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I don't think the dub will flop terribly. I'm pretty sure most people want to watch it in their own language.
Sorry, I had removed it. I did the same for Part 2 I thought
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A forum member reminded me of a unnecessary evil I was committing for the sake of wanting everyone to see it (who may not could have afforded to). I was being disrespectful to the original artists & creators which I was. I wasn't really thinking properly when I posted.
Sorry, I had removed it. I did the same for Part 2 I thought
. A forum member reminded me of a unnecessary evil I was committing for the sake of wanting everyone to see it (who may not could have afforded to). I was being disrespectful to the original artists & creators which I was. I wasn't really thinking properly when I posted.
i just cant get used to this artstyle
it looks so bland compared to the previous seasons and the manga. sometimes it can look really good but most of the time it looks boring
I also miss how NQS looked more mature than SM, whereas this is just her with white hair.
I know this might seem a little critical but I find Mars' and Venus' behavior odd when Sailor Moon showed up and defeated Lead Crow.
It seemed a little strange for them to run towards Sailor Moon for some reason like that.
What I was assuming would happen was that after Lead Crow dies, Galaxia would appear but they would sort of make the scene where Mars and Venus confront her, give a speech, and launch attacks that would get deflected and then they would be zapped that way.
I didn't expect them to run to Eternal Sailor Moon so "unaware." I don't know if careless is what I want to use but....idk. It just seemed odd.
Mars is a Shinto Priestess and has some marital arts ability. I don't believe she would have stayed in a chokehold like that from Lead Crow.
It seemed a little strange for them to run towards Sailor Moon for some reason like that.
What I was assuming would happen was that after Lead Crow dies, Galaxia would appear but they would sort of make the scene where Mars and Venus confront her, give a speech, and launch attacks that would get deflected and then they would be zapped that way.
I didn't expect them to run to Eternal Sailor Moon so "unaware." I don't know if careless is what I want to use but....idk. It just seemed odd.
Mars is a Shinto Priestess and has some marital arts ability. I don't believe she would have stayed in a chokehold like that from Lead Crow.
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I got what I was expecting since it was announced, so I wasn't disappointed. I thought it was maybe even slightly better than I was anticipating.
Story: 9/10
If you want the manga, it's the manga. If you hate the manga, it's still the manga. The 9 isn't a rating for the manga story...it's for the accuracy we get. Anything that's not from the manga improves on it and I thought the extra scenes were needed (and we needed more of that).
I like the manga story and fully except it is often stupid, flawed, overdramatic and a massive info dump too little too late.
Don't care, judge me, I still enjoy it. We got the manga 1:1 here with bonuses. So it gets a 9 for being faithful and making it somewhat watchable and cohesive with the restraints Naoko and Toei gave.
Animation: 7/10
We were never getting Ghibli...and Toei doesn't really do better than this. For a Toei movie it's pretty high up there. The animation itself is all over the place, but for Toei, it had its moments. Sadly, the CG heavy parts were pretty nasty at times and felt dated. It's hard to rate it here because it was inconsistent. It definitely has some of the prettiest parts from this reboot, and also some extremely bland parts that seem to be missing frames.
It has less dead scenes than Eternal.
Art direction: 8/10:
The still scenes are gorgeous and the coloring and lighting is beautiful. A tad oversaturated, but it felt like Sailor Moon. Lots of pinks, warm glows, silvers and rainbows. There are some ugly shots, and the frog mouths pop in from time to time, but overall, I think they did a great job and I am satisfied bar the errors.
Pacing: 5/10
Hmm, I thought it was better than Eternal. In my opinion they spent too much time with exposition and too little time with the action scenes and the pacing was bad here. Had each film had even 15-20 minutes more, they could have really made the battles have impact. With 30 minutes added to each the movies would probably feel complete.
Way too much standing around talking while enemies just explained it all and waiting until people were dead to fight back.
Atrocious when an enemy is on screen. They spend so much time transforming just to get one shot killed and then the enemy gets one shot killed. Same as the manga just with stock footage. These should have been real time attacks since they were in a film.
There was too much stock footage, but mercifully, it's shortened when reshown unless your name is Uranus. Too bad all her budget must have been used up on World Shaking in Eternal...they should have shown that here at least once.
Music: 8/10
The music was mostly good, I loved the New Age vibe. It probably has the best music and I've loved the soundtrack throughout the reboot, even if Eternal was generic. It's nothing memorable like the Sailor Mars theme from season 1, but it's serviceable and personally I love it.
