I meant to start this yesterday on the old dub’s 25th anniversary in the US but better late than never. My plan is to watch all 159 episodes and 3 movies of the og Canadian dub and give my commentary
A Moon Star is Born
- It’s interesting that the English OP uses footage from the first classic Japanese OP and first R OP but nothing from the second Classic OP that started around episode 27 in the Japanese version
-Serena’s moon mom and earth mom having the same voice actress in this episode. Artistic decision or budget/scheduling thing? You decide! At any rate Queen Serenity will have a different far more appropriate voice actress later
-“Hold it still I wanna feel its tongue”. Wha what? That kid is gonna end up on some kind of list when he’s older
- Who is Serena talking to when she’s talking about a new Sailor V game she saw on tv?
-In the English dub Haruna is apparently the math teacher?
-Who is the Oracle?
- $10 is a much better deal than 30,000 yen I am just saying.
- Whenever this Darien speaks I just think of the Spider-man PS game I used to own as a kid
-Serena’s brooch is called a locket here, I’m only saying that because I think iirc it will be called a few different things down the road
-Even as a kid it always bothered me that Sailor Moon’s outfit was just a sexy Halloween version of her school girl uniform
- The whole “sometimes the monsters are just banished to the Negaverse sometimes they’re vaporized depending on what mood the dubbers were in that day” is fun
“Talk Radio”
- I feel like Passionate Patricia would be a better pen name but eh
-“Are you out of your gourd?” what an oddly specific thing to say in unison, Molly and Melvin.
- Molly already knowing who Darien is (and presumably how Serena learned his name) was an interesting choice
- “Did headquarters send you? You could say that haha I’m evil
-The Moon Tiara just straight bisected Fro, yo.
-Is Tux flying? Leaping really high? Falling with style?
- Today’s Sailor Moon Says used amongst it footage ; Japanese episode 2 (which DiC skipped), the Past Returns, Mirror Mirror on the Wall and I think Ski Bunny Blues? (One of the episodes from the evil Prince Darien arc at least)
A Moon Star is Born
- It’s interesting that the English OP uses footage from the first classic Japanese OP and first R OP but nothing from the second Classic OP that started around episode 27 in the Japanese version
-Serena’s moon mom and earth mom having the same voice actress in this episode. Artistic decision or budget/scheduling thing? You decide! At any rate Queen Serenity will have a different far more appropriate voice actress later
-“Hold it still I wanna feel its tongue”. Wha what? That kid is gonna end up on some kind of list when he’s older
- Who is Serena talking to when she’s talking about a new Sailor V game she saw on tv?
-In the English dub Haruna is apparently the math teacher?
-Who is the Oracle?
- $10 is a much better deal than 30,000 yen I am just saying.
- Whenever this Darien speaks I just think of the Spider-man PS game I used to own as a kid
-Serena’s brooch is called a locket here, I’m only saying that because I think iirc it will be called a few different things down the road
-Even as a kid it always bothered me that Sailor Moon’s outfit was just a sexy Halloween version of her school girl uniform
- The whole “sometimes the monsters are just banished to the Negaverse sometimes they’re vaporized depending on what mood the dubbers were in that day” is fun
“Talk Radio”
- I feel like Passionate Patricia would be a better pen name but eh
-“Are you out of your gourd?” what an oddly specific thing to say in unison, Molly and Melvin.
- Molly already knowing who Darien is (and presumably how Serena learned his name) was an interesting choice
- “Did headquarters send you? You could say that haha I’m evil
-The Moon Tiara just straight bisected Fro, yo.
-Is Tux flying? Leaping really high? Falling with style?
- Today’s Sailor Moon Says used amongst it footage ; Japanese episode 2 (which DiC skipped), the Past Returns, Mirror Mirror on the Wall and I think Ski Bunny Blues? (One of the episodes from the evil Prince Darien arc at least)