Youjo's Crits and Reviews

Here are some parallels between miraculous ladybug and Sailor Moon! Daft, clumsy teenager that believes that she's a loser when she's actually loved by everyone.  Unnecessary unhealthy and toxic relationship practices due to secret identities.  Talking animal partners. Queer coded characters! Although Sailor Moon was way more out loud about it! I don't know what France is doing. Characters lose their items and swap powers. We love power swaps, though! Love interest getting shot down and trying to deny their feeling, which makes everything worse. I will say that on Marinette's end, she never really got shot down. She just didn't know how to handle being a friend. Some of the characters can never fall in love, because of their duties. Miraculous wrote this in as a very self-imposed rule when they don't follow the boundaries that they set for the show in any other case. In Miraculous, relationships can work if people make better decisions. In Sailor Moon, the sailo

I came up with this question when I started doing criticisms of particular characters and noticed some parallels. To start off with the most obvious, the dead mother being the driving force to the main characters. Even though not everyone is aware of Emilie, she is the driving force to everything going on in the story. They're trying to stop the main antagonist from destroying the universe, as they know it to bring her back to life. What Emily doesn't have going for her is all of the characters being aware of her. Everyone is aware of rose quartz and then later aware of pink diamond which adds so much more to the story! Most of the events happened because of her, but not all of them. Sometimes life happens, and that's great, too! Steven Universe has a better take on "alternative" family setups. Not to say miraculous didn't try. A lot of single parents in that show, but no one in a polyamorous family. Speaking of polyamory, Steven Universe invited polyamory clo