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“Usagi-chan, wake up!!” -

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story

That is literally a post I just saw with so many notes. It makes me so fucking embarrassingly, unreasonably (I am aware) angry. How can the distribution of empathy and compassion, the recognition of loss and labor, be so royally fucked? You are looking at the most privileged being in the universe and think she is the victim? Yeah, Usagi does go through rough things, no one is suggesting otherwise, but—if I may remind you all—that applies to every Senshi. You know why Usagi has the luxury of wanting to be Usagi? Because she actually has a happy life with a functional family and friends outside the Sailor circle. All the other Senshi are programmed and destined to die for her. Makoto is an orphan. Rei’s mom is dead, and her father is estranged. Ami has a single mom who works her ass off to provide for her daughter. None of Usagi’s friends, not even Mamoru, gets a fulfilled life beyond making Usagi’s dreams come true. They don’t get a present, a functional family. They are written by Guardian Cosmos to wait for the vacancy in their hearts and life to be filled with devotion for Usagi. They are assets with a heartbeat, cosmic capital for Serenity, who has an unlimited ontological credit. No loss Usagi experiences are permanent. And, btw, all Usagi wants in canon is being with Mamoru, and she is. Again and again and again. Canon does not even have the decency to tell us what happens to her friends when Usagi does not need them anymore, because Chibiusa got her own servants delivered and stored for her until she needs friends.

All she ever wanted to be was Kino Makoto, but she’ll always be Sailor Jupiter, and die as a servant of Serenity. Again and again and again.

All she ever wanted to be was Hino Rei, but she’ll always be Sailor Mars, and die as a servant of Serenity. Again and again and again.

All she ever wanted to be was Mizuno Ami, but she’ll always be Sailor Mercury, and die as a servant of Serenity. Again and again and again.

All she ever wanted to be was Aino Minako, but she’ll always be Sailor Venus, decoy of Princess Serenity, and die as a servant of Serenity. Again and again and again.

by ryanriller_

tvtropes + minako aino/sailor venus

Hi mom,

Naoko Takeuchi visiting the Kennedy Space Center in the 1990s and meeting an astronaut! She was visiting the Center to do research for her Sailor Moon side story, "The Lover of Princess Kaguya," which was later turned into the Sailor Moon S Movie.

Decades later, when a plushie of Artemis was spotted in the mission control center during the Artemis II mission, Naoko expressed surprise and delight:

“In the manga, he’s the little cat who sends instructions to the Sailor Guardians from the command room,” she said. “That was just a fantasy that existed only in the story, so to think that 30 years later Artemis would appear in NASA’s mission control, a place I’ve always admired, is incredible. I’m so jealous. Thank you for watching over humanity’s great achievement for ten days. You did a wonderful job.”

Paletta the Visual Express Spring 2002 - Princess Tutu interview with Ikuko Itoh and Junichi Sato