PGSM Usagi finding old notes written by Serenity, her heart breaking for her at first, but then slowly growing terrified the more she reads, though.
My cousin was mere feet away from Heather Heyer when she was run down by a Nazi. That’s weird information to have to process in 2017.
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Please go see A Ghost Story sometime and either post your thoughts or use it as inspiration for a fic. I have relatives in Kentucky with connections to the bourbon industry if you need a bribe.
YOU HAVE A DEAL. I am actually trying to get our one tiny art theater to bring it in for a few days. I WILL POST THOUGHTS OR FIC AND YOU WILL BRIBE ME FRIEND. I WILL GIVE YOU AN ESSAY
:D I don’t always do artsy indie films, but when I do, I make sure they’re existential ponderings on grief and the brevity of the human experience, as told with silly costumes.
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I’m a social vampire u gotta invite me into ur conversation or I cannot enter
Same.
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Hi I have a lot of meandering thoughts
So I remember the first time someone told me that Pluto as the solider of revolution was actually the soldier of THINGS THAT GO AROUND. It’s an interesting translation in that the construction wouldn’t be super used in English even if technically acceptable, and so I had thought of her as…well, the soldier of standard English way of using revolution.
Even though it was more apropos to her character (Though it broke my dream of Pluto being the one, eventually, to start some kind of rebellion against QS), I was shit shocked by this and a little annoyed (I got over it)
Anyway that’s always stuck with me and I literally never trust the word revolution in an anime anymore.
So I’ve been thinking, what if THIS IS A THING THAT GOES AROUND*? What if this is something that happens again and again, the duels, the prince, and a new prince rises up to take the place of the old? What if Anthy (because Anthy has a lot to do with this, I am fucking certain of that) won the last duel, and she ended up somehow split between Anthy and the prince, and that’s part of why the prince is asleep? And Anthy’s like…a zillion years old or something, and what the student council is trying to bring is ANOTHER WAVE OF THE SAME?**
PLEASE REMEMBER I HAVE NOT SEEN PAST THIS EPISODE AND DON’T SPOIL ME. THIS INCLUDES CONFIRMATIONS AND DENIALS.
*I am well aware that in Japanese revolution/revolution probably aren’t the same word, just let me live and tease this out.
** in fairness, I think most history students would agree revolution is, in fact, a constant cycle that goes around. Anyway, we’re due for a bloody revolution and I’m half convinced a second civil war is on the horizon so.
I -am- going to be a linguistic fusspot here, but not in the way you’re expecting!
I don’t know who ever told you Pluto's title meant she was the soldier of spinning things, but the “henkaku” (変革) in “henkaku no senshi” indeed means revolution in the transformation/upheaval sense. If it were the other meaning of revolution, she would be the “kaiten no senshi.”
Now, I can’t tell you WHY Pluto is the soldier of political upheaval any more than I can tell you why Neptune is the soldier of embrace, but that’s what the words mean.
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So it turns out that the original green jacket was worn by director Kunihiko Ikuhara himself.
@mamorusgreenjacket who is your god now
Can we talk about how Rei’s grandpa is just Haruka with a mustache? What is she hiding?
Also, tortoise.
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I'm interested in hearing more if you're willing to into it. I know gendered pronouns aren't big in Japan so I've actually been wondering what was said.
Well, refering to someone in the 3rd person is comonly done with some variation of "aitsu" or "ano hito," both of which basically mean "that person." (This is actually where Taiki's infamous "our that person" line comes from. Doesn't really sound that awkward in Japanese). Normal masculine and feminine 3rd person pronouns DO exist, though. They're not that that rare, it's just that the convention of using "that person" to refer to someone means that they're not required to be used, and are thus used much less often than they would be in languages like English.
The standard masculine pronoun is "kare," and this is how Haruka is refered to when first introduced. Actually, Haruka is first refered to as "kare" by Michiru at the start of Act 27 after she gets out of the pool. As the arc goes on, Haruka is eventually just refered to as "aitsu." The shift to a more gender-nuetral term doesn't necessarily MEAN anything, since this is just the standard way to refer to people in the third person, but it could be taken as a way of lessening Harkua's "maleness"
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Michiru “start some shit” kaioh
My one request of crystal is to see more of these rivalries
I’ve never been a huge fan of the Infinity arc of the manga, but I do think the pattern of pronoun usage for Haruka vs the same arc in the anime is interesting.
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I recall seeing various translations of a line early in Sailor V. The line was calling Artemis a name based on the fact that Artemis is the name of a goddess. Some of the translations are harsh, but was it that harsh in Japanese? I study Japanese, so I can read the scene, but I don't know much cultural context. (I think オカマ was the word, but it's been a while)
The word was “okama,” yes! As for how harsh a term it is, well...
