Sailor Moon Art Director motifs

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This 360 rotation with zoom in and zoom out = chef's kiss! :bow::bow::bow:
If they attempted this in Crystal I don't even wanna imagine the distorted faces. Also, if they pulled it off, there went the budget for the next season or movie.
You are making me nostalgic for the Nehelennia arc. It felt like what the series should have been all along and how it should have continued...
...more school life drama with other students, more hanging out and discussing the enemies at Rei's, and more mysteries like the mirror thing. There were several MOD plots that could have been expanded to multi episode arcs like this, Dandadan style.
If SM ever gets lucky(?) enough to have another reboot/revival...they should definitely focus on this sort of thing more. As a fan of the monsters in season 1 and 2...they started dropping off in s3 and really nosedived by Stars, but I believe the writers and artists really had some great concepts when they were allowed to focus on one mini arc at a time.
 
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If they attempted this in Crystal I don't even wanna imagine the distorted faces. Also, if they pulled it off, there went the budget for the next season or movie.
You are making me nostalgic for the Nehelennia arc. It felt like what the series should have been all along and how it should have continued...
...more school life drama with other students, more hanging out and discussing the enemies at Rei's, and more mysteries like the mirror thing. There were several MOD plots that could have been expanded to multi episode arcs like this, Dandadan style.
If SM ever gets lucky(?) enough to have another reboot/revival...they should definitely focus on this sort of thing more. As a fan of the monsters in season 1 and 2...they started dropping off in s3 and really nosedived by Stars, but I believe the writers and artists really had some great concepts when they were allowed to focus on one mini arc at a time.
Totally!
This is what made Sailor Moon and what is so 'nostalgic' about it.

The school drama, the girls being girls and doing teenage things (going to an anime studio to get autographs, getting into a contest to get money, spying on your best friend's first date, going to the local hair salon that has a promo campaign because we're feeling down), meetings at the Hikawa Shrine to discuss about the enemy (Rei providing predictions, Ami and Minako being a duo with Minako providing pointers to Ami on where to investigate etc...). There is so much potential!

Honestly, Toei should have simply done a sequel/reboot a la Saint Seiya Omega for the revival.
Perhaps in the likes of that fake with Chibi-Usa and Hotaru and the girls' kids (a la Parallel Sailor Moon) having their own adventures. This could have easily been an entertaining 50-something episode anniversary series.
Then, they could have followed with sporadic movie releases (like with Dragon Ball). Perhaps one re-imagination of the manga's Dark Kingdom arc. Later a sequel to the 90s anime that takes place as the girls are graduating.
And in 2025/26, for the franchise's 35th anniversary, it would have been the perfect time for a 90s anime remake in the likes of Ranma 1/2 or Jigoku Sensei Nube that we are seeing happening.
Instead of a very lackluster, forgettable and disastrous adaptation that ran for a decade.




A very beautiful Ami!













"I was thinking..."
"What is it, Rei-chan?"
"That disease they speak of, could it be somehow linked to mirrors?"



I really wished we had more scenes like these. We used to have them a lot during Classic and R...


"Be it the incident of my shrine's sacred mirror or be it the true form of the demons we fought the other day...recently, there has been too many cases surrounding mirrors!"




"You're right!"


"Now that you say it, it's true..."
 
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"The crisis Haruka-san and the others alluded to, could it be all about this?"


"A dark shadow wraps over the White Moon. A wicked malice looms over the one with the radiant golden locks."

Why are you being creepy Hotaru?





This is one of my favorite scenes of the whole series!



"We don't know for certain yet, however..."
"Some sort of evil is coming for us..."



"What I do know is that something is about to begin. And at the same time, something is about to conclude."


"And by that it will change everything, it will awaken and it will set us on the path of annihilation."




"Then, the reason why our shrine's sacred mirror started acting weird...!"
"And the mysterious modern disease as well!"







"I believe it must all be the doing of the evil living inside the mirrors."
"You mustn't carelessly look inside mirrors. You'll become possessed by that evil force."



"Figuring out that the shadows were approaching the Prince, Haruka and Michiru have already rushed to him. You have to make haste too!"
 

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"The crisis Haruka-san and the others alluded to, could it be all about this?"


"A dark shadow wraps over the White Moon. A wicked malice looms over the one with the radiant golden locks."

Why are you being creepy Hotaru?





This is one of my favorite scenes of the whole series!



"We don't know for certain yet, however..."
"Some sort of evil is coming for us..."



"What I do know is that something is about to begin. And at the same time, something is about to conclude."


"And by that it will change everything, it will awaken and it will set us on the path of annihilation."




"Then, the reason why our shrine's sacred mirror started acting weird...!"
"And the mysterious modern disease as well!"







"I believe it must all be the doing of the evil living inside the mirrors."
"You mustn't carelessly look inside mirrors. You'll become possessed by that evil force."



"Figuring out that the shadows were approaching the Prince, Haruka and Michiru have already rushed to him. You have to make haste too!"
Such a cool episode. It feels…different.
 
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Interrupting this to talk about Mari again. That SuperS Ami Melody episode. Love the way she draws Ami's Eyes :ami:


 
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Space Sword... Blaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



It's simple choreography but it moves so well!


Cosmos' Space Turbulence and Violon Tide:


"I'm been thinking all day."
"What about?"
"That just for this once, I wished I was wrong."
"That so? I think it's a lot better than sitting around bored all day."
"Oh my ~ Are you implying I bore you? ~"


:bow::bow::bow:POWER COUPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bow::bow::bow:
 

saintfighteraqua

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Submarine... Reflection!!!!!!!



Go! Go! Michi GO!




But this peasant 90s Michiru doesn't have magical length changing seaweed hair like the one in Crystal season 3. Obviously inferior.
Look at that animation. Look at how the hair can be any length and every length within the space of a few frames!