prismatic-bell:ruffboijuliaburnsides:prismatic-bell:setteidreams:This finally popped up in the mail
prismatic-bell:ruffboijuliaburnsides:prismatic-bell:setteidreams:This finally popped up in the mail today: Sailor Moon Materials Collection. I never thought I’d own this book, but I finally found a copy I could afford. It lacks the cover/back jacket and is kind of worn, but the inside pages are still fine.Which of course means I am going to scan it. This book has been scanned before, but in rather low-resolution.For now, enjoy this page of Usagi and Mamoru. You can download the high-res version over here.May I request, FINALLY, a good scan of the Shitennou pages?listen. Listen. I love that this shit was official art. Look at this girl. She has definitely Done The Sex with her beloved boyfriend and she is smug and pleased as PUNCH. And this is a sweet romantic thing. I just. I love seeing the idea of Usagi having sex and she’s not married and she’s this being of purity and goodness and she is still NAKED IN BED with the guy she TOTALLY DEFINITELY FUCKED. Proof that purity is not measured by sexual activity or lack thereof in the sailor moon universe. BALLER.She’s actually pregnant when she gets married! So like.Also, she doesn’t stop being Sailor Moon after she has sex, which in theory could be as early as the second arc (the “kitchen floor scene”) but definitely happens before manga’s end. She stops being Sailor Moon only when it is safe for her to assume the mantle of queen, and stop fighting.… . incidentally, the third movie (and thus one of the manga side-stories, since the movies are based on them) also tells us that Haruka and Michiru have sex. Michiru says Haruka is getting heavy and Haruka’s reply is “I only listen to that kind of talk in bed.” (Along with a less-notorious but no less startling “remain children? How foolish. There are so many more fun things to do as an adult” out of Michiru.)And Haruka is nonbinary in the manga. Naoko Takeuchi has confirmed her original intent with the “Haruka has the strengths of both genders” line was to say Haruka was butch, because she didn’t really “get” queer people at the time, but when she had the chance to change it in Crystal and the manga’s definitive edition, she didn’t, because it meant something to people.And, there’s a decent amount of evidence that Rei is some squishy combination of aromantic and lesbian. (It sort of depends on how much supplementary material you take as canon/WOG and how much you think is Naoko just enjoying drawing her characters.)And, Usagi is canonically bisexual.And, the first movie (and thus one of the manga side stories) provides us with the possibility of Mamoru being bisexual … and Usagi being upset not because he might be bi, but because it certainly seems like he is and he never bothered to tell her. She’s more upset that he didn’t feel secure enough with her to tell her than she is that he currently appears to have once had a boyfriend.Proof that purity is not measured by sexual activity or sexual orientation in the Sailor Moon universe. -- source link
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