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literaturenerd
Last month, I rewatched Evangelion for the first time in over 15 years and wrote a new review. Now, I'm writing a new review of Sailor Moon. Specifically season 1. The first time I watched this, I was 11 years old and knew absolutely nothing about Japanese anime, visual directing, animation, etc. At first, I just dismissed it as "that girl show that came on before DBZ". I eventually found myself enjoying it, but I didn't like the 2nd season, Sailor Moon R, and stopped watching. Flash forward to 2021 and my girlfriend convinced me to watch seasons 2-5. I really enjoyed them as an older anime viewer who has gained an appreciation for the medium and the amount of work that goes into it. Over the last month, I finally decided to re-watch season 1 and I'm happy to say it holds up really well!…
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It all started when i clicked on the "Randomize!" for one of 2021's AWC entries and got Sailor Moon S (The Third Season) and had to see the first ones. After finishing the first season, i wanted to say some things...
You see, i dont skip episodes, fillers or not... If an Anime has 46 episodes on its MAL page, it has 46. And thats wheres Sailor Moon has some trouble with MY PARTICULAR TASTE.
Let me explain: Imagine you're on a bus, but the driver keeps hitting the brakes when theres no need. Well, Thats a Filler... a lot of "old" animes has a lot of them....And Sailor Moon is one of them... It has a good story, but the pacing is horrendous, the amount of times they recycled the same idea of a villain doing evil but to different people is bizarre, and sadly it ruined the experience for me.…
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To be honest, I hadn't high expectations from the show when I started it. I thought it is gonna be annoying and puerile, but after a few episodes I realised I was wrong.
I never expected it to be such a great and enjoyable show. It has this mysterious vibe that made me fell in love with. It's truly one of the best classics in the anime domain and it's representative for it. A lot of contemporary shows try to copy the idea of magical girls with superpowers and magical weapons but none of them manage to get to the level of this masterpiece.
The music is very nostalgic and the opening song that is also the representative song makes me cry every time I hear it.
I really recommend it. Masterpiece.
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Being a 90's show, Sailor Moon's first season has a particular charm. Overall my gut says that this show deserves a 9 or even 10 out 10. It was, maybe, the first really mainstream anime in North America when it started airing here (Canada) in 1995. I feel it is a captivating story for boys and girls alike. I am male and had no problem with a female heroine. Sailor Moon hails from a time when viewers were not yet desensitised to the enormous and constant sexual innuendo of similar animes produced in the last 10 years. It is a adventurous and romantic story about a teenage girl with plenty of fantasy and comedy but overall maintaining a serious tone. This serious tone is what makes Sailor Moon a much better anime show than its modern counterparts. Almost all new shows that deal with adventur…
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It's an anime staple, so clearly it's something to watch if only to get a proper understanding of the current anime climate. However, if you're watching it for that reason...start a season or two ahead.
This perspective is probably tainted by my own biases pertaining to relationships and appropriateness, but there you go.
So...Sailor Moon is centered around romance - specifically romance with large age/maturity differences, vague or outright incest, and the important of True Love (that again is often creepy due to aforementioned features). This is very alienating if these narratives bother you like they do me. This is probably because I come from outside 1990s Japan, but seeing a bunch of 14 year olds dedicate their lives to older men, and older men projecting their insecurities onto 14…
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Sailor Moon is the GOAT
Why Sailor Moon is the GOAT
Ok, people, this is it, the ultimate, the final countdown, the experience you have all been waiting for, in the game of comparison of anime to this and that. Here ye, all, Sailor Moon is the BEST manga/anime ever and this is why.
The story of Sailor Moon is simple.
Yes, it’s just simple, a child could understand it. It’s the story of Tsukino Usagi, who is a 14 year old middle school student, she loves ice cream, talking cats (well, it’s an off and on relationship), video games. She’s friends with a wide array of people, a hardcore Otaku, a girl kind of next door personality. While frosty at first, she also makes friends with a super genius (Mercury), a level disciplined girl, (Mars), a back and forth with a fiery personality (Jupiter)…
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Back in the 1990s, Sailor Moon was the queen bee of popular shoujo titles by helping to popularize the magical girl genre to international fans and being the first series within the genre to feature a magical girl fighting against the forces of evil instead of using her magic to do fun and mundane things that older titles like Creamy Mami did. I was a sucker for the series when I was a kid during that period as I watched the butchered American syndicated version of the series released by Dic during the mid-90s. Our heroine of focus here is klutzy and book-dumb middle schooler Usagi Tsukino, who is tasked by a talking cat named Luna to become the magical girl known as Sailor Moon to thwart the evil activity of the witch Queen Beryl and her forces among the Dark Kingdom. Along the way, Usagi…
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This review is written from a guy's perspective whose barely getting into shojo & wishes to offer positive insight to new viewers of the series. The first season isn't perfect but has some good moments which makes the series worth watching.
