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aers posted:She says she's 902 two arcs later (the manga equivalent of SuperS) which I guess puts her around 7-8, matching with her anime age then. The tl;dr is that Naoko's pretty drat weird. Did I make this up, or was it said that Chibiusa started to grow and age at a faster rate after gaining her own power? I guess it should technically put her physically has 9 or 10 in Stars, but there's no way she looks like that. I may have completely made this up to compensate for the fact that Naoko cannot draw children (which is another thing I feel like I've heard her admit before). If they continue with the psuedo-manga art style in Crystal, I hope they do something about how the younger characters or drawn, or maybe tweak their ages. Assuming they'll get that far, I know I would really love to see the Amazon Quartet's sailor forms.
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Violet_Sky posted:Also, I'm about as tall as Usagi. Going by the size chart, I'm on par with Haruka in terms of height (5'9"). But I can imagine the heights of the girls changed as the series went on, or maybe they didn't because they barely aged at all in the series. On a different topic, I'm a little scared to see what they choose to use as "Current Fashion".
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Waffleman_ posted:Most tall characters in anime are pretty average when compared to Westerners. Let's see we got Risa from Lovely Complex at 172cm (5'6")  and Sakaki from Azumanga at 174cm(5'7")  And the various tall Sailors already discussed. So, yep. a kitten fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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aers posted:Of course than there's the nutso fan interpretation where some fans believe Usagi is a tyrannical despot who used the Crystal to erase everyone's free will and rule eternally, because there's no way people could live in peace and harmony without it! These people apparently didn't pay attention to the manga or anime because the overall tone is about love, friendship, and optimism. A reading I like is that before Chibiusa went back in time, Crystal Tokyo was, not a dystopian place, but a somewhat cold place, where things just weren't quite as good as they could be, and NQS and Endymion were rather remote parents. When she goes back, because of the experience they had knowing her in the past, things are better and brighter and happier. (Like Back to the Future!) I think the R Crystal Tokyo arc also proves conclusively that surprise birthday parties are a terrible idea. Dove from Above fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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Chrysolith posted:Did I make this up, or was it said that Chibiusa started to grow and age at a faster rate after gaining her own power? I guess it should technically put her physically has 9 or 10 in Stars, but there's no way she looks like that. I may have completely made this up to compensate for the fact that Naoko cannot draw children (which is another thing I feel like I've heard her admit before). She does visibly age slightly between Black Moon and Stars, but it's debatable over whether that's her powers awakening or time travel shenanigans.
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That link to Wildmushroomland on the last page had a couple preview images linked. They look pretty good! Just in case you didn't want to go back a page, Usagi and friends in a cafe and the Sailor Guardians getting ready for battle.
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That's because Rei's personality was drastically changed for the 90's anime.
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Snorb posted:That link to Wildmushroomland on the last page had a couple preview images linked. They look pretty good! That mouth style annoys the hell out of me
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CHiRAL posted:That mouth style annoys the hell out of me Yeah, I think that's what's bothering me the most so far. It's almost like a deviantArt idea of what Anime mouths are supposed to look like. Which is sad because I love almost everything else about the art so far except their faces. I do love that Usagi is still a fat kid at heart, though.
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CHiRAL posted:That mouth style annoys the hell out of me They all look like they're making  or  faces all the time.
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Kanos posted:They all look like they're making With their tongues almost hanging out but not quite
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I like that Makoto's hair is redder this time around, like the manga. Those mouths are seriously outrageously terrible. If it weren't for the slight differences, I would think they were copy-pasted. Despite their open mouths, their faces still come off as disappointingly energy-less. I would have really loved to see some more personality, especially in the group battle-ready pose. It looks like someone drew anime fanart of some Sailor Moon cosplayer photoshoots. I think that's the majority of my issue with this so far: I'm not seeing any personality in any of these girls. You can swap their faces and recolour the eyes appropriately and hardly tell the difference. I like Mako's profile in the cafe image, though.
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I'm still optimistic that it'll look better in action. I honestly think people are still just used to the 90s anime look so the new one is throwing them off.
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RMZXAnarchy posted:I honestly think people are still just used to the 90s anime look so the new one is throwing them off. No, the nostalgia just amplifies the awfulness of this style. If I saw these images as promos for an anime I didn't know I can tell you right now I wouldn't watch it
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CHiRAL posted:No, the nostalgia just amplifies the awfulness of this style. If I saw these images as promos for an anime I didn't know I can tell you right now I wouldn't watch it Different strokes I guess. The new one looks fine to me personally. v  v
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CHiRAL posted:No, the nostalgia just amplifies the awfulness of this style. If I saw these images as promos for an anime I didn't know I can tell you right now I wouldn't watch it Then don't! 
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aers posted:Then don't! But it's Sailor Moon! 
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CHiRAL posted:But it's Sailor Moon! Then do! The number of people who worked on the original show in important positions still working at Toei is probably less than 5, unfortunately.
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Took a short interlude in R to watch the movie tied to that season. It had the old english dub available with both the original and the american soundtrack. Needless to say, I had to put the english soundtrack on just once to listen to that cheesy as gently caress intro song. Honestly I'm a bit surprised that material sounded as good as it did since I didn't think they released the version with the edited soundtrack on DVD or anything. As for the movie itself, animation is nice. But the story's just kind of there. No drama or anything since you know that at the end of the day the villain will lose and the Sailor Senshi will win. That's sort of why the series is fun for me though. RMZXAnarchy fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Jun 12, 2014 |
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RMZXAnarchy posted:Took a short interlude in R to watch the movie tied to that season. Yeah, but Sailor Moon DIED for a while there and really freaked her friends out! And the story makes so much more sense of Mamoru's, you know, personality. And why it's such a hot mess.
