The Cultural Importance of Gender Representation in Sailor Moon 

Here’s the Wordpress version of my Sailor Moon thesis! IT INCLUDES THE ENDNOTES so if you want to see those go to this version.  No idea why it’s blue and some formatting weirdness but otherwise cool.

Here’s my updated annotated bibliography.

This thesis is painstakingly researched, for real. It basically covers three major things: gender presentation in Sailor Moon, queer presentation and dub censorship. It compares the anime and manga and goes into the history of the magical girl genre, quotes from Ikuhara and Naoko, tons of academic sources, all that. There are several sections, labeled with titles like “Jumping around in a Short Skirt”: Power in the Feminine” and “Girls and Cousins Too”: Queer Censorship in the Dub” so it’s easy to tell I’m a giant dork. There’s also pictures and all.  In reality it averages to about 35-36 pages double spaced (w/o pictures). So it is long.