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Sailor Moon Community Thread: She Blinded Me With Science!
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MikeHattsu
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Episode 20 sounds good to me.
KDash31987
Member
Fred's the trap maker, though! They would never catch all of those masked villains without him!
I recommend Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated to anyone who hasn't seen it. It's really very good, although some people can't get past the rampant character assassination (example:
Fred has aspergers
Part 2: Toru Furuya (again, briefed version)
"I'm Toru Furuya - Tuxedo Mask! That sounded good, didn't it?!"
Q. Tell us about the character
He also talks about his other voice actor roles and how they kind of match up with each other as secondary characters.
And he says he feels bad that no matter how much effort and emotions he puts into a character, they never really become popular. Wow, he's modest!
Q. Any improvising in the story?
* He's referring to Sailor Moon 10.
* Naoko Takeuchi. The staff refers to her as either Takeuchi-Sensei or Sensei.
Q. A message to the Sailor Moon fans?
Didn't watch this part until today. He's so cute! When he mentions Naoko, his voice suddenly becomes really soft and sincere. His Japanese is also very old sounding (not surprisingly) and it's very funny.There is now a new season on TV (Season 2). I hope that you all stay with us for the final. I have faith in you. Goodbye, see you!
Do you guys want the end of the clip? Keiko Han as Luna.
MikeHattsu
Member
That would be good too!
Episode 20 it is.
Thanks for the Furuya interview. Yeah, do the Keiko Han one next. Weird hearing a cat voice coming out of her.
People didn't like Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated? Well I did see it and personally I thought it was pretty well-done. It was a refreshing adaptation.
Thanks for the Furuya interview. Yeah, do the Keiko Han one next. Weird hearing a cat voice coming out of her.
People didn't like Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated? Well I did see it and personally I thought it was pretty well-done. It was a refreshing adaptation.
MikeHattsu
Member
What time/day we gonna watch?
Around Halloween time. There is a Crystal episode debuting after Halloween too, so maybe like what we did last time.
Also, image of how large the DVD and the DVD/Bluray combo pack will be.
Oh, and nobody else is going to acknowledge Minako's birthday?
Also, image of how large the DVD and the DVD/Bluray combo pack will be.
Oh, and nobody else is going to acknowledge Minako's birthday?
MikeHattsu
Member
Well... Happy b-day to her then!
MikeHattsu
Member
Heh. Weird.
It's always been one of those anime rumours that Anno respected the work that went on in Sailor Moon and wanted Ikuhara on board for Eva but that might just be one of those airyfairy things like how apparently Anno went all Blue Blazes on a banpresto dood for suggesting that Evangelion wouldn't fit into SRW.
Though, honestly, I don't think there's much Ikuhara could do to make Eva even more out there. It's pretty damn cat drugs as is.
Already did on IRC/pixiv but I kinda didn't care enough (about anime birthdays or birthdays in general) to post about it everywhere I frequent. www
Hmm, I remember Hitokage telling me about the naming. Well I did find this source, but I'm not sure how reliable it is.
Ah okay. What do you mean by "www" by the way? I think I've seen you say that before. Oh and nice Halloween Usagi avatar.
I don't think that "dislike" is a common opinion. I was in a group recently and the topic of modern good American cartoons came up, and someone suggested Mystery Inc. Just about everyone agreed, but one person became livid, because that show ruined their beloved characters.
Fred has aspergers.
Shaggy is a manchild.
Velma is a bitch, first trying to make Shaggy into something he's not, then giving up on him and turning lesbo.
Daphne betrays Fred's eternal love.
Shaggy is a manchild.
Velma is a bitch, first trying to make Shaggy into something he's not, then giving up on him and turning lesbo.
Daphne betrays Fred's eternal love.
Common consensus seemed to be that Mystery Inc did take liberties with the characters, but that they were trying to make entertaining stories, and it's okay if some people can't handle the changes. We'll just be quiet about how awesome Mystery Inc is while the upset people are within earshot.
Sorry, I try to avoid using it in English but sometimes it slips like a bad habit.
And thank you! You guys won't use Halloween-ifyed avatars?
『新世紀エヴァンゲリオン』の綾波レイの名前のモデルは火野レイからである[4]。
Rei Hino's Wiki page confirms it, actually. The one you linked is a translated version of the original source.
