Brief Flurries: Day Two

[branchandroot]

So, I'm really not at home to most challenges, but some of the Snowflake prompts do catch my attention.

In your own space, share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life. Something that impacted on your consciousness in a way that left its mark on your soul.

And I recall Sailor Moon. But more than the anime itself (or the manga, or the other anime...) I recall how one of my literature students lassoed me into Fandom by using Sailor Moon. She spotted my weaknesses right off and suggested that I'd be interested by a narrative comparison of the sub versus dub endings to Season One, especially the way that excising all the violence for dub-land also managed to snip out all of Sailor Moon's agency in the scene. And, well, that was me done and dusted.

So here's to you, Kay. Well done.

Comments

[dancing_serpent]

Oh, that sounds like an interesting start into fandom/Sailor Moon! My first contact was the German sub (back when I had no idea such a thing as internet fandom even existed), and I watched it mainly because I wanted to know why a guy three years older than me was so fascinated by it. About 34 episodes later I was hooked. *g*

[branchandroot]

There was a lot of analytical material in how the dub script altered the story, which it did to a (now) kind of staggering extent. It was a great lure for a lit major, and five shipments of vhs tapes later I was totally down the rabbit hole!