OK, I hope this won't be too much of cartoon sperging.
Sailor Moon characters as edgy punk bitches is one of fanart trends that irritate me the most. Maybe because terrible ugly art with unknown characters is always better that terrible ugly art with characters you like.
How Sailors behave in orginal series and message the series gives to viewers is exact opposite of being punk feminazis. There is only one moment when topic of feminism is talked about, in episode 13 (of 200 ep series). Male villian started to insult girls and they said "only old man this days thik girls are a lot weaker than boys". That's all.
Girls are happy when Tuxedo Kamen is helping them and treat him with respect. Same for other, secondary male characters like Artemis, Motoki, Umino or Rei's grandfather. Sometimes they are irritated by their antics, but they are also sometimes irritated by female characters (Mars and Moon argue quite often). In most of episodes they are helping "victims of the week" with their bigger or smaller problems regardless of if they are male or female. Main gang (Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus) have often crushes on boys and if boy is not interested in them, they accept it.
As the series progress, positive characters fight less and less, instead try to resolve conflict the most peacful way possible, and in final episode the fact Sailor Moon refuse to fight saves the galaxy.
"I don't want soldier pride if this mean hurting others" and "fighting won't solve anything" lines sound like exact opposite of SJW ideology and behaviours.
But somehow they continue to make Sailor Moon punk bitches fanarts and some try to make show their Supah Feministic Icon.
Like I wrote before, I blame the fact that Sailor Moon was one of very firsts "girl team" action show and the first one to become popular. Never seen similar fanarts from Winx Club, Totally Spies, W.i.t.c.h. or Glitter Force/Precure. So people don't care about it's bigger message, but that there are OMG GIRLS FIGHTING GIRLS POWAH. The same goes to "Sailor Moon is pink and sparkles" stereotype (often linked to subversive kawaii abominations), even thought show use glitter effects and sparkles not really that often and in moderate way. And they are usually not pink. Use of LGBT themes in Sailor Moon are also exaggerate by fans, they are suggested in tasteful and subtle way and in my opinion relationship between Uranus and Neptune as "partners in crime" and their role as anti-heroes is more important than fact if they are couple or not (they are). Also crossdresser, gay or lesbian characters are really common in anime genre, I would risk ing that most of series from Japan have subplot with them and they are presented in way less subtle way that in Sailor Moon.
tl;dr Popularity sucks and make more damage that good to the show.
