Episode 56 liveblog resumes!
How great were the eyecatches in R though? I don’t remember them in Stars, but of the other four seasons, the R ones were easily the best. You peaked really early on this one, show.
This eyecatch has a special place in my heart, mostly because I have it on a tin lunchbox.
The story of this lunchbox goes back to 7th grade, when Sailor Moon was starting to catch on with some other girls in my school. I noticed this girl Lindsey had a Sailor Moon pen and I was like OMFG WHERE DID YOU GET THAT. And it was from a store called “Hot Topic”, in the mall in Oakland, Michigan. (THIS WAS FALL OF 98, Hot Topic was not a Thing yet.)
I don’t know how I managed it, but I got my mom to drive me and another friend an hour up to Oakland (which is in the Detroit area) where I stepped into my very first Hot Topic, and I found the Sailor Moon stuff, and I’m pretty sure a wallscroll or poster of this image was up on the wall.
(but like the whole outfit/pan)
I bought the lunchbox, a deck of cards, a pen, and also maybe a notebook or something? It’s been awhile. I still have the deck of cards, but everything else is long gone.
This was in the golden few months where my best friend was still my best friend and I wasn’t yet getting bullied by the other girls in my grade for liking Sailor Moon and being a total nerd, so pretty much the only period of junior high that I actually enjoyed. It all went downhill soon after this point. u_u
So this lunchbox is still one of my prized possessions. For many years I kept colored pencils in it, but nowadays it holds my sewing kit.
Though there are still marks on the inside from my art supplies…
Probably the most adorable AHHH BABBY ALEX part, though, is my name written on a piece of clear tape on the inside of the lid… in what I’m pretty sure was Gelly Roll ink. (Another fad that took me hook, line, and sinker.)
