The Complicated Story of Sailor Moon, Saban Moon & Team Angel
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The story of Sailor Moon is a big complicated monster. The story of Sailor Moon in the United States is even more complicated.
Sailor Moon (Japanese: 美少女戦士セーラームーン, Hepburn: Bishōjo Senshi Sērā Mūn, originally translated as Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon and later as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi, a beloved anime and manga franchise that has captured the hearts of fans around the world, but its journey to international success was anything but straightforward.
Join us as we delve into the complicated history of Sailor Moon, including the troubled English dub produced by Saban and the fan-led campaign to save it known as Team Angel. From cultural differences to localization controversies, we'll explore the challenges faced by the franchise and how it has evolved over the years.
Whether you're a long-time fan or just discovering the magic of Sailor Moon, this video is a must-watch for anyone interested in the fascinating history of this iconic series.
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I was a casual fan, my fiancée a fanatic! It was always easy getting her gifts. It just had to be Sailor Moon! We spent the last days of her life at the hospital watching Sailor Moon. After her passing, I got a tattoo of Luna, her favorite character, with “Love, Erin” in her handwriting underneath as a memorial.
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I'm sorry for your loss.
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That's so sweet and sad and I love it so much I'm crying now 😭 I'm sorry for your loss but much appreciated you sharing it with us. Much love from another with loss and sailor scouts in her head 🙃
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Sailor moon gave me the love, hope, and inspiration to be the person I am today. I did not give up and commit suicide, I did not give in to negative forces, and I never give up on others. Her hope and persistence in caring about others aligns with my heart in ways that no one could ever take away from me. In the name of the moon, I will never give up!! 💕 thank you Naoko Takeuchi
Awesome story, Smush! I hope you're doing well.
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Hey Dan as a huge SM fan, just wanted to add something I saw missed in the video. Sailor Uranus and Neptune were in seasons 3-5 so it was not DiC that censored them into cousins it was Cloverway. However DiC did censor a gay relationship in season one by changing the male character Zoisite into a female character. Love the videos!
Thank you, I am such a Sailor Moon nerd that I was like wait...wasn't DIC only the first two seasons.
I was dumb.
I've never seen this show in english, it's mental! I kind of want to see it now.
@@dpc4548 First English dub actually. There are two dubs. They really tried to hide it in the first dub, so much so we didn’t even get Season 5 until the second dub released it in *2019!*
And in the end they didn't even want to release Stars. I remember needing to pirate that from different relay chats. Glad it's available now.
Here in Poland, Sailor Moon was known as "Sorceress from the Moon" ("Czarodziejka z Księżyca") and it was huge. I was big fan of it. I watched all 200 episodes. I had 19 years and I wrote to my teacher I can not to come to the morning lessons beacuse I have to watch the show i missed yeasterday. Teachar said it was the fair reason and left me free. From that time I had a nickname "Czarodziejka z Księżyca" 😀
That’s awesome. We should all have teachers like that.
Hahaha something similar happened to me in Malaysia. Back then anime that was aired were exclusively the dubbed versions, either in English or Mandarin with Malay subs. It normally aired on the weekends back to back with Dragonball, and everyone was happy in this arrangement... until the major network decided to change the airing time to Friday evening. The problem with that is many kids attended religious classes after the normal primary school hours, and we couldn't watch Sailor Moon anymore. I noticed that truancy picked up as well. Then the network switched the airing back to weekends and everything was okay again 😂
Question: Were Neptune and Uranus' relationship changed?
@@octozombie_stan yeah they were "cousins"
We had the original Japanese audio but with Polish voiceover, so I'm sure there were some mistranslations
And probably certain scenes were cut out
What a nice teacher though!
This came up in my recommendations after Ray Mona's video. As of yesterday the full pitch piloit for the ToonMakers Sailer Moon aka Saban Moon has been found and can be watched on TH-cam.
The Saban moon pilot and music video have be found by Ray Mona Incase anyone is interested. It is a great two part documentary.
I'd watch Sailor Moon every weekday morning at 6am before going to High School. My friends would give me crap about me being a guy watching a cartoon about super hero girls in sailor suits but after watching a few episodes, they were doing it as well! They'll always be a special place for Sailor Moon and how it help me develop my love for Anime!
Same for me brother. Before DBZ there was sailor moon.
Respect! I'm a dude who effing love this series... and no shame about it.
@@hbkx5 Same here. For me Sailor Moon told more of a story than just fighting all week like in DBZ
Kev! How have you been?
Me too! Sci-Fi Anime week was what got me to notice, but Sailor Moon got me into anime hook, line, and sinker. I still remember buying the Sailor Moon fighting game at an anime import store and modifying my SNES to play it!
Shout to all my SOS (Save Our Sailors) ex-pats! Stings a little to know we really moved the needle very little...still felt good at the time to think the efforts did something, even if I had moved on to VHS fansubs by the time it got to USA/Toonami....but for anyone that remembers the US broadcast, that cliffhanger with Rubeus was almost as bad as waiting for Goku to get to Namek...
Holy Hades, I totally forgot about SOS. I was on that site constantly. And I agree about the Rubeus cliffhanger. I had to know what happened, so I bought a terrible bootleg of the whole Sailormoon R series off eBay lol. Good times.
Remember when we were all supposed to buy pop tarts?
@@briangaron7609 I still don't understand what Pop Tarts had to do with Sailor Moon....
@@blackphoenix77 it didn't really, but SOS made a call that we should all by Pop-Tarts lol
I remember SOS. I contacted some of those guys back in the day.
I'm one of those veterans as well.
Just watched Ray Mona's doc, I can't believe she found the pilot!
I hope Dan Larson could make a follow up video (maybe a interview with Ray Mona, & Rocky Solotoff) about the American live-action/animated Sailor Moon, and the Saint Seiya American animation. Maybe Toy/Secret Galaxy should do a video (also with Ray Mona in it) talking about the Renaissance-Atlantic/Toei deal and could explain why Sailor Moon, & Saint Seiya was selected for American Animation pilot adaptation. I mean Toy/Secret Galaxy is already knee deep in anime/Japanese pop culture so why not do a follow up video on that.
ooh man, you put our italian commercial for the dolls.... that's so awesome! The girl in the spot, if you like the trivia, was just the host of the tv afternoon kids show at that time... Sailor moon and 2/3 others cartoons were included in that afternoon format. You bring back a lost memory, thanks Dan!
