My comment here is for Cenan, Diamond and Ashley.

To Cenan : you’re Turkish and I’m French so I make English mistakes too, just don’t pay attention to your English not being perfect (it’s the same for me), because you are understandable and I think this is the most important. The more we’ll practice, the more we’ll improve and learn from our mistakes.
Thanks also for answering my comment .

To Diamond : I don’t like the fact of being called an hater (of even being called “mad at something”). I think this word is just too easy to use. I mean : when X doesn’t agree with Y, so Y will just call X an hater. It’s a fallacy, especially when I read that Usagi is your favorite. So you were just angry because I criticized her. And you dared to call me an hater for that ;p ? Just think of that : it’s childish and it may discredite you more than it may discredit me. If you love Usagi I respect that and to be honest I don’t feel concerned. That’s your way and I have nothing to answer about that, because you owe me nothing on that point of course . I just “live and let die” : that is my personal philosophy and way of being and living.

I love SMC, and I won’t stop watching it just because my views and feelings towards this show don’t fit yours . I owe you no explanation and I think I was quite clear about my bad feelings towards an egocentric and spoiled Usagi. And it’s not because the show is called “Sailor Moon” that it shall only be Sailor Moon centered, BTW. Must the titles (book, movies or TV show titles, for example) always stick to their contents, and the contents to their titles ? I don’t think so.

Also, I’m not a SenshixShitennou shipper (on the contrary ), but simply I’m disappointed by the fact that the Shitennou were not mentioned by anyone on the last act – not even once by their master, Mamoru, and not even once, too, by their former lovers. That’s all. I find it’s weird since it could have been easily done, by taking of some useless bleeh blah. And yes, I see the other Senshi like fool puppets in general. But the truth is, I keep enjoying the SM universe so far. And nobody will take me that .

SMC is not a perfect show ; there are greats things about it and also things that are not really good. And my judgment and feelings are full of nuances and of course I’m not the only one on this planet to be like that .
Then I perfectly know that SMC is just a show, a fiction work, and that SMC characters are not real. So what ? Then it appears that I’m not a “hater” because SMC in my life is just a stuff among many others, most of them being so serious that I don’t have time to waste to be an hater towards cool shows like SMC. So for me it’s just fun or play, an entertaining light and fresh moment, on which I like to give my views. I completely understand and admit that some people may not be agree with me (and I don’t care because it’s totally natural), but simply the fact of being fallacioulsy called an hater is just too strong. It’s not the first time I see this word among the Sailor Moon fandom, and it just completely silly. Hey huys, it’s just a fiction work, so relax !
Because if we follow this fallacious logic, then we can easily say that the ones who call other people “haters” are in fact haters themselves, simply hating the fact that the “other people” don’t share the same views and thus trying to project their own hate on them in order to discredit them, no ;p ?

I hope I wasn’t too much agressive, and if I like to discuss with people having different opinions, then I sincerely think that using fallacies just to discredit an opponent leads to nothing than useless bad passions exhausting everyone. For the rest, I see you were taken in a long and good discussion with Cenan in order to clarify your respective views and I think that this will be all for me. I don’t know you and therefore have nothing against you personally of course, simply I just wanted to clarify why the word “hater” annoys me and why I find it’s childish to use it, not only towards me but also towards some other fiction works fans in general .

To Ashley : thanks for your comment on January 25, 2015 at 5:37 pm, I really like what you wrote and we share the exact same thoughts and way of seeing and considering some things about the show in general and about the Shitennou.

Sorry for this long comment ^^” .

Anyway, I have no idea why they’re set on this manga pacing, as I don’t think it works, but maybe this run is a dip in the waters, so to speak, to figure out if the studio wants to financially invest in Crystal more heavily. Their budget must be simply awful at the moment, what with all the janky animation, plus we’re getting zero vocal songs aside from the opening/ending. Toei is most likely watching sales of the DVDs and merchandise, and if those do well we may get longer arcs before the end.

I’m personally not too worried about it, and withholding my fuss til all is said and done. We may wind up getting movies and OVAs and any number of extras that will fill in where Crystal is lacking. I, for one, am a HUGE Venus x Kunzite fan, and I’m happy for the what I’ve got from Crystal. More would be nice, but my imagination will fill in the rest

As for the Usagi/Mamoru focus, I would prefer less but it is being pretty faithful to the manga. The original anime focused way more on the girls as a circle of friends, and again it had more time and to do that. I’d like to see more of that, but I can always fall back on my original anime DVDs.

All said, I think Crystal will eventually work all these kinks out and I think we’ll see more new story and material as time goes on. I strongly suspect that Crystal may be leading up to a whole new story arc, and if that’s the case, I’m glad they’re cutting their teeth on old material rather than jumping right into a new story and screwing it up. That would be harder to stomach.

