/jam/ - Japan, Anime, & Manga

English cast is out; Stephanie Sheh will play Sailor Moon.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-07-05/new-sailor-moon-dub-cast-revealed-at-anime-expo/.76285

>>89063

Well I certainly hope it's someone good. No shoehorned in memes or unesscessary cursing.

That and my ISP has been known to pick up on Commie's torrents.

>>89063

Yeah, I was wondering why there were so few contractions used (e.g. "I am" instead of "I'm") and other oddities (e.g. "Cat can talk?") that made the dialogue read unnaturally.

Sailor Moon: The Crystaldust Crusaders

>>89064
Why I had to switch to downloads, they like to throttle torrents in these parts

Yeah, I couldn't tell if the writing for the show was just super generic or if the subs on Hulu were super not good. I'll probably stick with Hulu, though, as Sailor Moon has never had deep plot and I can pick up the general idea without having to seek out torrents.

>>89062

http://nangbaby.com/post/90870702188/

Translation: BAWWWWWWWWWWWWW VIZ ISN'T CATERING TO MY NOSTALGIA FOR A SHITTY '90S ANIMU DUB, FUCK THEM AND EVERYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THEM

As far as this episode goes, it's everything I wanted in a more manga-focused Sailor Moon. Romance is already more tangible which is nice. The animation is gorgeous although I do agree that they look much older than what they're supposed to be (high school versus middle). And their eyes are a bit too big, even for anime proportions. Totally minor complaints. Music makes me feel early 90s which I guess is fitting. ED was my favorite. Also lol those shoujo flower overlays over people were great, really loving that.

Hulu's/Nico's subs are the worst though.

>>89072

>those shoujo flower overlays

Got a very Utena vibe off those (and the commercial break images).

>>89070i
>f the subs on Hulu were super not good. I'll probably stick with Hulu
It's the subs. The subs are trash. Now if you're expecting something "groundbreaking" well, Sailor Moon wrote most of the cliches this genre is built around so...

As for Hulu, why in the world would you stick with the one service where even if you subscribe they still cram 12 ads down your throat? Use NicoNico or Crunchy if you insist on the official subs.

All that sub drama aside though god is it pretty.

>>89075
indeed, Luna looks a bit better animated

>>89078
I thought Luna was too... round. Like they did that whole circle outline thing and then said "You know what, this is good, color it in." She had more definition, especially in the head, in the original.

http://fairymascot.tumblr.com/post/90948255760/thanks-anon-it-was-exactly-what-i-expected-it
This kind of reactions from the anime purists are always hilarious.

But did she have the glasses that detect danger that she immediately throws away never to use again?

>>89084
Mercury? She's not shown up yet just a teaser of her Blue Bonce at the end of the episode. I hope she gets upgraded gear since the Pocket Comp is pretty dated now.

>>89085

I'm pretty sure Toei decided to update tech stuff like that so that Crystal fits with modern times.

>>89087
That should be interesting maybe some holographic display stuff.

>>89089

did that transition to the anime, or was it the mirror she had. I forget since its been so long.

Crystal it just looks like that is the noted "Meatball Signal" where she just heard her friend was in danger.

>>89074
Does Cruncyroll not have ads? I use Hulu's free service and am content with the ads in return; I'll never pay them a red cent so long as their paid service still has ads. Plus, it's my main streaming site, and Crystal is favorited and automatically added to my queue, so unless I'm losing a lot with the poor translation I can deal with it in return for the convenience.

>>89094
Last time I used it (which was admittedly months ago) Crunchyroll didn't have ads for subscribers. Non-subscribers on the other hand have to deal with low-def video and ads.

>>89094
The ads on Crunchyroll (non subscribers) are far less intrusive than Hulu's.

>>89095
Hmm. Thing is, I'm not nearly as much into anime now as I once was, so I don't know if I would consider subscribing for the sake of a handful of series when there's nothing I'm seriously into right now. Good to know, though; thanks.

>>89096
As in shorter/less frequent? I wouldn't say that Hulu's are intrusive (in that they don't overlay the video you're viewing, you just get ~2 minutes of ads at intervals.)

Viz dub preview of the original series at the 15 minute mark.

Anime Expo 2014: The Official …

Stephanie Sheh as Usagi works for me.

>>89100
Johnny Yong Bosch as Artemis is going to be weird though.

>>89100

I’m good with Sheh!Usagi. Her voice fits better than I thought it would from the brief preview at the end of the announcement trailer (big shock, I know).

Personally, I’m waiting for the Sailor Moon R movie.

http://comicsalliance.com/sailor-moon-crystal-episode-1-review-anime/

And Chris Sims seems to be pleased.
Wasn't he a comic book reviewer?

http://nangbaby.com/post/91321196078/

The stupid. It burns. It burns so damn much, yet I can’t look away.

