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Sailor Moon was awesome for another reason: She was always super relatable! She was clumsy, over ate, was late, didn't do great in school but she always had time for her friends. She would make sure if someone was upset or hurt, to comfort them and not dismiss their feelings. She didn't have amazing offensive powers like her friends (fire, lightning, etc) but she had heart and conviction.

As a gay guy, it's so refreshing to see a heterosexual Male express his appreciation for Sailor Moon. Kudos to him, I love it!

Sailor Moon is the gateway anime drug.

Let’s not forget that sailor moon has one of the best soundtracks ever in anime!!!! The music captivated you and really brought it to life!!!

"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C. S. Lewis

Sailor moon took my anime virginity lol. She will always have a special place in my heart

Sailor Moon was the first cartoon I ever saw that had a story arc that spanned individual episodes - that even with the very formulaic plot within an individual episode, each episode is a part of a larger story. It was the first cartoon I ever saw that had relatable characters - the sailors have hobbies, interests, phobias, quirks, etc. Sailor Moon is a crybaby, klutz, and procrastinator, Mercury is an introvert, Jupiter is a chef, Venus dreams of stardom, etc. They go to school. They worry about tests and going to school and sibling rivalries and finding love and being accepted. These characters have relatable flaws. In many ways, the success of Sailor Moon is similar to the success of Spider-Man (and many other Marvel comics vs. their DC counterparts) - people might long to be Batman, who is both a hero and multi-billionaire, or long to be Superman, who is a demigod in spandex, but they identify with Peter Parker struggling to do the right thing and still pay rent every month. The other unique thing that Sailor Moon brought to the table was a feminine approach to confronting her enemies. So many heroes solve problems by punching things (e.g. most comic book heroes). The problem is that most of the super heroines approach things the same as their male counterparts - punch and punch and punch. From a few steps back, Superman and Wonder Woman are incredibly similar in their "problem solving techniques". There is, of course, a time and a place for punching things - this is why we have armed forces and police officers - but this is a traditionally a very masculine way of solving problems. Sailor Moon would rather see her enemies be redeemed than be destroyed, she would rather talk than fight. Most of the big fights are more contests of will and determination (or unity and friendship) than brute force. Especially with Ail+Ann, the Dark Moon family, Amazon Trio/Quartet, Nehelenia, and Galaxia - the fight is won through empathy and pity - which is traditionally a much more feminine approach to problem solving.

Naoko Takeuch literally woke up one morning and said, "I wanna make history!" Then in 1991, Sailor Moon stepped onto the scene and said, "I AM THE STANDARD!"

The creator of yuyu hakusho and sailor moon are married! (Don’t know if I spelt that correctly)

Please do more Sailor Moon videos. This was my first ever anime before I even knew what an anime was back in the 90s

As a 40 year-old, I was 15 when Sailor Moon premiered. I was already pretty into Anime, having first seen Akira at age 13. So I was hooked right away. It helped me connect to my little sister over the years. Five years later, I met my wife, and we shared a love for it. We watched a lot of Toonami over the years, especially when they added Tenchi.

As a 35 year old gay dude, I still watch sailor moon to this very day. I remember getting up early, before I had to go to school watching Sailor Moon. It was so exciting watching something I had never seen before. I knew they were different, but it felt relatable because I also felt different as a kid but at that time, I didn't know why. Reflecting back, It helped me understand more about myself than I realized. I may have not known I was gay as a kid then, but I knew that it was okay to be different because usagi and the rest of the senshi were different. It wasn't patronizing as you said, and that's why I loved it. It was a place I could go at that time where I didn't need any walls to pretend to be anyone other than myself. If that makes sense. P.S. did anyone watch Ronin Warriors? I watch it around the same time and loved it as much as Sailor Moon!

Sailor moon is champion of justice for all our heart

I'm 35. Woke up early for school 1 morning and found Sailor Moon. One of the 1st shows I saw with transformations and actual story that carried over through episodes. Thought yup this is good stuff.

