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Sounds like Indiana needs to keep up with the rest of the world.
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Are you telling me that you can remember small private businesses burning their own CDs in 1992 New York?
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07-21-2014, 07:15 PM | #28 |
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Remember Crystal Seminar is supposed to be a really expensive and prestigious school, though. Even the fact that they use computers for teaching (with every student having their own computer during class) is played up as a rather big deal... it just doesn't really come across as such in Crystal because it's not some almost-futuristic concept to modern viewers any more.
Back when Takeuchi originally wrote this, though? A prep school where all the students use computers at once for all classes was pretty crazy, and the school having their own specially pressed discs with unique study programs you couldn't get elsewhere even more so. It all makes it clear that this isn't some ordinary school, it's the kind of super expensive place utilizing the absolute latest in technology and playing that fact up. The school really loses this air of exclusivity in Crystal. (I believe we got a CD-ROM drive on our home computer in 1994 though. Seems you guys were a bit behind) |
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Nice that this threads got revived! I've been enjoying this new series! But I'll never get the voice actor craze >.>
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07-23-2014, 12:14 AM | #30 |
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So someone swapped in the Attack on Titan theme on the opening for Sailor Moon Crystal and this was the result. They sync up perfectly. I kid you not. The fact that these two anime can swap themes and still have reasonable sync makes me happy. Here, the AoT opening with the Sailor Moon Crystal theme. Another perfect sync. <3 I have no idea what's funnier: AoT with the cute Sailor Moon Crystal theme, or Sailor Moon Crystal with the badass AoT theme. |
07-24-2014, 11:07 PM | #31 |
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Bit of a cross-post but some early designs for Neptune, Saturn and Pluto have come out. And, relevant to my interests in the "seifuku" topic they have some different designs and accessories!
Please rate them. What looks most attractive, or cutest to you? http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1745924 http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1745922 http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/1745919
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I think you mean Uranus, not Saturn.
Uniforms: They're all identical but for differences in color. -.- Overall: I think Pluto is the most attractive of the three choices. Then it's a toss-up between Uranus and Neptune. Not really a fan of either, for different reasons.
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As someone who watched the original series and couldn't finish the live-action one (THAT STUFFED TOY LUNA WAS JUST WRONG TO ME!), I have a question about Tuxedo Mask (episode 3).
Spoiler: show
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Comments in bold, spoilers for the manga version of the chapter.
Also, sorry about accidentally giving away that change... I seriously took the end of the fight as going like it did in the manga and was very surprised to see the deviation in episode 4. Quote:
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Oh wow, I thought I was just delinquent on my post for 06. But apparently I haven't even written about 05 yet. Whoops.
Episode 05: Spoiler: show Episode 06: Spoiler: show I've yet to watch Episode 07, so that post will be a little delayed still.
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Aaaahh what's goin' on with this series anyhow? I mean it's got the mangas pacing down, episode titles, a buncha dialogue, but there's so many changes! Even right from the start I forgot, Sailor Moon does occassionally have Sailor V-like goggles but in the anime they've not even once been shown! I guess instead of being a 1:1 conversion Crystal's still gonna do some things its own way. Having like 4 versions of SM now an all with their own unique stuff doesn't seem so bad since none of 'em are "obsoleted" but some Crystal's changes haven't been for the better. Next ep better do Minako justice at the very least!
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Sorry to hear you weren't a big fan of Episode 06, Adamant. :\ I found it to be pretty enjoyable myself. Then again, I don't have much investment in the franchise and have only marginal familiarity with the manga. I can appreciate why it would be disappointing to manga fans that what we had hoped would be a manga-faithful adaptation has been throwing us curve balls with increasing frequency.
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I love how you guys are comparing the anime and the manga and having in-depth discussion while I'm still screaming at my screen that "MAMORU CANNOT BE A FREAKING HIGH SCHOOL KID, NO BLOODY WAY". And then episode 7 happened and I'm melting into goo like I did when I was 11 and Mamoru was a college student in the first anime.
