Yes I didn’t watch the series. That is why I thought some character deaths that were undone the next episode didn’t matter.
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But I thought you didn't want the "LGBT stuff." Wouldn't the removal make the Optimum/DiC dub an improvement?
Aside from FCC and marketing concerns, there's also an important point about the DIC dub that is lost in binge-TV 2020.
Sailor Moon was aired every single day in syndication.
This might not seem like a distinction that has an important impact, but in the end, it does mean a lot. The original version was aired once-a-week. That makes each airing less disposable, and thus that meant when something wasn't resolved in an episode, viewers had to wait 7 days for a new episode.
When brought over to the U.S Sailor Moon aired five days a week, which makes each individual episode more "disposable," even accounting for the filler There's a reason why DIC added a lot of expository lines in episodes -- they know that if a show airs every day, there's a good chance that like a soap opera, a viewer may miss an episode. Even if every single moment of Sailor Moon Classic had been dubbed and aired, the whole Classic series finale still would have a muted impact because in a few days, the Sailor Scouts were back like new.....just like how in syndicated cartoons there were procedural plots, but never any progress. Mario and Luigi would never get any closer to returning home to Brooklyn in the animated segments of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show., and so would Sailor Moon and her Sailor Scouts would always be. In fact the only true two-parter in the DiC dub is "Secret Garden" and "Treed" in which you would have to watch both to make sense of what happens. Even "A Crystal Clear Destiny" and "A Reluctant Princess" while both serial episodes, have the main components of each episode wrapped up before the credits.
Also, when considering the fact that the US Sailor Moon opening used parts of both the Classic and R openings, and footage from the episode, DiC never made any bones about this show being about a five girl band. Any moment where it seemed like the bad guys won was deliberately temporary.
Aside from FCC and marketing concerns, there's also an important point about the DIC dub that is lost in binge-TV 2020.
Sailor Moon was aired every single day in syndication.
This might not seem like a distinction that has an important impact, but in the end, it does mean a lot. The original version was aired once-a-week. That makes each airing less disposable, and thus that meant when something wasn't resolved in an episode, viewers had to wait 7 days for a new episode.
When brought over to the U.S Sailor Moon aired five days a week, which makes each individual episode more "disposable," even accounting for the filler There's a reason why DIC added a lot of expository lines in episodes -- they know that if a show airs every day, there's a good chance that like a soap opera, a viewer may miss an episode. Even if every single moment of Sailor Moon Classic had been dubbed and aired, the whole Classic series finale still would have a muted impact because in a few days, the Sailor Scouts were back like new.....just like how in syndicated cartoons there were procedural plots, but never any progress. Mario and Luigi would never get any closer to returning home to Brooklyn in the animated segments of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show., and so would Sailor Moon and her Sailor Scouts would always be. In fact the only true two-parter in the DiC dub is "Secret Garden" and "Treed" in which you would have to watch both to make sense of what happens. Even "A Crystal Clear Destiny" and "A Reluctant Princess" while both serial episodes, have the main components of each episode wrapped up before the credits.
Also, when considering the fact that the US Sailor Moon opening used parts of both the Classic and R openings, and footage from the episode, DiC never made any bones about this show being about a five girl band. Any moment where it seemed like the bad guys won was deliberately temporary.
If I want the original story untampered with, I watch the sub. If I want the nostalgia bomb and appealing voices, I go with DiC. I have no interest in the Viz dub at all after listening to samples of it. They all sound far too generic and cutesy versus the more realistic speaking voices of the main characters in the DiC dub. I tend to watch clips more than the full episodes, though, since they're so hard to find these days...
I watch it to laugh at sometimes. Some of the episodes and jokes were funny sometimes. Also, sometimes the VA's were on point. I love the way Mercury, Mars and Jupiter yelled their henshin out. Mercury's original VA used to put some power in that Mercury's Star Power.
I love Beryls 90's Dub voice and how she screams Neflite!!
I also think the action BGM in the dub is better than the Japanese version. It gets you pumped up.
Also, the English dub was butchered but it has nothing on the Korean dub which was worse than the English dub when I saw it. The transformations look a hot mess.
I love Beryls 90's Dub voice and how she screams Neflite!!
I also think the action BGM in the dub is better than the Japanese version. It gets you pumped up.
Also, the English dub was butchered but it has nothing on the Korean dub which was worse than the English dub when I saw it. The transformations look a hot mess.
1. Changing things =/= butchering them. The anime changed a lot of things from the manga; does that mean it butchered the manga? No, it just means they adapted the material for a different audience and medium, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Same thing with the DiC dub (minus the different medium).
2. The changes DiC made were still approved by Toei and were not dissimilar to the changes Kodansha made themselves when adapting the anime to picture books targeting the same age demographic as the anime: no sexual objectification, the violence was toned down, and the gay characters' sexualities were either toned down or removed/ignored completely. Obviously, even in Japan the companies involved found some of the anime's content unsuitable for children (which isn't to say I necessarily agree with that).
Zoisite and Kunzite aren't a gay couple in the manga. That change was made to cater to a teen/older girl audience that likes to fetishize gay men. While that may not be a political agenda, it's still an agenda.
2. The changes DiC made were still approved by Toei and were not dissimilar to the changes Kodansha made themselves when adapting the anime to picture books targeting the same age demographic as the anime: no sexual objectification, the violence was toned down, and the gay characters' sexualities were either toned down or removed/ignored completely. Obviously, even in Japan the companies involved found some of the anime's content unsuitable for children (which isn't to say I necessarily agree with that).
Zoisite and Kunzite aren't a gay couple in the manga. That change was made to cater to a teen/older girl audience that likes to fetishize gay men. While that may not be a political agenda, it's still an agenda.