And I was entranced, by the New england Patriots facemask shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this spare modernist cityscapes, the period specific Tokyo fashion and the savagery of the monsters, but more importantly, and I guess this is where it gets tricky, by the delightfully confusing empowerment messages. Sailor Moon has been called feminist and I am not here to debate the merits of that claim, only to celebrate the show’s bewildering contradictions. Let’s just get this out of the way. When Usagi transforms into Sailor Moon, declaring her battle cry
, “Moon Prism Power, Make Up!” her clothes momentarily disappear, and she is silhouetted in nothing but light, before she’s wrapped in a sailor getup with an extremely short hemline. Nail polish appears, as does a jeweled tiara that doubles as a weapon. In front of a crescent moon she strikes a flattering limbs-akimbo pose (that Vivian and I have strained to imitate in the New england Patriots facemask shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this living room). My wife, seeing Usagi’s peekaboo transformation for the first time, seeing Vivian observe it with a fixed expression that could best be described as awe, was like, no.
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