Dude! I grew up in Italy and I remember that commercial so vividly. This episode was great, even I am more of a Cavalieri dello Zodiaco guy.
I was wondering why an adult was selling a doll commercial...unless that's just how it goes in Italy! I've never seen the live action commercial break shown before that one, either, hope those are on youtube...
@@HandofOmega Most of the times in 90's italy, when we didn't redub foreign commercials for toys, we had some TV hosts to promote the toys, like in this case with the same girl who at the time hosted the kid's show where the cartoon was shown. And even during the said program there was a little break when the hosts played and showed live the toys to the kids audience. Unfortunatlly this kind of format died out right after the first 2000's
When I saw that CM (commercial) featured in the video the first thing I had in mind was "A Sailor Moon Jumbo Machinder?"
@@HandofOmega the live action one before the toy commercial was exclusive to the North American airing of the show, so it makes sense, but yeah.
Because of how the internet was becoming a thing when this aired, this was one of the first anime where a good portion of the US viewers were aware of just how much it was edited and censored as we were watching it for the first time and, while the practice of excessively "adapting" anime for western television audiences never entirely went away, I think this changed the game and ensured that something on the level of Macross/Robotech wouldn't really fly anymore. Still, as altered as it was, we ate it up because Sailormoon and DBZ were just about it for anime on TV at the time (except for the occasional treats like the Sci-Fi channel's Anime Week).
I still remember how big of a deal it was when Toonami started marketing the Lost Episodes of season 2. I was certain I was at home every day when those aired.
I'm glad someone remember Sci fi networks Anime and even the Sunday morning Anime. Couldn't belive that it was also on KQED.
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Nah, if you're talking about California it was actually KTEH 54 I believe out of San Jose. That was a truly amazing channel that would show stuff like cultural cat girl nuku nuku, dirty pair flash bubblegum crisis and even an exceptionally pristine print of evangelion. Sadly sometime in the early 2000s they stopped but those memories linger with me forever.
I remember it was a herculean task to find anime in those days. Oh the memories!
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In those days you would grab onto anything you could find. Bootleg VHS, laser disc,VCD whatever you could find. DVD's were a revelation, once you could get a sub and dub on a single piece of media those were good times.
This is *the* most important franchise in my life. I would not be the person I am today without Sailor Moon. Well done on this retrospective!
Same 😭
Please explain how.
Same
Same
SAME!!!!!!!🤩😍
I'm a 41 year old man and I have no shame to admit that I've loved the original Sailor Moon anime since the mid 90' and that the Viz DVDs are my pride and joy of my anime collection.
I'm a 45 year old fan, with zero recognition about what "shame" even means! All I truly do recognize is that I simply LOVE SAILOR MOON with every possible watch of it whenever I can get my hungry eyes on! This is DEFINITELY my all time personal FAVORITE ANIME, (especially with the DiC adaptation, due to its awesome soundtrack and it was my first initial exposure to who/what SAILOR MOON was in the mid 90's... even own the first 2 seasons... and yes, I'm a straight, man, thank you!!!). This is right up there with the DRAGONBALL franchise, as a second close FAVORITE ANIME!!! Good stuff and cheers to you, Dan!!!
Still have mine too. Got the sub when they first came out. Was awesome to see the longer version of Day of Destiny
Right on, like what you like with no shame!
I'm 31 and I loved it too. Though I personally prefer the DiC dub, the Viz voice-acting just sounds too "formal" and one-note to me(Nephrite's death scene is totally ruined by the one-dimensional performance of Molly's VA, she just sounds bored).
As an OG Sailor Moon fan, I’d like to thank you for this resource to explain to newer fans why this is all so complicated. Also thank you for using the right names and terminology!! Great video! 💖🌙✨
While I'm not the biggest nut for Sailor Moon (I'm way more of a mecha otaku than a mahou-shoujo otaku), my inner 13-year old always giggles in glee when new Sailor Moon media is announced.
@@andrejg4136 Yeah, i'm still waiting for a true english dub of the Stars. Everything I found fandubbed stopped short, i've seen it subbed but still part of me was hoping Eternals would cover the last of the series.
What's wrong with Sailor Scouts ? Genuinely curious.
@@abhirao8582 Dic came up with that term when they were Americanizing the show, I’m pretty sure Naoko herself has stated herself that they’re the sailor guardians
@@andersjofficial it is dubbed already. It was done by Viz and is currently being sold.
The full Saban Moon pilot episode is now on TH-cam. I still recommend that you watch this whole video fully.
TH-cam Channel - Ray Mona
Video Title - Finding Saban Moon: The Western World of Sailor Moon (Part 2)
Video Length - 2:07:51
Pilot Episode Segment - "Chapter 10", from 1:43:50 to 1:56:40
Sorry Toy Galaxy, I hope you don't mind me posting this here.
I remember being a freshman in high school when this came out and one day when I came home and saw my little sister was watching it I was hooked. Eventually I had all my buddies hooked on the show too.
Did you watch it by lantern light?
The Monarch, Little Wizard, The Fire Dept... good company 🖖😉🤙
The canceled American Sailor moon will always be a truly fascinating enigma to me.
It's an interesting piece of history to look back on for sure. Back when things were done a very particular way and luckily a way that has gone away with the rise of things like Hulu and Netflix and other streaming platforms. I'm glad we got the version of sailor moon we got even if it is pretty unbearable to watch now. I can only imagine what things would have been like in the timeline where the live action westernized version of sailor Moon was popular.
Glad we never have to find out.
Yeah, I remember finding out about American Sailor Moon within days of the cancelled Lupin VIII pilot (which if it had been made, everyone would have said Cowboy Bebop was a ripoff of it), & it was apparently going to be aired in America long before the Lupin III series made its way to Toonami, & after they scrapped it, they took a few concept's from it & recycled it into Inspector Gadget. Well, we actually got to see the Lupin Pilot with no voices, but the full American Sailor Moon pilot is an intriguing piece of Lost Media.
Kissing cousins 🙃 omg when haruka said : I only listen to this talk in bed with you 😍 and the sub was like : I like chocolate 😆
Watch the Japanese live-action.
