Sailor Moon Pet Peeves?

This is true. But I have my pet peeves about something that is not yours and change it. Even if you might improve on certain aspects, very few in Dic's case, but you haven't created this product - it is not your to change. Anyway these were the times, but I am against it as practice - if you find this thing that problematic, create something better from scratch.

Such practice of changing imported Japanese anime has been there in the West for decades since the 70s, if not earlier, & the Japanese anime production houses supposedly have been well aware of that for a long time. lol

This is one area the old DIC dub actually improved in. They changed the message of this episode from problematic fat-shaming concerning unrealistic beauty standards for women into more having to do the importance of healthy eating habits for health rather than just to look beautiful.

This is true. But I have my pet peeves about something that is not yours and change it. Even if you might improve on certain aspects, very few in Dic's case, but you haven't created this product - it is not your to change. Anyway these were the times, but I am against it as practice - if you find this thing that problematic, create something better from scratch.

Would you have preferred it if they just removed the episode altogether if they found it problematic?

People who try to interject politics and religion in the show.

Sailor Moon is a series about a single person imposing her authoritarian rule over a few billions of other humans, crushing all dissent without any mercy, and refusing to leave even a square foot of soil on the planet not under her control. I think politics was deeply ingrained into the series from the very beginning, not just arbitrarily injected by fans.

Sailor Moon is a series about a single person imposing her authoritarian rule over a few billions of other humans, crushing all dissent without any mercy, and refusing to leave even a square foot of soil on the planet not under her control. I think politics was deeply ingrained into the series from the very beginning, not just arbitrarily injected by fans.

My pet peeves in Sailor Moon are what TOEI did to Takeuchi and the fanbase during the production of Stars until the time Takeuchi withdrew the overseas rights to the anime, they did not even let the English speaking fans watch Stars without getting it exported or in illegal means and the fact that CCS took over the popularity of Sailor Moon in Asia.

I agree.

The worst(best?) part is that it’s hard for me to tell if you’re talking about Neo-Queen Serenity or Sailor Galaxia.

Another big pet peeve regarding the old show. Why didn't they ask Kotono Mitsuishi to go and redo the episodes she missed for upcoming re-releases? I mean she is still very much involved with the project. Like for the dvd release or the so called "blu ray" they could have asked her to record the lines for these episodes. Kae Araki did a very good job, but I want to see Kotono's take, especially in episode 45

Neither! He means Naoko!



Has this ever been done before for other anime series? I could see this idea as having been plausible in the past, but these days Kotono's voice strains so much to deliver her Usagi I think it'd be really jarring to jump back and forth between her old Usagi voice and new Usagi voice.

And let's not forget that in the original, Usagi is cheered up because Motoki tells her that he likes chubby girls. So girls should only feel proud of their bodies when a boy tells them he likes it, because girls' self-esteem still relies on the male gaze. Nice. Meanwhile, in the DiC dub, he tells her to exercise and eat more because starving yourself is unhealthy and will make you look frail. Also, in the original version Luna encourages Sailor Moon to fight because doing so will make her skinny, fit, and beautiful. In the DiC dub, Luna tells her that fighting the Negaverse is more important than her figure.

Ironically enough(nah, not really), the DiC dub still made some unsatisfactory changes, such as removing the girls' down-with-sexual-discrimination speech and replacing it with needless yabber about fighting the Negaverse, and shortening their transformation phrases to leave out the "Make-Up!" part, taking away the notion that femininity is power(by showing make-up as a battle cry, not something that is worn only to attract boys or to change themselves. They were probably worrying about the effect such a poisonous word such as "makeup" would have on young girls who are just soooo naive and eager to sexualize themselves, pathetically missing the point of the message.). But oh well. For all its achievements and nostalgia for some, DiC is still...well, DiC.

Neither! He means Naoko!



Has this ever been done before for other anime series? I could see this idea as having been plausible in the past, but these days Kotono's voice strains so much to deliver her Usagi I think it'd be really jarring to jump back and forth between her old Usagi voice and new Usagi voice.

Huh. I didn’t know that happened. The more you know.

My question however is how Naoko Takeuchi can withdraw the right to her own creation.

All those changes are actually pretty consistent - they're just trying to avoid controversies/troubles from whichever sides, hence ensuring the series to be aired uninterrupted & thus their revenue unharmed.

Yeah, having a big size or being plump is one thing (I actually like that), but obesity is a (both personal & public) health issue.

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I think the problem is people don't know how to do medium.Luke yes treating people badly because their fat is wrong.But pretdnding is their is no problem being over weight is bad as well.

That's true. I think another problem comes from people assuming that EVERY fat person must be overweight and unhealthy. Maybe showing healthy fat people in media who don't only eat fast food might be a good place to start?