Sailor Moon Crystal #5

By Christina Ladd on

A mysterious girl walks in the rain… An ordinary day, an ordinary stretch of Tokyo road. Usagi walks blithely to school, distracted by the rain and her exhaustion. She misses a traffic signal. She steps out into the street–and straight into the path of a speeding car! Just then, the mysterious girl hurls herself in …

Sailor Moon Crystal #4

By Christina Ladd on

This week, according to Luna, Mamoru is a Suspicious Character! Yes. Thank you. Somebody finally noticed. This week, everyone is in a tizzy because Princess D is coming to Tokyo to show off her “secret treasure.” Um. Princess D of the Kingdom of D sounds like the title of a Sailor Moon porno, but, uh, …

Sailor Moon Crystal #2 Review

By Christina Ladd on

In the original, Sailor Moon was, for a decent chunk of episodes, actually about Sailor Moon and only Sailor Moon as she went about fighting crime in her own unique way.  We spent quality time with Usagi, but they didn’t do a whole lot of character or plot development, since it was before Netflix made …

Sailor Moon Crystal #1 Review

By Christina Ladd on

by: Teia Fanciullo Disclaimer: I was a 90’s kid in only the most temporal sense of the phrase. I missed out on most of the cultural touchstones–I’ve never seen an episode of 7th Heaven or Dawson’s Creek–and that includes missing out on the awesome girl power of Sailor Moon. Fortunately, Viz and the Internet have conspired …

Moon Girls: Sailor Moon

By Steph Kingston on

Sailor Moon is unquestionably the sparkling, magical queen of the magical girl genre.  What Sailor Moon did would redefine the entire genre, as well as introduce an entire generation of young people to manga, anime, and girl power. A brief history of Sailor Moon: in 1991, a one shot manga called Codename: Sailor V was …

Sailor Moon Review #25

By Christina Ladd on

It’s the end of the world and thank God, because that also means the end of Sailor Crystal (for now, anyway – no word yet on season three) is swiftly approaching. When we last saw our ineffectual heroes, Prince Demande was about to touch the past and present Silver Crystals together, bringing about the end …

Sailor Moon #24 Review

By Christina Ladd on

Each fortnight, the pit of cold, nauseating dread in my stomach sinks just a little bit lower when I realize that it’ll soon be time to do another review, and I have to once again contemplate how much this show will ruin a couple of hours, and in what way. I only get so many …