The 320G HD for Procyon just got delivered, so now to install it.

UPDATE: I took the cover off where the HD is, and could not figure out how to get the HD to come out. I messed with it for a while, and then gave up. So I packed up the computer and walked over to the repair shop, and offered the guy there $10 to show me how it was done.

It wasn't very hard, and I felt silly once he showed me that the drive had to be slid sideways to come out. Sheesh.

Since I was out anyway, I walked over to Fred's, and was lucky enough to find a copy of Win 7 Home Premium. $120. I got it.

I'm back home again and I've got the new drive in. The restore CD has booted, and right now it's formatting the new drive.

The Win7 package says it has both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Win 7, which of course makes me curious.

The restore should bring me back to the same version of Vista I had, and if so then there really isn't any risk for me in trying to install the 64-bit version of Win 7 to begin with. There's a program I downloaded from Microsoft which checks the hardware to see if it's compatible, and I ran it to see if it would work with 32-bit and it said it would. Once I've got Vista working again, I'll try running it to see if Procyon would be compatible with the 64-bit version, and if so I think that's what I'll install.

If it doesn't work, I'll restore Vista again, and then run the 32-bit upgrade.

UPDATE: The disk formatting program shows me having the new drive, which is going to be 305GB formatted, and my SDHC chip, which is 32G, and something else which is 3.74G formatted as FAT32. I wonder what that is? The flash memory is only supposed to be 1G, so that can't be it.

Anyway, right now that thinks it's the C drive. The new partition is gonna be G. I don't think that's good, so when the format is complete I'm going to reboot the restore CD. Next time, hopefully, the HD will get assigned C:.

But it's gonna be a while. It's only 13% done.

UPDATE: Microsoft allows this upgrade to be used from both XP and Vista, but they've decided to punish XP users. If you upgrade from XP you have to reinstall all your apps.

UPDATE: Big drives are really nice to have, but formatting takes forever! 89% done. Fortunately you only have to do that once.

UPDATE: Finally done formatting. Rather than reboot, I just reassigned the drive letters so that the new drive is C, and now the restore is running. It's estimating 11 minutes to restore something like 60G.

No, 12. No, 13. Now it's 14. Windows time estimates really suck! (There was an XKCD comic about that.)

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First real action in this episode. The four recruits all have new, vastly improved intelligent devices. And this episode was the fan service delight, because we got to see henshin sequences for everyone in the squadron, including Fate and Nanoha.

I must say, both Fate and Nanoha bloomed quite nicely, didn't they? And I deeply thank the director for not subjecting me to FFN of Erio. Though FFN of Caro was also rather disturbing. I had really hoped that this series would be free of lolicon bait.

This episode was a turning point for Caro, and it was nice to see. It is becoming more clear why she was recruited for the group. She may well be their best attacker, in certain kinds of situations (among the recruits, anyway), but it looks like her main role is going to be to stand in the rear and to power up others when they need it, something she does really well.

And it was also interesting to see all the ways that the devices had been upgraded. For one thing, they're all hella more intelligent. Kind of fun watching Subaru and Tia having conversations with their respective devices, which seem to be on about the same level as Raising Heart now. But there are other changes as well.

All very exciting. But Caro's breakthrough certainly is the high point in the episode. (Even better than Nanoha's henshin.)

EP 6: More training, but with more instructors. Subaru is working with Vita, practicing her magical defenses because she's the point. Caro and Erio are working with Fate, who is teaching them evasive moves to avoid enemy fire. Fate says that Erio is a wing, and Caro a full back; apparently it is deliberately Caro's role to be in the rear and to support the others.

Tia is their sniper and she's working with Nanoha. As you'd expect the training is tough, again, but no one is complaining. I like the near complete absence of angst, at least so far, but I bet we'll get some before the series is complete. (Caro gave us just a small bit of it in the last episode but it was over fast and hasn't returned yet.)

Tia's magical device, her magical gun, is called Barrett. Nice touch, that.

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So it turns out that the devices used by Tia and Subaru are home-brew. In the training unit they were originally in, everyone used staves, but staves didn't fit the preferred fighting styles of Tia and Subaru so they made their own devices. That explains the odd formats.

