‘Sailor Moon’ and the Queer History of Anime Transformations
“On my TV was Usagi Tsukino and two of her friends, Rei and Minako. The three had just discovered that the teacher of their etiquette seminar was actually a monster and they had to do something about it. Raising a magic pen into the air, and chanting their activation words, the trio transformed into their magical girl forms: Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus, respectively.”
