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KrenZane
*Entertainment brainwash pizzazz were insufficient and lackluster to cover its blemishes, simply put*
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With Sailor Moon R, the franchise has split itself into a sibling of younger age who, although shares characteristics with the elder we're familiar with, fails to fix her problem traits or dress it up with fresher blooms. Watching in an already worn out state (keyword: uni) wore me down further like wear and tear from its stagnant gait when hopes naturally lie on self-improvement in sequels. Instead, hackneyed performances beam glaringly in the eye as I look upon this tree branch so distant to its purpose of birth that the sheer sameness it has with its prequel became a disconnect to the forest of the Sailor Moon series, apart from the disconnect per se that…
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Sailor Moon R is the second season of the Sailor Moon anime and has many significant changes over the first season, many of which are improvements. While the first season focused heavily on themes like past lives, romance, and reincarnation, the second season moves forward with a new story that seems to constantly test the ideals set out by the first season, such as different types of love, which is divided into two story arcs that correspond with different aspects of the season.
The first of these is the story arc focusing on aliens Ail and An, lovers in a tumultuously unstable relationship that arrive on Earth temporarily. I think their story arc is actually the better of the two despite my own dissonance on how I would have felt on past watches; this is because Ail and An are respectiv…
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WARNING: This review may contain spoilers
Sailor Moon R, the sequel to the original Sailor Moon anime. And I'm not going to lie to you, the first half of this season was a chore to watch. But luckily, it gets good in the second half.
Story - The story for this is decent. The first 13 episodes are a filler arc involving two aliens named Ail and An who want to collect energy for their home, the Doom Tree. Because of their threat, the Sailor Soldiers are revived. The second half is the real story. A child falls from the sky and demands the Silver Crystal from Usagi, claiming that her name IS Usagi Tsukino, which later leads to everyone simply calling her Chibiusa. Later she brainwashes Usagi's family so she can stay with them. An evil organisation called the Black Moon clan is after her be…
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Big improvement over Season 1!
The first thing that i noticed is the improved art direction and animation, the music is also good though I prefer some of the original soundtrack. Clearly, Sailor Moon R has a higher budget and is being taken more seriously than its first season.
While season 1 lacked any real character development outside of its fillers, in R Sailor Venus is shown to be, in some ways, more like Usagi as in clumsy, sometimes dumb but with a big heart and good intentions. I actually prefer her as the "boring" most mature girl of the group of the first season even though many don't like this, why would you want to have two Usagi's in the group? But I still like her anyways. It's a shame the other Soldiers didn't get as much development other than new powers which are all coo…
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Sailor Moon gives me a sense of nostalgia that I never had before. I never saw the show when I was younger, but it has a certain charm to it.
I enjoyed the original Sailor Moon (1st season) overall, and I also enjoyed Sailor Moon R (2nd season).
R picks up almost right after the first season. Usagi and Co. are living normal lives and everything is peaceful until it isn't anymore.
Story: Without any spoilers, the story uses the same formula as the previous season, but is darker and has more world-building elements. It's way more memorable in my opinion. There are two overall arcs featuring in SMR. The first arc is fine, but is often labelled as filler. That is kind of true as it has no real impact on the second arc. But it shouldn't be skipped. This arc focuses more on Mamoru and Usagi,…
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i have a bit of mixed feelings towards this season. now this is my first time watching the series and i’m writing this review before watching the rest so maybe it’ll change after i watch the rest of the series
on one hand i loved the first arc and the last twelve or so episodes and i loved the story for the entire season really but the one thing i didn’t like was chibi-usa
now i don’t like children and therefore hardly ever like little kid characters so not liking her is probably to be expected. and i know i’ll sound a bit dramatic when i say she made me want to quit watching a few times but i guess that’s what happens when a character really gets on your nerves LOL. and i feel bad for her but at the same i was just so annoyed
the last thing is i cried a lot watching this season and…
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Like the last one, this was a great season.
The storylines were once again very interesting. It started off pretty slow with the Ail and Ann arc being pretty formulaic Monster of the Week (not bad, though) but once the Black Moon clan arc began, it was almost always good. The science fiction elements in parts like the future arc especially were really good.
The other positives of the first season remained. The comedy, action scenes, emotion, and animation were all just as good as ever. And it hit several jaw-dropping high points, especially the finale.
Overall, a great season, i'd definitely recommend it to anyone who liked the first.
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So after writing a review of the first season it seem reasonable to write one for the second season as well. So here it goes.~~
This review is, like the one of the first season, focused on the structure, aesthetics and characters of the show, if you just want to now how I rate this season jump to the conclusion at the end. (but for real, don´t do that) As always, this review is highly subjective, so feel free to disagree. Also I tried to write as spoiler-free as possible. (for an again nearly thirty years old anime, but whatever)
Structure: Before I go into the nitty-gritty stuff, I have to address that this season is divided into two story-arcs. The first one is about thirteen episodes long and considered filler. Whereas the second arc is an adaptation of the Sailor Moon manga. (like t…
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The Toei Animation Super franchise that is "Sailor Moon" returned for a second season and another 40+ episodes in "Sailor Moon R". While very similar to the first season, it did have some differences that improved upon the franchise as a whole.
This season started with one plot line but then shifted to another after about a dozen episodes. While somewhat awkward, I think it helped this season because it gave a resolution fairly quickly to one conflict and allowed the next and primary conflict to be shortened in the process making this season less of a grind. The primary antagonists themselves are nothing special, but do have some unique motivations (which I won't spoil here) that make their conclusion a more worthwhile payoff.
The rest of the season suffers from the same flaws as the fir…
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I heard some pretty bad comments for this season, and how it's considered to be, if not the worst, the second worst to SuperS Sailor moon season. I honestly can't see it.
