Quote:I dunno about that, but I remember despising the ending of Vision ofThis is another thing that was really unusual in the Sailor Moon anime, besides being the first fighting magical girls
Escaflowne as well. Seriously? She could be the queen of a magical
kingdom, and instead she goes back to high school, subway molestation,
and a glass ceiling as an OL? I"ve never been able to enjoy Escaflowne
material since, and I was rabid for it while watching the series.
Every former magical girl show (and indeed the first season of SM) had always ended with the protagonist losing her magic and becoming a normal modern japanese schoolgirl - because the message is that that's obviously the best possible thing in the world to be.
From Sailor Moon R onwards, this got subverted, and how! Not only does she keep the magic, she is going be an immortal empress and rule the world for thousands of years! (and for the japanese, muscling in into the Emperor's racket is something serious)