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Sailor Moon R Ep 21 The Beach The Island And A Vacation The Guardians Break

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  • No Export for You: Prior to the Viz re-dub, this episode wasn’t available in any form in the US. Even the uncut boxed set of Sailor Moon R from ADV Films in the early 2000s lacked the episode, citing that they received their episode masters from DiC, who never had the episode sent to them.
  • Pop-Culture Urban Legends: When the uncut Sailor Moon R DVD set from ADV was first released in 2003 without the episode (in comparison, their uncut boxed set of the first season included all the episodes left out of the DiC dub), a representative from ADV initially stated it was because "the creator didn't like it". This would later be debunked (especially as Naoko Takeuchi was barely involved with the 90s anime outside of writing lyrics for some of the theme and character songs) and confirmed as just being that Toei never sent DiC the episode master, with ADV getting the masters DiC had used. It's possible this was a result of the actual story getting confused, as supposedly the episode's completely separate tone from the rest of the season WAS the reason it was lost. Not because Takeuchi or anyone at Toei specifically disliked the episode because of that, but that when they were going over the episodes at Toei to get ready to ship the masters this episode was accidentally left out and nobody had noticed until it was too late because of how disconnected it was from the episodes around it. It's also possible it was confused with the episode Doan's Island from the original Mobile Suit Gundam, a similarly disconnected filler episode that actually was removed from the English release (and many other releases at that) supposedly because creator Yoshiyuki Tomino disliked it due to poor animation quality and a falling out with staff involved in the episode. The original series came out in English and aired on Toonami around the same time the later seasons of Sailor Moon did so it's possible people got the series mixed up.

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