The seventh episode of Magic Idol Pastel Yumi (魔法のアイドルパステルユーミ) is about fat-shaming. In the end, it tries to be body-positive I think, but it's extremely awkward. At least it's not as bad as the fourth episode of Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン), "Learn How to Be Skinny from Usagi" (うさぎが教えます!スリムになる法).
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon (美少女戦士セーラームーン) is one of the two most enduring fandoms of my life, but my partner has never actually watched the 1992 TV anime so lately we've been moving through them very slowly.
Of course, this is definitively a Heisei series, not a Showa series, but it's still very relevant to the topics of this blog so I thought one fun way to cover it here would be to show one frame from each episode, rather than several screenshots from each episode. So here we have one frame from each of the first nine episodes.
My partner asked me which of these shots is my favorite, which is a very difficult question to answer. The first one is a restaging of a scene from the Japanese folktale, Urashima Tarou (浦島太郎), so that's very exciting to me. I am a big fan of the Tarot so seeing it in the second image is very fun. The shot from episode seven is fun for me because Umino is crossdressing and I have a deep interest in LGBTQ themes. But I think my favorite is Usagi's disguise in the sixth episode where she looks very '80s, very much like something from a Seika coloring book or a Studio Pierrot (株式会社ぴえろ) magical girl show, or even maybe like Jem and the Holograms.