MikeHattsu
Member
Can you explain to me how sad that number is?
(Not sure how fair it would be to compare to Free though, since that's just top fanservice for whoever likes half-naked anime men with muscles.)
MikeHattsu
Member
Is it really that sad? Many people might be waiting for the regular BD release next month or are special editions usually the majority of sales?
I said screw it and just ordered the limited edition of Vol. 1, I wasn't going to at first but it's just money, if I don't spend it on Sailor Moon I'm just going to buy some other shit.
MikeHattsu
Member
So they are releasing a regular BD that they're not expecting so sell just to make the (not) limited edition look special and not "regular" ... that's some dedication, it's also very weird.
Still, there were only 3 releases that sold more than Sailor Moon, looking at the sales numbers the majority of titles in the top ten sold between 2 and 3000 copies. Were the expectations for SMC that much higher?
I looked up what the newest One Piece volume sold that was released October 1st, just a little bit over a 1000 DVDs and a few hundred BDs in the first week and One Piece is considered a big hit, is everyone waiting for the Log Collections these days?
Still, there were only 3 releases that sold more than Sailor Moon, looking at the sales numbers the majority of titles in the top ten sold between 2 and 3000 copies. Were the expectations for SMC that much higher?
I looked up what the newest One Piece volume sold that was released October 1st, just a little bit over a 1000 DVDs and a few hundred BDs in the first week and One Piece is considered a big hit, is everyone waiting for the Log Collections these days?
Sailor Moon R 63
Rei's grandad starts a Wrestling Federation as a ploy to lure girls to the Shrine, and Koan targets it. We get some good character moments from Rei here, including a new attack being used for the first time. Tuxedo Kamen does his thing and anything with Yuchiro is highly enjoyable.
Thanks, and hey, I noticed this thread has been getting more active recently!
Rei's grandad starts a Wrestling Federation as a ploy to lure girls to the Shrine, and Koan targets it. We get some good character moments from Rei here, including a new attack being used for the first time. Tuxedo Kamen does his thing and anything with Yuchiro is highly enjoyable.
Thanks, and hey, I noticed this thread has been getting more active recently!
MikeHattsu
Member
Expectations should maybe have been kept low, but the original series seems to have sold 20K a volume on average back in the day. 2-3K is closer to a 'break-even, but might not get more made' point than a hit.
Of course, anime sales is just one part of the picture and there's also all the goods, CDs and such too. Of course, a lot of other anime is made to drive manga/LN sales, but I'm not sure Sailor Moon can rely on that.
Oh, and I'm not an expert at this at all.
No idea, I actually never bought any physical anime or checked any sales number, so I just wanted to know what it looked like. Perhaps people are just waiting?
Isn't that great? :3
Let's post here every day~
As I've heard it explained, most modern anime is fanservice of some sort, because anime sales are in the toilet in Japan, and the only people who show up to buy it are the hardest of the hardcore. So the otaku became anime's target audience. Moe isn't killing anime, low sales are killing anime, leading to the rise of moe as anime's only way to survive.
Can't blame Free for experimenting with fanservice, when half the reason Sailor Moon Crystal got greenlit was likely the show's former hold on otaku.
Once they've made the BD for the LE, it's a simple matter to release a BD without any trinkets. The LE is expensive and targets the otaku, while the plain BD and DVD are cheaper and target the average consumer. Nobody expects the average consumer to show up, but if they do, you have to have something to sell them, because every sale counts.
Wasn't actually blaming them, because they're doing great and they knew exactly how to target the proper audience. Though there are many anime that became big hits and slowly died out, I believe that Free will keep its fans and stay strong, because of how well executed it was. But who knows, maybe it *will* die out eventually.
MikeHattsu
Member
Well, sales for Free are down for S2 compared to S1, but they're still good, and they're much much higher than any other anime men shows this year anyway.
Don't worry, I wasn't using "blame" in any negative sense.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Anno worked on the stock animation for Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune, so it doesn't sound farfetched to me.
Some were talking about predicting that SMC might end up on Toonami. And I wouldn't be surprised if they also put it on Spanish TV - the Spanish Sailor Moon fanbase is quite large. But to be frank, I don't see it coming to Japanese TV anytime soon.. But who knows?
