05-22-2014, 07:22 AM
(05-21-2014, 09:00 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote: 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".
I'm not always on his side of the argument but for some reason I still enjoy watching his videos.
I really don't mind the new show following the manga more closely myself, since I've never actually read any of it. Since, as you say, the old anime managed to leave so many things out or change them I'm interested in seeing an "updated" version on the story. Updated in my point of view, not reading the manga and all. Let's just hope they still go for longer fight scenes :D
What I'm trying to say is that for people who haven't read it, the new show is going to be a whole new experience and thus a good thing. You know, redoing anime shows to follow their manga counterparts more closely, or just doing them from the beginning altogether, seems to be the big trend nowadays.