First fandoms
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daemonlunaSo. 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!
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!
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Date: 2014-06-29 06:25 pm (UTC)