What should the 3rd Sailor Moon rebooted anime look like?

[ChampionOfNuggets]

and we know that they love to milk the Dark Kingdom arc to death so it feels way more likely.

I will never understand why the fandom keeps saying this. You mean each adaptation starts at...wait for it...the beginning of the story!?!?

 

[Slowpokeking]

I will never understand why the fandom keeps saying this. You mean each adaptation starts at...wait for it...the beginning of the story!?!?

I understand why other than it's the beginning.

Sailor Moon has been going downhill since SuperS, in Classic you can focus on both the Inner Five and the Miracle Romance the best. Other cast of the family/the daily school life also got a lot of plot to do.

BMC arc mostly focused on Chibiusa and BMC villains, it would not work too well since there are time traveling and tons of big destruction that were difficult to handle in some way.

S is about all 10 senshi fighting together, it would also be hard to handle without setup or major change.

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

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I understand why other than it's the beginning.

Sailor Moon has been going downhill since SuperS, in Classic you can focus on both the Inner Five and the Miracle Romance the best. Other cast of the family/the daily school life also got a lot of plot to do.

BMC arc mostly focused on Chibiusa and BMC villains, it would not work too well since there are time traveling and tons of big destruction that were difficult to handle in some way.

S is about all 10 senshi fighting together, it would also be hard to handle without setup or major change.

So it's due to laziness.

 

[Nadia]

And that's what I've got so far. Let me know your thoughts and if you'd like me to continue writing more. I've got plans going all the way to the end with the final battle against Sailor Galaxia.

All I can say is I want more!

 

[Clow]

A new story or a spin-off.

We have the manga, Crystal and the 90’s anime.

Give us something fresh.

 

[JunoDX]

A new story or a spin-off.

We have the manga, Crystal and the 90’s anime.

Give us something fresh.

Something fresh that feels familiar.

 

[YuYu Yuichiro]

Someone probably suggested this already but what if they can just do a bunch of OVAs.

Codename Sailor V. OVA

Neptune before she met Uranus. OVA

Sailor moon C (the courtroom idea) OVA

if its a longer story then there can be multiple parts. This way we don't have to constantly retread ground, adapt things that weren't adapted and have new interesting ideas. And just like the SuperS movie they don't have to be 1:1 with the series.

Note: I don't completely know how OVAs work. I probably broke several laws with this idea.

 

[BlackasKnight]

I think a sequel of the 90s would clear up the loss of Usagi's transformation in Episode 200.

I would personally prefer a middle story focused on Chibiusa and leading to the conclusion for Usagi.

 

[kasumigenx]

I think we should have an OVA sequel to the 90s anime similar to Yuyu Hakusho which deals with the loss of Usagi's transformation and the coronation of NQS and King Endymion, they can have the rest of the senshi upgrade to Eternal in that sequel but Usagi becomes and queen and stops being a Senshi.

My idea is that Galaxia crowns NQS and King Endymion and upgrades the rest of the Senshi to Eternal and Chibiusa returns and takes the mantle of being the Main Character and they fight a new enemy that gets destroyed easily similar to the last bonus of PGSM.

 

[JunoDX]

I‘d rather have an OVA where a new villain messes up with the timeline and Usagi won‘t become NQS because she has to fight this new evil first. With jumping back and forward in time we could revisit scenes from the anime from a new angle. Imagine Uranus and Neptune observing how Sailor Moon becomes the moon princess in S1. Or giving plot holes like the breakup arc a new meaning.

 

[KingPriceman]

Quantum Sailor Leap, why is it that I sense some time altering plots coming from this one

Offering one:
The most famous part of the final fight is interrupted by someone else so that D.D.G. III and Venus don't die, but everyone else thinks they're dead. would this result in the two having to put aside their differences, especially when the last two remaining Sailor Senshi are taken out?

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

I‘d rather have an OVA where a new villain messes up with the timeline and Usagi won‘t become NQS because she has to fight this new evil first. With jumping back and forward in time we could revisit scenes from the anime from a new angle. Imagine Uranus and Neptune observing how Sailor Moon becomes the moon princess in S1. Or giving plot holes like the breakup arc a new meaning.

So you want some retcon? Not a bad idea if it makes logical sense & feels natural.

 

[NeoJupiter]

If you were given the power to produce yet ANOTHER Sailor Moon reboot of the 5 seasons...but just had to keep the basic storyline (Dark Kingdom, Black Moon clan, etc..) how would you reinvent the characters/storylines for each season?

 

[YuYu Yuichiro]

If you were given the power to produce yet ANOTHER Sailor Moon reboot of the 5 seasons...but just had to keep the basic storyline (Dark Kingdom, Black Moon clan, etc..) how would you reinvent the characters/storylines for each season?

