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gender in sailor moon crystal
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Sailor Moon Crystal Takeaways
- More concise, more polished, more in tune with modern expectations - but in exchange, less distinctiveness and generally less charm.
- The music is great.
- Season 1 is the weirdest. Like in the manga, the beginning feels way too fast, resulting in way less chances for Ami, Rei, and Mako to establish themselves. Rei in particular is a lot less fun in this version.
- Biggest gain in Season 1 is going with the manga’s version of Mamoru, rather than the absolute disaster of his story in the original show. I also preferred this take on the showdown with Beryl.
- The Four Heavenly Kings were especially strange. Keeping them alive past their initial sections of the season was an interesting change compared to both the manga and original anime’s stories, but they felt so much more generic here. In particular, what the FUCK did they do to Zoisite and Kunzite?
- Nephrite ended up as the most memorable, and I watched the dub so I got Liam O’Brien’s excellent voice for him, but it was still a big step down from his excellent arc in the original anime. Also in one of his manga chapters he transformed into a bride and Usagi transformed into a groom to go after him and Crystal included that storyline but didn’t have either of them genderbend for it. COWARDS.
- Season 2 felt like a much better fit for Crystal’s style - I actually liked it this time. Also I think this was where the visuals got better, Season 1′s faces in particular were bad.
- It helps that this was when the main characters’ screentime started adding up to enough to feel more substantial. Unfortunately, the villains never really got this chance, in any of the seasons. The original anime had so many fun villains.
- I’ve only read up to mid-Season 2 in the manga, so past this point I’m not sure which things line up with it and which don’t.
- Season 3 had some fun stuff with the outer senshi, but less so than the original Season 3. It was weirdly light on Haruka/Michiru outside of one of the closing songs, but went heavier on Haruka/Usagi and Chibiusa/Hotaru, as well as on Haruka being bigender as fuck.
- Original anime Haruka and Crystal Haruka are my two favorite Sailor Moon characters. They’re both wonderful in their own ways.
- Setsuna’s story was expanded on relative to the original anime, it was neat seeing her have an actual civilian life.
- I dinged Season 1 for taking away Usagi and Nephrite’s genderbending, but points to Season 3 for having Minako do it. And in Mimete’s episode, she’s one of my favorite Sailor Moon villains.
- Season 4 was the shortest, just a pair of movies, but like Season 2, I think it took well to Crystal’s more concise approach. Which may be another way of saying that I think these two had the least to lose.
- The trio were my favorite part of the original anime’s Season 4, but like a lot of the villains, they had much smaller roles here. In Crystal, Hawkeye is the trans/gnc one rather than Fisheye, which I hadn’t expected to be one of the things consistent with the manga, but looking it up, apparently it is. In the dub, Mako refers to Hawkeye as “they”, which was neat.
- The outer senshi show up throughout the whole second half rather than being ignored, which was a nice change of pace. Loved the scenes of Haruka/Michiru/Setsuna raising Hotaru together.
- Season 5 hasn’t released yet, but I’m looking forward to it.
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Sailor Moon Crystall Season 3 - All New Transformations
An intern at Toei must’ve tripped and knocked some money off the Precure stack into the Sailor Moon Crystal box.
THEY LOOK WAY BETTER THAN THOSE 3D MODEL ONES. WHY DIDN’T THEY JUST DO THIS THE ENTIRE TIME??
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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I finally saw the new episode of Sailor Moon Crystal: Jupiter.
It’s like they listened to all those rumors from the original series about Makoto being trans and just said “Yeah, let’s run with that!” Literally every scene is a…
brown-brown
Fine point I really don’t know nothing.. just after reading da post I watch the episode 3 times to see if I can spot da signs yall was seeing. I’m just a knowledge whore I just wanted to know show still great either way
You know, I really respect that position. So here are 15 points at which I said “This feels familiar…”
Standard availability girls’ clothes don’t fit Makoto
Girls don’t get transferred to new schools for getting in “a” fight. They get transferred when they’re “causing a disruption” or having fights picked with them every day.
Trans girls early in transition tend to be stronger than you’d expect. Also, Makoto, like all trans girl, can catch a softball with her bare hands. This is our power. This is our curse.
Makoto is not used to being complemented for her feminine features.
Tall, leggy, cis redheads aren’t usually avoided in high schools.
Someone’s parents kicked her out. And this time it wasn’t Usagi’s.
As above, Makoto’s been in some fights. Which seems a little strange because she’s been extremely feminine and shy so far…
Makoto, literally admitting no one has ever called her “little girl.”
Despite being in junior high, she seems to be completely fascinated by what appears to be her first contact with a wedding dress—or at least the idea that she could wear one.
Again, she’s not used to people calling her girly. At leats not as a positive trait.
Makoto is the only girl snatched by the Bride Ghost yoma, which tells me that the Negaverse is full of transphobic douchebags.
Nephrite, confirming that yes: The Negaverse is full of transphobic douchebags.
Lots of girls know what it’s like to be turned down by a guy they’re crushing on. Not a lot of girls know what it’s like to have a penis, be kicked out by their parents, and then have to befriend Usagi…
Yeah, sure, that something might have been superpowers. Or it might have been autonomy. Also friends.
And don’t even get me started about how every time she talked about “sempai” it felt like she was embarrassed by meeting a guy who looks like she used to pre-transition.
Reblogging for the f*ing awesome explanation
You know, the contrast here is pretty fascinating.
In the original anime, Ami overhears Usagi’s friends gossiping about her (or rather, her extreme intelligence), saying that she’s all stuck up and aloof just because she’s smarter than the rest of them (of course, we all know that this is the farthest from the truth). In Crystal, Ami instead overhears two guys talking about her absurdly high IQ and how they’ve never seen her with any friends.
In the original anime, Ami looks pissed. She’s just caught people talking shit about her behind her back and she’s not at all pleased. Crystal!Ami, however, is just so sad. Usagi’s friends were gossiping and making all sorts of unfounded assumptions (like Ami being a uppity, pretentious snob who thinks she’s better than everyone else). The boys who were talking about her, however, were telling the truth; Ami is insanely smart and, at the start of the series, she doesn’t have anyone to call her friend.
It’s no wonder why she’s offended by one and depressed by the other. She may not be a snob, but nobody likes being reminded that they’re isolated.
phibrizo
My best friend was valedictorian and emphasized with Ami SO MUCH. She was her favorite character. I could see a lot of her in Mercury.
When I watched the series for the first time, my favorite character was Sailor Pluto. Wait, no, she's actually Sailor Saturn, it was just our shitty dub. The little girl one. The episodes were run horrifically out of order, everything was confusing, and I related to age rather than character, I guess.
The second time I watched the series, on my own and in order, Amy had no competition.
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Why in the second picture they have to be like 80% legs
rumpelstiltskln
yeah why cant they be 100% legs? I’m tired of animon not giving what the public wants
the new reboot looks incredible
I am amused by this because it's not like they have realistic human proportions on the first picture