Forum - View topicINTEREST: 90s American Live-Action Sailor Moon Pilot Has Finally Gone Public
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Lady Multi
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Knowing all the other weird cartoons I still watch, I know I'd still have watched this. I mean... I still LOVE stupid moronic Super Mario Super Show for the idiot live-action skits within it... Ironically, I recall more of the live-action garbage than the animated sections.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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I never thought I would get to finally see this after all these years. I had just assumed the copies were with Toei or were all destroyed. They deserve some investigative journalist award for this amazing find. I'm glad we got the version of Sailor Moon we ended up getting as the DiC dub was my gateway anime. I think I would probably still have gotten into anime but it would have been a very different path and the DiC Sailor Moon was important in helping anime and specifically shojo anime more mainstream in the US. Knowing my tastes as a kid, I still would have loved the Toon Makers Sailor Moon and seeing it now I don't think it's all that bad. I appreciate the diverse cast and the animation looks surprisingly good and fluid for the budget they're working on and I love the 80s She-Ra vibe of it all. Something I especially like about it was that it actually focused more on battles in outer space which Sailor Moon rarely did much of it in spite of girls in space being the whole theme of the show. I also kind of like Sailor Jupiter being the nerdy girl and Mercury is "the original party girl" and that they mixed things up like that instead of following the original girls' personalities exactly. I'm glad we got the anime we did but you can tell they put a lot of love into this and you feel bad for them this didn't get picked up. I wish they could have just retooled this without the Sailor Moon elements and made it into it's own show. Like DiC did with Inspector Gadget when the American Lupin pilot fell through.
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Purple Ninja
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Well, it would be interesting now to see a "(Cancelled U.S. TV)" page here right now.
Just talking. |
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GracieLizzy
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Ray Mona has posted just the pilot which runs about 10 mins 18 secs here:
https://youtu.be/uA2VOuqaOnk |
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ForeverPurity
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This, just this |
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Hagaren Viper
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How crazy! I happened upon this youtuber a while back and watched her documentary looking for this pilot - how great for her that she was finally able to find it. Looking forward to watching this later even if it isn't exactly quality.
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BadNewsBlues
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Sure if you ignore the fact those series were bastardized/edited to such an extent they’re completely different shows from their original concepts. |
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Revolutionary
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Definitely a product of its time.
Take that how you will. lol |
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Emma Iveli
Posts: 679 Location: Hobo with internet |
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My friend sent me the video last night... I am so glad that this didn't happen... Especially since Sailor Moon was the thing that got me into Anime...
Now that I think about the world would probably be a different place if they went with this instead of the dub... |
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TsukasaElkKite
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This is a huge deal. I’ve wanted to watch the pilot for a long time.
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Cutiebunny
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I watched one version of just the episode (wasn't going to sit through hours of commentary) and loved that the person who added it used the scan of my cel without the credit for their preview pic. I thought the young'uns were against that sort of thing? lol
I laughed the entire time at the sheer 90s stupidity of this pilot. My favorite parts where Prince Darien was emotionless when Sailor Moon mentioned they had to rescue the royal families and when Mercury declared herself the original party girl. It reminded me of a lot of the 90s cartoons that aired in the US (looking at you, Captain Planet) and why I originally started watching anime in the first place. It did answer my question as to why the US Sailor Moon transformation brooch looked so different from the Japanese versions. The actress playing Sailor Moon puts a ring into it to transform. |
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Zeino
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I never thought I'd come to consider the DIC/Cloverway dub to be the lesser of evils regarding Sailor Moon yet here we are. Thank all the gods, that this abomination only remained a pilot that was buried in the deepest obscurity until now.
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mdo7
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Ah yes, "Saban" Moon, the history behind how it happened was a complete journey for many in the anime and Sailor Moon's western fandom.
I never thought this once lost pilot would be forever lost and would eventually to be found later, but now thanks to the hard work of Raven "Raymona" Simone (Ray, if you're reading this, your hard work will be remembered amongst anime fandom everywhere), it paid off and look where we are now. Well, the pilot is no longer lost and now everybody including new Sailor Moon fans can watch this, I want that lost pilot preserve for future anime fans to study the history of Sailor Moon and anime history in general. I'm glad we now can be able to view the lost pilot in full glory. This seem to be a great year for lost media which include anime being found and also being discussed. I hope Viz Media could include this US pilot in the future re-release of Sailor Moon blu-ray as a special feature (maybe Sailor Moon R/2nd season future BD re-release could accommodate that) given Season 1 has just been re-released back in June and beside sporting a new and superior HD, & they included a interview not found in the previous Viz's blu-ray release. Maybe the re-release of Sailor Moon R: complete 2nd season Blu-ray should include Toon Maker's pilot as a special feature. Last edited by mdo7 on Tue Aug 23, 2022 11:02 am; edited 1 time in total |
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MrTerrorist
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My goodness. The Toonmaker's version of Sailormoon is so cringe and so early 1990s it's hilarious.
But I have to give credit for the American makers for making the girls more diverse and having a wheelchair user. And kudos to Ray Mona for finding the original pilot episode. To think it was in the library of Congress all this time. |
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GracieLizzy
Posts: 551 Location: Sunderland, England, UK |
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You know for years they said this was 17 minutes but it looks like it is only just over 10 mins. I was trying to figure out where the 17 minutes figure comes from, I don't see it in the old June 2001 Anime Fringe interview with Rocky Solotoff. Most likely this was just someone mis-remembering but I do wonder if and additional 7 minutes were scripted and shot then dropped from the demo reel?
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