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Some movie directors want to personally choose foreign dubbing actors, and the language barrier never stopped them. They don't need to know the language to see whether the voice fits the character. But that doesn't mean they're the perfect choices. Even the creators can do wrong at picking actors.
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MsImagination
THIS! The Inners should've undergone training and/or improvised their not-very-effective attacks to make themselves more useful.
My unpopular opinions:
1)The reason why none of the Inner Senshi have boyfriends is because just about every guy they date all end up falling in love with Usagi instead. So, they rather save themselves the heartbreak and not date.
2) I never really understood Endymion's (Endymoron) logic in the Break-Up Arc in R Season.
3) 90's anime Mamoru treats Usagi more like a daughter than a girlfriend.
4) Chibi-Usa's time-traveling created another timeline ala Future!Trunks, and making Crystal Tokyo is a possible future in an alternate timeline.
5) I would prefer the other Senshi get more MOTD kills than Usagi.
6) I really dislike how the Shittenou are never mentioned again in the manga or Crystal.
My unpopular opinions:
1)The reason why none of the Inner Senshi have boyfriends is because just about every guy they date all end up falling in love with Usagi instead. So, they rather save themselves the heartbreak and not date.
2) I never really understood Endymion's (Endymoron) logic in the Break-Up Arc in R Season.
3) 90's anime Mamoru treats Usagi more like a daughter than a girlfriend.
4) Chibi-Usa's time-traveling created another timeline ala Future!Trunks, and making Crystal Tokyo is a possible future in an alternate timeline.
5) I would prefer the other Senshi get more MOTD kills than Usagi.
6) I really dislike how the Shittenou are never mentioned again in the manga or Crystal.
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redneonglow
Not always sometimes the Senshi do have love interest in the 90s anime who love them as opposed to Usagi. Like Ryo with Ami or Yuuichirou for Rei. Makoto also had Shinozaki in the 90s anime and Asanuma in the manga.
Next while I do think the break up arc was silly it can be explained away. For one it was heavily implied that King Endymion did this so that Usagi and Mamoru would not be say focused on themselves and their relationship but rather in how their relationship lines up with Chibiusa and getting the two to bond with her instead of focusing on each other. This is probably because King Endymion knew that Chibiusa would become Black Lady as it happened before to him to and this is why he did what he did.
Next the idea that Mamoru treats Usagi more like a daughter then a girlfriend is just nonsense. The two have many loving and romantic moments together. He does call Usagi out when she does something she shouldn't or is acting especially extra but so does the Senshi and the Cats.
Next I don't think that Chibiusa's time traveling created another timeline. For one it is a big point in the 90s anime and by extension the game Sailor Moon Another Story to keep the timeline as is and not let the future be changed. So I imagine that Chibiusa's time traveling always occurred in all timelines
Next while I do think the break up arc was silly it can be explained away. For one it was heavily implied that King Endymion did this so that Usagi and Mamoru would not be say focused on themselves and their relationship but rather in how their relationship lines up with Chibiusa and getting the two to bond with her instead of focusing on each other. This is probably because King Endymion knew that Chibiusa would become Black Lady as it happened before to him to and this is why he did what he did.
Next the idea that Mamoru treats Usagi more like a daughter then a girlfriend is just nonsense. The two have many loving and romantic moments together. He does call Usagi out when she does something she shouldn't or is acting especially extra but so does the Senshi and the Cats.
Next I don't think that Chibiusa's time traveling created another timeline. For one it is a big point in the 90s anime and by extension the game Sailor Moon Another Story to keep the timeline as is and not let the future be changed. So I imagine that Chibiusa's time traveling always occurred in all timelines
While I do like Haruka and Michiru quite a bit for their own sake and not even just because of their relationship, and while they're in my top 20 for characters in the show (I like a lot of characters)... it so happens that I think (in the anime) between their callous approach to Pure Heart victims and the various events during Sailor Stars, they are basically villains. Sympathetic vallains, but they cross the line too much, too often, and too seemingly of their own initiative to be considered heroic. Especially when
I don't mean they're bad or terrible or even truly evil. I mean they're in the dark gray and making exceedingly questionable decisions, like the Shitennou (who are also high among my favorite characters) who were brainwashed into their evil actions and only occasionally fumbling into more noble deeds (particularly Nephrite), or the Ayakashi Sisters. Basically, with Haruka and Michiru, it's sorta like they're halfway corrupted or something
Hotaru is initally forced into villainy, but she was under a lot more duress about it, and she recovers a lot more fully and is always kind afterwards, so I consider her more heroic than the two of them in spite of the whole mistress 9 thing.
Pluto seems okay on the ethics front, but it's so hard to judge her actions because we understand so little about what she knows and what her agenda really is, she's sort of mysterious (and in Sailor Stars she seems to be completely bamboozled by everything that's going on). I'm particularly concerned about how vague the circumstances of her taking baby Hotaru away to live with Haruka and Michiru was, and what involvement/agreement Souchi Tomoe had in any of that, since the show never clarifies it at all beyond their initial meeting in Sailor Stars.
Which segues into another weird opinion of mine, which is that I like to take the apparent "timeline" of the anime literally and at face value- including the way it doesn't make sense. I believe the flow of time has been severely disrupted in the setting, which is how Usagi turns 14 in 1992 (per the tickets on Operation Romantic Cruise) and 16 in 1996 (per the Live Tour sign on the Starlights' first concert in the area that we see), and why they're studying furiously for exams in S and then forget about it for a year in SuperS and suddenly pass the exams by the start of Stars. I think spacetime has been going more and more off the rails ever since whatever Usagi did with the Silver Crystal in episode 46. There is at least some presence for that being canonical that they had to repeat a year somehow, so time has been mangled at least a little bit. So I think that's why Pluto was so baffled by the end.
