This mightn't be a reach - Takeuchi might've insisted to have her reprising the role, like she insisted Sawai to play the role in PGSM back then. 
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PGSM also had Keiko Han, who voiced a version of Luna Takeuchi disliked, and that's why I think it's a reach to relate Takeuchi's fondness of voice actors as people to how she feels about the characters they've played.
Rather then start a new thread, I'd like to ask a question that this interview made me think about.
Takeuchi mentions how rushed she was and how she just didn't have time to properly flesh out characters and story as much as she would like. Is there any reason why Sailor Moon isn't as padded like other well known manga like Cardcaptor Sakura, DragonBall etc etc. I like that Sailor Moon is a brief story that didn't have a gazillion chapters, but what's the history or story behind why it had to be the length that it was?
Was it because she was too new as a creator to get more? Spacing issues in the magazine? I guess I just don't get why she couldn't make a 20 part arc 1, a 30 part arc 2 or some other combination. I'm sure some of you may know the reason that was revealed over the years. Just curious.
Takeuchi mentions how rushed she was and how she just didn't have time to properly flesh out characters and story as much as she would like. Is there any reason why Sailor Moon isn't as padded like other well known manga like Cardcaptor Sakura, DragonBall etc etc. I like that Sailor Moon is a brief story that didn't have a gazillion chapters, but what's the history or story behind why it had to be the length that it was?
Was it because she was too new as a creator to get more? Spacing issues in the magazine? I guess I just don't get why she couldn't make a 20 part arc 1, a 30 part arc 2 or some other combination. I'm sure some of you may know the reason that was revealed over the years. Just curious.
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If I understand it correctly, she didn't have time because the pressure was for her to wrap up the arcs before/right during the time the anime arcs were ending. CLAMP, for example, took many years to wrap up the twelve-volume cardcaptor sakura arc, and they're a team of 4.
If there needed to be 30 chapters for each arc, monthly, it'd take 30 months for it to wrap up, longer than each anime arc.
If there needed to be 30 chapters for each arc, monthly, it'd take 30 months for it to wrap up, longer than each anime arc.
Yes, I think it's because of the way Takeuchi developed Sailor Moon that she also mentions in this interview. If she had just gone with the plan to adapt Sailor V, she would have had a head start and maybe could have taken it more slowly, like how other mangakas do when their work is adapted, but she insisted on creating a new story on the spot, and specifically one with many characters and plot elements, all while having to pump it out as fast as possible to allow the anime to continue.
I guess you could say she just aimed too high from the start and she was bound to become overwhelmed sooner or later, but I'm glad she did so because while I like Sailor V, to me Sailor Moon elevates that story and, much like Osabu, I feel like its fast pace and the often vague backstories can even be seen as positives in how they make the manga more mysterious and fun to theorize about. Plus like Takeuchi says we still have the anime (and now PGSM, musicals, etc.) to pick up the slack for some things she couldn't do, so in the long run the way her manga is told has allowed different adaptations to continue to be creative.
I guess you could say she just aimed too high from the start and she was bound to become overwhelmed sooner or later, but I'm glad she did so because while I like Sailor V, to me Sailor Moon elevates that story and, much like Osabu, I feel like its fast pace and the often vague backstories can even be seen as positives in how they make the manga more mysterious and fun to theorize about. Plus like Takeuchi says we still have the anime (and now PGSM, musicals, etc.) to pick up the slack for some things she couldn't do, so in the long run the way her manga is told has allowed different adaptations to continue to be creative.
This mightn't be a reach - Takeuchi might've insisted to have her reprising the role, like she insisted Sawai to play the role in PGSM back then.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it! I think it might be the most insightful interview she's given, so I don't understand why it hadn't been translated to English yet, I figured everyone would be all over it. I hope she does a similar interview after Cosmos premiere.
Ah, that makes sense, thanks for clarifying. I think the "mightn't" threw me off, lol.
Ah, that makes sense, thanks for clarifying. I think the "mightn't" threw me off, lol.
