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rin-the-shadow · 4 years

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Crystal Tokyo Challenge: Day 1

Day 1: Your favorite adaptation of Sailor Moon.

This is usually my knee-jerk reaction to being asked to decide on my favorite Sailor Moon adaptation:

Particularly because I began participating in the fandom around a time that it felt like you were either a “good” Sailor Moon fan who preferred the “right” versions and shipped the “right” ships, or else you were a bad fan suffering from nostalgia for whatever your preferred adaptation was. And which one you were depended on who you were asking.

My ultimate favorite “adaptation” is probably something of a patchwork of all the different versions. There are things I enjoy from all of them, and things I dislike from all of them as well. And some that I enjoy in one version which I disliked when another version did the same thing.

It may be predictable for people who have read some of my other posts, but I definitely have a strong tendency to gravitate towards the musicals even when I intend to watch/read a different version, especially Saturn Fukkatsu Hen (even though some of the jokes have definitely not aged well) and Eien Densetsu (original and revision), and, most recently, La Reconquista and Petite Etrangere. And I think a big part of this is that, even when they seem to start off more manga-based or more anime-based, they tend to wind up doing their own thing.

Actually, I really like PGSM for that same reason, and the only reason the musicals hedge it out by a very, very slight margin is because of the music and the theater tech/staging elements. And because PGSM doesn’t have the lights come up on Rubeus doing situps in the middle of the stage for no reason.

In spite of that slight preference, if you’re asking about the story and characters themselves, then I would put them on equal footing for similar reasons: love what they did with the characters, what they did with the stories, and the other stuff they added to it as well. (Though Sailor Mercury being my favorite, these versions’ tendencies to emphasize her probably doesn’t hurt, either.)

These two iterations are also the ones which encouraged me to mix and match canons in creating my own AU’s and headcanons, instead of trying to be completely faithful to one version or other. Though I’ll try not to get too into that until I get to that prompt.

So yeah, I would say that probably my favorite adaptations are Seramyu, with PGSM as a very very very close second.

#though i do like the original anime as well #and also the dark kingdom arc of the manga #and also of crystal at least until about episode 12 #but i am starting to warm up to those versions past that point #like i said: it's hard to choose a single favorite!#and i have actually not gotten to amour eternal yet #but given myu's track record with the dream arc #and the stuff i keep hearing about amour eternal #it will probably be amazing #sailor moon #crystal tokyo challenge #rin rambles #rin loves all adaptations #writer things #rin does fandom #mild fandom negativity in the beginning

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vincentspork · 5 years

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a list of my hot sailor moon takes:

·masahiro ando isnt bad you guys just dont remember akira nakamura's ugly-ass animation and you direct all your blind rage onto my man masahiro bc he makes everyone round

·the dic dub isnt as horrible as you think it is (though that said I CANNOT abide by usagi's last dub voice, that was a travesty) and a lot of the changes that were made had to be done for the series to air in Canada/America in the first place. the main story is intact and none of the character's personalities were tampered with and it's fine even if you think the puns are cringey or whatever

·Naoko can clearly draw well when given enough time to do so (see: her sailor moon channel illustrations) but that makes her art in the manga.

bad

·saban moon would have been great, you all are just haters who hate to admit that sailor moon is inherently silly. also if you groan at the prospect of toonmaker's pitch but you like PGSM that makes you a hippocrite and im coming for your ankles

·Sailor Moon Crystal isnt bad because of the art (though lbr the first two seasons were garbage animation-wise) but rather because Naoko could barely plot her way out of a paper bag, and that combined with the manga's focus on Miracle Romance (which is 500% worse than it ever was in the anime) and using the other senshi as nothing more than barely-defined bodyguards for Usagi makes the manga a slog to go through. Is it terrible? Not by any means, but the story's potential is crushed when it's adapted word-for-word

·The manga-only stans are super annoying because none of them can say what they prefer about the manga without shitting on Ikuhara or Tadano or whoever the most popular punching bag is at the moment

·That said, the anime also has a lot of issues that don't get talked about a lot (Usagi and Mamoru's age gap is the most uncomfortable one, but the tonal dissonance in SuperS is a big sore spot for me as well)

·the most irritating subfandom is the one for that parallel sailor moon comic. you know who you are

·We should have gotten a full run of Saban Moon for the 20th anniversary so everyone could shut up and have a dance party instead of arguing about the same inbetween frame of Rei's face for the fifth year running

#bssm

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