Artemis, like Luna to Usagi, is constantly berating Sailor Venus like a butler with a stiff upper lip. Do you know why she said that in the original context? It’s because the two have a love hate relationship.
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She said a quick line about how they’d never be able to get rid of each other that easily. I laughed out loud when Minako reunited with Artemis. How has Toei Animation continued to portray these girls as growing and developing characters? I ask these same fans to cite when we were shown this in the show aside from their introductions. The straggling fans who still insist that this show is good will tell you that all of the sailor soldiers have great personalities and depth to their characters.
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Put simply, Sailor Moon’s friends and companions are not interesting in the context of Sailor Moon Crystal. I’ve discovered now that there is a wrong way to be a woman. You can be smart, beautiful, strong, athletic, etc. The best thing anyone can take away from Sailor Moon is that there are many ways to be a woman. With that in mind, it really breaks me to see this particular quote of mine from my fifth episode review. You see, Sailor Moon came at a time in my life where the only show with female protagonists that was worthwhile was The Powerpuff Girls. Most people assume it’s a vapid and boring production. I thought to myself that this is exactly what people I know think of Sailor Moon. Watching Sailor Moon defeat Metalia with hardly any build up or critical emotional thought was an atrocious experience. They are the ones who abandoned Sailor Moon Crystal along with everyone else.Īs I said before, Sailor Moon Crystal is what everyone else thinks Sailor Moon is. And if most Sailor Moon fans don’t like this show, who would? Keep in mind, these are the same fans who loved the original despite censorship and a horrible dub. That alone is apparent in the atrociously declining viewership, going from more than a million in the first episode to just one hundred thousand in the latest reports. Most Sailor Moon fans do not like Sailor Moon Crystal. If Sailor Moon Crystal was the only version of Sailor Moon we had, would you still be a fan today? What is it that you like about Sailor Moon? Is it the romance? The friendship of the characters? The appeal of magical girls? Perhaps there is a particular character you like. It needed a team who cared enough about adapting a proper story or at least one that understood why Sailor Moon Crystal means so much to us in the first place.įor the very few Sailor Moon fans who still like this content, ask yourself these questions. Sailor Moon Crystal didn’t need great animation it just needed proper animation, the kind the original Sailor Moon had. Instead, it has pushed the genre backward.Īs most anime fans know, most anime is churned out cheaply and inexpensively. We could have seen Crystal reviving the magical girl genre and taking it even further from where Puella Magi Madoka Magica left off. If Toei Animation had actually put in the effort for Sailor Moon Crystal, the way it had with the original Sailor Moon, they would likely be making bank. That’s the worst part of this whole debacle. Toei cut that content from the manga in order to give us the fail train that was the Four Generals, who seem to be all but forgotten in the context of this new episode. Keep in mind, I’m not even asking for new content. Think about the Four Generals subplot being axed and instead we were given genuine sequences of the true focus of the story.
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Put simply, my experience with Sailor Moon Crystal has gone from excitement to overall disappointment.Ĭan you imagine what might have been like if this series was actually good? Think for a moment that the reunion between Sailor Moon and her friends on the bridge at the end of the episode actually meant something. You can see this trend completely fail in my third review when I was supposed to talk about Sailor Mars but light up again for just a brief time in the fifth one when I talk about Sailor Jupiter. Initially, I wanted to talk about every sailor soldier and what they meant to girls and women in the context of the time. You can see my excitement for the series in the first two reviews for the production.
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Paraphrased, I said that I hoped Sailor Moon Crystal would not only be a loving callback to the franchise we grew up with but would introduce other little girls to it so they could have just as much fun with it as we did. It makes me so sad when I think back on my own comment. We expressed how much the series meant to us and how incredible it was that we were getting something new after all these years. Soon enough, more of my old grade school friends began to comment. I hadn’t seen or heard from this girl in years. An old friend of mine posted a link to an article on Facebook. I remember when this series was first announced more than two years ago.