I think most people are already familiar to the concept of Sailor Moon being 5 middle school girls being picked as sailor soldiers/sailor scouts to battle evil demonic forces of the Dark Kingdom which is led by Queen Beryl. These battles are often episodic as Queen's Beryl's demons tend to exploit human desires such as tempting them with love in exchange for their energy. These are often shown in very dark fashion as these demon encounters give the series its charm of good vs evil (which I always enjoy) but can get repetitive at times.
While I am a ma…
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Sailor Moon is not only the most influential magical girl series of all time, it stands today as one of the major pillars of anime. Throughout the world, girls as well as boys were enchanted by the five sailor senshi; living normal, inconspicuous lives at first, then transforming into a magical team to fight evil. It was a stable for kids my age at the time, but the series has become such a classic that if I had a daughter, I would introduce her to classic Sailor Moon first above anything else. Sailor Moon is a better role model than Barbie and most other girl shows anyways.
Story: 10
Before Sailor Moon, magical girl shows centered around mischievous but lovable girls causing trouble with their powers. Once Sailor Moon took the spotlight, a Power Ranger-esque team of transforming magical…
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Welcome to my 100th review. I'm sorry that I wasn't more honest about this coming up, I could say it in my dreams, but my thoughts were about to short circuit as I thought about what anime I could review for the occasion. My heart was a kaleidoscope as I pondered this question. I looked to the twinkling of the stars to foretell the future of my reviews. Obviously, it had to be Sailor Moon. While I'm at it, I'm going to do one of those things that some people keep whining at me for not doing. That's right, I'm going to look at the English dub and the original side by side.
Rather than start by talking about the story, I'm going to start by talking a bit about the translation. First off, how do you miss-translate "Moon Tiara Action"? The original line is in English. How can you fail to tran…
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To the majority of all Anime fans, whether Sailor Moon is good enough to charm a little girl off her feet or appeal to an older audience seeking nostalgia is a question of utter irrelevance. What most people should be asking themselves is whether or not it can actually appeal to a male or adult audience, and after having seen all 46 episodes I'm pretty sure that it can.
Now, I do admit that I used to watch this as a child, but the only parts of it I could remember before I re-visited it were the transformation sequences, Sailor Mars and the Swedish dub of the ending theme. All in all this was a fairly pleasant viewing experience.
Story: 5/10
Despite my recently acquired affection for the franchise, I definitely wouldn't call Sailor Moon story driven. It recycles repetitive formulas lik…
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Sailor Moon, I remember this from my childhood and when I look back to it, I just thought—WHAT THE HECK WAS I THINKING?. I was young then, I didn't understand the story and I really wish I still didn't. This show is just an insult to the magical girl genre!
OK, so it's got some backing plot, but come on, it dragged on for like 200 episodes and the only slightly interesting development was that she grew wings. The main character is just, well let's just say a loaf of bread has more I.Q. points than her.
Pleas, if you enjoy 'magical girl' don't torture yourself and ruin the genre for yourself by watching this.
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Season One of Sailor Moon encompasses the best and worst of the entire Sailor Moon franchise.
Sailor Moon introduces us to Usagi at her most comedic: she is not only the heroine but the comic relief of her own show. Over the course of the season we are introduced to Luna, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter and finally Sailor Venus and Artemis.
As others have mentioned, it is the characters, their relationships with one another which really holds the show together. Other shoujo such as Card Captor Sakura, handled the monster of the week nature in a more fun and varied way, but few anime have handled girls in all their complexities and silliness as well as Sailor Moon has, before or since.
Sailor Moon is about girl power and while the anime emphasis may not be as strong as the m…
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Sailor moon was my very first anime. I used to anticipate coming home after school, turning on the t.v and flopping on my bed to watch it.