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The R movie is a big bundle of Ikuhara and it owns. Also the English dub was released on DVD.
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The R movie always felt like a nice long episode with better animation (and for some reason I adore the intro graphic, with the logo being negative space and I think shot on a multiplane camera, beyond all reason). And the score! It was so much fun! The movies kept doing neat stuff, too. Like the rainbow effect in ... I forget which of the next two movies, with everybody in a circle and all their color elements turned white.
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junopsis posted:The movies kept doing neat stuff, too. Like the rainbow effect in ... I forget which of the next two movies, with everybody in a circle and all their color elements turned white. That was the S movie, with Kaguya, I think. That's the scene I always think of when I think of that movie. Pretty dang neat. 
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I really love the movies. Even the dubbed versions for their stupidly cheesy songs, although I've never seen the SuperS movie dubbed. "The Power of Love" is a not-so-guilty pleasure of mine. The dub had a lot of really bad moments, but I really love the music. YOU'VE GOT TO BELIIIIIEEEEVE IN THE POOOWER OF LOVE~~~ Honestly, I prefer the dubbed song over the one that plays in the original. What is it, "La Soldier?" I remember that scene being really pretty, too, with the crystal and her pink fluttering ribbons. Really gorgeous. I used to play that one CD all the time, where they did covers of the Beatles songs. I think the SuperS is my favourite, with R in close second. The S movie didn't do much for me, but I've only seen it maybe twice. I do remember liking that circle scene. The movies did do some really cool stuff. I drew some fanart not too long ago and thought I would drop it here. This was my first time drawing Sailor Moon since before I've graduated high school, so it's been about 10 years.
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In the R movie? It's moon revenge, woooooo. And nobody gets to hate on Moon Revenge when I am around. 
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Power of Love replaces both Moon Revenge in the R movie and La Soldier in the final battle episode of R.
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Haine posted:That was the S movie, with Kaguya, I think. That's the scene I always think of when I think of that movie. Pretty dang neat. The sad thing is, that's the only good part about the S movie. The rest is boring and creepy. R movie owns and SuperS is okay.
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Another vote here for the SuperS movie. The 3 o'clock Fairy song was really catchy and the whole thing was beautifully animated.
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I remember both of those songs now. It's been too long since I've seen the R movie.neongrey posted:In the R movie? It's moon revenge, woooooo. And nobody gets to hate on Moon Revenge when I am around. Potsticker posted:Another vote here for the SuperS movie. The 3 o'clock Fairy song was really catchy and the whole thing was beautifully animated.
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The best thing about the R movie is seeing the girls do their attacks without the stock animation and utterly mow through hundreds of plant monsters. The bit where Venus beams through a vast swathe of them was like something out of Gunbuster!
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She's Got The Power is the best Sailor Moon dub song, nerds. Personally, I like more then both of the songs that Stan Bush did for the Transformers movie.
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Dexie posted:She's Got The Power is the best Sailor Moon dub song, nerds. You seem to have misspelled "My Only Love" there.
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Violet_Sky posted:The sad thing is, that's the only good part about the S movie. The rest is boring and creepy. Disagree! The S movie has a fantastic opening of the girls just hanging out around town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2TTu6E2g7I Super S has a good one, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIuWocaMCM Those are my favorite bits of those two movies, I think.
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Alaemon posted:Disagree! The S movie has a fantastic opening of the girls just hanging out around town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2TTu6E2g7I I'm okay with fighting evil by moonlight, but honestly, I love the stuff that's just about the girls being a group of friends doing group-of-friends stuff so much. I hope Sailor Moon Crystal will have plenty of time for that.
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Alaemon posted:Disagree! The S movie has a fantastic opening of the girls just hanging out around town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2TTu6E2g7I I forgot about the S movie opening!  It's so great too!
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Dove from Above posted:I'm okay with fighting evil by moonlight, but honestly, I love the stuff that's just about the girls being a group of friends doing group-of-friends stuff so much. I hope Sailor Moon Crystal will have plenty of time for that. That's what I really enjoyed about the live-action. Yeah, the fights and monsters were goofy, but the civilian stuff was so good.
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Alaemon posted:That's what I really enjoyed about the live-action. Yeah, the fights and monsters were goofy, but the civilian stuff was so good. YES! The personalities and relationships are wonderfully developed. There are a couple of storylines I could do without, like Hina, or Minako's soap-opera brain tumour that occasionally causes mild headaches until it suddenly kills her, but there is so, so much great stuff there, especially Ami and Rei's arcs.
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Potsticker posted:Another vote here for the SuperS movie. The 3 o'clock Fairy song was really catchy and the whole thing was beautifully animated. DO you even know how long it took me to realize that the tune is probably based on Funeral March of a Marionette. Which is creepy as hell.
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Reposting a question asked in the recommendations thread thanks to a kitten, I had forgotten about this thread. Speaking of Shojo series, has anyone read the Sailor Moon manga and can comment on whether it's good/bad and why? I never saw any of the earlier anime developments and given that this new one is supposedly based a lot more on the manga than previous incarnations, it'd be useful to know if the source material was also good.
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