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I'm not sure if this is on topic but the other site used to cover anime quite extensively.
A new series of Sailor Moon is being released via hulu.com and neonalley.com in which the story of Sailor Moon is retold from the beginning. (This is colloquially known in the film industry as a "reboot" but such a term is probably irksome to geeks who find rebooting a computer to be tiresome.)
The series will be particularly popular with the demographic of women who watched previous incarnations of Sailor Moon and who are now in their late 20s. Laura Hudson writing for wired.com is presumably in this demographic and gives away a few spoilers despite promising not to. A trailer for the series reveals much less.
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Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal - if you Have to Ask, this Story is Not For you
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 06 2014, @03:25AM
(Score: 1) by hendrikboom on Sunday July 06 2014, @03:30AM
It's also being streamed from crunchyroll.
dvance rumours were that it would follow the original manga very closely, so it wouldn't be as much a reboot as a representatin of the original story, which was primarily a romance; whereas the original anime introduces a lot of superhero filler because the manga wasn't being written fast enough for the production schedule.
I've seen the first episode, and it seems a lot like the original first episode. The animation is a bit better done, but I don't have the sense that the romance elements are much more emphasized than in the original anime.
Maybe that will change; it takes a while for romance to develop. Thre are differences in detail, which make the new first episode seem a little less stilted than the old one, though.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 06 2014, @12:25PM
This reminds me of what they did with Full Metal Alchemist. I could be wrong having never read the manga, but my understanding is that the second series was much more true to the original story than the first. The artistic style was about the same, but there were changes to the story, some major and some minor. I think Brotherhood (the second one) felt a bit less geared toward a younger audience. The general feel I got was that they had changed the manga to appeal to a different audience for the first series and then decided they could do it better afterward, maybe it's the same with Sailor Moon.
(Score: 1) by Jiro on Sunday July 06 2014, @06:45PM
The original first episode was based on the manga, so you won't see much difference in the first episode.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday July 06 2014, @03:33AM
Guardian - other Snowden revelations? Nope.
Pretty Guardian? Guardian Sailor? Pretty Guardian Sailor?
Moon - any news about a permanent base? Some He3 harvesting? Nope.
Crystal - some breakthrough in efficiency for PV? Nope.
Syntax error - ABEND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday July 06 2014, @03:58AM
Submissions like this are why Soylent News needs a "Soylent Reviews" catagory -- especially given SN's ambitions to become a bastion of independent journalism. The best way to encourage original content in this context is to invite people to write reviews of all things nerdy.
Although I like the headline's tagline -- "If you have to ask, this story is not for you." Which on a Saturday night could be interpreted to indicate a tacit plea to users to refrain from posting piggish comments about bukakke and tentacle rape which do not serve to advance the discussion.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 06 2014, @04:10AM
dude, what is going on with you? i swear you are becoming almost reasonable.
someone hack your account? or are you just trying to fuck with the angry carpenter's mind?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 06 2014, @04:35AM
I am benevolent. Almost everything I say here is carefully calculated and posted for a specific reason. My bad stuff is like a vaccine -- it hurts in the short-term but makes the community stronger in the long-term by encouraging the development of smarter countermeasures against common shitposters (coprodactylus vulgaris) as well as reinforcing common sense and persuading the readership to address the nut of the content rather than get bogged-down in petty distractions -- all while encouraging dissenting viewpoints.
Unless I'm drunk, in which case fuck you.
But getting back on topic -- Even American cartoons, like He-Man and She-Ra, used canned transformation sequences [youtube.com] to indicate that the climax was near. You knew that shit was about to go down. You can see the importance of the transformation sequence carry over to games, such as Final Fantasy X-2. [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 06 2014, @04:52AM
ah, i had wondered.
makes sense, indeed it had occurred to me that if you didnt exist it might be necessary to create you
if only to keep the trolls at bay.
a shame we wil never meet.
oh and the ipad thing? why you?
cos you are the biggest wanker here! ;p
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 06 2014, @04:39AM
First of all: FTFY!
Second: When haven't comments about bukkake and tentacle rape advanced the discussion?
(Score: 2) by tathra on Sunday July 06 2014, @03:59AM
these 'reboots' that have been going on lately have actually been a very good thing because the originals were always pretty terrible, and often included a ridiculous amount of filler.
a new hunter x hunter anime is currently running, fullmetal alchemist got a second anime that finished with the manga (called FMA: Brotherhood stateside), dragonball z got a remake up through the end of the cell saga without all the filler (dragonball kai has no more 20-episode stretches of "charging up" or running down snake way), and thats just what i can think of off the top of my head, and they're all way better than the original ones.
since the mangaka of sailor moon is the wife of tha mangaka of hunterxhunter and yuyu hakusho, i'm not ashamed to say i'll watch it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 06 2014, @04:05AM
i forgot to include that a new jojo's bizzare adventure anime is also currently running, about halfway through part 3, and should run through at least part 6, and hopefully sometime this year we'll finally get movie 4 of Rebuild of Evangelion :D
anime is the one place where "reboots" are almost universally a good thing.
