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NEWS: Kotono Mitsuishi Leads New Sailor Moon Crystal Anime Cast

If you think the source material is bad then frankly you wouldn't care if this series had a huge budget and had the complete original cast when told that the series would much more closely follow the source material that you yourself heavily imply that you don't care for in the first place.

I like the character designs. They are very much influenced by the manga (which is what it should be).

What I am a little miffed about is the fact that they took the manga differences for moon, mercury, and venus and ran with them BUT Jupiter and Mars do not have those changes.

Jupiter: gets herself a belt much like venus's chain. Live action did this right

Mars: has a little jewel at the top of her skirt at the V where the skirt meets the top. Again live action did this right.

These are not in the character design announcement. Mars has always been my favorite and Jupiter always been close to me (brown hair, 5'10" woman is what I am out of the senshi I resemble her the most). If you're going to let the manga influence stuff, let it influence ALL of it, not just some parts.

*Sailor Jupiter is Yukiko from Persona 4/Agnes from Bravely Default

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I would say that the big IF is if a two decades old story is still worth your while nowadays, like i.e. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. After Madoka and Kill la Kill (which was a magical girl show on steroids) I think it is hard for most people (as in, not die hard SM fans) to not be bored to tears with the same old.

If you think the source material is bad then frankly you wouldn't care if this series had a huge budget and had the complete original cast when told that the series would much more closely follow the source material that you yourself heavily imply that you don't care for in the first place.

How exactly is the manga 'same old' relative to other Magical Girl stories? Especially in its final arc?

I am not saying that the manga story is bad (as I have not read it),

How exactly is the manga 'same old' relative to other Magical Girl stories? Especially in its final arc?

Do you have any insider information

zeo1fan wrote:

How exactly is the manga 'same old' relative to other Magical Girl stories? Especially in its final arc?

As I ahave said before, I have not read the sailor moon manga (so I suppose I am not a die hard fan), please tell me why it is so awesome it will guarantee at the very least high ratings. I did read the FMA manga and boy it is clear as day why brotherhood was superior story wise, I could explain that in one single post, can you?

Do you have any insider information that says for sure it will go into the final arc? I mean, even with their sky high disc sales I am not sure if the Jojo anime series will make it into it's latest arc, I am not even sure if they will make the arc after this one.

mangamuscle wrote:

Do you have any insider information

This is hilarious, coming from you.

Kodansha also has rights to a little series called Attack on Titan, you might not have heard of it or read it but it seemed to go over well with the fans and increased sales with the manga when the anime adaptation was released.

Jupiter will have more of a Ryuko Matoi or Karen from Code Geass type of voice.

mangamuscle wrote:

zeo1fan wrote: How exactly is the manga 'same old' relative to other Magical Girl stories? Especially in its final arc? As I ahave said before, I have not read the sailor moon manga (so I suppose I am not a die hard fan), please tell me why it is so awesome it will guarantee at the very least high ratings. I did read the FMA manga and boy it is clear as day why brotherhood was superior story wise, I could explain that in one single post, can you? Do you have any insider information that says for sure it will go into the final arc? I mean, even with their sky high disc sales I am not sure if the Jojo anime series will make it into it's latest arc, I am not even sure if they will make the arc after this one.

Kodansha also has rights to a little series called Attack on Titan, you might not have heard of it or read it but it seemed to go over well with the fans and increased sales with the manga when the anime adaptation was released.

solarsun wrote:

I like the character designs. They are very much influenced by the manga (which is what it should be). What I am a little miffed about is the fact that they took the manga differences for moon, mercury, and venus and ran with them BUT Jupiter and Mars do not have those changes. Jupiter: gets herself a belt much like venus's chain. Live action did this right Mars: has a little jewel at the top of her skirt at the V where the skirt meets the top. Again live action did this right. These are not in the character design announcement. Mars has always been my favorite and Jupiter always been close to me (brown hair, 5'10" woman is what I am out of the senshi I resemble her the most). If you're going to let the manga influence stuff, let it influence ALL of it, not just some parts.

Jupiter and Mars originally didn't have their accessories in the manga, but were present in some of the concept art in the Materials Collection in one of the artbooks. When PGSM was created, they were given to them. During PGSM, Naoko updated the manga for a re-release by touching up some artwork, modernizing some of it (turning Mercury's floppy disc into a CD), changed Moon's Moon Stick into the PGSM one, and drew the jewel and belt on them. The new English manga that was released here is the re-release that came out during PGSM.

So Mars' jewel and Jupiter's belt were not present originally. Venus always had her belt, and Mercury was always sleeves. And with the newer "perfect editions" of the manga that came out in Japan recently, Naoko went back to the original and took away Jupiter's belt and Mars' jewel.


Though, that aside, I still wish they included them... Especially Mars' jewel. In her civilian form, she wore a red pendant, which turned into that jewel when she transformed.

As I have said before, I have not read the sailor moon manga-