*I copy and pasted this from another thread [Its basically a list of things I thought were interesting but didn't think through]

• Have Ami have a PGSM attachment to Usagi.
• Have Nephrite or Kunzite turn Naru into an evil sailor [does that even make sense.... IDC] and go the whole "Darkury" rout.
• What about Umino? Nephrite will have PGSM nephrite's personality and become Naru and Umino's personal protector. He'll fu** up anyone who messes w/ Naru or Umino a Nefekichi.
• Have Rei Develop her relations to Ami & Usagi the same way it happened in PGSM.
• Hawks Eye can be into flower shops AND casually be into MILFs.
• MIO - EVERYTHING ABOUT MIO!
• Perhaps Thieties [or whatever her name was] could be like Mio and she can just be like..... Jadeite's annoying sibling or just some girl who likes annoying Jadeite for whatever reason.
• Rei go through things with her father like in PGSM.
• Jupiter temporarily has a "DESTINY" mindset similar to the Uranus and Neptune. Especially considering she's also an outer planet in reality.
  HaruMichi stays the same as 90s counterparts.
• Crystal UsaMamo relationship but Mamoru has a life/friends/hobbies like his bromance w/ Motoki, reading, Big Bro relationship w/ Ami, playing on the kiddy trains, being a secret anime fan, etc. [the last two were inspired by the CD dramas]
• Can't decide between PGSM or 90s Usagi. Find a healthy mix!
• Yuichiro but as someone said he's not a love interest but a sloppy, rich big brother figure who stupidly runs into battle.
• I like 90s Zoisite and PGSM Kunzite but I'm not completely sure if their personalities mix as well. perhaps PGSM Kunzite can have a romantic side like 90s Kunzite.
• Amazon quartet enroll in Chibiusa's school.
• Jadeite still into Milfs [QB] / Usagi possibly having a crush on him like that 90s cruise episode?
• Ryo Urawa - Long distance relationship, shows back up as Mercurius but has to still leave for whatever? Another Story?
• Another Story
• Sailor V sightings.
• Really liked Minako as a singer but I'm not sure how many stories you could make with that.
• Hina.... Fiore.....[I feel like the R Movie did every interesting thing you could do with a movie length for that storyline]
• Perhaps Mio comes back as Nehellenia. She did have a personal thing towards making Usagi miserable just not expressed in the same way.
• [still adding to the list now that I've seen Crysternal]

 

[ChampionOfNuggets]

Update the series to the modern era so the girls are teens of the 2020s

Instead of reading manga, Usagi spends all her time watching funny Youtube videos on her tablet. She also plays a lot of Fortnite.

Minako spends all her time trying to become a tiktok influencer and thirst after "hot" male tiktok influencers


In reference to the dropped concept of Mako being a smoker Mako now vapes. She also has a part time job at Mcdonalds which she has a crush on her manager Motoki (didn't the real life inspiration for Crown Arcade get replaced with a Mcdonalds?)

Haruka identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns

Setsuna got really into college activism and is upset her friends Michiru and Haruka can't get married. Like, more upset than they are

 

[Nadia]

Here's what's sad. I remember answering this question years ago, but despite going through page after page of my own posts, I cannot find my own in-depth treatment on this matter. Instead, I found the following, assorted posts.

General changes:

I've written at length as to what I want in a reboot, so I'll keep what I'd like short:

• Take a page from PGSM and give Sailor Moon her Moon Stick from the beginning.
• Increase connections between the different villain groups.
• Expand the Silver Millennium.
• Allow the Season 1 characters and other one-shot characters appear in different chapters among the different arcs.
• For the reformed villains, allow them to stick around and help out instead of disappearing.

About the main heroes:

• Tuxedo Mask - Make him only at most two years older than our hero (not 16-17, but 15-16). Flip the civilian/hero persona so that in the daytime, he and our lead are cordial with him being romantic but when in superhero mode, Tuxedo Mask is more antagonistic and critical.
• Sailor Moon - Make her more responsible as the series goes on, but less "pure-hearted" and keeping many of her lazy, goofy, and reckless habits on the forefront.
• Sailor Mercury - Give her some offensive capabilities earlier so that by the end of the first arc she can do something beyond fog creation, but keep her main role as defense. However, I would also make Sailor Mercury the healer of the group.
• Sailor Mars - Get rid of her bickering and temper overall and have more emphasis on her Shinto powers. Also, trade those heels for flats.
• Sailor Jupiter - Wouldn't change a thing from the old anime.
• Sailor Venus - Keep her the serious leader with a silly side.
• Inners -- Make their filler arc upgrades their actual powered-up R attacks, with the same, if not greater effectiveness
• Sailor Pluto - Remove her connection to the Space-Time Door but just have her future self in Crystal Tokyo. By binding her to a post outside of time and space, it makes the character hard to interact with other characters without raising all sorts of questions
• Sailor Uranus - Change her backstory to tie her to Venus rather than Neptune, romantically (not necessarily requited) and make her the compassionate one.
• Sailor Neptune - Make her the cold one and her mirror, instead of being a sensor, it being capable of absorbing and reflecting attacks.
• Sailor Saturn - Instead of de-aging her after awakening, let Hotaru live life as a normal-ish girl (she'll keep the healing powers), and let Sailor Saturn be reborn...as someone else.