I'm a heterosexual guy,but some of the best memories from elementary school, are of my older sister and I sitting down in front of the television on weekday afternoons after I got home from school and watching sailor moon together!!!

Excuse me but the art/animation in Sailormoon is STUNNING and nicer than most anime's could ever DREAM of being.

The DIC dub may of been badly censored buuuuut the voice acting were amazing

I always wanted to be a Sailor Scout more than a Z Fighter. I called myself Sailor Titan and asked my mom to get me an orange Sailor uniform. Probably raised more questions in her than I wanted. Anyway, villains didn't even die most of the time in Sailor Moon (the anime). They would become major supporting characters. Meanwhile, main characters would be forgotten in Dragon Ball if their power level wasn't high enough. Remember Launch? Because Toriyama didn't.

I grew up in Italy, and Japanese anime were 95% of our streamed cartoons. They aired from 6 am to 10pm at alternate times on every major or regional channel. All the 70s and 80s classics, every world masterpiece theater series, mecha shows, magical girl shows, Tom Sawyer, Ranma ½, Kimagure Orange Road, Hello! Spank, Candy Candy, The Rose of Versailles... we had it all. Then came Sailor Moon. It had the BEST dub. Look it up. Usagi’s monologue at the end of S1 is gut wrenching. It had some censure, but not drastic to the plot line (sadly, the most blatant LGBT themes). I think Sailor Moon defined a new era of animation not only in the US, but worldwide. Sailor Moon explored every facet of the human experience. In that lies its broad appeal. It still elicits strong emotions in all of us, now adults, because it is the show that taught us the meaning of friendship, of love, of sacrifice, of pursuing a dream, and perseverance.

"*Gasp* lesbians!" Lmao😂😂😂 Man, I'm sick as a dog right now, stuck in quarantine.. thank you for making me smile. 😊💕

Sailor moon was the reason i got into drawing the damn show helped made me who i was back than forreal.Dbz too but mainly sailormoon.I was drawing before i could write😂sadly i miss it i got arthritis im my drawing hand at 16 and i havent been able to draw the same since.I haven't even really been myself since.KZfaqrs like yourselves bringing fire content helps me hold on to a part of myself that i lost a long time ago. im 27 now and ive changed alot but im still that same anime,nerdy, loner, weird girl at heart that listened to japanese music all day and drew manga styles all week.I miss me sometimes lol forreal though the 90s and early 2000s was a great time

cardcaptor sakura, dragonball or sailormoon, I didn't know which is my first but I do know I got childhood crush on all 3 series.

Omg, I loved this video and the little analysis. 80s and 90s Anime were so damn good. I just went down the NGE rabbithole again and it's so unique! And of course Sailor Moon is one of the classics

Sailor Moon was my first anime too!!! I was obsessed with the show!! The colors,the characters, the girls, the transformations!!! Made countless drawings of them in kindergarden, but no one understood them, cause they never heard about the show. In my country it was only available on RTL2, a german kids channel...let me just say, i live nowhere near Germany and did not speak or understood German at the time i was watching the show (still don't speak German lol)... But it was the only way i could watch it, and every late afternoon i was waiting impatiently for Sailor Moon to start so i could see the new episode. When my mom somehow got me some Sailor Moon coloring books and also comic books made from screen captures of the tvshow....you cannot imagine the amount of excitement i have felt back then....ohh myy, the nostalgia is hitting hard now...Thank you for this video, it brought back pleasant memories!

Sailor Moon is my favourite anime ever! I remember waking up early every morning to watch it before going to school.

I grew up with Sailor moon cause I grew up with female cousins. it was either Sailor Moon or DBZ. With Pokemon. And yes, I was Sailor Mercury.

I never really watched Sailor Moon when I was a kid, but I was a huge DBZ fan. My wife was a huge Sailor Moon fan when she was younger, so recently we decided to watch both together. It's amazing how much these shows revolutionized anime.

