Sailor Moon Cosmos announced for Summer 2023 [SPOILERS ALERT]

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They are strong women, they do not need a man to recognize their worth. In my opinion it would go against everything Sailor Moon is supposed to stand for. Takeuchi's feminism is not perfect I agree but the historical/geographical context also matters too, Sailor Moon was written in the nineties by a japanese woman after al. The girls's willingness to fully devote themselves to a "higher" cause (eternay serve their queen/godess) is a behaviour highly commended in Japan. About Manga Mamoru lol can't say I disagree with you
So... let's change that into 'they are strong men, they do not need a woman to recognize their worth' - does this sound good?

By 'recognizing their worth' I mean a strong man, who is wholly capable of feats, recognizing that the girls surpass him BUT at the same time, fights at times with them and both sides share ideas and respect towards each other resulting in a healthy and positive representation of females and males being equals and can act and perform duties together regardless of social traditions.
Shounen mangas of the times were already doing it so why not a 'revolutionary' manga as Sailor Moon too?

Instead, in Sailor Moon, at times it seems women are the superior gender (and it seems that's what Takeuchi thinks via her interviews).

As for the girls' devoting themselves to a higher cause, like I said, my problem is that their higher cause is Usagi not the greater good.

They are her followers and will do anything she says but they are not developed as characters for us to see them as individual champions of justice.
Instead, they all revolve around Usagi because of their destiny - their destiny is something that is regularly brought up by Haruka and Minako.

If you go and see other works, you'll see that the protagonists actually go against their destiny and break traditions because that is an actual problem in Japan - men are expected to be the main breadwinners, while women are the housewives; that has been the rule and tradition since forever and the modern generation hates it.
The breaking of traditions and challenging destiny is a metaphor used to resonate to this wish of the younger generation to have a more liberal freedom.

In Sailor Moon, we see the girls still wishing to have normal lives but it's out of a blinded love and attraction towards Usagi (because she's their princess) that they give up on their futures not out of a willing decision to dedicate their lives to the people.

is that related to those French Box Sets or is it something completely different because I don't remember.
That's different.
Toei and Takeuchi gave the French a number of illustrations to choose from to make their Box sets.
The French then did their work and used those very illustrations to finalize the design and apparently both Toei and Takeuchi gave their OK.
However, when it came time to actually release the sets, Takeuchi was like 'No'. :kiss:
And it seems her demands are actually ridiculous with the people working on those sets having a very hard time to work with her.
 
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Is Chibi-UsaXMamoru!Daddy from yet another one of Takeuchi's real-life experiences that she poured into her work of art? :kiss:
I wonder.
As we said previously, I suppose Takeuchi therapist had A LOT of work. Male authors would have been canceled for far less than this weird incestuous fantasy :kiss:
Apparently she's been pulling the same crap with other countries too.
According to someone who had close contacts with people who worked on the French BD box sets, they had already finished the visual designs of the box sets and were ready to go and on the last minute, Takeuchi pulled the plug and gave a no and the Kaze people had to start from zero again.
This has apparently been going on for more than a year and it sounded like the French are also fed up with her antics.
This is exactly the same thing that I heard about the French BRD editions. She is making their life a living hell with her demands and that’s why it’s one year late. It shouldn’t take that time considering all art is ready from years ago… But people will still defend Takeuchi coute que coûte…
 
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In Sailor Moon, we see the girls still wishing to have normal lives but it's out of a blinded love and attraction towards Usagi (because she's their princess) that they give up on their futures not out of a willing decision to dedicate their lives to the people.
The devotion of the Senshi to keeping peace and the Galaxy Cauldron as well, but now that a part of the power of the Galaxy Cauldron, the Cosmos Seed is now given to Usagi and the other Senshi outside of her former jurisdiction as the Moon Princess will be forced to bow to her...
 
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As we said previously, I suppose Takeuchi therapist had A LOT of work. Male authors would have been canceled for far less than this weird incestuous fantasy :kiss:

This is exactly the same thing that I heard about the French BRD editions. She is making their life a living hell with her demands and that’s why it’s one year late. It shouldn’t take that time considering all art is ready from years ago… But people will still defend Takeuchi coute que coûte…
She had already attempted to make the 90s animators in Stars a living hell for the Anime Eternal outfits and made the lives of the animators of Eternal and Cosmos a living hell for the designs of her characters in Stars that was never in the 90s anime that is hard to animate that includes including the anime Eternal outfits(the anime eternal outfits of the other Senshi was never in the 90s anime and manga because the Manga Eternal Outfits are slightly different).
 
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That's different.
Toei and Takeuchi gave the French a number of illustrations to choose from to make their Box sets.
The French then did their work and used those very illustrations to finalize the design and apparently both Toei and Takeuchi gave their OK.
However, when it came time to actually release the sets, Takeuchi was like 'No'. :kiss:
And it seems her demands are actually ridiculous with the people working on those sets having a very hard time to work with her.
The problem of the boxes with the provisional visual, there were design errors. Failures.
They had put the Sailor Moon season 2 brooch on the box 1 (Sailor Moon) or, it was necessary to put the season 1 brooch to remain coherent.

Other errors have been listed by a twitter (Empire), and these errors have been corrected on the final version that we see now.
It's the same administrators (Sailor Moon Galaxy) who 10 years ago, had yelled a lot against the failures of the Kazé boxes to have replacements.

No doubt that Kazé were still afraid of this wave of protesters.
 

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These movies are so short as is and from what we have seen like 25 percent of the run time... And it is 25 percent of the run-time stock footage... I imagine it being like nothing but transformations all the time.
 
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I always thought she had rings on her fingers, but it's more like brass knuckles. She 's dangerous )
Cosmos Lambda Punch!
Mamoru gave her that part of her costume, I guess.
 
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"let's change that into 'they are strong men, they do not need a woman to recognize their worth' - does this sound good?"
And, both from a cultural and historical perspective, when a man felt socially validated for having a significant other? Like, never. That's the point.
 

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So, I've read before in this forum that Eternal Naoko-hime sama had some problems because the green color of Jupiter's skirt wasn't the same as in Japan caused by the type of ink in the printer or something like that, is that related to those French Box Sets or is it something completely different because I don't remember.
It was the Spanish Eternal Edition. The volume 4 cover.
 

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I know Kakyuu and Cosmos’ transformations are definitely kinda simple and a bit more basic than some of their counterparts (I mean especially the Starlights)… but I think they’re my favorite so far? I think part of it is how unexpected they are, but I also find them graceful and delicate. I also love the detail of pairing Sailor Cosmos with the Cosmos flower.
 
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I know Kakyuu and Cosmos’ transformations are definitely kinda simple and a bit more basic than some of their counterparts (I mean especially the Starlights)… but I think they’re my favorite so far? I think part of it is how unexpected they are, but I also find them graceful and delicate. I also love the detail of pairing Sailor Cosmos with the Cosmos flower.
Cosmos' transformation is what I would expect from a polished final product animation-wise. It's very good. Same goes for Kakyuu