Ideas for the supporting characters:

If I were to remake the series, Yuuichirou would be a human-turned-monster-of-the-day, but one they could not heal conventionally. He'd be able to regain human form on his own.

With Naru, I could see two routes. My more recent idea is that she is a Youma, or at least part Youma. This would mean that, yes, Naru's mother is actually a Youma, too, specifically Morga. Instead of Morga possessing, replacing, or being transformed from Ms. Osaka, it would be revealed that Ms. Osaka was the monster all along.

My really old, and much worse, idea was that Naru would actually be Beryl's daughter. To reconcile this with the whole idea of Beryl being in love with Endymion, I would handwave it as her succumbing to her jealousy and pledging loyalty to Metalia only after years of being rejected, and that she was semi-forced into a marriage with an influential figure she didn't love since Endymion was taken. She'd have Naru's previous incarnation as a daughter, only for that daughter to die in the attack on the Moon, and ironically becoming Usagi's best friend in the present.

Again on Naru:

My fantasy is even weirder. I would have had him used the Dark Crystal to sense that Naru was actually a latent Youma (technically a Youma-hybrid...yes, that would mean Morga was actually her mother) and that is the secret power he sensed from her. However, I'd still keep his budding morality so he'd actually have some reservations about awakening her power...only for her to transform anyway out of stress and a desire to protect "Masato Sanjoin" when Sailor Moon confronts him. Of course, like PGSM, I'd give Sailor Moon the ability to heal transformed people from the start so that would be resolved at the end of the episode...for now..and later in the arc she would find out about Sailor Moon's identity...

About the first arc:

I've always wanted to know more about the Moon Kingdom and the Silver Crystal, as well as the Sailor Guardians in the past. Did Sailor Guardians die before? How did the girls awaken back then? Were there successors?

Extending the idea with Shitennou, I'd also like to know more about what type of life Beryl was leading prior to being drawn towards Metalia. The events indicate her present incarnation was also corrupted, and it really puts the idea of reincarnation and destiny in a really awful place. I mean, it's bad enough imagining the lives the four generals being disrupted by being forced to join the Dark Kingdom. What if Beryl had a family prior to receiving the call? Did she end up killing them to sever her tie with her present life? Could they still live and think her of as missing or dead? Should present Beryl be condemned to the shadow of her past self due to the bad choices made in her previous life? Even if she is, could this miracle romance also be seen as a catastrophe, not just for the girls and the deaths of their normal lives, but those of the Dark Kingdom who were under the sway of Metalia or Beryl.

About the Sailor Moon R filer arc:

I definitely would like an adaptation of the Doom Tree arc because it is my favorite arc, but I have a second reason for wanting an adaptation of this arc.

The ending of the arc needs to be redone.

It's not that I hate what happened in the ending (although I would change a few things), but I hate how rushed the developments toward end of the arc was in comparison to all of the episodes that led up to it. We get a slowly burning, but ongoing story with new attacks, a love square, and development for all characters involved -- including the villains! Then when things get at their worst, the Doom Tree decides to go crazy, kills An solely for purpose of teaching her and Ail what love is and only stops when Sailor Moon cries out, and gets zapped to a sapling. An is magically revived and the aliens leave for no real reason.

Sailor Moon is known for its rather quick, happily ever after, wrap-ups, but if the end was planned to be like this, there should have been a little more foreshadowing and it should have been a little more drawn out. To think, we never got to see Ail and An actually be forced to reveal themselves and had to settle for the tree growing over the apartment being the reveal.

About SuperS:

If we must have a MOTD format, then, as rgveda99 wrote, I'd like the attacks to take place inside of dreams, while the targets are asleep, where Pegasus allows the Sailor Guardians to enter dreams. This means the victims are asleep when they are targeted. However, in the name of dreams coming to life, it is the victim which is transformed into the Monster of the Day in the dream, which then transforms them in real life. Thus the only way to transform them back is to help them overcome their fears or recover their dreams.

