Haha, this Sailor Moon R Christmas stageshow thing is kind of amazing in a terrible way! (How does one get drunk on nonacoholic champaign, anyway?) The heads wouldn't be creepy to me, except that they made the mouths a big open space with teeth. Should've made them a flat pink space or something, like on figurines. The person playing Usagi in the costume actually did a great job on the motions and body language I think.
I wonder if Emi Shinohara and Fukami Rica were disappointed or relieved that they didn't have their own mascots to voice-dub...
I definitely agree about the cost thing. And DiC could've scraped off even more costs by keeping the original music (and by trivially switching out Moonlight Densetsu, Maboroshi No Ginzuishou, and soforth for the instrumental versions; though I am glad we god "My Only Love" out of the way things turned out, and it was probably a good marketing call to make some sort of English song to the tune of Moonlight Densetsu).
They probably overdid the editing time, too, even if the censorship was all required; what I mean is they tried to lip-sync all the english dialogue, and made tons of tiny little pacing changes for some reason, like they poured over every single clip and fiddled with all of them. I wouldn't be surprised if they had complete-but-unaired prototypes of the cut episodes, too. But even then, it was probably a lot cheaper than making an all-new show.
Yeah, to make a new show with Sailor Moon stock footage, you'd need to be imitating Sailor Moon's animation style... which would probably wind up looking like that janky old fanclub badge thing. That'd be a whole different weird project than what Toon Makers was doing. (That, or they could go halfway, using DiC-style scenes from the anime, but intersplicing them with new live action scenes a la the "Tommy Kennedy" bookended Transformers episodes).
I wonder if Emi Shinohara and Fukami Rica were disappointed or relieved that they didn't have their own mascots to voice-dub...
I definitely agree about the cost thing. And DiC could've scraped off even more costs by keeping the original music (and by trivially switching out Moonlight Densetsu, Maboroshi No Ginzuishou, and soforth for the instrumental versions; though I am glad we god "My Only Love" out of the way things turned out, and it was probably a good marketing call to make some sort of English song to the tune of Moonlight Densetsu).
They probably overdid the editing time, too, even if the censorship was all required; what I mean is they tried to lip-sync all the english dialogue, and made tons of tiny little pacing changes for some reason, like they poured over every single clip and fiddled with all of them. I wouldn't be surprised if they had complete-but-unaired prototypes of the cut episodes, too. But even then, it was probably a lot cheaper than making an all-new show.
Yeah, to make a new show with Sailor Moon stock footage, you'd need to be imitating Sailor Moon's animation style... which would probably wind up looking like that janky old fanclub badge thing. That'd be a whole different weird project than what Toon Makers was doing. (That, or they could go halfway, using DiC-style scenes from the anime, but intersplicing them with new live action scenes a la the "Tommy Kennedy" bookended Transformers episodes).
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