Sailor Moon Cosmos announced for Summer 2023 [SPOILERS ALERT]

[Mathiwn]

I've been really loving everything about Cosmos thus far but I really hate how they've handled this shot. Maybe it'll look better in motion but I'm not digging Galaxia's exaggerated expression. The original expression was so confident yet still slightly deranged. Cosmos!Galaxia looks like she's doing her best Ren Hoek impression. I guess I was expecting different lighting or a subtle tone in the shot as well.

She looks scary in that panel but still quite elusive, like a scary alien. The panel from the film freaks me out, she looks like a horror film murderer. I'm not sure how to feel.

 

[E. Knight]

I don't dislike it at all. In fact I have always thought that Galaxia from manga was some kind of psycho without empathy. But there is still a chance that we will see the same expression in the movie. Maybe as Galaxia has some speech in that pose, and the screenshot caught her in the middle of a different phrase , one where she shows a more tense expression. I mean, it's just a screenshot of a scene where she will speak and, maybe, show different facial expressions. We'll have to wait and see

 

[JunoDX]

I've been really loving everything about Cosmos thus far but I really hate how they've handled this shot. Maybe it'll look better in motion but I'm not digging Galaxia's exaggerated expression. The original expression was so confident yet still slightly deranged. Cosmos!Galaxia looks like she's doing her best Ren Hoek impression. I guess I was expecting different lighting or a subtle tone in the shot as well.

The lighting here is similar to the Reinako moment in the manga and looks like in both cases we’ll get something different.

 

[Masquerade]

Stuff such as fallen Kakyuu could easily pass as something from the best animators of the 90s anime. And I'm glad they're doing their own takes at poses and angles instead of copying Naoko's ones

 

[Jawshx]

I've been really loving everything about Cosmos thus far but I really hate how they've handled this shot. Maybe it'll look better in motion but I'm not digging Galaxia's exaggerated expression. The original expression was so confident yet still slightly deranged. Cosmos!Galaxia looks like she's doing her best Ren Hoek impression. I guess I was expecting different lighting or a subtle tone in the shot as well.

I don’t mind the Cosmos version- it’s a more ‘unhinged’ vibe than the more ‘put together’ subtle madness of the manga, if that makes any sense at all. I would’ve enjoyed more hard shading on the faces to give it more of an unsettling vibe but it’s fine. I just hope they don’t go full out Mistress 9 with her like in S3. The distorted faces were almost comical there rather than creepy.

 

[Masquerade]

I just hope they don’t go full out Mistress 9 with her like in S3. The distorted faces were almost comical there rather than creepy.

Exactly. I don't get why people like that slideshow so much.
I like Crystal III, but Mistress 9 looked like she was coming straight from some cheap hentai when she did those faces without moving her body.

 

[STARDUST.]

New screenshot alert:

https://twitter.com/statuses/1661456267850797059

They've done such a great job capturing Sailor Galaxia's intensity so far.

More new pics are linked in the tweet.

this looks so good????? i’m so excited for this, i need another new trailer released!

 

[MsImagination]

She looks scary in that panel but still quite elusive, like a scary alien. The panel from the film freaks me out, she looks like a horror film murderer. I'm not sure how to feel.

Well I like it! It does fit the character.Galaxia was always a psyvho.She killed planets without batting eye.She show no remorse for killing people.

 

[DREWdesu]

New screenshot alert:

https://twitter.com/statuses/1661456267850797059

All I could think about when seeing this screen capture is Trini vs Rita from the 2017 Power Rangers movie.

 

[Wild Rose Rebellion]

Well they already spoiled the Amazon Quartet appearing in scene so... I dont think showing the animamates is more of a shocking spoiler than that xD

This makes sense if you think about it from the perspective of someone who's only watched Crystal and Eternal, which ended with the Quartet becoming Sailor Guardians, so naturally one would expect them to be back. Whereas the Animamates' appearances, and their links to Rei, Luna and Artemis, would be a total surprise.

She looks scary in that panel but still quite elusive, like a scary alien. The panel from the film freaks me out, she looks like a horror film murderer. I'm not sure how to feel.

I mean, technically she is a scary alien, so in a way it's fitting lol. Personally, I dig it. Those faces with Hayashibara's voice? Sign me up.

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

All I could think about when seeing this screen capture is Trini vs Rita from the 2017 Power Rangers movie.

Would be awesome if Cosmos would copy that scene.

 

[Mathiwn]

I mean, technically she is a scary alien, so in a way it's fitting lol. Personally, I dig it. Those faces with Hayashibara's voice? Sign me up.

Oh, I absolutely think it will look very cool when we see the film. But maybe my peeve with it is, if she looked like a "scary alien" my fear of her would bear more from the fact that she exudes an aura of some unknown being - like the anxiety one might feel watching the stargate sequence in the film '2001: a space odyssey'. There's still a sort of morbid grace in this character, because she still feels somewhat incomprehensible.

That screenshot of the same scene from the film, though, dryly shows a deranged female character, the sort you'd expect to pull out a knife and cut off someone's throat in some slasher film. It absolutely conveys the feeling her character's supposed to have in the manga, but my immediate reaction was different. She looks more explicitly "dangerous".

It might also make it more exciting than the manga, I don't know.

 

[Hadibou]

But, I'm sorry Mamo's not doing for me - it's the unbuttoned black shirt collar that's making him hot, isn't it?

Yeah totally, I have basic taste in men fashion ahaha. Would love them to make him a hairy torso but it won’t happen I guess
More seriously it’s nice they found a nice design for him because he was very bland in the OG anime. I liked how he was designed in Crystal S3 but at this point it was like a different character though.

I waited 9 years for this moment, they have to give us shirtless Tadano's Mamoru in bed! I deserve it lol

Yesssss I don’t understand why some people think they will censor this scene because they are just waking up and kiss and they will just hide naked bodies under sheets or add a pajama or something to Usagi. It’s not even sexual or anything.

 

[Talentless Fool]

I liked how he was designed in Crystal S3 but at this point it was like a different character though.

 

[danilushk]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1661562982856536065

Visual book is releasing on 4th July

 

[Crystal Moon]

You should thank the animator, because in settei, Mamoru's face looks like THIS
Settei Dreams

 

[JunoDX]

This is from the best looking half of a S3 episode. period.

 

[Sailor_Art]

That episode actually is basically the best on model S3 delivered. It has some really good shots.

 

[Lady Pen]

I waited 9 years for this moment, they have to give us shirtless Tadano's Mamoru in bed! I deserve it lol

Yes, I agree Tadano's Mamoru was the best. We had him shirtless in Crystal... but it was not 'him'. He looked like another anime character and very Barbie Ken doll.

Stuff such as fallen Kakyuu could easily pass as something from the best animators of the 90s anime. And I'm glad they're doing their own takes at poses and angles instead of copying Naoko's ones

One of the best things of Crystermos is that you can see the characters finally interact with each other. For example, in the Black Moon arc there're scenes of King Endymion talking directly to Mamo, Usagi and Minako. There's this required sort of invisible feedback. The manga was always showing close up shots of the characters in empty/blank spaces. So, the reboot is making something right in that respect.

 

[JunoDX]

Again, the beautiful and scenic lighting from the manga ignored

https://twitter.com/statuses/1661773574846267392

The background looks great though

Tsuki No Hana is out!

https://twitter.com/statuses/1661748975018606595

https://twitter.com/statuses/1661754554214502401