Sailor Moon #01 — Money, Please

July 5th, 2014

  

I thought you were supposed to bother to try for high profile things.

Impressions:

This gives Glass Lip a run for its money for most padded show of the season right off the bat by beginning with nearly two goddamned minutes of panning through space. At least GL had the graces to pretend like it was showing characters that it would at some point be focusing on. It was lying, but at least it put some effort into the lie instead of telling me to stare at a wall. The rest of the episode continued similarly. As the promos indicated, this is a very, very cheap and visually unimpressive show.

I’m not certain that there’s a whole lot else to say. On its own merits, this was awful. The art style is ugly with constant lazy-eye and mouths hanging open like they’re waiting to be filled with either flies or phallic object of your choice, the animation is awful, the music is corny, the main character just keeps shouting, and it spends 17 minutes just pissing around before reluctantly finally getting to the whole magical girl schtick. “But it’s Sailor Moooooon!” is not an excuse.

So unless you’re either already hugging your Sailor Moon body pillow surrounded by Sailor Moon dolls breathing only air from your Sailor Moon humidifier breathlessly awaiting this, or simply want to see Japan taking an acidic piss on what’s ostensibly a classic show, I see no reason to watch this. Or really, any reason for this to exist. And I fully expect to recycle this post for Persona 4: The Golden next Thursday.

    

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16 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • algorithm says:

    I’m mostly excited for the porn this show will generate.

    • jingoi says:

      The only positive. I remember seeing the dub as a kid but I’ve never been a fan.

  • Atmo says:

    I’m laughing with the “hair broochs” glowing and transmiting someone thoughts, felt like Chapolin! XD

  • Mesousa2877 says:

    At least the space padding had epic music, though.

  • Sheba says:

    You gotta admit it, the tears of fans are delicious.

  • Sanjuro says:

    I don’t get the point of this. It’s exactly the same as the old series except everyone looks like a sex doll.
    And I love Usagi’s VA in most things she does but she sounds a bit too old for these characters now.
    Then again I’ve only watched the first series of the orignal. Maybe old fans do want this.

  • Inuhanyou says:

    Unfortunately. The toei of the 1990s is a lot different from the toei of the new century, and of course the content of the show was aimed at a certain audience over 20 years ago to begin with so there’s that to consider.

    But i guess i can’t really cry over split milk. There are certain scenes of the manga i want to see how they do regardless

    • Aroduc says:

      Times change, things move on, but that just makes it all the more mystifying to see them not even trying to repackage it in the slightest as if they’re not aware of that.

      Or more likely, are too afraid of alienating any TRUE FANS to put in the effort.

  • Freeter says:

    http://tenka.seiha.org/images2014/sm1/18.jpg

    ARE MY EYES BIG ENOUGH YET UGUUU

  • The Phantom says:

    This show has aged poorly, I actually think the old show looked better! Something about new Usagi hair and eyes look off, I just dont like it!.

  • OverMaster says:

    “So unless you’re either already hugging your Sailor Moon body pillow surrounded by Sailor Moon dolls breathing only air from your Sailor Moon humidifier breathlessly awaiting this,”

    You know, I could respect your opinion until you started taking cheap insulting shots, no doubt in an attempt to sound clever and above those who could commit the unforgivable sin of not finding this to be Satan’s excrement.

    Congratulations, Arc. This sure proved how witty and never willing to resort to old stereotypes to reassert your viewpoints you are.

  • Anonymous says:

    It will be better if this one bomb hard.

    Toei needs a slap of reality in the face.

    • Sheba says:

      Not just Toei, but the fans themselves needs a reality check. Not every old anime fans liked Sailor Moon like the Sailor Moon fans seems to think so. Or some have liked at first but grew to dislike it for various various (Usagi, the Monster of the Week formula, etc…)

      The thing is that those last couple of months, fans have been growing insufferable, prancing around with sparkles in their eyes when the words Sailor Moon are mentioned, saying that we are going to behold something great. But, how could you dislike it heathen? IT IS SAILOR MOON!