We were sad as kids because you know we totally didn’t get a chance to fully understand why they canceled it. Another thing I think they should’ve kept the Japanese names so the kids could pronounce it because if you hear the pronunciation they weren’t too hard for children to pronounce them in their native tongue. So I think America kind of messed that up now it’s a little hard for me to get my head to work with saying her Japanese name and that’s the 90s kids and me that’s struggling till this day. But I still love sailor moon regardless of the voice actor change, I watch the live action and it was cringe but I still loved it either way.
It may be defunct, but the DiC dub is how a lot of people my age got into Sailor Moon. While it is very cringe today, if it weren't for "Serena" and "Molly" and all of the DiC-ified characters, I wouldn't have gotten into the fandom, learned all the Japanese things that had been cut or changed (Zoisite ISN'T a woman?!), or been willing to rent a laserdisc player to watch the unsubtitled laserdiscs I could rent from a niche comic shop near where I lived. Sailor Moon was my gateway anime, and remains one of my favorites to this day - especially because of the life it took on outside of the anime and manga. The musicals are some of my favorite things, and I forked out the cash to see Sailor Moon Live when it came to DC pre-COVID. That is one of the best experiences ever for me!
Yeah it's a weird thing with DIC, as a company I absolutely hate their guts and will never respect them in any significant way but for the single reason of bringing something to the attention of people that otherwise probably wouldn't have I will give them that, and only that.
Also what they did with knights of the zodiac was a complete atrocity.
Complete and utter garbage.
Sailor Moon was possibly the first anime I ever saw specifically aimed at girls. The video stores only had dubbed censored anime for young children from the 70s (Unico, Piccolino no Bouken, Kashi no Ki Mokku, Fushigi no Kuni no Alice, Oz no Mahoutsukai, Gurimu Meisaku Gekijou, Anderson Douwa Ningyo Hime, Sekai Meisaku Douwa Hakuchou no Ouji, Sekai Meisaku Douwa Hakuchou no Mizuumi), & anime for adult men (All the most popular ero action horror scifi animes of the 80s).
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Yeah it always blows my mind how the adult stuff actually got a lot more traction in the late mid to late 90s then any other time I can remember or have heard about historically. Then again thanks to things like toonami the whole industry was changing. Cable made anime much more viable and then it had been on network. And as iconic as Sailor Moon is now it flopped pretty bad on network TV. And considering how they scheduled it yeah I'm not surprised.
Jadeite, Neflite, Zoicite and Kunsite, or the 4 Heavenly Kings, are all male because they were originally Prince Endymion's guard, just like the inner senshi are to Princess Serenity, who just like the Prince and princess, were all Lovers, Jadeite with Mars, Neflite with Mercury, Zoicite with Jupiter and Kunsite with Venus. There's actually an official art poster of them together
@@The_Borderline_Otaku_Guy Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoisite, and Kunzite are indeed Endymion's guards in the manga - he even has the crystals of their essences (I love that Naoko named nearly all her villains after minerals, gems, crystals, and metals) that he consults at times. In the '92 anime, this was not the case. There are hints of it in one episode where Mamoru and Nephrite - as Sanjouin Masato - have a momentary recognition, but that could also just be a flash of memory from battling recently. Zoisite and Kunzite were portrayed as in a romantic relationship in the '92 anime, with Zoisite being the more 'feminine' partner - hence how much easier it was for DiC to change his gender for the dub and not have it seem at odds with the art. The original art poster that shows the senshi and the shitennou together was originally just that - a poster showing a what-if. The pairings (Jadeite/Mars, Nephrite/Jupiter, Zoisite/Mercury, Kunzite/Venus) weren't made anime canon until Crystal back in 2015. The SeraMyu from the 90s follow these pairings, however, beginning with the very first Myu, which sees the return of Beryl and the shitennou after their supposed defeat at the end of the first series. Minako meets a boy named "Saito-kun", and he introduces the other girls to his three friends, the group goes to a carnival/amusement park, and Usagi feels left out, because she does not remember Mamoru as her boyfriend (the girls lost their memories when reborn, just like at the start of R in the anime). Though in the Myu, Nephrite blames Naru for his death last time around, because his weakness for her is what got him killed by Zoisite (ew, but given how Beryl revived them, it makes sense in the story). At the end, both Beryl and the Shitennou are destroyed again by the senshi.
Personally, I prefer the '92 interpretation, because it gives Beryl's henchmen/generals a life beyond the Earth Kingdom, and it was one of the early semi-positive portrayals of a gay couple people were exposed to. Yes, they were villains, but that even villains could have love and relationships, grieve, and (in the case of Kunzite/Malachite) be so completely devastated by the death of their partner and the lack of ability to mourn properly that they became irrational was groundbreaking. Things that people in real life dealt with and had to hide being shown on a "cartoon" of all things was impressive to an American teenager who was just starting to question her own sexuality, and had no real representation on television.
Two minor corrections: Uranus and Neptune didn't debut until the third series, which means their "cousin" status was Cloverway's decision, not DIC's. Also, the Viz unedited release was preceded by a box set of the first two seasons subtitled by AD Vision, though the quality of the masters used was notoriously lacking.
Great retrospective, in any case.
Also, two episodes were excised from those boxed sets for reasons Toei didn't make entirely clear. Theeeen, for equally unexplained reasons, Toei systematically took back all US rights for a brief period. There have been rumors on why this happened, but I just remember that companies like ADV weren't allowed to talk about it.
@@Forysan Yep, I wasn't going to go there as I didn't want to get overly critical (and if you have not seen the episodes, I can say it's at least fairly obvious that they don't really fit the continuity very well, to put it gently :D). I watched the original Japanese broadcasts more or less as they came out, so it's been quite interesting to see all the things that happened since those days in a retrospective. XD
@@Forysan Hell you got me interested in it now, so why did it happen, what were the rumors?
@@Forysan for the part that Toei took back the series rights out of the US, it wasn't just the US but other parts of the world too and Toei was concentrating all its efforts for the PGSM Tokusatsu show that they made during 2003, but why they did that for the sake of that show is still unknown to this day.
I love this series, even if as young boy I was made fun of for liking such "girly stuff": memorable characters, iconic designs, good stories. While Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya and Fist of the North Star were my main gateway to anime, Sailor Moon also left a huge mark on me and was a huge influence in my own (amateur) creative works.
LOL same, but the joke was on those making fun of me. I also enjoyed reading my sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley books and felt zero guilt in doing so.
