Feb 2025 simulwatch voting thread

February 2025 simulwatch options and streaming sources

  • Dance Dance Danseur (Crunchyroll)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (Crunchyroll)

    Votes: 1 33.3%

  • Magical Girl Retrospective (see below for details)

    Votes: 1 33.3%

  • Last Exile (Crunchyroll)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Patlabor OVAs and movies (not streaming)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Phoenix: Eden 17 (Disney+)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (HiDive)

    Votes: 1 33.3%
  • Total voters
    3
  • This poll will close: .
Dai

Dai

Death Scythe
The poll will close a week from now, with a planned simulwatch start date of 1st Feb unless that date is a problem for people. I've included the option to let you change your vote.

Most of the poll options are self-explanatory, but here is the plan for the magical girl retrospective. Rather than watching the entire series, we would watch the first three episodes of several landmark shows in a genre, in broadcast order, to compare how it evolved over time. For this one I'd suggest the first three episodes of each of the following. Don't worry if you can't access all the streaming services; just drop in and out as you're able. Tubi is a free service with ads.
  • Princess Knight (Crunchyroll) - possibly the first ever magical girl show, and a Tezuka one at that
  • Minky Momo (Crunchyroll) - early 80s classic
  • Sailor Moon original TV series (requires a VPN to access the US version of Tubi)
  • Sailor Moon R movie (free on Tubi UK) - starts by introducing the characters and backstory, so a good option if you can't access the TV series
  • Fancy Lala (free on Tubi UK) - late 90s show that's a great example of the pop idol sub-genre of magical girls
  • Precure (original 2004 season on Crunchyroll)
  • Princess Tutu (on HiDive)
  • Madoka Magica (not streaming, unfortunately)
  • Magical Girl Raising Project (Crunchyroll) - definitely not a classic, but typifies the grimdark post-Madoka era
 
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Professor Irony said:
I have somehow never seen an entire episode of Sailor Moon. Not intentionally so, just doesn’t seem to have come my way.
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For that reason I'm glad that the R movie is available to stream too, since it's more representative of the series as a whole. The first several episodes of Sailor Moon feel quite different from everything that comes after. So much of the comedy comes from Usagi interacting with the other sailor senshi, and it takes a long time for all of them to be introduced in season 1.
 
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