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Sailor Moon Crystal season 3 is a massive improvement over the previous installment, with Chiaki Kon and Akira Takahashi taking over as director and character designer respectively, the areas in which this reboot most needed a serious overhaul. Just about everything on a visual and editing level has gotten significantly better: deeper and more engrossing color design, corrected facial proportions, stronger editing and framing, and a generally more solid grasp on the overall composition of any given shot make this season so much easier to get immersed in, with all of this being absolutely essential to properly tackle what I would argue is Sailor Moon’s strongest and most compelling story arc.
The arrival of new Sailor Guardians and their mysterious refusal to play nice with our returning he…
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The year is 2014, and Toei is obviously running a test to see just how badly they can treat their most popular IPs and still have them print money. One Piece experiences it's worst pacing and animation ever with its Dressrosa arc, Dragon Ball Super premieres with fight scenes so badly animated that screenshots go memetic, Digimon Adventure Tri - a theatrical production no less - starts and quickly devolves into a collection of slideshows that has to explain some major plot points over the phone towards the end because they can't be bothered to design any more characters, Happiness Charge Precure airs and is commonly recognized by fans as the worst Precure series ever made despite having several members of the same creative team as one of the most universally beloved series, Heartcatch, and…
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Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 is really interesting. In contrast to the previous seasons (which I felt had at least a bit of trouble standing out versus the manga), the third season seems to be where Crystal found its footing, with a lot of plot points and characters feeling especially memorable in this arc. The Outer Senshi are a very cool soft contrast to the Inners, with their beliefs and actions acting somewhat as an inversion of the Inner Senshi. Haruka's development is the best of these, and she's expanded most as a character of the Outers, which gives insight into the unique way the series perceives her gender having the strength of both sexes, and being the most forward with the other characters. The other most noteworthy character mentioned is Hotaru, who has solid development acro…
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Whoever says this is an improvement needs to get their eyes checked.
Not only did this aggregious opening copy the Higurashi no naku koro ni Kai opening frame by frame, but it also copied the design style from Higurashi no naku koro ni Kira. They're litterally having the Higurashi no naku koro ni Kira eyes. It also copied some of Higurashi's crazed looks, especially for Professor Tomoe.
Even more than before, they are floating randomly. Tf am I supposed to take from them just floating to their destinations? It's never brought up, because the animators just got lazy, like ”mmyeah, just have them float around or whatevs. Who cares about this obscure IP anyway.”
Speaking of physics and consequences, not only to they just acrobatically strike ballet poses when they are pushed back by enemy…
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REVIEW IN ENGLISH -
I finished the third season of this new adaptation and I must say: WHAT A BEAUTIFUL ANIMATION! The quality in this season is absurd, both in character development and in the story, animation and soundtrack, it's really beautiful. I think they heard a consent on what was delivered previously, and fixed it here. They improved the lines, the animation... and removed that horrible CGI in the Sailor transformations. The anime remains serious and very well constructed, it really conveys the emotion that the scene wants to convey. Also, this adaptation improved Chibiusa absurdly, because in the classic anime she was a bit annoying, but here she is wonderful and I got more attached to her, so if before I didn't like her so much now I love her! I just don't give full marks for…
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You can check out my review of the previous seasons here: https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=412114
Generally an improvement on seasons 1 + 2, season 3 of Sailor Moon Crystal is a great anime held back by a lack of character development.
This season follows my favorite arc in Sailor Moon - the Infinity arc. This arc is definitely a much darker feeling arc - with some interesting nihilistic-feeling mysteries that would not feel too out of place in a Madoka Magika spinoff. I mean, it's still sailor moon - so don't get over hyped; but if you've been hoping for a bit more lore, the Infinity arc has you covered.
So the previous seasons I rated a 6/10 due largely to two penalizing reasons:
1. The ancillary sailor scouts lack enough character development and usefulness
2. The Transformatio…
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The Death Busters arc is my favorite Sailor Moon Story.
When comparing it to the original series, Sailor Moon Crystal is a great improvement as it does the arc a lot better! Uranus and Neptune are back to being awesome characters with their adorable cuddle moments as a couple. Which I'm so happy about since the original 90's anime turned the coolest sailor scouts into condescending emo bitches that treated the inner scouts like children....and Pluto was a bit of a doormat to them.