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Episode 07: Spoiler: show Episode 08: Spoiler: show In my post for Episode 07, I brought up the pacing, saying that I think I liked it but also indicating that I don't think I like it. Let's discuss this now that we're through discussing Episode 08, the latest episode to have aired. Spoiler: show
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Manga Arc 1: 14 chapters
Crystal Arc 1: 14 episodes Manga Arc 1: 12 chapters Crystal Arc 1: 12 episodes? (obviously since they announced only 26 eps) With the first arc over an the second soon to start I'ma chime in an say I'm still liking this new series! The good/bad/pointless changes have made things alil less predictable at the very least! Pacing is a problem just like it was in the manga, but like the Sailor V series was all about Minako, Sailor Moon's all about Usagi. Its a fair complaint ta make since Moon's got a bigger cast an all. The original anime had its own pacing problems what with the plot moving at a snails pace but more characters got more visibility which was nice, even though it was rare ta see anyone but Usagi finish off a baddie. Plus compared to the manga/crystal the Inners seemed like much less of a team an less devoted to their princess/duties which was kinda lame. |
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So I want to ask something for people who have been following this.
Sailor V, presumably, has been active and fighting crime for a long time before Moon ever came into the picture. Was the world generally aware that V had super-powers? Did Serena express shock that super-powers existed in the world, or was she sort of accepting because she already knew V existed (and was a fan).
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Along with Pokémon, Death Parade, JoJo, and a number of other threads, I let this one fall into disuse because of being torn between having much less free time these days and yet wanting to keep on writing big ol' posts with lots of pictures and stuff. But I suppose that some posts is better than no posts at all, so at least for Sailor Moon Crystal, which I'm not terribly excited about ^^; , I'll go ahead and resume posting but with just pure text. A lot easier this way.
I'm currently through Episode 18, and I have to say that:
But I think my biggest problem with Sailor Moon Crystal right now is that, ironically, in being the Cliff's Notes version of the tale, trimmed of all "filler," it is just too damn slim. The characters are as shell-like as they come, pure vehicles for getting us from Major Canon Plot Point A to Major Canon Plot Point B. It's improved somewhat in the Dark Moon arc over what we had in the Dark Kingdom arc, but the confines of only half an hour every two weeks are still quite palpable. In trying to tell 52 episodes' worth of material (I'd wager) in only 26, they're pulling it off -- narrowly -- by focusing 100% on the plot and excising all of the material that would actually make us give a damn about these characters. If Minako and Ami ever had a heart-to-heart about abusive boyfriends at the park in the original, they don't here. If Rei and Usagi ever had an eat-off at a sushi bar, they don't here. I'm making these examples up, having not read the manga myself nor seen the original TV series, but you get my point: there is nothing that these characters do outside of slaying monsters of the week thrown their way, and it leaves them feeling even more shallow than the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Maybe this complaint can largely be blamed on Takeuchi Naoko and her original writing. I don't know. All I know is, if the filler would have made these characters feel more like actual people and less like sentai outfits with no one on the inside wearing them, then I would have preferred to keep the filler. We've encountered a similar problem with Pokémon in the latter half of Unova. Fans have long deplored filler episodes in SHoPro's Pokémon, so when Unova came about they decided to make it as filler-free as possible. But it turned out that filler episodes, it just so happens, are what ShoPro has almost always used to develop the characters further. "Plot episodes for the plot, filler episodes for the characters." While Unova paradoxically boasts some of the richest Pokémon personalities in the history of the franchise (namely Oshawott, Emolga, and Krookodile), it also sports some of the franchise's poorest. (Unfezant, Boldore, and Palpitoad, oh my ...) And many of the episodes which lent character richness to the richest characters ... were what you would normally call "filler episodes." No gym badges won, no league battles partook in, just Ash & Co. chilling on the side of a riverbank while stuff relevant only to one or two specific Pokémon happens. The writers learned from this experience that filler is, at worst, a "necessary evil"; at best, a wholesome part of proper storytelling. Choose whichever spot you like on the spectrum, but for ShoPro, at least, they haven't found a way to write rich characters without turning to fillers. Not all stories require fillers to make characters rich. But the examples that come to mind are some of the richest stories I have ever had the pleasure of reading or watching in my life. Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Karei Naru Ichizoku, for example, are both filler-free and yet feature incredibly rich plots and characters. But that's because they're masterfully written. :') If you can't write that well, then maybe fillers provide a sort of "training wheels" for you by which to make your characters richer. If that's what Takeuchi Naoko needed, then Toei was wrong to cut those episodes out of the equation. If not, and if her original story had pretty much no filler, then either her original characters were bland too or else all of the problems with Sailor Moon Crystal's shallow characters can be chalked up to the incredibly fast pacing / short episode count.
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