"What Is Anime?" (Patreon)

This week, you're getting a new (and long-delayed) episode of Cartoons That Made Us Gay, and to get the episodes I had to rip my DVDs of the anime Saint Seiya. The were printed in 2003, and it is a trip to go back to a time when the American market for Japanese animations was so untested that the disc essentially opens with a primer on what anime is. (It's also an advertisement for a now-defunct anime website, but still.) This was too much of a throwback not to share.

Saint Seiya was a popular Japanese series that never quite landed in the United States in a big way. Weirdly, it did in Latin America. But perhaps as a result of the lack of popularity, the original, "classic" series is not streaming anywhere handy. As a result, if you want to watch the episodes we're covering in this week's bonus episode, you will have to do it on our Vimeo. (PW: gay)

The three episodes we're focusing on come early in the series and focus on the character Andromeda Shun, who despite all appearances, is male.