At 08:37 PM 5/26/96 -0700, you wrote:

On Sun, 26 May 1996, Jeanne Hedge wrote:

Is it true that they ended Sailor Moon by killing EVERY  

Very much so. First, in the before-last episode, the DD Girls and the 
Sailor Senshi (except for Moon) die in tragic deaths. In the final 

(Snip) 

the ghosts of the Sailor Senshi. Then she dies after using the crystal's 
full power. All very touching. Parents in Japan actually got quite upset 
after the before-last one (even though they said the Senshi die in the 
title).

 
Parents?!  What about all those screaming and crying kids we've heard so
much about?  I've been told that the ending of the first season of Sailor
Moon almost permanently traumatized an entire generation of little kids in
Japan <g>

(A broad, blissful grin spreads across Mike's face.)

Mike: They die? They really DIE? My day just got a whole lot brighter.
Obviously the animator came to his/her senses, realized the horror they
had unleashed on a helpless mankind, and made amends in the only
acceptable way.

Unfortunately, they all come back to life.  Worse yet, it's done in what
can only be termed a rather touching way.  They showed it at my anime
club, and I was looking forward to it, since I'd heard the same thing.
Woe be to me, I was actually touched by it...

Fnord.
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