I think another reason why Doug thinks the Sailor Guardians transformations and outfits are "sexualized" is because of a double standard we in western cultures have about how we treat female bodies vs male bodies, namely that we treat female bodies as inherently more sexual than male bodies. When a man is naked, even if he's conventionally attractive, it's allowed to be played as just a gag, whereas when a woman is naked, it's almost always considered to be fanservice to some extent, because women's bodies are automatically considered sexual objects by default in a way that men's bodies simply aren't.
Doesn't help the fact that there exists weebs who goon over the Sailor Guardians in spite of their age differences. Like for crying out loud, you have foot lovers gooning over Usagi's feet because of episode 4.
One thing i found incredibly frustrating about Doug's critique is him pointing out how all the Sailor Scouts are conveniently close by geographically throughout the series to be introduced and join the party. Like, yes, Doug, i have noted how this story about an ancient moon princess reincarnating along with her friends and her lover in the present plays with the idea of destiny and cycles drawing true companions together. How dare the story use the tropes it is directly bringing up? *Cinema Sins ding*
What gets me is that Doug is a huge fan of Avatar the Last Airbender, a show where the main character has to learn to use his powers to defeat the bad guy while also being a kid who acts like a kid and is often silly. But a GIRL going through a similar (and admittedly pretty conventional) arc? Noooooo! She's a stupid, lazy coward!
What’s more, he once said that Kim Possible was just a self-insert for the audience with no personality. I think that’s just what he expects when he sees female heroes despite how wrong it is, and he thinks that they should be more masculine than Usagi. Which is why he likes KP but not Usagi.
Let's be real, though. Aang is way more competent than Usagi at the start. He's not freaking out, he just doesn't want to hurt people so he fights defensively. And that's more admirable, but it also just works FOR HIM. The wild thing is that if Aang was in Usagi's position he'd really struggle because you can't beat the monsters by blowing them around and running away. These things aren't after you, they're here to hurt people. If you run away then they're just going to KEEP HURTING PEOPLE, and you'll be responsible for innocents actively dying! Usagi's fine killing to save people she cares about. But Aang isn't. He'd struggle to throw the Moon Tiara and he'd try to find another way out of things.
@dracocrusher another factor, to be fair, is Usagi is supposed to be what happens when a fairly normal, sheltered civilian child gets superpowers and a destiny no one would've predicted. Aang isn't. He has had a very specific upbringing and it had led to him being a very specific lead with very specific reactions. Not disagreeing btw. Just adding on.
@@mattmclaren3067 Oh yeah, absolutely. Aang's problem isn't a lack of training, it's an ideology. He's been bending since a kid and he's straight-up one of the youngest Airbending masters we see in the series. Meanwhile, Usagi is just thrown right into the deep end of things, which makes it way more satisfying when she starts to get better and figures out how to do clever things to take out stronger monsters on her own.
Back when this review came out I was still a fan and tried to respect Doug’s opinion but when I look back on it, he made this whole review just to take out his frustration he’s harbored for the show that awakened him as a kid. I’m not even stretching, he goes into great detail about the memory in a very TMI sketch. It’s so weird hearing him ‘slutshame’ Usagi for existing even after he found out about her age. I don’t think Doug is a pdf, just ignorant and never trying to understand why we love SM. He just assumed all the fans are as perverted as he was, never once realizing the irony of this whole thing.
Sailor Moon is literally the girl version of Super Sentai. The creator is a fan of Super Sentai and Kamen Rider but was disappointed with how the female characters got shafted so created Codename Sailor V and Sailor Moon as her own take on the genre from a female perspective. It's an example of, "Don't like how things are done? Then go make your own," and did it perfectly!
Speaking about this show helping with gender identity. When I was a kid, I had such a crush on Uranus. Now as a non-binary adult looking back I know it wasn’t a crush it was aspirational. I wanted to be them.
The funniest thing to me about that review is that Doug calls Usagi stupid for not figuring out that Tuxedo Mask and Mamoru are the same person but can't figure out that Sailor V and Sailor Venus are the same person.
Tbh this was the episode was made me quit Nostalgia Critic. Not because it made fun of Sailor Moon, but because it was just him trying to hard be funny and clear he didn't grow up with it. That joke about his PP being horny is just cringe. Also, as usual, people just prove they know jack doodle about Japan's age of consent and spout the usual 14 stuff. :V
Completely agree that Doug Walker doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about, but there were a few moments in the 90’s anime that were the mostly male staff to put it lightly indulging themselves. The most blatant example being Chibiusa’s transformation into Black Lady which had several leering closeups of her hands, legs, butt, breasts, and hair growing. I have often laughed my ass off thinking what Doug’s reaction to that scene would be considering how sexualized he thinks the Senshi’s transformations are. This is not meant to take away the impact that Sailor Moon had on its target audience, I just think it’s important to acknowledge that these moments exist, and how much you feel they take away from the message of the show is up to you. As I said before these moments are few and far between so I don’t think it hurts the show that much.
I think one of the weirdest things is that Doug seems to think upskirts on the scouts are panty shots? Like... dude.... Doug, my man..... You see in the transformation it's a one-piece. It's a body suit with the skirt as a decoration. Nobody cares if Sailor Moon kicks someone because you're not seeing shit from it, lol!
Also little fact about this review of Doug's. Lewis/Linkara, who is a fan of Sailor Moon, offered to help Doug with this but was turned down from helping.
1. I shouldn't be surprised, this show is 100% up Linkara's alley with how much it emphasizes hope and moral paragons. 2. It's wild that Doug said no because it'd be a genuinely funny crossover and he's clearly out of his element on this one.
Since it was just mentioned I thought I'd Just let people know incase they don't know doujinshi just means self-published printed works. It's not something I know a lot about but Doujin culture is quite fasinating to me.
Wait what does Doug mean “Oh hi Clark. Get any new pictures of Superman lately?” When the fuck has Clark Kent ever been a photographer? Isn’t that Jimmy Olsen’s job? Is he confusing Clark Kent with Peter Parker? This is a small and insignificant gripe, but I can’t help it, it’s bothering me. How did nobody on Doug’s team catch that?
1:18:00 as a person from Northern Europe I think Americans are weird about nudity. Nudity can very much be casual and non-sexual depending on a context. In this speficit case it was just Usagi's naked sihouette which is basically nothing. parents were weird about anime here too in the 00'a but it was mostly because of racist reasons 'cause anime is "strange" and "japanese culture is weird" and you had to be a mega-conservative weirdo to actually get offended by the nudity.
What’s dumb? NC said the reason why sailor moon was popular was because it had a different villain every episode. Like that’s true for monsters of the week stories.
I mean we are talking about the guy who thought Fury Road was good because it reminded him of Road Runner, so I'm not surprised he doesn't understand monster of the week stories either. lol.
@@dracocrusher Also the Ghost Stories dub is awful. It's reputation is entirely undeserved. Aside from them getting lucky with one good joke in the rabbit episode, the entire Ghost Stories dub is soullessly unfunny, painful, and repetitively obnoxious. There are far greater examples of gag dubs that deserve more recognition for what people think Ghost Stories does well.... Samurai Pizza Cats being but one of them.
@@the-NightStar Nah, it's genuinely hilarious, it's just a ton of edgy humor. I watched it in full with a friend group and the lame writing of the original bleeds through, but the improv kept things surprising all the way through. "Run faster! Imagine there's a big black guy after you!" (kid falls over making weirdo nonsense noises) "Well, at least he's not racist."
