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Sailor Moon Crystal |OT| In the name of the manga, I'll entertain you!

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Ayumi

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Looks more like the Crystal Palace (The Future Silver Millennium: Crystal Tokyo) than anything, reflecting the previous Moon Castle (from their lives as Mamoru and Usagi). I'm guessing its reflection is the previous kingdom (Moon Kingdom) in the first Silver Millennium.

That also makes sense to me since we see a glimpse of Princess Serenity and Endymion in episode 1. This is all just my theory, don't shoot me if I'm wrong!
 
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enigmatic_alex44

Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
Oh chute so I realized there's no new ep this weekend, I have to wait 2 weeks for Mars' debut :*(
So can anyone clarify, are they doing the Beryl arc, then possibly up to
Wiseman
too? Or just Beryl?

It's too bad though that I won't get to see my favorite villain, the glamorous Queen Nehelenia
since she's so close to the end

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Zoe

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enigmatic_alex44 said:
Oh chute so I realized there's no new ep this weekend, I have to wait 2 weeks for Mars' debut :*(
So can anyone clarify, are they doing the Beryl arc, then possibly up to
Wiseman
too? Or just Beryl?
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Only the Dark Kingdom is confirmed, but there have been things that suggest it could go to the next arc within these 26 eps.
 
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Hitokage

Setec Astronomer
Read chapter 3 again, and yeah, it's definitely where the manga and anime start to diverge on a number of points.
 
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Ayumi

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Hitokage said:
Rei was even described as "icy" in the manga. lol
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Can't wait to see her first appearance in the bus, considering how she was presented by being so beautiful in the eyes of Ami, then Usagi. Hopefully it calls for some nice screenshots.
 
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pauloshinobi

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I am astonished to see how bad drawn this episode is.

Sloppy and inconsistent art everywhere, they couldn't manage to follow basic anatomy and simetry rules. I could even find colouring issues. (Usagi's hands painted with skin color instead of the pink from her glovez, while transformed into Sailor)

I am having a Saint Seiya Omega feeling about SMC
 
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MikeMyers

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pauloshinobi said:
I am astonished to see how bad drawn this episode is.

Sloppy and inconsistent art everywhere, they couldn't manage to follow basic anatomy and simetry rules.

I am having a Saint Seiya Omega feeling about SMC
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Ironically, I've been watching the original Saint Seiya for the first time. Seiya, voiced by Mamoru, serves Athena, voiced by Queen Beryl. For fun, I like to pretend this is an alternate universe where Queen Beryl succeeded and Seiya and co. are really just Mamoru and the Four Devas in disguise.

But all jokes aside....yeah, the first episode seemed to be better drawn.
 
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BassForever

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kingkitty said:
Is the new english dub good?
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There are a few clips out and its 1000x better then the original dub both in terms of localization and in terms of voices fitting the characters. Is the dub good is a mileage may very answer, from the clips it sounds good, hard to say if its better or worse then the original Japanese audio but its perfectly acceptable. That said there are some people who will tell you dubs are SHIIIIIIT or that some dubs are good but the new SM one is SHIIIT.

Check out the clips on youtube for the new dub to get an idea, you'll have to wait for the box set to get released to get better impressions unless viz starts uploading dub episodes to their site
 
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Shard

XBLAnnoyance
BassForever said:
There are a few clips out and its 1000x better then the original dub both in terms of localization and in terms of voices fitting the characters. Is the dub good is a mileage may very answer, from the clips it sounds good, hard to say if its better or worse then the original Japanese audio but its perfectly acceptable. That said there are some people who will tell you dubs are SHIIIIIIT or that some dubs are good but the new SM one is SHIIIT.

Check out the clips on youtube for the new dub to get an idea, you'll have to wait for the box set to get released to get better impressions unless viz starts uploading dub episodes to their site
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Now here is a question, how does this dub job stack up to the mid-2000s dubs from ADV and Genon?
 
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Hitokage

Setec Astronomer
BassForever said:
There are a few clips out and its 1000x better then the original dub both in terms of localization and in terms of voices fitting the characters. Is the dub good is a mileage may very answer, from the clips it sounds good, hard to say if its better or worse then the original Japanese audio but its perfectly acceptable. That said there are some people who will tell you dubs are SHIIIIIIT or that some dubs are good but the new SM one is SHIIIT.
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Whatever it takes to banish the old dub to the trash heap of history, really.

Personally, though, as somebody who actually does understand a bit of Japanese, I don't have a need for a new dub and this isn't a situation like ADV's Black Lion where the dub was so clearly more in the true spirit of the work. However, if there's a good dub then that's always a great option to have.
 
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kirblar

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KDash31987 said:
All we have so far are a few clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPMh2ZZOCzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS_uDeu_3SQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcSyO_piUGQ

We won't know for sure how good it is until November.

No English dub announcement yet for Crystal, but since Viz Media has the rights for that, too, it'll surely be out at some point.
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Aw, no more English Granny Luna. I have to agree w/ that actually being one of the bright spots of the original casting. Now we have middle-aged Luna.
 
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MikeMyers

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I think Luna sounds fine, likewise for the villains we've heard so far. Usagi sounds a bit too high-pitched to me, but she has potential. Mamoru sounds completely bland though.

Maybe there is just no English Furuya; his other characters (Amuro Ray, Pegasus Seiya, Yamcha) didn't sound that well in their respective dubs either. =/
 
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MarkusRJR

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Watching te redubbed original SM made me weird out at "bun head". Meatball made so much more sense, since her hair reminds me of spaghetti.

I also agree that her voice is a little too high pitched. Trying a tad to hard too.
 
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MikeMyers

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Is that how you pronounce Jadeite? I've never heard that before. Overall it's a good effort from Viz.

I make a "TUXEDO MASK'S HERE! TUXEDO MASK''S DEAD" joke whenever I watch that scene.
 
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enigmatic_alex44

Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
I'm not feeling the new dub.....
I loved the first 2 seasons of the NA dub, each voice was just perfect, S and SuperS though had a terrible voice for Sailor Moon (was bizarre hearing some of the same cast like Rei, and some re-cast)

and....
Only one more week 'til the best Sailor Soldier shows up
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get hyped
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Extollere

Sucks at poetry
enigmatic_alex44 said:
I'm not feeling the new dub.....
I loved the first 2 seasons of the NA dub, each voice was just perfect, S and SuperS though had a terrible voice for Sailor Moon (was bizarre hearing some of the same cast like Rei, and some re-cast)

and....
Only one more week 'til the best Sailor Soldier shows up
excited.gif


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get hyped
excited.gif
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Mars is by far my favorite. She's so sexy, and red... and that attitude. Girl is straight up RUDE
 
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PS_GUY

Member
Might be the nostagia in me speaking, but I don't like any of the voices. Mars' new voice actress sound too old. The voice actress from the DIC dub was flawless.

I also miss Mercury's old voice actress from the DIC Sailor Moon R seasons, not the later ones.

Just found this video on Youtube, and while the dub was terrible with the scripts and cutting scenes completely out of the episodes, you gotta hand it to them for the cool background transformation music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhd7gLkWn0Q


Edit: Sailor Moon's transformation using DiC' background music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtAc9woPVR8&list=UU_oAMGVgTAYtGevVn0CNUyQ
 
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Jucksalbe

Banned
Just watched episode 2. I loved Luna's expression here:

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This time at least I could watch it in somewhat decent quality on NicoNico.
 
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