Shari, the unit support person, has now upgraded everyone's devices, and at the end of the episode there's an alert. The unit is going into action for real.

There's an interesting discussion of power limiters. In order to prevent inter-unit jealousy, it seems that when a unit has a high concentration of particularly powerful mages, they have to wear power limiters so that everyone is the same. Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate all are doing so. Hayate's real power level is "SS" but her limiter drops her 4 levels to "A". Nanoha real power is "S+" but her limiter drops her two levels to "AA". Not stated what Fate's is.

As to Carim, They might as well have painted a sign on her saying "This is the real bad guy." Sheesh. Shades of Admiral Graham.

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So in ep 2 we get more background about the fire at the airport. And we get to know more about Tiana and Subaru. And we get to meet Erio and Caro.

I like the wide variety of ways that intelligent devices are being packaged. Erio's turns out to look like a wrist watch.

I wonder if all of them have a stand-down form. When Raising Heart isn't being used, it looks like a red stone which Nanoha wears around her neck. When they're active, Raising Heart looks like a sceptor. When Tia is in action, hers looks like a pistol, and when Subaru is in action hers looks like a gauntlet. I wonder what those look like when not in action?

And will Erio's wrist watch change form?

When I first saw the character art for Caro in her combat armor, I had a flash of deja vu about her hat. I finally realized that it reminded me of a character from the last third of the first Shana series. I thought that hat looked silly then and I still do.

Another cross-series thing: Reinforce Zwei reminds me a bit of Trincia in Macademi Wasshoi. The characters are a lot different, of course. But both of them have been made small and cute as a way of avoiding the uncanny valley.

Rein is amazingly smart for an AI, apparently way beyond Raising Heart or Bardiche. And as for that, Tia's pistol and Subaru's gauntlet don't speak at all except sometimes for called attacks.

I remember someone once saying that Hayate was even stronger than Nanoha and Fate, and I wondered about that. But after seeing the rest of the events in the flashback to the airport fire, I begin to understand. Her staff doesn't have the cartridge system, and yet she is able to do things like lay a freezing spell on the entire airport to put out the fire. And she did that while at the same time continuously powering all four of the Wolkenritter. She's scary strong.

UPDATE: 4 recruits, before Nanoha begins training them:

4 recruits, after their first day of Nanoha's training:

Something that's really nice is that since this is the MidChilda version of the Green Berets, all four of them are already trained and proved. They're all very strong. They're all brave and resourceful. Their magic is powerful and reliable. We're not having to go through the "new recruit who has a lot of potential but fouls up everything she tries to begin with" baloney. Nobody is screaming with terror when they get shot at. No one is fragging a friend by mistake.

The first training session Nanoha put them through was against a simulation of a new foe that the unit expects to be facing a lot, and it's a tough one which offers some nasty surprises. The initial attacks the four tried didn't work, but they managed to figure out how to cope anyway. And all four of them did their jobs and did them well.

Caro was particularly impressive. The writers are being cagy about letting us see what she can do, but there's one interesting thing that suggests she's really special.

Tia's magic circle is a circle, just like Nanoha and Fate and Chrono and Yuuno. Subaru and Erio get triangles, like Hayate and the Wolkenritter. (And Erio's magic device speaks German.) That seems to be the Belkan tradition. But Caro's magic circle is a square. It looks like the Belkan triangle except that there's one more corner.

It was stated that Erio and Caro are off-worlders, not from MidChild. I wonder where Caro is from, and what other ways her magic is different? Her summoning spell was damned impressive, and it seems her tiny dragon is more than just a pet.

Another difference is that the other three are all using the cartridge system, but Caro is not. Her magical device is a gem mounted on the back of a glove she wears, but it's not a gauntlet for close combat.

Some of what Nanoha said about Caro suggests that she may end up being the most amazing one of the four. Maybe, like Hayate, Caro won't need the cartridge system.

Nanoha is going to put them through the ringer, that's for sure. But when she's done with them, they're going to be a hell of a lot more powerful and capable than they can imagine right now. I think they know that, and nobody is complaining -- another pleasant surprise. These four are already elites, in terms of attitude and potential. Nanoha wants to develop that potential -- and they do, too.