The Amazon Trio would be under the Amazon Quartet, with the corresponding member of each overseeing their member. For instance, Jun Jun would oversee Hawks's Eye, Palla Palla would oversee Fisheye, while Ves Ves would be Tiger's Eye boss. Cere Cere, by contrast, would be doing her own thing.

I'd also have the Amazon Trio be dream demons, seemingly innocuous animals when awake with the circus as a cover, but transforming into their humanoid forms when entering the dream world. At first, they would seduce the figures in their targeted dreams, only for the dreams to turn into horrible nightmares and the victims to be under the spell of the Amazon Trio. I'd also connect the personal powerups with the targeting of the Guardian as lining up with the manga. However, this obviously leaves a hole with Cere Cere, who would target Usagi on her own. However, in that episode it is Venus who gets her powerup as she realizes her dream, not just her duty, to see the Princess happy.

I would include a special episode where MIchiru and Haruka have a falling out and are both targeted by Hawk's Eye and Fisheye respectively, only for both of them to reject the fake dreams outright (in contrast with the Inners, who do succumb). Instead of getting a powerup based on overcoming their fears, they get simultaneous powerups based on their love.

The goal of the Amazon Trio would be to take control of a dream as that is the only through the power of a dream they could truly become human. They eventually realize that it is only through their own dreams (which they do possess, in contrast with the anime) they can become human. In this way they turn against their masters and come under the protection of Helios, while it's the Amazon Quartet that do not seemingly have dreams.

However, as the Amazon Trio is reformed, the Inners wonder about the Amazon Quartet, and it is revealed their "real world" selves aren't their true selves, but distorted versions of their true dream selves as the Sailor Quartet, and they were corrupted due to fighting the nightmare queen Nehellenia who has taken their dreams.

Nehellenia is the Queen of the Dark Moon which will become Nemesis in the future, but her past is more similar to that of the manga. Her goal is to put everyone to sleep so that she can escape from the Mirror and enter reality. The conclusion would be weird, though. Nehellenia gets what she wants in that she is brought back to life in the real word by the world falling asleep, but the Sailor Guardians defeat her true self in the dream realm, which forces her to fade from reality.

 

[YuYu Yuichiro]

Update the series to the modern era so the girls are teens of the 2020s

Instead of reading manga, Usagi spends all her time watching funny Youtube videos on her tablet. She also plays a lot of Fortnite.

Minako spends all her time trying to become a tiktok influencer and thirst after "hot" male tiktok influencers


In reference to the dropped concept of Mako being a smoker Mako now vapes. She also has a part time job at Mcdonalds which she has a crush on her manager Motoki (didn't the real life inspiration for Crown Arcade get replaced with a Mcdonalds?)

Haruka identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns

Setsuna got really into college activism and is upset her friends Michiru and Haruka can't get married. Like, more upset than they are

[adding on]

Chibiusa being into Five Nights at Freddy's, Poppy Playtime, Hello Neighbor, etc. playthroughs/ theory channels. Also making Gacha videos.[incestuous ones glorifying abusive power dynamics to be specific]

Hotaru writing Wattpad fanfics [incestuous ones glorifying abusive power dynamics to be specific]

Mamoru ranting about how woke media is bringing an end to civilization. [or prank Youtube videos, I feel like that could work w/ him for some reason]

Rei being either a BTS stan or a flat earther. Also, she works at Starbucks instead of a shrine. She also also cancels ppl on Twitter.

Michiru uses Ai technology to create art. She also invests in NFTs.

HaruMichi have an OnlyFans instead of just "Patrons".

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

Would like to produce a drama about the Sailor Moon fandom, basing on facts but having them greatly exaggerated for comedy & melodrama purposes. It'd be written in a way that even non-fans & those who know nothing about Sailor Moon would still find it entertaining & be able to enjoy it.

 

[Talentless Fool]

[adding on]
Rei being either a BTS stan or a flat earther. Also, she works at Starbucks instead of a shrine. She also also cancels ppl on Twitter.

Michiru uses Ai technology to create art. She also invests in NFTs.

OMG! OMG! OMG! This is glorious! A piece of art!

Rei would also be into a cult-like Women Empowerment group like in that one Law & Order: SVU episode!
Michiru is introduced as being a sponsor of Square Enix - euh, I mean Rectangle Enix!

 

[Clow]

(1) Parallel stories adapted as short seasons (12 episodes) or films for a mature audience—because we are not adolescents anymore.

I would like something that blends fantasy with realism: I think it’d be interesting to have Usagi investigated as a civilian by foreign governments, e.g. how would Usagi use her influence to stop wars caused by humans and/or convince governments that transitioning from the existing geopolitical systems and models to the version of the world that we see in the 30th century is in everyone’s best interests?