Thread:CureHibiki/@comment-386913-20171124112329/@comment-386913-20190424024229

I'm sorry about setting you off. My feelings about Sailor Moon isn't the fact that it "owns space" but more my own discomfort for how the franchise becomes later on down the line now that I've finally reached the end of the anime (and haven't read the manga). I love the early SM series because it feels more...real in a way: Usagi has a life, friends and things going on with her outside her work as a Sailor Senshi; in many ways the first season just feels the most fresh because it's basically just urban fantasy, with girls who go to school and live their lives but also fight against creepy weird MotW and villains from an ancient past. It's only when the lore part of Sailor Moon becomes the dominant element that it all just ends up becoming worse to me in some ways: it isn't that bad in the first season because the mystery of the past and the connection to the Silver Millennium was the plot...but then as it became more convoluted and Usagi just felt more bound by destiny than by being a normal teenager with superpowers and really only became about her friends that were super space warriors or ancient "friends" from her past and basically ignoring her family and other friends and everything else but her destiny...that it lost me. The antics of her future daughter became way more important to the universe than Usagi actually having a life outside the constant threats that Chaos kept sending out; and don't even get me started on Stars and the factor that everything became about the Starlights! I'm not saying they were the worst media ever: the S season is still my favorite because it still felt like the classic concepts and worked best with the lore and the reality due to less Chibi-Usa (even if they pushed her with Hotaru to force her on us regardless) and the Outers feeling like actual characters and not just more lore; and I really loved Galaxia and some of the Animates in the final season, especially with the complexities of Galaxia's situation in being caught up in all this as well. But now I've seen all of Sailor Moon, unfortunately my nostalgia goggles can only protect it so far.

My fears for Star Twinkle (which luckily haven't come true) is that it just felt like it was going to be only about the lore and not about them being girls living their lives dealing with the weirdness of the threat of the season. I guess part of my fear is just how this Wikia has become, with everyone just grasping onto straws and hyping up every little thing without us knowing the big picture. It's become much worse lately and it just sort of drives me away from coming here anymore. I'll watch it eventually but I rather the show be finished...as is, I'm finally doing KiraKira but that won't be until October anyway.

Also thinking of rewatching the whole franchise from the beginning but the poll about what to rewatch ended up having me do the Metal Heroes series "Choujinki Metalder" instead...oh well, there's always later.