I swear... all of us North American Sailor Moon fans, when we were younger, had the same experience. No one to talk to about the show, catching and being excited for episodes that we didn't know existed, and the EXTENSIVE programming VCRs to record them if we weren't able to watch them live.
I don't know, I remember there being a time in grade 2 and 3 where it seemed everyone, boy and girl alike, knew about and discussed the series, so I don't think that's accurate. Heck, my and I, all of whom were boys, would sometimes play Sailor Moon on the playground, and argue over who got to be Sailor Mars, when we weren't playing something more masculine like James Bond. After its height died down, then it made less sense to admit to still watching it, I think.
Not to sound rude but I didn't care ever seen them episodes. They wasn't interesting or super important to the series. I honestly don't know why others cared so much over it.
Here in Canada, when it aired on YTV and Global Television, did air the Doom Tree arc after the first part of the Black Moon/Negamoon arc of Sailor Moon R. Because I remember seeing the Rini episodes after "Day of Destiny" and then suddenly "The Return of Sailor Moon" aired and I wondered why we were getting that opening prologue when it wasn't at the beginning of "Serena Times Two", which I thought was the first episode of the new season. So yeah, here in Canada the arcs aired out of order initially, but it didn't happen that way in the U.S., and when we got reruns here, all of the episodes aired in the correct order.
In these recent years Sailor Moon has become one of my favorite animes. From what my mother was able to remind me, I did watch the DIC dub in my childhood and she told me that I did get bored of it because of the censorship. Lately in my adulthood I've been trying to collect Blu-ray packs of the VIZ media dub to watch that uncensored version and then eventually get a connection with the Hulu streaming service to watch the DIC and Cloverway version for the first time in years to see what all the differences that the censorship caused truly are, (I've heard that Hulu is the only streaming service that has episodes of that version, they can't be found on any other one) because I did previously have a big amount memory losses so I don't remember much of what those differences are except for some that online videos about the censorship that I have watched showed me.
This made me be grateful for growing up in Latin America where anime shows where quite popular. Sailor moon and dragon ball where the shows that every kid watched at the time
Happy anniversary!!! My DREAM is to see a new adaptation to Sailor Stars and if Cosmos got some screen time I might literally cry in happiness. Her design is STUNNING!!
I was a young kid when it first came out to America. While I wasn't part of the target demographic (I was a boy) I was extremely addicted to the show. While I didn't see girls I could hang out with Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter was among my first anime crushes (another being Bulma). To this day I love tough independent women. Thank you for this video!!
Failed or not, DiC Sailor Moon is an irreplaceable treasure to me.❤ DiC's adaption made it feel like the scouts were actually real let alone our friends, even though they're not. Flaws or not, DiC introduced not only an anime magical girl character, but also an inspiration, a reason to believe in magic, and a friend ❤
Earlier, I would dislike the ending of Sailor Moon Stars because Sailor Moon would take advantage of the sword in her favor, but growing up I understood the meaning of Sailor Moon defeating Galaxia without any weapons, using only love and dialogue.
@@SailorSnubs It Would Be Awesome If Sailor Moon Lead To Yugioh Season 0 Where Strange Rumors Start Happening And Usagi Runs Into Yugi And He Apologizes As He Gets Up And Runs Off To School But Usagi Sees A Golden Upside down Triangle With An Eye But She Picks It Up And Places It Around Her Neck But The Spirit Inside The Necklace And He Sees A Woman That Looks Like Her But Her Name Is Unknown And Her Voice Is Silent But She Whispers Father? And Vanishes
i remember signing that petition too 😂 and i have only met ONE person in real life (and just recently) who has even heard of Sailor Moon and likes it. none of my other friends back then watched it so it was just me, fan girling by myself
Thank you! They take more time to create than my normal news/merch vids so won't happen as often but I like the idea of educational vids. Kinda works with my original slogan 😊
I was blessed with the entire series. The original one. From Europe, in the 90’s. Nothing was changed from what I remember. The movies were also streamed on tv in the end of the 90’s. Nothing was lost on me.
Holy heck! I recognize you as Shannon Morse from Hak5 and other content involving computers and cybersecurity. It is so freaking awesome that you're into Sailor Moon too 🤩 (honestly I should pay attention more lol). I'll have to rewatch your vid a few times & research the context, but from what I've seen so far, this looks like an interesting video-essay format 🔥
Late comment but regarding the out of order dates for R, I can confirm this as someone who watched the original dub through it's first airing at 6:30 AM on WPIX-WB11 in 96, they did fix this order during re-runs though. My memory is kinda crap too but this was at a time when I used to record episodes on video tapes after waiting a half hour before it started then re-watch when I got home from school. Anyway, apparently the same thing happened in Canada when it first aired on YTV as well.
This was not first anime in Poland ( at this same time General Daimos, Captain Tsubasa or Maya the bee), but this was first great at the time, I remember that how computer and game magazine were shocked of quality of this anime, propably this is when anime genre start in Poland, first anime meets are in fact Sailor Moon fan meeting, thing only comparapable next are propably only Dragon Ball, Pokemon or MLP fandom.
