Comments on: Sailor Moon Crystal Act 15, Infiltration – Sailor Mars, review

By: Aurelia

Aurelia — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:24:44 +0000

“Though, I noticed the bad quality of some drawings and animations in this episode, so it hasn’t changed compared to the first arc… It’s such a pity to see that Toei keeps being lazy regarding this point.”

When I wrote this, I forgot to add that these animation fails don’t really bother me. On the contrary, they make me laugh hard. Yes Toei is lazy, but since a lot of us complain for the fact that the funny and crazy faces of the old anime have been removed in SMC, I think we can take these SMC’s animation fails for unintentional funny moments, offered to us by Toei.

So, thank you Toei for these great akward moments ^^ .

By: Aurelia

Aurelia — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:08:10 +0000

I very liked this new episode, and I’m waiting for the next ones.

As I discovered Sailor Moon by watching the original anime, I felt sad to see Koan killed since the beginning. But I knew that was going to happen after reading the manga. Anyway, as a kid I was very attached to the Ayakashi Sisters of the old anime, not only as villains, but later as good and redeemed characters. I believe SMC makes me being melodramatic, lol.

Though, I noticed the bad quality of some drawings and animations in this episode, so it hasn’t changed compared to the first arc… It’s such a pity to see that Toei keeps being lazy regarding this point.

Yeah, I know SMC is closely following the manga, but I wish we could get more good/evil characters development, and I’m missing a little the “filler episodes stuff” we had in the old anime.

But I feel like I’m gonna like this new arc, more than the first one .

By: Mal'valen

Mal'valen — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 18:02:01 +0000

This series is meant to stay true to the manga, so it doesn’t surprise me in the least that Koan didn’t get more than one episode. If you don’t like the manga storyline, you’re already not going to like Crystal very much.

Personally, I’m a bigger fan of the manga than the original anime.

By: saintfighteraqua

saintfighteraqua — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 06:00:46 +0000

Toei is such a lazy company. I’m so grateful to be getting Crystal…and streaming for free! But they are so lazy and cheap.

By: saintfighteraqua

saintfighteraqua — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 05:58:42 +0000

Maybe Motoki kicked the out for damages.

By: saintfighteraqua

saintfighteraqua — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 05:57:25 +0000

You’re correct, the Crown Fruit Parlor is a separate place in both the new and original anime and manga. Starting with R they stopped hanging out at the arcade as often…maybe because the base was there at one time?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 01:46:30 +0000

I was disappointed about no new opening, ending or transformation and then I remembered, Classic had two openings, but there were 46 episodes and until episode 24 we only had Usagi, Ami and Rei in the opening, so if I really think about it 2 versions of the same opening in 26 episodes is enough, i mean, One Piece, the most important franchise of Toei right now, gets horrible animation and a new opening every ~60 episodes… So we’ll probably/hopefully get new opening every ~26 episodes, so maybe, next arc? Or maybe Crystal will be sorted like: Crystal, Infinity, Dream and Stars, so 4 completely new opening sequences (with different versions) … I would love 2 versions for Infinity, where mystery shadow girls turns out to be th outer senshi, I loved that mystery in the old openings

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 18:01:55 +0000

I completely agree with Tomiko2014. New opening and ending sequences were always something to look forward to in the original anime and while I still like Crystal, I think it’s pretty clear that there is a serious lack of effort going into this series on the part of Toei. There are tons of very obvious animation problems, no changes in Sailor Moon’s transformation, anticlimactic battles (particularly in the final episode in the original arc), etc.

I understand that unlike the original anime, it follows the manga VERY closely (almost to a fault), but Crystal had the opportunity to bring together the best of both worlds here and they really missed that opportunity. It’s really too bad that another animation studio couldn’t have headed the new series given some of the care and detail going into some currently airing/recently aired anime.

Overall, I think Toei is far more interested in selling merchandise and the actual anime it’s based on becomes almost an afterthought.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:34:12 +0000

I guess I’m just confused by the “default” thing, because they don’t seem to be hanging out there any more than they would normally.

By: Tomiko2014

Tomiko2014 — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 20:47:52 +0000

I feel disappointed with the series. No new opening scene, no new ending scene and no new transformation CGI. Still it’s a great anime. I love Sailor Moon, but they need to make more effort.