ARTWORK TYPE: Original Art

DIMENSIONS: 30x20 cm

TECHNIQUES: Acrylic

SUPPORT OR SURFACE: Canvas on cardboard

FRAMING: No

PACKAGING: Box

In the late 1990s, anime – Japanese animated series – was becoming increasingly popular in Hungary, and the craze reached Transcarpathia as well, since we could receive Hungarian TV channels there. If I remember correctly, we could watch three Hungarian channels: m1, RTL Klub, and TV2.

On RTL Klub, Sailor Moon aired at around 4 p.m., under its Hungarian title Varázslatos álmok. Every girl my age seemed to become obsessed with it – including my best friend and me. We loved it so much that whenever the show was about to start, we would interrupt whatever game we were playing and run home to watch the next episode. Afterwards, we could go back outside and play for a little while longer, until it got dark.

We even memorized the opening theme song, which, for some reason, was in French. We only knew the title Sailor Moon from the song – to us, it sounded like “Selamoon.” Later, we learned how to draw the characters. At first, we drew them in our notebooks, and eventually we started drawing them on the pavement with chalk, too.