05-21-2014, 09:00 PM
(05-21-2014, 01:22 AM)Mass Distraction Wrote:(05-20-2014, 02:27 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote:(05-20-2014, 03:10 AM)Mass Distraction Wrote: So Sailor Moon Crystal is the name of the new show. I was wondering what the show you mentioned at the end of your post on the previous page was :D
Thanks for the info, too! My summer vacation starts in July, so now I'll have something more to look forward to in that month. Hopefully there'll be fan subs soon after premiere. Good to know that I'll have something to watch regularly while I wait for season 5 of Friendship is Magic. Hey, this could actually be the first anime in years I'd watch whenever a new episode comes out :D
Yes, sorry! I shouldn't have assumed that everyone knew the new anime's name.
Are you able to get Hulu Plus in Finland? Viz has a deal with them where they're showing the uncut subs of the original anime and will be doing the same with Crystal.
Sadly, no. I tried it just now to be sure and it said the contents can only be viewed within United States. Seems like it's fansubs for me.
A guy I follow on YT posted a rant video about the new dub. Thought I'd post for funsies. Also because it's relevant.
On a side note, I really don't care what the voice track is like. I watched it dubbed in Swedish. That's my Sailor Moon.
Oooph. The nostalgia is strong with this one. I can understand him preferring his childhood version, but he's so wrong that the new anime sticking to the manga would be a bad thing. He also probably doesn't understand why it's important for this to happen because he's a man.
The Sailor Moon manga was a feminist girl power story. The anime threw that all away and turned the Sailor Soldiers into cats in heat and made you wonder why they're friends in the first place. Rei is an absolute sweetheart in manga while she's a PMSing hell beast in the anime.
She's bad enough in the Japanese version, but Rini is a walking contraceptive promotion in the dub. She's a horrible brat that basically become the Scrappy Doo of the series.
Despite the fact the entire manga story could've easily been told in those 200 episodes they tossed away a lot of important details to the plot. It's been forever, but I'm very certain Queen Beryl's back story of being corrupted by the Dark Kingdom wasn't explained at all.
Mamoru and Usagi were given a creepy age difference. She's 14 and he's 18 when they get together in the anime, basically making him a pedophile. Mamoru is also an emotionally abusive jerk who seems ashamed that Usagi is his girlfriend and even tells her she's getting fat in one episode, despite the fact she looks like she weighs 70 pounds max.
I'm sorry to get ranty myself, but you just notice these things when you're older. I was shocked when I read the manga and watched the anime again when I was an adult.
I'm also big on nostalgia, so the anime does hold a special place, and it's certainly not all bad. I like that the villains aren't just there for 30 seconds before getting obliterated like they are in the manga. I'm not kidding; some just introduce themselves and then are instantly killed.
I only wish I could find good examples on youtube of just how bad the English dub was. My favorite was when a letter with Japanese characters is shown and gets called "funny symbols".