I was younger. And it's it's a very
Speaker 1: different arts style than the original show was the new
Speaker 1: show Sailor Moon crast Crystal, Yeah, is a lot closer
Speaker 1: to the art style of the original manga. And the
Speaker 1: original manga was a little more adult and darker and
Speaker 1: just really beautiful and and I just have fond memories
Speaker 1: of like tracing it and and like trying to replicate
Speaker 1: that art style. Yeah, I did that with the manga
Speaker 1: that I read as well. What did you read, Uh well,
Speaker 1: Dragon Ball? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was so obsessed with
Speaker 1: it and my I think I've told this story before,
Speaker 1: but so I was introduced to it from Tounami and
Speaker 1: they would accept art submissions from kids that they would
Speaker 1: then feature on cartoon. And so my brother actually had
Speaker 1: drawn these beautiful transformations of Goku, the main character, and
Speaker 1: all of his saying like transformations, and I was like,
Speaker 1: why don't you submit this? Oh, my gosh, is so good.
Speaker 1: It was like my older brother and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is He's amazing, you know, Like I looked up
Speaker 1: to him and I kept bothering him to submit, and
Speaker 1: then finally, Erica, he was like, I traced them. And
Speaker 1: that's when you find out that like your hero, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a fraud. Um. That was the realization. That was
Speaker 1: the realization that your heroes can hurt you. That's so
Speaker 1: funny because I feel like that was a big thing
Speaker 1: at that age because I remember there was this kid
Speaker 1: in my elementary school who drew the So there's a
Speaker 1: school out here called Long Beach Pole and their mascot
Speaker 1: is the jack Rabbits, and he had a folder from there,
Speaker 1: and I didn't realize that he had the folder, but
Speaker 1: I remember he drew the jack Rabbit and everyone was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's so good at drawing, so good. Remember the tracing
Speaker 1: paper you would get right, That's what he did it on.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, oh, can you draw me one?
Speaker 1: He was like yeah, but I just need a paper
Speaker 1: like this to do. Yeah, but I was this was like,
Speaker 1: I think third fourth grade, so I could not connect
Speaker 1: the dots. I was like, okay, I guess if I
Speaker 1: find the paper. And then it was was until like
Speaker 1: years later I thought back and I was like he
Speaker 1: was tracing. Um. I think another one was Tenshi Mulo
Speaker 1: so into the women in Timo, like I just wanted
Speaker 1: to be them um and I used to draw their
Speaker 1: like hairstyles and I loved it so much. But yeah,
Speaker 1: moving back to Sailor Moon, so that was created. The
Speaker 1: original manga is written illustrated by Nako taka Uchi, who
Speaker 1: is married to Yoshahiro Togashi, who created You You Haka
Speaker 1: Show and Hunter x Hunter. I would that I had
Speaker 1: no idea that they were together. They were together This
Speaker 1: is because, like you know, Show Joe is the is
Speaker 1: the girl's manga on Show nin is the boys manga,
Speaker 1: and Hunter x Hunter and you Haka show are like
Speaker 1: huge boys manga, so they're like the power interesting. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that she created She created this iconic, truly iconic and
Speaker 1: one of the first really superhero team of women in
Speaker 1: in Japanese manga that became so popular. And I like
Speaker 1: that you said girls because they were so the Sailor
Speaker 1: Moon followed um young teenage girls and the fact that
Speaker 1: they were vulnerable but still powerful. You know, they still
Speaker 1: worried about dates with guys. And it's a common theme
Speaker 1: in a lot of I guess both Show Nan and
Speaker 1: but specifically in Show Jo it's that you have to
Speaker 1: balance being this superhero or living in this fantasy world
Speaker 1: with your mid terms and liking boys. And it's so
Speaker 1: relatable though. Yeah, yeah, if he did. You want to
Speaker 1: talk about our hero Sagi? Yeah yeah. The series follows
Speaker 1: a young girl named Usagi Sakina, also known as Serena
Speaker 1: in The Dove. That's who I know. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know your original americanized names from The Deak Dove. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all I know is Serena. I never also because I
Speaker 1: never was into Sailor Mones. I never was like, I
Speaker 1: gotta go back and watch the subs like it. I
Speaker 1: just watched in passing because it would be on and
Speaker 1: it was like paired with DBZ sometimes so but Serena
Speaker 1: who meets Luna, a magical talking black cat that is
Speaker 1: searching for the Moon Princess. Luna reveals that Usagi is
Speaker 1: destined to save the Earth from the forces of evil
Speaker 1: and gives her a broach to transform into Sailor Moon.
Speaker 1: She asked Usagi to form the Sailors Soldiers and find
Speaker 1: the princess and protect the Silver Crystal, and as Usaki mature,
Speaker 1: she becomes a power full warrior and protects her adopted
Speaker 1: home planet Earth from villains who wished to harm it.
Speaker 1: Usagi is depicted as a carefree and cheerful when at ease,
Speaker 1: but promptly serious and strategic minded when fighting. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was one thing I always really liked and related to.
Speaker 1: Saki was the original sort of adorable heroine. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. And and because she was really kind of clumsy,
Speaker 1: yams and she was bad at cooking and just silly
Speaker 1: and she ate a lot and I just like overslept. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the first episode, right, her like oversleeping for school
Speaker 1: and running downstairs and being a mess. Yes, yeah, she
Speaker 1: was very likable. But I also remember in that first
Speaker 1: episode her like crying. I think that was the title.
