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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.