Made for girls but was very popular with young boys in America, nearly countless attempts to westernize it that ended in failure while the original production was still superior. It really was a Shojo's Bizarre Adventure.
I see what you did there…
Got to give you a like for that one
To Be Continued... 😏
I remember sending an angry email to 4kids about their Card Captor Sakura dub. I got an actual human response saying they were marketing the show towards boys. God they ruined that show....
@@LikaLaruku boys still would have ate that show up. But girl focused action shows are still a hard sell to network execs a lot of the time.
DIC added a "Sailor Moon Says" segment with an educational message at the end of each episode, as was the style of the time. Once, they included footage in it that they cut out of the episode... the baby episode in the Doom Tree arc had the baby they were taking care of pee on Ann, and they used that to discuss the difficulties of taking care of younger siblings.
I remember that! I'd be like... wtf?! That wasn't in the episode. I think that was the start of hunting down the unedited material.
LOL, I remember that to this day! The episode didn't contain this scene at all, probably because it was so gross, and then BAM! Pee in the face in the educational segment, lol! I bet they knew the censors were less likely to watch the "recap" bit.
The "Sailormoon Says" segment was a requirement for it to be aired on network TV. All cartoons must pass on something educational (that is still the law).
@@thecouchpotatocom And that killed cartoons as we knew them
@@pilot8220 But it also gave us Knowing Is Half The Battle, so, overall a win?
I remember when Fox aired the first episode of Sailor Moon R (testing the waters for potential airing, I guess); I was hooked immediately. The show started airing in syndication after school; I was so mad when it got cancelled! Wizard Magazine did an article about the cancellation and I wrote them a letter; they actually sent me a Sailor Moon card set (the same one seen at 19:10, I think) and it is still one of my treasured possessions to this day. Needless to say, I was over the moon (pun intended) when Toonami aired the remaining episodes.
Yeah the late 90s were so weird when it came to sailor Moon. You had both dubbed and subbed versions edited and non-edited versions it got real confusing real quick and they did that with a lot of anime that also happened to air on TV. DBZ was especially notorious for that. I distinctly remember for the last couple decades seeing huge stacks of the VHS tapes of the edited for TV versions of DBZ and probably the movies and everything else. And also things like yu-yu Hakusho.
I remember that sneak peak. Funny thing: that same day (at least in my region) the Dragonball: Curse of The Blood Rubies movie was broadcast for the first time.
I know this is primarily about the anime and its distribution/adaptation, but just want to say the manga is legitimately amazing and everyone should check it out now that good translations are available. It gets downright surreal and experimental at times with its paneling.
Is it a single manga or are there multiple ones?
@@TaimatCR it has 18 volumes in total
@@TaimatCR The newer editions come in 10 volumes and also 12 volumes
The best part of the manga is it also explains a lot of what drives the scouts personally beyond just "Sailor Moon" which even Sailor Moon Eternal does a poor job of showing. Ami studies hard in some part because of her mixed feelings about her father who was a well known yet shifless painter who divorced her surgeon mother and who she sees as somewhat lazy. Makoto/Lita's parents died when she was young and that's part of why she is so passionate about creating this home and family with her friends (cooking, baking, etc). Sailor Mars is a totally different person etc
@@darlagoddesshate Yeah it was weird finding out about Mars- the director of the anime just decided to turn her into his ideal woman (a grumpy sarcastic girl, lol) whereas in the manga she's this kind of stoic, ethereal figure who keeps everyone at length.
🎶 "Finding figures by daylight.
Making videos by moonlight.
Nevernind running from a real fight
He is the one name Sailor Larson."
I thought he was Tuxedo Dan.
Technically, the "cousins" thing was the Cloverway dub, though DiC definitely did censor some relationships (most notably Kunzite/Zoisite) as well as warping friendly bickering into catty rivalries that barely counted as friends.
I was fine with Dics female Zoisite. For one they lacked female villains besides Queen Beryl, and the main thing is the amazing performance by Kirsten Bishop (may she rest in peace) with her extra bitchy, and magnificent laughter. Loved it.
@@fiatiine____9293 She was a great character, even if she was born of censorship, but the various male Zoisites in different canons are also great.
@@fiatiine____9293 Zoisite was a female in Sweden too, the dubbing company has since claimed that they couldn't tell if it was a male or female voice (the original japanese). As a young woman (i was at least 16 when I watched it ) I never even questioned her lack of breasts ;) maybe it was because of them using the female pronuoun, the relationship with Kinzite and her transforming to fake sailor moon.....But for what it was, Zoisite was badass and girly in all her/his performance. So it worked.
Well I mean if you want to get technical, it was Optimum Productions that produced all 4 seasons (as well as the movies). DiC and Cloverway were really just the publishers. Though I'm sure they had some say in what went on during production in their respective seasons, most likely DiC more than Cloverway, in which Cloverway probably did almost nothing and just accepted whatever Optimum produced, Optimum really did the bulk of the work in the entire span of the dub.
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Same, despite the censorship attempt I actually adore female zoisite just as how much of a badass savage tomboy fighter she was.
I wouldn't be surprised if Saveli from Four Flower Languages actually kind of took some inspiration from her.
Damn, i really grateful for living in mexico when it comes to anime, we got sailor moon in 95 and we got all episodes by 99, the only bad thing was we got lots of reruns of first episodes while the new were brought over. But no censorship nor ridiculous changes. My sympathy goes to US fans on your very late introduction to pure true anime.
Agreed, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Magic Knight Rayearth, Saint Seiya, just to name a few, but pretty much most anime were a success in Mexico and Latin America, the only censored one I recall was Ranma 1/2, the first episode was uncensored, but I guess it backfired.
Same in Brazil! We got the original anime and merchandise with no censorship. 🙂
Although it did take 4 years after the first season for the later episodes with Neptune and Uranus to air on TV.
This was the series that got me into anime, back when our options were either this or DBZ. To this day, it’s still one of the only series I enjoy going back and rewatching.
ditto. DBZ and SM were the first anime I watched in the early 90's but it was Sailor that did it for me (primarily because DBZ was dubbed in English by locals which made it sound awkward but SM was done in our native language). Then came Magic Knight Rayearth and Ranma and I was hooked!
@@jaives I'll assume it was in the Philippines, yes?