This was a nice watch, I love hearing the history. Sailor Moon was my show I still have the few vhs that I bought from blockbuster from the supers arc years later
It's weird, because in my experience, I remember it being popular. At least one girl in my grade was obsessed with it. I knew what it was, but I disliked it because I had to sit through the dumb end credits while I waited for Dragonball Z to be on. But Dragonball Z wasn't popular, either. I used to get mocked by kids who turned around a couple years later and claimed to be the biggest fans, and that they had NO idea that I liked it, I certainly didn't get them into it, they liked it before me. Now everyone and their grandpa remembers DBZ and is still watching it. But so, too, do Moonies remember it and it's everywhere like DBZ is. It's arguably the "girl DBZ." In my mind, this is exactly how DBZ started, and I feel like non anime fans recognize both because they were and are so prevalent. Idk, I just definitely don't remember it failing in the US or so few people knowing about it that you'd be worried nobody has a clue what you're talking about. I mean... they did just have a huge 20th anniversary reboot, created Crystal, and are now celebrating 30 years. There's merch everywhere. I literally own a Colourpop Sailor Moon eyeshadow palette, which was sold out to hell when it first came out. Heidi Klum was seen on Insta wearing Sailor Moon merch. Gucci has made Sailor Moon boots.
a lot of my classmates didn't know about it. the few who'd heard about it (boys) said it "didn't count" ...this was before i even knew of the word "anime". now, all of a sudden, everyone 'loves' sailor moon because of this merchandise thing they're doing. and i've seen jimmy choo advertising sailor moon boots for $15,000 . i find it all ridiculous
@@v.4900 I don't think it's ridiculous at all. I've heard Moonies are hella gatekeepy, though, and this kinda sounds like that. The fact is, a lot more people knew about Sailor Moon in the 90s and still love it to this day, or the merchandising wouldn't even be happening. It's not like a company is going to bring up something obscure for a collection and then everyone is going to jump on it when they didn't know it or like it previously. Sailor Moon's just a huge series and always has been.
I've absolutely experienced that gatekeeping in the community. It's like some sailor moon fans believe that they "own" sailor moon or the news that comes out about it and they'll bully anyone who they believe don't belong in the community. It's really sad that people like that exist.
@@horohorosrin i haven't experienced that, only because i've actually never met anyone in person who even heard about Sailor Moon. and i'm not a gatekeeper...didn't mean to come off that way at all. (i show up late to a lot of stuff so new fans don't make a difference to me) i'm just saying that the people that i have personally talked to about it - who told me that they never heard about it - are saying they've "been fans" now because of the merchandise stuff. it would be different if someone said "well i just now started watching it because of all the advertisements and i love it"
I’ve become a fan of Sailor Moon since it aired on TV here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I watched every episode of every season of Sailor Moon which aired on TV here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I thought I’m a guy, but I found the anime show awesome and educational. I truly have identified with Serena or Usagi but as a male version of her; because I’m exactly like her when it comes to her compassion for others, even her compassion for the villains whom she helped to regain the goodness that they’ve lost. I always see good in people; even those who have become bitter. And like Usagi or Serena, I look at what made this person so bitter and bad, what was the original reason behind their unreasonable anger and hatred. I believe we are all born innocent until the world tainted our minds with bitterness, jealousy, unreasonable anger and hatred. Therefore I have great compassion for those who have fallen from their goodness. I hope someday the world would be a better place for everyone. Where no one faces bigotry and hatred. I truly miss watching Sailor Moon on regular TV channels. I hope they bring her back. Or a live version of her with the up-to-date technology we have available. We came a long way with technology since the 90s. Perhaps a live movie like Marvel Studios when they aired Wonder Woman. Or when they aired Wonder Woman on TV was played by Linda Carter.
I really love this channel. It brings back good memories from my childhood and young adulthood. And your hair is absolutely stunning, that color combo 🤯
I remember watching when it aired here in Canada. When we got the big battle with Rubeus in Sailor Moon R, the show started again from the beginning and I lost track of it. It wasn’t until I was an adult and downloaded a fan sub of the entire show that I was able to see it entirely. I now own the show and movies on Blu-ray, as well as the three seasons of Crystal. I hope the Eternal and Cosmos movies will be released as physical media before too long.
You're in luck, ma'am. The final arc of Sailor Moon is going to be adapted into a two-part movie called: Sailor Moon Cosmos in the summer of 2023. I'm so excited to see it when it comes out on Netflix. Be on the look out for it, and please make review videos on all five arcs of Sailor Moon, both the original anime, and the Crystal adaptations.
As a someone who was born in 1989 in Poland and had only 3 basic TV channels I'm amazed how I was able to watch complete series of such classics as Dragon Ball or Sailor Moon when I was 7-9 years old and how in the following years anime just seems ceased to exist in Polish TV. :(
I had first watched Sailor Moon here in Los Angeles, on KCOP Channel 13; during that time, I was in between transferring middle schools while starting 6th Grade. The only crappy thing about the timeslot was that it aired at 7:30am, while kids were on their way to school; that is, until it blew up on Cartoon Network in 1998. Crazy enough, they're re-airing SM (Viz dub) at this very moment, and I'm lovin' it like the Mickey D's slogan 😊
Fun Fact: In 1995 came Sailor Moon also in Germany but the German Dub of the series based directly from original japanese version und was faithful and uncut dubbed in Germany (some names was mistranslated and some gender are different which can be a censorship or also a mistranslation, i think it was rather mistranslation). But this faithful dub was very sucessful in Germany after a network and timeslot change and 1997. In 1998 season 2-5 was completely dubbed and aired on German television and Germany had his own Sailor Moon Pop/Idol Band which make the music of the German Sailor Moon openigs
I can say that, at least growing up in Canada, Sailor Moon was pretty big when the first couple seasons aired. It definitely died down after 1996 though. Still, my friends and I definitely still watched it, albeit casually.
Thank you for this video essay. Sailormoon was not censored or snipped in my country when it was being shown. But it was persecuted (jokingly) that watching it made boys become gays. I know its offensive but that only meant that non-fans actually recognized the fame it had.
