A
few days ago it turned out my neighbor's kid had been leeching my
internet. She's eight and it turns out my wi-fi reaches her room. I
discovered this because my Youtube recommendations were suddenly
filled with Sailor Moon videos because she's big into Sailor Moon
right now.
And
I am a little curious. Anime is something I dip into every now and
again and, for probably obvious reasons, I've never watched Sailor
Moon but I get the idea its this huge thing in the anime world. Its
the magical girl anime,
admittedly the only one I know the name of but just that tells me it
has huge cultural cache.
I
vaguely remember being leant one of the books by a friend when I
was... twelve, maybe thirteen. It didn't really grab me but back then
I just couldn't read manga: I kept forgetting the right-to-left thing
and the book was really low quality like a bad photocopy. All I
remember is Tuxedo Mask because a) I like a good mysterious stranger
story and b) such a simple but cool design.
And
it would just be an interesting experience. I've dipped into a lot of
the big animes, loved some (Fairy Tail, One Piece), hated others
(Naruto) but all in the shounen “boys” manga vein. I've never
watched a magical girl anime, everything I know about the genre comes
from jokes in Megatokyo. It's a new art form to me and I actually
looking forward to exploring it a little.