Vita was in this episode somewhat more. She is still tiny. It's still the same seiyuu (and I love her voice). But she seems different somehow. Maybe it's that she seems more grown up. It's been ten years since the Book of Darkness. The Wolkenritter had been awake intermittently many many times since the Book originally was corrupted, but usually when that occurred, the Knights were only awake for a few months each time. And, of course, all the previous times they were just machines, not fully developed as people. It was only when Hayate became their master and treated them as family that they changed and became fully developed people. And now they've been like that continuously for ten years. I think Vita really is growing up, at least emotionally.

UPDATE: I'm enjoying this so much that I'm rewatching episodes. I rewatched the first, and now I'm rewatching the training section of the third.

I missed something. The first spell Caro did, her magic circle was round. It was when she did her summoning spell that it was square. I wonder if it means she knows more than one kind of magic. Maybe she's been getting trained in MidChild style magic, but already knew something else.

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Watching the OP for the first episode of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS there were a few shocks. This was the first one:

Seeing the Wolkenritter in military uniforms was really strange. Seeing FFN's of every important female character in the show was even stranger. Seeing Nanoha, Hayate, and Fate all grown up took some getting used to. And then I got to the end, where they showed the cast shot:

Something's missing. Obviously I don't know who all those people are, yet, since some of them are introduced in this series. But where's Arf? She wasn't in the OP anywhere that I noticed.

She isn't listed in the ANN credits for the show, either. It's not an absolutely complete list, of course, but what it does mean is that if she's in the show, she's a minor part. Sob.

I can understand why they had to skip some characters from the first series, just because they had new ones they wanted to include and the cast is already huge. So I'll sadly do without Nanoha's family, and without Suzuka and Arisa. But Arf is Fate's familiar; how can she be deemphasized? She goes where Fate goes, and fights whoever Fate fights. That's her life, her role. How can they have left her out?

Her seiyuu is in the credits for the show, but for other characters. She's listed as doing the voices of Lutecia, Auris, and Sette, whoever they are. (Don't tell me.) Arf is one of my favorite characters from the original two series, and if she really isn't in this one, it's going to be very disappointing.

UPDATE: End of the first ep, and by damn it was really good. They're doing a nice job of varying the concept and finding depth in it. Tia and Subaru are already interesting characters to me, and I like the fact that their magical devices are so different from the ones we saw in the earlier series.

It was a pleasant surprise to see that Nanoha remembered Subaru from her rescue.

I remember seeing a web comic where someone took frame grabs from StrikerS and added word balloons. I watched it for maybe 8 strips, all of which were from ep 1, and then stopped. From that, it seemed that Nanoha had become a real hard case, but of course they were deliberately trying to subvert the story by rewriting the dialogue. Still, it was nice to see that it wasn't so, and that Nanoha is still gentle and caring -- as well as being able to kick ass when she needs to.

Looks like Raising Heart has been further upgraded. The AI seems to be even smarter than before, and the physical configuration seemed a bit changed. Perhaps that was just artistic license.

Another interesting thing is to see that the ability to fly isn't universal among mages. Perhaps it's something that Tia and Subaru will be able to learn later, or maybe it's just not going to be in their arsenal of spells.

It does seem to be possible for people to pick up new abilities. Nanoha offered to perform a healing spell on Tia, and she didn't have that ability in the other two series. So maybe Tia and Subaru will eventually gain power of flight.

Reinforce Zwei is awesome. But Midchilda has different rules about military courtesy if two privates and a sergeant major exchange salutes. At least in the US Army, you don't salute non-coms. (And you don't call them "sir".) You only salute officers.

The impression I get is that Subaru and Tiana were undergoing the qualification test to get into MidChild's equivalent of the Green Berets, and they just passed it. (Of course they passed; if they didn't we wouldn't have a story, since they're clearly the main two characters.)

Generally excellent, and if anything I believe the animation quality is even better than before. I'm certainly going to watch more of it.

UPDATE: A really interesting thing: When Subaru and Tia summon magic circles, theirs are triangular like Hayate's, not circular like Nanoha and Fate. It will be interesting to see if that has any significance.