HI SNUBS! At the end, I heard about your other website, MORSE CODE, I also work in railroad museums, and Ham Radio when I needed Morse code for my license, thus we all know, "...---..." as the "S.O.S." call for HELP!! PLUS ➕, the railroads used Morse for the locomotive whistles; like "!!-!" is "Q" for the highway grade crossings. And in the new computers by using digital signals, basically Binary, with 1 and 0, simply On of Off, thus even though we are using 5G signals for our phones. It is still a very sophisticated Morse code, KOOOOOL!!!!! HI IN APRIL 2023A.D.!!!!!
S.M. was really popular as all.the Comicons prove all around the World 🌎 🤣!!!!! But S.M.was truly messed by tv stations with weird airing times; like here she was on at 5:30 amc Monday to Friday with the series cut to only 40 episodes, and the 4 Generals each had only 10 episodes to "Destroy" her, but really to kill her. Or else Evil Queen Beryl killed them off. But lost her Main Generals. And lost power! Then S.M. Added more and more Scouts, and gained strength 💪!! Yet S.M. was also on at Sunday Mornings at 7: 30 amc. Meaning the story took 40 weeks just for the ORIGIN STORY. But also adding the extra stories of the DOOM TREE 🌳; AND the Wiseman and Rubeus Arc, with the total 65 eps., lasting over 1 year plus 13 weekends. But SUDDENLY CANCELLED when Lita as Jupiter arrives. But replaced with "SAMURAI PIZZA 🍕 CATS " 🐈 😻 🐈⬛ 😢, WEIRD!!!!! S.M. was canceled just over a year. AND SUDDENLY REAPPEARED on U.S.A. NETWORK; YET.....Even more heavily edited. Which was noted because the new theme songs 🎵 by DIC and Andy Heyward, and Bob Summers,, SUDDENLY STOPPED ✋ in the middle of the scenes!!!!! Just to add more ads for cereal and toys and P.S.A.'s. Yet U.S.A. also Added CLOSED CAPTIONS for the Deaf, and with the Full script. And like stage directions like, "the monster growls...Rarrrrr!!!!!". BUT U.S.A. ALSO CANCELED AFTER LITA APPEARED!!! Then S.M. was off over 2 years. The actresses found new roles. Like Katie Griffin as Raye and Mars was also in TOTALLY SPIES as Alex. Or Susan Roman as Lita and Jupiter acted in Barbie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 🎟 movie; and surprisingly she was in "THOMAS AND THE MAGIC RAILROAD " as James the Red Engine 5 with her cute Cockney British accent. Luckily S.M. was picked up by the New CARTOON NETWORK. But shown at 2:30 pm Central but also 3:30 p.m. Eastern. But after they changed her to 4:30 pm.-C she became SUPER HOT 🔥!!!!! Because the school kids were finally able to watch ⌚ her at a reasonable time ⏲. Instead of re-programming their parents V.C.R....BUT MAYBE THEY ALSO USED BETAMAX?!?!?!?!? LOL 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣!!!!! FINALLY S.M. WAS THE SMASH HIT THAT BECAME THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION !!!!! HOORAY !!!!! AMEN ✝️ 🙏!!!!! ALLELUIA !!!!!
S.M. Obviously needs many more stories, because Usagi just turned 15 during the Pegasus Arc. Will she get her Driver's Liscense at 16. And when she turns 18 she graduated 🎓 High school 🏫 with lots of help from Ami and the Scouts. She could get a car as a grad present 🎁, and it turns into a SUPER MOON CAR 🚗 PINK because she Hates to run with those High 👠 Heel 👢 👢 boots. And use her Moon Scepter 🌙 to make the car 🚗 appear and change. Will Usagi go to College?? Or like in the Manga, will she have a BIG WEDDING 💑 to 🙏 Mamaru? And how does she change into NEO QUEEN SERENITY 👸 🤔 😳 🙄 😍 😏 👸????? There are still many many questions that we want answers for.....O.K.!!!! HI IN APRIL 2023A.D. HAPPY EASTER SUNDAY!!!!!
My hot take is it did not fail. It may not have impressive numbers, but it debuted at a time when Japanese anime was still new to the states. You put that with adding it to USA network, dub/licensing battles between DiC and hard to please FCC tv rules, that’s a lot to over come. Sailor moon eventually would re-air on Toonami, at a later timeframe that didn’t fair well with American viewers (school/work) However despite all of this, today it is still one or the most watched and highest merchandise grossing animes in the states.
I pushed through to about 100 episodes of Sailer Moon and couldn't keep going. Lost interest but my sister loved the show. The only thing that weirded me out was the age gap between Sailor Moon and Darius. She was 14 and he was in his 20s. It wasn't right. Then Remi was into the unicorn guy who was a whole adult while she was a child. So...yeah. Couldn't behind it. And then the villains started getting very one note after a while.
For anyone checking the comments and seeing this, Usagi is 14, and Mamoru is 16 in the manga version at the beginning of season 1, in the anime he was aged up to 17/18. Helios is a pegasus / humanoid but not really human, and we don't know his age but he appears to be early teens, though acts older given he's immortal. The 1990s era anime used the same theming of a "monster of the day" similar to a lot of other anime of that time period. But if you don't like those kind of filler eps, I recommend reading the manga or watching Crystal instead. Crystal (released in the 2010's as a reboot of Sailor Moon) doesn't have the same character arcs, but it's much faster paced.
so it didn't really take off in the US? (which can probably explain alot I browsed through several Sears US Wishbooks from the 90s and I noticed that they were seriously lacking in Sailor Moon content, I don't know if other stores had exclusive rights down there but all I saw was a cassette tape), however when I looked at a wishbook from Canada from 1996-1998 it was swimming with stuff. Guess it fared better in Canada
Well, not really. It was very popular in Canada, which is a part of North America, when it was airing on YTV. It failed in the US during its syndication run, sure, but it wasn't an OUTRIGHT failure. An average 800,000 viewership back in the day wasn't terrible numbers, moreso just meh numbers. If you want some animated TV series that REALLY failed in the US, then there's stuff like Timberwood Tales, which reportedly aired on ABC on Saturday mornings in 1991 & is now barely remembered, let alone known about. Or how about The Haunted Pork Burns Unit, a strange European cartoon that seems to have only ever been recalled by Yossarian & might've been exported to the US on some obscure local station in a not very populated region of like, let's assume Arkansas. Yeah I really wonder if anyone else has ever seen The Haunted Pork Burns Unit.