My first exposure to anime was back around 1970, when a block of anime shows appeared on an indy broadcast channel. They included Speed Racer, Astro Boy, and Kimba the White Lion, as well as as several of Gerry Anderson's 21st Century shows, like Captain Scarlet, Thunderbirds, and Fireball XL5.

Since I was born in 84 I guess my first anime was Voltron. By the way I also use to wake up at 5 a.m. just to watch Sailor Moon.

I was a 10 years old child back in Rio, Brazil when I watched Sailor Moon for the first time! Right on the first episode I was mesmerised and fell in love with it! I would strategically save part of my lunch money just to buy magazines that featured Sailor Moon and I would read it again and again for hours. Sailor Moon was my life! I am 33 years old now and Sailor Moon holds a very special place in my heart!

The dub for Sailor Moon is DIC ENTERTAINMENT and that's why I freaking love it. Also, since this is DIC ENTERTAINMENT related, who here remembers Liberty's Kids?

You've put into words all the feels I've had for Sailor Moon since first watching it on UPN. It was the only show that got me up and ready early in the morning just so that I could sit and watch it uninterrupted before school. The chills EVERYTIME at the transformation scene, even though it's the exact same clip and sequence every time. Your video was also very informative - I did not know that Sailor Moon eventually aired on Toonami, I didn't have cable like that. Thank you so much for sharing! Very nostalgic and also a confirmation of the great things our gen has grown with. :)

My first experiences were Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sailor Moon, Shaman King, and Tokyo Mew Mew. Only got 5 or 6 channels growing up, and seeing these on WB and Fox Kids in the afternoons or Saturdays were the bomb. Knew it was different than regular cartoons, and still loving anime to this day. :) Good times. Thanks for the nostalgia, Mike. Keep up the fun. God bless yours and you all at Treesicle! :)

Im a 90s baby! Sailor moon all the way! FIGHTING EVIL BY MOON LIGHT!

There was a male Sailor Moon: Ronin Warriors.

Im almost 40. And still love watching sailor moon.. 💖🌙💖

"In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!" I am a Toonami kid and damn proud of it.

I was exposed to anime for the first time on one of those late night blocks as a small kid suffering from insomnia and sneaking out to the living room . Sailor moon , Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragonball , CC Sakura, Pokemon, the list goes on and on to this day. It is crazy to see how much the medium has changed. But yes, Sailor moon legitimately (and InuYasha) changed my life. Ps same age (27) and rewatching SailorMoon and other classics now and they still rock!😎✌😘 thanks for this video. It used to be hard to be an anime fan 😋😋

for me she was the next level of a modern princess, here we already had saint seiya, samurai troopers and shurato 2 years before sailor moon we already know how anime works for boys but not for girls, and disney princess are all from old medieval times and sailor moon had all the good things and new things, cause every other anime or series (we already had tokusatsu super heroes shows before power rangers) are so focused on fight there isn't human side there isn't a day in the school, sailor moon was a heroine that need to live as real girl and save the city, we saw something on spiderman 90's but it was only peter already in fight angry with his hard life, We don't watch the hard life part, but we found this on sailor moon, she connect with us in a way no other can she was a pretty human super hero, real human teenager and the other girls helps they are less imperfect but still human but powerfull to kill any enemy with one hit, they are complete!

If you love Sailor moon and Dragon ball Z then watch PreCure its like the girly aspect of Sailor Moon with good actions scenes (sometimes better than) Dragon ball Z

Sailor Moon was my first...thanks to Toonami.

