I have heard all of that before and while I think the fundies should mind their own business I'm not going to deny the fact that Sailor Moon, like most anime, does have some bad stuff like that in it. I always find it funny how Christians complain more about Sailor Moon than other super heroes, but I guess anything foreign is evil to some people.
One thing I don't get is the devil hand sign thing. I thought the devil hand sign was just the index and pinky fingers sticking up. Sailor Moon has her index, pinky, and thumb sticking out, sooo. But that being said, hand signs have a zillion different meanings anyway.
I don't know if it's just me, but in retrospect I usually don't remember all the bad magic stuff in anime. What I remeber more are the overall themes of the series and the characters. Also, even though I don't know much about witchcraft, I'm pretty sure you can't say "Moon Tiara Action" and have your prom tiara turn into a shiny frisbee that turns things into dust, XD.
Sailor Moon is only corrupting if you let it corrupt you, and believe me I've been there. You know those people who actually think they are Sailor Senshi? Yeah, I was one of them when I was 13-14 (it's a long story, XD). Now, since I am much stronger in my faith and I am fully aware of what is of God and what isn't of God, those things that show up in anime don't usually affect me (unless it's like potent and deals with more real stuff as opposed to shooting fire out of your fingers). The nice thing about having Jesus in me is that when I come across things that are not of God I get this little warning flag that lets me know that something is evil. When I see the senshi use their powers, I don't get this at all, but when I see things like tarot cards, pentagrams, etc., I do. Sailor Moon's brooch in R actually does bother me a little bit, but I think the reason why I'm still okay with the series is because she doesn't use it to summon demons or anything like that. People are convicted in different ways, so someone's holy warning flag may go off at something that mine doesn't and vice versa.
I think if you explain that you understand that there are evil things in anime and that you don't let them influence you and say what you take away from any series, then they'll leave you alone. When I was really getting into Sailor Moon in my early teen years, my mother would not shut up about this "anime is evil" business until I finally told her that I don't let whatever weird mythology, theology, or any other ology in a given series influence me and take me away from God.
Also, God has personally shown me that I can watch anime (again, He convicts people differently) and He has shown me ways that He shines through them. If God can be glorified through anime, which is basically not Christian, then it isn't inherently evil.
And the conviction thing goes both ways. Some people are convicted not to watch anime at all. They don't have the right to tell us not to and we don't have the right to shove it in their faces or laugh off their feelings. So, if after you explain that you're not going to become a pagan from watching a T.V. show, your neice still bothers you, open up your bible and read Romans chapter 14.
EDIT:
ShiroiHikari wrote:I thought that the "evil" circle-star symbol had an upside-down star in it.
The one with the rightside-up star is for paganism and wicca while the upside-down star is for satanism.