― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 September 2002 19:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 27 September 2002 11:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
i recently discovered Sailor Moon. it's fantastic! i'm currently working my way through the japanese version, and really enjoying it. but looking upthread, a lot of these comments are already familiar to me (buffy similarities, "omg it's for schoolgirls" and "if you are a boy and like sailor moon you are middle aged pervert lololol")
why does it get such a bad rep? it's a really tame show. sure, the US version was obviously aimed at kids, but aren't most cartoons? nobody rags on each other with such intensity for liking Thundercats, etc.maybe it's because SM has romantic storylines, which, omg, is so GURLY that i shouldn't be allowed to enjoy them.the 'Nephrite Dies for Love' episode was very sad and touching.
i've lost focus (ha, like i ever had focus) a little. whoops. incidentally, i never really watched/got into Buffy. maybe i should? would i like it?
― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
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― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
(Obviously "those things" are what it takes to get super-involved in any TV series -- comfortable unworried free time -- so possibly what I mean is that Sailor Moon just requires much more of a sinking-in investment than, say, Buffy, which is at least giving you old-fashioned jokes while you pick up the larger thread. Like plenty of anime/comics, an individual Sailor Moon episode doesn't offer much until you've unpacked the character relationships and overarching plots.)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Chomp Chomp (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
this is a totally uninformed swipe and prob has nothing to do with sailor moon, thank you for your time.
― g e o f f (gcannon), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― nory (nory), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
anyways, another thing we're not mentioning is the MUSIC. i thought the US dub music was fab, but was pleasantly surprised when the original (but different) music was fantastic too, particularly the two extremes of the transformation tunes(US version very floaty and magical, Japanese version kinda rocky with shifting vocal harmonies that make me all warm and fuzzy). even the comical incidental music is fab. ah, sailor moon just pwns.
― g-kit_at_home, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit_forgot_a_bit, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd take Mars over Mercury anyday
mars was the best sailor scout for sure
although always felt bad for jupiter, like some homely middle child
― ban lex pretend (Lamp), Friday, 1 April 2011 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Sailor Moon folks also did Revolutionary Girl Utena.
The Utena movie is phenomenal.
― drugnet (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 1 April 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
...pausing..http://www.otakusenshi.com/images/graphic/transform.jpg..pausing..http://www.sailorsystem.com/sm169/sm169-120.jpg..pausing...http://1e.img.v4.skyrock.net/1ee/mooncollection17/pics/1285162588_small.jpgNOAW!!http://www.smuncensored.com/images/screencaps/smovie-s4.jpg
― kelpolaris, Friday, 1 April 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
kelpolaris which sailor scout do you think is the cutest?
― ban lex pretend (Lamp), Friday, 1 April 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i recently started watching the original japanese episodes w/subtitles while i do my hand-weight exercises, so that during the fight sequences i can be like "POW POW POW i too fight on behalf of the moon!!!" i will soon be thirty years old.
anyway watching the originals has been more enjoyable than i anticipated. i know it's old news that the english adaptations are so butchered they border on nonsensical, but even the jokes and interactions between the scouts seem far more human and believable in their original form. plus there's a lot more death and violence and awesome supernatural shit.
also great (tho off-color) is the sailor moon abridged parody series.
― major fashion inspiration (reddening), Friday, 1 April 2011 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Sailor Saturn is the cutest but Sailor Moon is the best (all the later scouts are boring)
― cold hands of monkeys on my heart (CaptainLorax), Friday, 1 April 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i never saw any of the episodes w/ saturn is she one of the lesbian scouts?
― ban lex pretend (Lamp), Friday, 1 April 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i used to love sailor moons so much
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 1 April 2011 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
the lesbicons were neptune & uranus iirc.
jupiter was my fav when i was a kid before i actually started watching. she had a good color palette going on
― A B C, Friday, 1 April 2011 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i always liked sailor mercury.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 1 April 2011 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
when i was a kid ppl @ school called me 'gay' cuz i liked sailor moon more than dragonball z
this is an instance were everyone is right, i think
mars is ~beautiful!!~ imo but i like venus confidence. it did seem unfair that she got her own cat tho
― ban lex pretend (Lamp), Friday, 1 April 2011 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
venus was too much of a goody two shoes.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 1 April 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://jaynin.hisdivineshadow.net/scoutsbeach.JPG
^^^ liking this does not make u gay
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 1 April 2011 04:25 (thirteen years ago) link
those ratios are so off
― kelpolaris, Friday, 1 April 2011 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i am so aroused
― kelpolaris, Friday, 1 April 2011 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://puppielover2000.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/reiina_1.jpg
we need avators on ilx so badddddd
― ban lex pretend (Lamp), Friday, 1 April 2011 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
every time the dragon ball guys were powering up it was like they were having a raging boner
― cold hands of monkeys on my heart (CaptainLorax), Friday, 1 April 2011 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
poor mars, her boyfriend turns out to be engaged to the moon princess ~IN ANOTHER LIFE~ and she has to be all "no it's okay you can take him sailor moon, because of destiny."