Way back in the day, when I first entered the Sailor Moon fandom (probably one of my first major internet fandoms), I joined a now defunct fan forum (shout out Galaxy Cauldron Forums, you guys were honestly the best possible thing for a 13 year old to stumble onto). I remember that many people on the forum were lamenting how bad this video was. I remember watching it myself and even as a young teen being annoyed and disgusted with the sex jokes. Somehow I still had a brief Nostalgia Critic phase when I was a bit older, and then Change the Channel happened and I left that behind forever. But yeah. This video really is that infamous in the fandom.
Sailor Moon is my favourite anime of all time. As bad as Nostalgia Critic's review of it is. At least it wasn't Lily Orchard who did it, NOW that would be bad.
Back before Star vs the Forces of Evil committed the terrible sin of telling a story, Lily casually dropped the phrase "This is like sailor moon but actually good" and never elaborated further.
One thing that I don't get is why that Lily Orchard doesn't like story telling and world building because I LOVE when a franchise I enjoy becomes more alive. Especially Sailor Moon.
In NC's Toonami video, he actually has his coworkers talk about block which is surprisingly more engaging. He also gets lampshaded for his takes, especially for Sailor Moon
Further proof that Doug just isn’t fit to talk about ALL kinds of media. Which is fine, I don’t expect him to cover everything on TV but I’ve never seen a reviewer need a cohost just to cover something because he hasn’t seen it. Why review it? Might as well watch the other person do it
@@ChocoDoeEyes I’m guessing Doug was just desperate for views from Sailor Moon fans. He didn’t care if he didn’t watch it properly or didn’t understand anime tropes, he just wanted the attention, no matter how janky his points are.
But it's worth noting that he himself never expresses any apology or takes any responsibility for being wrong, in it. He merely lampshades the backlash in a really petty way, by scripting one of his dumb friends to play an audience surrogate for 5 seconds, and then moves on like it didn't matter.
@@the-NightStar This is why I find it insane how several of his fans/defenders constantly claim that he “knows how to take criticism”, often citing his response to OneyPlays as proof. Sure, he had a good laugh, but they forget another important factor: why doesn’t he follow through? As in, why doesn’t he actually apply the criticism and improve his filmmaking skills? If he truly listened to criticism, his videos wouldn’t still look like something made by middle school media class students.
@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 Yeah since he removed the cutoff date of 80s to 90s, now he’ll talk about any show or movie for views. Sometimes it’s for the fans too but no one wins when it’s just a surface level take and someone else has to hold his hand to discuss it.
In the original manga the 4 evil generals are actually Endymions 4 closets friends and guardians that were brainwashed, and they were engaged to the other 4 sailor guardians.
this is going to be so painful but I'm also morbidly fascinated. I watched this video when it came out and remember how female fans criticised it A LOT. it was really eye opening to me as a teen and I started to notice how incompetent Walker was as an actual critic.
This was the video that made me hate Doug Walker, entirely turn against him and his content and never voluntarily watch him again. I had a very frustrated love/hate relationship with his videos before this, as sometimes I found his content amusing and other times infuriating and aggravating. But this was the last straw that pushed me over the edge to never forgive him. Since then, the Not So Awesome document came out, detailing his gross negligence, incompetence, and horrible and callous treatment of his friends and colleges, and even later, heard about his monumentally loathed review of Pink Floyd: The Wall (not only one of my favorite movies, but one of my favorite stories and albums from one of my favorite bands). Suffice to say, I feel validated in my decision that Doug Walker was a miserable incompetent horrible person, and am glad I turned against him and finally had the guts to realize that he's a terrible critic, a bad person and a bad content creator with terrible content. It all started for me here, with his Sailor Moon review when I finally woke up and realized what he really was, and what he'd always be.
My least favourite Nostalgia Critic video was his Top 11 Dumbasses in Distress, in which he put my girl Princess Peach at Number 2. Constantly disregarding any badass moments or times she was playable, along with disrespecting Super Princess Peach. Even dissing the frying pan and so on. (Although this was before Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Bros Wonder and Princess Peach Showtime.)
I mean the fact that he backpedalled on sexualizing her on that old list to try to save face by expressing his concern for that kind of thing ,but he doesn’t seem to be aware that he’s sexualizing her in the same way those school dress codes that says girls can’t wear yoga pants because it will distract boys. There’s more than one way to do that!
Nostalgia Critic's video on Sailor Moon was so bad that I stopped watching his videos because of it. His statements about Sailormoon being "sexualized" especially annoyed me because it shows he has no understanding of anime and manga culture. Sailor Moon is shoujo(girls manga) and 99% of shoujo manga creators are women. The same applies to josei(women's manga) as well. There are also women that work in shounen (boy's manga)and seinen(men's manga) but it is less common. With that said the fact the creator is a women has nothing to do with whether a manga is sexualized or not. It is common for women mangaka to make porn for either female or male audiences. There is even a such thing as shoujo smut. Shoujo just doesn't do fanservice the way shounen does. Shounen likes to sexualize female characters bodies by portraying them in a suggestive manner. While shoujo outwrite depicts sex. Shoujo is way more blunt and open about sex than shounen. Sailor Moon isn't trying to be sexual either in the shoujo way or the shounen way. It's just a magical girl series with romance.
Wow, I did not remember how bad this review was. I remember that it wasn't good but yikes! I really did not put much thought about his views until now.
Back in the day this review was what made me realise how bad a critic Doug is. Later out of curiosity I did watch his Mama Mia review. I don't really remember it but in a vlog with his brother Rob, they both considered it one of the worst films they reviewed. Why? Because a silly musical was demeaning for woman and is an insult to their intelligence somehow. It's Mama Mia, it's a jukebox musical comedy, of course it's silly. Just another example of Doug and Rob just writing off and not understanding media that is tartged for girls and/or women.
'Critic' is very generous of you. Channel awesome as a whole was more 'drunk conversations with friends for people who don't have friends to talk about certain things with'.
So did this video come out before or after the video where he put a 14 yo girl on a Top 10 sexiest cartoon characters? Because all of a sudden he's worried about sexualizing a teenager in this one.
I learned you couldn't trust the Nostalgia Critic when he shot Cory from Oneyplays in the head in retaliation for calling his "The Wall" review subpar. Then he just walked off with his toothless, eggnog-filled maw.
personally, i think you could only compare linkara and doug in how different they are, dogue try's to do different things and sucks at it, linkara does different things and has some success like his analog horror Winter of '83 and even some va work/some singing and the like but love talking about comics, hell he even does two comic show if you count long box of the damned. i kinda hope you do a react some of his stuff.
i think giving dic some grace in showing the early spoilers aspect of how they handle the story is warranted because at the time, continuous story in children's animation was super uncommon, with the wide-spread belief that kids wouldn't be able to follow a story if it spanned over weeks and esp over seasons (leaving big gaps between seasons-and iirc the first season was split up as multiple seasons coinciding with the 24 ep/season standard here). so reinforcing where the plot was headed from the beginning by repetition was likely seen as *crucial* for kids to follow at the time. western animation had few (if any) shows aimed at children with continuous plots. tv as a whole back then was more episodic than we would expect now. so like it is a wonky choice but it makes sense in the context of time they were handling this show. the continuous storyline allowing more chara complexity by asking the audience to follow and remember their development, fwiw, is a big reason i think a lot of us loved the show.
at this point I'm convinced the only exposure Doug Walker had with Salior moon was that early season Sketch from Robot Chicken that was making fun of those who view sailor moon as a sex symbol not understanding its a Lampoon
I've only got up to the talk about the opening, but I would definetely recommend listening to the German version: "Sagt dat Zauberwort" (Say the magic word) It's a happy hardcore intro that's a serious bop. Fun fact: the Dutch version also uses that opening, with the VA of Misty doing the singing (she's not the greatest though).
