The True Beauty of Jem and The Holograms

In light of the Jem and the Holograms movie (that was basically set up to be a failure worse than Dragon Ball GT) I have received a vision. Exodia came to me on a cold rainy night and said “Will, you must educate them about Jem and the Holograms.” At first I was thinking I wouldn’t be able to do it. I thought I wasn’t worthy to receive Exodia’s blessing. Not worthy to teach the masses about this show, but I picked myself up and accepted his will. So now here I am, standing before you with glitter in my hair and a truly outrageous laptop in my hands, ready to show you the true beauty of an 80’s cartoon called Jem and the Holograms. Jem and the Holograms is a show created by Cristy Marx who was also a staff writer for G.I. Joe and Transformers. The animation for a lot of the episodes was done by Toei Animation, which was the animation studio for Saint Seiya and Dragonball. The show was made to be an extremely 80’s show with emphasis on the music and the music videos — each episode has at least 3 songs and 3 music videos to go along with the songs. In true 80’s MTV fashion the music videos were truly outrageous to say the least. And yes, you will see the phrase “truly outrageous” a few times.

So the story of Jem and the Holograms goes a little something like this. Jerrica and Kimber Benton are sisters who live in a foster home for girls called “Starlight House,” and along with their foster sisters Aja and Shana and a few other girls they make one big happy family. Jerrica and …