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Exclusive Interview: Viz Media's Charlene Ingram and Josh Lopez on Sailor Moon

Speaking as someone who's only seen the first couple episodes, how is Korra anti-feminine, and what traits do you class as being feminine and masculine?

I doubt Sailor Moon had the same budget. Josh probably got a box of video tapes, not cans of film reels.

This will likely involve dozens if not hundreds of decisions, many of which will be made in Japan with out any control by Viz. Each decision will delight some and enrage others. There is no way they can win except to put out the best product they are allowed to. I'm sure that no matter what they do that a vocal minority will complain bitterly, but those people always do.

The way she acts, talks, and looks. She's aggressive, rude, thuggish, essentially plays up the 'man with boobs' trope. The way she talks down to other females in the show for being 'girly', especially Asami whom she essentially hates until she displays interest in a traditionally masculine pastime: cars and drag racing. Up until then, Korra disrespects her, is rude to her, is hostile, insults her, assuming the worst of her, all when Asami has just been nice to her. It takes until Asami to do something unfeminine for Korra to even bother with her because her doing feminine things disgusted her.

This would be all well and good if the show criticized Korra for this, but they don't. The way it's executed tells us that the moral isn't don't judge a book by it's cover, it's don't judge a book by it's flower pattern cover because it might have blood and murder inside. Though as I mentioned, given the show's demographic is little boys, they also would probably think the same way about doing feminine things so having Korra be a self insert for them to play up the whole 'ew, cooties' thing is logical from a business standpoint. I doubt there's any malice behind it, just marketing.

Mohawk52 wrote:

I doubt Sailor Moon had the same budget. Josh probably got a box of video tapes, not cans of film reels.

Why would Sailor Moon alone be the single anime singled out from having a 16mm negative? Every other anime was produced like that at the time, or at least the overwhelming supermajority of them. It's the same bullshit along the lines of "but Sailor Moon is from 1992, no other anime that old has ever been restored before! We at Viz are doing the impossible!" Sure Viz likely got old shitty tapes, but where are the reels of physical film? Probably destroyed.