It’s certainly a word that’s used in a derogatory way, HOW derogatory is really a matter of one’s own personal lexicon. By the 90′s, the English loanwords “gay” and “homo” were commonly used by both the gay Japanese community itself and as insults by others. “Okama”, then, was usually a derogatory way of calling a man effeminate rather than an explicit jab at their sexuality, though the word does have that history.
In a general context, I’d say something as simple as “pansy” or “sissy” would be a decent translation? It’s not a nice word, but not something I’d say is equivalent to any modern English slur. In THIS context, Minako is accusing him of having a woman’s name, so I’d say something like “drag queen” would fit best. “Okama” would actually be the way to refer to a drag queen in Japanese.
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Real talk - One of my favourite arcs of Sailor Moon is the anime only Makaiju arc. (Except it also featured the most ??? version of Tuxedo Mask: ☆*~ﾟThe Moonlight Knight ~*☆ )
“Why am I this” can apply to so much about Mamoru.
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Doc, okay, so I'm playing this one game that isn't something you'd go for at ALL, but the world setting includes this "rule" that once someone dies, everyone else's memories of that person vanish. So society developed to the point where people carried name tags with them listing their relations, so when someone found a dead person's tag, they'd know who they were and who they were special to, even if they no longer recognize their name or face. Please use this concept in a fic or something
I’m confused as to how this works in a way because, I think,somehow, that would remove the pain of it. Or it would be distant, somehow,different. It’s sad to me that the whole Russian side of my family’s dead, butit doesn’t give me that twitch in my chest, like a knife being flipping in myribs, sharp and quick, at the thought of it. It’s memories that do that, thatcause the most pain. It’s smelling some passing perfume and knowing it washers, and remembering the night she wore it that you danced together under thestars, and the music mixed with her perfume, and smelling it now you rememberthe song you danced to, and it haunts you, and you remember how you’ll nevertouch her again, and how her hand felt in yours.
That’s pain. And, anything else, is mostly a loss of opportunity,in my experience. And that’s a very different kind of sorrow, and it doesn’thave the same cut. Is it better to have loved and lost, ten never to have lovedat all? I dunno, but I do know they feel different.
And it’s true, the human brain being what it is, I could whipmyself into a frenzy over someone I have no memory of. I’m sure of it. I’vefucking seen people do it. So, I mean, interesting concept, but if the wholesociety were like that I’d think it’d be so different. Like seeing a name on agrave of a relative you never knew.
I MEAN YOU COULD DO THINGS WITH IT, off the top of my head, forexample, a dying Haruka throwing her tags in the river before she does it,because no one can miss her if they can’t remember she was ever alive.
Wow, I totally forgot I sent this ask on a whim one day. I DO THAT TOO OFTEN TO REMEMBER, THESE ASKS ARE THE DOGTAGS OF IDEAS I ONCE HAD THAT HAVE SINCE DIED AND VANISHED FROM MEMORY.
But no no, all of this is true. I guess the idea I was imagining was having a loved one get a chronic illness, or go off to war, etc, and just being filled with panic that any day now, any moment, their existence will vanish from your mind, carrying everything they were and meant to you with it. Knowing soon you’ll be some alternate version of yourself that never met them, living on without even the memory of them to guide you. I DUNNO IT AFFECTED ME.
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Well, the Black Moon is over, and yet, I still know no peace.
I ACTUALLY EXCLAIMED SEVERAL TIMES IN FRUSTRATION WHILE READING THIS ACT LET’S SEE IF MY SUMMARY CAN DO MY EMOTIONS JUSTICE
I mean Even I really don't like this chapter, so
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Wow, that’s how you do it.
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On The Importance of Luna-P
I’m not really interested in comparing the manga to the anime directly for a myriad of reasons, but this was such a drastically different detail that I immediately started thinking about it. AND WHAT IS THIS BLOG IF NOT WHERE I OVERTHINK TINY DETAILS
Here, when Luna-P approaches Black Lady, she bats it away saying “What an annoying toy!” In the anime, we get this:
Black Lady hugs Luna-P to her (changing its crescent moon to the Black Moon mark) and says it’s her only friend. These two moments couldn’t be more different.
So why this change? The anime does have the additional element of this being when Usagi is forced to accept that Black Lady is really Chibi-Usa, but it’s not like this was the only way to do that, so it can’t have been the motivation behind the decision. Instead, I think it’s all about Black Lady.
There’s actually a lot of difference between the two versions of Black Lady, I think. In the manga, she’s really just more evil more than anything else. In my translation (assuming accuracy of course), her entire corruption at Wiseman’s hands is:
You have shown me the darkness in your heart. You were too strong for the world you came from, so you broke through all obstacles to reach me here, at the end of the world. There’s no turning back now. I can help you realize your unknown potential. Come with me. Come along with me.
She takes his hand, and that’s that.
