Back in December, I organized a fundraiser of sortsĀ to afford a massive lot of Sailor Moon settei; for those who donāt know, āsetteiā is a term for the artwork/sketches of characters/items/settings/etc that animators use as references in order to remain consistent. Thanks to some very generous donors (one donor in particular was extremely generous), I was able to win the lot of 540 settei sheets. A couple of weeks later, I purchased some more settei (mostly of the Stars season) using my own money which helped me round out the collection.
Anyway, after weeks of organizing, scanning, cleaning, editing, and more organizing, Iām finally ready to unveil the Settei Project! In the future there will be a gallery feature so you donāt have to download the files, but I was having trouble with the site I wanted to use and decided to just release the downloads instead of waiting any longer. Also, this project is NOT COMPLETED YET. I still need to scan and edit the artwork of the settings, characters/villains of the day, and other miscellaneous stuff.Ā
Please feel free to use the settei any way youād like, but Iād really appreciate a link back to me (not only as credit but so that people will know where they can get the artwork). And please, please, PLEASE do not try to take credit for this project in any way. Iāve poured so much blood, sweat, and tears into this, not to mention tons of time (literal weeks) and money (both my own and that of donors). Iād like for people to respect that.
one time i downloaded a MIDI of the Friends theme song off of someoneās Angelfire page
I tried to illegally download an MP3 of Simple and Clean but my mom picked up the phone and disconnected our internet.
I made an anime fansite on one of my petās pages on neopets.com and every single asset and art on it was direct linked/stolen from other websites because i didnt know how to upload images to the internet myself
I owned and used a .zip drive
I made an anime fan page on Angelfire that just had a bunch of gifs I found for things I liked INCLUDING those ancient ass gifs of a) Pikachu running, b) Pikachu balancing on a Pokeball, c) odd dancing Raichu, and a bunch of Rurouni Kenshin screenshots.
The background was set to black, but had that falling cherry blossoms gif over it.
The font was gold colored and it was COMIC SANS.
i made a fanfiction shrine that was up for two days before getting taken over by middle eastern hackers
the first time i ever used internet explorer i used it to go to the nintendo power website in order to get the toll free number to call nintendo and ask them how to get the raiden magicite in ff3. (otherwise known as ff6)
I downloaded MP3s from AOL chatroom mp3 bots. Also cgshrines was my original danbooru. (ITāS STILL AROUND, AMAZINGLY)
I used to watch a music video of one of my fave low-key boy bands (No Authority, what up?) on their interactive CD in the Mac Lab after school.
I once made a Kingdom Hearts AMV set to Good CharlotteāsĀ āLifestyles Of The Rich And Famousā on Windows Movie Maker and uploaded it to Kazaa.
I had a Gorillaz fanpage that had a built in chat feature that I used to talk to my friends while in computer class because other messaging clients were disabled. Ā I was found out pretty quickly.
I actually printed out the neopets permission form for my parents to sign and then physically mailed it to them bc scanning and emailing it was beyond the realm of my ability
The AOL Parental controls on my account wouldnāt let me access half the Sailor Moon fansites I wanted to visit, so my parents let me borrow theirs sometimes so I could freely browse them.
I made an As Told by Ginger fansite on Geocities.
I bought and paid for a second phone line at my parentsā so I could go online safetly. I also got a domain name for a couple years, pointing to my GeoCities page that had a black background, rainbow text, and animated GIFS.
My first internet search was on my neighborsā computer, with AOL, and I searched for Hanson.
90% FUNDED! Ā Only $659 still needed to reach the funding goal and get The Hues Volume 2 published. :D Ā Keep spreading and word, and thank you!
I am all about alternative takes on the magical girl genre, and I particularly like the Hues. It offers something different, has diverse and interesting characters, and rarely bends to conventions, so it is actually ~surprising~
PLEASE BACK THIS SO I CAN GET THE STUPID PHYSICAL BOOK IN MY HANDS.Ā
What Doc said. I would very much like vol 2 to go with my vol 1 on my bookshelf.
The Hues: Volume II Bookapalooza! – A second volume of magical girls punching aliens. – http://kck.st/1n5xCMZ
friends thereās only 3 days left on the kickstarter for this and we still need $1100. The Hues is a really good comic! I enjoy it greatly! if you like postapocalyptic magical girls then you should def get involved.Ā
and if you arenāt sure then 3 days is totally enough time for you to binge read the entire thing online FOR FREE and then realise you need it in your life.
Fun fact- that āMoon Cycleā was one of the only remains of what we ALMOST got for an English āadaptationā of Sailor Moon instead of the dub- they were going to use new vehicles for the Sailor Senshi (called the āPrincess Warriors/Fightersā in this version) and that was going to be one of them. Itās not in this video, but hereās what almost happened in the US.
Linked video:
This is like the child of the MST3K opening and The Babysitterās Club if it was given up for adoption and raised by Too Many Cooks and a series of bootleg āPlanetary Marine Girlā toys. This is the most delightfully alienating premise I have ever seen. Itās just confusing to every possible demographic. The constant laughter of bemusement that underlies the generic pop song speaks for itself. What a thing.
I do appreciate that one of them is in a wheelchair, though. And that they are actual literal moon sailors.
every time I see this, (and I manage to forget it exists most of the time and when Iām reminded I feel that dizzying momentary relief you feel when you catch yourself before falling down the stairs ā that āsomewhere in an alternate universe I broke both my legs and also this is what aired in the US instead of the DiC dub of the Toei anime jfcā), but anyway every time I see this, I think of how angry Toei (and Naoko, I believe) was with the way DiC and Cloverway handled the dub that they wouldnāt license Sailor Moon to a North American company for over a decade and how they would have reacted to this travesty. Like, there might have even been an actual war or at least an international incident like idek.
The year is 2023. It has now been thirty years since Japan closed its borders to North America. It was a time before restraining orders against an entire continent based on perversion of cultural content was unheard of, and yet it became so normalized it seems odd. We keep circulating the illegal tapes of Captain Harlock and Space Battleship Yamato, our last remaining link those we severed ties with years ago. Maybe our children will never know what it was like before the Wrath of Moon unleashed its rage upon us, for we were the sinners.Ā
