Luna's Whiskers

Sailor Moon manga nerd, multishipper, Mamoru and Shitennou fan.  

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kunzite and mamoru, festival day 2

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Polls Wednesday!

Which version of the Dark Kingdom arc is your favorite?

Sailor Moon Manga

Sailor Moon Anime

Sailor Moon Crystal

PGSM Live Action Series

Musical Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen

Musicals La Reconquista

Musical Nogizaka46 Version

Sailor Moon The Super Live

Voting ended onJul 29

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festival season

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Queen Naoko Takeuchi spotted in 2026!! She looks amazing!! Naoko recently went to the 100th Shining Theater Shinagawa Tokyo live show and gave the performers flowers 💖🌹

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Happy birthday Usagi 🐰

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Hi mom,

do you remember me?

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Naoko Takeuchi visiting the Kennedy Space Center in the 1990s and meeting an astronaut! She was visiting the Center to do research for her Sailor Moon side story, "The Lover of Princess Kaguya," which was later turned into the Sailor Moon S Movie.

Decades later, when a plushie of Artemis was spotted in the mission control center during the Artemis II mission, Naoko expressed surprise and delight:

“In the manga, he’s the little cat who sends instructions to the Sailor Guardians from the command room,” she said. “That was just a fantasy that existed only in the story, so to think that 30 years later Artemis would appear in NASA’s mission control, a place I’ve always admired, is incredible. I’m so jealous. Thank you for watching over humanity’s great achievement for ten days. You did a wonderful job.”

“I’m overwhelmed that a classic from 35 years ago is still being talked about around the world,” she said. “I’m so happy. It may have been an immature work, but I’m amazed to realize that classics can become timeless across generations. Manga, anime, live action—it’s such a blessing that this work continues to be shared in so many forms.”

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how to lose a guy in 10 days!! I had this idea of collaborating my two interests—romcoms and sailor moon!! This is my first post. Hope you enjoy!! 🎀🌙

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Geeking when the Artemis plushie was spotted at the NASA's mission control center🫣

I know someone in there is a Sailor Moon fan!!

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An Artemis plush being in the NASA Mission Control Room during Artemis II's journey is the sweetest thing and it makes me very weepy 💖

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https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F6wobm5kwotsg1.jpeg they got artemis sailor moon at the artemis II control room i am crying real tears

SHUT. UP.

Dude is also wearing a Sailor Moon lanyard:

Random NASA guy, I hope you know every Sailor Moon fan is saluting you.

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revieloutionne submitted to sailormoonsub:

Have you seen the Artemis plushie (perhaps Actual Artemis?) at the Artemis II launch???

OH MY GOD??!!!?!?!

[luna-whiskers]

Especially wild that Naoko never gets any credit for doing a nonbinary on purpose because she's gotten so much shit from the tumblr fandom for doing it at all

Like one of the many reasons why there's been a very loud, active contingent of manga haters in this fandom is because her version of Haruka can't be read as a cis butch lesbian the way that her anime counterpart can. The switching between masc and fem presentations is read as icky and wrong because it doesn't fit the particular western script for cis queerness that some people wanted

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I don't wanna give the impression that this is a recent argument, btw. I wouldn't be speaking on this openly if I weren't confident that this discourse is long dead, because it's not like I'm interested in reopening that can of worms.

I was specifically reacting to the way that whenever queer content gets mentioned in this manga, it is often dismissed or spoken about as though it is a silly accidental quirk rather than something intentionally added by Naoko Takeuchi. And a fake anecdote about how she totally meant to make a character bisexual, but got confused and made her nonbinary by mistake, wouldn't have had people accepting it as fact if she weren't a female Japanese author.

This isn't about which version is better, this is about which version gets treated as intentional and thoughtful and nuanced, and which one strangely, mysteriously, does not.

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“Crescent Moon Power Transform! Change me into a pretty boy idol!“

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Especially wild that Naoko never gets any credit for doing a nonbinary on purpose because she's gotten so much shit from the tumblr fandom for doing it at all

Like one of the many reasons why there's been a very loud, active contingent of manga haters in this fandom is because her version of Haruka can't be read as a cis butch lesbian the way that her anime counterpart can. The switching between masc and fem presentations is read as icky and wrong because it doesn't fit the particular western script for cis queerness that some people wanted

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Hi Luna! Hope you’re well!

Hi friend! It's been a while! My interests have shifted enough that I don't update this blog much anymore but I'm still around!

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