Sailor Moon Eternal Edition
| Had to come back and say this. Sailor Moon has been my childhood and a lot more than that. It made me a better person, as cheesy as it sounds, as a kid, 20 years ago, Sailor Moon taught me to be compassionate and to value my friends. It also made me love drawing and was probably the first huge inspiration source for me. Even todday, whenever I look at the moon I can't help but think of that beautiful moon princess and imagine what if she really lived there... alone int he quiet dark place. Sailor Moon made me acknowledge the fact that darkness has a certain beauty about it and awaken my interest in mythology and evil/bad characters. Sailor Moon did all that for me and more: ever since Sailor Moon I developed interest for music, specifically for sad, evocative music and I'm sure this, in the long run, helped me stay away from trashy meaningless music that usually teenagers later on used to listen... An here are so many other things that started for me with SM. I was disappointed about Crystal. It did not have the soul and heart and mystery and darkness that the old show had. But I'm now not a kid anymore and can judge things for myself. I don't need to read reviews and biased or hateful opinions to understand things and this is also, partly, an advice for whoever takes interest in THIS version of Sailor Moon. Crystal wasn't perfect, but it wasn't that bad either. The problem is mostly that of old fans having a very high expectation and possibly new fans losing interest because Sailor Moon is, after all, an old manga with old style team vs monsters, which now seems silly and overused. Crystal was supposed to be a close adaptation of the manga and everybody assumed it would take from the manga only the things that were better than in the old anime. But I rerea th manga 3 times now. I honestly can't bring myself to like the manga characters more than the old anime ones. In the old anime the inner senshi were FAR better executed as characters, in the manga they are bland. Manga gave each and every one of them one main characteristic and made them so "one sided", then hastily presented an inner conflict for each of them, basically they all wanted a normal life, but considered more important their duty. And that was all their "character development", span over a handful of pages. Crystal did the same thing, made the character development so luckluster, that my main dissatisfaction, beyond poor quality animation, was that although I used to love all 5 of them for being so different and sweet in their own way, I never got to see much of any of them and their special ways, except the generic character intro episodes... That, for me, is exactly what the manga did. Except I read the manga long after I watched the old SM show... so I just took the manga as a secondary thing, as an alternative and something to complete my SM experience. For example, when Minako was introduced, I already had my full image of her and her charming personality because of the anime, I did not need more infos on her.... and therefore failed to see that the manga was lacking. Manga alone couldn't have made me love Sailor Moon as much, ever. Now I felt Crystall was missing what people nowadays call "fillers"... back in the days when the old show was airing, there was no such word as "filler" and I loved and adored every episode that provided more slice of life scenes for the girls. Because they were fantastic. Manga doesn't have these, Crystal doesn't have them either, and they both feel cold. I remember watching the show as it was airing, for me, at 21:00, just before I was going to bed. I as closing the door so that nobody would interrupt me, with lights turned off, with maxed volume on TV. Those magical 24 minutes of the night.OFC I don't watch anime this way anymore. But then it was making every episode so much more intense. And speaking about intense... the old show emphasized tragical moments. I think that was its best: tragedy. highlighted by heartbreaking music... something the manga did not have. The manga had gore, but no tragedy. Crystal also sucked at it. I had hoped for a combination of the old anime and the manga. I hoped for more insight. For me, Crystal was too cold, soulless. And not because of the lazy art, I can take lazy art. I can take "static". But I can't deal with my favorite characters being less than what they were. I liked the Manga for being darker, for having some level of gore. And for having a better ending. But I realize now that even if they made a perfect manga adaptation, with perfect art, it would still be lacking too much to ever be considered good. |
MorridineOct 9, 2015 9:37 PM
| This bothered me more than the crapnimation Toei did. Even if Sailor Moon had fillers in the old days, they brought more into the story and characters, than for example Naruto's fillers. Ninja Ostrich etc :x The 2 Arc's wont be saved now anyway, but the next one could. ...if our beloved studio starts to do what's right :| I can forgive them those first two arc's, but my fav Infinity and Stars not. |
| Indeed, the fillers of old SM were nice and I would have never guessed that they were not, in fact, part of the story. And they are NOTHING like Naruto fillers lol... SM always built on characters and back then producers actually put effort for everything to make sense, and even the fillers were always bound to the cannon someway. I clearly remember one episode about Minako's old love... it was extraordinary and I was so surprised to not fiind it in the manga. Can't even talk about Nruto fillers.... (right now Naruto has episodes that are entirely made up of characters' dreams... with absolutely no sense and no meaning whatsoever). |
| It's all about money :( You don't kill the goose that lays golden eggs. Milking the franchise is ridiculously overused nowadays and not only in Anime... I don't really like fillers, if they have no real meaning or sense, but the fillers in the old SM expanded the characters traits so well. SM transformations were amazing too. It's not like the SMC one are crap, but CGI... Why not like Chibiusa's transformation and damn... why so late >_< Sometimes I miss the old days were anime was drawn mostly by hand. I really hope the upcoming arc get's what it deserves. |
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