@@christiandacanay3086 was it that obvious?😆
@@jaives yup. I grew up woth that too since I was born in the Philippines too. I even remember the 1st season having a Tagalog version of Moonlight Densetsu and a then unknown Angelika Dela Cruz dubbing Usagi in the 1st season before she made it big.
@@christiandacanay3086 loved that version. also cute that they named her Bunny Tsukino since that's still her name is japanese for "rabbit" anyway.
To this day, I still wish we could have seen more of Naoko’s true vision for Sailor Moon.
Crystal and the live action series definitely gave her a chance to re-explore her original vision. The live action series is definitely not shy about killing off characters as she intended in the beginning.
As a kid in the late 90s and early 2000s, Sailor Moon and Powerpuff Girls were the shows that made me realize that cartoons and stories with female protagonists could be amazing. The drama, the personalities, the story, the action; they were surprisingly adult compared to even most shows for boys at the time. Sailor Moon is still one of my favorite anime to this day and I love the manga so much.
"Something to think about...on her way to work in her porsche!" OUCH, that burn is worthy of Sailor Mars!
You legit have the best "history of" shows... so good! Thanks Dan and the rest of the team!
I know Dan is awesome!
And now the Saban Moon pilot has been found…
It's hard to describe just how popular these shows were in 1998 and 1999. It felt like each episode was event viewing and you would talk about it the next day at school.
I'm 40yrs old and those fart noises still get me every time. It's the simple things i appreciate. 🤷♂
I love Sailor Moon. I haven't finished Sailor Stars, and I don't know why I haven't, but I've watched all of Sailor Moon two or three times. Makoto, or "Lita", will always be my girl. I was hyped for Sailor Moon Crystal when it was announced, but I think the original was better and I'm not saying that just because of nostalgia. Speaking of magical girl series that got changed *a lot* when they were brought over here, Cardcaptor Sakura would make for an interesting episode if it hasn't been covered already.
I watched Anime America's review and comparison of the 90s anime vs crystal and the conclusion was that you basically need to alternate between shows for every other season to get the best viewing experience. I kinda think they're right but I'm gonna keep watching all of it anyway.
I'm with you I haven't finished sailor stars either but I will eventually!!!
Same. Since Sailor Stars was never shown on TV where I love, there was no nostalgia factor to that series.
@@LikaLaruku It's not that I don't like Sailor Stars, I just haven't got around to finishing it even though I've probably only got 10 episodes to go.
Sailor Stars is not an optimal adaptation of the Shadow Galactica arc, no eternal senshi, no sailor asteriod save, the non anima mate senshi don't get that much screen time, and most importantly no Sailor Cosmos, also Toei made Three Lights into guys when the were originally girls all the time, Takeuchi-sensei didn't like that either, this is why I preffer Crystal over the original and now even more so with the Eternal movies, the only problem I have with Crystal is the animation for the henshin in the 1st season, and that they didn't adapt the outer senshi bgm's in the Death Busters arc, but I did like how they adapted Tuxedo Mask's Tuxedo La Smoking Bomber, though
The Porsche joke may be one of your best edits ever. Also, as a product of the American school system, I have no idea how tall 43 cm is, but based on that ad, it must be kaiju-sized.
It's ~1/3,727th of a mile or 4 & 1/4 hands if you prefer.
It's like 17" which is much less exciting.
I remember when the DIC dub first started airing it was coming on at 5:30 am on our local fox channel. Way too early for me to want to get up to watch it. Later on when the show was airing on Toonami, a different local station apparently still had the rights to broadcast the DIC episodes and aired them on weekends; It made me feel lucky cause I got to watch the show more often than my friends online at the time did lol. It's still one of my absolute favorite anime.
Same. Though sometimes I was up early enough to watch some episodes since I had to be in school by 715.
I remember watching it on USA Network in 1994. Came on right as I was getting home from Jr. high school. I'd practically kick the door down, throw my shit, & be glad that everyone else was at work & not trying to distract me.
@@raullukebenitez7033 that early makes me think of marching band!
I've always loved Sailor Moon, still do. It's a good show.
Same. It's been my favorite show since my preteen years.
Plus, it's kind of shocking to know how this manga and anime first came out around the time my mom was the same as I am now.
Dan not wearing a Tuxedo Mask costume?? Guess I should be happy he passed on wearing a Sailor Moon get-up.
To be honest either would have been good but the tuxedo mask outfit would have been less comedic
He could have dressed like Artemis. 😹
The fact that they changed Uranus and Saturn from lovers to cousins was SO weird because it created all these moments where it was like "THEY'RE COUSINS WHY ARE THEY SO WEIRDLY CLOSE"
Neptune.
@@Guardian_Blues ikr
Neptune, NEPTUNE!!! Saturn is the seventh-grader turned baby at the end of S! Oh, GOD! THE IMAGE!!!! MY EYES!!!
I found it funny that they changed Uranus and Neptune into cousins...BUT didn't edit out the romantic scenes between them.
In Germany her name is Bunny Tsukino, just to make sure kids got it.
That's her name in the Philippine dubs as well. Weirdly they kept the Japanese names of the other characters.
@@lipstickzombie4981 yeah so did we. We pronounced it kinda english in some cases. Rei was Ray and Ami was Amy.
Same in Poland. We had original voice actots with lector. How it was in Germany?
Cowboy Bepop is critically the best anime I've ever seen and yet Sailor Moon is my favorite show of all time. It held such a huge place in my heart growing up and I'm still a fan today. Videos like these help me to appreciate the show even more as I find out what it took to get SM to be such a global success.
I remember when I first saw Sailormoon on TV in 1997. I was pregnant with my first child. I was instantly hooked. All I can say is DiC had horrible dubs of Sailormoon and went way overboard with censoring episodes. I laughed when Uranus and Neptune were "cousins". Oh please. I was happy when I was able to get uncensored episodes later on.
Remember, Jupiter has the most 'talent'. Yeah sure, that's one way of putting it.
@@atiredfloridian777 Right? You know who really annoyed me was Chibiusa. The VA's voice just got on my nerves. I will nevertheless understand why her name was changed to Rini.
To be fair, it was among the first Amine to get imported and dub. I saw Sailormoon around 1995. It was different. Of course, being a teen at the time, it was just another show. Plus Uranus and Neptune and the rest didn't make an appearance until the later season. They were running the first season on rerun. I didn't know about the censoring or that the show was WAY longer than what they show on TV until the 2010s.
