Comments on: Sailor Moon Crystal has ended with the release of Sailor Moon Cosmos Part 2

By: Codswallop

Codswallop — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 14:53:03 +0000

Great? Season 3 was dreadful.

By: Codswallop

Codswallop — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 14:52:28 +0000

Working on Crystal that long must have been such a chore.

By: Codswallop

Codswallop — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 14:51:34 +0000

Crystal will be remembered as one of the worst animes ever made.

By: Jeffrey Schwartz

Jeffrey Schwartz — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 16:23:46 +0000

That’s not how reboots work.

Nostalgia has a finite lifespan, and the “best quality” is not something that Toei is likely to fund after half a century. A second animated reboot is unlikely to happen, especially after 25+ years lol.

What you’ll see instead is slightly remastered/upscaled refreshes of the nineties anime, which will be redubbed and reprinted in perpetuity.

By: Seiya

Seiya — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:33:18 +0000

I’m grateful the Crystal reboot has ended. Some of us didn’t think Toei would finish adapting the manga since seasons one and two were of awful animation quality. Hopefully, once they reboot again in another 25+ years, they’ll give the Sailor Moon franchise the best quality out of the gate instead of waiting until halfway through.

By: CGC

CGC — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:23:09 +0000

So… maybe my frame my mind was in a whole separate area here. I believed as an opportunity to revive the franchise with the new Crystal adaption that we would head towards ‘surprises’ from Naoko and the organization itself. Some were speculating perhaps an extension to the story (6th potential arc) or something of equivalence to bring ‘more’ to die hard fans.
I’m surprised to see that all we got was subpar quality for season 1 and season 2, a great season 3 but a very-fast paced season 4 movie and 5? However maintaining the quality in S4 and S5 still deserves some praise.

I’m beginning to believe now that all of this was just a marketing propaganda to cash in and capitalize on a successful franchise… and nothing more.

By: Luke Yannuzzi

Luke Yannuzzi — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 15:58:36 +0000

I hope they don’t use the honorific dialogue for Sailor Moon Cosmos in English.

By: Fransisca

Fransisca — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 04:04:18 +0000

New series? Unfortunately, Naoko is too busy collaborating with luxury designers making wedding dresses and shoes with seven-inch heels to do much else.

Please look forward to new content from Naoko Takeuchi’s estate in 50 years!

By: saintfighteraqua

saintfighteraqua — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 03:44:38 +0000

It hardly seems ten years but sometimes it seems more like 20.
I’d love to have an announcement for a new series, but I’m not sure Naoko Takeuchi wants to go there. I wish she’d advise someone and hand it down Dragonball Super style, even if she is ready to move on, the fans are not.

By: Fransisca

Fransisca — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 03:22:34 +0000

If you watch the press conference from last night (the one where Nojima presents Mitsuishi with a bouquet of 99 red roses), it’s abundantly clear that there are no more animated adaptations in the works with this particular cast of actors.

The seiyuu for the four inner senshi and Tuxedo took turns spilling out their emotions to Mitsuishi about how much the past 10 years working on Crystal has meant to them. I think it’s a good way to bookend what is most likely the final chapter in the anime canon–for both audiences and the cast/crew who have given years of their time and talent to this franchise.

The musicals will probably wind down at some point as well, but those have always operated independently of any screen adaptations. I’m sure Adam will be busy in the next few years posting about Blu-Ray releases of those, as well as any re-re-re-remastered sparkly deluxe anniversary editions of whatever Kodansha and Toei are recycling from the nineties.