On this episode we discuss "Mahou Tsukai Chappy" and "Marvelous Melmo".By The NerdStreet Hoodlums

Love and Justice coming to you live from Anime Los Angeles! We cover the many iterations of everyone's favorite damsel in distress, Tuxedo Mask.By The NerdStreet Hoodlums

On this episode we discuss "Himitsu no Akko-chan" and "Mahou no Mako-chan".By The NerdStreet Hoodlums

For our inaugural Magical Girl History Lesson we discuss "Princess Knight" and "Sally the Witch".By The NerdStreet Hoodlums

Happy new year Moonies! This week on the podcast we discuss Sera Myu: Le Mouvement Final to finsh out our coverage of the new Myus. We're all about Galaxia's crazy eyes, the terrifyingly adorable Chibi Chibi and the return of Satomi as Sailor Cosmos. Also are Uranus and Nepture dating IRL because, if you look at their respective twitter feeds, it s…

For our final episode of 2017, we're joined by our favorite maigcal boys, Sam McClellan and Adam Ferry to discuss the (sadly, somewhat lackluster) final chapter of the supremely charming magical boy anime series "Cute High Earth Defense Club Love" AKA the recent OVA with a couple extra "loves" on the end.…

Happy Halloween one and all! At last the saga of the Dracula myus has finally come to a close with this episode's coverage of the myu Last Dracul Saishuu Shou. We're not quite sure what happened in this one. Mandrake siblings, tiny werewolf babies, and a triangle box that is a prison sometimes but not all the time raise a lot of questions. But we d…

It's been a while but the L&J crew is back to close out the Nehelenia arc of Stars! That's episodes 171 and 172. While we enjoyed this arc overall we're a little fuzzy on Nehelenia's origin as well as the ending. Was it a dream? Is it a parallel universe? Who knows! But all that aside, it is undeniable how badass the senshi are, especially Hotaru. …

The lovely Carrie Sleutskaya has joined us again to go over her International Sailor Moon Day event: Legend of the Moon. We talk about swag bags, dancing jams, our favorite moments. We hint at what could be in store for next year. We even, oddly enough, talk about throwing birds. If nothing else, we at least enterain ourselves.…

Don't call it a come back! We've been here this whole time, we just got swept up in the craziness that is con season. And what better way to reunite with you all than to talk about some International Sailor Moon Day happenings, specifically the Legend of the Moon event! We're joined by event coordinator and all-around Renaissance woman Carrie Sleut…

We're talking episodes 169 and 170 of the 90s anime, AKA episodes 3 & 4 of Sailor Stars, AKA two of the BEST episodes of the 90s anime. Especially episode 169, which is a beauitfully contructed horror story of the psychological thriller variety. Though Mercury and Uranus's unlikely partnership in epiosde 170 provides some really nice character deve…

We're back!! And we're cutting through all the fat and getting right into what many (many being we) consider to be some of the best episodes every churned out by the 90s anime - episodes 1 & 2 of Sailor Stars, AKA episodes 167 & 168 overall, AKA "oh crap, we forgot to put the Outer Senshi in Sailor Moon S. We finally solve the mystery of babies in …

Hey Love and Justice fans!! Just wanted to give you all a quick update re: what's been going on with us and our plans for the podcast over the summer.By The NerdStreet Hoodlums

Our personal Cosplay Idol Jessie Pridemore joins us this week to share tales of the struggles of being a weeaboo back in the late 1990s. In addition to her totally endearing cosplay origin tale, which is 100% Sailor Moon related, she talks about branching out from the Star Wars Expanded Universe into the weird, wonderful world of manga, the life ch…

It's round 2 of our in-depth moonie interview series. This time we are joined by the talented Ashley Robinson. Ashley hails from the Great White North (Canada), where the 90s dub originated so we get a whole new perspective on early anime, or Japanimation, consumption. Be it in the basement of a comic book store or the perfect high school locker he…

We're launching a brand new type of episode to help fill the void until Sailor Moon Crystal [eventually] returns. Kicking off our long form interview series is Malika Lim, indie game developer and Twitch streamer extraordinaire, who you might recognize today from her many streaming sessions on Hyper RPG. But if you were living in Florida circa 2005…

This week we've decided to just keep going with Rainbow Crystal arc, even if it confuses/infuriates us. We do our best to analyze and make sense of this particular 90s plot device but end up with more questions. Meanwhile Lola considers becoming the kid in the DARE PSA we were all warned about.By The NerdStreet Hoodlums

We've returned to our usually scheduled Sailor Moon programming with some filler shenanigans! This time we are joined by voice actor, friend, and Sailor Moon novice: Chris Rickabaugh! We decided to start him off with episode 31 of the 90s anime, Loved and Chased: Luna's Worst Day Ever. Join us as we do our best to guide Chris through the extensive …