I saw Sailor Moon some part of it on UPN in mid 90s like 1996 and i cant remember as a whole but i know i seen it once back then, one of my few anime alongside Speed Racer, wouldnt until i would see the show years later on TV - up till they show airplaying Sailor Moon on Cartoon Network in early 2000s.. as a guy myself folk would say why im watching sailor moon as a girl show.. Sailor moon// serena was my original waifu growing up.
Hi there, I'm compiling a list of "comic book movies" and have added the Sailor Moon movies. Do the movies function as stand-alone films? So if I watch the movies in release order would I be able to follow just fine or do I really need to watch all the anime in order to follow?
The movies don't explain anything that happened pre-Dream Arc. So I'd recommend watching the seasons prior to the movies since they just pick up the storyline.
I only saw the US version and rewatched a lot online but never appreciated the original until I saw the modern dub of one of the movies and realized how dumbed down the series became One day I will try to watch the modern dub of the originals…can’t help but wish that is what we got with the original voices and music…think the newer series are on Netflix but not the original or modern redos
@@SailorSnubs I tried looking but could only find Japanese…I can’t read subs without pausing so it would take FOREVER to get through the series Also Viz appears to be on Prime with ads…but no sign of the original dubs by Dic and CW…even Amazon DVDs are Viz…should have bought the DVD set when I had the chance years ago Nothing against Viz…I will try to watch when I get time one day…but would love to rewatch the original dub again…even if season 5 never came back then
I was born in 1991, and I can remember watching sailor moon early in the morning before school started for me. I thought it was a good show, but I really got into it after spending time with my cousin, who had like everything from sailor moon growing up. So I watched all the DiC Dub, all the movies, and the Japanese of Sailor Stars probably 15 years ago! Sailor Moon Crystal was very interesting to me. It made the story make more sense to me and it was quite powerful. To this day, I can’t bring myself to watch the VIZ Media dub. I just miss the music of the DIC dub, and the names: Serena, Rini, Darien, etc. but I have watched the cut episodes in Japanese. Didn’t understand why the episodes with sailor Venus backstory was cut. Now I’m just waiting for Sailor Cosmos movie to come out in Netflix, and I’m starting to read the manga!
A not so fun fact is that both sides of the Russo-Ukrainian war are using sailor moon for their propaganda. That’s how much influence sailor moon has apparently.
The "millitant" SM fans you mention would no doubt agree. Obvously, it's become convention in the fandom. I'm for the DiC names. Somebody had to speak up so I did.
I swear... all of us North American Sailor Moon fans, when we were younger, had the same experience. No one to talk to about the show, catching and being excited for episodes that we didn't know existed, and the EXTENSIVE programming VCRs to record them if we weren't able to watch them live.
I don't know, I remember there being a time in grade 2 and 3 where it seemed everyone, boy and girl alike, knew about and discussed the series, so I don't think that's accurate. Heck, my and I, all of whom were boys, would sometimes play Sailor Moon on the playground, and argue over who got to be Sailor Mars, when we weren't playing something more masculine like James Bond. After its height died down, then it made less sense to admit to still watching it, I think.
Not to sound rude but I didn't care ever seen them episodes. They wasn't interesting or super important to the series. I honestly don't know why others cared so much over it.
The "dude from Earth" is actually the King of the Earth Kingdom, just that! Lol
Here in Canada, when it aired on YTV and Global Television, did air the Doom Tree arc after the first part of the Black Moon/Negamoon arc of Sailor Moon R. Because I remember seeing the Rini episodes after "Day of Destiny" and then suddenly "The Return of Sailor Moon" aired and I wondered why we were getting that opening prologue when it wasn't at the beginning of "Serena Times Two", which I thought was the first episode of the new season. So yeah, here in Canada the arcs aired out of order initially, but it didn't happen that way in the U.S., and when we got reruns here, all of the episodes aired in the correct order.
In these recent years Sailor Moon has become one of my favorite animes. From what my mother was able to remind me, I did watch the DIC dub in my childhood and she told me that I did get bored of it because of the censorship. Lately in my adulthood I've been trying to collect Blu-ray packs of the VIZ media dub to watch that uncensored version and then eventually get a connection with the Hulu streaming service to watch the DIC and Cloverway version for the first time in years to see what all the differences that the censorship caused truly are, (I've heard that Hulu is the only streaming service that has episodes of that version, they can't be found on any other one) because I did previously have a big amount memory losses so I don't remember much of what those differences are except for some that online videos about the censorship that I have watched showed me.
This made me be grateful for growing up in Latin America where anime shows where quite popular. Sailor moon and dragon ball where the shows that every kid watched at the time
I believe I watched all the seasons of sailor moon as kid so fortunately we didn't have to wait for it
Awesome!
Happy anniversary!!!
My DREAM is to see a new adaptation to Sailor Stars and if Cosmos got some screen time I might literally cry in happiness. Her design is STUNNING!!
