What A Cartoon! - Sailor Moon R "Sailor Moon Returns: The Mysterious Aliens Appear"
Added 2019-01-21 06:00:01 +0000 UTCChosen by our special guest (and premium Patreon supporter) Mick Circo, this week's podcast is all done in the name of the moon! We dig into the history of one of the most influential animated series ever, Sailor Moon. We talk about how it was made and how it was localized multiple times into North America. Then we chat about this specific episode as The Hell Tree arc begins. Listen now or else we'll punish you!
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I first discovered Sailor Moon while in High school; my affiliate played it at 5:30 in the morning, and the first time I watched it was staying up all night the day after Thanksgiving. After that, it was my motivation to get up to catch my school bus. I'd get up at 5 am, get ready for school, eat breakfast while watching, and then walk to the bus stop because life is hell and busses picked me up at 6:30 for a 8 am start time. One of those days, I saw a fellow student with keychains of Uranus and Neptune and was like "Sailor Scouts! You watch Sailor Moon?" She was Japanese and took it as a chance to sat me down and explained how it was from Japan, that there were many seasons, and we became great friends. She lent me the R movie--bootleg VHS--and that's when I got really into it and anime in general. Sailor Moon is still my favorite anime ever, and now I kind of want Hulu to rewatch the series. Thanks for picking this one.
Nethilia
2019-01-26 09:35:46 +0000 UTCLoved the episode! Sailor Moon was my gateway drug into anime fandom and I loved giving it a whole rewatch a few years ago when the episodes dropped on Hulu. Since you touched on it, the newer Sailor Moon anime, Sailor Moon Crystal, was like a wish on a monkey's paw. There are a lot of great things in the manga that didn't make it into the 90's anime (Usagi & Mamoru's relationship develops more naturally, the cats all get cool human forms, the Outers have more of a role), and a lot of us were clamoring for a "revised anime" incorporating those ideas since FMA Brotherhood came out. But the show made the weird decision to make each chapter of the manga into an episode of anime, which works well in episodes that introduce new characters, but not so much towards the end of each arc - pretty much every manga arc ends with Sailor Moon fighting an evil glow cloud by loving Tuxedo Mask hard enough at it, which isn't thrilling visual storytelling.
Casey Connor
2019-01-24 15:38:17 +0000 UTC
