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May. 10th, 2011 20:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_moonWritten 7 pages today for the paper. Most of it is very, very rough and the footnotes are a bit of a mess. But it's still a lot and I got in the bulk of the girl/shôjo background I wanted plus the first draft of the series summary. Which leaves the big bulk of the hero background and the analysiz, but I'm trying to be positive here.
I also found a good scan of the gorgeous transformation sequence image that Takeuchi drew in the first artbook, which I'll use on the front page. So no need for me to scan my artbook, yayness!
Also had great use of an articleunjapanologist linked me to, Young Females as Super Heroes: Superheroines in the Animated Sailor Moon because it defines a bunch of things so that I don't have to. It is, however, riddled with fact errors about the Sailor Moon canon. For instance, even with all the cutting up that the NA edition of the anime received, I am fairly certain that Haruka and Michiru turn up in the third season, not the second. I'm also sceptical to the claim that Usagi is called Serena Moon in the dub, can't recall that.... Oh well. Another of my sources, Hourihan's "Deconstructing the hero" is also full of a bunch of small, weird things. Like calling the Doctor "Dr Who" in one place, and claiming that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a good example of a non-patriarchal hero for children (wtf??). And yes, I will try to make note of this somewhere in my footnotes >_>
I also found a good scan of the gorgeous transformation sequence image that Takeuchi drew in the first artbook, which I'll use on the front page. So no need for me to scan my artbook, yayness!
Also had great use of an article
unjapanologist linked me to, Young Females as Super Heroes: Superheroines in the Animated Sailor Moon because it defines a bunch of things so that I don't have to. It is, however, riddled with fact errors about the Sailor Moon canon. For instance, even with all the cutting up that the NA edition of the anime received, I am fairly certain that Haruka and Michiru turn up in the third season, not the second. I'm also sceptical to the claim that Usagi is called Serena Moon in the dub, can't recall that.... Oh well. Another of my sources, Hourihan's "Deconstructing the hero" is also full of a bunch of small, weird things. Like calling the Doctor "Dr Who" in one place, and claiming that the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a good example of a non-patriarchal hero for children (wtf??). And yes, I will try to make note of this somewhere in my footnotes >_>
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Date: 2011-05-10 20:43 (UTC)No, "Amara" and "Michelle" didn't turn up until the third season, in the Cloverway version of the dub (They are so unlike Haruka and Michiru it isn't even funny). The confusion might be because of the changing of production companies, and the fact that the first two seasons ran together on TV in North America (at least until Rubeus' death, where the original order ended, and then a few years later they bought the rest of R and called the last 17 episodes the "Lost Episodes", gah).
Serena never got a last name in the NA dub. Darien had "Shields" on some promotional material, but not in the show itself, I don't think. The only senshi who were given surnames were "Amy Anderson", "Raye Hino" and Hotaru Tomoe (who got to keep her name, even if no one could pronounce it correctly).
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Date: 2011-05-10 22:09 (UTC)Sloppy research of relatively easy things to check! I mean, even if the article is older than Wikimoon and the well-researched version of Wikipedias SM-page (which I think it is), getting your facts about the source material right is pretty essential... And not all that difficult, surely?
Right, Darien Shields, I remember that from some fanfics. Oh, the memories :3