From: inverseparadox@comcast.net   
      
   SK wrote:   
      
   > Chris Kern wrote:   
   >   
   >> Episode 21 - Protect the children's dreams!  The friendship bound   
   >> by anime   
   >>   
   >> There's an interesting scene here -- Hiromi tells the director of   
   >> the Sailor V anime that she's going to kill off Sailor V in the   
   >> final scene because children want to see explicit scenes like that   
   >> nowadays. This is supposed to be taken as indiciation that she's   
   >> fallen under Nephrite's evil power, but I think it's interesting   
   >> given the way the first season of Sailor Moon ends.   
   >   
   > Good point.  Very good point.  Given how I heard that the children of   
   > Japan reacted, Hiromi was proven quite wrong.  ^_^;   
      
   Every time I've seen that part of this episode (even the very first), my   
   reaction has always been along the lines of "wait a minute, since when   
   do frame-level animators get to make those kind of plot decisions??". It   
   may not be the most egregious "way the world outside of these   
   supernatural events works" implausibility in Sailor Moon, but it's   
   pretty far up there.   
      
   >> This is a pretty cheesy episode, though.  I get the feeling the   
   >> creators put a number of inside jokes about their own animation   
   >> studio in it.   
   >   
   > Oh, I definitely got the feeling that in-jokes and cameos were the   
   > themes of the day.  I imagine that a lot of the background characters   
   > in the anime studio bore at least some passing resemblance to real   
   > artists, given that they got a little bit more face time than I'd   
   > normally expect when the characters were giving their post battle   
   > speech about anime making.   
      
   I don't know a whole lot about in-jokes, but there are definitely a few   
   I've heard explained in the past.   
      
   For starters, the episodes' animation studio itself was referred to as   
   "Studio Dive"; at the time, Sailor Moon was being made in "Studio Live".   
   (The fact that I always associate the name with the phrase "a real dive"   
   is a little unfortunate, but probably not their intention.)   
      
   The director person, the one with the little kid, was a (somewhat   
   gentle?) parody of the person who was directing Sailor Moon at the time   
   - who apparently really *did* talk about "understanding the spirit of   
   the characters", and all that; he seems to have "gotten it" before   
   anyone else did. Although he probably didn't actually bring his kid to   
   work on his back.   
      
   I do seem to recall having heard at least one more, but I don't remember   
   what it was.   
      
   > Luna's crack about their story being just too silly to make anime   
   > about made me grin.   
      
   I didn't get much out of that joke. It was too obvious, really.   
      
      
      
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