For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, the people demanded more Sailor Moon, and so, we’re continuing on, with episodes 31 through 36 of the 1992 series, the definitive magical-girl anime. This is the completely unabridged, unexpurgated, uncensored, Japanese version of the show, including everything that the English dub butchered, altered, and/or cut, which is quite a bit. Tonight’s episodes see the introduction of Sailor Venus, and the revelation of Princess Serenity’s true identity. You’ll never guess who she is! After that is Gainax’s legendary mockumentary Otaku no Video (1991), a two-part OVA (about 90 minutes altogether) that both tells an embellished history of Gainax in animated form, while also including some live-action segments that offer a snapshot of anime nerd-dom as it existed in 1991. This was one of the classics of the tape-trading days of Western anime fandom, one of those things that existed more as rumor than as reality for most who had heard of it. Otaku nowadays value it especially as a time capsule, since this has some of the best first-hand footage of the early-90s scene. Let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Sailor Moon: Sorry, not on Letterboxd. Here’s the MAL page: https://myanimelist.net/anime/530/Bishoujo_Senshi_Sailor_Moon
• Otaku no Video: https://letterboxd.com/film/otaku-no-video/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Sailor Moon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103369/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg
• Otaku no Video: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089749/parentalguide?ref_=tt_ql_5

CWs for Sailor Moon:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Bath scenes.
• Age-gap romance.
• Panty shots.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Animal abuse.
• Children in peril.
• Smoking.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Sexual harassment of schoolgirls.
• Kissing.
• Deaths of parents.

CWs for Otaku no Video:

• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Panty shots.
• Discussion of sex.
• Appearance of hentai video game on a computer monitor.
• Alcohol.
• Drunkenness.

Links to movies:

Forthcoming. I have the files, but the most convenient way to upload them is to replace one of the earlier videos while a later video is playing.