It should be noted that Doug has since referenced this review in other Nostalgia Critic videos and they are jokes played at his expense, notably the Toonami video. I think it hints that he's aware this was a mistake.
The ironic part is that being part of the Sailor Moon fandom and seeing how bad a lot of the fans get… Doug’s takes feel so ironically charming to me now and benign. Doug’s takes as some goofy casual aren’t half as bad as a lot of the shit I’ve seen come from fans.
22:10 - 22:31 POWER RANGER FRANCHISE- Yeah a basic monster of the weak formula, but the show put more focus on the Rangers as characters as well as the monster fighting. SCOOBY-DOO FRANCHISE- A franchise that been around since the late 60’s (55 years to date and 47 years when Nostalgic Critic posted this video), the only show by Hanna-Barbera that survived the longest versus the other, and definitely have broken the formula multiple times. For example crossovers with multiple guest stars(THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES, GUESS WHO, comics- TEAM-UP), real or fictional, show or movie in which the monsters were real (The 13 GHOST, MYSTERY INC., Live-Action Movies, etc), the LAFF-A-LYMPICS, SHAGGY & SCOOBY-DOO GET A CLUE, and lastly VELMA.
Im not sure why The Algorithm introduced you to me, but I'm not sure what the point is of being offended that a classic anime protagonist is portrayed as a bit dumb. Shes not exactly Kagome or Edward Elric... Heres a few excerpts from TV Tropes: Idiot Hero: A female example, being depicted as Book Dumb and a bit of a Cloudcuckoolander at times, but especially in the early series since she matures and becomes a true hero later on. She isn't quite so bad in the manga though, the original anime tended to exaggerate many characters Innocently Insensitive: Due to her naivety, she has a habit of unintentionally offending others. In one episode, when Miss Haruna is hospitalized for being put into comatose, Usagi fails to understand the seriousness of the situation and tells the others that this is a good thing for her Kiddie Kid: At fourteen, she starts out as a carefree crybaby who loves childish things, just wants to have fun and can't keep up with the kind of schoolwork expected of her age. She grows out of it after she spends some time as Sailor Moon Kid Hero All Grown Up: Turns from a childish crybaby in junior high, woefully unprepared for her tenure as a Magical Girl, into the elegant, regal, powerful Neo-Queen Serenity of the utopian Crystal Tokyo. Even when she hasn't ascended, Eternal Sailor Moon (high-school age) is way more grown up than her past self. Her future daughter, Chibi-Usa, was especially shocked at the disparity between Usagi and Serenity Kindhearted Simpleton: Not too bright but makes up for it with her good heart Lazy Bum: She'd rather play video games and eat than study for tests. She even lampshades this when she's bewitched by Ramua in the 9th episode of Season 1. Usagi: I have a lot of things to accomplish today. First off, I have to get home. Then, eat a pork bun. After that, finish playing my video game, take a bath, and then - OHNO, LOOKWHATTIMEITISALREADY! Let's Get Dangerous!: She'll usually drop her buffoonish behavior if someone she cares about gets threatened. This becomes more pronounced as time goes on If a parody review can't call her stupid in a comedy skit, what are they allowed to call her? 🤔
I used to be a nostalgia critic fan for years and this review was the one that made me stop watching him and realize his reviews as a critic were so juvenile and pointless
What kind of gets me about the Darth Vader joke nowadays is that overdubbing Usagi/Serena’s voice with Leia ,while still would a bit of an unfair comparison to do so, would both make more sense *and would actually be a proper joke* !
I renember this shitshow. I was already growing disenchanted with Doug's style at the time this video came out and the Change the Channel movement cemented that decision. Seriously his anlysis is so shallow and disgustingly sexist. Thanks for reminding me why i loved Sailor Moon so much growing up. I used to watch it all throuout elementary and Middle School, even though i was bullied a lot for liking this show
Maybe it’s rose colored glasses but I hated Lina’s voice actor worse in the newer dub because all the meanness and backhanded comments came off worse, more like a bully. Maybe some of the lines were different too, I’ve never rewatched the dic dub, but every single time she viciously harped on usagi for being useless and a bad leader in the early episodes it was infuriating. Where old lady Luna voice makes her seem more out of touch and not understanding of someone’s priorities who’s young?
theres no doubt in my mind that Doug has blown industrial quantities of rope to Sailor Moon over the course of his life. thats why his takes are so bad, his brain has been partially corroded by porn (though hes ofc nowhere near the worst youtuber reviewer in this regard)
Sometimes I wonder if Doug would go on the internet and search for common comments people had about whatever he’s reviewing. I know Linkara said he would watch a movie once, while taking notes, and then go on to do the review of it. It’s just a hunch so I could still be wrong but I wouldn’t surprised if his workflow includes browsing the audience reviews on RT and IMDB for his scripts
14:31 - 14:47 Mind you I also don’t think Mara and Doug have talked in years. Now Corey Taylor from Slipknot appearing in his stuff even AFTER Change the Channel on the other hand!
35:44 Actually... He watched DIC dub right? And in the DIC dub Jadeite dies in the 10th episode. In the end of that episode Quenn Beryl said "You Nephrite are my new commander". Which mean he watched less than 10 episode if he is thinking Jeadaite is Quenn Beryl's only henchman.
Yeah this was the one that made me begin to realize NC was getting bad. Like He sucked at talking about anime in general at this point (although I did kinda enjoy his Ponyo review did make me want to check out the movie) but this whole bare minimum effort look & then going on a tangent about Japan's Consent laws was the beginning of the cracks. & people gave me shit for hating on this one when it came out. After his crap reviews of The Last Airbender, Bloodrayne, The clipless reviews & Christmas with the Cranks (the one that broke the camel's back) I was done with the guy & had to wait until a company wide controversy & him bashing The Wall to get any sort of validation & seeing people finally take the hint that guy just wasn't funny anymore.
I don't hate sketch comedy. I still enjoy it a lot. The specific problem with Doug and this video is that...Doug doesn't understand anything about Sailor Moon or why it appeals to his fans. He just shouldn't have talked about it. In general, his worst videos are when he is trying to engage with a movie or show that he doesn't actually like or understand.
Finally someone who can properly do a takedown of one of my least favorite Critic reviews. I used to be a fan of Nostalgia Critic, but I didn't like his review.