I remember laughing so hard back in the day having seen all of the episodes when the whole "cousins" thing came around, turned a lesbian relationship into an incestious one. Good job!
@@teax25 It absolutely was not among the first anime to get imported and dubbed, there are multiple shows that beat it to that by a couple decades.
I watched one episode of Sailor Moon way back in 1997 on the USA Network and I was hooked immediately. It was the DiC dub but I didn't care because there was a charm to the series that grabbed me instantly. I'm 41 years old and I still watch the show.
I remember reading a retrospective of the series in a magazine (back when those existed, I'm old) and the article casually mentioned Zoisite was actually a man.
"WHO'S A WHAT NOW?!?!"
"With those cheekbones and jawline?"
A man.
"And the little rosebud earrings?"
A man.
"WHO PUT ON A SAILOR MOON COSTUME TO IMPERSONATE HER?!"
YES DUDE, "SHE" WAS A DUDE! Get over it, me!
"Everything is lies!!"
Yep, once you find out how much is changed your mind is blown and never the same again.
I mean you knew that things were going to get changed but it was like a literal laundry list of changes small big and everything in between.
The "everything is lies" was figuring out the difference between Super Sentai and Power Rangers in 2004 for me.
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Yeah that's a good one.
It's amazing just how far down the super sentai rabbit hole goes.
Especially when you find out about all those other shows made with existing footage. Big bad beetleborgs, VR troopers ect. I mean Saban really went to town when they found a winning formula.
Don't forget that the mangaka started with a book of Sailor V about Venus in England instead of Sailor Moon. They both have very similar plot, and that's why both Venus and Moon are like twin characters.
Sailor V has never been to England in the "Codename: Sailor V" manga. Sailor V has only been to England in the original anime.
Oh man. I remember seeing the footage of the canceled "Saban Moon" at Fanime years ago. You should have heard the cries of terror in the theater. XD
My girlfriend got me into Sailor Moon. The S Season was my favorite with Sailor Jupiter as my favorite character. I will say the Sailor Stars season was crazy. Dragon Ball Z ain't got nothing on Sailor Moon's western changes.
I was in 10th grade when the show came out, and taking computer network tech classes, and we had one girl in our class, I was already a big Anime fan, but I had no idea about Sailor Moon, but the girl in our class had the computer next to mine, and I saw her looking up stuff about it one day when we all had free time, and it got me hooked on the show, but you ain't kidding about all the changes that were made to Sailor Moon, and most of them were just downright stupid AF!!!
The scouts got kidnapped to the Negaverse at the end of the first season and changing Uranus and Neptune to cousins. Those are pretty bad changes
Ah yes! Sailor Moon! One of (and still) the most popular anime of all time.
I was hoping the commercial you would use was the one drilled into my mind "The Negaverse is trying to drown the planet"
Precures is not only Smile precures. That’s just one season. They have been going since 2004 and have one new season featuring all new cast each year, plus movies with mixed season characters. It is another big franchise in Japan that follows sailor moon formula.
Your video is very interesting and informative. I certainly didn’t know of the Teen Angel bit. Thanks
Well, the Mobile Suits had their fun. Now it's The Sailor Senshi's turn!
I've met many of the original DiC dub voice actors at Fan Expo in Toronto over the years, they were all so nice in person
So far I’ve only met Susan Roman (Jupiter), and even then a role of hers I asked about was Snowy the dog on The Adventures of TinTin!
I've met her, I've also met Stephanie Morgenstern (Venus #1), Tracey Hoyt (Rini #1), Roland Parliament (Melvin), the late Kirsten Bishop (Zoicite/Emerald), Toby Proctor (Tuxedo Mask #2), Rob Tinkler (Rubeus) and Loretta Jafelice (Diana)
Oh yeah, Mars & Moon were so great to me. Mars told me I gave her chills when I talked about the finale of Season 1, and we agreed that girls were way too mean about Mars at first, haha. "I used to HATE YOU when I was younger, but now I realize...".
Sailor Moon was such a hit in México back the day, that some cable channels still air it in 2022 and it's still a nostalgia rush.
I remember posting on the Save Our Sailors website back in the early 2000's. Back then, I would go on eBay and buy VCD's of Sailor Moon recorded off of Japanese TV. They called them "fan subs". I spent way too much money on Sailor Moon stuff back then.
Between Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z, they really exemplified the evolution of anime in the US.
Both started out as heavily censored anime hiding things be it blood, villain genders, or the concept of death itself.
Both got their start in syndication, then their second arc's productions get cut off midseason for no reason which makes sense.
Then Toonami essentially is the springboard to bring them both back.
Both encountered "unique" initial dubs and now have dubs closer to the original.
And both series are still going strong decades later with Sailor Moon Eternal and Dragon Ball Super!
Sailor Moon is similar and connected to another 1970's Manga/Anime creation, that being the lesser known "Cutie Honey" series. Both series have a female protagonist who can "magically" change in order to fight horrific enemy monsters. In fact, the 1990's "Cutie Honey" series, "Cutie Honey Flash" employed many of the same artists/animators who had also worked on "Sailor Moon;" one of the most obvious similarities is the transformation sequences of Cutie Honey and of Sailor Moon.
Adding to that, Cutey Honey Flash aired on the same timeslot after Sailor Moon Sailor Stars' finale a week after in Japan.
@@christiandacanay3086 cool. thanks for that little tid-bit. I once heard or read that Cutey Honey and Sailor Moon are supposed to be within the same universe, but I don't know how accurate that actually is.
@@skyden24195 I don't think that one is even true that they are in the same universe, since I don't see any references to CH in Sailor Moon.
@@christiandacanay3086 that would make sense. Its' likely the rumor of them being of the same universe stemmed from the similarity of their transformations.
As one of the few Americans that watched it at early hours of the morning before school, thank you for making this 🤗
Toy Galaxy is such a great channel that I watch their videos even when I have no point of reference to the topics. Love this channel.
This dude I knew in college was obsessed with this show. He dressed up as Tuxedo Mask for Halloween one year. I enjoyed the few episode I've seen well enough, just not enough to get really invested in it.
When I was in line for an Anime Expo held at Disneyland of all places. The girl behind me launched into a long and detailed history of Sailor Moon with her friend. I wish I had her passion for the property.
Tuxedo Mask is STILL the biggest pimp in anime. 😎
@@Loremastrful an Anime Expo at Disneyland?! That's epic. Is it still happening there to this day?
