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In the ever beloved, extremely well thought out manga canon none of the girls have time for romance. Their only raison d'être is serving the queen. In addition to that, Rei's actually really celibate and Minako has a leftover curse from Sailor V, being doomed to never find true love (the canonicity of that however is somewhat debated). I think I posted that before. My headcanon looks different, obviously. Anyway, speaking of the software eating posts, yes, I usually copy everything to the clipboard, then try pasting it just to see if it really copied everything... I lost an essay style post once, have been doing that ever since. Somehow, for the PM, I did not. Which... yay. Ah hell.

Spoiler: No, not really.

Time to babble a bit about Steven Universe... Look at that. I was going to say that I'll probably not come up with an essay on the show because it's so much clearer in what it attempts to achieve than Sailor Stars was - which maybe comes from a different target demographic and, well, much better story structure and planning. That post ended up not being an essay, but it's still pretty long. Huh.

I know I started this, but for the love of god, please, stop it. I think you'd to well not to touch any other comic strips on the site. That's one of the more harmless ones, really.

I'm not entirely surprised that you don't like the animation of Sailor Stars. It really does look different. Even more so than SuperS, which I thought had really good animation at least. In terms of art direction I'd guess R was the best, or maybe that was just because it had key episodes where Ikuko Itō was involved. She was the best of the animation directors, quite clearly (and while she's not credited for it, she made the sequence in R where Mamoru breaks up with Usagi, which... forced and all, simply looked stunning). Still, I'd say Sailor Stars looks good. But that's probably the most subjective of all the things we could talk about. I do agree about the visual clarity. Funny how that matters less with the crappy German DVD version. Nothing in that is as clear as your sceneshots. edit: Oh, yeah. Finished Steven Universe now. Except for the films, I need a break. Will talk more about it later. edit 2: Oh yes, the character proportions in uhm, Stars... yikes, I never noticed that before, but they're horribly close to the manga giraffe look in that intro still frame. Geez. Why thank you, I'll never be able to unsee that.

I did, yes. The biggest issue now is that I can't possibly do any useful by episode talk about the episodes. They've fused into one big Steven Universe blob in my mind (pun not intended). I'll collect my thoughts later when I'm actually done, for now it's a brand new work day. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay...

You're reading way too much into a parody comic made by someone who has neither seen the anime nor really read the manga beyond looking at the artstyle to copy the characters properly. I mean his own comment on the strip says that he had no idea what he was doing, just got confirmation that the strip would work. Because if he had, Chibi-Usa would totally be in that third panel. No way she'd miss that (and there's no way Clay wouldn't have put her in there if he knew). Dear god what have I done. Also, @Bartimaeus minor SU question/update:

You'd need to watch the Sailor Moon S movie for that.

If you want an answer to that question, go look up Sexy Losers 014. Warning, not safe for work. Or your mind.

You're supposed to watch Sailor Stars, not that much Steven Universe. You were half a season behind me a few hours ago, now we're both done with season three! Thought will follow soon, but one thing right now: If you don't like satire then it's definitely the wrong movie for you, but the trailer isn't really representative of what is in the film other than a good deal of pew pew at the end. I tried looking up what happened with Lindsay Ellis, but all I found out was that I really don't like Twitter.

If you look at the trailer, it looks like any bog standard alien invasion film: It had terrible reviews (40% on the tomatometer). And I have no idea where these reviews or scores are coming from. I watched this solely because of it's wacky premise based on one of the more inane conspiracy theories out there. It was the most fun I had watching a movie in a long time and Udo Kier is great, as usual. Some of the reviews claimed the jokes in the film were already dated when it came out. The joke's on them now, I guess, turns out that a couple of years later, the movie isn't even satire any more. The poster is silly, the trailer looks like action trash, but in reality it's a 2012 political satire that got way too real in 2016. The action is mostly at the end, which is dunno, 15 or so minutes, out of it's 90 minutes runtime (and even then it's funny). At the end of the day it's a Finnish movie, and that means a certain brand of humor that you may or may not end up liking. It might also require a passing liking of nutty conspiracy theories and an appreciation for whacky Nazi naming schemes, because I was almost falling off the chair when the invasion from the moon began and the Siegfried-class Zeppelin UFO carries showed up. Oh, and it has a killer soundtrack made by Laibach: Hey, you made me write this post instead of watching more Steven Universe. Whelp. Sneaksy hobbitses, yes.

Speaking of movies that aren't anime, here's a random tangent, have you guys seen Iron Sky?

SU, very short update.

I'm so looking forward to these two... gems. I'm sure they're going to be gems. Like, totally. With the way Crystal looked, imagine what they did with a proper movie budget.

I've read (about it, not in it, because reading that thing is a chore) that in the manga version of that arc, there's a somewhat overt implication that...

Yeah, I'll probably do a larger post about it tomorrow (maybe, it's Easter after all, edit. Obviously this came out longer than intended, as usual, so there it is already!).

Well, now you do. Heh. When I was a good deal younger, Legend of the Overfiend was what you at least had to pretend to have seen to earn some street cred with the otaku crowd. Unless you were like me and went with the other, more sophisticated option, and I use that term lightly... Although it was more about actually getting a copy from somewhere than having seen it. Getting one in the mid 90ies outside of Japan wasn't easy, especially not when you're 15. It's not like you can ask your parents to buy it from some importer... and it ended up costing three months worth of allowance. Really not worth it just to impress a bunch of dipsh*ts. But hey, young and didn't know any better, and wanted to belong somewhere. Sigh. Waaaaaaaaaaaait.

Steven Universe, short update:

Record of Lodoss War is something I have in my anime VHS tapes stash, along with the Director's Cut of M.D. Geist, which is an 80ies B-movie shlock "so bad it's good" anime film, but I've been told that there are people who find this one great in an "unironic" way and my recordings of the Sailor Moon R, S and SuperS films when they aired on TV here, and a bunch of other things... and one thing I'm really not going to talk about (and just in case KP starts to speculate, no, it's not Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend, and if you don't know what that is, don't google it... really, just... don't). *cough*

Usagi just might be at her strongest in Sailor Stars. She's still funny and occassionally immature, but never really annoying (well maybe once or twice, heh) like she was in SuperS. Spoilers, but an example: Best not to think of SuperS.

Suffered the use support version of a belated April Fool's joke. 895 and 958 are not the same numbers, even if they look a bit similar. Good thing the user didn't ask for anything serious and nobody deleted the wrong record and stuff. *cough* Sigh.