Usagi makes a brief cameo in the manga. 
Miyuki of Miyuki chan even resembles Minako.
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Welp there you have it, Naoko Takeuchi confirming in big bright bold letters that Manga Haruka was always intended to be non-binary, unless this is just another mistranslation and she really means Haruka having both feminine and masculine qualities, not literally being both genders/sexes.
You see that? @MariaTenebre nobody was trying to make Haruka anything, we’re just repeating what Naoko said on the matter and so far all interview and in-canon text translations of the manga support the theory that Naoko did indeed intend for her Haruka to be some sort of androgynous/intersex person.
With that being said this does seem to contradict Naoko’s previous often reported statement that only women can be Senshi, perhaps this was just a rumor as well? After all the existence of Mamoru and his Senshi status in the manga certainly proves as much, I wonder if this long-standing rumor came about due to Naoko being upset at the Starlights gender changing in the anime? I think it’s clear now she wasn’t so much upset because she feels only full cis women can be Senshi but probably because she considered it an attempt at “straightening” out the SeiUsa ship and she wanted it as a full-fledged lesbian pairing rather than just a general queer one.
Does this mean she doesn’t have a distaste for queer men after all or is this just PR speak? Her actions certainly contradict her words with the way she deleted pretty much any semblance of queerness from the men in the manga.
That doesn’t make sense though considering it’s Manga Haruka who’s described as being both genders while the same is never said about 90’s anime Haruka who firmly identifies as a woman and is just a regular cis butch female.
It is most certainly aimed at an older crowd than the 90’s anime though, that’s just objective fact - even if it’s as little a difference between preschoolers not knowing how to read yet and elementary-schoolers who can.
You see that? @MariaTenebre nobody was trying to make Haruka anything, we’re just repeating what Naoko said on the matter and so far all interview and in-canon text translations of the manga support the theory that Naoko did indeed intend for her Haruka to be some sort of androgynous/intersex person.
With that being said this does seem to contradict Naoko’s previous often reported statement that only women can be Senshi, perhaps this was just a rumor as well? After all the existence of Mamoru and his Senshi status in the manga certainly proves as much, I wonder if this long-standing rumor came about due to Naoko being upset at the Starlights gender changing in the anime? I think it’s clear now she wasn’t so much upset because she feels only full cis women can be Senshi but probably because she considered it an attempt at “straightening” out the SeiUsa ship and she wanted it as a full-fledged lesbian pairing rather than just a general queer one.
Does this mean she doesn’t have a distaste for queer men after all or is this just PR speak? Her actions certainly contradict her words with the way she deleted pretty much any semblance of queerness from the men in the manga.
That doesn’t make sense though considering it’s Manga Haruka who’s described as being both genders while the same is never said about 90’s anime Haruka who firmly identifies as a woman and is just a regular cis butch female.
It is most certainly aimed at an older crowd than the 90’s anime though, that’s just objective fact - even if it’s as little a difference between preschoolers not knowing how to read yet and elementary-schoolers who can.
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It's not an objective fact. They're both aimed at elementary school girls
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Right but that 4-5 year old age group that’s included in the 90’s anime targeted demographic is still different from the manga’s 6-13 targeted range. (8-13? I’m honestly not even sure if Naoko meant the manga is appropriate for even literal 1st graders but more just the middle and upper elementary grades)
It’s not a big difference mind you but it’s still the difference between what Naoko was allowed to get away with in the manga compared to what Toei could do in the anime.
It’s not a big difference mind you but it’s still the difference between what Naoko was allowed to get away with in the manga compared to what Toei could do in the anime.
But she didn't delete anything. You're speaking as if she took the plot from the anime and and changed it to get rid of "male queerness" when it was the anime that added those traits to the base story of the manga, which is what came first. In this very interview she says that she appreciates how the 90s anime could develop characters she couldn't and praises the Amazon Trio.
The 6-14 years old during the time of Sailor Moon serialization are Gen X and Millenials, although I did not like that Crystal kind of ignored the Gen X fanbase.
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