Kicking it old school once again! Going off the rails and on tangents, like always! We're back it: revisiting the anime of our early fandoms. Today it's The Vision of Escaflowne! If you're old like us, you might've caught this gem on FoxKids back in the day. This story rich anime is one of our favorites, even if we do have difficulty remembering al…

Get ready for a trip down memory lane if you're thirty-to-thirty-five-ish. The hilarious Joe Starr, writer of Honest Trailers and host of Flash and Friends on Screen Junkies, joins us to reminisce about simpler times when all the main characters were introduced in episode one and stated their intentions outright. We're talking about what was once k…

It's here! Our uber-sparlky, full of happy Sailor Moon feels 100th episode! There's nostalgia! Giveaways! A dramatic fanfiction reading! And even an impromptu musical performance! But mostly there's a whole of love coming your way for supporting our lives podcast and making our lives brighter every day. Happy 100th episode. We love you.…

By popular request – and just before our 100th episodes – we proudly present our episode on one of our collective favorite anime series, Revolutionary Girl Utena. Named "one of the most important anime series of the 90s" by Anime News Network, it's a beautiful mosaic of classic shoujo styling, takarazuka, shadow puppetry and a whole lotta symbolism…

It's all fangirls all the time on this special Gundam Wing Edition of Love and Justice! (Yeah, we know, we're supposed to be a Sailor Moon podcast) Kelby and Emma delve REAL deep into their weeaboo backstories and reveal how they went from innocent, Mary Sue-writing baby Otaku, to Total Fujoshi Trash thanks to a series that was supposed to be about…

Love and Justice is bringing you more Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon goodness to fill your lives with this week, as we discuss episodes 13 & 14 - the first couple epsidoes in which Kunzite appears!! He starts as an unassuming, amnesic man in a sweater, who is supposed to look sweet but kinda looks like a serial killer, then evolves into a sexy bad guy…

Happy Valentine's Day, Moonies! You've been hoping and waiting and now we can finally present you with our thoughts and feelings about Snow White with the Red Hair season 2! Hooray! In this episode we discuss the second season and conclusion of this beloved series. We explore our Obi feels (or in the case of Sam, non-Obi feels). Lola and Kelby cont…

Keepin' it classic this week witih a good old fashioned manga side story that, aside from a really sexy Rei/Minako Naoko Takeuchi splash page/cover illustration, isn't worth writing home about. It had the potential to be a sexier of version The Ring, but instead of focussing on what could have been a scary, seductive ghost (who was trapped in a wel…

Our mini Myu marathon concludes with "Sailor Moon SuperS - Yume Senshi - Ai - Eien Ni..." which was delightfully entertaining after the previous two installments! We're not sure if it's just because the couple were so terrible or "Amour Eternal" was out least favorite of the post 20th Anniversary Myus, but we legitmately enjoyed this show. More tha…

Musical Moonday strikes again with Sera Myu Sailor Moon S - Ai no Senshi e no Michi! While agruably not the worst of the Myus we've reviewed thus far, it's certainly the least compelling due to fact that the villains had unclear motivations and basically didn't do anything. Except fly. Oh boy did Kaorinite every fly. And Chibiusa. And Sailor Moon. …

It's anohter Musical Moonday coming your way! This time all about the first Sera Myu that (sort of) covered the Black Moon Clan/Sailor Moon R story arc, Tanjou! Ankoku no Princess Black Lady. It suffers, albeit less so, from the same problem as the Dracula musicals: too many characters on stage, horrible lighting, Party City wings on Eternal Sailor…

In honor of the upcoming theatrical re-release of the Sailor Moon R film, we're discussing the aliens upon whom the villain-but-also-Mamoru's-boyfriend was based – Ail and An! Specifically their antics in episodes 58 & 59 of the 90s anime, which was the conclusion of their story, and basically encapsulated the entirety of any semblance of meaningfu…

Welcome to the first episode of 2017! We are ready to show this new year who's boss! Today we are fancasting everyone's favorite sailor guardians as the queens of Logo's RuPaul's Drag Race. (Available on Hulu and AmazonPrime, woohoo!) We are joined by special guest and drag queen enthusiast, Robert Edward, as well as frequent collaborator, Sam McCl…

Happy Holidays from all of us at Love and Justice! We're discussing the first of two (albeit, almost identical) Sailor Moon Christmas albums, Sailor Moon Super S: Christmas for You. We have no idea why it exists. It's literally just the seiyuu of the Inner Senshi, collectively called "Peach Hips" singing very unoriginal covers of Christmas songs yo…

You know that we here at Love and Justice love our Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. This week we're covering the live performance entitled "Kirari Super Live" (roughly, Glittering/Sparkling Super Live) which was rehearsed and performed literally in the midst of taping the 2003-2004 series. We enjoy this WAY more than we've any right to. There's virtual…

Thanks to the fabulous folks at missdream.org, we've finally got some fresh Sailor Moon content to discuss: the latest installment in the fabulous new Sera Myu series, Amour Eternal! Though we're not all in total agreement, we find it to be slightly less spectacular than its predecessors, partially due to the change of cast, particularly in the cas…