Sailor Saturn was also made more interesting! The original series mostly talked about what she could do and didn't really show much. In this season she was given a good amount of screen time and we got to see what she was capable of! Hotaru is amazing towards the end, I wanted to give her a hug so bad for ever…
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If I had to review Sailor Moon Crystal S3 in one sentence, it would be: "It does the best it can from the premise it has" (that is, faithfully adapting the manga).
As a lifelong fan of both the manga and the classic anime, I know the pros and cons of both of them; and the manga's main problem is that it is too fast-paced and develops little on the characters, something the classic anime does much better due to having 3 times more content (as someone else said, SM is a rare example of an anime that benefits from filler).
As a 95% faithful adaptation of the manga, Crystal inevitably carries on this problem; however, it handles it much better than the first two arcs. The plot is pretty consistent and correctly explained (if still fast-paced), although to me this arc has always been the weak…
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The Death Buster's arc in the manga AND Sailor Moon S is my favourite season of the 90s Sailor Moon, and after finding out that Crystal was doing adapting this arc and seeing the mess that was Sailor Moon Crystal, I was nervous. The art and animation, and story changes were both awful in SMC, the characters had little to no personality and everything was just a slap in the face to SM fans and felt like nothing more than a cash grab on Toei's part.
But from the first official art release and then the trailer, I had a feeling season 3 would be different. First, the animation (while obviously not perfect, it's Toei) is steps above the previous iteration, and it doesn't hurt to physically watch it anymore. They didn't change the story lines, and the characters have actually personality!! It's…
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**Warning: English is not my first language**
Sailor Moon S3 shows itself as an improvement from its previous seasons (Both art and music were certainly something to work with, CGI was ruining everything this thing stands for) and a remake of its classic 90s counterpart. Working with such a classic as Sailor Moon will get high expectations from everybody, and it did keep us hype about possibilities.
So, it's quite disappointing to find that Crystal S3 couldnt handle that hype properly. Instead, S3 seems a lot rushed (It's only 13 episodes, so of course pace will be faster), even though it had a really nice arc to work with that could be delivered in a better way, by properly developing characterization and wrapping up all the previous events from S1 and S2. Instead, we are faced to just…
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I'm sure we all know by now that unfortunately Sailor Moon Crystal Seasons 1-2 were horrible, and unfortunately season 3 would be worse. However, that is not the case, and I would highly recommend people who dropped Sailor Moon Crystal to check out season III (if not, that's fine). Why? Well these are the reasons why Sailor Moon Crystal Season III, despite some hiccups, is the best season of Sailor Moon Crystal.
-The art and animation are far superior. The characters look more like their manga counterparts with a bit of the 90's anime version mixed in. The budget definitely is higher than the first two seasons. The proportions are better and they show more emotion. The animation is much more fluid for the most part, the CGI is gone completely from the transformations. They are so well don…
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*English is not my first language! Review will be edited... eventually.*
Babysteps. This sequel, is like a babystep on the right direction, by it's improved arts and characterization, but, in the end, falls flat right to it's face.
Super Sailor Chibi Moon... I know it happened in the original too, but still... c'mon! Does this really have to be so close of DBZ-levels of stupid?!
Sailor Moon season III The Death Busters was always my favourite season in the original Sailor Moon, because of it's multicolored characters - both heroes and villains... whom are fairly plentiful in this season - and the final intorducion of three outer senshi, which I always found much more deeper, interesting and all in all more fascinating characters, than the first five girls of the Sailor-set. Since I wa…
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I wasn't a fan of the reboot of Sailor Moon. Crystal felt like a chore to go through and given that it was broadcast once every other week I dropped it halfway through, then picked it up later and finished it off long after it originally aired. Just about everything was wrong with it.
