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  • Just finished watching all of Magic Knight Rayearth on Netflix

    From DK@dk@ilos.net to rec.arts.anime.misc on Sat Feb 21 20:11:30 2026
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    That was definitely an unexpected license for Netflix to acquire. Almost
    as weird as Disney+ getting Macross Plus.

    I haven't watched it all in probably 20+ years. The very first episode
    of season 1 on Netflix has a weird aspect ratio problem. The rest of the episodes are fine. Season 2 definitely drags out the story to a glacial
    pace - almost makes me think I'm watching Dragonball Z. :) And boy were
    the final few minutes of the last episode rushed.

    Just though it appropriate to share my thoughts on it on Usenet after discovering eternal-september.org for free text based newsgroup access.
    I was more active on alt.fan.sailor-moon back in the 90's.

    Who knows, maybe we will have a Usenet renaissance if people get sick
    and tired of modern social media.
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  • From Kaz@citizen_kaz@disroot.org to rec.arts.anime.misc on Wed Feb 25 04:51:31 2026
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    On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:11:30 -0600, DK wrote:

    That was definitely an unexpected license for Netflix to acquire. Almost
    as weird as Disney+ getting Macross Plus.

    I haven't watched it all in probably 20+ years. The very first episode
    of season 1 on Netflix has a weird aspect ratio problem. The rest of the episodes are fine. Season 2 definitely drags out the story to a glacial
    pace - almost makes me think I'm watching Dragonball Z. :) And boy were
    the final few minutes of the last episode rushed.

    Just though it appropriate to share my thoughts on it on Usenet after discovering eternal-september.org for free text based newsgroup access.
    I was more active on alt.fan.sailor-moon back in the 90's.

    Who knows, maybe we will have a Usenet renaissance if people get sick
    and tired of modern social media.

    I've been meaning to check that one out for a while. The opening song
    alone is better than probably ninety percent of anime openings. I
    generally like CLAMP's character designs as well, so that alone seems
    like reason enough to watch it.
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  • From John Ames@commodorejohn@gmail.com to rec.arts.anime.misc on Wed Feb 25 09:09:13 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.anime.misc

    On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:11:30 -0600
    DK <dk@ilos.net> wrote:

    That was definitely an unexpected license for Netflix to acquire.
    Almost as weird as Disney+ getting Macross Plus.

    I haven't watched it all in probably 20+ years. The very first
    episode of season 1 on Netflix has a weird aspect ratio problem. The
    rest of the episodes are fine. Season 2 definitely drags out the
    story to a glacial pace - almost makes me think I'm watching
    Dragonball Z. :) And boy were the final few minutes of the last
    episode rushed.

    It's a strange one - similar proto-isekai elements to "Fushigi Yuugi"
    or "Vision of Escaflowne" but takes off in a somewhat more complex
    direction when they finally drop the other shoe re: what precipitated
    the main conflict before Our Heroes got dragged into it; that's CLAMP
    for you. Interesting stuff; it'd be fun to see someone take another
    stab at it in this era of isekai-out-the-wazoo, but I worry they'd try
    to make it fit the modern template... :/

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