Same 💕
Omg we got our wish! Sailor Moon Eternal: Cosmos is coming next year 🥹🥹
Please do more of these! I always learn something new about my fav show with fellow moonies
Ahh thank you! It was so fun to research!!
Back in the early 90's my local Fox station aired the original Sailor Moon weekdays at 5am
I was a young kid when it first came out to America. While I wasn't part of the target demographic (I was a boy) I was extremely addicted to the show. While I didn't see girls I could hang out with Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter was among my first anime crushes (another being Bulma). To this day I love tough independent women. Thank you for this video!!
Thanks for watching!!
Failed or not, DiC Sailor Moon is an irreplaceable treasure to me.❤ DiC's adaption made it feel like the scouts were actually real let alone our friends, even though they're not. Flaws or not, DiC introduced not only an anime magical girl character, but also an inspiration, a reason to believe in magic, and a friend ❤
Earlier, I would dislike the ending of Sailor Moon Stars because Sailor Moon would take advantage of the sword in her favor, but growing up I understood the meaning of Sailor Moon defeating Galaxia without any weapons, using only love and dialogue.
Great job! You nailed just about everything. Would love to see a part 2 with the other sailor moon formats.
Yes I'd love to do the same for the manga especially!
Happy anniversary to Sailor Moon!❤️
Woohoo!
This was great! Thank you! I’d love to watch more videos like this of crystal and all other history and forms of Sailor Moon media.
Thanks!! I'll definitely do more!
Would love to see a deeper dive of each season! Or a dive into the manga or crystal 💖🌈
i'd love to do this!!
I’d love this as well. Also a deep dive into some of the Guardians and the differences between their anime/manga/Crystal versions.
@@SailorSnubs It Would Be Awesome If Sailor Moon Lead To Yugioh Season 0 Where Strange Rumors Start Happening And Usagi Runs Into Yugi And He Apologizes As He Gets Up
And Runs Off To School But Usagi Sees A Golden Upside down Triangle With An Eye But She Picks It Up
And Places It Around Her Neck But The Spirit Inside The Necklace And He Sees A Woman That Looks
Like Her But Her Name Is Unknown And Her Voice Is Silent But She Whispers Father? And Vanishes
@@Ever_Since_Never A Movie Where The Queen Reveals That Her Father Is A Pharaoh Named Atem NOW That Would Be Awesome
This was an excellent tldr of Sailor Moon, good job!
Yay, thank you!
Thank You So Much for doing this Video🤘💙
i remember signing that petition too 😂 and i have only met ONE person in real life (and just recently) who has even heard of Sailor Moon and likes it. none of my other friends back then watched it so it was just me, fan girling by myself
I know how you feel!
Even though I knew everything about the anime, I still really enjoyed your video! 💖
Thank you! I hope it serves newbies to SM well 💕
I personally would love a deeper dive of the S season,my most favourite ^^.Thank you for the video :)
It's my favorite too! Noted 😊
OMG I’d love more video essays about anything Sailor Moon! 😍💖💖✨
Thank you! They take more time to create than my normal news/merch vids so won't happen as often but I like the idea of educational vids. Kinda works with my original slogan 😊
I was blessed with the entire series. The original one. From Europe, in the 90’s. Nothing was changed from what I remember. The movies were also streamed on tv in the end of the 90’s. Nothing was lost on me.
We US viewers got screwed lol
@@SailorSnubs YUP more than screwed...
Yeah, I'm Russian, and it aired all seasons, including the final one.
Holy heck! I recognize you as Shannon Morse from Hak5 and other content involving computers and cybersecurity. It is so freaking awesome that you're into Sailor Moon too 🤩 (honestly I should pay attention more lol). I'll have to rewatch your vid a few times & research the context, but from what I've seen so far, this looks like an interesting video-essay format
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This was amazing! can we get deep dives of each season please!
Absolutely!!!
Wait not me, being like is that threatwire… I didn’t know you had a 2nd channel. Love this!!!
I remember it being popular in the US especially when it was on cartoon network
Even cartoon network had issues with licensing!
"Happy Anniversary" Sailor 🌙 😊😊
thanks you too!
Sailor Moon is the Best because she is the one and only truly original Princess of the Moon and allá the world love her!!!
Late comment but regarding the out of order dates for R, I can confirm this as someone who watched the original dub through it's first airing at 6:30 AM on WPIX-WB11 in 96, they did fix this order during re-runs though. My memory is kinda crap too but this was at a time when I used to record episodes on video tapes after waiting a half hour before it started then re-watch when I got home from school.
Anyway, apparently the same thing happened in Canada when it first aired on YTV as well.
This was not first anime in Poland ( at this same time General Daimos, Captain Tsubasa or Maya the bee), but this was first great at the time, I remember that how computer and game magazine were shocked of quality of this anime, propably this is when anime genre start in Poland, first anime meets are in fact Sailor Moon fan meeting, thing only comparapable next are propably only Dragon Ball, Pokemon or MLP fandom.
This was a nice watch, I love hearing the history. Sailor Moon was my show
I still have the few vhs that I bought from blockbuster from the supers arc years later
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
It's weird, because in my experience, I remember it being popular. At least one girl in my grade was obsessed with it. I knew what it was, but I disliked it because I had to sit through the dumb end credits while I waited for Dragonball Z to be on.
But Dragonball Z wasn't popular, either. I used to get mocked by kids who turned around a couple years later and claimed to be the biggest fans, and that they had NO idea that I liked it, I certainly didn't get them into it, they liked it before me.
