last night I watched the Five Star Stories OVA and I gotta say I did an instant 180 from "none of this makes any sense" to "oh, that makes PERFECT sense" after I looked up the original creator Mamoru Nagano, and found out that he was the Sailor Venus in that famous Ikuhara Sailor Mars cosplay shoot
not the OVA itself, of course, the OVA itself is completely narratively incoherent, as is the custom for adaptations made during the OVA boom that never imagined anyone would watch them other than the most hardcore pre-existing fans. but the vibes