Love your avatar. Sami is one of my favorite Sailor Moon fanart artists, Nardack being the first. :3
Edit: I.. I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty to resize your avatar in a better quality.
Though, the original image is very large, so I had to crop a lot to prevent sharp lines and a choppy look.
Don't feel obligated to use it, though! My image editor is super crappy.. especially when it comes to resizing large images.
If anyone can do it better, here is the original image.
(Artist Source)
But all in all, I wanna blame GAF's terrible avatar dimension requirements. :<
Some were talking about predicting that SMC might end up on Toonami. And I wouldn't be surprised if they also put it on Spanish TV - the Spanish Sailor Moon fanbase is quite large. But to be frank, I don't see it coming to Japanese TV anytime soon.. But who knows?
Love your avatar. Sami is one of my favorite Sailor Moon fanart artists, Nardack being the first. :3
Edit: I.. I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty to resize your avatar in a better quality.
Though, the original image is very large, so I had to crop a lot to prevent sharp lines and a choppy look.
Don't feel obligated to use it, though! My image editor is super crappy.. especially when it comes to resizing large images.
If anyone can do it better, here is the original image.
(Artist Source)
But all in all, I wanna blame GAF's terrible avatar dimension requirements. :<
I don't mind at all, it's even cuter close up. Thank you.
Ah crap, I realized I forgot to crop the height properly.
Here you go! :3
100x120 is so sad & tiny.. I wish we could get at least 150x150.
Ah crap, I realized I forgot to crop the height properly.
Here you go! :3
100x120 is so sad & tiny.. I wish we could get at least 150x150.
Thank you.
Honestly as this point if you told me Toei had set up this whole thing to fail as a "now shut up" thing I'd mighta buy it.
Nope. Presumably Toei wanted to arse off with this and no TV station was going to stand to get buggered with a fortnightly cartoon that looked like arse (as opposed to the rest of Toei's output which is a weekly cartoon that looks like arse).
Yeah. Let me know when you do Keiko Han's interview.
Wow, I didn't know that before. That is interesting.
Crystal is available to watch legally in the US through Hulu. As for a DVD/Blu-Ray release, I think Viz will probably release one once they finish dubbing it. Although they might wait until they release the the entire 90s TV Series before releasing Crystal.
cj_iwakura
Member
I think she eventually winds up a better person for it.
Off-topic, but I dislike how Sailor Moon became a huge competition for posting news and pictures. It just seems so incredibly obnoxious and insincere. I find it kind of hard to find fellow SM fans on Twitter who post for themselves and not everyone else.
I do have many followers who came to me just because of my SM tweets/posts, but I don't really post stuff I don't care about. And most SM Twitter people do that. They post every little thing they find, trying to gain followers or become the "BEST SOURCE FOR SAILOR MOON NEWS".
Unfortunately this has been happening ever since Sailor Moon Crystal was announced. And it screwed up the Tumblr tags, it still does. Sometimes it's very hard to find certain things in the Sailor Moon tags because it's just 100 posts of the same content, all trying to raise to the top by who gets the most notes. I guess my point is that it's so hard to find sincere fans on social networks. Not saying that "YOU'RE NOT A FAN IF YOU POST A LOT OF SM STUFF", just that it's difficult to see who's posting for passion and who is posting to become popular.
Edit: I still post news and stuff here and there, but I don't care if I'm days late posting it. Though, I post a lot less now than before because of these people. :v
I do have many followers who came to me just because of my SM tweets/posts, but I don't really post stuff I don't care about. And most SM Twitter people do that. They post every little thing they find, trying to gain followers or become the "BEST SOURCE FOR SAILOR MOON NEWS".
Unfortunately this has been happening ever since Sailor Moon Crystal was announced. And it screwed up the Tumblr tags, it still does. Sometimes it's very hard to find certain things in the Sailor Moon tags because it's just 100 posts of the same content, all trying to raise to the top by who gets the most notes. I guess my point is that it's so hard to find sincere fans on social networks. Not saying that "YOU'RE NOT A FAN IF YOU POST A LOT OF SM STUFF", just that it's difficult to see who's posting for passion and who is posting to become popular.
Edit: I still post news and stuff here and there, but I don't care if I'm days late posting it. Though, I post a lot less now than before because of these people. :v