Now everyone and their grandpa remembers DBZ and is still watching it. But so, too, do Moonies remember it and it's everywhere like DBZ is. It's arguably the "girl DBZ." In my mind, this is exactly how DBZ started, and I feel like non anime fans recognize both because they were and are so prevalent. Idk, I just definitely don't remember it failing in the US or so few people knowing about it that you'd be worried nobody has a clue what you're talking about. I mean... they did just have a huge 20th anniversary reboot, created Crystal, and are now celebrating 30 years. There's merch everywhere. I literally own a Colourpop Sailor Moon eyeshadow palette, which was sold out to hell when it first came out. Heidi Klum was seen on Insta wearing Sailor Moon merch. Gucci has made Sailor Moon boots.
a lot of my classmates didn't know about it. the few who'd heard about it (boys) said it "didn't count" ...this was before i even knew of the word "anime". now, all of a sudden, everyone 'loves' sailor moon because of this merchandise thing they're doing. and i've seen jimmy choo advertising sailor moon boots for $15,000 . i find it all ridiculous
@@v.4900 I don't think it's ridiculous at all. I've heard Moonies are hella gatekeepy, though, and this kinda sounds like that. The fact is, a lot more people knew about Sailor Moon in the 90s and still love it to this day, or the merchandising wouldn't even be happening. It's not like a company is going to bring up something obscure for a collection and then everyone is going to jump on it when they didn't know it or like it previously.
Sailor Moon's just a huge series and always has been.
I've absolutely experienced that gatekeeping in the community. It's like some sailor moon fans believe that they "own" sailor moon or the news that comes out about it and they'll bully anyone who they believe don't belong in the community. It's really sad that people like that exist.
@@horohorosrin i haven't experienced that, only because i've actually never met anyone in person who even heard about Sailor Moon. and i'm not a gatekeeper...didn't mean to come off that way at all. (i show up late to a lot of stuff so new fans don't make a difference to me) i'm just saying that the people that i have personally talked to about it - who told me that they never heard about it - are saying they've "been fans" now because of the merchandise stuff.
it would be different if someone said "well i just now started watching it because of all the advertisements and i love it"
3:16 id like to see that adapted into a 90’s short
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@@SailorSnubs I know. And I could imagine the DIC music to.
The only thing I remember about Sailor Moon is seeing the logos for DiC and The Program Exchange on Cartoon Network.
The ones who made the sonic and Mario cartoons.
I’ve become a fan of Sailor Moon since it aired on TV here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I watched every episode of every season of Sailor Moon which aired on TV here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
I thought I’m a guy, but I found the anime show awesome and educational. I truly have identified with Serena or Usagi but as a male version of her; because I’m exactly like her when it comes to her compassion for others, even her compassion for the villains whom she helped to regain the goodness that they’ve lost.
I always see good in people; even those who have become bitter. And like Usagi or Serena, I look at what made this person so bitter and bad, what was the original reason behind their unreasonable anger and hatred.
I believe we are all born innocent until the world tainted our minds with bitterness, jealousy, unreasonable anger and hatred. Therefore I have great compassion for those who have fallen from their goodness.
I hope someday the world would be a better place for everyone. Where no one faces bigotry and hatred.
I truly miss watching Sailor Moon on regular TV channels. I hope they bring her back. Or a live version of her with the up-to-date technology we have available. We came a long way with technology since the 90s. Perhaps a live movie like Marvel Studios when they aired Wonder Woman. Or when they aired Wonder Woman on TV was played by Linda Carter.
I prefer Usagi cause usagi has cute name
Happy belated 30th Anniversary Sailor Moon 🌙 💖
This was amazing
Surely Sailor Moon will be transform into Sailor Cosmos that we all fans are still waitinq. Sailor stars
She doesn't transform into cosmos.
Loving this video. Nice to see it and also reading comments of fellow moonies. Fandom community is always great. Whatever show it is.
Thank you!
The Viz dub saved the series in America and dub the alternative series and redubbed the 90s anime with better voice actors.
I am so excited to watch pretty guardian sailor moon Cosmos!!
Me too
I really love this channel. It brings back good memories from my childhood and young adulthood. And your hair is absolutely stunning, that color combo 🤯
Thank you!
I remember watching when it aired here in Canada. When we got the big battle with Rubeus in Sailor Moon R, the show started again from the beginning and I lost track of it. It wasn’t until I was an adult and downloaded a fan sub of the entire show that I was able to see it entirely.
I now own the show and movies on Blu-ray, as well as the three seasons of Crystal. I hope the Eternal and Cosmos movies will be released as physical media before too long.
You're in luck, ma'am. The final arc of Sailor Moon is going to be adapted into a two-part movie called: Sailor Moon Cosmos in the summer of 2023. I'm so excited to see it when it comes out on Netflix. Be on the look out for it, and please make review videos on all five arcs of Sailor Moon, both the original anime, and the Crystal adaptations.
That's right! When it was announced I posted the news on my Instagram page 😁
12:29 her eyes are lifeless. She give her life to bring Hotaru back.
(8:20) Little known fact: the reason why the Sailor Moon dub was resurrected was the support it got from sponsor General Mills.
Haha I love that General Mills thing. Still makes me chuckle
@@SailorSnubs and toonami made it better with better time schedules
Proud male Moonie here also I'm fan of the host.
Thank you!