Thank you soooo much for this video!! I needed to see this. Hardcore sailor moon fan and lover of DB

How I got introduced to anime?? I love telling this story. Pull up and chair, put your phone down(not literally) and open your ears(eyes) up So I think the year was like 98 or 99, I was in the mall with my dad and at this time there was a video store called Suncoast Videos, and I wandered off from my dad to pick a movie I wanted to see. On the shelves towards the back of the store I found these weird looking cartoons on the cover boxes and immediately got intrigued. There was a guy nearby (another black man mind you) who told be what I was looking at was this cool show called Dragonball Z. For about 15 minutes he explained what the show was about, cool moments that happened, the things that go down during fights, the rivalries. 15 minutes felt like hours to me because I'm only seeing what he's telling me in my imagination(which already had become strong due to my passion for video games) and not long after this I eventually saw the show. My dad showed up and had to drag me out of Suncoast but I never forgot that guy and how cool he seemed to me being an adult black man and watching things that I liked. It was refreshing for me because everyone around me either liked sports and music videos, neither of which interested me. My cousins often made fun of me for my lack of skill in bball or whatever new rap song I hadn't heard. But after going into Suncoast I had something that was my own, something I didn't have to enjoy just because others around me did.

I'm down for this journey!You really brought back some memories, and I think you are spot on with how that period of anime exposure really was an amazing time of discovery and wonder.

I'm an older guy, in my mid-40s. So for the "Were you a Toonami Kid?" question: No. I was an adult with newborn kids at that time. :) I remember watching Speed Racer when I was younger, though don't remember much about it. The first anime that I do remember watching was Voltron when it first aired in 1984 when I was 10 (aka target audience for shows like Transformers, He-Man, etc. of which I also liked). That was my first taste in long-term animated storytelling. I then remember watching Robotech the next year, at least the first season and recognized this season-long story arc vs. "episode of the week" format and that brought me in. After that, I didn't even know of any anime going on around me until 2000 when a co-worker suggested I watch Evangelion. After that, I was hooked and started reaching out for more anime to watch and still do to this day. Currently playing catchup on Digimon Tri. I watched the first five parts as they were released, but never watched the 6th. So I'm re-watching all of it from the start so I remember what happened. :)

I’m very new to anime I only discovered it 2017 late in the year with fairytale, now have a full list of 20 plus anime’s I want to watch and will probably keep growing.

When I was around 5-6 years old in 1987..I was flipping through the channels late night..and on HBO I saw this awesome "cartoon" called Vampire Hunter D for the first time, my child mind was blown! After that, I was hooked! But it was a struggle growing up, I could never find it again..Until the early 90s when I finally learned what "Japanimation" was thanks to the Sci-Fi channel. But it was so hard finding any other anime, until Sailor Moon came out in 1995, it filled a void that was long overdue, but it was only a few seasons..and on the internet, you saw all these other Sailor Scouts that you would NEVER see until the 2000s in America. It was a struggle being an Anime fan back then.

I loved the DiC dub of Sailor Moon😩😩 so much nostalgia

I learned a lot watching this! It’s always great to be entertained and learn something at the same time. Thank you! I’m a youtube creator too, and I can tell you put a lot of time, thought, and energy into the research, editing, and delivery. 💪🏾💯♥️

Great video!! Thanks for uploading! Sailor Moon was one of my favorite cartoons when I was younger. I watched the anime in german where they kept the original japanese songs but made a german version of them. The english songs are great too but I liked that they still kept the original soundtracks. I did a lot of Sailor Moon flip books as well.

In Canada it was on YTV in a prime after school time slot and one of the hosts of the tv channel was actually the english voice of Chibi-Usa. It was really cool because kids were so used to seeing her, Stephanie Beard, as the host of "The Zone" on YTV and there she was introducing episodes of an anime she voiced a character for! All of the boys I was friends with in grade school actually thought the sailor scouts were cool and wanted to pretend to re-enact episodes and as a little girl it was so great having female superheroes that people thought were strong and cool. I grew up hearing that girls are weak and boring but most of the boys had to admit that Sailor Moon was awesome. I think it was a really important show. It also played around with gender expression with Fisheye and obviously showed a healthy and really romantic lesbian relationship... The dub confused me because I knew "cousins" didn't do romantic things for each other so I asked my poor mother if it was incest, which I had just learned about ... she tried to explain it away as if "cousin" was just a "silly nickname" and they were not actually related. Who would have guessed that something like that would confuse children even more than just letting the characters remain regular ol lesbians??? My mom thinks it's hilarious looking back now though. Having your 7 year old point to the TV and worriedly ask if two of her favourite characters are in an incestuous relationship must have been a shock.

