Age swaps/body swaps are a dumb, overused gimmick and I’m glad not much time was wasted on this.

I’m pretty sure you’d expect a mirror to reflect something, right? But if they’re funhouse mirrors, I’d just assume it was a gimmick.

Chibi-Usa kissing a horse (even a magical, talking horse) is still ick, but at least he’s not creeping on her while she’s undressing. That scene in the original anime was just uncalled for.

Speaking of ick, is Rei really meant to be a child with Tiger’s Eye? I thought it was more of a chibi version of herself in the manga. She does look pretty young transforming, though, but I could say that for a lot of the senshi in these pics. Then again, they are 14 years old, so maybe now they look more like it?

I do like that Rei’s grandfather is 100% less of a shriveled old perverted creeper.

“Couching” up blood sounds really uncomfortable.

Minako’s ensemble in the manga was a lot prettier, but if you want to talk fashion disasters, just… Artemis… human Artemis. It’s like Naoko-sensei got super lazy. “Add a bunch of crescent moons, cut some holes here and there, throw in some weird strap things, and done!” I heard she can draw his cat form the fastest–five seconds–so maybe this is just an extension of that IDGAF attitude. It’s a shame, I like Artemis, but I just want to drag him clothes shopping, even though I really hate that.

At least he’s less of a perv here too. What was with all the animal characters falling for humans? Ew.

Speaking of animals, how can Crystal consistently mess up the cats this badly? They look so weird. How hard is it to draw a cat??

The pacing problems sound pretty much like I expected from them trying to cram an entire arc into two movies. Sigh.

Eager to see Hotaru and the Outer Senshi again.

I’d say one of my biggest complaints about Crystal is the blandness of the characters outside the main group (and some people would even debate that). Why does Naoko-sensei even bother to design such interesting characters when they’re just going to get killed off a couple pages/scenes later? Filler can be boring, but so are one-dimensional characters.

And the show is 90% less queer, too. Maybe some people don’t care, but it’s disappointing. I wish she had let Kunzite and Zoisite become a real couple after seeing their popularity with fans. Instead we got the pointless and insulting Senshi x Shitennou pairing (I will gripe about that until the day I did), Fish Eye is just a MotD (and why is Ami always paired with the femboys?), no ambiguously gay Fiore (I know, he was a movie only character), and while I’m in the minority of liking the Starlights as 100% female, I know a lot of trans/GNC people are gonna be disappointed if Stars gets made some time in the next 20 years.