>>89123
Wow, just wow.
Not even GEEWUNS from Transformers fandom are that obsessively crazy.

Sailor Moon X JoJo's Bizarre A…

Sailor Moon - Official English…

>>89160

Nangbaby, as expected, tossed an insane bitchfit about this. Haw.

As for the actual clip itself: still not quite sold on Stephanie Sheh as Usagi (it'd take getting used to), but Mamoru's voice is dead-on perfect.

>>89165
Re-dubs always take extra time. It took me a bit to get used to the Funimation One Piece vs. 4kids. While Funimation had far better quality overall (and less "YO HO HO"), I thought the 4Kids dub had better voices for Chopper and one other character I forget right now. It also made more sense for me when Chopper's voice got deeper when he used his larger forms, vs. the original and Funimation voices where he is always high pitched except when he turns turns into/uses Monster Point.

>>89167

I’m personally waiting to hear Ami and Luna’s voices. I loved the original dub’s voice for Luna and Ami’s first dub voice, so I have a bit of a nostalgic attachment to them.

>>89168
Here's Luna.

Sailor Moon - OFFICIAL DUB CLI…

And what do you know, Viz posted a preview with Luna just a little while ago...

Sailor Moon - OFFICIAL DUB CLI…

...HOLY CRAP IT'S RUKIA.

Once again, my nostalgia for the classic dub voices stands at odds with the actual quality of the new dub. It's going to take a looooooooooooooot of watching to get used to hearing Rukia's voice coming out of Luna's mouth.

Luna's voice is the only one I remember at all, but Michelle Ruff's voice is totally fine to me. Having a mental connection between Disgaea/Persona and a thing I haven't seen since I was like, 7, is weird though.

But hey, it's not like I'm going to watch it so :V

>>89175
Yeah, I don't have a problem with Ruff's voice for the role in theory, but it's going to take some adjustment to deal with the fact that Luna's speaking with the voice of Etna/Rita/Rukia/etc.

And now, a preview of the new dub voices for Queen Beryl and Jadeite.

Sailor Moon - Official English…

I like 'em. They both fit well.

>>89211
I've only ever known Cindy Robinson from her godawful Labrys voice, huh, she's not actually half bad.

Moon Animate Make-Up!

>>89227
I definitely noticed Ami's eyes in that one scene, but it's possible I only noticed because I had seen that parody image in this thread first.

Moon Animate Make-Up!

Sailor Moon ep remade shot-by-shot, by many artists, in each artist's personal styles. I liked it, it was silly.
Saw it on /co/ prime.

>>89231
I noticed it before I saw that image. That was the only QUALITY I recall noticing, though; didn't catch >>89227.

>>89242
heh it's one step away from just being a walking group of balls. gonna have a hangout tomorrow, watch some old Sailor Moon and stuff

>>89311

…goddammit, Toei.

And I had decent-to-high hopes for this.

>>89311
>load and loads of DOSH from Toei's other franchises
>still QUALITY
WELP
I could(maybe) make me a blind eye if this was Precure, but this has no excuse.

>>89315

I really, really hope Toei spends some extra dosh to correct this lazy bullshit for the Blu-rays.

>>89316
That's my only hope right now. Those who don't use fansubs are only used to the DVD quality, and it's well known that TV production is often rushed to put on the air and greatly improved later, so this might just be a case of not being used to QUALITY.

>>89406
I hope they redo this scene in Crystal.

>>89409
Kinda doubt it. I'm pretty sure the Rainbow Crystals arc was unique to the first anime, and they seem to only be adapting chapters from the manga for Crystal.

http://nangbaby.com/post/95076726593/

So, apparently, making a new dub of the old anime equals some form of genocide.

Oi.

>>89414

Haha, this lady is great. I wonder if this is the Sailor Moon equivalent of getting pissed at Nintendo for "retconning" Princess Toadstool into Princess Peach, or the Green-Eyed Sonic the Hedgehog thing.

When they remade Thundercats, were there people who were this angry over Lion-O not being a kid who grew up at an accelerated rate thanks to Space-Pod hibernation?

Sailor Moon dub premier is tonight.

http://www.animationforadults.com/2014/09/moonlight-party-new-dub-for-original.html

I watched for about 5 minutes myself before quitting (framerate so smooth it's like I'm really playing running through Blightown) and then watched the 4 episodes they put out with some people on IRC. It was actually pretty fun. I love Michelle Ruff as Luna.

>>89059

Does anyone know where you can watch the new dub?

>>89588

Hulu and Neon Alley. First four episodes are up right now, more episodes to follow soon.

DAT SUITE PRECURE REUNION 2014
Well, not really but close enough for me.

>>89589

any way to watch them in Canada?