Speaker 1: Let me look it up. I think that was like
Speaker 1: the first episode, like was talking about her crying. She's
Speaker 1: a cry baby. She was totally a cry baby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that was in the title. But anyways, yeah,
Speaker 1: just her being a vulnerable superhero, you know, and how
Speaker 1: how and age girl might act if she then found
Speaker 1: out that she was, you know, in charge of of
Speaker 1: finding um the rest of these Sailor Soldiers. So, Usagi's
Speaker 1: critical reception has been largely positive, and she's recognized as
Speaker 1: one of the most important and popular female superheroes of
Speaker 1: all time. The names for Sailor Moon's attacks sent around
Speaker 1: the Moon, Love, Mystery, and Light. Starting Out as a frightened,
Speaker 1: reluctant girl often in need of help, she gradually accepts
Speaker 1: her full identity. She eventually becomes the most powerful Sailor
Speaker 1: Soldier in the galaxy, but her capacity for caring for
Speaker 1: others is shown to be more powerful. Still. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just remember kind of getting taste of the beginning of
Speaker 1: Sailor Moon and taste towards the end when it just
Speaker 1: seemed like it got so intense, like there was like
Speaker 1: a little girl who was with her, that's her daughter
Speaker 1: from the future. Yeah, and so so things get really complicated,
Speaker 1: and I guess Whi's nice is there's usually a monster
Speaker 1: a week, and so you don't necessarily need to know
Speaker 1: everything that happened that you know the overarching storylines for
Speaker 1: for different parts of it. So so she finds the
Speaker 1: Sailor Scouts and then I guess spoiler alert, it turns
Speaker 1: up she she's the queen, Queen Serenity. Uh. And and
Speaker 1: then there's like a bunch of different storylines that go
Speaker 1: from there. Yeah. And then there's Tuxedo mask. He came
Speaker 1: into the picture. Yeah, why don't we talk about tuxedo
Speaker 1: masks if he that's the next thing up. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: So mam Aru Chiba in the DUB he was Darren Shields,
Speaker 1: d Dairy Darien Oh my gosh. Yeah, and then Mamo
Speaker 1: because like the thing is about the new Dub and
Speaker 1: about the New Sailor Moon. Like re issuings is they
Speaker 1: all have their original Japanese name. It's cool. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was interesting that they nicknamed him Darien. Yeah, I'm like,
Speaker 1: is that just what fit with the because sometimes they'll
Speaker 1: change their names to like whatever fits with the lip movements,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean when they're dubbing. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. But that's like haw and in the
Speaker 1: past where it was like, oh, this looks like Dari. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually don't know about that because like Serena makes
Speaker 1: sense because that's the moon goddess from Greek mythology. Or
Speaker 1: Serena is like and Serenity and the moon and Selena.
Speaker 1: It's like els and rs or a thing anyway. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Darry and I don't know why Darien. Well, I will
Speaker 1: let you know that Darien was a student somewhat older
Speaker 1: than Usagi. As a young child, he was in a
Speaker 1: car accident that killed his parents and erased his memories.
Speaker 1: He possesses a special psychic rapport with Usagi and consents
Speaker 1: when she's in danger. This inspires him to take on
Speaker 1: the guys as tuxedo mask and fight alongside the Sailor
Speaker 1: soldiers when needed. After an initially confrontational relationship, he and
Speaker 1: u Sagi remember their past lives together and fall in
Speaker 1: love again. I had the biggest crush on him everyone day.
Speaker 1: Yeah me too, if he did you as well. I
Speaker 1: just knew all the all the girls at my school
Speaker 1: would be like Tuxedo. He's kind of like, you know
Speaker 1: before negging had a term like that was Yeah he
Speaker 1: called her well, who was meatable? Head? Yeah, but but
Speaker 1: it's like the dongle like dongo buns. Yeah, he would
Speaker 1: call her head. Yeah. They would fight whenever they saw
Speaker 1: each other. I love those I'm always mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I always love those types of relationships. It's like the
Speaker 1: Vegeta Boma, the Aladdin Princess Jasmine. It's the original, Like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want anything to do with you. It's true,
Speaker 1: So you jerk for me. Beatrice and Benedict from What
Speaker 1: You Do About Nothing from Shakespeare's Is I think that? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Darcy and Eliza, yes, of course,
Speaker 1: and like definitely Jane Austen heroine and all. It's like,
Speaker 1: how dare you now I have a crush on you?
Speaker 1: It's so hard. I think you can change them. They're
Speaker 1: so troubled. Yeah. So, so we had Tuxedo mask who
Speaker 1: as you can guess at a mask and wore head tuxedo. Um,
Speaker 1: he had like the stereotypical like mask, you know, like, um,
Speaker 1: what am I thinking? Like Phantom of the Opera? No,
Speaker 1: that was like a half dominant mask. Yeah, yeah, there
Speaker 1: we go, There we go, There we go. Um. Moving on,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the sailors. So there's several.