When you said I'm talking about the super hantai power couple Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z JonTron saying "I don't like where this is going" popped in my head

When I was 4 my grandma recorded it on the VCR for me. I was OBSESSED. I have been a huge otaku since. I'm 28 and my kids and husband are all anime fans and yes we cosplay at conventions once a year lol. Sailor moon was so much more then an anime eye opener and I thank my grandma for me seeing it

Sailor Moon is fantastic show. I can't imagine how much this show means to me. Sailor Moon is a Saint Seiya reference. I absolutely love it.

I wanted to go back and re-watch the original DiC 90's sailor moon, and I realized that the re-mastered version is EVERYWHERE. It is impossible to find the old Terri Hawkes english dub anywhere. I finally went onto ebay and ordered what I hope is all the original seasons. It is nice they went in and re-mastered it, but sometimes I want to hear the old voices and the names like Serena, Rini, and Darien. The new Sailor Moon Crystal is okay since it follows the manga and has less filler (by a lot) but it has lost all the charm of the original.

Watching this amazing vid, I have realized that I owe my love of anime to my older brother. Me being born in the early '96 I would have never found out about Sailor Moon, Cowboy Bebop, DBZ, and others if my brother hadn't have tv rights over me when we were kids. I remember having to watch DBZ and Sailor Moon and hating them, wondering why we had to watch them instead of Sesame Street or Mr Roger's Neighborhood. As I grew up a bit, I realized how amazing the shows really were. To this day, I still do and always will love anime and manga. Just don't tell my brother, he'll never let me live it down.

First anime I saw was Tenchi Universe. Blockbuster was having a special "rent 7 vhs instead of 3 for the weekend" special. I stumbled across Tenchi Universe, rented it, and got hooked.

Yo this guy has sold me. Just got back into anime recently (watching Promised Neverland) and this is exactly the kind of youtube channel I need right now. Good information/analysis on the anime classics and some good anime recommendations here too. Bam.

I looove this. And like how refreshing that a heterosexual male is talking about this show, and how it affected your life!

My first anime was sailor moon on upn and dragonball z on channel 9 saturdays or slayers on the international channel. Didn't see toonami untill I got cable in 2001.

I'm 30 and I love anime! Sailor Moon is my first anime too, I still love it and it is my second favourite series after FMAB. My brothers loved DBZ and I remember them watching it and me pretending I was annoyed, but secretly loving it too.

I LOVED Sailor Moon as a kid! I still do, every now and then I go watch out when I'm feeling frustrated and out just makes me feel better. We love her because she is a klutzy, lazy girl who loves her friends and never gives up 😻🌙

*Fighting evil by moonlight, Winning love by daylight..Never running from a real fight! She is the one named Sailor Moon!* 🌙

The 90's Sailor Moon and the DCAU shows are the most top dogs to me!

I really hope your hopes and dreams aren't dead, cuz I wanna read that comic

I was a toonami kid and sailor moon 🌙 was my favorite! Dope video 🔥

You took the words right out of my mouth. I came home from school one day and was looking for something to watch. We had just moved to a new town and I hadn't made friends yet, so I'm channel surfing and I find this cartoon like none I had ever seen before. It was action-packed, funny, suspenseful, and had all the glittery-rainbow-magical-beautiful-fantasy adventure that I never even knew I wanted. I was utterly captivated. And as you mentioned, the toonami slot opened the doors to Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, and so much more. It would be several years till I learned the word "Otaku", but the instant I saw sailor moon, that's what I was. And I never looked back😁😁

I remember watching Sailor Moon at 5pm when I was kid. I stayed up laaaate on Saturday nights when Toonami was the robot voice, not Tom.

