If they did a Kai version of the original series, the entire thing would be 10 episodes. :-p

Yea just show how little manga content went into the original serise. But still why do new animation

Because they wanted to. Because Sailor Moon is popular. Because it was celebrating the 20th anniversary.

Why do a live action series?

Oh yeah, and becasue $$$.

Ace attorney 5 referenced this show. :lol

True I still wanted another season if live action show I wNted see Neptune Pluto Saturn Uranus all I live action. But at least the new anime if received well a 52 episode sage could cover all 16 volumes of the manga

There might be a new live action. After they re-did the manga, musical and anime, this sounds quite plausible. Also, the official site has a menu tab called "tokusatsu" that isn't accessible yet.

.......Please be true, please be true, please be true
*repeats endlessly*

My thoughts, exactly. Well, I can't imagine what else this tokusatsu-thing might stand for than another live action. They only promote new stuff on that site anyway...

If it is, I want my Outer Senshi!

Let's see what we'll get. We have the musicals, for now, with Chibimoon and Pluto making their first appearance in the version- wonder how the second one will be. I didn't like La Reconquista, but I'll watch it for Yuri from Kiva (she's Jupiter).

Why do you keep saying 16 volumes? The manga is 12. Fourteen if you count the two special chapters of short side irrelevant stories.

The live action sailor moon was that good?

It was very good. It was cheesy due to the limited budget, but the story was well written and the acting was not bad.

Um, where's your reading comprehension gone? I said it was good because PGSM ACKNOWLEDGED the fact. You even quoted it right there. Hell, Serenity was the villain because of her selfishness while in the manga everyone acted like it was totally justified.

"My boyfriend died so I'm going to kill myself and doom the entire world! Twice." Such an awesome hero.

Either way, despite a lot of filler, the anime had far more interesting and fleshed out villains, a far easier to follow plot, more interesting fight scenes (because the mangas were just... Awful) and a far more likeable cast of characters/ I've read the manga, seen all the anime and watched PGSM and I think the Anime and PGSM are just objectively better then the manga in nearly every single way.

It was written by Yasuko Kobayashi- the woman who brought us Shinkenger and OOO, so yeah, writing-wise, it's pretty damn awesome. I loved it back then and still do (I've seen it three times so far). Basically, it's they version of Sailor Moon that made me a fan of the franchise ^^

I have to ask: Who's your favorite?

Out of the senshi?
Moon, Pluto and Star Fighter

If only we saw more Pluto.

The musicals have quite a lot of cool Pluto scenes :)

Sera Myu seems to be the only thing that does Pluto Justice....:(

I really liked her in the Black Lady Arc of the manga though. As for the anime, I haven't seen that much of it (basically because I don't like the anime in general). But Myu is my number one Sailor Moon adaption, so I always come back to that.

Pluto....just isn't as epic in the anime, IMO.

I really hate how they animated and voiced her Dead Scream. It seems so... lame. In the musicals, she really puts energy in that attack- and they also gave her more attacks than just one...

Same thing with the manga.
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....Anyone here ever heard of MoonSticks?

The MoonSticks short comics? Those are awesome!

*brofist*

I will agree that the anime had more fleshed out villains, but that really means nothing when they spend 10-15 episodes with the same personality they had when they first appeared. In the manga, the soldiers are pretty much the monsters of the week while Diamond, Beryl, Kaori Knight, Mistress 9, Galaxia, and Nehelenia were the villains.

Also, Saturn is much more important in the manga than anime.

Don't forget though, she has also given us Go-Buster, ToQGer, and Den-O. Not to mention that god awful Claymore anime adaptation.

But they often didn't just stay the same. Many villains had character arcs, which is something the anime has in common with PGSM while in the manga nearly every villain does absolutely nothing but die within a chapter, major villains included. Beryl, for example, was so unceremoniously killed I was expecting her to come back with a vengeance right up until the arc ended.

Plus, the fights in the manga are just so bad it hurts. Takeuchi makes beautiful cover arts, some of the best in the business even, but whoever told that girl that she should do an action manga is very stupid indeed. For example I loaded a random chapter and attached its "fight scene", it took me three reads to actually work out what the hell was going on and even then it doesn't look very good.

And that's only some of my problems with the manga. The pace is really not good, the fact that it was made FOR an anime adaption is painfully obvious, particularly early on. Many of the chapters are merely setting up a plot and you can almost see "Anime, please add detail here", especially during the Sailor Soldiers introductory. The main characters themselves are only really fleshed out in their "Spotlight"specials and even then I have a problem with Serenity's horrible-ness. I stopped reading for ages when she stabbed herself to death because her boyfriend died, knowing it'd mean the end of the world. Just awful.

The plot itself is so confused its sometimes hard to follow and the anime nearly universally does the plot better and the characters themselves simply don't act like real people or react to situations like a real person would, which I have a big problem with. Sailor Stars is one of my favorite anime seasons, but the manga version was just awful.

Also, the ending was both incredibly rushed and incredibly bleak. I hated the ending.

Above all, however, and worst of all, the manga was boring. It was really a struggle to get through some arcs because there was very little attempt to make me care about the villains, characters or even the story and the pacing was confused at best.