Speaker 1: We have Ammi Mazzuno who goes by Amy Amy Anderson,
Speaker 1: who is Sailor Mercury. So she's a quiet, but intelligent
Speaker 1: fourteen year old boocorm in Usagi's class with a rumored
Speaker 1: i Q of three hundred um. She can transform into
Speaker 1: Sailor Mercury, soldier of water and wisdom, and she hopes
Speaker 1: to be a doctor one day like her mother, intends
Speaker 1: to be the practical one in the group. Was there
Speaker 1: a particular sailor that you gravitated. Yeah, yeah, she's the
Speaker 1: next one that we were going to talk about, Rayheno,
Speaker 1: Sailor Mars And because I love fire and my favorite
Speaker 1: col it was Red and she was just the fire
Speaker 1: and rebellious and I really loved her growing up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you don't want to tell us a little bit
Speaker 1: more about Ray, was Bay for me, So I didn't like.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's always like always like the like hardcore,
Speaker 1: you know, don't give a ding like RPG not RPG,
Speaker 1: But anime characters are like, I'm always like yes, but
Speaker 1: yeah Ray, you know who was Ray? He know in
Speaker 1: the dub. You know, they really worked hard on switching
Speaker 1: it up for the dub. So um. She was elegant
Speaker 1: fourteen year old Miko, which I do need to point
Speaker 1: at the time, I was around the same age, you know. Uh.
Speaker 1: And because of her work as a Shinto princess, Ray
Speaker 1: had limited precognition and could dispel or nullify evil using
Speaker 1: special of fudo scrolls. Even yeah, I'll say it for you,
Speaker 1: she's a priestess. But yeah no, So even in her
Speaker 1: civilian form she was able to like handle and then
Speaker 1: she transformed into Sailor Mars, which is the soldier of
Speaker 1: fire and passion. She's very serious and focused and easily
Speaker 1: gets annoyed by Usagi's laziness, although she cares about her
Speaker 1: very much. In the anime adaptation, Ray is portrayed as
Speaker 1: boy crazy and short tempered throughout, while in the manga
Speaker 1: and live action series she has depicted as uninterested in
Speaker 1: romance and more self controlled. She attends a private Catholic school,
Speaker 1: separate from the other girls that I didn't know actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I do know that they all wear their uniform
Speaker 1: from their school. Yeah, so this is so, this is
Speaker 1: the one that you were sailor Mars was the one
Speaker 1: that you had the most like growing up, that you
Speaker 1: identified with them. I identified with her the most, definitely
Speaker 1: the passion and the fire. In the manga, she is
Speaker 1: a lot more dutiful. She's like a dutiful shrine maiden priestess.
Speaker 1: But in the anime she's definitely the fiery one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will say, you know, there was some uh controversy
Speaker 1: I feel like when it came over here, just because
Speaker 1: we're so weirdly obsessive with censorship, like about their outfits
Speaker 1: being too flirtatious. I do know that in the dub
Speaker 1: they also like there are a couple of scenes where
Speaker 1: they kind of like made it look like they didn't
Speaker 1: have boobs, which is so I didn't like the outline,
Speaker 1: just just even like the outline yeah yeah yeah, which
Speaker 1: I'm just a transformation. Girls have boobs, like I got.
Speaker 1: My first brawl was like eleven or twelve but um, yeah,
Speaker 1: like it's so weird, how like they couldn't even have
Speaker 1: that like outline of it, and it wasn't even like
Speaker 1: a sexual way. It was just in that's how the
Speaker 1: female anatomy works, right when you're in high school. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of things that they ended up
Speaker 1: in the dub because one of our researchers had linked
Speaker 1: a video to like some of the changes that had
Speaker 1: been made from the sub to the dub. And it's
Speaker 1: just so weird, Like we see this a lot in
Speaker 1: especially with anime when it comes over here, like just
Speaker 1: how censored we are about things because we're so weird
Speaker 1: about sexuality and bodies. Oh and I mean the real
Speaker 1: big one, of course is Uranus and Neptune. Yea cousins.
Speaker 1: Yeah yes, um, do you want to talk about that
Speaker 1: a little bit more? Man? Okay, Yeah, So so Sailor
Speaker 1: Sailor's Uranus and Neptune in the original manga are lesbians
Speaker 1: their lovers and uh. In when it was brought over
Speaker 1: to America, I guess they were still really uncomfortable with that,
Speaker 1: and and so they made it so that they were
Speaker 1: cousins and they constantly say things and do things in
Speaker 1: their body languages, such that I don't know what kind
Speaker 1: of relationship you have with yourka, but that let me
Speaker 1: tell you, I make out with my cousin often, and
Speaker 1: it was it was just so obvious. And then also
Speaker 1: in the manga they're still even when it was translated,
Speaker 1: they were still lovers and you could tell. So it's
Speaker 1: a very important relationship. Honestly, it is um for LGBTQ representation,
Speaker 1: and and so it was really heartbreaking that they felt
Speaker 1: that they had to change it coming over here. But
Speaker 1: now with the reissue, they are once again lesbians. Oh
Speaker 1: that's great. Yeah, and that's the one that you're getting
Speaker 1: to Boiston. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, awesome, awesome. Well we'll
Speaker 1: actually get into Sailor Yarnus and Sailor Neptune right after
Speaker 1: this break and we're back, so let's talk about the
Speaker 1: actual Sailor Neptune. So in the dubs, she was named
Speaker 1: Michelle Oh my god, I forgot that. Yeah yeah, or
Speaker 1: Michelle um So she's an elegant and talented violinist and
Speaker 1: a painter with family money. And then um yes, her
Speaker 1: partner is Haruka um Sailor Yarness. So Sailor Neptune is
Speaker 1: able to transform into Sailor Neptune, soldier of ocean and embrace,
Speaker 1: and she worked alone for some time before find in
Speaker 1: her partner, and she ultimately given up on her dreams
Speaker 1: for the life of a soldier. If you do, you
Speaker 1: want to talk about sailor Urinus, Yeah, which I gotta
Speaker 1: say most of my life. I just called her sailor Uranus.