― major fashion inspiration (reddening), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:05 (thirteen years ago) link
and then she went out and bought some bowler hats i guess
― major fashion inspiration (reddening), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link
haha oh man i had totally forgotten that in the dub version serena's bff has a ridic jersey accent & the nerd is named meelllvin
― ban lex pretend (Lamp), Friday, 1 April 2011 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
β cold hands of monkeys on my heart (CaptainLorax), Friday, April 1, 2011 12:33 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark
qft. Dragonball bad guys with pink flesh and big muscles and tight buns and long hair and voices like 80-year-old grandmothers. I don't know exactly what it is, gender/sexuality-wise. It's complex and more intense than I can really handle.
― kkvgz, Friday, 1 April 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
ctrl+f "boom anime babes" no results found delete bookmark
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:02 (nine years ago) link
That was probably around the time I was playing episodes in the background while doing something else, but I'm surprised I don't remember "Star Gentle Uterus"
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
http://img1.ak.crunchyroll.com/i/spire4/f8a24efd06e4a52d770ccb7ce87caf651296284132_full.jpg
i mean
― sci-fi looking, chubby-leafed, delicately bizarre (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
ahhha
actual thing here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DU9sQi_wnQ
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
I mean really
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
if anyone is interested in the new show it's on hulu http://www.hulu.com/watch/657610
so far it's pretty nice! way more faithful to the designs and rhythms of the manga. the transformation scene is unfortunately ugly as hell. i haven't watched a new anime in five years and i guess ppl are still captivated by unnecessary cg
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 July 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
Moon Animate Make-Up is a crowdsourced group animation project to re-animate an episode of Sailor Moon shot-by-shot in each artist's personal style. From October 2013 to July 2014, over two hundred and fifty animators contributed at least one shot each to assemble a full length parody episode of Sailor Moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orhh6TZ6qCE
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 21 July 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
hahaha cool
God I'd forgotten Molly's amazing OTT voice, someone should have just done her as Betty Boop.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
amazing that both ile threads about sailor moon were started by nabisco
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 00:51 (four years ago) link
also whoa i don't remember making this post at all
it has been a blast revisiting this show two episodes a week on hulu. i fell in love with it in middle school on the verge of a wider engagement with anime, but the only other person who watched in in my class was this identically nascent genderqueer dude and we really bonded over the show (and, incidentally, dbz, but all of my friends watched that). i thought, similar to doctor casino, that it'd be a slog to get through again, but once the rhythms of the show are established even the slightest deviations in the monster-of-the-week form are oddly thrilling.the trailer for the new anime is odd; the character designs are more faithful to the manga but the animation is so modern that it creates a strange dissonance in their movements. though it's only a trailerβ emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, June 9, 2014 10:40 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
the trailer for the new anime is odd; the character designs are more faithful to the manga but the animation is so modern that it creates a strange dissonance in their movements. though it's only a trailer
β emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, June 9, 2014 10:40 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
that's pretty otm, neat that i was using phrases like "nascent genderqueer dude" years before i even came out as nonbinary. sailor moon crystal ended up being simultaneously awesome and disappointing: great to see the manga adapted directly because the manga's great, but also... that's all there is? (the manga is also, somehow, less gay than the anime)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
i also made that post before i saw the whole thing over the course of 2016!
