Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal - if you Have to Ask, this Story is Not For you

posted by janrinok on Sunday July 06 2014, @03:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the any-anime-fans? dept.

During a discussion last weekend, several community members suggested that at weekends we look more closely at the non-technical aspects of nerd life, so cafebabe writes:

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.

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal - if you Have to Ask, this Story is Not For you | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 19 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 1) by hendrikboom on Sunday July 06 2014, @03:30AM

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Sunday July 06 2014, @03:30AM (#64714) Homepage Journal

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 06 2014, @12:25PM (#64830)

    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

    by Jiro (3176) on Sunday July 06 2014, @06:45PM (#64914)

    The original first episode was based on the manga, so you won't see much difference in the first episode.