Speaker 1: So uranus is how you say it, I think both
Speaker 1: scientifically and always. But yeah, how do you got? Tena
Speaker 1: called Amara Tenno in the original English stub, is a
Speaker 1: good natured, masculine acting girl who was a year older
Speaker 1: than most of the other sailor soldiers. She is able
Speaker 1: to transform in a Sailor Uranus soldier of sky and flight.
Speaker 1: Before becoming a sailor soldier, she dreamt of becoming a
Speaker 1: racer and she has excellent driving skills. She tends to
Speaker 1: dress in an anime, speak like a man. Now this
Speaker 1: who clarified. So there are different speech patterns and grammar
Speaker 1: that you use basic gender and certain like ways of
Speaker 1: addressing people or addressing your referring to yourself that is
Speaker 1: more masculine or feminine forms. It's different than like Latin languages,
Speaker 1: but there is there are different ways and then also
Speaker 1: but similar like if I if I used Spanish male
Speaker 1: pronouns for my or for myself, yeah, instead of being Latina. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like for instance, when you when you say what it's
Speaker 1: like I sort of and that's like women and it's
Speaker 1: it's a general use thing. But then like if you
Speaker 1: specifically say something like oa wa, that's like I uh
Speaker 1: but very like macho. Okay, so there's like what macho
Speaker 1: ways of saying things and she spoke really macho, so
Speaker 1: you would agree with cool? Yeah? Absolutely, Okay. I was like,
Speaker 1: who wrote this? And what classifies is talking like a man?
Speaker 1: Just being powerful? Yeah, there's definitely specifically. I was like,
Speaker 1: let me look up this research. Excuse me. Wasn't just
Speaker 1: that she liked to lift weights because that's a thing too,
Speaker 1: But no, you're saying that this actually does check out
Speaker 1: that she that's how she identifies um Okay, great, she
Speaker 1: was very masculine in her in her forms of speech. Great, great, Great.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about um sailor Venus, who I don't think
Speaker 1: that we've gotten into yet. So Mina or Minako, who
Speaker 1: is a fourteen year old perky Dreamer. She first appears
Speaker 1: as the main protagonist in code named Sailor V. She
Speaker 1: has a companion cat called Artemis who works alongside Luna.
Speaker 1: So that was the original black cat. Um that first
Speaker 1: kind of started this with a Sailor Moon with Usagi
Speaker 1: in guiding the Sailor soldiers. Um so, uh, Minako is
Speaker 1: that me saying that? Right? Okay? Minacho transforms into Sailor
Speaker 1: Venus soldier of love and beauty and lead Sailor Moons
Speaker 1: for Inner Soldiers while acting as Sailor Moon's bodyguard in decoy.
Speaker 1: Because of their near identical looks, that did always confuse me. Yeah, no, well,
Speaker 1: actually it was. It was very intentional for that. They
Speaker 1: were supposed to look alike. And actually it's funny because
Speaker 1: originally Minacho was brading as Sailor V sort of this
Speaker 1: superhero within their world. Yeah, and she already had her
Speaker 1: sort of sent she outfit, right, and she was wearing
Speaker 1: a mask, and I think there was like they're little
Speaker 1: plushy dolls of her that Usagi was trying to win,
Speaker 1: and I guess they and then eventually they figure out
Speaker 1: that she is indeed one of the Sailors sent she Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she was already kind of out like you said, she
Speaker 1: was already a known sailor in their world. Sailor like
Speaker 1: superhero in their world. Um, if you do you want
Speaker 1: to talk about Sailor Jupiter. Yeah, Sailor Jupiter makes the
Speaker 1: boy stupid er. Uh so. Makoto Keino or Leda Keno
Speaker 1: if you watch the dub is a fourteen year old
Speaker 1: girl who is a student in Usagi's class and has
Speaker 1: immense physical strength and was rumored to have been expelled
Speaker 1: from her previous school for fighting. Unusually tall and strong
Speaker 1: for a Japanese schoolgirl, she transforms in a Sailor Jupiter,
Speaker 1: soldier of thunder and courage. Both of Makoto's parents died
Speaker 1: in a plane crash you years ago. She lives alone
Speaker 1: and takes care of herself. In the original anime, she
Speaker 1: confesses to Saduro that she has a younger sister who
Speaker 1: no longer wishes to speak to her. She cultivates her
Speaker 1: physical strength and domestic interest, including housekeeping, cooking, and gardening.
Speaker 1: Makoto is also good at hand to hand combat, and
Speaker 1: her dream is to marry a young, handsome man and
Speaker 1: to own a flower and cake shop. I mean don't
Speaker 1: we all. It's really funny though, because yeah, she's the
Speaker 1: powerhouse of the group. She's the muscle and and she's
Speaker 1: like really strong and tough and and has kind of
Speaker 1: a tough voice. But yeah, she also really likes very
Speaker 1: domestic activity. That's so funny. Here's the thing that like,
Speaker 1: so I was on a panel when um I was
Speaker 1: on several panels when Wonder Woman came out because of
Speaker 1: my obsession and love of Wonder Woman, And it was
Speaker 1: fascinating the arguments that I saw against her when when
Speaker 1: the movie came out, that she was not a feminist
Speaker 1: because she you chased after Steve Trevor and because she
Speaker 1: you know, wasn't love with him and all these things.