>>89597
Proxies. Hola Unblocker is a browser extension that does the work for you, I'm told.

>>89902
I wouldn't have minded it, but you'd likely have gotten a lot of fan rage for changing things up from the manga, so whatever.

>>89907
Fans are already pretty divided on the series as a whole. The animation errors, the slavish devotion to the original manga--which has a lot of problems that the first anime fixed, like the pacing and the amount of personality injected into the individual characters. Even though the first anime had its own problems that came along with it--and there are still a lot of people who feel like the new series' character designs just don't work that well in an animated medium though designs like them were fine for the manga. The overfocus on the Usagi/Mamoru romance over the girls' friendship is sticking in a lot of people's craws too.

Honestly, if I had my druthers, Crystal would've been different. I would've liked to see something that took the best stuff from all the incarnations to date and made the "Ultimate Version of Sailor Moon." The pacing and personality of the original anime, some of the neat additional storylines and concepts from the toku series, but with more attention to the story skeleton outlined by the manga. And toss on top of all of that a modern, high budget anime veneer, including--as you mentioned--bringing the story into the 21st century.

But that's not what we got. I dunno. Crystal's not horrible or anything. But I just don't care about it as much as I had hoped I would. There's not much to look forward to in it because I already know all the story beats and they've made it clear they're not going to take any chances or try anything new, and the animation is going to be in many ways lower quality than the first anime despite the fact that the still frames from it might be prettier.

>>89911

It's going the route of many other anime these days and making all of the corrections, touch-ups, and improvements on the Blu-Ray. Attack on Titan did it, and even though some might argue it didn't need it, even Kill La Kill threw in a few improvements here and there for the blu-ray.

It's a matter of budget, this is (so far) a 26 episode series that was gonna air on TV first, so they just save their best for when they have the time and money (the blu-rays.)

>>89915
Yeah, QUALITY is a well-known aspect of anime that airs for TV first, which is then touched up (sometimes completely redone) for video release. This doesn't apply to all series that air on TV, of course, but many fans (especially of the original SM series) are used to getting rips based on the DVDs and aren't as used to QUALITY.

>>89915
>>89917
The fact remains that "we'll touch it up on the DVD" wasn't really a problem for the original series, and given what a surefire money maker the franchise is, they could have afforded to give it a high enough budget to get it right the first time. They haven't convinced me the DVD is worth buying, so there's a good chance I'll never see the fixes they put in place.

>>89923
I don't disagree, but I don't think Crystal was made because the production company had a deep loyalty to Sailor Moon... more like they saw how well FMA Brotherhood did and, with the anniversary, decided to cash in that way.

I don't think QUALITY was a thing back in the early 90s when the Sailor Moon series was first released, was it? Certainly there would be touch-ups here and there, especially as series got the DVD treatment, but I don't think any of it was on the level of what you see today.

>>89924

QUALITY was a thing on pretty much any show, Gundam could have it, DBZ could have it, Sailor Moon wouldn't be any different. Stuff is higher res and more easily accessible, so it's quicker and easier than ever to catch this stuff, but even the manga itself had bad anatomy that required Takeuchi herself to come back and redraw stuff.

In my opinion, it's nothing new, and pretty much just something to sorta laugh about.

>>89930
I don't think he meant off-model animation in general, just cases where they really cheaped out on the TV version specifically so people would buy the DVD/BD. It's not even limited to in-between frames: for instance, Madoka had one scene where the BD had a completely different background because the TV version was apparently unfinished.

So, did this get any better, or what?

>>90283
Beats me.
But most of the haters of Crystal are hilarious when they're not obnoxious and/or sjw-like.

>>90287

Among them, Nangbaby is still my favorite for just utter incorrectness. Like, I can't even call it wrongness, because that has a chance of implying something raunchy or off-color, this person is just somehow...incorrect, and in a very train-wreck-hilarity kind of way. Like, calling the creator racist over the old dub. I think she also said the treatment of the old dub was anti-Black.

I guess because Serena shared a name with Serena Williams?

>>90304

Nangbaby believes that Naoko Takeuchi should no longer have any control of the Sailor Moon franchise (and is a racist for innumerable reasons, including hatin’ on the DiC/Cloverway dub). She also thinks that people can’t empathize with other people without trying to talk over them (and that people can’t empathize with complete strangers). Here’s proof for the empathy thing: http://nangbaby.com/post/102823134238/

And while she’ll admit to the problems with the old dub, she’ll just as soon defend it by saying ‘it’s the version of Sailor Moon that we got first and a new dub is cultural genocide and racist and sexist and homophobic and YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THEY’RE TRYING TO ERASE MY MEMORIES OF SERENA WHY AREN’T YOU LISTENING TO ME YOU BASTARD’…or something equally as crazed, anyway.