As a someone who was born in 1989 in Poland and had only 3 basic TV channels I'm amazed how I was able to watch complete series of such classics as Dragon Ball or Sailor Moon when I was 7-9 years old and how in the following years anime just seems ceased to exist in Polish TV. :(
America definitely has a lull in anime for a while too. We started seeing a big resurgence thanks to newer shows
I had first watched Sailor Moon here in Los Angeles, on KCOP Channel 13; during that time, I was in between transferring middle schools while starting 6th Grade. The only crappy thing about the timeslot was that it aired at 7:30am, while kids were on their way to school; that is, until it blew up on Cartoon Network in 1998. Crazy enough, they're re-airing SM (Viz dub) at this very moment, and I'm lovin' it like the Mickey D's slogan 😊
A new game wouldn't be too horrible.
Fun Fact: In 1995 came Sailor Moon also in Germany but the German Dub of the series based directly from original japanese version und was faithful and uncut dubbed in Germany (some names was mistranslated and some gender are different which can be a censorship or also a mistranslation, i think it was rather mistranslation).
But this faithful dub was very sucessful in Germany after a network and timeslot change and 1997. In 1998 season 2-5 was completely dubbed and aired on German television and Germany had his own Sailor Moon Pop/Idol Band which make the music of the German Sailor Moon openigs
I can say that, at least growing up in Canada, Sailor Moon was pretty big when the first couple seasons aired. It definitely died down after 1996 though. Still, my friends and I definitely still watched it, albeit casually.
Thank you for this video essay. Sailormoon was not censored or snipped in my country when it was being shown. But it was persecuted (jokingly) that watching it made boys become gays. I know its offensive but that only meant that non-fans actually recognized the fame it had.
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awesome video 😊
Thank you 😁
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S.M. was really popular as all.the Comicons prove all around the World 🌎 🤣!!!!! But S.M.was truly messed by tv stations with weird airing times; like here she was on at 5:30 amc Monday to Friday with the series cut to only 40 episodes, and the 4 Generals each had only 10 episodes to "Destroy" her, but really to kill her. Or else Evil Queen Beryl killed them off. But lost her Main Generals. And lost power! Then S.M. Added more and more Scouts, and gained strength 💪!! Yet S.M. was also on at Sunday Mornings at 7: 30 amc. Meaning the story took 40 weeks just for the ORIGIN STORY. But also adding the extra stories of the DOOM TREE 🌳; AND the Wiseman and Rubeus Arc, with the total 65 eps., lasting over 1 year plus 13 weekends. But SUDDENLY CANCELLED when Lita as Jupiter arrives. But replaced with "SAMURAI PIZZA 🍕 CATS " 🐈 😻 🐈⬛ 😢, WEIRD!!!!! S.M. was canceled just over a year. AND SUDDENLY REAPPEARED on U.S.A. NETWORK; YET.....Even more heavily edited. Which was noted because the new theme songs 🎵 by DIC and Andy Heyward, and Bob Summers,, SUDDENLY STOPPED ✋ in the middle of the scenes!!!!! Just to add more ads for cereal and toys and P.S.A.'s. Yet U.S.A. also Added CLOSED CAPTIONS for the Deaf, and with the Full script. And like stage directions like, "the monster growls...Rarrrrr!!!!!". BUT U.S.A. ALSO CANCELED AFTER LITA APPEARED!!! Then S.M. was off over 2 years. The actresses found new roles. Like Katie Griffin as Raye and Mars was also in TOTALLY SPIES as Alex. Or Susan Roman as Lita and Jupiter acted in Barbie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 🎟 movie; and surprisingly she was in "THOMAS AND THE MAGIC RAILROAD " as James the Red Engine 5 with her cute Cockney British accent. Luckily S.M. was picked up by the New CARTOON NETWORK. But shown at 2:30 pm Central but also 3:30 p.m. Eastern. But after they changed her to 4:30 pm.-C she became SUPER HOT 🔥!!!!! Because the school kids were finally able to watch ⌚ her at a reasonable time ⏲. Instead of re-programming their parents V.C.R....BUT MAYBE THEY ALSO USED BETAMAX?!?!?!?!? LOL 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣!!!!! FINALLY S.M. WAS THE SMASH HIT THAT BECAME THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION !!!!! HOORAY !!!!! AMEN ✝️ 🙏!!!!! ALLELUIA !!!!!
After watching a couple of DBZ seasons. I will start the dic dub then watch the viz dub
Preach the good word!
Amen!
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S.M. Obviously needs many more stories, because Usagi just turned 15 during the Pegasus Arc. Will she get her Driver's Liscense at 16. And when she turns 18 she graduated 🎓 High school 🏫 with lots of help from Ami and the Scouts. She could get a car as a grad present 🎁, and it turns into a SUPER MOON CAR 🚗 PINK because she Hates to run with those High 👠 Heel 👢 👢 boots. And use her Moon Scepter 🌙 to make the car 🚗 appear and change. Will Usagi go to College?? Or like in the Manga, will she have a BIG WEDDING 💑 to 🙏 Mamaru? And how does she change into NEO QUEEN SERENITY 👸 🤔 😳 🙄 😍 😏 👸????? There are still many many questions that we want answers for.....O.K.!!!! HI IN APRIL 2023A.D. HAPPY EASTER SUNDAY!!!!!
Does anyone have a link to a place where I can purchase all the dubbed 200 episodes on DVD?
My hot take is it did not fail. It may not have impressive numbers, but it debuted at a time when Japanese anime was still new to the states. You put that with adding it to USA network, dub/licensing battles between DiC and hard to please FCC tv rules, that’s a lot to over come.
Sailor moon eventually would re-air on Toonami, at a later timeframe that didn’t fair well with American viewers (school/work)
However despite all of this, today it is still one or the most watched and highest merchandise grossing animes in the states.
