Re: What did I see?

Pete Granzeau wrote:

Years and years ago, sometime before 1989, as I remember, a friend of my
daughter showed me a video (VHS tape, naturally) copy of a copy of a copy of
an anime, in Japanese. He called it "Sailor Moon", but it wasn't the Sailor
Moon I have seen on YouTube. It featured a prepubescent Japanese schoolgirl
in her sailor suit, of course, and she evidently had supernatural powers and
strength. She was late to school. I remember there was a miles-long
spaceship about to crash in Tokyo (it eventually did), and a mysterious
character with a bass voice following her, wearing a fedora hat and a belted
raincoat with turned-up collar (who turned out to be female).

That's about all I do remember--that, and when the girl finally came home,
you saw her parents--Clark Kent and Diana Prince.

So, just what did I see?

If it was '89, a friend handed a copy of a copy to you, and the heroine was accompanied by the most ear-grating kawaii-ko in anime, you saw what we all saw, back then:
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Project_A-ko/60024162

....Them were the days. :)

Derek Janssen (as you can see, the copies have since improved somewhat)
ejanss@xxxxxxxxxxx
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