I did that at an anime convention here in Toronto.
The first time I saw Sailor Moon was the commercials. Never saw it when it was original airing.
I first saw the show in 2nd grade, after an educational video about sea life ended and started showing Sailor Moon in Japanese.
The teacher thought about turning it off, but we (the students) begged them not too and got to watch it.
I didn't get to watch the whole episode however, as I had to my special reading tutor at time. :(
I still get sad about when I look back. :(
In latin America it aired ALMOST without any kind of censorship, keeping the blood, the "nudity" and Uranus and Neptune relationship and it was a crazy hit. The ALMOST is because they made the villain Zoicite a woman (just by making him being dubbed by a woman) because of his romance with another male villain, and they made the same thing later with the flamboyant male-crazy Fish Eye on Sailor Moon SuperS.
I’m a huge sailor moon fan, and you video it’s amazing. Usually SM gets too deep into the storyline of the show and not enough into the production story. Congrats good job 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Sailor Mercury was my first anime crush. I think it was the blue hair.
When I was getting ready for school in the 90s sailor Moon was one of the few shows that was on in the morning that I would watch. It felt a little weird being a dude watching it but I didn't care.
I never understood why guys were insecure watching Sailor Moon. I'd rather look at pretty girls in skimpy skirts than a bunch of sweaty dudes in spandex underwear rolling around in a ring (WWF/WWE) lol made no sense to me imo lol
I first caught the DIC dub on one of the Canadian channels I could tune into during my sojourn in the frozen north. Yes, a straight white American male, watching a show targeted for girls - and I wasn't the only one. Sailor Moon scratched an itch my fellows and I developed after discovering Ronin Warriors, and persisted after that show was cancelled and replaced with Rush Limbaugh. Because it aired a couple hours after school actually started, we found it while on break, and developed a carefully crafted system of playing hooky and recording episodes on VHS, exchanging these tapes so our whole crew could copy them and watch the full series. This eventually led to our meeting of a military brat who had AN ENTIRE BEDROOM full of bootleg VHS anime he'd brought home from Japan... And thus, my otaku journey began in earnest. Were it not for five pretty soldiers fighting evil by moonlight, the life I know now would probably never have happened. So, thank you DIC, Canada, and all my friends back in Stanwood. Thank you Japan, and all you creators and producers who worked so hard to bring us this wonderful series. And thank you, Toy Galaxy, for letting us relive some beautiful memories. See you at the con. 🌙😎🌙
Haven't watched the video yet. But just read a great piece that covered the attempted US remake and Team Angel. Really fascinating stuff.
That being said, Sailor Moon will always remind me of middle school. I know the original US dubbing and editing is widely hated. But it's what got me through those mornings not really wanting to go to school. I don't really remember how the show was broadcast seasons wise. I remember S2 airing in some form. But I never got pass the first part of that season as I think I started to realize alot of the episodes were filler. Recently watched Crystal and it was a better paced viewing experience. It was also nice to finally finish the story
One last thing. I know the popular view is that the show was most popular with girls and I don't doubt that. But I remember alot of my buddies watching it as well. So it has it's fair share of boy viewers.
(11:29) Little known fact: General Mills offered to sponsor Sailor Moon when the show started out in syndication, but DiC said, "No thanks!" A decision DiC would regret in late 1995 when they couldn't find their target audience and pulled the plug as a result. (13:41) Loyal fans were so devastated, they wrote letters to local TV stations to resurrect SM. (14:20) DiC brought back the show on one condition: they had to let General Mills distribute the show. (14:48) Without General Mills, there wouldn't have been those last 17 episodes American viewers wanted...and no Toonami either.
I'm beginning to think someone in the high command of General Mills was secretly a SM fan (or fans)... hence why they offered to advertise on the show.
@@christiandacanay3086 same treatment was given for shows like Garfield and Friends, Rocky and Bullwinkle, anything from Jay Ward, the Flintstones, Bewitched, Abbott and Costello, Dennis the Menace, The Addams Family, The Munsters and other shows syndicated by General Mills long after they went off the air.
Now, the franchise met it's match, Precure
Not likely, PreCure was more of its spiritual successor.
I remember the DiC logo after each show (the one that looks out through a kid's bedroom window). The kid says "DiC", and in some Australian accents but especially in a New Zealand accent, he was saying a naughty word ... That we all repeated as much as possible! Lol
20 seconds into this video "DiC Logo History Update" on TH-cam. Lol
I was in my twenties when I first watched Sailor Moon in the mid 1990s. I loved it.
So excited you guys made a Sailor Moon episode 🥰🥰🥰
The DiC dub is trashed for the changes and I can understand that even though that was my gateway in, but let's give it some credit: it had some great songs IMO.
-"Give Me The Strength to Carry On" I prefer in the battle with Fused Beryl than just re-using the main theme.
-"Rainy Day Man" was a way to get a filler ep something memorable
-"She's Got The Power"...it's Stan "The Touch" Bush, come on.
-"The Power of Love": My favorite of the dub songs. I hold it equal to my favorite of the original language (and used in the same scene) "La Soldier".
Hard agree on everything you just said.
Minako doesn't become Sailor Venus until the end of Sailor V, which was finished... after Sailor Moon had already started.
Also, the anime had an entire filler arc in the first part of R, which allowed Takeuchi to do more stuff.
People slag on the Sailor Says things in the 90s Sailor Moon dub, but it actually had some good lessons. In the dieting ep the Sailor Says said "Starving yourself and working out til you drop isn't good. Like a car without gas, your body needs fuel to move" Years later I had gained some weight and was thinking of cutting my intake and remembered that line and it kept me from doing what has lead many to going anorexic.
I'm glad to hear that Sailor Moon managed to help you out. I hope you're doing well.
It was so hard to JUST translate and dub a show back in the day.
This is one of those rare animes in which the USA and Japanese voices are equally as good. The USA voices are nostalgic but I prefer the Japanese voices slightly more.
I remember watching that trailer at Anime Expo '94. I also remember watching Macross Plus before it was released in Japan at Anime Expo '94
8:58 'GET RICH IN THE NINETIES BABY' ... what a relatable line
Thank you!!! So many of us found ourselves in Sailor moon 🥰
IDK about the market missing out on transforming females for young girls, because I only started to watch She-Ra as a kid (in the 80s) because of my sisters. And Bionic 6 had a mom & daughter who transformed to gain super powers, along w/ their male family members. But I'll admit that Sailor Moon's the 1st female focused anime I can remember watching growing up.