and i'm rewatching it again! just finished sailor moon r, the makai tree arc fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
does anybody just straight up weep through the last two episodes of season one every fucking time, like i do
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
love all your posts itt brad, esp the one you just reposted <3i oddly remember not hating the alien tree storyline (noted it upthread as blatant filler that still worked for me) but i also can't remember anything about it except thinking that human-form Ann was pretty cute. i think it helped that back then, the US broadcast got like five or eight episodes into the chibi-usa/black crystal stuff and then stopped, looping around to episode 1 of the first season. so at least the tree arc was *finished*. also the tree is like dying on them as the thing progresses right? i think I found that sort of compelling in terms of stakes and dramatic momentum. is there any good business or character stuff for the leads during this period, or is it all on hold until the black moon clan?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:21 (four years ago) link
there is a straight up amazing episode right in the center of the makai tree arc, episode 51 "A New Transformation: Usagi's Power-Up." the monster is like horror-movie-cool (which, at least for the first two seasons, when this show is at its best, the monsters are fuckin scary), and there's a very strange lackadaisical rhythm to the earlier cherry blossom scenes that makes it stand out not only in the context of the arc but the entire show. a ton of great character moments for usagi too. it makes the rest of the arc look *pitiful*
one of the things i really hate about the makai tree story: the guardians all learn boring new powers that are immediately abandoned once the black moon story begins (during which they learn COOL new powers)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:27 (four years ago) link
the makai tree ITSELF is cool, like the design of the show never really flags, but the whole cardian plot is such a xerox of season one that i find it soooo tiresome
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
also i think ail and ann have really boring personalities, their only motivations are energy and wanting to steal usagi/mamoru away from each other (BORING). awful villains
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:30 (four years ago) link
i'm so excited to get into sailor moon s, which i remember as the best season. like "even the filler is good"-good
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:35 (four years ago) link
also i have conflicted feelings about the black moon arc in sailor moon r, as 1) it's the storyline that made me absolutely obsessed with the show as a kid 2) on revisit it seems to tell the story way less well than the manga? like both way too stretched out and way too rushed at the same time. felt sort of the same way this time but enjoyed it more, i mean the time travel element of the story is just outrageous and charming, chibi-usa is great, sailor pluto is amazing, wiseman/death phantom is a formidable and interesting villain, yet... gets nowhere near the emotional peaks of the first season
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:39 (four years ago) link
i think i really hated the "mamoru gets an apocalyptic vision of the future and BREAKS UP WITH USAGI FOR NO REASON" plotline the last time but i just let it ride this time and it really grew on me
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:46 (four years ago) link
β one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:21 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
this post is hilarious to me because minako does not have much of a personality besides always saying aphorisms incorrectly
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link
she's definitely the weakest link, i remember fanfic REALLY struggling to know what to do with her. you'd think her previous work as a non-transforming vigilante hero would be good for some conversation but nope.haha i'd forgotten about those half-measure powerup episodes! i think i thought they were cool because something was "happening." also we didn't have the rest of R, so we never got to any better upgrades.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 18 April 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link
i'd also forgotten about the "moonlight knight" plot, which is...... stupid
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 18 April 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link
it's so dumb!!! the reveal that moonlight knight is some physical manifestation of mamoru's lost memories???? terrible!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
thread has inspired me to rewatch the first season again, a couple of episodes a night before sleep is just what i need at the moment
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
itβs really comforting!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
i'm two episodes into sailor moon s and it's just as good as i remembered. everything's kind of at its peak: the humor, the character moments, the sick new sailor moon transformation sequence, maybe my favorite of the show
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
and for some reason they kept the ending theme from sailor moon r, at least for now, and it's my favorite ending theme so i'm pleased
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
all of the monsters are so wacky and cool in this season! in the second episode there's a cat monster that emerges from a puzzle and she keeps crumbling into puzzle pieces whenever she's attacked, it's awesome. and the car monster in episode three is hilarious. screech! vroom!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
uranus' "world shaking" is the most badass sailor guardian attack
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link
this is the BEST show
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 April 2020 22:14 (four years ago) link
lmao chibi-usa's one power, "pink sugar heart attack," is so hilarious
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 20 April 2020 00:17 (four years ago) link
brad you're really selling me on picking this up as my late night fall asleep viewing
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 20 April 2020 01:59 (four years ago) link
i would argue sailor moon s is one of the best seasons of television ever
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 20 April 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
S was also my favorite season by far. The only season I actually owned on DVD
― Vinnie, Monday, 20 April 2020 04:10 (four years ago) link
for some reason i'm only now registering how much sailor saturn's story is like a real fucked up abusive situation
also only now realizing that usagi sent chibi-usa back in time to "make friends with people in the twentieth century" SPECIFICALLY so she'd make friends with hotaru/sailor saturn. as usual, usagi is low-key really smart
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link
friendship saves the world from the apocalypse... again!!!!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
really enjoying the rewatch. forgot how over the top cartoony the facial expressions are, like there will be three amazing expressions one after the other in one Usagi reaction shot that completely crack me up. was surprised that Sailor V was a thing from the first episode. also that meme about Tuxedo Mask showing up and then leaving after saying "my work here is done" without actually doing anything is so spot on haha.
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
ok spoilers for the third season i guess but when pluto saves uranus and neptune from a helicopter crash by STOPPING TIME???? that's the coolest thing i've ever seen
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 April 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
oh fuuuuck sailor saturn is here to kick ASS
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 April 2020 00:48 (four years ago) link
i'm rewatching from the beginning again. i never got past sailor moon s on the last rewatch bc i got distracted by 1) discovering sailor moon s was directed by kunihiko ikuhara 2) watching revolutionary girl utena over and over again
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 03:20 (two years ago) link