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, that doesn't disqualify you from being
Speaker 1: a feminist. You can be a feminist, you can be
Speaker 1: a powerhouse, you can be you know, all of these things.
Speaker 1: You can be strengthened, independent in yourself and still love men,
Speaker 1: like still being in a relationship with men. You can
Speaker 1: also still be by as well, Like you can you
Speaker 1: can date a man then date a woman then you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like, it frustrated me the things
Speaker 1: that were taken away from her because she had some
Speaker 1: of these traditional roles. Like one of my favorite scenes
Speaker 1: and Wonder Woman is when she sees a baby and
Speaker 1: she's like because it's like she is a woman, Like
Speaker 1: she still is this like womanly like I see her
Speaker 1: as Mother Earth too. That's why I equate her as
Speaker 1: in the Justice League, that she is like the Mother
Speaker 1: of Earth, that she's like Earth protect her and like
Speaker 1: she makes up for what her male colleagues lack. And
Speaker 1: I don't see femininity as a negative. I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: so I think her her lovingness, her her belief in humanity,
Speaker 1: like the kind and compassion that she has, and the
Speaker 1: fact that, yeah, she might still want to be in
Speaker 1: love with a man. I've gone off on a tangent,
Speaker 1: but what I'm saying is this frustrates the hell out
Speaker 1: of me when you can't when you're not allowed to
Speaker 1: still be a woman, or you're not allowed to be
Speaker 1: in quote unquote womanly things, and then you're no longer
Speaker 1: seen as a superhero. I am actually really glad that
Speaker 1: you brought this up, because one of the most powerful
Speaker 1: things to me about Sailor Moon is it's created by
Speaker 1: a woman for women, and they still wear. It's sexy
Speaker 1: little uniforms, but it's on their terms. And there's this
Speaker 1: huge diversity of women with their different interests, and some
Speaker 1: of them are really masculine and some of them are
Speaker 1: super girly, and and they have all these different hobbies
Speaker 1: and and lives and and they're well rounded. And for
Speaker 1: for me, it was this huge indication to me that
Speaker 1: you could really be anything you wanted as a woman,
Speaker 1: and you had this choice. And I really loved that
Speaker 1: about Sailor Moon. So yeah, it is a hundred percent.
Speaker 1: But to choose to be who you want to be
Speaker 1: at having that option, yes, And I want to say also,
Speaker 1: Wonder Woman was not chasing after Steve Trevor in that movie.
Speaker 1: She was chasing after a god and that was aries.
Speaker 1: It just so happened that she thought this man had
Speaker 1: information that could help her. Anyways, moving on to Sailor Pluto,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just have to put people in their place. Uh.
Speaker 1: Set Sooner or Trista in the English stub, is a
Speaker 1: mysterious woman who appears first as Sailor Pluto, soldier of space,
Speaker 1: time and change. She is a duty of guarding the
Speaker 1: spacetime door from unauthorized travelers. Can you tell people about
Speaker 1: the spacetime door. Oh god, I don't even remember that
Speaker 1: arc all of it, but yeah, I just remember that
Speaker 1: Sailor Pluto is just mostly away from the Scout. She
Speaker 1: doesn't really interact with him much because she's just by
Speaker 1: that door. Well, it's interesting that she is away from
Speaker 1: because she carries this like deep sense of loneliness uh
Speaker 1: with her as well. I think it's interesting some of
Speaker 1: the issues that they tackle in Sailor Moon, you know,
Speaker 1: like for for people thinking like, oh, it's just a
Speaker 1: kids show or whatever, like, they actually have a lot
Speaker 1: of different issues as far as like relationships and loneliness
Speaker 1: and you're, the conflicts that come with trying to do
Speaker 1: the right thing and like that. All of those to me,
Speaker 1: I think resonated with me when I was little and
Speaker 1: still now. So anyways, she's close friends with Chibiosa. That
Speaker 1: is Sailor Moons. This is going to get confusing. That
Speaker 1: is Sailor Moon's daughter, and so let's just talk about her.
Speaker 1: So she is in the dub name She's reeny Um.
Speaker 1: She is the future daughter of Serenity, who is Sailor Moon.
Speaker 1: She later trains with Sailor Moon to become a Sailor
Speaker 1: soldier and learns to transform into Sailor Chimby Moon or
Speaker 1: Mini Moon. Chibia is very polarizing and that some people
Speaker 1: find her annoying or or some people find her really sweet.
Speaker 1: I remember my sister and I dressed up as Sailer
Speaker 1: Moon and Chibiusa when I was younger. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: funny in the manga and a little bit in the
Speaker 1: anime too. She has an odd relationship with Texedo Mask,
Speaker 1: her future father, where she's kind of jealous of uh,
Speaker 1: Sailor Moon's relationship with him. Yeah, yeah, and it's funny.
