From: MrShoujo@webtv.net   
      
   Chris Kern wrote:   
      
   Episode 198 - Disappearing stars! The end of Uranus and Neptune   
      
   "The body count of this season surpasses anything from before, with 9   
   major characters being killed in the conclusion. There's a persistent   
   .. rumor that after the deaths of the senshi in episode 45, letters of   
   protest flooded the TV station -- it seems like this would have drawn   
   even more."   
      
   "I'm way late on mentioning this (I guess I didn't read this post when   
   it was first posted), but there is at least some "evidence" of this, at   
   least according to _Warriors of Legend: Reflections of Japan in Sailor   
   Moon_. While I felt a great deal of the information presented in earlier   
   chapters was suspect ..."   
      
      
   Umm.. Such as?? Do tell. We've had a lot of authoritative figures copy   
   edit the original manuscript, and we have sources for our information. I   
   wouldn't mind a private email as to what you think is "suspect". We're   
   still double-checking the info even today.   
      
   We did a lot of research into the info in the otaku-intensive Datahouse   
   books. If you feel there was something else you care to comment about, I   
   can provide a copy of your comments to our staff.   
      
      
   "...there are cited sources for information regarding phone calls to TV   
   Asahi, and children suffering from autotoxemia due to the shock of   
   episode 45."   
      
   The daughter of a radio host had that. Missed a week of school with a   
   high fever after the episode aired.   
      
   And as the person from GENVID who actually translated that bit of text,   
   while the letters of protest part hasn't been double checked, the fact   
   of the phone calls of desperate parents flooding TV Asahi is pretty much   
   the truth.   
      
   "Found on page 142 and 143. Cited source: Juuban Irregulars. _Sailormoon   
   R no Himitsu_ Tokyo: Datahouse, 1994. Pages 95-96"   
      
   Yeah. I translated that. ^_^ Jay's in Japan hoping to find the very   
   issue (and all other Animage issues that mention Sailor Moon) that has   
   these bits. I still have the translation on my HP Jornada PDA. He may   
   have found the issue by now. ^_^   
      
   I'm going to check on the bit where Takeuchi didn't intend for Sailor   
   Moon to run more than a year, and never expected it to be so popular so   
   she killed them off before the end.   
      
   ja ne nyo deshi punyoun na no da...   
      
   I love it when people talk about the bits I worked on. The part about   
   Rei's kuji and the thing she does... Well... ^_^;;;; Something got lost   
   in the editing. Dammit. Still is interesting reading though.   
      
   "Read this very carefully, I shall type this only once nyo!"   
   "There would be little point in typing it twice nyo!!" - 'Allo 'Allo nyo   
      
   "They make crayONs; do they make crayOFFs?"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)