Oh god I remember this episode and how much it upset me I remember skipping around because I wanted to watch this anime in my teens and the things he said really upset me, of course I ended up watching it despite his harsh words. Thank god when the change the channel thing happen it force me to stop watching him altogether and even before I just lost interest in his stuff. Now anytime I see his face I just feel disgusted, I wish I never watch any of his content it ruined me to ever think for myself but that could be on me more than him. Edit: Oh god the Sailor Moon review is even worse than I remember... case in point god forbid women do anything Doug
This episode was made in 2013. World was a whole different place back them, no need to say about TH-cam. There wasn't 5 hours long analysis videos, there was some guys, who had fun and express themselves and did cringe stuff because "it's internet, who cares?". Obviously it's not the case now, but back then TH-cam was much more simplier and NC could just trash talk about one of your favourite shows not being afraid to offend anyone, because it all was for funnies
100% Agree with what you guys said! Nostalgia Critic represents the typical “I don’t get Sailormoon Narcissistic Ignoramus” out there. I’m an OG fan since the 90s and was in high school when I got into that show. It had legions of fans of all ages then. A football player friend of mine also loved the show and not because of sexy miniskirt reasons - it’s the friendships. When I watch the OG dub it brings back great memories and even a crush I had who looked a lot like Darien Mamoru. For years I’ve had to deal with 💩 like Nostalgia Critic. And now I’m so happy at how much Sailormoon is appreciated by ALL!
🤔... You know, with villains like Beryl, Jadeite, Zoisite, Kunite, Malachite, Emerald, Prisma, Sapphire, & Diamond, I have to wonder if Sailor Moon was an inspiration for Crystal Gems. I know Star vs. The Forces of Evil was inspired by the magical girl anime, but still, food for thought. Also, 1:37:04 - 1:37:16 why watch Doug review Evangelion when we have Bennett the Sage talking about it plenty on Anime Abandon?
Maybe it’s rose colored glasses but I hated Lina’s voice actor worse in the newer dub because all the meanness and backhanded comments came off worse, more like a bully. Maybe some of the lines were different too, I’ve never rewatched the dic dub, but every single time she viciously harped on usagi for being useless and a bad leader in the early episodes it was infuriating. Where old lady Luna voice makes her seem more out of touch and not understanding of someone’s priorities who’s young? Also Hanson are transphobic a holes so maybe let’s not compare them to those jerks Doug?
What legal way, being a UK fan i had to import the VIZ dvd's which are region locked. the only bit of SM content available for us UK fans is Enteral thanks to netflix. the rest is either region locked DVD's or VPN's
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I don’t know what you’re talking about. The only scandal mentioned was with Tory Furuya, the original voice of Manoru. And if you want the TL;DR he had an extramarital affair with a much younger woman which also included physical abuse, losing a lot of his career in the process
For me, I always found the outfits too distracting regardless of the cultural mindset behind it, but I've always been that way with many superhero outfits. I never liked superheroes in revealing costumes like Wonder Woman, Ms. Marvel, Robin and Astro Boy. They're distracting and takes me out of the story emersion. Hell, I also hate the fact that Superman and Batman are wearing their underwears over their spandex
Idk the skirts could be longer and even if they arent objectified (like how ironically nostalgia critic does) the girls are very much sexualized. Theres an inherent emphasis on them being female, engaging in romance, courtship and when chibimoon comes into the story parenting a child!? Just because these concepts are muted down to something paletable doesn't mean these things arent present.
No. Its not perfect. It's not that any of us are dismissive of genuine criticism. But criticism of the show based entirely on ONE episode is a different beast entirely.
You know, watching this was like watching My Little Pony fans? Okay, you get Sailor Moon, something that my nieces were obsessed with but did look like a rinse and repeat cartoon. I never stopped to watch it because at the time I felt it wasn't for me. But watching this video I began to understand how people who never read the series felt when I tried to explain Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I just expected everyone to understand context I understood from five books, a TV series and a really long radio adaptation. You never explained the show or all the dubs - because apparently there are more then a few of them. Or all these Sailors. What was the hook? Why does the show still hold you so many years later? What exactly was the storyline. I never like Doug Walker's review because it felt like an old man trying to explain what the kids were into. And his constantly misogynist insult towards the young women. (Hey Doug, if you see a schoolgirl uniform as sexual maybe the FBI should have a look at your computer storage.) Now I've been into various shades of geek for a very long time. i get a lot of it even if I don't understand it. (Cowboy Beebop being one of those examples. I mean I understood it but why everyone went so nuts over it was beyond me.) And I admit not being the biggest Anime/Manga fan as the stories gone on for way too long and not a lot of it is geared to help anyone jump on between anything. I'm leaving this video not understanding Doug Walker's problem with this kid's show or why you adults are still so into it. And I'm not being insulting, I could re-watch Robotech a billion times and I'd fight anyone who didn't respect that animation, but if I were to do a video about it I'd try to make people understand it. I don't understand Sailor Moon at all except "wasn't that an animation geared towards very young women." Sorry, but you guys didn't do anything to elevate that feeling.
Loving the huge amounts of copium that's on display here... coping, seething, and malding at someone who EVERYONE knows should not be considered a legitimate reviewer... HA HA HA
this was up there with his Power Rangers reviews where he is clearly not from the generation who watched the show and is only doing it because youtube dropped it in his suggestions and fans ikely wanted him to review it because they wanted him to do more 90's content. The Turbo film review he basically made Linkara cameo in a bad replica Dino Megazord cockpit so he could deliver his HOPR rant in a unhinged manner on the switch over from Ohranger to Carranger being so damn rough and clearly it was scripted that linkara had to deliver his lines as unhinged since his HOPR rant is calmer but critic liked to flanderrise his channel partners into leaser hosts to make him look good.
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I think another reason why Doug thinks the Sailor Guardians transformations and outfits are "sexualized" is because of a double standard we in western cultures have about how we treat female bodies vs male bodies, namely that we treat female bodies as inherently more sexual than male bodies. When a man is naked, even if he's conventionally attractive, it's allowed to be played as just a gag, whereas when a woman is naked, it's almost always considered to be fanservice to some extent, because women's bodies are automatically considered sexual objects by default in a way that men's bodies simply aren't.
Doesn't help the fact that there exists weebs who goon over the Sailor Guardians in spite of their age differences. Like for crying out loud, you have foot lovers gooning over Usagi's feet because of episode 4.
Yeah , we're perverts
One thing i found incredibly frustrating about Doug's critique is him pointing out how all the Sailor Scouts are conveniently close by geographically throughout the series to be introduced and join the party. Like, yes, Doug, i have noted how this story about an ancient moon princess reincarnating along with her friends and her lover in the present plays with the idea of destiny and cycles drawing true companions together. How dare the story use the tropes it is directly bringing up? *Cinema Sins ding*
What gets me is that Doug is a huge fan of Avatar the Last Airbender, a show where the main character has to learn to use his powers to defeat the bad guy while also being a kid who acts like a kid and is often silly. But a GIRL going through a similar (and admittedly pretty conventional) arc? Noooooo! She's a stupid, lazy coward!
What’s more, he once said that Kim Possible was just a self-insert for the audience with no personality. I think that’s just what he expects when he sees female heroes despite how wrong it is, and he thinks that they should be more masculine than Usagi. Which is why he likes KP but not Usagi.
Let's be real, though. Aang is way more competent than Usagi at the start. He's not freaking out, he just doesn't want to hurt people so he fights defensively. And that's more admirable, but it also just works FOR HIM.
The wild thing is that if Aang was in Usagi's position he'd really struggle because you can't beat the monsters by blowing them around and running away. These things aren't after you, they're here to hurt people. If you run away then they're just going to KEEP HURTING PEOPLE, and you'll be responsible for innocents actively dying!
Usagi's fine killing to save people she cares about. But Aang isn't. He'd struggle to throw the Moon Tiara and he'd try to find another way out of things.
@dracocrusher another factor, to be fair, is Usagi is supposed to be what happens when a fairly normal, sheltered civilian child gets superpowers and a destiny no one would've predicted.