Keepin' it classic once again this week and delving into the magical world of the Sailor Moon 90s anime series (available to watch, uncut, in its entirely on Hulu - yay!). We're covering episode 95 – specifically the original Japanese version, and the often lamented Cloverway dub first seen on Toonami on June 19, 2000. This is the episode wherein t…

One of our favorite (and now officially verified on Twitter!) guest hosts, Xander Jeanneret (@Xanderrific), returns to discuss our favorite new fall anime Yuri!!! on Ice. This show has brought so much joy into our lives in the short amount of time that it's been airing that we decided we just really really needed to talk about it. Especially in a t…

On this episode, which is oddly appropriate for Election Day, we discuss the Sailor Moon manga special act Casablanca Memory as well as episode 8 of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, both of which focus on Rei's relationship with her politician father. We go pretty deep into themes of not-so-great parental figures and unrequited love, but ultimately com…

Happy Halloween Sailor Moon fans! We're continuing the tradition of Dracula themed Myus and tackling Sera Myu: Kessen Transylvania no Mori Kaiteiban, which is the winter 2001 revision of the summer 2000 musical of roughly the same time (minus the "Kaiteiban" part. Spoilers: We hate it, but we sure did have fun drinking about, and many thanks to tho…

Well we've been referencing it for a solid year now, so we thought it was high time we dedicated an episode to American Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn's masterpiece Death Note: The Musical. Don't worry, if you don't like Death Note (Kelby doesn't) you still might like A) this version of it and B) this episode of the podcast. We're joined once aga…

We take a break from vampires this week (don't worry, they'll be back for our actual Halloween Special) to talk about another Halloween staple – witches! Specifically, Little Witch Academia The Enchanted Parade which is a sequel to the original animated short Little Witch Academia, but if you haven't seen the first one, you won't be terribly confus…

For this spooky edition of Love and Justice, we're going back to before most of us were born and reviewing the cult classic 1985 film Vampire Hunter D. It's the reason Emma got into anime! It's the reason Sam never got into anime (until he was an adult and realized he was wrong)! Prepare thyselves for in-depth discussions re: the science behind vam…

Welcome to the first of many spoopy October editions of Love and Justice! For our first episode we're discussing Chibiusa's Picture Diary #1 - Beware the Transfer Student & Chibiusa's Adventure: The Dreaded Vampire Castle the animated short that's based on it (which is very bizarrely titled as there is no castle in it). The basic premise is there's…

We have come to the conclusion of another beautiful season of Cute High Earth Defense Club Love (this time called Cute High Earth Defense Club Love LOVE) and so it's time for our end of season recap! We ponder the exact nature of relationship between Gora and the stork (is it a mentee-mentor thing? Is the stork secretly an evil reality show produce…

It's another fun-filled filler episode of Love and Justice! This time we're talking about episode 92 of the 90s anime which features everyone's favorite Daimon "Steering" who looks like she was drawn by Rob Liefeld (we mean that lovingly) and was almost certainly the inspiration for the conclusion of the film Adolescence of Utena. We have some seri…

Love and Justice strikes again with another Musical Moonday!! This time it's the very Sera Myu, Sera Myu: Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen, and we're happy to report it's WAY better than that Dracula Musical. First of all, it's only about an hour and fifteen minutes. Secondly, characters actually exit the stage. Thirdly, it contains pretty much the…

We had a super awesome weekend in Salt Lake City, hanging with our dear friends Bonnie Gordon (@BonnieBellG) & Xander Jeanneret (@Xanderrific) AKA The Library Bards (@LibraryBards), lounging around on the beds in our hotel room, recording podcasts. Like ya do. Thanks so much to everyone who came out and packed the room yet again at our panel. We ho…

It's that time again: we're hitting the road and heading to the Great Salt Lake for some convention times in Lola's homeland. Emma and Kelby hit the trail to Houston TX after that, but not before we educate the population of Utah (and, frankly, ourselves to some extent) on the rich history of the magical girl genre. Fun fact: In Oregon Trail 2, Emm…

It's the episode at least 1/3rd of you have been waiting for! Our mid-season review of Cute High Earth Defense Club Season 2! Be warned: This obviously contains spoilers for episodes 1-7, so if you're not caught up, proceed with caution. Adam Ferry (@damjerry) and Sam McLellan (@TheSpiderSam) are along for the ride as usual. Join us on a downward s…

The McClellans are at it again with another House Party Special! This time they cover My Love Story!! A sweet anime about young love and friendship. They also cover the toxic tropes of American teen romance stories and how there should be more shows like this one to help guide the youth through the chaos that is "young love." P.S. Please let it be …

We're back with another House Party edition of Love and Justice! This time it's all about Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun. Kelby and Sam talk about this fun slice-of-life anime, its characters, and how it pokes at gender roles in an entertaining way. Sam also tells us about which parts of the show gave him the feels and finally admits to being weeaboo tr…