3:40 Well, you didn’t have a strong boy like me to defend you guys.

Sailor Moon is literally everything 🌙😍 Sailor moon, dragonball Z and Cardcaptor Sakura were my first anime and manga I watched an read

Sailor Moon was my first anime, I was 3 when it came out and i just happened to be one of those "lucky" kids that was up at like 5 or 6 am cause my mom needed to get me ready for preschool so she could go to work. So i guess my mom introduced me she told me that i would grab my bowl of cereal and just sit front of the tv and watch it while i ate /while she did my hair. I was a Toonami kid (well kind of i think i really only watched Sailor Moon...)I remember one time Toonami had a sailor moon Marathon of every episode through the end of the 2nd season and my mom being the amazing woman that she is recorded like 2 vhs(at least 2-3 hours worth if not more ) worth of episodes for me and R is my favorite season so you best believe i watched those tapes over and over. It's really cool to look back on those tapes now cause they also have the Toonami bumpers(no commercials cause it was a commercial free marathon i thi nk) and it's just a nice little slice of my child hood i can hold onto :)

Tenchi Muyo shout-out! If you weren't alive then you don't know LOL

I got introduced to anime through a kid in 8th grade, I knew it existed, I often read manga in my library, even before I knew what that was. But he really showed me some cool shows. I started with the original FMA and never looked back.

Great video! As Canadian I grew up with YTV instead of Cartoon Network, but they had some awesome anime on there too. Sailor Moon was my first. Forever holds a special place in my heart

watch PreCure the love child between Dbz and Sailor Moon

My heart lives with Toonami! Steve Blum, who did Tom's voice, along with Spike from Cowboy Bebop and Roger Smith from The Big O is still one of my favorite voice actors to this day. I was royally obsessed with Tenchi Muyo and, God bless my father for fueling my obsession, took me out to our local comic shop and I lost my ever living 12 year old mind when I found the Tenchi Muyo comics. Over 20 he bought me and I still have them to this day. ReBoot was also one of my favorites, one of those that kids these days, with computers being so normal, wouldn't truly appreciate. The first CGI anime and revolved around computer terms and the inner workings, also fueled my love of the start of technology. These are only a few of the reasons why people of my generation loved the 90's so much.

I was right there with you up at 5:30 a.m. everyday to watch sailor Moon and Pokemon. I was in kindergarten then. as an adult I have found all the sailor Moon manga and read through them. Really good stuff.

I started watching Sailor Moon back in 1995 when first came to the US. I recorded ever episode and edited out all ads. One of my daughters is a Sailor Moon addict one might say. I have done my best to help her get anything there is about the show.

Dragon Ball Z/Sailor Moon was my start and I was around for the start of Toonami

"I'm talking about the original hentai power couple..." Why would you say something so controversial yet so true 😄😄😄

You capture why i love anime so well! It’s like you reached in my brain and explained everything. Great videos. I’m on a binge

Great video as always! My first exposure to Japanese anime was probably Monster Rancher and as I recall watching this, I could hear my cousins uproariously in next room shouting excitedly about DBZ (which at the time I had no idea what dragon ball was). The first anime show that I got to see on Toonami was -- Naruto or Cowboy Bebop which later on opened many doors for me in the anime/manga world.

Australia had Cheese TV, and literally every morning at 6am it was sailor moon, DBZ and Pokémon.

Gundam Wing was my must-see obsession!

