Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune in Sailor Moon
What’s it about: I can’t explain the plot of the hit magical girl anime any better than its opening theme song can, but basically a bunch of sailor scouts named after the planets in our solar system battle evil demons to save humanity from ruin. Protag Usagi Tsukino’s fight to punish evil-doers in the name of the moon is aided by the arrival of Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus. Sailor Neptune and Uranus are lesbians. However, the original English anime of Sailor Moon censored their relationship by famously rewriting the pair’s romantic closeness as a close familial bond between cousins. This bizarre form of censorship is made all the more peculiar when you consider the fact that the anime already has a bunch of gay and nonbinary characters supporting characters and villains. Sailor Moon even has a crush on Sailor Uranus for crying out loud.
