The Japanese Cometh.... Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Cardcaptor Sakura

Sailor Moon

 

In the 90's there was a surge of Anime's that hit the American air-waves. Among the most popular Pokémon there was also Sailor Moon, a cartoon about a normal 14 yr old girl who discovers she is a long lost warrior from the Moon. Needless to say to a five year old like myself nothing made me more excited than to fight crime in a dress. Rushing home to be on time to hear the theme song "Fighting evil by moonlight/winning love by daylight/never running form a real fight/ she is the one named Sailor Moon"..... I could go on, honestly I loved this show so much and now as an adult I get so excited that the propaganda for this show is growing . The Americans cancelled the show after the second season but in Japan they kept going. Later as an adult I watched the entire series over and you know what? It hadn't lost any of it s brilliance for me. Even though Serena is essentially doing the same thing for 200 episodes you are enamored by her and the antics of her and the sailor scouts. Personally my favorite is and always has been Sailor Mercury, as an only child she was who I could associate with on tv. She was smart, quiet and generally a peacemaker according to me I was a blonde version of her. I have now come to the halting realization that I am more like Serena aka Sailor Moon; not that smart, ditzy and lazy. I love love this show.

This is the best representation of me:

                                    

    This is who I thought I was like:

                

          This is who I'm more like apparently:

 

 

Pokémon

 

With Sailor Moon, came Pokémon an Anime about a boy in a world where the animals were called Pokémon. They were not like our animals as these had powers and were used to fight in giant arenas it was all very anti-peta now that I think about it, but back in my younger years it was nothing more than an awesome TV show about cute little things that spoke to me.. This is one of the few Japanese shows from the 90's that made it to the 2000's and is still popular today. I mean my brother who is 15 years younger than me watches this all the time. Creating new Pokémon, I don't think Ash will ever catch them all but he can sure try.

 

 

fave pokemon ever and its evolutions

 And according to everyone in my middle school, back in 2003, this is what I looked like.....

 

 Cardcaptor Sakura

 

This is one of those shows that not a lot of people remember, every time I mention it everyone gives me a blank face. I loved this show but didn't keep watching it after they stopped airing it like Sailor Moon, and it was cancelled very quickly so I didn't get to know it like Sailor Moon and Pokémon. Still I thought it was worth mentioning.