Sailor Moon

There it is, thanks!

For March, my calendar has a picture of Sailor Mars posing quite beautifully. I can't help but be amused by the irony. Sailor Mars very easily makes her male fans have great big crushes on her, but she herself doesn't like men all that much (no thanks to her relationship with her father not being all that great).

I also have a Sailor Moon calendar that has Sailor Mars featured for March! If it's the 2024 one that includes the Outer Senshi, then we might have the same one. I think the month of March is named after Mars, so that's fitting for her, although her birthday is in April. In the calendar I have, Sailor Pluto is shown for October, which is her birthday month (and Venus's but Venus is already shown for May).

Whether or not Sailor Mars likes men depends on which version of the story one is watching, though, because she's more interested in boys in the 90's anime, but yes, she says she dislikes men in the manga and probably Crystal too.

Edited by Rainbow on Mar 1st 2024 at 8:24:28 AM

Yeah, in the 90s anime she didn't have anything against men as a whole.

We do indeed have the same style of calendar.

This discussion reminds me of how in one episode of SuperS there is a girl named Nanako who admires Rei and thinks that Rei's dream is to just be a shrine maiden who never gets married, while Rei in the anime says in that episode that she wants to have an international success life and names a whole bunch of different dreams she has. In the manga, however, Rei's goals DO center around staying at the shrine and inheriting it someday, and that's also the version where she dislikes men (and isn't interested in getting married). So it's almost like Nanako had the 90's anime version of Rei confused with the manga one!

Edited by Rainbow on Mar 2nd 2024 at 5:51:54 AM

I can't quite remember that episode, but it sounds hilarious. XD

Manga Rei gets along with her grandpa very well while Anime Rei is kind of annoyed by him.

So it's funny that, while both Reis appear to have the same father issues, the manga one is more unwilling to hear of men. You'd think that her grandfather's influence would soothe her more on it, and yet the one who was raised by a perverted grandpa is the one who likes men better.

I thought Michelle Ruff's Luna was too bitchy and uncaring but god was the scene where she BEGS Mamoru to help save Sailor Moon. OMG it just hurt too much, Rocio Garcel got a run for her money here. The Viz dub really got much better as it went on, with R being a highlight.

Edited by AegisP on Mar 17th 2024 at 7:25:50 AM

Eh, "bitchy" wasn't a word I'd apply to anime Luna.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I dont want to argue so I wont comment further than this post but REALLY!?

EDIT: On second thought I will elaborate a bit, since I am not actually sure of what you meant with your comment. I like Luna in the anime, but she could DEFINITELY be bitchy, especially towards Usagi and Artemis. If you are a bit wary of the word bitchy I can drop it, She can be seriously nasty and mean spirited. What Luna has going for her is that she CARES about the girls ESPECIALLY Usagi and is just a Vitriolic Best Buds with the two.

Rocio Garcel (Latin American Luna), Jill Frappier (Di C Luna) immadiately got Luna's sympathetic and caring side right, but Michelle Ruff too a bit more to get it down pat. Oh and I dont mention Keiko Han because she already nailed it amazingly in the original and wanted to focus on dub actors.

Edited by AegisP on Mar 17th 2024 at 8:34:09 AM

Was that back when they made Luna sound like Angela Lansbury?

No, Jill Frapier is the one you mentioned, Michelle Ruff is the Viz/Fully Uncut 2014 dub Luna.

Oh yeah, the one that people said sounds like Rukia. I prefer her voice.

I was going to mention Rukia, yes she is.

I’m watching Sailor Moon Eternal (again ). In this version, Rei’s granddad is a Cool Old Guy. I remember in the ‘90s anime, he was a short weirdo.

I was reading an astronomy book that discussed features on the surface of Venus and one of them is a plain called Aino Planitia! It's named after a Finnish water spirit, so it's just a coincidence, but I immediately thought of Sailor Venus when I read that.

Edited by Rainbow on Apr 4th 2024 at 8:36:03 AM

Fascinating.

I wonder what a Sailor Moon Super would be like.

I know it isn't possible because of how the manga ended, but a new generation of Sailor Senshi was always something I would like.

That or an official Pretty Cure crossover where the Senshi other then the Outers and Makoto are dumbfounded by Cure Black and Cure White fully throwing hands with their Monster of the Week rather then just the Senshi's brand of Magic spamming.

The "Parallel Sailor Moon" short story from the manga gives some idea of what that could be like from an official source, although whether or not it's canon is debatable. Of course, many fanfic authors have made stories about future generations of Sailor Senshi, but I assume you're referring to an official anime or manga about it.

I also would like an official Pretty Cure crossover, since I'm a big fan of both, but I'm not sure how likely that is.

Edited by Rainbow on Apr 5th 2024 at 10:17:14 AM

Re: Sailor Moon video games.

I think a gachas game might both more likely and more viable if they decided to do a Video Game spinoff large because of the following

• Most obviously being that Madoka also had a gacha spinoff so it is possible. Not to mention that it is increasingly more common for anime licensed games besides
• More to the point the space theme gives an easy avenue for large roster between the stars, constellations, planets, asteroids and moons that have names. And it could be justified by having it be set in either Crystal Tokyo or the Silver Millennium, both being rather unexplored settings.

IMO, aside from another fighting game, I think the best fit would be a Persona-style game. Have all the slice of life moments and letting Usagi hang out with whoever, and at certain times of day, go out and dispense sailor-suited justice.

Call me crazy.. Sailor Moon Musou.

Regarding the voice, yeah, is a little bit of confusing that Luna, playing a mentor role to Usagi in the first seasons gave a bad idea of how in Occident want to hear the mentor´s voice.

But the japanese original voice was sorta of a mean young mentor voice (like a woman in her 20s or less), just to remind that, despite being far older than Usagi, Luna never gets old, so her voice probably would be one of an adult but no so old adult.

That´s probably we felt confused when we hear Luna`s younger voice in Latin America, we got sold in the idea of the old mentor´s voice that Rocio Garcel gave her (a sound sweet, but firm.. but, if you feel confused.. Zoycite got the voice of Minerva Mc Gonagall in the original series!!!)...

Before Crystal appeared in television, I bought a special edition Sailor Moon DVD box with the original japanese voices and, yes, hearing Luna was so... WTF?... is not supposed to be that young?, this fix in the dubbing made Rocio to loss her job, but at least she has the chance to dub Neherenia after her older sister retired.