Sailor Uranus: TRUFAX

[laceblade]

So I was going to write a long post about Sailor Uranus and why she's awesome, but I decided to go with a YouTube video of hers/Neptune's transformation sequences and attacks instead.

After they transform, Uranus and Neptune say something like,
"Heralded by the New Age, I am Sailor Uranus, acting gorgeously." (Neptune's is 'gracefully.')

Other relevant points:
--In civilian!clothing, Haruka (Uranus) dresses in pants and suit coats. In fact, she actually cross-dresses (she wears the "boys'" student uniform for her high school). When Usagi (Sailor Moon) first meets her, she assumes that Haruka is a man, and follows her around because she and Mina (Sailor Venus) have crushes on her. Hilarity ensues.

--Sailors Uranus and Neptune (both subjects of the YouTube video) are canonically in love, both in the manga and the anime. Two women, who love each other, and don't die. In a series made for children in the mid-nineties!

--Haruka (Uranus) drives race cars and pilots helicopters. She also plays piano and is basically good at everything.

--Not only are Uranus and Neptune totally in love, but they have a Special Secret Mission that is different from that of Sailor Moon & friends. It means that they talk to each other dramatically, in low voices.

Comments

[salinea]

those are good reasons.

[lavendersleeves.livejournal.com]

but when they *do* die, it's totally the best death scene ever.

[starlady]

They were always clearly the coolest senshi.

[littlebutfierce]

Hee, this is an awesome post (& I don't even watch Sailor Moon--saw a few eps back in high school when it was all popular & on TV & never got around to trying it properly).

[owlectomy]

Haruka is so great! I had forgotten about the race car driving -- in some ways she's such a middle school fantasy about what the cool rich kids are like but she makes it seem not ludicrous. I love the episode where Makoto is infatuated with her even though it turns out somewhat heteronormative -- I can really relate to that feeling of wanting models of femininity that you can look up to if you feel tall and awkward and not traditionally girly.

[umadoshi]

Haruka and Michiru are totally the best part of Sailor Moon. *^^*