Keep in mind I listen to Enya and stuff like that, so it is my cup of tea.
With how powerful the 4 Kings felt in season 1, each group of enemies has felt like a downgrade as far as power goes. These villains are at least handled better than Eternal and are consistent with how badly they've been handled since the beginning. They are better here than the manga, I will give them that, just because the extra visuals we have and we get to see what most of the attacks do rather than: "Galactica random space word!" and a pose like we see in the manga.
The senshi have all these awesome powers in season 1 (including flight) but fail to use them after season 3.
My favorite instance of this has to be the awesome scene of Usagi flying around at high speed to dodge an attack, then chasing Galaxia on foot 2 seconds later.
I think that puts my score at like 7.6.
Maybe my opinion will change on future viewings, but I think I'm done with it for now except for watching clips.
Story: 9/10
If you want the manga, it's the manga. If you hate the manga, it's still the manga. The 9 isn't a rating for the manga story...it's for the accuracy we get. Anything that's not from the manga improves on it and I thought the extra scenes were needed (and we needed more of that).
I like the manga story and fully except it is often stupid, flawed, overdramatic and a massive info dump too little too late.
Don't care, judge me, I still enjoy it. We got the manga 1:1 here with bonuses. So it gets a 9 for being faithful and making it somewhat watchable and cohesive with the restraints Naoko and Toei gave.
Animation: 7/10
We were never getting Ghibli...and Toei doesn't really do better than this. For a Toei movie it's pretty high up there. The animation itself is all over the place, but for Toei, it had its moments. Sadly, the CG heavy parts were pretty nasty at times and felt dated. It's hard to rate it here because it was inconsistent. It definitely has some of the prettiest parts from this reboot, and also some extremely bland parts that seem to be missing frames.
It has less dead scenes than Eternal.
Art direction: 8/10:
The still scenes are gorgeous and the coloring and lighting is beautiful. A tad oversaturated, but it felt like Sailor Moon. Lots of pinks, warm glows, silvers and rainbows. There are some ugly shots, and the frog mouths pop in from time to time, but overall, I think they did a great job and I am satisfied bar the errors.
Pacing: 5/10
Hmm, I thought it was better than Eternal. In my opinion they spent too much time with exposition and too little time with the action scenes and the pacing was bad here. Had each film had even 15-20 minutes more, they could have really made the battles have impact. With 30 minutes added to each the movies would probably feel complete.
Way too much standing around talking while enemies just explained it all and waiting until people were dead to fight back.
Atrocious when an enemy is on screen. They spend so much time transforming just to get one shot killed and then the enemy gets one shot killed. Same as the manga just with stock footage. These should have been real time attacks since they were in a film.
There was too much stock footage, but mercifully, it's shortened when reshown unless your name is Uranus. Too bad all her budget must have been used up on World Shaking in Eternal...they should have shown that here at least once.
Music: 8/10
The music was mostly good, I loved the New Age vibe. It probably has the best music and I've loved the soundtrack throughout the reboot, even if Eternal was generic. It's nothing memorable like the Sailor Mars theme from season 1, but it's serviceable and personally I love it.
Keep in mind I listen to Enya and stuff like that, so it is my cup of tea.
With how powerful the 4 Kings felt in season 1, each group of enemies has felt like a downgrade as far as power goes. These villains are at least handled better than Eternal and are consistent with how badly they've been handled since the beginning. They are better here than the manga, I will give them that, just because the extra visuals we have and we get to see what most of the attacks do rather than: "Galactica random space word!" and a pose like we see in the manga.
The senshi have all these awesome powers in season 1 (including flight) but fail to use them after season 3.
My favorite instance of this has to be the awesome scene of Usagi flying around at high speed to dodge an attack, then chasing Galaxia on foot 2 seconds later.
I think that puts my score at like 7.6.
Maybe my opinion will change on future viewings, but I think I'm done with it for now except for watching clips.
I was thinking about this too. In the manga, it feels like it happens very quickly. In the movie, it was so extended that it made me think of the end of the 90s Season 1. Mars would have lit her ass up! 
If they had composed the scene for it to happen pretty quickly, then the choke hold would have made more sense.
