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Theodore Relic
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The widebans that I have started coming out in 1989 (the first ones on 8/15/1989, according to my copy) and the story in question (in the Japanese, "Sake to Namida to Otoko to Onna" (Sake, Tears, Man, Woman) originally came out in Shonen Sunday weekly on 12/20/1978, in wideban vol. 1. The story that preceded the vol. 2 American reprint I bought a couple of weeks ago, "Kimi matedemo..." (can't quite remember the English translation at the moment), would have came out in week 11 of 1980 (there was a nearly year-long break Takahashi took from the series in 1979). There is a distinct difference in the art styles for the two stories, given that about a year and a half separated the stories. But Viz, when they originally got the rights to the UY series and started publishing them, the widebans weren't out yet in Japan so they had to go by the page order of the original tankobon volumes. The fox story didn't see print in the original floppies that Viz put out, but I recall it was put back in the correct order in the initial Viz trade paperbacks, which came out shortly after Viz canceled the series in 1990. In any case, the chapters are pretty clearly out of order (another story, the first appearance of Sakura's fiancee' Tsubame Ozuno, was also reprinted out of order in the new Viz release), and it still doesn't address the fact that Viz omitted pages from a story as well as the substandard localization. For a series Viz wanted to revive, they did a very poor job of it. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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TsukasaElkKite
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They’ve really dropped the ball with their releases of Sailor Moon.
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rainbowrabbit
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I washed my hands of Viz’s dub years ago. Their handling of the Sailor Moon license has been disappointing since the very beginning. That Moon Twilight Flash part was the final straw for me and I don’t regret my decision.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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My own theory as the reasons for these booklet errors is maybe it was because they originally had planned to release Stars part 1 in May but then it already got pushed back to June. They already pushed the date back once and the preorders were already out so they ended up rushing the booklet to get the sets out in time.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Viz has also announced recently on Twitter that they will also be fixing the errors regarding Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune and they will be offering replacements for the booklet. https://twitter.com/VIZMedia/status/1143304531121360896
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TsukasaElkKite
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What’s that part? |
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NJ_
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^It's from episode 4 of Crystal when Sailor Moon first uses Moon Twilight Flash. For some reason, the Japanese version had her repeat her "I'll punish you" line a second time before the attack so it was unnamed there but in the Viz dub, they changed it to her yelling it out just like she originally did in the manga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4WXWQGPckc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccqOYRsjWqE The first time it was "broadcast", it led to stupid rumors claiming Kotono Mitsuishi didn't know how to say "Moon Twilight Flash" when she actually did say it 19 years earlier for the arcade beat em up game so it made no sense what happened here. |
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TsukasaElkKite
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Interesting. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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That sounds more like a problem with Toei than Viz.
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Gilles Poitras
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I just checked on the progress of the replacements for the Sailor Moon Season 5 booklets and found the page had been updated with instructions on how to get the replacement. There is no date on the new text so I don't know how long it has been up.
https://www.viz.com/news/newsroom/v/1006689 |
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NJ_
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^The update was posted last week but there was an issue with the e-mail which they fixed 4 days ago so it's good now.
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