Speaker 1: I think that that's still in the American dub, the
Speaker 1: original American dub as well. It's it's a little bit there,
Speaker 1: but I always thought I always thought it was a
Speaker 1: little weird. Yeah, yes, like I want to replace you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yes, so Sailor Moon's daughter from the future, and
Speaker 1: I like the arc with her and Pegasus. There there's
Speaker 1: a boy who is a Pegasus one of the arcs
Speaker 1: I had. I remember that poster. I had that poster
Speaker 1: on my wall. Beautiful Unicorn, if you do want to
Speaker 1: talk to us about our final sailor who is Sailors Saturn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so many sailors. I'm like, man, this isn't even all
Speaker 1: of them? Oh really? All right? Well, Hataru Tomoe, who
Speaker 1: has the same name in the dub as a sweet
Speaker 1: and lonely young girl. A terrible laboratory accident in her
Speaker 1: youth significantly compromised her health. In the manga, this accident
Speaker 1: destroyed a large portion of her body, which was later
Speaker 1: rebuilt with electronic components by her father. After overcoming the
Speaker 1: darkness that surrounded her family, Ataru is able to become
Speaker 1: Sailor Saturn, soldier Silence destruction and rebirth. WHOA, sorry, I
Speaker 1: just realized that she has the same origin story as
Speaker 1: Cyborg crap. WHOA, I don't know if I put that
Speaker 1: she was later put together with electronic components by her father. Dang,
Speaker 1: that's dope. But yeah, she's often pensive and as a human,
Speaker 1: has inexplicable power to heal others. Sailor Saturn's weapon is
Speaker 1: her Silence glave, which gives her the power to generate
Speaker 1: barriers and destroy a planet. However, when she uses that power,
Speaker 1: she kills herself, but is reborn afterwards by Sailor Moon. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That was like a really sad arc because Hotad is
Speaker 1: really she was just sick throughout a lot of it
Speaker 1: and she was friends with Husa and yeah, she she
Speaker 1: died and I was really upsetting. Wow. Yeah, especially like
Speaker 1: a character like that who's been through so much and
Speaker 1: then just like, wow, that's you're gonna You're gonna let
Speaker 1: her die. But then Sailor Moon brought her back to life.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, yeah, man, dark arc. We'll see they still
Speaker 1: touched on dark things even though it was supposed to.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people kind of pass it
Speaker 1: off as being lighthearted. But um, we will talk more
Speaker 1: about actually their first movie, some of the television show
Speaker 1: that he makes, the fact that they try to make
Speaker 1: it live action and then did make it live action,
Speaker 1: as well as the cause play in the future of it.
Speaker 1: Right after this break and we're back joined here with Erica.
Speaker 1: Is she Erica? Before we can? You tell us who
Speaker 1: you voice in the new Yes, So, I played June
Speaker 1: June of the Dead Moon Circus. She's one of the
Speaker 1: villains in this villain I dude, playing a villain the best.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you so. She is one of a
Speaker 1: group of um, the of of these sort of like
Speaker 1: underlings and and she's the sort of tomboyish, bratty one,
Speaker 1: sassy one. She's the sassy one. Yeah yeah, so and
Speaker 1: it's it's it's just been so much fun, honestly, and
Speaker 1: it is so wild. It is so wild because the
Speaker 1: way that they do dumbing is, you know, they sort
Speaker 1: of play back the parts of the episode that you
Speaker 1: dubbed for and you hear the beeps and you have
Speaker 1: to match the voice flaps, um. And sometimes you have
Speaker 1: had other cast members that have done their dumbing before
Speaker 1: you do, and so you get to hear them. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it's not and you just hear the original Japanese. And
Speaker 1: it's so wild because this is the old episodes that
Speaker 1: I grew up with and I remember these and seeing
Speaker 1: it and being a part of it is something I
Speaker 1: never could have ever imagined happening. It's so wild. Did
Speaker 1: they contact you or is that how that happened? So? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I got the audition, um because you know, I
Speaker 1: just I do voice over and I have done some
Speaker 1: work with the studio that does the dumbbing for Sailor Moon,
Speaker 1: and I I've done a couple of other like another
Speaker 1: movie for them, and then they sent me the auditions
Speaker 1: for this and and said, oh, this is the last
Speaker 1: batch for a little while. And so I auditioned for
Speaker 1: I think five different characters in that past, and I
Speaker 1: I booked that one and I just could not believe it,
Speaker 1: could not believe it. But the funny thing is is
Speaker 1: that I had actually done some A d R or
Speaker 1: some smaller characters for them for Sailor Moon, and those
Speaker 1: haven't even come out yet, so I couldn't even like,
Speaker 1: I couldn't even announce that. Yeah, and then it just
Speaker 1: got announced that I was in Sailor Moon, so I said, oh, well, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll just announce that anyway. So you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just like a mom and like a monster of the
Speaker 1: week and in some episodes, um that saw have an
Speaker 1: aired yet. And then but now I get to be
Speaker 1: one of these villains that cute costume and it's gosh,
Speaker 1: it's so wild to be part of something that you
Speaker 1: grew up with. Yes, I totally agree. Let's talk about well,
Speaker 1: so there is a live action Sailor Moon series which Erica,
Speaker 1: you saw, you said that you did watch? Did so?
Speaker 1: I wanted to say before came to be there was
Speaker 1: they attempted to create an American remake of Sailor Moon.
Speaker 1: So this was by Renaissance Atlantic Entertainment, Bandai and Tune Maker.
Speaker 1: They came up with a concept for a show that
Speaker 1: would be half live action and half Western animation. You
Speaker 1: can actually see uh some of it that they that
Speaker 1: they created. It sounds really cool. I guess it didn't
Speaker 1: look good and they didn't think that it would be
Speaker 1: good and it was also turned down because it would
Speaker 1: cost too much then just to dub the anime. So
Speaker 1: they showed the concept of this at the Anime Expo
Speaker 1: in l A, which I didn't even know Anime Expo
Speaker 1: was existed back then. I guess we'll we'll learn that
Speaker 1: in our Anime Expo episode. Um. And it's incorrectly attributed
Speaker 1: to Saban. So if you remember those, Saban is one
Speaker 1: that did Power Rangers, but like was very famous for
Speaker 1: taking these Japanese concepts and then making them making like
Speaker 1: live action, you know, or inserting American actors into it.