I wouldn’t say that it failed in America because it was still a success
I pushed through to about 100 episodes of Sailer Moon and couldn't keep going. Lost interest but my sister loved the show. The only thing that weirded me out was the age gap between Sailor Moon and Darius. She was 14 and he was in his 20s. It wasn't right. Then Remi was into the unicorn guy who was a whole adult while she was a child. So...yeah. Couldn't behind it. And then the villains started getting very one note after a while.
For anyone checking the comments and seeing this, Usagi is 14, and Mamoru is 16 in the manga version at the beginning of season 1, in the anime he was aged up to 17/18.
Helios is a pegasus / humanoid but not really human, and we don't know his age but he appears to be early teens, though acts older given he's immortal.
The 1990s era anime used the same theming of a "monster of the day" similar to a lot of other anime of that time period. But if you don't like those kind of filler eps, I recommend reading the manga or watching Crystal instead. Crystal (released in the 2010's as a reboot of Sailor Moon) doesn't have the same character arcs, but it's much faster paced.
so it didn't really take off in the US? (which can probably explain alot I browsed through several Sears US Wishbooks from the 90s and I noticed that they were seriously lacking in Sailor Moon content, I don't know if other stores had exclusive rights down there but all I saw was a cassette tape), however when I looked at a wishbook from Canada from 1996-1998 it was swimming with stuff. Guess it fared better in Canada
No, not til many years after it's first release
19:56 well they announced sailor moon cosmos so yes the stars arc has been confirmed
Yup! This was recorded before that announcement
@@SailorSnubs yeah I would love to see the manga explained
Well, not really. It was very popular in Canada, which is a part of North America, when it was airing on YTV. It failed in the US during its syndication run, sure, but it wasn't an OUTRIGHT failure. An average 800,000 viewership back in the day wasn't terrible numbers, moreso just meh numbers.
If you want some animated TV series that REALLY failed in the US, then there's stuff like Timberwood Tales, which reportedly aired on ABC on Saturday mornings in 1991 & is now barely remembered, let alone known about. Or how about The Haunted Pork Burns Unit, a strange European cartoon that seems to have only ever been recalled by Yossarian & might've been exported to the US on some obscure local station in a not very populated region of like, let's assume Arkansas. Yeah I really wonder if anyone else has ever seen The Haunted Pork Burns Unit.
My guess is that the show was aired in graveyard slots, you know, times when kids were at school.
I saw Sailor Moon some part of it on UPN in mid 90s like 1996 and i cant remember as a whole but i know i seen it once back then, one of my few anime alongside Speed Racer, wouldnt until i would see the show years later on TV - up till they show airplaying Sailor Moon on Cartoon Network in early 2000s.. as a guy myself folk would say why im watching sailor moon as a girl show..
Sailor moon// serena was my original waifu growing up.
As a fellow gold-fish-memoried person, I understand 😆
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For me sailor Saturn was always the best! The coolest & strongest ! Well you can see my profile picture 😉😉😉
Hi there, I'm compiling a list of "comic book movies" and have added the Sailor Moon movies. Do the movies function as stand-alone films? So if I watch the movies in release order would I be able to follow just fine or do I really need to watch all the anime in order to follow?
The movies don't explain anything that happened pre-Dream Arc. So I'd recommend watching the seasons prior to the movies since they just pick up the storyline.
I only saw the US version and rewatched a lot online but never appreciated the original until I saw the modern dub of one of the movies and realized how dumbed down the series became
One day I will try to watch the modern dub of the originals…can’t help but wish that is what we got with the original voices and music…think the newer series are on Netflix but not the original or modern redos
You can find the OG series on PlutoTV for free!
@@SailorSnubs I tried looking but could only find Japanese…I can’t read subs without pausing so it would take FOREVER to get through the series
Also Viz appears to be on Prime with ads…but no sign of the original dubs by Dic and CW…even Amazon DVDs are Viz…should have bought the DVD set when I had the chance years ago
Nothing against Viz…I will try to watch when I get time one day…but would love to rewatch the original dub again…even if season 5 never came back then
Because Cousins were in Love *cough* english dub 🤣
I watch it because the girls in the series are hot.
😂😂😂 fair enough. That's why I watched Gundam Wing. The boys were hot.
I was born in 1991, and I can remember watching sailor moon early in the morning before school started for me. I thought it was a good show, but I really got into it after spending time with my cousin, who had like everything from sailor moon growing up. So I watched all the DiC Dub, all the movies, and the Japanese of Sailor Stars probably 15 years ago!
Sailor Moon Crystal was very interesting to me. It made the story make more sense to me and it was quite powerful. To this day, I can’t bring myself to watch the VIZ Media dub. I just miss the music of the DIC dub, and the names: Serena, Rini, Darien, etc. but I have watched the cut episodes in Japanese. Didn’t understand why the episodes with sailor Venus backstory was cut.
Now I’m just waiting for Sailor Cosmos movie to come out in Netflix, and I’m starting to read the manga!
A not so fun fact is that both sides of the Russo-Ukrainian war are using sailor moon for their propaganda. That’s how much influence sailor moon has apparently.
Wow I haven't seen any of that! Please send it my way via IG if you want. I'm curating a list of video ideas and this inspired another one.
I prefer to use their DiC and Cloverway names.
I use traditional Japanese names since those are what the author named them. 😊
The "millitant" SM fans you mention would no doubt agree. Obvously, it's become convention in the fandom. I'm for the DiC names. Somebody had to speak up so I did.
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Lol lol ha ha ha lol lol ha ha ha Sailor Moon really did fail in America. ????? 😂😅😂😅😂 ok If you say so...
Now I know why I love sailor moon came out on my birthday but I’m 5 years old thro 😂 my birthday is 7th March 🥰🥰
Happy birthday!
@@SailorSnubs thank you 🥰🥰