(Score: 1) by Balderdash on Sunday July 06 2014, @10:35AM
balderdash@baldeagle:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/sailormoon reload
I browse at -1. Free and open discourse requires consideration and review of all attempts at participation.
(Score: 1) by PinkyGigglebrain on Sunday July 06 2014, @04:48AM
I may have to check this out to see what its all about.
Side note: Agree with other posts that SN needs a "Soylent Reviews" or "Misc stuff" catagory for items like this, even if they are fun to read about the site might be taken a bit more seriously if this sort of news wasn't on the main page.
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(Score: 1) by Refugee from beyond on Sunday July 06 2014, @05:38AM
Bring it! This also means more art.
I wish there was "Moonlight Densetsu" there somewhere, though.
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(Score: 1) by Jesus_666 on Wednesday July 09 2014, @11:02AM
Seriously, this is one of the songs that defined childhood in 1990s Germany. Whether you liked Sailor Moon or not, you definitely knew this song and probably the lyrics too. It was that catchy. (Although the biggest win for German anime BGM was still when they replaced the entire Captain Future soundtrack with pure space funk awesomeness. Honestly; ask YouTube for "feinde greifen an", "hurra wir fliegen" or "vor dem start" and enjoy.)
(Score: 1) by Refugee from beyond on Wednesday July 09 2014, @06:33PM
I understand even less in German than in Japanese. It was interesting nonetheless :)
Instantly better soylentnews: replace background on article and comment titles with #973131.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 06 2014, @09:06AM
...Remastered animation with clean, clear, sharply defined character design with lush synthesized music.
The original anime had good animation quality with ABSOLUTELY GREAT MUSIC!!! :D
Have only seen bits and pieces of the Live Action version on YouTube so cannot comment on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Guardian_Sailor_Moon [wikipedia.org]
The 'title card' featuring the (Inner) five Senshi is (scarily) accurate in looks to
their counterparts from the original anime version! o_O;
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/PGSM_Cover.jpg [wikimedia.org]
Hopefully the new anime series doesn't fall into the 'monster of the week' rut of the original anime.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterOfTheWeek [tvtropes.org]
Read a number of Sailor Moon fanfics and only remember a few of them:
SAILOR MOON 4200
http://shell.ihug.co.nz/~macspon/fanfic/sm4200/ [ihug.co.nz]
Excellent, epic SM fic! I remember this one vividly for one particular scene in the story.
Can't say anymore than that to avoid spoilage. You will know it when you read it!
SAILOR ORION
http://web.archive.org/web/20071215183048/http://home.earthlink.net/~ldbouyer/orion/episodes.html [archive.org]
I am *SO* HAPPY Archive.Org saved this epic masterpiece from oblivion! :D
SAILOR NERO (Darkfic)
ftp://ftp.gweep.ca/pub/anime/anime-fan-works/Sailor-Moon/sm.sailor-nero.gz [gweep.ca] (use GZIP or 7-ZIP to expand fic and read it)
Strange, all I can remember about this epic fic is that if it were a live-action film, it would be easily NC-17 due to violence! o_O;
SAILOR MOON: DEVASTATION (Darkfic)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4405601/1/Sailor-Moon-Devastation [fanfiction.net]
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4204203/1/Sailor-Moon-D-The-M-Version-Chapters [fanfiction.net] (Mature version)
Dark and oustandingly done. (-_-) ;_; Read the mature version to get the full effect.
SAILOR MOON: BANISHED (Sequel to above fic)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5354451/1/Sailor-Moon-Banished [fanfiction.net]
Nice to see this one finished, now I have to find time to read it. :)
(Score: 1) by Jesus_666 on Wednesday July 09 2014, @10:33AM
To my knowledge the Pretty Guardian bit, while a translated part of the Japanese titles, is usually used to refer to the live-action series in the West; the animated ones I usually see referred to simply as Sailor Moon (|R|S|SuperS|Crystal).
...Here I go, sounding like a Sailor Moon expert despite having watched mainly the original series and a few episodes of PGSM - and the hilarious "Saban Moon" trailer, of course. I'm more of a Precure man, myself. (For that matter I'll have to continue watching Happiness Charge Precure. The opening episode was intriguing but I haven't followed up on it yet.)