Sailor Moon S and Marmalade Boy 30th Anniversaries this month

March of 1994 saw the premier of two Toei shows, Sailor Moon S and Marmalade Boy.  

Sailor Moon S is often considered the best season of Sailor Moon. I personally still prefer the era when Junichi Sato was the series director but this is the best season after that, and the only good one with Ikuhara at the helm.

Thing is there was a brief hiatus very early on and so episode 3 the proper introduction of HaruMi didn’t air till April 16th.

To some extent it’s semantics that this is considered a separate series on MAL from the prior and following one, the OP changed but the Theme Song did not, in most ways the creative team is the same.  Pokémon's first 5 or 6 years is one MAL entry even though Kanto, Orange islands and Johto saw objectively more drastic changes.  However, that Sailor Moon’s character designs change at exactly this point does make S and SuperS screen shots of Sailor Moon instantly distinguished from season 1 and R.

Marmalade Boy is a Shoujo Anime, one of a string of them that aired in a special usually Shoujo Time Slot that since 2004 has been occupied by Pretty Cure.  Of shows that aired in this time slot during the 90s this one is one of the few that has an English Dub.  Its premise I am tempted to describe as the Het version of Citrus.  I’ve only seen a handful of episodes so far so can’t say much about it but I think it’s decent.

The end of 94 and beginning of 95 are what I consider the transitional period from the Silver to Bronze Ages of Anime.  These shows are perhaps two of the last significant new shows of the Silver Age and I’d say they are a decent swan song.