Loyal fans wanted to see more Sailor Moon. General Mills and Irwin Toys listened...and delivered.
OOF I almost burst into tears after 11:10 or so where you showed Giochi Preziosi’s Italian ad. I lived through that, I owned some of its toys. Nostalgia is a powerful thing. Thank you for this thorough historical overview of the Sailor Moon franchise and origin story.
Sailor Moon was the first anime I ever saw when YTV in Canada started showing anime on the channel back in 1993 when I was 4 years old. Dragonball was second.
Being from Southeast Asia, we were introduced to Sailormoon as early as 1993, along with Magic Knight Reyearth, Wedding Peach and Akazukin Chacha.
As an Adult man, I even got into the Pretty Cure franchise and the Symphogear series sparingly, through the 2000s and the 2010s.
Since I'll assume this was Philippines, I do remember it too. There was even two dubs of Akazukin Chacha, one in English on CN, and a Tagalog one for ABS-CBN.
Well hello there fellow Southeast Asia! Same here in Indonesia; in 1987, we got Saint Seiya. in 1988, we got Doraemon. in 1992, we got Dash! Yankuro (Tamiya car racing). in 1995, we got Sailormoon. in 1996, we got Dragon Ball, Magic Knight Rayearth. And in 1998, we got Cardcaptor Sakura, Wedding Peach.
Seriously, the 90s were great times for anime fans outside Japan.
@@petirgarda1005 indeed, esp if you were outside Japan but also in Asia.
@@petirgarda1005 We however also received those lame ass Fanily Theater anime, those stupid Anime Adaptations of Western novels like the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Anne of Green Gables, The Sound of Music, Little Women, Sara and Pollyanna. Actually these were classic greats on their Original Western Novel forms. The Animê renditions were horrendous because they dumbed down a lot of things that made these stories great. And why you might ask? Because these animè renditions were targeted for Pre-schoolers, as if The Sound of Music was just for the wee 'uns. Those animé I consider garbage and was a total waste of valuable air time. Give me more Dragonball Z, Sailormoon, Sweet Tales of Saint Tail, Ranma One Half, Rurouni Kenshin, Tonde Keman, Tonde Buurin and Ghostfighter why don'tcha 😒
Love Sailor Moon OG. Been a fan almost my entire life, I still wish for a modern Sailor Moon game
Sailor Moon has a special place in my heart because back in the 90s I knew a 5 year old little red-headed girl named Katy who would explain to me the ENTIRE episode of that day's Sailor Moon in exacting details! I loved a show I never actually watched!
Awesome story! I hope that Katy's doing well.
This might be pedantic but Uranus and Neptune didn't show up until the third season of the anime, which DiC didn't do.
True, but they DID turn the one gay guy in the series into a woman, so their hands aren’t exactly clean in the LGBTQ censorship department.
Save Our Sailors. My first foray into online activism. Inspired by the campaign, I wrote a letter to Bandai. Their response was a form letter printed on Power Rangers stationary saying that they had nothing to do with the show being taken off the air, and went on to shill Power Rangers stuff. Then there were the AOL chats (Town Square - Sailor Moon, waddup), message boards, and Usenet groups that, looking back, spent way too much time in, helping to make me the socially inept weirdo I am today. LOL me!
Dan: what Koopa, you have the vhs box set of The Doom Tree Series?
Me: yes Dan, yes I do.
When it comes to anime, especially a lot of older anime, in pretty well versed in their history. Yet, I never get bored of these episodes, still learn something new. You all do such an amazing job, especially with something as dense as Sailor Moon. Thanks!
16:46 Bain Capital? Why does that name sound so famil-
*OH GODAMMIT*
If you don't mind Mr. Larson, I'd Like to say : at last! The series which opened market in Central Europe for manga and anime is on my favorite YT Channel :D I'd Like to say, that Sailor Moon in Poland was so influence, that every kid and Parent knew this pheanomen (?). And I was lucky, because in Poland we have the whole 200 episodes on TV with original Voice Cast, without dubbing. It was very magical moment for my Generation. And i think, that this series will resist the time because It's really well made with a very interesting Płot. And by US Sailor Neptun and Sailor Uranus where very good friends, not lovers, but It's advantage of 2nd of the toughest languages in the World ;) Thank You for this Materiał :D
Exactly. That were Magic Tajms. 😀
@@wojciechbem8661 Wojtek, możemy po polsku się wypowiedzieć -myśle że panu Larsonowi to nie zaszkodzi :)
Eng: Woytek, we can in Polish Here write - I think that doesn't Interrupt Mr. Larson :)
@@BluesBoySid Pewnie ('Sure'). Możemy ('We can'). Zróbmy ('Lets make') polski kącik ('polish corner') w ToyGalaxy (' in Galaktyce Zabawek') 😀
@@wojciechbem8661 Świetny pomysł :D
@@BluesBoySid Zatem jak to było u Ciebie, kolego BluesBoySid? Ja poznałem Czarodziejkę przez młodszego kolegę, który zaoferował mi pięć złotych jeśli mu narysuję Kunsaite (a potem inne postacie). Miał nagrane odcinki na video i zapoznał z serią. A że mam słabość do czarnowłosych złośliwych piękności, zobaczywszy Czarodziejkę z Marsa, wsiąkłem na amen. 😀
The Cloverway dub actually premiered in 2000. 2002 was the last time Sailor Moon aired on US television.
You know whats worse than the American Sailor Moon we almost got?
The kid friendly American Gundam we almost got.
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Saban Moon tape have been found
Hearing Irwin Toys makes me think you could tackle Gogo's Crazy Bones 🤪
I remember when I started watching this in grade school. I got picked on for it but eventually I started hearing guys talk about how much they liked it and recommending it to other guys. I'm so glad that this franchise is still alive and well. It is a huge inspiration for me and for years whenever I wanted to write but had writer's block I would write a short story in the Sailor Moon world.
While we were aware of its censorship, name changes and major ' cousin' edits- it was awesome to get it in the states. From its art, themes and overall impact on pop-culture, its an awesome experience!
I wasn't aware of that stuff until long after the show stopped airing on CN.