I recently watched season 1 and had a good time with it but not really enough to keep going. I watched it with filler though so that might have contributed to the fatigue.
The filler episodes feel like a combo of slice of life and monster of the week. The characters are great and some of the filler is really good but it’s a bit too much.
If you skip filler it probably takes about 10 episodes to gather the 4 senshi.
I’ve never even watched Sailor Moon, but now I have the theme song stuck in my head just from reading this conversation. 
Lots of choking 14 year old girls in fight scenes. Unhealthy relationships, both platonic and romantic. Mamoru is too old for Usagi (he’s a college student and she’s a middle schooler). Rei’s grandpa pervs on teenage girls and that’s played for laughs.
All that said, like @暁のルナ that’s 90s anime for you. The show at its core is very heartfelt and that does shine through.
I forgot all about this! 
Yikes
I was a big fan of the show and watched all 200 episodes of the original, but I don’t think it would have the same charm for me now. There is unfortunately a lot of filler and the quality varies between seasons…it did hit the spot back when I was a teenage girl myself, though. 
I think I may still enjoy it for the fun outfits - the sailor scouts have the most iconic 90s fashion!
I started reading it… not sure if I’ll read past vol 1 rn, bc I might want to buy the physicals
Interestingly (at least for the Sailor Mars episode / ch 3) that isn’t in the manga at all
Otoh, he seems to be in the manga much more actively (and supposedly they both get more character development, but I’m not that far in)… So I’m guessing that’s gonna be fun 
Also he’s apparently a 23 yr old in his second year of high school in the manga??? Nevermind he’s a 2nd year high schooler and presumed 17-18… That’s a lot less weird - and also makes the age gap 3-4 years
There’s guides for watching with minimal/no filler, fwiw. (I started watching and can’t stand the filler, so I’m skipping all of it): Sailor Moon Filler List | The Ultimate Anime Filler Guide and A Filler-Reduced Viewing Guide to Sailor Moon, Season 1 | by Odd Lazdo | Medium
Where does it say that?
Reminds me of the brilliant Dragon Ball Z filler, the best of which is definitely Goku and Piccolo learning to drive.
Bottom right panel, no?
I completely misread it… It says he’s a 2nd year in HS 第2学年… For some reason I read it as 23… This makes way more sense. Next chapter or says his age is 推定 17-18
That’s good (For several reasons). I remember him being cool and suave in the anime, but started thinking that maybe he didn’t have all his marbles together if he was still in high school at 23.
Him being high school age definitely reduces the ick factor a lot. I’m already going through Cardcaptor Sakura. I don’t need another gross age gap.
I had to look it up… That’s kinda hilarious!! I kinda feel like I might enjoy the filler more than the actual plot for that show, at this point (even as a kid, those battles were waaaaaay too dragged out)
Yeah I was really confused there too
Yeah that is a really huge part of why I haven’t read CCS yet… Like I get that the student-teacher thing is a common fantasy at that age, and they’re appealing to that fantasy, since that’s the demographic… But also as an adult, I really don’t want to read that. While I dislike most of the changes the anime makes, I was really glad at how much they wrote that out (turning it into a one-sided crush that’s never reciprocated)
That was also filler unfortunately. They made a version called Dragon Ball Z Kai that consolidated a lot so it wasn’t so dragged out.
I think this becomes true later on. So it’s not how the show/manga start, but she’s not in high school until season 5.
There’s more grandpa later in the show, although I can’t remember how much of it is non canon filler. I think the perving is the worst in the first season but doesn’t totally go away later.
Apparently almost all of the outfits are actual designer clothes. Which makes me both like Takeuchi-sensei both more and also a little less. Her style is also highly… let’s say inspired from Alphonse Mucha. Looking into the inspiration for Sailor Moon is almost as fun as looking at Sailor Moon itself.
And I would be lying if I didn’t say I’ve wanted Dark Lady, Koan, and Galaxia’s outfits for 25 years. (Google with care, there’s spoilers to some of these characters).
They’re both second years (at least in the manga), so she’d be a 1st year in HS (15/16) while he’d be a 1st year in college (18/19) at that point (depending on when their birthdays are).
Found a weird book title (non-fiction): 夫は犬だと思えばいい. 
@暁のルナ I got my physical copies of 雨夜の月 and I “skimmed” (aka basically fully reread) the first volume. I noticed something that I didn’t notice the first time that, if I’m right, is really subtle and cool.
On page 156, Kanon shows how to sign for 結婚 with the 親指 representing the man and 小指 representing the woman. Then on page 171, Saki is looking at the sign for 結婚 on an app and then tosses her phone. When I first read this it seemed in disgust/annoyance, but I couldn’t really put it all together. Then on the last page Saki is thinking about her previous piano teacher saying she’s getting married and Kanon saying thanks for becoming her friend, and a panel shows Saki putting two pinkies together and thinks こうなれたらね. I assumed the first time I read it that she was thinking that in regards to her and Kanon (since she clearly likes her and it is a yuri manga), but I didn’t connect it to the pinkies until this time around.
Yesterday, I finished わたし、定時で帰ります。 | L35
It was pretty silly, with how pretty much everyone is comically terrible.
Then, the main just fixes them all, one by one. Including her hot, TL-level superhuman boyfriend who happened to move to the same company (and became her direct boss). That gives a romantic side plot where, on the one side, you’ve got him, nearly perfect in every way except he is a workaholic (but I she can fix him!) and, on the other side, her current partner who she is moving in with and planning to marry soon, but is a bundle of red flags.
Turns out she doesn’t need to make any hard decision. After finally fixing dreamy love interest-kun, they unexpectedly drop by her place and found red flag-kun in err deep conversation with his large-breasted assistant. Naked of course. So there we go, marriage out the window, and hot love interest-kun is single and right there.
I assume things won’t go that simply, since the series is three volumes long, though.
Overall, I liked the writing and the main character. The plot is waaaaaay too predictable, but whatever. My tired brain was okay with that.
Everyone: You’ll understand the homophones in spoken Japanese by context.
Yuru:
Your comments have me imagining this as basically office TL that I definitely haven’t ever read cough and it’s making me giggle at the reviews saying this is a good book to learn about Japanese business culture from.
Yes, I of course know nothing about that topic either. However, as a thought experiment, if I had knowledge about that kind of book, it would have felt exactly the same, except we didn’t get the err fancy parts to my disappointment.
You can’t just hype up how hot the dude is and then give me nothing.
Actually, giving me anything involving the main character and her current partner might have made me consider him a little bit better. As it is, we only get the red flags… but if he was amazing in bed, well, now we have more of a dilemma between the two love interests 
I was scratching my head at those reviews. Not a single one commented on the relationship part. To be fair, the book does contain a bunch of vocabulary related to the workplace, and the way they work is technically semi-realistic (although somewhat simplified; it’s rare for every member of a whole team to work on just one project and no human can work 24h straight without loss in efficiency like the main character’s ex, that is not a thing).
