If you were alive before there was English Sailor Moon, you’ll know that a lot of times, lower-budget dubs of Japanese cartoons usually sounded like non-actors yelling their lines across a room as quickly as they could to fit in all the words before the characters’ lips stopped moving. Quality was not their priority, they were just “getting it done”. The dub of Sailor Moon sounded very natural, rarely like people rushing to fit their lines in. That was obviously the result of a lot of hard work, and the fact that it’s not apparent when you watch it is proof.

I’d like to think (although I don’t know for sure) that when it says “making the English version of Sailor Moon the standard by which all English translations of foreign animations are judged” it’s referring to the behind-the-scenes technical processes (like recording), not the final result, and not the translation (since it wasn’t translated, it was adapted). If it’s actually talking about the finished cartoon and the “translation” itself, then, yeah…that’s totally delusional.