I hadn’t checked on her blog in months, but when I went back the other day (which prompted the bump that pushed this thread up), it was filled with just as much insane ramblings as it has ever been. This is an actual quote from a recent post of hers (http://nangbaby.com/post/103025884598/):

>I’m boycotting because many aspects I liked about the old Sailor Moon anime — such as the Negaverse, names which included my language and culture even when the appearances did not, and the strong, gender-trope defying female characters — are replaced by alienating names coupled with the same alienating appearances, queercoded sissy villains and needlessly antagonistic and stereotypical lesbians. Replacing “Usagi” for “Serena” uses cultural window dressing to justify the problematic appearance, just as flattening unique women into stereotypical gay characters uses the idea of representation to justify sexism.

In other words: ‘I’m boycotting because I can’t deal with Japanese names for the Sailor Scouts and there’s a bunch of shit in there that’s partly a product of the cultural attitudes in ’90s Japan.’

And you know, it’s funny that Nangbaby declares the idea of empathy for complete strangers as a fraud, then turns around and declares her undying love for fictional characters.

I mean, it’s like she doesn't realize that fiction relies on empathy to build an emotional connection between the reader and the work.

This one Crystal hater can be hilarious at times, just as we see how childish she is.
http://crystalquality.tumblr.com/

//youtube.com/watch?v=7q-rU8s9HCY
It seems more former precure VA's are taking over Crystal.

>>92742
If she's Japanese with Japanese parents why does she have blonde hair and blue eyes?

>>92743

It's just anime, you should really just relax.

>>92742
I agree--and the story itself often makes jokes about her being chubby or worried about her weight. That would make a lot more sense if she were actually kind of curvy. And she's still adorable, and probably even more of an "every girl" this way.

>>92743
May as well ask why does Ami have blue hair and Michiru have green.

It's because anime likes to use creative color palettes than just giving everybody the same hair color and eye color. it's especially important when all the characters wear uniforms so that you can tell characters apart from far away easily. This is easier with live action, but with cartoons where the designs are simplified and stylized, palette differences can be important for that sort of thing.

For that matter, it's just more fun for the artists to use lots of different colors when drawing. And in the original manga of course, Usagi's hair was often pink when it was colored, rather than blonde--lighter pink than Chibi-Usa's, but definitely pink. It's just artistic expressiveness.

>>92742
>something something social-tumblr reddit-justice

>>92746
Think perhaps Japanese people are just bored of the fact their hair and eye colors are all so very dull and samey in real life.

>>419547
I don’t want to startle you anon but you’re replying to a seven year old comment…this adaptation alongside this very thread is nearly a decade old

>>419590
They're just hyped for the upcoming finale movies
【劇場版「美少女戦士セーラームーンCosmos」】予告2/《前編》6月9日(金)　《後編》6月30日(金)

【劇場版「美少女戦士セーラームーンCosmos」】セーラーコスモス（cv北川景子）PV/《前編》絶賛上映中　《後編》6月30日(金)

Going all in for the reboot grand finale
Sailor Moon 90s Anime & Sailor Moon Cosmos Opening Comparison

>>419673
Honestly the original art looks better than the new stuff.

>>419674
Most people will agree with you. Original production clearly had animators excited about making it, second time around it feels like the team is not loving it.

Well if homage isn't your cup of tea, the transformation is completely new
Moon Eternal Make Up!
Sailor Moon Cosmos | Sailor Moon Transformation | Silver Moon Crystal Power, Make Up

So did the new show/remake actually get good? All I remember about it is years ago when it first game out people were despairing at the art style.

>>419706
They got a new animation studio for season 3 onward who understand that what people want is not a unique visual identity that tries to look more like the manga, but just the original anime again
Moon Crisis Make Up (Comparison henshin Sailor Moon SuperS movie and Sailor Moon Eternal)

ETERNAL SAILOR MOON TRANSFORMACIÓN ? #セーラームーン #sailormoon #sailormooncrystal

>>419731
Wasn't the Nobel Gundam meant to be an explicit sailor moon reference by the showrunners? Though doesn't really make any sense in-universe that the national gundam from Neo-Sweden would be designed to look like a Japanese schoolgirl.

>>419736
No idea. There's already a lot of German/Jap crossover though and in a lot of anime Japanese culture seems to dominate the world anyway so a Sweeb gundam isn't too far out there, esp. when they're directly emulating Japanese tech aesthetic .

>>419731
Why don't they make a magical girl show where the girls all transform into (sexy) giant robots?

And since they are GIANT robots that would mean constant upskirt panty shots.

Cosmos was a bit rough.
It turns out being a 1:1 adaptation of a manga that has huge pacing problems in the final arc gives you huge pacing problems.