For me this season is the best out of all 5 seasons and my reasons is that it's the "darkest" and "deepest" of them all.
Story 9/10
The first arc with the doom tree is a filler, yet I really enjoyed it. Both the vilains were likeable and interesting and the story of it wasn't so bad either, also I liked that it ended positive for them. The second arc with the Black Moon Clan and the future Crystal Tokyo is the best story arc in the whole series. They revealed some major plot in this arc, like Usagi becoming Neo Queen Serenity and Chibiusa being her daughter. The fact that Serenity was appearing often was a huge plus als…
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Hello everyone. We've got a bit of a special review today. That's right, it's number 200, although those of you reading this on Wordpress haven't gotten access to all of them yet, but it's only a matter of time until the last review of yesteryear gets uploaded so please be patient. We've been through a lot in that time and not just in terms of anime covered. The format has changed quite a bit and I think all those changes have been for the better. When I hit my hundredth review I looked at the first series of Sailor Moon, both the English and Japanese versions. One of which was an abomination whereas the other was really good. Now, at that time I said I would never look at an English dub again and I'm not going to go back on that. That being said, it is appropriate for the 200th review to…
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The second season of Sailor Moon, though it isn't my favorite season, this was definitely worth the watch. And with the new Sailor Moon Crystal coming up it seems like it is a good time to make this review.
The bad. I wasn't a huge fan of the doom tree arc, I'm gonna out right say that. It seemed too much like they just wanted to rush the show along while fitting in more and more episodes to fill up the episode quota for this season. This arc could have been done without, but it wasn't horrible and it did serve a very small purpose. The soundtrack was pretty much the same, which is to say it was lacking during the actual show itself but it had amazing opening themes in both English and Japanese. The art style was Toei animation, that is to say it was a bit lacking back then, even during t…
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Sequels tend to be not as good as the original source. This isn't to say all sequels to certain works are all bad. In fact, some may even be done well or even prove to improve upon or even be better than the original work. But those tend to be rather rare, as usually sequels are made to squeeze out more cash from fanbases. Some works don't even need sequels but wind up getting them anyway (Land Before Time and Secret of NIMH being egregious examples). Sailor Moon has five seasons total, Sailor Moon R being the second season. I've watched it and...eh, it has its good points, but unfortunately there's just a bit too much bad stuff convoluting it and ruining it for me.
The first thirteen episodes are just a filler arc because Naoko Takeuchi didn't start on the manga version quite yet so they…
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When I was a child I totally loved sailor moon, who didn't try to transform to sailor moon, sailor mars etc? It was fabulous, five friends, five warriors of justice and super cool! So I tried to watch it again because I forgot many things, I didn't like this season to tell the truth, I found it boring, especially Chibiusa, it's a very annoying character and she always interfers between Usagi and Mamoru, the other thing I didn't enjoy was Mamoru behaviour, I mean he could tell Usagi about his dreams (nightmares) and as every couple does, try to solve the problems together, except for this, I like the sailors' transformations, attacks and I would have liked to see more of the others sailors but Usagi always has the spotlight. Opening and ending are nothing special, the music is the same of t…
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I can't believe that i used to like this season as a kid growing up. I can now see why though.
seeing as i am a huge fan of romance and stuff, I listed this series as a favorite because i thought the sailor moon r series stands for romance, especially when it has mamoru and usagi kissing more in the r series than anywhere else. Boy was i ever wrong.
don't get me wrong, i enjoyed this series, especially in the english dub (before cloverway owned the series and totally ruined the voices, although dic is no angel either.) But since i started watching it in japanese, especially now that i am older, i have changed my mind about this season.
This series was actually pretty bad. First you have alan and ann showing up to collect energy for their doom tree, who needs energy to sustain life for w…
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After the first season of Sailor Moon, I was hoping for something of the same calibre, which I didn't get. The first arc was a filler, and while the senshi develop new powers, they are never used again outside of the filler arc.
The introduction of Chibi-usa made me want to give up on the series entirely. Especially when she goes through her crying phases. While she does, unfortunately, become important in future series, R made me hate her all the way through. She also brings out an annoying side of Usagi, who constantly gets jealous, and annoys me.
Although, introducing Sailor Pluto almost makes up for it. I like having her introduced, for those that don't know the rest of the story, it would create a curiosity about if there are other senshi.
The R (black moon) arc is much stronger in…
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After watching the original series for the first time in many years, I was very excited to start this series. Sailor Moon R proved itself to be a great continuation of the storyline. While it perhaps isn’t as strong as the original in whole, in parts it surpasses it.
Story wise, Sailor Moon R is broken up into two story arcs. The first is filler not related to the source material, and the second is the Black Moon arc which was very good. The first arc isn’t bad but well you can tell its filler. The sailor warriors recover their memories lost after the conclusion of the first season and gain new abilities. I think one of the things that make this storyline feel insignificant later on is that these new abilities are never used again later on.
The Black Moon arc though is where the series r…
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To tell the truth, this wasn't my favorite season of Sailor Moon- I have mixed feelings about it... shows in my scores. I consider it the worst but most important. It was the season that brought back Sailor Moon, and was connected to the rest of the seasons in a special way because of that. That's why I give it 7 overall, otherwise, it would of been a 5.
Story was pretty good. I like how there was a huge cliff hanger on the first season. And I also like the build up on the first arc-But it was a "filler". The story introduced a mass of new characters and scenery. They explained things in greater detail, for that, I give it a 9.
Art was a joke. This is the only reason why I think this season was the worst. I think the creators could of done a bit better. I mean, this was made during the m…
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