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Today's Mystery Meat is "Angel's Tail". It isn't really quite a mystery; I downloaded it because it's something I've thought of watching, and I remember the general idea behind it. Still, today I decided to give it a try.

A guy who is maybe in his 20's seems to have hard luck. His pet fish dies. (No, really!) And then he misses his train, and it's raining even though it wasn't predicted, and he trips and falls and and gets his suit soaked. Sitting under the awning at the closed pet shop, he muses about how things go for him.

Suddenly there's a fortune teller next to him. She says, you're always late to catch the train. When you don't have an umbrella, it rains.

Actually, it turns out his troubles run a lot deeper than that. He's out of work, and behind on his rent, and can't find a job. He's never had a girl friend. She tells him these things, and he admits to them. She says, "Soon, luck will find you."

She does something to his phone, which he doesn't notice. Later, at home, he leaves his phone on the table and goes to take a bath. And it starts to ring, then spontaneously opens, and starts to glow magically. The same magical symbol she created appears.

As he comes out of his bath, wearing only a towel and not wearing his glasses, he sees three cute girls, though not very well. Putting on his glasses, he sees these three:

His reaction is, "Who the heck are you?" The three of them turn around and consult. "I knew he'd be surprised." They turn back around and introduce themselves. The soft-spoken redhead is Lan. The one with blue hair is Tsubasa, and uses boku. The little one is Kurumi. They say they are angels of protection. "We've come because the Goddess told us to protect you."

Well, they do magic. And his towel falls off. And everyone screams. And he passes out. He wakes later. The others are sleeping with him.

Cut to a bit later. He's locked himself in the toilet. They're knocking on the door, trying to convince him to come out. They tell him they were originally animals -- that being the setup for the show.

The concept is of a warped harem. Eventually there are going to be 12 of them, all animals who knew him, that he was kind to, when they were alive. He's freaked. But his phone rings. Tsubasa gets it, and he rushes out. Turns out he's got another intervew at 2:00 -- and presumably it's a job he'll get this time.

Later we learn that Lan, the redhead, was the goldfish we saw at the beginning. And she's now afraid of water. Looks like the one with blue hair is afraid of heights. She originally was a parakeet. The little one was a hamster.

It looks like they themselves don't know that he is the one they all knew when alive. They have been assigned to help him, and if they succeed they've been told they'll be reunited with their respective masters.

He got a job offer, but Tsubasa caused a problem and he lost it again. They follow him home, and he tells them to leave him alone.

They walk away, sadly. But then they hear him playing his harmonica. And all of them recognize it as being something their masters played. They run back. He's sitting on the stairs outside his place. Tsubasa (the ex-hamster) runs to him and hugs him, and recognizes his scent. They all tell him who, or what, they had been.

He's shocked, needless to say. He doesn't believe it. "Don't say such foolish things about them. They'll never come back." That last quite sadly; it seems he does remember, and still misses them.

They all start humming the same piece of music. And he starts seeing memories -- of the gold fish, the parakeet, and the hamster.

He finally agrees to let them stay. And they get a heart-warming reunion. Pan back, and it's an image in the fortune teller's crystal ball. She would seem to be the goddess the girls referred to.

As to why the goddess has decided to bless him in this way? I think the presumption is that it's because he's been kind to animals, even though each of them broke his heart by dying or disappearing unexpectedly. As described, he was a on a trip and the air pump in the goldfish's tank stopped, so she was dead when he returned. (And that's why she's now afraid of water.) He found the parakeet with a broken wing, and cared for her, but her wing never really healed. One time she tried to fly in order to show him the beauty of her flight, but she lost control and crashed and died. (And now she's afraid of heights.) The hamster broke out of her cage, and got lost and couldn't find her way back, and starved. (And now she becomes frightened if she's hungry.) In each case he seems to have mourned them, and maybe the Goddess is thinking that someone as goodhearted as him really deserves better karma than he's been getting.

But that's just a wild ass guess. I'm not really curious enough to look later in the series to find out. (Feel free to fill me in if you want.)

The teaser makes clear that most of the eps will be "new angel of the week". The next one has glasses and twintails.

