Okay, so I was going to complain about how nervous I was about the placement which starts on Monday, andn how annoyed I feel about having to cut all my nails down beneath the pads of my fingers but... well, something happened to change my mind.

I'm no longer feeling at all inclined to bitch, and it's all thanks to a couple of questions about what happens when cosplay goes too far and the batshit insane folks at Saban.

You know, there's nothing like coming across someone like this to make me feel a lot better about my own levels of fangirl batshit insanity. Now, when I'm worrying about my own fangirling, or afraid that I might be scaring the horses, I'll just tell myself, oh well, I know I like Ken Hidaka far more bthan is good for me but at least I'm not Usagi Kou.

But that's not what's put me in such a good mood (though she is a walking trainwreck). While reading through one of the threads about one of her later manifestations, I discovered something truly appalling. And I thought bad fanfiction over at the Pit of Voles gave me terrible trainwreck syndrome? It's nothing compared to the horrors I have discovered over on Youtube.

Introducing, for all three of you who haven't seen it before: Saban's Sailor Moon.

The best bit: The lame transitions between the suitably ethnically mixed live-action off-duty 'Sailor Senshi' in an American high school, all of whom look like they just stepped off the set of the Power Rangers, and She-Ra-esque outer space cartoon action sequences in which a raging-haired drag queen version of Sailor Moon does battle with poorly-animated nasties. Oh, my God, the crescent moon-- no, I can't spoil it. I'll just say that some 'creative' over there took the series title very, very literally, and that disturbs me too much for words.

The even better best bit: It's clearly a cam, so we lucky viewers get to experience, in real-time, the reaction of at least the guy watching the video. From initial scepticism - this can't really be as bad as they say it is, surely? - through silent WTF-ery, to giggling, to outright laughter of the 'I can't believe I'm watching this' school. He's infectious, and it's kind of nice to know I'm not alone in my reactions to this... thing. I don't know why, but hearing someone else laughing as well absolutely made this clip for me.

The mother of all best bits: This isn't a spoof. This. Was. A. PITCH. This was Saban attempting to show what they would do if they were allowed to license the show in the US. This is marketing. This is their attempt to sell their concept, and that's so mindbogglingly crazy it's making me giggle all over again. Not a pilot, no, but some kind of... music video? I'm not quite sure what it is, but it's definitely a pitch thing of some sort. I'd be scared, but I'm too busy laughing like an idiot...

Hee. I think I'm gonna watch it again.

And then I'm probably going to watch Verbrechen/Strafe again (once everyone has gone to bed and I know I won't get disturbed). I'm gonna rewatch the original series of Weiss sometime soon, but I'll have to wait for my old glasses to come back from the mender's first. My fansubs are crappy enough as it is without my trying to watch them through my slightly screatched to all Hell old glassses. £33 to replace the lens. Ouch. Yup, I'm definitely going to watch that clip again...

Many thinks to goddess_triad for posting the original, um... post thing that led me to all this hilarity. This is just what I needed right now, and I'm extremely grateful.

Edit sometime in the small hours:
... fuck. Okay, I'll watch Verbrechen/Strafe tomorrow night then. What can I say? Combing fandom_wank's back pages and reading about all this amazingly batshit crazy Usagi Kou shit is addictive, I tell you. Addictive. And this woman actually exists? The mind boggles then, having boggled, proceeds to break. Wow, I wish I was thin and pretty and parasitical and could cosplay Sailor Moon! I'd never have to work again!

Also, if you thought Saban's Sailor Moon was mindbogglingly bad, this is infinitely worse.