Review: Sailor Moon Crystal
Jan. 25th, 2017 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smirkingcatso before i go into this, and show you my nice list that i have, let me make one thing perfectly clear: i compare anime to anime! so the manga has nothing to do with it.
i'm also a huge, sailor moon fan! like i watch all the old episodes 200 of them nearly on a yearly basis! and i read the manga way to often because it is that beautiful and i like it that much.
so yes i am not easy to please...
lets go for all that i didn't like first so that we can end on a positive note, shall we?
these are the notes i took while actually watching it- so that's why there is so much emotion behind it! but that is my privilege!
all the things that pissed me off:
so there goes my critic with it! and yes that was a huge downer and i still watch the original 200 episodes yearly! and did re-watch crystal only twice and still got annoyed too easily at it
but then animation has grown a bit in the last 20 years so yes there are some things i like too - it's a short list, mind you
what i liked about sailor moon crystal:
i really believe that a chance was missed here by first wanting to put too much into too little episodes and by saying "ok we only stick to the manga now and leave the old animation behind". from a marketing point of view i can see why they chose that route, but most of the fans who liked the first anime so much and watched it over and over and shared it with they kids were disappointed or simply though of it as hilarious but not that good. in the end it did not pay of well for them... but these stunts rarely do.
i'm also a huge, sailor moon fan! like i watch all the old episodes 200 of them nearly on a yearly basis! and i read the manga way to often because it is that beautiful and i like it that much.
so yes i am not easy to please...
lets go for all that i didn't like first so that we can end on a positive note, shall we?
these are the notes i took while actually watching it- so that's why there is so much emotion behind it! but that is my privilege!
all the things that pissed me off:
- the faces - this is the beauty style i have been talking about a view posts back. i dont like it, please develop Independent styles again and don't do all like out of one press!
- they overall style compared to the old one lost all sort of personality they old one had, they did not build on it at all
- holy fuck what did they do to the music? the original series had such a beautiful soundtrack- i still like to listen to it and study or just chillax to it to this day, but the new one simply sucked *sigh*
- they got a secret fucking lair! are you kidding me?!!! that was my actual reaction watching it! and really re-watching it didn't make it any better...
- i like and adore a nice bosom but what the fuck happened to sailor moon?
- mamoru is a high-schooler! while motoki still goes to university!
- the background looks really shitty and not at all well drawn at some points- my guess they put so much effort in the animation of the henshin that they might have run out of budget
- taxido kame knows usagi as sailor moon.
- they gave makoto a second power? why only her?
- they cut the music box- that is one of my favorite gimmicks in the old anime and they cut it!
- umino really got creepy!
- WTF Ö_Ö they cut the relationship between kunzite and zoisite WTF! that was what made sailor moon the most forward anime of it's time and had a huge impact on everything!
- the father = mamoru thing *rolls eyes*
- E04- at the end makoto's hair as she runs looks fake and wrong like hell!
- E06 - taxido kame has to talk usagi into becoming sailor moon
- E07- amy has a fucking ipad!
- the old anime shows more character strength and growth
- and that leads to this: victory no longer depends on the strength in oneself, and going further than one believes one can go, because there is something to fight for and something to hope for- that all simply changed to praying and believing and it will happen! that is not an anime that encourages people to take on difficult tasks and work through them!
and what really got to me:
so there goes my critic with it! and yes that was a huge downer and i still watch the original 200 episodes yearly! and did re-watch crystal only twice and still got annoyed too easily at it
but then animation has grown a bit in the last 20 years so yes there are some things i like too - it's a short list, mind you
what i liked about sailor moon crystal:
- the interlude is rather nice!
- attacks are pretty cool
- decent animation during the change
- usagi doesn't cry as much (somehow she is still just as annoying as before though)
- the sailor warriors got nice powers and can do pretty neat stuff- that was rather amazing.
i really believe that a chance was missed here by first wanting to put too much into too little episodes and by saying "ok we only stick to the manga now and leave the old animation behind". from a marketing point of view i can see why they chose that route, but most of the fans who liked the first anime so much and watched it over and over and shared it with they kids were disappointed or simply though of it as hilarious but not that good. in the end it did not pay of well for them... but these stunts rarely do.
