Comments on: New episodes of Sailor Moon Crystal are coming in about a week and we still have no news about an English release

By: saintfighteraqua

saintfighteraqua — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 06:45:15 +0000

Sorry, but that’s just silly. The complaints were legitimate. Ugly animation frames, sloppy art, sloppy animation, dumb character and story development, yet we still stood by it and supported it.
Honestly, a company had better listen to it’s fan base if they want to succeed, the fans are who keeps them in business.
It looks to me as if they listened to the fans and fixed what we were complaining about (at least the trailers suggest that).

Oh, and they are streaming it in the USA same day as broadcast, so yay!

By: MarthKoopa

MarthKoopa — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 02:32:28 +0000

Simulcasts are always announced just before they start airing. Crunchyroll has it now

By: Neon Genesis

Neon Genesis — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 06:32:33 +0000

You’re jumping the gun here. It’s still a few days until it premieres and Viz has been in Japan in business meetings, most likely negotiating the rights. All we can do is wait and see but pointing fingers at others and being judgmental isn’t helping in this situation and it makes you seem a bit hypocritical.

By: Aurelia

Aurelia — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 22:14:44 +0000

So because we complain, Toei has the right to impose restraints regarding the airing of the new season ? So we don’t have any right to criticize something imperfect like the first two seasons of Crystal ? We should love everything about Crystal even if it has some crappy points, just to ensure that Toei keeps on airing the show worldwide for free ? Or dislike and simply shut up and censor ourselves ? And yourself, are you perfect or virtuous in any way ? And if ever your boss decides not to pay you because you disobeyed him (for any reason), will you then say : “He’s right to chastise me this way [even if it’s illegal…], I had no right to complain, he’s the boss after all.”
This is blackmail and submission… I really can’t understand people who has such anti-democratic and fallacious arguments…

Moreover, if Toei decides to air Crystal only in Japan for the first time, I hope the company will justify itself with better arguments than : “Yeah guys, you didn’t like our previous works but you want to see the new ones ? Ok, just to punish you, you will have to wait if you live outside Japan.”, because this is so childish…

By: Aurelia

Aurelia — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:59:01 +0000

I don’t know the work that Viz does, but thank you for the precisions, if I ever have to watch Crystal with English subtitles or dubbing, I will take care not to take those made by Viz..

By: BJ Wanlund

BJ Wanlund — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:07:29 +0000

For me, I had a MUCH bigger problem with the original DiC dub. Everything else about the dub was an improvement over the Japanese version EXCEPT for Sailor Moon’s extremely grating voice. That didn’t change one iota between the original Japanese version and the original dubs until the Cloverway dub cast took over. Stephanie Sheh actually did the impossible and made SM listenable. I can handle the original Japanese music, original almost everything else, but they made Sailor Moon listenable for me, so I am beyond grateful to Viz for that one.

By: Allie

Allie — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:01:19 +0000

I can’t help but laugh at this situation. I mean, 99.9% of people talking about the first 26 episodes of Crystal were complaining…CONSTANTLY. This is the repercussions of complaining, people. This is all on you guys.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:42:13 +0000

Is it just me? Or does listening to Stephanie Cheh say “Mamo” without the “chan” drive anyone else insane? I only watched the dubs to see the improved animation but it was pretty painful and had to finally stop.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:37:42 +0000

I can’t imagine the mistakes would be all that much worse than Viz though! i know enough japanese to know that half the time they just put in scentences that have zero true translation whatsoever!

By: Williukea

Williukea — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 22:38:02 +0000

You know Viz is actually dubtitling the series – meaning the same translation, though not always fitting, is used for Viz’s dub. If you want best understanding quality, watch fansubs. As long as it’s a good and popular group and it’s not just random person doing random things (ugh, Jewelpet Magical Change subs…) it’ll be fine. Official subs usually adapt subs to the western audience to understand, even translating food names like takoyaki and okonomiyaki. Fansubs usually trust their viewers to know at least a little bit about Japan (basic facts) and explain the more difficult ones while officials just change whole stuff so spoiled americans won’t be confused