"Mayor Bloomberger" is just so good, I have a hard time listening to it. I love Dennis so much.

I'm in the same boat. I was given a Touch for Christmas when I said wanted to replace my old, increasingly buggy Classic. I quietly exchanged it for a Classic and now I'm upset that this one will have to last ages.

The power of being a teenager.

My parents are mostly awesome and we sit through just about anything together. My dad was the one who asked me to see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (the subtitled original) because he knew my mum wouldn't sit through it. That was a bit awkward (ya think?) but he thought I'd like the way the heroine triumphs over…

I think the funniest, and most apt, Wikipedia vandalism I've seen was when I was trying to link the page for "Where The Red Fern Grows" to a friend who hadn't read it. The entire page was wiped out to just read. "Where The Red Fern Grows is the saddest book ever written."

Or, you know, the artist drew whatever they felt like.

Have you read the manga, out of curiosity? (If you have, I'm not trying to talk down to you, just have to hedge my bets.)

I do hope you can make Crystal coverage into a regular feature! I was so delighted to find this write-up.

"I can appreciate the series' desire to forge a new path, but the disconnect begins with the absence of Moonlight Densetsu as the theme. I mean, it's so tightly interwoven into the original series that it's almost impossible to orient without it."

I think folks who have only seem the anime would be surprised to find that Mars/Rei is a lot less important, with a lot less screen time, in the manga.

Based on the manga;

For the girls in Sailor Moon, there is some hand-waving in the original anime about how they are magically different looking when transformed (I don't recall it happening in the manga) but Mamoru is not actually a magical warrior like they are, so I doubt it applies to him. But he has a mask! And a hat!

Glad this old rumour is still around. Yes they are, friend.

I'm glad others found that moment as #1 as uh, slightly surprising as I did. There is so much to pick from in scifi/fantasy, I find it hard to choose individual things to nominate. Original Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Trek, even better moments in Doctor Who itself are covered in other comments,…

I love this list and the idea behind it. BSSM is indeed The Beatles of the magical girl genre, but the other greats are totally in this list. CardCaptor Sakura is a sweet story and would be lovely in a truer-to-the-comic adaptation like Sailor Moon is getting. I would also say the same for Magic Knight Rayearth since…

The first Magic Knight Rayearth anime was very close to the first arc of the manga. That is definitely worth watching. I did not care for the anime adaptation of Magic Knight Rayearth 2 because it strays really, really far from the manga, so your mileage my vary on that one.

Because it is unthinkable to send out a movie with an almost entirely female cast. Gotta make sure the boys aren't left out!!!
I can see some arguments for people who don't fully identify as one gender etc, but it really wouldn't kill Pixar, or anyone, to make a movie with a ton of female characters and almost no male…

I don't know that Americans wouldn't watch foreign shows more, but the business of television makes sure that it's actually hard to get media they don't own and produce. Foreign shows, even ones from fellow English speaking countries are not readily available. I'm not sure we know for sure Americans won't watch them.…

For context since you don't know the title, that DLC story is the only part of the game where you play as a female character. She is shown having great powers in the base game and even the first half of the DLC story when she's a non-player character. The minute you can control her, she can no longer use her…

Video Games do feel especially nuts for this kind of attitude. It makes it hard for me to identify as someone who even enjoys the medium. I like games, but despite about 10,000 things.