Story 10/10
I do admit the the story line although repititive it flows rather well. People need to stop judging this on todays Anime scales, this was made in 1992(and dubbed couple years after) so people need to look at this as one the GREATEST anime of the '90s. Although it is the same girl gets magic powers,girl gets teamates, and girls try to defeat the enemy together. Its your basic storyline, my favorite take on it is, that this is usagi's coming of age storyline.
Art 10/10
Naoko takeuchi is a lovely artist! I saw the anime before i started reading manga, and i always get the feeling that Usagi in the Manga looks older...its just how beautifully…
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Sorry, if your affraid to read anything that puts down Sailor moon, don't read my review. Because guess what.... that is what I am doing.
First off the costumes are annoying.
They all look like spoiled rich people pretending to be powerful heros.
I think the reason this is spoofed so much in hentai is because of the horrible campy style the show seems to portray.
Could not complete a episode without the threat of destroying the TV, PC, or projector showing the series out of disgust.
It is clear this was aimed at a younger not as smart audience.... Who knows, maybe its trying to be campy kinda like Attack of the Killer tomatos.
Like much in anime I have seen lately it also seems to try and survive off with a 'cute' factor alone. Plastic Little was cuter, and I would even say better draw…
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I'm sure we all know the storyline of Sailor Moon, and I'm fine with the storyline, but EACH episode is the same. (Spoiler?) Girl fights villain, Girl is to scared to fight, Tuxmask says 'be brave' Girl Throws Crown, Girl wins. EVERY episode is like this!
People told me about this anime and how awesome it was (I didn't expect it to be awesome)... and it was horrible. It sucked. The characters were idiots, the main character was a coward, moron, crybaby, and each episode was the same
I've seen lots of anime, so I'm past the anime, faces, laughs, transforming (without interruption), and other things that commonly annoy viewers in anime.
There is no justifying how much this sucked.
Wish you the best on your Anime Quest
-Drumming1997
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In my opinion, Sailor Moon is one of the best anime in the 90s. Only because I grew up watching it and loving it in english.
Sailor Moon is the longest magical girl anime series. 200 episodes. If you want to watch this, be prepare. With a repetitive story line, gender confusion, too many catch phrases and puns, you just might be in for a show.
In the English dub, their voices are alright in the first 2 seasons, but in the third and fourth, Serena (Usagi) and Amy's (Ami) voices are horrible. Not to mention that the English dubbing doesn't even stick to its original dialogue.The importance of it being uncut and subtitled is lost, and you wind up having to appreciate the show simply for what it is, on its own merits, minus the ocean of hype.
There's good character development in Sailor mo…
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It is often true that things experienced in your childhood never seem to live up to the wonderful memories you had of them when experiencing them again as an adult. It was with this state of mind that I entered my viewing of Sailor Moon, mostly from a desire to relive some nostalgia from my youth. I can truly say that it exceeded my expectations and left all those fond memories intact. As with most anime fans my age, Sailor Moon was one of the first series that I watched. It is one of those titles that many people know outside the anime fan base. Though it’s probably not the first "magical girl" anime it does in my opinion define the entire genre.
The first thing that is going to come to many people’s attention is going to be the artwork and sound quality. When compared to today’s standar…
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In my opinion, this anime is the best one out there for a person of my interests. There's tons to learn from it, and the characters blend really well. Usagi and Rei have their own little conflict, Ami is the brain who bails Usagi out of everything, Matoko is the brilliant chef who brings goodies for everyone, and Minako is the one who dreams of being a star. These five best friends, along with Mamoru, Usagi's boyfriend, transform into super soldiers here to save the world. Usagi, who is also the Moon Princess, is the leader as Sailor Moon. Ami, the second sailor soldier found, has control of ice and water and is Sailor Mercury. Rei, the third, uses her own charms and curses as well as the power of fire as Sailor Mars. Matoko, The fourth, uses rage and electricity as Sailor Jupiter. Minako,…
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Note: This review encompasses the entire series, rather than just the first season. Keep that in mind while reading. Thanks!!
When anime fans start talking about shows that began their interest in japanese animation, many people point to the fact that their first experience with anime (whether they knew it or not at the time) is Sailor Moon. It's one of those anime shows that people fondly remember as the basis of "how to do anime right" for future shows of its kind. Even when comparing it with today's new trends, plots, characters and animation, it is easy to notice why Sailor Moon is fondly accepted into the hearts of anime fans around the world.
In my eyes, you could not have picked a better anime to become immersed into the anime world than with Sailor Moon. And a big reason for that…
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