It doesn’t get said enough. They were a family. Three mothers and their adopted daughter. They wore promise rings as a symbol of their relationship, and if you consider how hugely important every piece of jewelry is in Sailor Moon, you realize that that means everything. Setsuna and Hotaru had no home, no biological family, but that didn’t matter because they made their own.
Everybody talks about how amazing it was that a children’s show in the early 90s displayed a lesbian couple. Let’s talk about how the manga displayed a lesbian family. Let’s talk about how that lesbian family included their platonic friend, who was every bit as much a parent to their daughter, and there was nothing weird about that.
((OP,I love this picture,could you possibly send me a link? ^^;;)
YES. Yes, absolutely. Their family life was depicted adorably, with every person in the family having different roles which were not necessarily along rigid gender and blood family lines: Haruka papa, Setsuna mama, and Michiru mama all took care of Hotaru. ;_;
help I have a lot of outer senshi feelings
I’m not sure there was any concept of “papa”/”mamas” but yeah, agreeing on the rest. Now that I look back on it, it’s very inspirational how it seemed so normal and helped me, as a young reader, understand that it was all fine and that judgement shouldn’t be made, especially since they were so close and loving to each other.
I’m absolutely certain Sailor Moon helped develop into someone who didn’t care much about gender rules and sexual orientation and accepted them as natural. Because that’s what they are.