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.
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.
the plot of sailor moon might just be too thin for such things