It speaks, I think, to where Chibs is at in the manga, which is also a very different place to the anime. Manga!Chibs sees Pluto smiling at Endymion, becomes jealous because she thought she was special to Pluto and isn’t super cool with the idea of “sharing” her, and runs off to be found by Wiseman. Here, you can see elements of that darkness in Chibs. Her reactions are incredibly self-centered (which is not a condemnation; she’s a fucking child for fuck’s sake and her parents barely seem to care about her [who knows about the Senshi, they functionally don’t exist]) and you can see where she WOULD be angry. I’m not sure that motivation entirely bares out for me from there, as once she has power, she directs her attention to “claiming” Mamoru, who isn’t even PART of that situation. I think it would’ve worked much better for me had she focused on Pluto instead, but welcome to my manga experience, I suppose. My point being, Black Lady in the manga is born of selfishness and anger, and “evil” is mostly what she exhibits. By smacking away Luna-P, the response it elicits from us is “Wow, Black Lady is so bad! Chibi-Usa’s so lost to us!” Obviously I don’t know how her story is going to play out in the manga yet, but that moment’s intent is to produce hopelessness in the audience and the characters.
The anime handles this so differently. I think due in part to how we’ve, by necessity, spent so much more time with Chibi-Usa. We’ve seen her develop relationships not just with Mamoru and Usagi, but with Mako, Ami, Minako, and Rei. Her support structure is so much larger here, and so corruption by way of a smile just isn’t going to work. Because anime!Chibs has so much more she can draw on, the focus shifts from outside motivation (Pluto smiling at someone not-her) to internal. And the moment that sets events in motion frame this so well. What breaks her is that Usagi fails. Chibs has spent the entire season trying to heal her mother on her own, and then trying to trust the others enough to accept their help. By this point, she believes that Usagi will save her mother without question. AND USAGI FAILS. Unable to bear that her hero had failed, that everything she’d been through was for nothing, and driven by the guilt that her mother was beyond hope due to (she believes) her own actions, Chibi-Usa runs. This is when Wiseman finds her, and then spends the entire fucking episode confirming her fears, twisting her memories, and convincing her that nobody ever has or ever will love and care for her, the thing she’s most afraid will happen when the truth is discovered.
This is the part where the anime and manga meet on mostly the same terms: Chibi-Usa’s feelings that nobody loves her. Then they speed down different highways again. Rather than batting away Luna-P, in the anime, Chibi-Usa embraces it. It completely changes the face of the reveal: rather than the idea that Chibs is lost to them, the horror is in that this was done to her, that she could feel so alone to come to this. Black Lady hugging Luna-P reveals that however she looks now, in her heart she’s still just a desperate, scared little girl.
Despite how little I’m connecting with the manga, I do generally like how it’s handled Chibi-Usa. I’m not sure the Black Lady thing is working too well for me, though, but that’s for a variety of reasons, from what I feel is a misfire in her focus to Takeuchi’s over-reliance on brainwashing as a plot device to Black Lady being as generically evil as every other generic evil, when she should be packing a much greater emotional punch. Her batting aside Luna-P, though, as a moment, works well to further the divide between Chibi-Usa and Black Lady.
The anime’s choice to have her embrace it, however, furthers the connection between them. We’re seeing Black Lady, but also the Chibi-Usa who’s still there, and in pain. It does eliminate the element of hopelessness that the manga highlights and underlines, but trades it for a personal connection that, for me, resonates better in both the long and short term.
I think both are really interesting directions, though, and perhaps more than any single moment I’ve seen thus far, epitomize the differences between the two iterations of the story.
I loved reading this. I may have a different view of Manga!Black Lady, but comparing the differences in Chibiusa’s “fall from grace” across the different versions of the story has always been a favorite thing of mine. I will note, though, that Miss Dream’s translation is kind of off for Wiseman’s speech:
“I glimpsed the darkness in your heart. One cannot reach this place without having bid a strong farewell to the world from which they came. I am the very thing you have been seeking. Someone that truly needs you. You must come... with me.”
This really hits home to me that it’s less about jealousy at this moment than Chibiusa feeling that she has no place left in this world now that not even Pluto seems to need her, and Wiseman plays off of that.
And what better way for Chibiusa to use the powers given to her by Wiseman than to take on an adult body? To become the “lady” in her namesake given to her by her mother, the lady that she never was able to become on her own? She spent centuries feeling shame for not growing into the lady the citizens, her classmates, her parents, seemingly everyone except Pluto insisted she should become.
So she goes from Small Lady to Black Lady. And when she finally has the means to become this “lady” that everyone insisted she would be someday, her first action was to march to the Palace and declare all her ties to her family severed. She will use the awakening she finally gained not for the people that made her feel useless, but for herself.
It’s dark, it’s wicked, and it’s clearly partially fueled by Wiseman’s influence, but it’s also human. It’s also a natural response to the frustration Chibiusa must have felt for centuries now.