So I FINALLY managed to find what looks like a good and active forum to discuss Sailor Moon at, all thanks to Tumblr!
So yeah, nice to meet you all! I share a long history with Sailor Moon, it was my very first anime and I saw the Swedish dub on TV every morning with my brother. And after discovering both the Internet and the glory that is fansubs I've since long ago watched all the episodes and movies, and now that the manga is finally being released with a new translation that I feel I can actually stomach, I'm working on reading through it as well. (I just finished the Black Moon arc!)
Despite having been a fan pretty much my entire life I've never been very familiar with this fandom, so I hope I'll be able to get along with everyone.
Oh, and one question I have concerning avatars... it said in the rules that I'm not allowed to change my avatar by myself and that I need to send a PM to Sailor Jupiter about it, but the rules also made it sound like this only applies when you're changing from an old avatar. What about my case where I haven't uploaded any yet? Do I still need to do this?

Welcome, Louchan. ^^
About your avy, yes, you have to ask to Jupiter to change it. But to put it the first time, i don't think you need to ask anybody.

Welcome! glad you found us! And even though you're new to the fandom, you should be fine since everyone here is pretty friendly and accepting you'll probably love it here like so many of us do. It's a great forum.

And I'm not Sailor Jupiter (or admin), but from what I remember, I think you get your first avatar pick and upload free before needing to send her what avatar you want to use for approval. Don't quote me on this however; one of the admin should be able to help you (they're awesome). My advice though is, think carefully on which avatar you want to use since you will be stuck with it for at least a month before you get to choose a new one.

Hejsan! :3

Welcome to the forum. I bet you will really like it here!

Do you have a favorite senshi/character?

Thank you for all the warm welcomes! I think I'll wait a bit before adding an avatar, just to be on the sure side... wouldn't want to be making any mistake this early after joining!

Hej, Verdandi! Vad kul att träffa en till svensk så snabbt!

My favorite character at the moment is Sailor Venus. I'll take the time to write a rant about why later in some other thread!

Welcome!!! I'm happy you found out about this place! This is an awesome place to talk about Sailor Moon and we also talk about other things too! It's a fun place to hang out and talk to people. I hope you like it here!

Welcome to the forums Louchan!!! You're gonna like it here with us for sure!

Hejsan Louchan^^! (I know few words in Swedish XD)

Welcome to the forums^^! I'm sure you like it a lot here, we're all very friendly

Hi welcome to GC! I'm anjyu or better known as chibi jupi here!

Okay, since most people seemed to believe it's alright I took my chance and made my first avatar! Someone will have to beat me up with a stick if that was wrong of me...

And thanks again for the continuous warm welcomes!

Welcome, Louchan! And everyone has given you the correct advice. For your first avatar you may pick and upload your own, it is only afterwards that you must PM me about it. Feel free to contact me with any questions that you may have. As your Members Director, I am always here to help.

And don't worry - I'm sure you'll fit in just fine with the rest of us Moonies. ^^

Welcome! I love your avatar! Super pretty! We have some other awesome members from Sweden too! Was Sailor Moon super popular there?

Hi hi Louchan! Awesome that you have decided to open up to the fandom! I consider myself kind of new to being active in the fandom because before GC, I just kinda derped around tumblr a bit and before that, I did nothing besides doodle SM in my notebooks at school! Haha.

And we sure do seem to have quite a few people from Sweden here. How cool. xD Anyway, I hope you are enjoying GC so far. I look forwarding to see you around.

Oh, that's great to hear, Sailor Jupiter! Thanks for confirming that.

And haha, are there that many members from Sweden? I can't really say... I don't think the show was that popular while it aired. Only the first two seasons were shown, the episodes were often in a bit of a messed up order, and he dub was... mediocre at most. xD But I can imagine perhaps a lot of people did like I did, which was look up the show on the Internet and then become familiar with the original, which I then fell in love with.

hey, nice to meet you!
it's so good to have new members to the fandom =)

Welcome! I'm Houyou no Senshi (actually up until last week I was Miki and everyone calls me that so you can call me Miki too XD)

You should check out SeraMyu and PGSM too! (in my opinion they're even better than the anime...) At first they both seem a bit off and silly and then suddenly they become the best things ever!

I did watch some of PGSM, but unfortunately I never managed to get that into it... SeraMyu I have yet to watch, not sure where to get hold of it, but I'm definitely interested. It'll probably be the next thing up after I finish the manga!

For PGSM, you sort of have to get past the first couple of episodes. By the time Jupiter comes in it because amazing, story and characterization-wise its a lot better than the anime. Its probably is just shallow issues like special effects and the limited soundtrack.

Louchan wrote:

Oh, that's great to hear, Sailor Jupiter! Thanks for confirming that.

And haha, are there that many members from Sweden? I can't really say... I don't think the show was that popular while it aired. Only the first two seasons were shown, the episodes were often in a bit of a messed up order, and he dub was... mediocre at most. xD But I can imagine perhaps a lot of people did like I did, which was look up the show on the Internet and then become familiar with the original, which I then fell in love with.

Over the year or so we've been open, i've seen at least about 5 people from Sweden show up on here? They don't post too much, but i find it odd, out of hte entire world, we've gotten quite a few members from there. xD

Also, I'm totally in agreement with Miki on PGSM and Myu. After rewatching PGSM this past year, I've really come to appreciate its story. I had totally forgotten how good it got once Jupiter comes in and it really is one of those shows that once you get into it, it becomes "OMG BEST THING".

Also for musicals, seramyuantics.net has a few of them streaming and you can find some on youtube too. If you need suggestions on which ones to watch first, I would recommend the SuperS musical or one of the Stars musical, preferrably Eien Densetsu, but I generally like all of the musicals covering Stars, though some are better than others. ^^;