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No, you're not, I forgot to mention that the girls get new school uniforms in the final season. They're in high school now. But yes...

Very short Sailor Moon pop quiz. What is wrong with this picture? Image quality aside. To be fair to InsaneCommander, he gets to call @Bartimaeus, @KaineParker or myself as his Phone a Friend lifeline for free this time around.

Speaking of status, I just had to swallow my toxic masculine pride and ask a woman for help on an EDI issue.

Bonus points for people stuffing their face with crackers or other crispy munchies while not muted and wearing in-ear headphones with a cheap microphone attached so you get the full THX enhanced munching experience, or that microphone constantly rubbing against their shirts, mobile phones lying next to the microphone going off piercing your ears because why the hell should you mute your phone during a meeting, or inducing interference when the phone negotiates with the mobile network for some reason, like an incoming text. Bah.

Uhm.

Still impressive what they've done with the budget they had at the time. The score in the scene is perfect. edit: The ending wasn't a dream, you might confuse that with Lost, a similarily hated ending that was at least thematically much better and fit the setting, it just, uhm, subverted expectations (in a really, really bad way) where everyone was dead already and it was revealed that the entire final season played in a weird Hindu version of purgatory before the characters come together to finally pass on to nirvana (or insert any other afterlife you might like, the show drew heavily from many religions). HIMYM's last season was about Barney marrying Robin, with the actual wedding ceremony being the second to last episode. The final episode made Ted find the love of his life (finally, after nine years!) only to kill her off in a flash-forward five minutes later, quickly coughed up Barney and Robin's divorce and had Ted get approval by his kids to get back together with "Auntie" Robin. That was actually the scene they had prepared for the end earlier, when the kids were still young. Seinfeld is something I never got into though. I don't know, something about it made it entirely unappealing. I thought about giving it another chance some time. Ah, so much to do, so little time. edit 2: The use of honorifics in Sailor Stars is super confusing. It might not be when you're more familiar with the system, but from my limited understanding...

Yeah, we had all the shows on TV dubbed, and unlike yours (subjective impression here), the German dubbing studios are generally high quality. Hilarity like your first Sailor Moon dub usually don't happen and there's usually also a lot less censoring going on. There was a dip in quality recently due to security and time constraints. Dubbing studios used to hold meeting where everyone involved would watch the original material and discuss the mood, their line delivery and all that. This no longer happens because they're really paranoid about losing contracts due to "piracy" (and it doesn't stop piracy anyway). I can see how that is an issue when talking about best of 80ies anime when you can't stand Japanese voice acting. You could learn German just for that, but... that seems like a lot of effort for comparatively little gain.

Oh, I can see how My Hero Academia would be an interesting first anime. It is also a perfect showcase of what you don't like about them. I don't even remember the first anime I watched. It was most likely a part of the Japanese World Masterpiece Theatre from the period up until 1985, however these shows are also by far and large somewhat removed from usual anime aesthetics (well, usual for today, Heidi for instance all but began the kawaii (cute) looks of small girls in anime) and more grounded in terms of storylines because the had to adhere to children's book classics. Other animes that I watched very early on were Attack No. 1, Bismarck (also known as Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs), the anime adaptation of Captain Future and two interesting hybrids, namely Galaxy Rangers and Ulysses 31, which were written and produced in the US and France, but animated in Japan. Watching these shows nowadays it is painfully obvious where the actual writing comes from. Heh. Galaxy Rangers might look like 80ies anime, but it is so American. All, or at least most of these, lack what you describe as problematic in terms of animation, artstyle and characterization (Saber Rider is even a "typical" space western) even though they are noticably Japanese in origin (except for the episodes of Bismarck that were made for the US market, in the US - those are actually painful to look at when you like the show). What I can clearly remember is vastly prefering shows that turned out to be anime (as if I had any idea when I was 6 or 7 where a cartoon on TV came from) over shows that turned out to be regular Western cartoons. With some exceptions - I'll always love Bugs Bunny or Tom and Jerry. It should also be noted that I have seen a grand total of one (1) of the really popular animes that became world wide smash hits, and that, interestingly enough, was Sailor Moon, and yeah, back when I watched this was more of a niche underground hit than the phenomenon it exploded into. Which means I have seen none of the Dragonballs, no Pokemon, Digimon, One Piece, Naruto or whatever else might be the bee's knees these days. I do need to point out that in terms of aesthetics I'm the polar opposite of you. I very much prefer anime artstyle and looks over their Western counterparts. It's not something I can argue beyond subjectivity, but as I said, it's always been that way. I'm with you in terms of writing and characterization, there's a whole lot of angst and overexaggerated drama going on at times. In an ideal world you end up with something like Castlevania, animated in Japan but written more sensibly than what could have been. I'm not sure why nobody else on the forum seems to have liked it. It was entertaining and looked good. Like BoJack's mother would have said: It's no Ibsen. But... what is? And lastly, I can watch TV shows with great dedication as long as I find the characters interesting and I like them. Far beyond any reasonable point in time. I brought up Andromeda earlier, I loved that during its original run, and have spent many an hour defending its ludicrous inanities it reached before Season 5 finally broke the camel's back (well it's not the show's fault that Lexa Doig was pregnant at the time, but without her character there I stopped caring). Which brings me to a favorite point of mine, one of the very few sitcoms where I've seen the entire run. No, it's not going to be about The Big Bang Theory, I watched that initially because my wife liked it, and while she actually stopped watching later after it became a full blown relationship sitcom with creepy characters I was coerced to finish it - by my brain. In hindsight I should have known better than to be roped into anything made by Chuck Lorre, but... eh... yeah. Anyway, back to How I Met Your Mother. Generally I don't like sitcoms. I don't think they're funny most of the time, but I can appreciate certain novel ideas in one. How I Met Your Mother was one of them, featuring Ted as an unreliable narrator and copious amounts of flashbacks and flash-forwards that revealed a certain pre-planning that each season must have gone through (or the writers managed to come up with that by the seat of their pants, both would be almost equally impressive for a sitcom). I watched the first two seasons and got a few chuckles out of them (I consider this a big win for sitcoms in general), so I kept watching, and at the end, I still liked it. Except for the ending, that was clearly because the show and its characters outgrew its intended ending and they just shoehorned it in anyway because the kids were all grown up already and they couldn't do reshoots. At this point I want to say that I also watched Lindsay Ellis' analysis of Game of Thrones where the exact same problem comes up, thanks for mentioning that earlier while we still spammed the TV topic :p. Most people I know who also watched dropped the show way earlier. I can see where they're coming from. Ted is an idiot, and if you actually care about the storyline of him finding the mother, then it all becomes really ridiculous after the third season. But caring about Ted and his quest to find the love of his live is like caring for the central plot of any given Sailor Moon season. You can do that, of course, but that will only diminish your enjoyment of the show (well it's not like being interested in the plot is something you can actively turn off, at least I can't, but if something's plot is uninteresting but the characters are strong enough to carry the show, I don't mind that much). The other big argument was: This stopped being funny in season <X>, often 4, 5 or 6, depending on whom you ask. No, it didn't. It never was funny in the first place, it was at best mildly amusing. As such, no longer being funny doesn't bother me either. I kept watching, and the writers eventually caught on too, I think. Some of these later episode were wonderfully written and directed (generally, not just for a sitcom), and some didn't even have attempted jokes in them (Symphony of Illumination is a masterpiece of an episode). Except for Neil Patrick Harris, I don't even like any of the actors invovled in the show. I avoid movies with Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan, Josh Randor is... err... I don't even know what he's doing, and Cobie Smulders, oh boy, I cringe almost every time I see Maria Hill on screen. Yet, they mostly worked in HIMYM. I liked Marshal, Lily and Barney, and even Ted to a point. I put this squarely on the amount of effort put into direction and writing for the show (or else everyone but NPH was playing themselves). Wow that became long and rambling.

