[WhiteRanger]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Honestly, I don't think that is news at all. We already knew it would be the second episode of Jan given it starts in chapter 14 of the manga.

Ok well VA then that are voicing them. Also the link does provide a trailer for it.

[Dr Kain]

My bad then. I didn't see the voice cast listed for the Black Moon Family. Unfortunately, whomever they get to voice ChibiUsa is going to be beyond annoying as she is just an annoying character.

[WhiteRanger]

[SanoBaron]

so, I got to get an autograph from Cherami Leigh, the current voice of Sailor Venus, and she really liked the design of the Figuart for Sailor Venus.

I'm really tempted to get another so she can have one for herself.

[Kiwami]

Hohoho damn, that certainly wasn’t in the old version. Holy crap she pull's the freakin Terminator, that's awesome.

These people from the moon can tell me whatever they want, a place where they make handguns for kids isn’t a future I look forward to.

[Dr Kain]

Kiwami, yes it was. She has always pulled a gun out on Usagi. It isn't actually loaded though. At least not with a bullet.

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Originally Posted by SanoBaron

so, I got to get an autograph from Cherami Leigh, the current voice of Sailor Venus, and she really liked the design of the Figuart for Sailor Venus.

Cherami is awesome.

Oh yeah, and this was taken the day before Bryce was announced to be the voice of Eren in AoT.

[Kiwami]

Wow, you're right. I just find it very odd because I remember some episodes of other shows got banned because of the whole weapon-pointing-at-someones-head thing.

[WhiteRanger]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

Wow, you're right. I just find it very odd because I remember some episodes of other shows got banned because of the whole weapon-pointing-at-someones-head thing.

Yea it of been but due uncut episode subbed up for awhile the image could be found

[algo448]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

Wow, you're right. I just find it very odd because I remember some episodes of other shows got banned because of the whole weapon-pointing-at-someones-head thing.

Wow, I actually came here to ask how they had handled that scene in the original anime.
That's kind of amazing.

[Dr Kain]

Well I finally finished reading the Sailor Moon manga for the first time since Tokyo Pop released it and I have to be honest, it was not as good as I remembered it. I love the world Naoko built, and her characters are interesting, but the pacing was just awful and there was little to no development for anyone outside of Usagi and Mamoru. Hell, the villains seemed to be there just to have a reason for the series to have a conflict as only Nehelenia seemed to receive any sort of development whatsoever. I want to say the designs are great, but a lot of the villains were only in small panels and you rarely ever saw their entire body in one go with detailed view that they sometimes started to just blend in. Hell, I couldn't even keep track of the last batch of Galaxia's minions because they all looked the same. Sans the Amazoness Quartet and Kaolinite, the minions usually died within a few panels it made me wonder what the point of the Witches 5, the four Sisters, and the Amazon Trio was.

Even the sailor guardians seemed quite under developed. For example, in the Black Moon Family arc each member of the team was kidnapped in each chapter, so half of the arc had everyone by Usagi missing. The motives of some of the characters seemed inconsistent as well at times. For example, in one chapter Rei is talking about that she is finally going to be going to school with everyone now that they are going to the same high school. Then one of the chapters in Stars has Rei talking about how she wished she had gone to the same high school as them. WTF?

The pacing was absolutely horrible though and it made me wonder if the manga really did just exist as a reason for the anime to do so. Stories would move at such a rapid rate at times and then just suddenly drag on in other places it was distracting and confusing. Even the ending was convoluted. Also, the Starlights revealed themselves way too quickly and Sailor Moon's upgrades were done before you could even get used to the current one.

Now I do love the fact that the manga featured more of Saturn than the anime did, as she is my favorite character, but she seemed quite weaker in the manga for some reason. The artwork at times was gorgeous and I do love the world that Naoko was building up. The idea of a crystalized future city was pretty awesome. In fact, I wish we got more stories that dealt with the future. I also loved that the Amazoness Quartet did return in Stars and the truth behind Chibi Chibi makes so much more sense than in the anime. Another thing I loved is how everything was connected to one another. Chaos was the reason for Metallia, Pharaoh 90, Death Phantom, Nehelenia, while Nehelenia was the reason the Dark Kingdom was able to destroy the Moon Kingdom in the first place, and the Wiseman was the one who gave Galaxia her abilities.

Unfortunately, it seems like everything that was done well in the manga was held back by two things that were poorly executed. Naoko can't write a villain for crap and it shows. The ending itself also felt rushed and the series could have used just one more epilogue chapter instead of cramming the wedding and stuff into the last five pages. Overall, I give the manga 6 crying Usagi's out of 10.