What Tuxedo Mask Knew All Along
Bandai just dropped a new wave of Sailor Moon lingerie, which is either the best news of 2014 or confirmation that nostalgia has fully merged with horniness into one seamless consumer product. Each set comes with a top, panties, a skirt, and a bow, color-matched to a specific Sailor: Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter—whoever your particular obsession ran to when you were watching this show at an age when you definitely should not have been thinking what you were thinking about cartoon characters in sailor uniforms.
The sets run around 60 euros each and will be available from 2015 through Bandai’s Japanese online store. If the school-uniform angle is more your speed, Peach John has Usagi Tsukino’s blue-and-white Juban Middle School outfit for around 110 euros, shipping costs apparently a separate catastrophe.
There’s a specific Sailor Moon memory that involves a weekend afternoon, a CRT television, and emotions I didn’t have the vocabulary for yet. Usagi Tsukino did something decisive to my understanding of what I find attractive, and twenty-some years later here we are: the franchise releasing lingerie in five color variants, one per Sailor. I’d be lying if I said I was surprised. I’d also be lying if I said I was bothered. Tuxedo Mask always knew.