Aang isn't. He has had a very specific upbringing and it had led to him being a very specific lead with very specific reactions.
Not disagreeing btw. Just adding on.
@@mattmclaren3067 Oh yeah, absolutely. Aang's problem isn't a lack of training, it's an ideology. He's been bending since a kid and he's straight-up one of the youngest Airbending masters we see in the series.
Meanwhile, Usagi is just thrown right into the deep end of things, which makes it way more satisfying when she starts to get better and figures out how to do clever things to take out stronger monsters on her own.
Women are expected to be more mature 😔
Back when this review came out I was still a fan and tried to respect Doug’s opinion but when I look back on it, he made this whole review just to take out his frustration he’s harbored for the show that awakened him as a kid. I’m not even stretching, he goes into great detail about the memory in a very TMI sketch. It’s so weird hearing him ‘slutshame’ Usagi for existing even after he found out about her age. I don’t think Doug is a pdf, just ignorant and never trying to understand why we love SM. He just assumed all the fans are as perverted as he was, never once realizing the irony of this whole thing.
Sailor Moon is literally the girl version of Super Sentai. The creator is a fan of Super Sentai and Kamen Rider but was disappointed with how the female characters got shafted so created Codename Sailor V and Sailor Moon as her own take on the genre from a female perspective. It's an example of, "Don't like how things are done? Then go make your own," and did it perfectly!
Speaking about this show helping with gender identity. When I was a kid, I had such a crush on Uranus. Now as a non-binary adult looking back I know it wasn’t a crush it was aspirational. I wanted to be them.
The funniest thing to me about that review is that Doug calls Usagi stupid for not figuring out that Tuxedo Mask and Mamoru are the same person but can't figure out that Sailor V and Sailor Venus are the same person.
Tbh this was the episode was made me quit Nostalgia Critic. Not because it made fun of Sailor Moon, but because it was just him trying to hard be funny and clear he didn't grow up with it. That joke about his PP being horny is just cringe. Also, as usual, people just prove they know jack doodle about Japan's age of consent and spout the usual 14 stuff. :V
He made Sailor Moon look like a sleazy porn manga when it was literally just a magical girl show about purity.
His lost world and sailor moon review are just utterly brain dead
Completely agree that Doug Walker doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about, but there were a few moments in the 90’s anime that were the mostly male staff to put it lightly indulging themselves. The most blatant example being Chibiusa’s transformation into Black Lady which had several leering closeups of her hands, legs, butt, breasts, and hair growing. I have often laughed my ass off thinking what Doug’s reaction to that scene would be considering how sexualized he thinks the Senshi’s transformations are. This is not meant to take away the impact that Sailor Moon had on its target audience, I just think it’s important to acknowledge that these moments exist, and how much you feel they take away from the message of the show is up to you. As I said before these moments are few and far between so I don’t think it hurts the show that much.
I think one of the weirdest things is that Doug seems to think upskirts on the scouts are panty shots?
Like... dude.... Doug, my man..... You see in the transformation it's a one-piece. It's a body suit with the skirt as a decoration. Nobody cares if Sailor Moon kicks someone because you're not seeing shit from it, lol!
Also little fact about this review of Doug's. Lewis/Linkara, who is a fan of Sailor Moon, offered to help Doug with this but was turned down from helping.
IKYFL 🤣🤣🤣
he let him on for the turbo movie review but it was a cameo to do his famous HOPR tiraid on why he doesn't get the change over to Car zords.
@@JeffreyPiatt no wonder I had such a crush on Linkara back in the day.
I mean... considering how obsessive and ham-fisted Lewis could be, I understand Doug saying, "no thanks."
1. I shouldn't be surprised, this show is 100% up Linkara's alley with how much it emphasizes hope and moral paragons.
2. It's wild that Doug said no because it'd be a genuinely funny crossover and he's clearly out of his element on this one.
Since it was just mentioned I thought I'd Just let people know incase they don't know doujinshi just means self-published printed works. It's not something I know a lot about but Doujin culture is quite fasinating to me.
Thank God I outgrew the Nostalgia Critic.
Wait what does Doug mean “Oh hi Clark. Get any new pictures of Superman lately?” When the fuck has Clark Kent ever been a photographer? Isn’t that Jimmy Olsen’s job? Is he confusing Clark Kent with Peter Parker? This is a small and insignificant gripe, but I can’t help it, it’s bothering me. How did nobody on Doug’s team catch that?
From the review alone, he is only confirmed to have watched a single episode. Other elements of the show are only roughly alluded to at best.
In 2012 I sent Doug Walker an email requesting that He review Sailor Moon. I still don't know how much that influenced his decision
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This video is even WORSE when you actually watched all 200 episodes of Sailor MOON.
1:18:00 as a person from Northern Europe I think Americans are weird about nudity. Nudity can very much be casual and non-sexual depending on a context. In this speficit case it was just Usagi's naked sihouette which is basically nothing. parents were weird about anime here too in the 00'a but it was mostly because of racist reasons 'cause anime is "strange" and "japanese culture is weird" and you had to be a mega-conservative weirdo to actually get offended by the nudity.
What’s dumb? NC said the reason why sailor moon was popular was because it had a different villain every episode. Like that’s true for monsters of the week stories.
What I remember is him talking about being a horny teen boy 😂
I mean we are talking about the guy who thought Fury Road was good because it reminded him of Road Runner, so I'm not surprised he doesn't understand monster of the week stories either. lol.
No, it's just the formula, which is why Ghost Stories was such a massive influential hit outside of the dub, right, guys???
Lol!
@@dracocrusher Also the Ghost Stories dub is awful. It's reputation is entirely undeserved. Aside from them getting lucky with one good joke in the rabbit episode, the entire Ghost Stories dub is soullessly unfunny, painful, and repetitively obnoxious. There are far greater examples of gag dubs that deserve more recognition for what people think Ghost Stories does well.... Samurai Pizza Cats being but one of them.
@@the-NightStar Nah, it's genuinely hilarious, it's just a ton of edgy humor. I watched it in full with a friend group and the lame writing of the original bleeds through, but the improv kept things surprising all the way through.
"Run faster! Imagine there's a big black guy after you!"
(kid falls over making weirdo nonsense noises)
"Well, at least he's not racist."
Way back in the day, when I first entered the Sailor Moon fandom (probably one of my first major internet fandoms), I joined a now defunct fan forum (shout out Galaxy Cauldron Forums, you guys were honestly the best possible thing for a 13 year old to stumble onto). I remember that many people on the forum were lamenting how bad this video was. I remember watching it myself and even as a young teen being annoyed and disgusted with the sex jokes. Somehow I still had a brief Nostalgia Critic phase when I was a bit older, and then Change the Channel happened and I left that behind forever. But yeah. This video really is that infamous in the fandom.
Sailor Moon is my favourite anime of all time.
As bad as Nostalgia Critic's review of it is. At
least it wasn't Lily Orchard who did it, NOW
that would be bad.
Don’t give her any ideas 😰
Back before Star vs the Forces of Evil committed the terrible sin of telling a story, Lily casually dropped the phrase "This is like sailor moon but actually good" and never elaborated further.
One thing that I don't get is why that Lily Orchard doesn't
like story telling and world building because I LOVE
when a franchise I enjoy becomes more alive. Especially
Sailor Moon.
@@meganpayette5996 Because it's not low-stakes a coffee shop AU
Why am I not surprised?