So, the decision? Not for me. Entirely too sentimental, for one thing. It's a harem show, in a sense, but it isn't a comedy. And waaaaay too sentimental. Just not my kind of show, especially since the cast is going to be far too crowded given that there are going to be nine more of them before it's all over.

It feels a bit like Sister Princess did, which started with four sisters and went up from there. If they'd stuck with just the initial four, it might have been a better series. Same thing here: if they stuck with just those initial three angels, it might be OK depending on the kind of story telling they chose to do. But 12 is just too many, especially for a series which is only 12 eps long (not counting the two OVAs).

How many pet animals did this guy have when he was a kid? Looking at the credits, it seems that the entire pantheon will eventually be: a tanuki, a monkey, a turtle, a cat, a snake, a hamster, a frog, a goldfish, a fox, a parakeet, a dog, and a rabbit.

This was done in 2000, and Hirano Aya is in it (as the monkey). It must have been one of her very earliest parts; she would only have been 12 or 13 when it was made. It has an A-list cast: Chiba Saeko (fox), Tanaka Rie (goldfish), Nogawa Sakura (parakeet), Kawasumi Ayako (turtle). (Though they may not have been considered A-list when it was made.)

But it just doesn't feel like my kind of show. I'm not a big one for shows that ladle on the sentiment, and this one looks to be heavy on the heart-warming tear jerking.

UPDATE: The original Japanese name is Tenshi no Shippo which means "tails of angels" (assuming an implied plural). It isn't a pun in Japanese. It makes me wonder if they started with the English pun.

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Today's Mystery Meat is "Quiz Magical Academy". I was attracted to it because it's about magic, and it's humor -- and because of fan service.

It's a one-shot from last year, based on a video game which ran on a number of consoles. So the show is pretty much a teaser for the game, at least indirectly. And it looks like it had a pretty good budget, because the animation looks fantastic.

One place they didn't skimp was the seiyuu. Koyasu is in it, and Wakamoto Norio is in full-bore ham mode with his character. And Kuwashima Houko isn't cast as an emotionless girl, for a change. Plus Asano Masumi and Mizuhashi Kaori. All welcome, and all doing a good job.

The fundamental story is that it's a class of weirdos, who are mostly doing pretty good in their studies but have been accumulating a lot of demerits from their eccentric antics and mistakes. As a result, the class's overall score is the worst in the school, and their teacher (who is new) is in trouble for it. The only way to redeem things is for the class to win the Interclass Group Magic Battle at the next school festival.

And as part of their training they get hit with trivia questions about magic. Which makes sense because the console games are trivia games.

This isn't really any kind of story; it's just a setup for a lot of sight gags, and some pretty awesome magic in the end. But it's clear that whoever made it wouldn't mind at all if it were picked up to become a series.

Quite frankly, I wouldn't mind, either. The potential is definitely there for it to be a lot of fun. I hope it happens. In the mean time, this one-of is worth watching.

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Needed some groceries, and there was a sunny patch in the middle of the storm we've been having, so I saddled up and went over to the store. One of the things I wanted to do while I was there was to get a flu shot, today being the day I had been told they'd have them.

So I walked up to the pharmacy and asked the lady behind the counter where I was supposed to go to get a flu shot. And the conversation went about like this:

"Do you have an appointment?"
"No, I don't. I didn't know I needed one."
"You have to have an appointment to get a flu shot."
"OK, how do I get an appointment?"
"You can't have one."

It would probably have been better to refer to them as "reservations". They only got a limited number of doses in, it seems, and had booked them all and weren't sure when they'd get more.

While I was there I stopped by the computer area and asked if they were going to be carrying Win 7 come Thursday. Yeah, but they're only going to have a limited number and will sell them first-come-first-serve. Heck with it; I think I'll go to Best Buy.

And stop at the walk-in clinic on the way home to see if they have flu shots.

Except that I might not be able to go out on Thursday. NewEgg shipped my drive this morning, and I think that's the day UPS will want to deliver it. (Not sure yet; UPS doesn't show an expected delivery yet.)

UPDATE: Looks like I got back just in time. It just started to rain again.

