Your unpopular Sailor Moon opinions

[Wild Rose Rebellion]

I actually like Eternal Sailor Moon's outfit. Gumball shoulders and all [I usually hear ppl say its hideous especially the gumball shoulders]

I really like the Eternal outfit(s), they convey the idea of a power-up well enough. To me, their design suffers from the 90s anime coloring, the gumball shoulders look off because they're solid and the color scheme of Eternal Sailor Moon looks a bit gaudy. They work better with see-through gumball shoulders and the softer colors of the manga. I think the Eternal movie made them look cool.

“Stars” is an underrated manga arc.

Absolutely.

 

[Tsundereshipper]

2. Naoko sexualized the senshi and their friends more than the 90's anime did.

Remember this scene right here?

Tbh I don’t really think the 90’s anime sexualized the Senshi at all besides Chibi-Usa - which is disturbing in and of itself.

Anyways another unpopular opinion I just thought of that’s more fandom specific:

I think some of the seasons/arcs of Sailor Moon don’t lend themselves well to a mixing of 90’s anime and manga canon in fanworks/fanfiction and I generally disilike when fancreators do this. For some arcs the mix is generally seamless and natural such as Classic/Dark Kingdom because there’s nothing in either canon that so drastically contradicts the other - But in all the rest it just doesn’t make sense.

For example in R the BMC were meant to come off as sympathetic non-humans born with their powers and on the planet Nemesis that their indigenous Earthling ancestors were banished to generations ago due to being victims of discrimination/prejudice - How exactly are you gonna square that away with their manga canon versions who are a religious, psychotic death cult of regular humans with powers given to them by Wiseman born and bred on Earth who simply don’t like the newfound longevity NQS bestowed upon humanity? Those backgrounds directly contradict each other, as do the Ayakashi Sisters fates in both. (Furthermore how are you gonna try to redeem or make sympathetic someone who literally burns a kid to death?)

In S/Infinity how are you going to mix Tomoe being a sympathetic, loving father who simply got possessed and ends up surviving with a mad-scientist maniac with a God Complex who chose to sell out and experiment on his daughter?

How in the world do you mix SuperS with Dream and both Stars canon considering everything contradicting the Golden Crystal, Nehellenia, Galaxia and Chibi-Chibi?

Unless it’s Classic/Dark Kingdom or they’re only mixing light elements with the fanworks still clearly leaning one way or the other - I think it’s better if fic writers just stick to one version for fics set in any of the other seasons/arcs for a more cohesive whole.

 

[saintfighteraqua]

Remember this scene right here?

Yeah, I totally hated that short story back in the day and I still do. It was pointless as well as perverted.
I know she wanted to make some fun stories but how did she ever think, even in Japan, that this page was appropriate? I'm not quite sure what his hand motions mean, I seem to remember thinking he was embarrassed back in the Mixx days, and left because he was put off, but after multiple other translations it's very clear he was being a perv. Had they been at least teens around Usagi's age I could shrug it off but they are extremely blatant in stating they're elementary age. So gross. That's one short that doesn't need a 1:1 adaptation, lol.

 

[Sailor Moon~]

Stars is as good as the first season and slightly better than S.
Eternal is a better adaptation than Super S.

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

I'm not quite sure what his hand motions mean

The circular bubbles from left to right: the O mark, the "two" sign, & "pan" (short for "panties").

Since Mamoru is now officially a pedo, I'm starting to worry about Chibiusa.

 

[YuYu Yuichiro]

Since Mamoru is now officially a pedo, I'm starting to worry about Chibiusa.

Spoiler: show

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

The circular bubbles from left to right: the O mark, the "two" sign, & "pan" (short for "panties").

Note that manga is supposed to be read from right to left. Also, that "pan" is similar to the sound of clapping the hands together, which's what Tux is doing in that panel. Before clapping his hands, the posture of his left arm & hand shows that he's looking at something attentively.

 

[saintfighteraqua]

The circular bubbles from left to right: the O mark, the "two" sign, & "pan" (short for "panties").

It gets worse the more I learn! But thank you for the explanation.
Maybe someone should call in Sailor Chris Hansen!

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

Maybe someone should call in Sailor Chris Hansen!

Such a Senshi should be called Sailor Sting, & her civilian name is to be Christine Hansen. She'd look about the same age as Chibiusa & her story would be about how she'd catch Tux, among other predators.

 

[YuYu Yuichiro]

Not sure if this is actually an unpopular opinion but Sailor Moon's fandom is honestly pretty tame..... or at least nowadays. I probably missed the chaos.

The break-up arc is fine.

 

[JetEternal]

Such a Senshi should be called Sailor Sting, & her civilian name is to be Christine Hansen. She'd look about the same age as Chibiusa & her story would be about how she'd catch Tux, among other predators.

Prince Demande: I'm in danger! (Also the Amazon Trio in the anime could count here)

 

[YuYu Yuichiro]

Also these two

Also this one.

 

[NJ_]

Not sure if this is actually an unpopular opinion but Sailor Moon's fandom is honestly pretty tame..... or at least nowadays. I probably missed the chaos.

Yup

The break-up arc is fine.

Nope

 

[YuYu Yuichiro]

Yup

Oh boy

Were there people allegedly bullying others into attempting sui**de, murders, death threats, r**ists, harassing real people's significant others over ships, people hiding nails inside of pastries to seriously mess up someone's mouth, significant amounts of [X]phobia etc in that chaos?

Don't tell me it got THAT bad .

Nope

But .... Its my unpopular opinion though

 

[Lady Pen]

Not sure if this is actually an unpopular opinion but Sailor Moon's fandom is honestly pretty tame..... or at least nowadays. I probably missed the chaos.

Wait till Cosmos is available on Netflix.

 

[Memelord_Yoshi]

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

Not sure if this is actually an unpopular opinion but Sailor Moon's fandom is honestly pretty tame..... or at least nowadays. I probably missed the chaos.

You should've joined here earlier to enjoy all that. lol

 

[YuYu Yuichiro]

Wait till Cosmos is available on Netflix.

When that happens, I'll make a thread called "Watching Sailor Moon's fandom become a F**KING DISATSER for the first time"

 

[Rika-Chicchi]

You should've joined here earlier to enjoy all that. lol

I think 2014.

When the first batch of VIZ Blu-rays came out and the picture quality was not good.

And then TOEI made us stay awake until midnight to watch what essentially was a partial and undone episode of Sailor Moon Crystal.

People posted so many gifs and complaints the next day (it felt like spamming) that I could not make sense of anything.

There're also other upheavals here before that year.

 

[Sabrblade]

Oh boy

Were there people allegedly bullying others into attempting sui**de, murders, death threats, r**ists, harassing real people's significant others over ships, people hiding nails inside of pastries to seriously mess up someone's mouth, significant amounts of [X]phobia etc in that chaos?

Don't tell me it got THAT bad .

In my experience, the worst of it were the "Dub vs. Sub" wars in the pre-Viz years, and the "DiC/Coverway vs. Viz" wars in the post-Viz years, with the DiC/Cloverway side arguing that that heavily-Americanized dub was the best version of Sailor Moon because of how heavily Americanized it was, insisting that all English anime dubs should be that westernized because Japan is just so foreign/different/weird a country to westerners.