Its sad because Codename Sailor V was totally fun and very amusing but the second she got told to write a manga for adaption the quality dropped. Its also weird that the Sailor Moon anime kept the tone and playfulness of Sailor V instead of the dreariness of the manga.

This is why the new anime really isn't as faithful to the manga as they claim. What I want is something like PGSM, where they do their own thing and take from all the previous Sailor Moon stories to make something wonderful.

Maybe, but that's not a huge deal. She was pretty important in both.

I love ToQger though?

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon is wonderful though. It took the best of the anime and the best of the manga and combined them perfectly. It has the fun characters and villains that do more then die like the anime had, along with the more complex plot and sometimes uses the manga's darker tone when necessary. Plus, I think the writer had some of the same problems with the manga that I did and fixed them. As I mentioned before, a good example is how Serenity is still a self-centered cow on a galactic level, but in PGSM she actually is considered villainous because of it because the characters react to her actions (which are the same as her actions in the manga) in ways that people actually should/would.

You can diss Go-Busters but leave the trains out of this. :p

I thought Claymore was good it's just the ending was crap.

I keep on forget ten. So yea 52 ep could be possible.

Witch English translation did you read cause there 2 one that made to have name of the English dub. And was mirrored I think to be like a American comic and then there the new 12 volume edtion that are translated by kodansha USA that's has it as a faith full translation

I own both the original translation (missing an issue here or there because I bought them back when manga was rare and expensive) and the Kodansha versions.

The original translations were bizarre and the Kodanshas are indeed better, but my problem is with the story and art more then the translation when it comes to the manga.

Good thing I like both Go-Busters and Toqger ;) Den-O is kinda meh, but at least it's not as terrible as other series I've seen. And speaking of anime adaptions, she also did Attack on Titan *off topic end*

Except there was a central villain. Don't you recall the creature that had possessed Galaxia was pretty much the one who poisoned all of the villains of the series?

You could say the same about any manga though. Attack on Titan has okay artwork and it is hard to tell what is going on. Even the fights in series like One Piece and Dragonball are hard to follow at times in manga form.

However, an anime adaptation that is straight from the manga will help you follow the action.

She is a child. She is stupid.

Do you hate Romeo & Juliet for the same reason?

I thought the manga version was superior. Sure, there is no chapter of them fighting in Usagi's kitchen with her knocking things over with her wings, but the story got right to the point. Plus, Usagi's future self being Chibi Chibi made far more sense than just another little girl being there.

The ending leads to the birth of Crystal Tokyo.

Funny enough, I hate Sailor V. I won't even drop a cent on the new manga release of it.

Wait, what? Have you seen it yet?

And I don't want something like PGSM. We have already had them do their own things, twice. I want a series that is 100% the manga translated into anime form.

That changes absolutely nothing, I'm not really sure what your defence here is. Its OK that the manga villains were nearly universally bland as hell and most were killed off in single panels and never mentioned again because in the last few chapters its revealed they all came from one place?

Bad comparison and a bad excuse for bad writing. Romeo and Juliet isn't a superhero comic where the main character is constantly billed as "the soldier of love and justice" and their purpose wasn't to protect the entire universe.

PGSM handled the selfishness of Serenity perfectly. She had absolutely no right to do what she did and the fact that NOBODY calls her out on her villain-level schemes in the manga is evidence of the often times horrible writing of the manga. I am so glad that the writers of PGSM had the sense to read it and think "Wait. What the hell?".

It leads to nothing good. They never defeat Chaos, they never win, they lose so often that Sailor Moon/Cosmos tries to rewrite history and the happiest thing we get is "Sailor Cosmos will continue to fight and MAYBE win". I refuse to believe an inevitable future that involves "so much loss that even a victory would feel hollow" is a good ending. Its an awful ending. Especially considering the implication that everybody dies anyway, so what the heck is the point on a page spread showing all the Stars deaths being reversed when we know they'll just die fighting Sailor Chaos.

Typo. I meant to write "I hope its not".

But no, a 100% adaptation would be both pointless and awful. The manga was not well written. PGSM was far better written and the anime, while not faultless, was a heck of a lot funner, had far better characters and had a far better plot that didn't take itself too seriously. I don't want PGSM again, but I do want an anime that's written better then the manga was, similar to PGSM's superior writing to the manga, rather then a straight adaptation.

Where everyone dies? Nobody died. They were all frozen to be woken up later. What part of the Dark Moon Kingdom saga did you not understand?

What part of Sailor Stars did you not understand? Sailor Cosmos was trying to reset the universe because the battle had become so costly in her time. It wasn't blatantly said, but the implication was very much that the other warriors had all been killed and that the world had been devastated. Sailor Cosmos came from AFTER Crystal Tokyo. The one picture of Sailor Chaos we got didn't give us a very happy outlook on the future where they and Sailor Cosmos are fighting each other.

Sure, it was glossed over like pretty much everything in the finale of the manga and never spoken of again in order to pretend the ending was a lot happier then it was, but it was there. That was the reason Sailor Cosmos had come back in time and Sailor Moon made the conscious decision NOT to stop that future.

I thought star was mostly filler

Manga only. The anime, thankfully, went a completely different route that ended in a much, much more satisfying and less confusing conclusion.

Sailor Cosmos wasn't in the Stars anime either, instead Chibi Chibi was Sailor Galaxya, which worked just as well.