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DO NOT FOLLOW THIS LINK. It'll cost you several hours. I followed a link from my refers and it had a link to the History of English, which was fascinating. So when I reached the bottom I saw that it was part of a section called "Useful Notes" and went up to it. Big mistake.

There was an article about military weapons. There was a page about Mark Twain. There was a page about Yagyu Jubei. Oh, dear; is it after midnight already?

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1 All ur hours are belong to us.  Sigh.

Posted by: Standing in the Shadows at October 19, 2009 04:25 AM (OFALy)

2 CURSES!!!! I just lost 2 hours to that stupid link (and it's subsequent link-links). Did you not realize, good Sir, that "DO NOT FOLLOW THIS LINK" is irresistable bait to some of us (much like NSFW), and would result in the ruthless yanking away of several hours of our lives? You should put "DO NOT FOLLOW THIS LINK... OR ELSE." Then we would be properly discouraged.

Posted by: dkallen99 at October 19, 2009 07:25 AM (1PFDl)

3 "I can quit whenever I want; I just don't want to, yet!"

-j

Posted by: J Greely at October 19, 2009 08:14 AM (2XtN5)

4 xkcd even have a comic on this very subject.  Once you start, you just cannot stop.

Posted by: BigFire at October 19, 2009 08:25 AM (Kwn4z)

5 I dunno, the material does not seem to hold my attention. Some of the anime tropes were amusing, but this is just random.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at October 19, 2009 09:32 AM (/ppBw)

6 Try looking up any anime title...  and follow the links.

Posted by: BigFire at October 19, 2009 10:19 AM (Kwn4z)

7 Ohhhhh BigFire, you are one devious rascal. But fortunately, I have already SEEN all the good xkcd comics. For sure. Without question.... But I better go back and check just to make sure. AHHHHH.

Posted by: dkallen99 at October 19, 2009 10:26 AM (1PFDl)

8 'Good XKCD comic'.  Isn't that redundant? 

Posted by: metaphysician at October 19, 2009 10:41 AM (vM63Z)

9 You are in a maze of twisty links, all different.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 19, 2009 11:17 AM (+rSRq)

10 . . .oh lord, your making me imagine a text adventure game set in TVTropes Land. . .

Posted by: metaphysician at October 19, 2009 11:30 AM (vM63Z)

11 "It is dark.  You may be eaten by a trope."

I escaped after only half an hour... this time.

Posted by: BigD at October 19, 2009 11:54 AM (LjWr8)

12

Somehow, the appeal of TV Tropes lost its hold on me for the session whenever I get to "Upper Class Twit" and see someone put G.W.'s name in it, or when I see the gratitious slam against Jim Inhofe in "Older than They Think" because Al Gore apparently was not the first one to believe in the delusion that man-made CO2 is creating global warming...As if the age of hypothesis was suppose to prove its validity (In which case, Thomas Malthus would have been proven long ago.).

C.T.

Posted by: cxt217 at October 19, 2009 12:14 PM (6bt9e)

13 You are in a maze of twisty links, all different.
>say yoho

Posted by: Standing in the Shadows at October 19, 2009 03:01 PM (M/2AP)

14 Whew!  Escaped after 30 minutes.  And with a winner of a line (under Western Europe):  "Well I guess it wouldn't work to call them Lesbonian."

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I was going to do another Mystery Meat post today, this one on "Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel OVA", but I couldn't watch it through. It was terrible. Just dreadful. It was blatantly a ripoff of Sailor Moon, complete with a mysterious guy (with white roses) who showed up to save the Angels at critical moment.

And just to show how derivative it was, there was a cybernetic tank straight out of the Ghost in the Shell movie.

Once the first battle was over, they switched to what I think was a middle school where our two cuties are students, being chewed out by the headmaster -- but I'd had more than enough by that point. I got about five minutes into the first episode of two. There's only so much pain I'm willing to tolerate on your behalf.

I guess I hadn't realized just how much Sailor Moon was imitated.

UPDATE: By the way, it would seem I'm not alone in holding this opinion about the show. I am currently running 93 seeds, and this is one of just 3 for which I have uploaded 0 bytes. (The other two being Melty Lancer and an obscure soundtrack.)

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