In NC's Toonami video, he actually has his coworkers talk about block which is surprisingly more engaging. He also gets lampshaded for his takes, especially for Sailor Moon
Further proof that Doug just isn’t fit to talk about ALL kinds of media. Which is fine, I don’t expect him to cover everything on TV but I’ve never seen a reviewer need a cohost just to cover something because he hasn’t seen it. Why review it? Might as well watch the other person do it
@@ChocoDoeEyes I’m guessing Doug was just desperate for views from Sailor Moon fans. He didn’t care if he didn’t watch it properly or didn’t understand anime tropes, he just wanted the attention, no matter how janky his points are.
But it's worth noting that he himself never expresses any apology or takes any responsibility for being wrong, in it.
He merely lampshades the backlash in a really petty way, by scripting one of his dumb friends to play an audience surrogate for 5 seconds, and then moves on like it didn't matter.
@@the-NightStar
This is why I find it insane how several of his fans/defenders constantly claim that he “knows how to take criticism”, often citing his response to OneyPlays as proof. Sure, he had a good laugh, but they forget another important factor: why doesn’t he follow through? As in, why doesn’t he actually apply the criticism and improve his filmmaking skills? If he truly listened to criticism, his videos wouldn’t still look like something made by middle school media class students.
@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 Yeah since he removed the cutoff date of 80s to 90s, now he’ll talk about any show or movie for views. Sometimes it’s for the fans too but no one wins when it’s just a surface level take and someone else has to hold his hand to discuss it.
In the original manga the 4 evil generals are actually Endymions 4 closets friends and guardians that were brainwashed, and they were engaged to the other 4 sailor guardians.
this is going to be so painful but I'm also morbidly fascinated. I watched this video when it came out and remember how female fans criticised it A LOT. it was really eye opening to me as a teen and I started to notice how incompetent Walker was as an actual critic.
At this point, I’m kinda surprised that Doug didn’t get put on a list.
This was the video that made me hate Doug Walker, entirely turn against him and his content and never voluntarily watch him again.
I had a very frustrated love/hate relationship with his videos before this, as sometimes I found his content amusing and other times infuriating and aggravating. But this was the last straw that pushed me over the edge to never forgive him.
Since then, the Not So Awesome document came out, detailing his gross negligence, incompetence, and horrible and callous treatment of his friends and colleges, and even later, heard about his monumentally loathed review of Pink Floyd: The Wall (not only one of my favorite movies, but one of my favorite stories and albums from one of my favorite bands). Suffice to say, I feel validated in my decision that Doug Walker was a miserable incompetent horrible person, and am glad I turned against him and finally had the guts to realize that he's a terrible critic, a bad person and a bad content creator with terrible content. It all started for me here, with his Sailor Moon review when I finally woke up and realized what he really was, and what he'd always be.
My least favourite Nostalgia Critic video was his Top 11 Dumbasses in Distress,
in which he put my girl Princess Peach at Number 2. Constantly disregarding
any badass moments or times she was playable, along with disrespecting
Super Princess Peach. Even dissing the frying pan and so on. (Although
this was before Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Bros Wonder and
Princess Peach Showtime.)
I remember being "ok" with Doug, and this episode made me go... wait, wtf? What the actual...
Also, are you a girl or a gay? Because that explains part of the reason why I like you.
I mean the fact that he backpedalled on sexualizing her on that old list to try to save face by expressing his concern for that kind of thing ,but he doesn’t seem to be aware that he’s sexualizing her in the same way those school dress codes that says girls can’t wear yoga pants because it will distract boys. There’s more than one way to do that!
Nostalgia Critic's video on Sailor Moon was so bad that I stopped watching his videos because of it. His statements about Sailormoon being "sexualized" especially annoyed me because it shows he has no understanding of anime and manga culture.
Sailor Moon is shoujo(girls manga) and 99% of shoujo manga creators are women. The same applies to josei(women's manga) as well. There are also women that work in shounen (boy's manga)and seinen(men's manga) but it is less common.
With that said the fact the creator is a women has nothing to do with whether a manga is sexualized or not. It is common for women mangaka to make porn for either female or male audiences. There is even a such thing as shoujo smut.
Shoujo just doesn't do fanservice the way shounen does. Shounen likes to sexualize female characters bodies by portraying them in a suggestive manner. While shoujo outwrite depicts sex. Shoujo is way more blunt and open about sex than shounen.
Sailor Moon isn't trying to be sexual either in the shoujo way or the shounen way. It's just a magical girl series with romance.
Wow, I did not remember how bad this review was. I remember that it wasn't good but yikes! I really did not put much thought about his views until now.
01:24:25 I just wanna say, that one superchatter was right: Watch Symphogear.
Thank you for takedown of the misogynist Doug Walker and his being creep about middle school girl characters.
Back in the day this review was what made me realise how bad a critic Doug is.
Later out of curiosity I did watch his Mama Mia review. I don't really remember it but in a vlog with his brother Rob, they both considered it one of the worst films they reviewed. Why? Because a silly musical was demeaning for woman and is an insult to their intelligence somehow. It's Mama Mia, it's a jukebox musical comedy, of course it's silly.
Just another example of Doug and Rob just writing off and not understanding media that is tartged for girls and/or women.
'Critic' is very generous of you.
Channel awesome as a whole was more 'drunk conversations with friends for people who don't have friends to talk about certain things with'.
I can proudly say even as a teenager back when Walker was at his most popular...I always found him obnoxious.
So did this video come out before or after the video where he put a 14 yo girl on a Top 10 sexiest cartoon characters? Because all of a sudden he's worried about sexualizing a teenager in this one.
After!
I'm gonna be honest, I bleached that entire sex tangent from my memory of this review until now. Thanks for reminding me! I'm gonna go be sick!
GOD SAME, I remembered like 1 line and thought it was going to be shorter than it actually was but it JUST KEPT GOING
I learned you couldn't trust the Nostalgia Critic when he shot Cory from Oneyplays in the head in retaliation for calling his "The Wall" review subpar. Then he just walked off with his toothless, eggnog-filled maw.
Doug would die if he watched Kill la Kill.
personally, i think you could only compare linkara and doug in how different they are, dogue try's to do different things and sucks at it, linkara does different things and has some success like his analog horror Winter of '83 and even some va work/some singing and the like but love talking about comics, hell he even does two comic show if you count long box of the damned.
i kinda hope you do a react some of his stuff.
In the old socialist realist artwork, non sexual nudity is reasonably common.
i think giving dic some grace in showing the early spoilers aspect of how they handle the story is warranted because at the time, continuous story in children's animation was super uncommon, with the wide-spread belief that kids wouldn't be able to follow a story if it spanned over weeks and esp over seasons (leaving big gaps between seasons-and iirc the first season was split up as multiple seasons coinciding with the 24 ep/season standard here).
so reinforcing where the plot was headed from the beginning by repetition was likely seen as *crucial* for kids to follow at the time. western animation had few (if any) shows aimed at children with continuous plots. tv as a whole back then was more episodic than we would expect now.
so like it is a wonky choice but it makes sense in the context of time they were handling this show. the continuous storyline allowing more chara complexity by asking the audience to follow and remember their development, fwiw, is a big reason i think a lot of us loved the show.