Speaker 1: So a lot of people have incorrectly attributed that that
Speaker 1: live action failed remake to Saban, but they didn't do it.
Speaker 1: But okay, but so they did actually have a live
Speaker 1: action series, So that was pretty Guardian Sailor Moon that
Speaker 1: was the two thousand three TV series. So, Eric, is
Speaker 1: this the one that you watch the Japanese one? Y? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I didn't watch all of it, but the
Speaker 1: costumes are really great and their cause plays on point.
Speaker 1: Oh it's it's it's basically campy but really wonderful and loving.
Speaker 1: And Tuxedo masks, well, all of them have the transformation sequences,
Speaker 1: but Tuxedo Masks is just literally kind of him getting
Speaker 1: into costume and it's so I love it. I love them. Yeah. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it's very colorful and brightened. Like, the costumes are amazing. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the series actually lasted for forty nine episodes and
Speaker 1: also included two separate made for DVD specials. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's are you looking at a picture of it?
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the opening. It's you can watch. I
Speaker 1: know you can. I think you might be able to
Speaker 1: watch some of it on YouTube and episodes, all the
Speaker 1: episodes must be out somewhere. It looks so good. This
Speaker 1: actually looks very good. Like I don't know why they
Speaker 1: didn't bring it over I needed on Hulu. They should, um,
Speaker 1: and so, uh, you know this is kind of just
Speaker 1: there's so much to cover with Sailor Moon, so this
Speaker 1: is kind of just like an intro episode. I would
Speaker 1: be remiss if I didn't talk about their first ever movie,
Speaker 1: which was Sailor Moon Are the Movie? So that came
Speaker 1: out in um and was huge. I mean the fact
Speaker 1: that they were able to make a movie one so
Speaker 1: the creator um I didn't even think that it would
Speaker 1: get past the manga. So it went from the manga
Speaker 1: to being so popular that it became an animated series,
Speaker 1: to being so popular as an animated series that not
Speaker 1: only young women watch, but young men as well and adults,
Speaker 1: Like everybody was watching Sailor Moon. It was such a
Speaker 1: big deal. And then they got Sailor Moon Are the movie.
Speaker 1: Um I don't know, do you remember watching that, Erica?
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. A lot of the movies sort
Speaker 1: of blend together for me, but the one that really
Speaker 1: stood out to me is the one that sort of
Speaker 1: starred Luna the Cat, where she falls in love with
Speaker 1: this human man and they can't be together, but for
Speaker 1: just a brief moment, she gets to take a human
Speaker 1: form and be with him, and he gives her these
Speaker 1: sugar star candies. It's it's one that I grew up
Speaker 1: with it. It's popular in Japan. They're they're literally just
Speaker 1: like sugar molded into the shape of of these pretty
Speaker 1: little stars. It's like the ones in in Spirited Away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and he gives it to her and it's just
Speaker 1: really pretty and really touching and sweet. I just didn't
Speaker 1: remember that movie, and I remember watching that movie and
Speaker 1: my friends and gosh. Yeah. The movies were such a
Speaker 1: treat when they came out, and I think some of
Speaker 1: them even got to play in theaters in l a here,
Speaker 1: which is really great. It's great to see them on
Speaker 1: the big screen. Oh yeah, no, it's always dope. I know,
Speaker 1: the few like Funimation films that you get to see
Speaker 1: on the big screen. You're like, oh, this is tight. Gosh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love. I just love that it's so popular that
Speaker 1: we're able to do that. Yeah, and that they're able
Speaker 1: to run because some of those, like if you were saying,
Speaker 1: some of the Funimation ones had an actual run in theaters.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like your Name, Yes, that that I remember.
Speaker 1: I missed the premiere to that and went to see
Speaker 1: it with my buddies Brodium Binium and we're like, this
Speaker 1: is an amazing movie. Then we went to Little Little
Speaker 1: Tokyo got some ram and really had a weepy day.
Speaker 1: It was like, but it was that movie is so good.
Speaker 1: I heard rumors of them trying to do a live
Speaker 1: action American version. Yeah, I think they actually, uh did
Speaker 1: you get optioned for a live action remake? And I
Speaker 1: feel like that's the one anime movie that I think
Speaker 1: can do that and it'd be great because I feel
Speaker 1: like a lot of people didn't see it because it's animated,
Speaker 1: because that weird like thing where people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: it can't be that good. And I think the story
Speaker 1: is so good that in live action to be great.
Speaker 1: I just hope it's someone who does it right, because
Speaker 1: if you don't do it right, it's not going to be.
Speaker 1: Thus far, we have not had any successful here. I
Speaker 1: feel like, was oh, yeah, good that live action that
Speaker 1: was I was very impressed and that came out like
Speaker 1: two years ago. Yeah, and Dragonball Evolution that's very paperful.