Spoiler: show
I don't mean they're bad or terrible or even truly evil. I mean they're in the dark gray and making exceedingly questionable decisions, like the Shitennou (who are also high among my favorite characters) who were brainwashed into their evil actions and only occasionally fumbling into more noble deeds (particularly Nephrite), or the Ayakashi Sisters. Basically, with Haruka and Michiru, it's sorta like they're halfway corrupted or something
Hotaru is initally forced into villainy, but she was under a lot more duress about it, and she recovers a lot more fully and is always kind afterwards, so I consider her more heroic than the two of them in spite of the whole mistress 9 thing.
Pluto seems okay on the ethics front, but it's so hard to judge her actions because we understand so little about what she knows and what her agenda really is, she's sort of mysterious (and in Sailor Stars she seems to be completely bamboozled by everything that's going on). I'm particularly concerned about how vague the circumstances of her taking baby Hotaru away to live with Haruka and Michiru was, and what involvement/agreement Souchi Tomoe had in any of that, since the show never clarifies it at all beyond their initial meeting in Sailor Stars.
Which segues into another weird opinion of mine, which is that I like to take the apparent "timeline" of the anime literally and at face value- including the way it doesn't make sense. I believe the flow of time has been severely disrupted in the setting, which is how Usagi turns 14 in 1992 (per the tickets on Operation Romantic Cruise) and 16 in 1996 (per the Live Tour sign on the Starlights' first concert in the area that we see), and why they're studying furiously for exams in S and then forget about it for a year in SuperS and suddenly pass the exams by the start of Stars. I think spacetime has been going more and more off the rails ever since whatever Usagi did with the Silver Crystal in episode 46. There is at least some presence for that being canonical that they had to repeat a year somehow, so time has been mangled at least a little bit. So I think that's why Pluto was so baffled by the end.
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I have to disagree on Haruka and Michiru Mistukara they have never been villainous. At best they are anti heroes but they always had heroic reasons for doing what they did. In S as far as we know the only way to prevent the Silence was to sacrifice the Talisman holders now Haruka and Michiru hated that this had to be done and wished there was another way but as far as they knew this was the only way so they were willing to do what was necessary rather then just wishing for the best as the Inners were doing. Further more in Sailor Stars they only feigned betrayal of Pluto and Saturn as a way to get Sailor Galaxia's bracelets to turn them against her. It didn't work but their hearts were in the right place. Plus I always figured that Sailor Pluto and Sailor Saturn knew about their plan and were willing to sacrifice themselves to make the plan work. This is why in the end Setsuna and Hotaru do not show any animosity to Haruka and Michiru. Also I don't see much of an issue with the Outers being distrustful of the Starlights as they really do not know them that well and it is kind of their job to protect the Solar System from intruders so they are distrustful by nature.
Further more I could actually argue that Seiya aka Sailor Star Fighter was arguably more villainous then the Outers even though again I do not consider the Starlights to be villainous either. Remember the episode where the Three Lights were doing that dance music video under the direction of that music video director Akane Gushiken who was also a Nun and teacher at Rei's school Sister Angela. Well when Eternal Sailor Moon was going to heal Akane as Sailor Director. Sailor Star Fighter didn't want her to do it because she distrusted Sailor Moon's ability to heal Phages even though just a few episodes before this she saw Sailor Moon heal a Phage. This is worse then even Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune in S for if they knew of a way to save the Talisman owners and not kill them they would do it. Sailor Star Fighter saw Sailor Moon heal a Phage before but for some reason didn't believe she could. Chalk it up to maybe PTSD or some issue this really makes Seiya look bad but even so I don't consider her a villain just flawed and traumatized
Further more I could actually argue that Seiya aka Sailor Star Fighter was arguably more villainous then the Outers even though again I do not consider the Starlights to be villainous either. Remember the episode where the Three Lights were doing that dance music video under the direction of that music video director Akane Gushiken who was also a Nun and teacher at Rei's school Sister Angela. Well when Eternal Sailor Moon was going to heal Akane as Sailor Director. Sailor Star Fighter didn't want her to do it because she distrusted Sailor Moon's ability to heal Phages even though just a few episodes before this she saw Sailor Moon heal a Phage. This is worse then even Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune in S for if they knew of a way to save the Talisman owners and not kill them they would do it. Sailor Star Fighter saw Sailor Moon heal a Phage before but for some reason didn't believe she could. Chalk it up to maybe PTSD or some issue this really makes Seiya look bad but even so I don't consider her a villain just flawed and traumatized
Planet Nemesis should have been made an ally and given a Senshi. Also, I do think the four shittenou are actually much more powerful than many other regular villains such as Kaolinite, Witches 5, Black Moon Clan, and even the Sailor Animates. This is because they were Endymion’s generals and thus are expected to be skilled fighters, more so than the average combatant. PGSM gives a more accurate portrayal of their abilities.
^^Such absolute genius. 
TOEI should've rehired back Hideaki Anno and kill everyone on the planet again in the last episode with Prince Psychotic
being the Shinji of the show.
TOEI should've rehired back Hideaki Anno and kill everyone on the planet again in the last episode with Prince Psychotic
being the Shinji of the show.Spoiler: show
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journeyin2mystery
The poofy roses that Luna has on her dress in her humanoid form make her look like she has really hairy armpits.
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journeyin2mystery and SILVER