The superman joke is kinda ironic given my adventures with superman.
at this point I'm convinced the only exposure Doug Walker had with Salior moon was that early season Sketch from Robot Chicken that was making fun of those who view sailor moon as a sex symbol not understanding its a Lampoon
I've only got up to the talk about the opening, but I would definetely recommend listening to the German version: "Sagt dat Zauberwort" (Say the magic word) It's a happy hardcore intro that's a serious bop.
Fun fact: the Dutch version also uses that opening, with the VA of Misty doing the singing (she's not the greatest though).
Doug would have a stroke if he saw ADV's first ever licensed release
Devil Hunter Yohko? Oh definitely. Honestly, show him something like High School DXD and he'd probably die of a heart attack.
Someone have him watch Ghost Stories
Or even High School of the Dead
you watching this make me glad some of the channel awsome member change how they do video
It should be noted that Doug has since referenced this review in other Nostalgia Critic videos and they are jokes played at his expense, notably the Toonami video. I think it hints that he's aware this was a mistake.
The ironic part is that being part of the Sailor Moon fandom and seeing how bad a lot of the fans get… Doug’s takes feel so ironically charming to me now and benign. Doug’s takes as some goofy casual aren’t half as bad as a lot of the shit I’ve seen come from fans.
Yeah Doug kinda sucks but it's not from some insane place of bigotry or something. He just doesn't get reality as we know it is all.
"I wouldn't describe anyone in this show as sexy"
Does Queen Beryl not exist to you?
For a man who voiced Doug Walker's groin, Malcolm sure has balls 😎
22:10 - 22:31
POWER RANGER FRANCHISE- Yeah a basic monster of the weak formula, but the show put more focus on the Rangers as characters as well as the monster fighting.
SCOOBY-DOO FRANCHISE- A franchise that been around since the late 60’s (55 years to date and 47 years when Nostalgic Critic posted this video), the only show by Hanna-Barbera that survived the longest versus the other, and definitely have broken the formula multiple times. For example crossovers with multiple guest stars(THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES, GUESS WHO, comics- TEAM-UP), real or fictional, show or movie in which the monsters were real (The 13 GHOST, MYSTERY INC., Live-Action Movies, etc), the LAFF-A-LYMPICS, SHAGGY & SCOOBY-DOO GET A CLUE, and lastly VELMA.
Im not sure why The Algorithm introduced you to me, but I'm not sure what the point is of being offended that a classic anime protagonist is portrayed as a bit dumb. Shes not exactly Kagome or Edward Elric...
Heres a few excerpts from TV Tropes:
Idiot Hero: A female example, being depicted as Book Dumb and a bit of a Cloudcuckoolander at times, but especially in the early series since she matures and becomes a true hero later on. She isn't quite so bad in the manga though, the original anime tended to exaggerate many characters
Innocently Insensitive: Due to her naivety, she has a habit of unintentionally offending others. In one episode, when Miss Haruna is hospitalized for being put into comatose, Usagi fails to understand the seriousness of the situation and tells the others that this is a good thing for her
Kiddie Kid: At fourteen, she starts out as a carefree crybaby who loves childish things, just wants to have fun and can't keep up with the kind of schoolwork expected of her age. She grows out of it after she spends some time as Sailor Moon
Kid Hero All Grown Up: Turns from a childish crybaby in junior high, woefully unprepared for her tenure as a Magical Girl, into the elegant, regal, powerful Neo-Queen Serenity of the utopian Crystal Tokyo. Even when she hasn't ascended, Eternal Sailor Moon (high-school age) is way more grown up than her past self. Her future daughter, Chibi-Usa, was especially shocked at the disparity between Usagi and Serenity
Kindhearted Simpleton: Not too bright but makes up for it with her good heart
Lazy Bum: She'd rather play video games and eat than study for tests. She even lampshades this when she's bewitched by Ramua in the 9th episode of Season 1.
Usagi: I have a lot of things to accomplish today. First off, I have to get home. Then, eat a pork bun. After that, finish playing my video game, take a bath, and then - OHNO, LOOKWHATTIMEITISALREADY!
Let's Get Dangerous!: She'll usually drop her buffoonish behavior if someone she cares about gets threatened. This becomes more pronounced as time goes on
If a parody review can't call her stupid in a comedy skit, what are they allowed to call her? 🤔
Doug Walker's Sailor moon video is literally the most embarrassing video I've watched, cringed so many times.
I used to be a nostalgia critic fan for years and this review was the one that made me stop watching him and realize his reviews as a critic were so juvenile and pointless
We gotta get ant hooked up with Fugi reactive so its easier to tell who's speaking when.
Thanks for the tip. I'll try to incorporate it before Thursday's stream
Much obliged!
What kind of gets me about the Darth Vader joke nowadays is that overdubbing Usagi/Serena’s voice with Leia ,while still would a bit of an unfair comparison to do so, would both make more sense *and would actually be a proper joke* !
I renember this shitshow. I was already growing disenchanted with Doug's style at the time this video came out and the Change the Channel movement cemented that decision.
Seriously his anlysis is so shallow and disgustingly sexist.
Thanks for reminding me why i loved Sailor Moon so much growing up. I used to watch it all throuout elementary and Middle School, even though i was bullied a lot for liking this show
Me at 2:01:03: ITS THE QUARTERING!!! OH MY GOD WHY DIDN'T I WATCH THIS LIVE I KNEW WHEN YOU SAID iCARLY WHO YOU MEANT THIS IS AGONY!!!!!
Well at least we now know why Lily Orchard thinks it's okay to put inappropriate sexual stuff in her videos...
Maybe it’s rose colored glasses but I hated Lina’s voice actor worse in the newer dub because all the meanness and backhanded comments came off worse, more like a bully. Maybe some of the lines were different too, I’ve never rewatched the dic dub, but every single time she viciously harped on usagi for being useless and a bad leader in the early episodes it was infuriating. Where old lady Luna voice makes her seem more out of touch and not understanding of someone’s priorities who’s young?
theres no doubt in my mind that Doug has blown industrial quantities of rope to Sailor Moon over the course of his life. thats why his takes are so bad, his brain has been partially corroded by porn (though hes ofc nowhere near the worst youtuber reviewer in this regard)
Sometimes I wonder if Doug would go on the internet and search for common comments people had about whatever he’s reviewing. I know Linkara said he would watch a movie once, while taking notes, and then go on to do the review of it. It’s just a hunch so I could still be wrong but I wouldn’t surprised if his workflow includes browsing the audience reviews on RT and IMDB for his scripts
To be honest i kind of fell into the trap of thinking it was repetitive too based on this review when i watched it 6 or so years ago.
14:31 - 14:47
Mind you I also don’t think Mara and Doug have talked in years. Now Corey Taylor from Slipknot appearing in his stuff even AFTER Change the Channel on the other hand!
35:44 Actually...
He watched DIC dub right? And in the DIC dub Jadeite dies in the 10th episode. In the end of that episode Quenn Beryl said "You Nephrite are my new commander". Which mean he watched less than 10 episode if he is thinking Jeadaite is Quenn Beryl's only henchman.
Yeah this was the one that made me begin to realize NC was getting bad. Like He sucked at talking about anime in general at this point (although I did kinda enjoy his Ponyo review did make me want to check out the movie) but this whole bare minimum effort look & then going on a tangent about Japan's Consent laws was the beginning of the cracks. & people gave me shit for hating on this one when it came out. After his crap reviews of The Last Airbender, Bloodrayne, The clipless reviews & Christmas with the Cranks (the one that broke the camel's back) I was done with the guy & had to wait until a company wide controversy & him bashing The Wall to get any sort of validation & seeing people finally take the hint that guy just wasn't funny anymore.