Robotech was my first anime. It was followed by surprisingly Sailor Moon, Super Dimensional Fortress Orguss, Orguss 2, Akira, Ghost in the Shell,etc. I do agree that a lot of the older animes we're more grittier and more better quality than many of the American ones which were only aimed at kids. These animations didn't feel like children's animations, which is what drew me into the genre. More or less everything you stated was point on

My big sister used to watch sailor moon and I was hooked, then once I discovered dragon ball I realized this was a thing. They weren't cartoons as I knew them. Then one fateful day in the 3rd grade one of the older kids on the school bus was talking to his friends about an anime about magic ninjas and he told me what time it would be on toonami. He even gave me my first shonen jump. After that I literally grew up with naruto. It's such a fucking trip how many kids I went to high school with are just now getting into anime. Like the culture at large is finally realizing what weve known all this time

Totally agree bro and I can’t wait for the yyh review. My first anime was rurouni kenshin and DBZ. Top 10: 1) cowboy bebop 2)outlaw star 3)trigun 4) fam brotherhood 5)gurren Lagan 6) yu yu hakusho 7) samurai champloo 8)flcl(season 1) 9) rurouni kenshin (up to the shishio arc)- I still wish they did the enishi arc from the manga 10) welcome to the NHK Others: Steins gate Hellsing and H ultimate Panty and stocking Soultaker(the ending could’ve been better)

Sailor moon and dbz is still my favorite anime I was a 90s kid

oh. lookie here. this video was recommended to me. subbed. nice job with this video and look forward to watching more content. i was a toonami kid, tho i’m a bit younger so i was a few years behind. i was watching toonami when inuyasha, yuyu hakosho and cowboy bebop came on. introduced me to many anime’s that i consider my all time favorites.

sailor moon was my first anime ever! i was introduced by my mom in 2004 when I was only two years old. she also got me “Meet Sailor Moon” book from library in our town, I was obsessed for a very long time. im now 21, AND still fan of Sailor Moon. i currently have a lot of sailor moon collection in my room! i honestly couldn’t count how many I have! thanks to sailor moon for the best childhood ever

3:31 90’s: Guy wedgied for liking Sailor Moon. Ancient Rome: Guy gets fed to the lions for being a Christian. Some things never change.

I was in elementary school when Sailor Moon aired in the US (I was born in 1986, in LA). I had Sailor Moon folders in high school and remember being being made fun of because I had "cartoons" on my folders. I didn't really have too many super heroes to look up to, except for Storm from X-Men and of course Sailor Moon. She made me feel like I could take on the world, and she still does :3 Also, I can confirm that anime was niche and difficult to find back before Toonami. My cousins and I (they are half Japanese) would download VCDs to get episodes or sometimes rent videos from Mitsuwa. It would take a few days to download say 1 episode of Gundam Wing and a week for a whole season of Tokyo Mew Mew. Sailor Moon was a hot commodity. I remember my cousin visiting her grandparents in Japan and telling me of every Sailor Moon promo she saw and what their outfits looked like in newer seasons. Good times :)

I grew up with older siblings and a nerd/geek dad. My dad actually lived in Japan for a time and I absolutely had access to Toonami and Sailor Moon was my show. Still is.

Enjoyed this so much!!! I don't think anything will make me as happy as watching sailor moon every Saturday morning did as a kid.

I'm 33, and i'm sure I was the first fan of Dragonball in the U.S.

"THE ORIGINAL HENTAI POWER COUPLE" MIKE! YOU ARE OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE OVER GRANT WITH THAT LINE (sorry grant i still love your stuff i promise) Edit: to answer your questions, Sailor Moon was definitely my first anime. I'm barely a year older than you, so I'm also a Toonami Kid. That entire block (even when it pseudo morphed into Adult Swim's anime block) changed my life: Sailor Moon, DBZ, Kenshin, Outlaw Star, Inuyasha...all of it helped form my weeb phase which I've now re-entered thanks to my wife.

I would say that everything they were airing on Toonami would be my first exposure to anime and yes I was a Toonami kid.

Every new video I watch with you, reminds me that I'm not alone. Sailor moon was my first and I too was a UPN kid! I used to watch it before school. Toonami basically raised me, as a latch key kid it was all I had after school. But damn was it good.

Did you just take inspiration from Mercedes Iman Diamond? Sailor Moon! She. Changed. EVERYTHING 🤣🤣🤣