Do you think “Moon Sailor” was a bit, on the nose?
it was intended to be! i made the pilot while keeping in mind that the magical girl genre is actually somewhat niche
i wanted to make sure people like my parents or my girlfriend's law school peers or people who don't watch anime at all could easily follow and understand what's going on. if i asked my parents to name a magical girl anime, they'd be like "what is that" but if i asked them what sailor moon was, they'd be like "oh yeah i've seen those characters before!" sailor moon undoubtedly iconic and people IMMEDIATELY know what it is upon hearing it. "moon sailor" is VERY OBVIOUSLY a parody of that so it's easy to get in that one second of time i have before moving on.
the tricky thing about doing a pilot is the setup and the trickier thing about doing a SUBVERSIVE pilot is that you have to set up what you're subverting on top of everything else. that's why zira's dialogue and language is also a bit expository and on the nose during the "gasp" part. there are people watching who don't know the magical girl genre and its tropes! like how is someone supposed to know that aika anticlimactically poofing into her magical form was a joke if they didn't even know that a magical girl transformation was SUPPOSED to happen? i thought i spelled out hoshi's whole thing pretty well or didn't really need to go that into it but i saw a lot of people confused about what they were and why they were there at all (until zira tells us that they're a magical mascot).
back to "moon sailor," it's a silly one off joke meant to quickly signal to the audience that zira likes manga/anime and the magical girl genre specifically as well as circumvent copyright. i also personally just like on the nose bits hahaha. like on big city greens whenever we parody a brand we usually just put a "B" in front of it. one of my favorite being "blego blocks"
this turned into unsolicited writing advice and definitely more than what you asked for but i hope its helpful to anyone out there looking to make their own shows!! clarity, spelling stuff out and sometimes handholding is important especially in a pilot. even though it can feel stilted sometimes, it's better than completely losing your audience or leaving them with questions. but now that the pilot's done it's job, any following episodes i might make will be unburdened by too much expository language haha
Some doodles of Mandrake with my epic oc Mariam, should do doodles of her along with backstory for her soon but she is a fairy but her wings were sadly ripped off long before she came to Wrathwood and Moonhaven
One of the doodles base is based from that lovers kiss painting that was a trend all over twitter/x
Over the seven jeweled hills, beyond the seventh wall, in the cottage of the seven dwarfs, dwells Snow White, fairest one of all.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Just because you haven’t seen something doesn’t mean it’s not there. EPIC (2013) dir. Chris Wedge
That moment when the animators flex that close-up animation to let us privately investigate a character's personality or either show a tintillating state of insanity of the beloved character's meanwhile blessing us with the specific knowledge of their irises' colour full HD maximum details
(plus allowing me to finally have the perfect pantone's shade to apply in fantasy scenarios before going to sleep )
(eyes...pretty eyes...)
If I was isekai-ed into Toontown, while possibly meeting the blorbos above, visualise me like Sid from Ice Age in the scene when he goes "you have beautiful eyes" one inch from Manny's face
me grimlock professional artist
Hey, used to have a tumblr account called cometgoddess-stuff that I couldn't access for years now, so I finally made a new account as you can see.. might make a separate account just for art unless AI is also extremely bad here as well, had to delete my art Twitter account because of that
25+ years old, taken by @oldmagerambles ♡, has aspergers, I do draw, hope to make my own mangas one of these days, yes that is my cat's paw in the banner lol this is gonna be a 🔞 space due to what I reblog and gonna draw.. yep I'm gonna post art and reblog whatnot in here cause fuck it so MINORS, NFT, AI BROS, PEDOS & PHOBIC FOLKS DNI AT ALL otherwise you're getting blocked 🚫 have fun with my nonsense :3 here's my link to my bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/cometgoddess.bsky.social
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