RIP Sailor Moon

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Dr. Xadium

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#21
I think because the OG character interpretations are so beloved that changing them might be a problem. What makes more sense (and I may have said this before) is sidestories. Set in the Silver Millennium, or post Stars, or in between. With new threats not necessarily ties to the ones we've seen before.

If we were going to go like precure and change the teams, I think it should be a gradual swap, with new characters coming in one at a time as old ones are phased out, so it's not like the whole team changes at once every series.

I feel with something like Sailor Moon, the best approach is a dynastic one, because we are so used to the concept of a past, present and future history. Each major arc could slowly build and modify the next "dynasty" in the history of Earth / Future Tokyo, whatever comes next.

If it was me I would do it like how Evangelion did Rebuild. The first arc goes almost like it did before, but slowly things begin to diverge. (Let's blame it on the Black Moon changing history and making a branching timeline). And we keep the characterizations mostly the same, but start to change them with new interpersonal dynamics. Then start changing the major beats of the arcs we used to know, and then, by Stars, have the sailor wars play out differently. Galaxia is not merely confronted by Usagi + Three Lights, but by other Sailor Senshi from other worlds involved in the Sailor War (or their descendants) - this gets us "new" senshi to start working into the cast as we work old ones out. Also we could awaken senshi of other astronomical bodies in the solar system. And new classes of allies, maybe old reformed enemies.

Basically rather than having the bottleneck of a "Fixed" future that R hamstrung the narrative with, we could not have an open-ended and uncertain future to work with.
 

foenyanko

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#22
I think because the OG character interpretations are so beloved that changing them might be a problem. What makes more sense (and I may have said this before) is sidestories. Set in the Silver Millennium, or post Stars, or in between. With new threats not necessarily ties to the ones we've seen before.

If we were going to go like precure and change the teams, I think it should be a gradual swap, with new characters coming in one at a time as old ones are phased out, so it's not like the whole team changes at once every series.

I feel with something like Sailor Moon, the best approach is a dynastic one, because we are so used to the concept of a past, present and future history. Each major arc could slowly build and modify the next "dynasty" in the history of Earth / Future Tokyo, whatever comes next.

If it was me I would do it like how Evangelion did Rebuild. The first arc goes almost like it did before, but slowly things begin to diverge. (Let's blame it on the Black Moon changing history and making a branching timeline). And we keep the characterizations mostly the same, but start to change them with new interpersonal dynamics. Then start changing the major beats of the arcs we used to know, and then, by Stars, have the sailor wars play out differently. Galaxia is not merely confronted by Usagi + Three Lights, but by other Sailor Senshi from other worlds involved in the Sailor War (or their descendants) - this gets us "new" senshi to start working into the cast as we work old ones out. Also we could awaken senshi of other astronomical bodies in the solar system. And new classes of allies, maybe old reformed enemies.

Basically rather than having the bottleneck of a "Fixed" future that R hamstrung the narrative with, we could not have an open-ended and uncertain future to work with.
I like the concept. The only issue I see with it is we'd have yet another retelling of the Dark Kingdom arc before things started to shift.
 
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#24
it's crazy that something like sailor moon can't be like gundam. that franchise gets new anime series every few years with different protagonists and stories. madoka magica has manga about different magical girls (e.g. oriko magica). evangelion occasionally gets a new reinterpretation of its original characters (e.g. campus apocalypse, shinji ikari raising project, the rebuild movies)...

i guess some material is conducive to a long-running franchise and some isn't ^_^' the plot of sailor moon might just be too thin for such things
it has the potential to be that way in my opinion Naoko didn't see it that way I guess
 

Dr. Xadium

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#26
I like the concept. The only issue I see with it is we'd have yet another retelling of the Dark Kingdom arc before things started to shift.
We could compensate for this by showing more backstory of the Dark Kingdom / Moon / Earth during Silver Millennium times as part of the arc. As each senshi is "unlocked" more of this backstory is too. What was the culture of these places like? What were the princesses like? What intrigue led to the rise of Beryl? Intercut it more with the adventures we already know, so there's more richness to the interactions, we get more lore and we don't feel like our time is being wasted.
 

sakurra

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#27
I totally agree with the idea of a dynastic development, it fits perfectly with the spirit of Sailor Moon.Fans are attached to the original characters, so too abrupt a change would risk breaking the magic.Sidestories in the past or the future would be a great way to expand the universe without betraying the essence.I really like the idea of divergent timelines because of the Black Moon, it opens up a lot of creative doors.And slowly integrating new Senshi into a larger star war is super exciting.We could keep the emotion of the original while daring something else.Anyway, I would love to see an evolution like that for the saga!