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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.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Jesus_666 on Wednesday July 09 2014, @10:33AM

    by Jesus_666 (3044) on Wednesday July 09 2014, @10:33AM (#66440)
    Those first images are of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, aka the live-action series with amusingly low production values. I mean CGI that would've looked cheap fifteen years ago (excluding the monster in the first episode, which they apparently blew their entire budget on), obvious rubber suit monsters galore and of course the fact that Luna (a cat and one of the more important supporting characters) is played by a plush toy.

    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.)