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Cutiebunny
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Are you sure about this? I remember watching dubbed Sailormoon episodes on station KTBH(San Francisco) in June 1993. That was the first run of Sailormoon in the US. Sailormoon is what really started it for me. I had seen anime before in the US - Voltron, Robotech & Superbook (which, I think is still being shown on PAX) - but none of them ever sparked me as much as Sailormoon did. I was hooked on Sailormoon immediately and bought (almost) everything I could - Sailormoon dolls, shirts, bootleg prismatic sticker cards. Sailormoon's story always has stuck with me, and even today, I can't find a shoujo anime that can compare. Yes, there have been numerous shoujo titles since Sailormoon (Cardcaptor Sakura, the PreCure franchise, etc.) but none of them have the plot and character development that Sailormoon did. |
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utawoutau
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@Jason Thompson
Since even this article acknowledges that Sailor Moon is more famous as an anime than as a manga, I think that this article could have been even better if there had been more discussion about how the anime differed from the manga, especially given that Takeuchi was upset at a lot of the changes. |
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FaytLein
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While I didn't start out with Sailor Moon, back in '95 I would always wake up super early before school and watch the pretty pastel colors and just smile. Now that I'm a bit older, I would gladly plunk the money down for a good R1 release, and the manga as well. Unlike most of the anime that came out back then, Sailor Moon STILL draws a lot of interest today.
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KabaKabaFruit
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Sailor Moon was the anime that got me into anime. To this day, I proudly considered the show (albeit the DiC hackdub) to be the quintessential piece of my anime fandom. When Sailor Moon first aired in Canada on YTV back in '95 during the network's lunch hour and primetime Zone slot, it was phenomenal for us viewers. I can still remember rushing home every day after school just to see the latest episode.
There are plenty of people who can argue that this was the show that awoke the anime fandom in Canada and you can still interview anyone here and they'll tell you that Sailor Moon was what got them into anime in the first place. Unfortunately, I've never read the manga. But, I'm hoping that if the license ever gets rescued, that it'll be available in affordable omnibuses.
O_O You're 100% sure of that? Because the DiC dub didn't officially air until mid-late '95. |
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malvarez1
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Wow. Sailor Moon was my first manga and anime. Ah, memories.
I would LOVE for the manga to be re-licensed. |
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Julia-the-Great
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Anybody for the awesome live action series? Eh? Eh?
In all seriousness, though, I went into the live action series expecting to laugh at the terrible special effects and silly outfits, which I did, but then I really started to get into the story and the characters. I actually like the live action version of the characters better than the anime version of the characters. Yes, there are some really unpleasantly goofy moments, but on the whole it's a lot of fun to watch. Plus, Dark Ami? Awesome. |
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SoloButterfly
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Same here, I started watching purely for the camp factor, and then found myself crying at more than one part (both happy and sad tears). C'est la Vie gets stuck in my head at random times. |
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Wiesteria
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Sailor Moon got me into anime, but when I initially flipped through the manga at my local library, I was put off by the glittery art style. So I decided to just randomly pick a different "Japanese comic" with tamer artwork...as it turned out, I'd checked out a volume of Ranma 1/2 and my life was forever changed.
Even though I started watching other anime and reading other manga, my entire extended family cannot forget how much of a Sailor Moon fangirl I was and to this day they still refer to all of my manga series collectively as "Sailor Moon." |
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enurtsol
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Hahahahaha......... I may have.......... something to do with that........
Let's hope that wasn't the Saban Moon potential version. Incidentally, here's the B2B merchandise license pitch too. |
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Sheleigha
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Awww but it was still amusing seeing the sentai aspects, like the zippers on the monster costumes :p And yes, that song I somehow still remember... Yes, when WILL it get the nice remastered print?? And will we ever see Sailor V in english?? |
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simside
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Same here. I wound up watching the first few with my roommate in a state of utter shock, ready to laugh, but we wound up watching the whole thing. Neither of us would admit it, but we both secretly liked it. I didn't really like the manga. I read it as it was coming out in English, and at the time I ignored my aversion because I wanted to love it so much... but the later volumes just didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Part of that may be that I didn't have the shoujo manga vernacular down at the time, but I was so horribly disappointed after I finished Sailor Stars that I never re-read it. Jason, I started this article wondering if you'd critique the story, then about halfway through, I started remembering what attracted me to it in the first place. I desperately want to re-read it now. I don't know how you did that after, like, ten years of me ignoring the deafening internet love for this series, but you did. |
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Quark
Posts: 710 Location: British Columbia, Canada |
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I remember when I was a kid, and one day on YTV they started announcing some new show starting called "Sailor Moon". I decided to tune in and see what this show was, and loved it instantly. The characters in it were so cute, and it felt very exotic (everything is in 'Chinese'!) I ended up wanting more shows like this, and my love for anime was born.
Sailor Moon is one of those shows that holds a lot of fond memories for me - playing with my friend on the trampoline and shouting the soldiers attack names, going to the dollar store and getting all kinds of weird Sailor Moon merchandise, learning how to draw the characters, showing it to my niece one day, and having her instantly fall in love with it too. Even as an adult, it still makes an appearance - my boyfriend torturing me by playing Rainy Day Man in the car. Not to mention that the desire to read the Sailor Moon manga is part of the reason why I've started teaching myself Japanese. It's a shame that the manga got such a poor English release, and that it went OOP so soon. Hopefully there will be a re-release of it in English soon, because there definitely is a demand for it. |
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ptolemy18
Manga Reviewer/Creator/Taster
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It could have been, but while I've read the entire manga twice, I've only watched a few episodes of the anime. There's already tons of stuff online about how the manga and anime are different and I defer to the people who've already put in the time watching and comparing. |
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ptolemy18
Manga Reviewer/Creator/Taster
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I like the final final "this time for real" ending (i.e. the ending of Sailor Stars) a lot, actually, even though the series drags on to get to that point. I agree with what one of the other commenters said that the art is rough at first, but it gets a lot better over time. Even now it's kind of hard for me to separate my nostalgic emotions about Sailor Moon from my critical "so how good *is* this manga actually?" side, but I think, all things considered, it's pretty darn good. It's got good characters, and like they say... it's got heart. |
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GATSU
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I hear it's Toupee which is dicking us out of both the anime and manga.
I wanna encourage legal female fans. But yeah, I admit I used to have a bias against shojo when it first came out in the 90s, 'cus I thought it was all lazy and pandering like CLAMP. Thank gawd Mars changed that perception. Anyway, I don't mind Twi-hards, but they take that stuff way too seriously. I mean, it's like fanboys making a big fuss out of Roadhouse 3. As for |
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