Speaker 1: So um. Okay, So let's talk before you move on,
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Sailor Moon that you're working on,
Speaker 1: which is Sailorman Supers. Yes, okay, can you tell us
Speaker 1: about it? So Salem Won Supers is essentially the reissue
Speaker 1: of the old Sailor Moon episodes. Um but with I
Speaker 1: mean because we talked a little bit about how for
Speaker 1: the original dub with Deek, so much was changed. A
Speaker 1: lot of things were censored. Uh, and and so all
Speaker 1: of it. Relationships were were abolished, right, so now were
Speaker 1: taken out and yeah, and so this is people were
Speaker 1: called Darien Dary Dari And I still think of the
Speaker 1: original dub for Lunain Darien and her voice. Dude, she
Speaker 1: was like this, Mrs Potts, she was like And so
Speaker 1: this is sort of all all of that, but staying
Speaker 1: true to the original storylines and the names and and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of the episodes are out already and
Speaker 1: and available online. And I feel so fortunate to get
Speaker 1: to be a part of this. Yeah, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: June June in the Yeah, and they've already got you
Speaker 1: on there. They've all the fans already already Wikipedia on
Speaker 1: the Salem own WICKI there, Oh my gosh, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen anyone ca Okay, so let's talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about June June's outfit, which is insane so dope. We
Speaker 1: got the hair and pants and a little wraparound. Oh
Speaker 1: she's oh she is so have you seen any causeplay
Speaker 1: of her, not yet, I people out there listening. This
Speaker 1: is how she looks. I would love to see cosplay
Speaker 1: of the Dead Moon Circus, I really really would. Their
Speaker 1: outfits are so cute. But then also it's been interesting
Speaker 1: seeing because sale Win is so popular, people are starting
Speaker 1: to costplay even their their street uniforms, thems and and
Speaker 1: the nineties fashion is so good. It's so good, and
Speaker 1: it's you know, nineties fashion is kind of making a
Speaker 1: comeback to post it on our Instagram, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: if you're not following the Notificent, Instagram does post cause play,
Speaker 1: so we've had some dope Cause players on there, so
Speaker 1: we'll definitely post June June so you guys can understand
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. But oh man, her her outfit
Speaker 1: almost reminds me of like Britney Spears with the snake, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean for you absolutely love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and June June is is the acrobat of the group,
Speaker 1: and so a couple of her episodes are you know
Speaker 1: about her doing that and flipping around? Yes, very Oh god,
Speaker 1: I know it. There's so many things that we still
Speaker 1: have to cover with Sailor Moon, like there was a
Speaker 1: video game, and there's all the toys and action figures,
Speaker 1: So we'll definitely have to have you back here, Erica,
Speaker 1: because we only kind of just touched on the Sailors.
Speaker 1: I know, I feel like we just kind of barely
Speaker 1: ran through them and didn't even get to touch on
Speaker 1: all the storylines and stuff. So I hope this was
Speaker 1: a good introductory episode for everyone so that we can
Speaker 1: really get into you some of the stories and uh
Speaker 1: in the future also of Sailor Moon. But Erica, where
Speaker 1: can everyone catch you? Oh? So, I'm on Twitter at
Speaker 1: eric Isshi and on Instagram as the Ericshi. I'm on
Speaker 1: geak in sundry Fridays and Tuesdays for for a show
Speaker 1: about video games and a show where we just basically
Speaker 1: party in costume all the time. And I hit my
Speaker 1: own Twitch channel as well, twitch dot tv slash Eric. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm having Oh of course, thanks so much for coming.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to watch and hear you on my
Speaker 1: TV screen. I'm at Miss Danny Fernandez. It's M S
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Speaker 1: D E z um Iffy and I will both be
Speaker 1: at Anime Expo. Will also both be at Comic Con
Speaker 1: and we're on panels together there. So um, we will
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Speaker 1: we'll be posting our appearances and dates. We level the
Speaker 1: feedback from everyone. I think that we might somebody asked
Speaker 1: if we're going to be aswering questions, you know, like
Speaker 1: we might start doing a maybe we'll leave a ten
Speaker 1: minute ending thing if you for questions possibly. You know,
Speaker 1: we really do try to make our podcasts for everyone,
Speaker 1: which can be difficult because some of you are extremely
Speaker 1: well versed and let us know if we missed one
Speaker 1: single thing, um, but then other people, you know, need
Speaker 1: us to slow down a lot. So we're kind of
Speaker 1: just trying to feel out these introductory episodes. You know,
Speaker 1: we understand that we haven't covered every People have been
Speaker 1: asking us about Dragon ball Z. I have that tattooed
Speaker 1: on me and we have not hit that yet. It
Speaker 1: is not really going to have to do it because
Speaker 1: it is a thing that I know about the most,
Speaker 1: and yet I know I will be hit up about
Speaker 1: because I left something out of it. Even though it
Speaker 1: has like four episode I think it actually technically z
Speaker 1: has like two dred something. But um, some of these episodes,
Speaker 1: you know, we're able to kind of wrap up real,
Speaker 1: real nice and a neat package, and some of them
Speaker 1: deserve another episode. So we hear you, We love you,
Speaker 1: and that's all I have. All right, cool? Well, you
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Speaker 1: definitely want to give a shout out towards the end
Speaker 1: of this episode to our researcher Eves Jet for coat
Speaker 1: Christopher Hasiotis, thank you so much for that research work.
Speaker 1: Let's give a shout out to Zachary McKeever in the booth. Uh,
Speaker 1: sorry for blowing your ears out, I yelled at really loud,
Speaker 1: super producer Anna holding it down for us here. All right,
Speaker 1: y'all we out and like I always say, stay nerdy