I still think that Usagi cares for her friends and in each of the girls acts you see that Usagi was the only one who befriended them and didn’t judge them. Rei, Ami, Makoto and Minako were lonely until Usagi showed them kindness and they became friends. Usagi does mention them in act 13 and 14 especially when she tells her mother she wants to stay on Earth to be with her friends and Mamoru. I thought the scene when the girls were hugging and crying was very heartwarming. As SMC continues I’m sure we will see more of their friendship. Of course, Usagi missed Mamoru because he’s the love of her life and the past and present memories of him and he saved her life and was murdered in front of her twice. I would miss him too.

Yeah, I know it just an anime and the character aren’t real but I don’t want to judge SMC too much because it just started. It’s only been 14 episodes and I will wait to completely judge it until I see all of the episodes. Which is why I hope they do all the arcs in the manga and the short stories. I also hope they will do some movies and then OVAs. That we will learn more about all of the characters and see them grow and mature.

We are going to have to agree to disagree. I like all of the characters in Sailor Moon, but Usagi is my favorite. I don’t want to go comment anymore. I feel like I understand what you were saying now and I don’t think your a Sailor Moon hater either

And that wasn’t about just mirakulu romansu, to be honest the kisses between Usagi and Mamoru for 200 episodes in classsic anime are less than the kisses for 14 episodes in Crystal!!! But the romance in classic anime is more reliable and sincerer than Crystal romance too.

I don’t understand why they can’t make extra episodes for character development. I think that 26 episodes must be about only Dark Kingdom arc, because 13-14 episodes aren’t enough for that. Maybe not 26 episodes but it must be more than 15 episodes actually.

I think we can’t see Shitennou anymore in Crystal, because the only important thing is mirakulu romansu between Usa-ko and Mamo-chan…

We never see the gems again after the final battle, so there’s a possibility they were a) restored, b) destroyed forever or c) restored as the shittenou were restored to life. We simply don’t know yet, because the story hasn’t shown that to us. I’m waiting until a few more episodes pass before worrying too much about it.

Crystal suffers from a short run time and an insistence on sticking to the manga acts, allowing them to dictate the amount of episodes. As such, this bit of extra plot – the shittenou x senshi bit – doesn’t have the time to be properly played out. The original anime had problems with too many filler episodes, but Crystal suffers from not enough. We’re not getting the deeper character growth and insights that may be gleaned from extra episodes.

So for now, I’m going to wait before I decided that Crystal has screwed up on this. If the shittenou are never mentioned/dealt with again, that will be a major mistake, but we shall see, eh?

I know Usagi is main character and I am okay with that. But I watched another animes too and let me tell you something, story isn’t always about the main character. I don’t like Usagi so much, but it doesn’t mean ‘I hate her.’. I like other characters, especially Kaioh Michiru/Sailor Neptune. Naoko has got good and differrent characters, classic anime ruined them mostly, but Sailor Moon Crystal killed them. I am not blaming Usagi or Mamoru for that, because I know they aren’t real people. My comments about Usagi or Mamoru for creators and producers.

The love between Shitennou and Senshi is stupid, I agree with that. Because the creators didn’t care it. They just showed them for really short moment. But still the love between Usagi and Mamoru is stupid too, because the creators don’t know anything about real love. Talking and crying about past love life episode by episode doesn’t mean there is a real love.

I don’t like Usagi, but it doesn’t make me a Sailor Moon hater. I don’t like Harry Potter (character) too, but I am a fan of Harry Potter series. I hope I could explain myself clear.

Now, I do hope they bring the Shitennou back so the girls can have their lovers back and Mamoru can have his friends back too. If they don’t bring them back, I hope they give the Inner Senshi someone else to love. We don’t know if the Usagi asked her friends about their lovers or not. I don’t think it’s fair to blame Usagi, maybe you should blame the writers for that. Who knows maybe they will talk about it in the next episode. Usagi does care about her friends and I don’t know why you keep saying she doesn’t. The way you talk about Usagi I do not know how you can be a fan of Sailor Moon and not like the main character.

The first arc ended and the second arc is starting and we will learn more about the girls. You just have to be patient and I hope they do the all of the arcs in the manga too.

I expect differrent things from the new series. For example not being Usagi-centered stories, the love lives of other girls, the background stories of other girls (their characters, their families, their school lives), more actions and adventures than crying babies, more powerful inner senshi. But, no. There are only Mamo-chan and Usagi, just them.

“The reason why Usagi and Mamoru were so happy is because finally they can be together. They waited a very long time for that.” you say that. Then let me tell you something, why the other girls are so happy? I got the answer, they are so happy because of reuniting of their precious Usagi who doesn’t care them, their lovers and has never asked them “Are you okay girls, you know you have thousand years lovers like me, but yours are dead not like mine. I think you may be upset for this, you know after a thousand years you couldn’t even talk each other…”. Yeah that is a really happy story and really strong friendship.