The Cause and Effect of Mouse Mania An essay on how I discovered Sailor Iron Mouse, what makes me like her so much, and why I made the shrine.
OK, first things first. How did I first even become AWARE of the supreme cuteness that is Sailor Iron Mouse? I actually remember it quite well, which is lucky for me, I guess!! (Otherwise I wouldn’t even be writing this!) I was chatting online one evening with a good friend (Who happened to be on a Sailormoon kick with me. We only knew about the earlier seasons back then though.) And we started exchanging good info sites about later seasons we hadn’t seen yet. I was browsing a VERY good character info page when I got my first glimpse of Iron Mouse, dressed as Nezu with her Hello Mousie umbrella. Now, to be honest I didn’t think she was that cute at FIRST, because it wasn’t a very good quality picture, plus it was very small. I was intrigued though!  A few days later I decided I’d conduct a search on her, and visited places like Planet Chuu, and Sailor Iron Mouse’s Phonebooth. Now to me, Nezu is REALLY kawaii, but when I saw a picture of Mousie in her Sailor Fuku, I was amazed! From what I had seen of Stars screenshots, I thought Chibi Chibi was cute, but Mousie immediately took first place in the list of characters I wanted to see. When I sent away for my subbed Sailormoon, I finally got round to WATCHING Stars. (I had purchased S, Super S and Stars altogether.) Despite all the fun I had laughing at Tomoe (Though I don’t think he actually MEANS to be funny…) going “Awwwwwww!” at Fish Eye and Para Para, and getting SEVERELY scared at the sight of Hawk Eye’s tutu and high heels, nothing will ever compare to the first Mouse moment I ever saw. She was nothing like what I had expected. I had expected something like the villains who had come before her; either all cute, or all evil. What makes Sailor Iron Mouse special to me is that unusual mixture of cuteness, evil incarnate, weirdness, irritability, insanity…well, I could go on forever. She has so many qualities that make a villain entertaining all in the one character. She is a man-chasing, lazy, arrogant, devious NAAAASTY little piece of work. And that’s what makes her so COOL! Don’t get me wrong. Iron Mouse is not a soul-less character like, say Rubeus or Queen Beryl. Like all people, she has her redeeming qualities along with her entertaining bad ones. She is passionate about her targets, (Sometimes a little TOO passionate… remember the Sailor Guts fiasco?) is a hard worker, (Um, only when her life depends on it though!) and remember, her entire existence DEPENDS on doing evil for Galaxia! (Who is THE most unappreciative person in the GALAXY! Well, apart from my ex boyfriend! ^_~) Plus, she is the ONLY villain to completely disregard Eternal Sailormoon’s pushy “Punish you!” speech. At most she just gets a “Yeah, yeah!” Sailor Iron Mouse is something very rare in anime. She is cuteness itself, but she packs an attitude, plus one HECK of an ego! (Plus, she is under a lot of pressure to do her job, poor thing. ;_; And, she is officially THE most kicked around Animamate in all of Sailormoon! Plus, it’s tough being the first to appear, isn’t it? OK, all these things have driven me to make a shrine to her (Despite my lack of computer knowledge full stop. O_o) draw her on a regular basis, talk about her nonstop, spend TONS on rare stuff like cels, doujinshi, etc… Which I think truly proves my obsession I have about her. ^_^; Well, that’s the end of my first analytical essay! Aren’t you glad?
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