First fandoms

[daemonluna]

So. Sailor Moon.

I am far more excited than I thought I would be--not about the new Sailor Moon anime, because believe me, I am full of geeky joy. Last week maybe? Sometime really recently, it was announced that the one US company had the rights to re-release the entire series of Sailor Moon, and was going to bring it out on Bluray, uncut, both dubbed and subbed.

I could launch into a long history off the top of my head about the dub, the subbed episodes, the episodes that were cut especially from the first season, how the original sixty-five dubbed eps were aired out of order, the canonical gay couple where the pretty one was redubbed as a woman, the kick-ass lesbian couple who were translated into cousins, Sailor Says segments, how the end of the first season was chopped up to gloss over the deaths and make it more kid-friendly with some truly perplexing logic holes--guys, this was my first real fandom and I have a scary amount of details still squirreled away in my head, apparently.

Then there's nostalgia for the era of newsgroups, online friends, sending VHS tapes through the mail (I have no nostalgia for that part, actually), the box of VKLL fansubs that are still in my garage, how it turned out that VKLL was the neighbour of one of my friends from high school, watching the R movie for the first time dubbed into Cantonese with a fan translation script in my hand, the inordinate amount of trading cards I still have somewhere... I could keep going for a while.

Barb gamely watched the first season with me a couple months ago, and it was oddly incongruous to see it with the original Japanese voices and music. I watched a few of the old dub episodes off Youtube afterwards, and I love them in all their cheesy glory. (Barb saw parts of Stars airing live when she was teaching in Japan. She was bemused by the whole thing and came away from watching the Starlights transform with the vague notion that whoever took their clothes off the fastest won.)

But. I'm curious about the new dub now... the first episode went live today, and I'm waiting to see if I'm going to be able to stream it online in Canada. (WORDS LIKE SCIENCE FICTION compared to even a decade ago.) And... I'm excited!

Comments

[liviapenn]

I know, it's so weird, isn't it!!!!!!!! *old school moonie fist bump*

[daemonluna]

a.f.s-m alumni represent! I feel old on the internet. *g*

[liviapenn]

I actually tried watching the first ep on Hulu but it kept stopping randomly after commercial breaks and not starting again-- I think maybe too many people are trying to watch it at once!

I follow Nikki and Amy on Tumblr and sometimes i'm just like, WHERE DOES THE TIME GO?

[daemonluna]

Heh, me too, though I mostly just use Tumblr to aggregate things to read, and not post. I... don't really understand the mechanics of Tumblr as well as I should. Which is not too different from lurking on newsgroups back in the day, really.

Our teen librarian at the library does an anime afternoon every few months with her teens, which is inevitably a reason for spontaneous cosplay. And the stuff that was cutting-edge after the time I stopped regularly watching anime, like Full Metal Alchemist, is classic now. I resist the urge to tell them "Back in my day, we had to send VHS tapes through the MAIL!"

[jaon]

I tried to follow Nikki on Tumblr, but I never quite managed to figure it out. Now I'm subscribed to her on AO3.

[zulu]

Yay, exciting!

[daemonluna]

Yes! I would have sent the links to bell, but I'm behind and pretty sure she's already up to speed by now. I am guessing there is also some excitement in your house, too...

[jaon]

Waves. So who is the one that always wants to buy the Bluray when we already have the DVD has already been told that there will be Bluray purchase. I have the DVDs, but I am so excited to finally get all the episodes and not all chopped up. I still remember the commercial with the apparently demented woman and the chicken when some of the raw Stars eps came out.

But i would really love it if AO3 would separate BSSM from PGSM. I'll cheerfully read fic in either, but I'd really like to have some idea which it is going in.

Whee, I get to expose the grandkids to Sailor Moon. Only fair as it was my youngest who unintentionally got me hooked. Now I feel old.

[zoi-no-miko.livejournal.com]

omg <3 Let me know if you get the streaming to work! I'm likewise soooo stoked!! ARG!!!