I don't hate sketch comedy. I still enjoy it a lot. The specific problem with Doug and this video is that...Doug doesn't understand anything about Sailor Moon or why it appeals to his fans. He just shouldn't have talked about it. In general, his worst videos are when he is trying to engage with a movie or show that he doesn't actually like or understand.
I like the guest with Southern US accent. What is her channel name?
That would be KylaTea. She is fantastic.
Finally someone who can properly do a takedown of one of my least favorite Critic reviews. I used to be a fan of Nostalgia Critic, but I didn't like his review.
I wish i made this chat. Im loving the discussion.
Oh god I remember this episode and how much it upset me I remember skipping around because I wanted to watch this anime in my teens and the things he said really upset me, of course I ended up watching it despite his harsh words. Thank god when the change the channel thing happen it force me to stop watching him altogether and even before I just lost interest in his stuff. Now anytime I see his face I just feel disgusted, I wish I never watch any of his content it ruined me to ever think for myself but that could be on me more than him.
Edit: Oh god the Sailor Moon review is even worse than I remember...
case in point god forbid women do anything Doug
1:27:43 ive said it before and I'll say it again Ladies and Gentlemen the inspiration to Big Mouth
But have you seen the Sailor Moon musicals as well as the live-action series?
Yes
1:43:30 FUCK YEAH!!! Justice for Buck Cluck!!!
This episode was made in 2013. World was a whole different place back them, no need to say about TH-cam. There wasn't 5 hours long analysis videos, there was some guys, who had fun and express themselves and did cringe stuff because "it's internet, who cares?". Obviously it's not the case now, but back then TH-cam was much more simplier and NC could just trash talk about one of your favourite shows not being afraid to offend anyone, because it all was for funnies
100% Agree with what you guys said! Nostalgia Critic represents the typical “I don’t get Sailormoon Narcissistic Ignoramus” out there. I’m an OG fan since the 90s and was in high school when I got into that show. It had legions of fans of all ages then. A football player friend of mine also loved the show and not because of sexy miniskirt reasons - it’s the friendships. When I watch the OG dub it brings back great memories and even a crush I had who looked a lot like Darien Mamoru. For years I’ve had to deal with 💩 like Nostalgia Critic. And now I’m so happy at how much Sailormoon is appreciated by ALL!
Sailor Moon 🌚 was awesome on Toonami
🤔... You know, with villains like Beryl, Jadeite, Zoisite, Kunite, Malachite, Emerald, Prisma, Sapphire, & Diamond, I have to wonder if Sailor Moon was an inspiration for Crystal Gems. I know Star vs. The Forces of Evil was inspired by the magical girl anime, but still, food for thought. Also, 1:37:04 - 1:37:16 why watch Doug review Evangelion when we have Bennett the Sage talking about it plenty on Anime Abandon?
Maybe it’s rose colored glasses but I hated Lina’s voice actor worse in the newer dub because all the meanness and backhanded comments came off worse, more like a bully. Maybe some of the lines were different too, I’ve never rewatched the dic dub, but every single time she viciously harped on usagi for being useless and a bad leader in the early episodes it was infuriating. Where old lady Luna voice makes her seem more out of touch and not understanding of someone’s priorities who’s young?
Also Hanson are transphobic a holes so maybe let’s not compare them to those jerks Doug?
What legal way, being a UK fan i had to import the VIZ dvd's which are region locked. the only bit of SM content available for us UK fans is Enteral thanks to netflix. the rest is either region locked DVD's or VPN's
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I would love ❤️ to see a Sailor Moon 🌙 and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers crossover movie 🎥 😊
So what's up with that voice actor who played Umino?
I don’t know what you’re talking about. The only scandal mentioned was with Tory Furuya, the original voice of Manoru. And if you want the TL;DR he had an extramarital affair with a much younger woman which also included physical abuse, losing a lot of his career in the process
For me, I always found the outfits too distracting regardless of the cultural mindset behind it, but I've always been that way with many superhero outfits. I never liked superheroes in revealing costumes like Wonder Woman, Ms. Marvel, Robin and Astro Boy. They're distracting and takes me out of the story emersion. Hell, I also hate the fact that Superman and Batman are wearing their underwears over their spandex
Doug Waker butchered Sailor moon and Rottmnt so bad, I like the guy but oh no.
0:02 I remember
Idk the skirts could be longer and even if they arent objectified (like how ironically nostalgia critic does) the girls are very much sexualized. Theres an inherent emphasis on them being female, engaging in romance, courtship and when chibimoon comes into the story parenting a child!? Just because these concepts are muted down to something paletable doesn't mean these things arent present.
As much as I enjoy sailor moon the series is not flawless and your commentary was kind of really dismissive of any criticism of the show
No. Its not perfect. It's not that any of us are dismissive of genuine criticism. But criticism of the show based entirely on ONE episode is a different beast entirely.
So much vitriol :--(.
You know, watching this was like watching My Little Pony fans? Okay, you get Sailor Moon, something that my nieces were obsessed with but did look like a rinse and repeat cartoon. I never stopped to watch it because at the time I felt it wasn't for me. But watching this video I began to understand how people who never read the series felt when I tried to explain Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I just expected everyone to understand context I understood from five books, a TV series and a really long radio adaptation. You never explained the show or all the dubs - because apparently there are more then a few of them. Or all these Sailors. What was the hook? Why does the show still hold you so many years later? What exactly was the storyline. I never like Doug Walker's review because it felt like an old man trying to explain what the kids were into. And his constantly misogynist insult towards the young women. (Hey Doug, if you see a schoolgirl uniform as sexual maybe the FBI should have a look at your computer storage.) Now I've been into various shades of geek for a very long time. i get a lot of it even if I don't understand it. (Cowboy Beebop being one of those examples. I mean I understood it but why everyone went so nuts over it was beyond me.) And I admit not being the biggest Anime/Manga fan as the stories gone on for way too long and not a lot of it is geared to help anyone jump on between anything. I'm leaving this video not understanding Doug Walker's problem with this kid's show or why you adults are still so into it. And I'm not being insulting, I could re-watch Robotech a billion times and I'd fight anyone who didn't respect that animation, but if I were to do a video about it I'd try to make people understand it. I don't understand Sailor Moon at all except "wasn't that an animation geared towards very young women." Sorry, but you guys didn't do anything to elevate that feeling.
"voice actress" yeah I ain't watching this lmao
Loving the huge amounts of copium that's on display here... coping, seething, and malding at someone who EVERYONE knows should not be considered a legitimate reviewer... HA HA HA
I mean... Doug is a guy who gives his opinion on films. What do you mean legitimate reviewer?
Even as a kid I knew Doug as that dude that makes fun of bad movies, he always came across as dude than as an actual movie critic
this was up there with his Power Rangers reviews where he is clearly not from the generation who watched the show and is only doing it because youtube dropped it in his suggestions and fans ikely wanted him to review it because they wanted him to do more 90's content.
The Turbo film review he basically made Linkara cameo in a bad replica Dino Megazord cockpit so he could deliver his HOPR rant in a unhinged manner on the switch over from Ohranger to Carranger being so damn rough and clearly it was scripted that linkara had to deliver his lines as unhinged since his HOPR rant is calmer but critic liked to flanderrise his channel partners into leaser hosts to make him look good.