Did SM inspire you to look into astronomy at all?

[CharonSnowstorm]

For me it was the other way around for the most part, but I got even more interested in the subject after becoming a big moonie.

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

I like both Sailor Moon & astronomy, but neither inspired me to look into the other.

 

[Memelord_Yoshi]

I like both Sailor Moon & astronomy, but neither inspired me to look into the other.

The fact that very few members interact in the Random Science Stuff and Astronomy threads says much.

What shows that got me going back to my childhood interests 2 decades ago were Lord Of The Rings and Jurassic Park. Both got me into D&D (reading a few different novels like R. A. Salvatore and Robert Jordan) and dinosaurs.

 

[Star Angel Haruki]

I was always interested in astronomy from a scientific perspective, Sailor Moon, and concept attracted me with the magical girls but the whole planetary deal was the icing on the cake.

 

[Wild Rose Rebellion]

I was always interested in astronomy from a scientific perspective, Sailor Moon, and concept attracted me with the magical girls but the whole planetary deal was the icing on the cake.

It was the same for me, the anime felt like Power Rangers with astronomy and that's why I liked it. That astronomy theme loses steam after the first arc, although the manga maintains some of it till the end with Sagittarius Zero Star and such, so the manga helped make me curious about things like that.

 

[HappyMoon]

Yep!!!! I was a child, I had no scientific knowledge at all about astronomy before buying the Italian SM manga. Context: the very first Italian edition wasn't just a manga it was a magazine with a lot of extras, fan arts from the kids, news from other SM media's like the Seramyu or Japanese merch and scientific stuff related to SM. It was overall amazing, from a seven years old perspective. The Astronomy pages were my absolute favourite! I still remember when I found out about Uranus's rotation axis on the magazine and I was mind blown!

 

[CharonSnowstorm]

Yep!!!! I was a child, I had no scientific knowledge at all about astronomy before buying the Italian SM manga. Context: the very first Italian edition wasn't just a manga it was a magazine with a lot of extras, fan arts from the kids, news from other SM media's like the Seramyu or Japanese merch and scientific stuff related to SM. It was overall amazing, from a seven years old perspective. The Astronomy pages were my absolute favourite! I still remember when I found out about Uranus's rotation axis on the magazine and I was mind blown!

How about how Venus rotates backwards relative to us?

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

Yep!!!! I was a child, I had no scientific knowledge at all about astronomy before buying the Italian SM manga. Context: the very first Italian edition wasn't just a manga it was a magazine with a lot of extras, fan arts from the kids, news from other SM media's like the Seramyu or Japanese merch and scientific stuff related to SM. It was overall amazing, from a seven years old perspective. The Astronomy pages were my absolute favourite! I still remember when I found out about Uranus's rotation axis on the magazine and I was mind blown!

The Italian manga sounds like a pretty good & educational Sailor Moon-themed children's mag.

 

[Slowpokeking]

Neptune has my favorite planet beside Earth all along.

And Michiru is my favorite senshi.

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

Neptune has my favorite planet beside Earth all along.

And Michiru is my favorite senshi.

Saturn has been my favorite planet besides Earth all along.

And Saturn is my favorite Senshi.

 

[CharonSnowstorm]

Neptune has my favorite planet beside Earth all along.

And Michiru is my favorite senshi.

Et tu est Haruka?

 

[CharonSnowstorm]

Yep!!!! I was a child, I had no scientific knowledge at all about astronomy before buying the Italian SM manga. Context: the very first Italian edition wasn't just a manga it was a magazine with a lot of extras, fan arts from the kids, news from other SM media's like the Seramyu or Japanese merch and scientific stuff related to SM. It was overall amazing, from a seven years old perspective. The Astronomy pages were my absolute favourite! I still remember when I found out about Uranus's rotation axis on the magazine and I was mind blown!

Can you read Italian?

 

[HappyMoon]

Can you read Italian?

I'm italian, of course I can.

 

[CharonSnowstorm]

I'm italian, of course I can.

Well, I guess you could be Argentinian, Eritrean, or from Dalmatia, that would also explain it.

Or you could be who can´t read much of anything in any language.

 

[HappyMoon]

That's for sure, but I would have never been able to read the Sailor Moon manga in the 90s since magazine distribution in general used to be highly localized and online shopping didn't exist.

 

[CharonSnowstorm]

That's for sure, but I would have never been able to read the Sailor Moon manga in the 90s since magazine distribution in general used to be highly localized and online shopping didn't exist.

How popular was SM in Italy in the 90s? I guess people needed something to comfort them given the Second Republic and why that came to be.

 

[HappyMoon]

How popular was SM in Italy in the 90s? I guess people needed something to comfort them given the Second Republic and why that came to be.

It was insanely popular among kids. And... kids didn't give a bleep about politics

 

[CharonSnowstorm]

It was insanely popular among kids. And... kids didn't give a bleep about politics

I was kinda joking about the 2nd thing. It was just what came to mind when I was thinking about what happened in Italy in the 1990s.

Also, they made the Starlights even more gender weird.

 

[Slowpokeking]

Et tu est Haruka?

To be honest, Haruka is my least favorite senshi.

 

[Wiseman]

It wouldn't be until a few years after discovering Sailor Moon that I decided to gather information on astronomy. Specificaly other planets and their moons being my main interest.