Because of the immediacy, it also feels more cathartic, because you know others have died and you expect Mars and Venus to die, only to be relieved that they are fine, only for Galaxia to step in out of nowhere and kill them. It's brutal. This is again a problem of how one interprets the manga when adapting it to animation. If you decide the scene can take time--like they can really run to Sailor Moon, rather than them just expressing immediate relief--you risk making the scene come off as silly. Personally, I feel like composing the scene where they both turn and thank Sailor Moon and are interrupted mid-turn and mid-sentence would have conveyed the same feeling of shock in the manga.
If they had composed the scene for it to happen pretty quickly, then the choke hold would have made more sense.Because of the immediacy, it also feels more cathartic, because you know others have died and you expect Mars and Venus to die, only to be relieved that they are fine, only for Galaxia to step in out of nowhere and kill them. It's brutal. This is again a problem of how one interprets the manga when adapting it to animation. If you decide the scene can take time--like they can really run to Sailor Moon, rather than them just expressing immediate relief--you risk making the scene come off as silly. Personally, I feel like composing the scene where they both turn and thank Sailor Moon and are interrupted mid-turn and mid-sentence would have conveyed the same feeling of shock in the manga.
I didn't like a lot how the fight with Iron Mouse went on, either, for a few factors:
- The inners and Moon have lenghty transformations and speeches but literally do nothing. The outers come by without transformation sequences and are the only ones to attack.
- In the manga, it's shown that the inners blocked Iron Mouse's attack and locked the auditorium doors so people were kept out. This was cut from the film.
- In the manga, Uranus and Neptune's attacks weren''t shown blocking off Iron Mouse's attack; then Iron Mouse just looked evil and put her bracelets up, Uranus and Neptune just looked up at a menacing glow of light. Then Healer threw her attack out of nowhere and Iron Mouse was killed.
- The manga made the suggestion that all senshi were doing something, and that Healer's attack was important because it looked like Neptune and Uranus might be about to get killed, as we later saw what the Animamates' attacks could do. So Healer's attack both passed through Iron Mouse's attack, something Uranus and Neptune couldn't do, and killed her. This was erased by the way the scene was handled in the film.
- However, the soundtrack to this scene is very nice, especially during Violon Tide, can't wait to be able to hear it.
- The inners and Moon have lenghty transformations and speeches but literally do nothing. The outers come by without transformation sequences and are the only ones to attack.
- In the manga, it's shown that the inners blocked Iron Mouse's attack and locked the auditorium doors so people were kept out. This was cut from the film.
- In the manga, Uranus and Neptune's attacks weren''t shown blocking off Iron Mouse's attack; then Iron Mouse just looked evil and put her bracelets up, Uranus and Neptune just looked up at a menacing glow of light. Then Healer threw her attack out of nowhere and Iron Mouse was killed.
- The manga made the suggestion that all senshi were doing something, and that Healer's attack was important because it looked like Neptune and Uranus might be about to get killed, as we later saw what the Animamates' attacks could do. So Healer's attack both passed through Iron Mouse's attack, something Uranus and Neptune couldn't do, and killed her. This was erased by the way the scene was handled in the film.
- However, the soundtrack to this scene is very nice, especially during Violon Tide, can't wait to be able to hear it.
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Should have done it earlier.
Apparently someone braved enough to upload 2 parts to youtube
and I watched it
However, I am DEFINITELY NOT gonna do the review of it considering I watched the leak because I am actually waiting for the Netflix release
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But for little rough summary review: I am happy with those 2 movies, and basically this feels like the final love letter to the Sailor Moon fans
and I watched it
However, I am DEFINITELY NOT gonna do the review of it considering I watched the leak because I am actually waiting for the Netflix release
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But for little rough summary review: I am happy with those 2 movies, and basically this feels like the final love letter to the Sailor Moon fans
I rewatched it and yeah I think part 2 is leagues above Eternal, but I still insist that part one is inferior on the character art department, while still having more dynamic shots and better backgrounds and color scheme - the characters look pretty bad most of the time in part 1 - I mean when Asanuma looks better than everybody else the whole 75 minutes...
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You are fans, and you are not patient... You could have waited for the Netflix release (especially since the English dubbing would be in progress with a photo where the guy who voices Tuxedo Mask would have left a clue in the photo)... And you are going into illegal streaming viewing.
Hello the image you give of Sailor Moon fans, between those who insulted the Japanese for the physical release and the people who bought the box sets (Twitter + Youtube official)...
Hello the image you give of Sailor Moon fans, between those who insulted the Japanese for the physical release and the people who bought the box sets (Twitter + Youtube official)...