A journey into my hyperfixation onto finding out who truly created my favorite frame in all of anime... and all the madness that entails. Let's see if we can answer the question of who storyboarded the first Sailor Moon R OP.

- Links/References -

More reading:

https://www.tuxedounmasked.com/what-w...

First OP storyboards:

https://princess-moon.tumblr.com/post...

Sakugablog article:

https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2022/08/...

Online auctions of the pamphlets:

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/...

https://aucview.aucfan.com/yahoo/x105...

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/d...

VIZ gets rekt by Toei, since deleted: https://web.archive.org/web/201603142...

Ikuko Interview pamphlet translation doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q...

Itoh drawing Chibiusa:    • Video  

Booked a ticket joke:    / babylonian  

Videos of the Sailor Moon Museum used:

   • Inside the OFFICIAL Sailor Moon Museu...  

   • Museo de Sailor Moon - Visita a la Ex...  


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Chapters
0:00 The Quest
2:24 Background
4:40 Three Solutions
6:05 Sailor Moon R
8:29 Ikuko Itoh and Sakugablog
13:13 Pressing on?
15:23 Sailor Moon Museum
17:14 No Happy Ending