I’ve Never Watched Anything as Transformative as ‘Sailor Moon’
The first lesbianrelationship I saw portrayed on-screen was in “Sailor Moon.” Uranus and Neptune were two characters who seemed undeniably in love.
The show is Japanese anime, though, and I could only watch the English-dubbed version that called them “cousins.” The titular Sailor Moon and the other Sailor Scouts are celestial superheroes sent across time to protect Earth from nefarious forces.
In the human world, they take on the appearance of ordinary girls, but can transform into their fighting selves via personal totems.
Sailor Moon often has a compact mirror and shouts, “Moon Prism Power, Makeup!” before transforming during battle and declaring, “In the name of the moon, I’ll punish you!” Swoon. “Sailor Moon” aired early on weekday mornings when I was in middle school, around 1995.