Season 3 pretty much reverses everything I thought about the reboot. It was actually a treat to watch the show. The first improvement was replacing the opening with something better. I didn't like the opening of Season 1, Moon Pride, because it had silly lyrics like, "we don't need no men to solve our problems." I don't think those are completely accurate but I think it's close and dumb. While the openings will never be as good as the original series Moonlight Legend, or Makenai, I don't think there's any wa…
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When I wrote my review of the first season, I decided to pretend I’d never heard of Sailor Moon before. And I stand by that review. Even more so now that I’ve watched season three. Complaint number one, the amount of time this show spends on assembling the characters. If you watch the opening sequence, you know eventually Sailor Pluto arrives. At least Neptune and Uranus are the mysterious new characters from the onset. But it takes so long to introduce her one wonders why she was included on the opening. Complaint number two is pacing. I am willing to bet if you removed the transformation sequences, flashbacks to events we already witnessed & reactionary shots of everyone this season would only be seven episodes. Ten characters have to give their two cents on every event that occurs; thir…
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While perfectly serviceable on a technical level, this third season of Sailor Moon Crystal is the perfect counter to the oft-repeated idea that the quality of an anime adaptation lies in how close it sticks to the original manga.
Sailor Moon Crystal Season III is a workmanlike production that inadvertently highlights the flaws of its original material and the improvements made to the same material in the much less faithful 1994 version by Kunihiko Ikuhara. By ditching the frankly atrocious art and animation of the first two seasons in favor of attractive character designs by Akira Takahashi and competent if unexciting direction by Chiaki Kon, the show removes the veneer of awfulness that obscured the flaws in the manga story in the first two seasons, making them all too clear.
The visu…
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second try:
- because I just watched two episodes, wrote a really critical review with a score of 3, it was deleted by whomever, and than someone texted me like, "how could you rate something, not watching till the end of the series" ... that's why I gived the third season a new chance, because they were right. Just to watch two episodes no one can tell, how the anime is, so, here is my second try. I have watched it till the end -
Story:
The story is really good, there is no doubt. I like how Sailor Moon is not a powerfull (physically) superwhatever, because she can just fight with the support of her friends and with the love, Mamoru gives her.
What I personaly dislike is, when the antagonist dies, a new one comes up, just out'a nowhere.
So the plotstring between every main antagonist…
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I told myself I was giving up on Crystal after the conclusion of the first arc. But after seeing the new art, the previews and the revisited character designs for the Infinity Arc, I decided to give it one more chance, and have been catching up with it every few weeks.
We'll start with the good: The art has improved pretty drastically. The animators had the good sense to ditch those awful CG henshin sequences and make some nicer hand drawn ones. Fight scenes are punchier and the artwork is overall more expressive. The portrayal of the Outer Senshi is about the best you could ask for from a direct manga adaptation. In fact, most everyone's characterization has improved, including Usagi; they have personalities and actual lines now that aren't just repeating what someone else has said or co…
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It was a very lucky thing indeed that I stayed in watching Sailor Moon Crystal. The first season was the typical recruitment of the Inner Sailor Senshis and the second season honestly bored me, so I had second guessing whether I continue the series or not. But thankfully, I did.
Because Sailor Moon Crystal S3 was WAY more magical than the first two.
Story:
The story for this season is very simple yet I quite enjoyed it, I don't know why but I just simply enjoyed. Very typical story of an impending doom. It has all been used by other anime after Sailor Moon but the story just gave me some sorta childhood feeling even though I did not watch a single episode of Sailor Moon back then.
Art:
Good thing they ditched the CGI transformation and amazingly the transformations scenes became quick…
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After Sailor Moon Crystal date release was announed, as a huge manga fan, i was really excited to finally see manga adaptation of Sailor Moon, and sadly, first 26 Acts, Dark Kingdom and Black Moon Arcs, were disappointment for me, with unnecessary story changes (with weren't even mentioned in future Acts, as if they never happened) very poor animation of characters and attacks. On the otheer hand, last Sailor Moon related show, live action adaptation of Dark Kingdom, bombed in sales, so Toei wasn't sure, if people want another Sailor Moon anime, with is why Crystal was biweekly online animation. Sales proved, that people still love Sailor Moon. This season, Infinity Arc, had higher budget, and airs on TV, is it any better?
Short answer, yes! Long answer:
- One of my biggest complains, we…
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Sailor moon, no matter what version has always been one of my favourites and I doubt even as I get older that I'll ever get tired of it. This version of the anime has been insane! I don't think there was one episode where I didn't feel emotional kicks right into the feels, everything about it was amazing and so far I think it's my favourite out of the "crystal" series.
The portrayal of all the characters introduced in this season seemed to be spot on and right to the story, as well as the updated artwork made it more enjoyable to watch.
All in all I don't think I have really anything bad to say about this season aside from the fact I'm truly sad that now we have to wait for the next instalment of the story.
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