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REVIEW: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal Blu-ray/DVD Set 1

Usagi is the only one who can see past all this, making her strength as a leader internal rather than external.

Unlike the classic anime, Sailor Moon Crystal bases Minako's character on her prequel series, Codename: Sailor V, whose title is even said aloud at one point in the show. This gives Minako a more mature air,

So many of the complaints I've seen about Crystal were really more about the source material and how they missed the personalities that the original anime developed.

I watched this as it streamed and honestly to me it's the worst kind of adaptation in that it made me question why I even liked the original series so much. That being said certain parts were nice to see animated.

But with the CGI and the writing being really weak in some places it's hard to say I enjoyed this series. I, however, did not the extremes of some I know of who threatened to destroy the entire series because of Crystal "ruining" it for them. Nice to hear the dub is good I'm not a Dub person but it's nice to hear it's not terrible

If you've written this reboot off, it's still worth checking it out in this physical release, even if it isn't the perfect version of Naoko Takeuchi's seminal manga that fans were hoping for.

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This is kind of backwards... Codename: Sailor V's Minako is silly and clumsy, basically alpha version Usagi. In the Sailor Moon manga she is more mature and has that more wise, experienced vibe. Crystal reproduces this pretty faithfully - it's the original anime that changed her personality to be more like her Sailor V counterpart.

I actually watched Seasons 1 & 2 of Sailor Moon Crystal concurrently with the original. I may have even enjoyed Crystal more somewhat, although the character development was sorely missed. But the original manga was just as bad. In fact, the fact that Crystal was so faithfully adapted from the source material is probably its biggest issue. So many of the complaints I've seen about Crystal were really more about the source material and how they missed the personalities that the original anime developed.

It's so bizarre seeing the nostalgia crowd going off about how the original anime is so much better when I distinctly remember a decade ago when many of the same people were saying "You have to read the manga, it's completely different and sooo much better!"

the only thing is that luna sounds way way too young in my view. dont get me wrong, Michelle Ruff sounds perfect as luna , though there are times where she sounds too young for Luna's age which isnt clearly known since there haven't been a hint on the actual age for both Luna and Artemis on both anime series,nor on the Tokyopop or Kodansha's version of their mangas.personally i think Wendel Lee would have made a better Luna. wouldnt sound too old, but not too young as well.

And I'm definitely in the minority on this, but I enjoyed the CGI.

SailorNaruto wrote:

And I'm definitely in the minority on this, but I enjoyed the CGI.

And here I thought I was the only one who appreciated the CGI moments, even if it is for different reasons. Fans seem to hold the transformation scenes from the classic series in higher regard--but they don't seem to admit just how voyeuristic they were. They were blatant male-gaze camera shots that zoomed in on the most convenient moments in the (14-year-old) girls' tranformations. True, the camera does a lot of zoom-ins in the Crystal transformation scenes, but compared to the classic series I got more the sense that the focus was on the feminity and beauty of the girls and their metamorphosis, and it actually felt less inappropriate. Maybe the CGI didn't bother me as much because I appreciated it for the reasons already stated, and it's kind of a shame that not more fans felt the same. So I was concerned at first about the switch back to 2D in season 3 because I didn't know if they were going to reflect the Crystal transformations or revert back to the classic series--fortunately it turned out to be the former. People can be happy about the 2D animation alone, but I'm personally relieved they continued skipping the voyeurism.

While she (Usagi) can still be annoying, moreso in the Japanese dub than the English...

So I was concerned at first about the switch back to 2D in season 3 because I didn't know if they were going to reflect the Crystal transformations or revert back to the classic series--fortunately it turned out to be the former. People can be happy about the 2D animation alone, but I'm personally relieved they continued skipping the voyeurism.