I met up with people I talked to and played with on the internet, but that was decades ago. Althoug admittedly that was fun, the internet is way too full of creeps these days. Who says you really are the nice lady you're pretending to be?

Well, then I am disappoint in you too. For a moment I thought you were talking about HC Strache. But yes, we also start counting with our thumbs. Like virtually every other nation in the vicinity, so that's not something uniquely German.

Sailor Senshi love interest spoilerish things:

Spoilered for KP/IC benefit: Spoilers regarding a certain character in Sailor Moon S.

Enemies just dread being kissed by a rose.

I am disappoint! Doesn't really matter, still waiting for Gorth to explain what exactly he was talking about.

I love this so much. Can't help it.

Is that a HC Strache joke or a reference to the fact that the lesser people on the planet start counting with their index finger instead of their thumbs? xD

Can be excused, I think. I'm not German.

You rang? There is a German scrabble variant, obviously, and it is limited to words in the Duden (the most well known and most commonly used German dictionary) and all their inflections. Therefore the depicted word would be not accepted unless you're playing with house rules and e.g. allow for compound words with unlimited components. If it could fit on the board in the first place, which it doesn't. Building compound words with more than three components is considered to be bad form and the word above, by the way, literally translated means floor grinder renting agency. I think that covery all possible objections and information, right? edit: Took a bit longer than five seconds to type though. Sorry.

More Sailor Stars spoilers. Read at your own risk. All issues aside, I love Sailor Stars more than I should, and it really helps that all the filler episodes are like 95% character interactions with the obligatory fight at the end often lasting only two minutes. There are some details in the animation that show just how much of the creative team was changed for Sailor Stars (or probably fired over that SuperS train wreck, who knows), and there are a few things that probably won't even crop up in the dub. Like Sailor Moon calling Sailor Venus "Venus-chan" after 178 or so episodes of simply yelling Venus! when she gets hit by an enemy like she usually does (edit: although I am not completely certain if that actually applies to Sailor Moon, but none of the other girls use honorifics to address each other when transformed). But I'm good. I hope everyone will be too.

For us here it's been spiralling out of control for a while, with the zero interest policy of the ECB housing has become a prime investment with very little risk attatched, because even if the bubble bursts at some point, banks are too big to fail anyway. So when Hurlshot talks about a modest home he can't afford that is actually just as expensive a a similar house here, and you factor in the average income difference, then...

Then you're better off than we are. Care for a nice little 2 bedroom house for a bargain 3.1 million €? Ahem. Although looking at 400 year old houses in a luxury area isn't the best way to go about it, I guess. That's the equivalent of looking for housing in Beverly Hills. Here in the 'burbs getting a decent plot of land alone will set you back 800k. It's ridiculous.

Want to bet that "modest" house for 800k would cost like 2+ million € in a similarily developed location for us Euro-peons?

Come on, do it. I know you want to see the dimensional gateway that is the Discovery turbo lift system.

There's one thing about Sailor Stars that I find exceedingly strange now that I can properly recognize it (past me was only vaguely aware of the reference at the time). Music usage: And speaking of references, the first episode of the 10th season of the new Doctor Who drew some of its imagery from Sailor Stars' opening filler story. Or at least there's an awful lot of coincidences to go around if that wasn't inspired in any way. This is fun.