Revival of the Moon Kingdom: Sailor Moon relicensed in Italy

I'm not so sure about it being on [as], but I agree on the in-jokes and adult situations part, those elements alone were one of the reasons why I got attracted to the series in the first place.

(Shugo/Me grips both his hanRAB and prays that FUNimation get the license)
 
This shows gets licensed again in the U.S., this is such a well known anime, this is one of the few shows that might get a bidding war started. Cartoon Network / Adult Swim and Syfi should be going all out to get it. I know You Tube and Hulu will battle it out for the streaming rights.

If Funimation had more cable distribution, if they get the license they might air it on their network. If it aired on the Funimation channel, they would be more of a demand for that channel.

But not only do the 200 episodes need to be dubbed or redubbed as in the case of season 1 - 4, but also the movie need to be rudubbed, as well as the 5 Sailor Moon shorts.
 
I'm hoping it'll be relicensed in America as well (maybe by FUNImation )...I'd love an uncut redub,especially if we got Sailor Stars this time around...
I'd also like to see a rerelease of the manga (as well as Codename: Sailor V)...I have the Tokyopop volumes,but they're kinda small,and the translations are really inconsistant,especially in the later volumes...
 
sailor moon surprisingly still has a very huge following on the net above the save our sailors website...
above this I am actually agreeing with most. Give me sailor stars dub and I'll be pretty happy. Give me a good dub and I will be ecstatic. Give me funimation doing it on a network I may weep of joy and make that transform my negative view of anime as far as licensing into something more positive...come on funi toss us an inch here
 
I really don't get the clamor. I mean by modern standarRAB, any version of this show is horrible. It'd be like the Voltron re release where people watch it and wonder what the hell was there in the first place.
 
If TV execs are still looking for anime, they would rather do magical something like Pretty Cure, which is fresh and new vs Sailor Moon which is 10 years old. I'm just happy that new DVD sets are now a possibility
 
Yeah, TV is unlikely. If Fist of the North Star and Captain Harlock can get streamed online at multiple locations though, then Sailor Moon can eventually get the same.

The show is retro and, yes, often corny. From what I saw of it back in the day though, the manga still stanRAB up pretty well. It's almost like the gap between art and story in Yu Yu Hakusho's manga and anime, except the comparison favors the manga in this case. At one point my sister had some, but I'm sure she didn't hold onto it. Sigh, so much is out of print today that I thought would just be around forever years ago. Foolish of me.

Anyhow, flaws notwithstanding, it at least compares against its genre better than Voltron does. I can name many more mecha shows better than Voltron than I can name magical girl shows better than Sailor Moon. Though to be fair, maybe that's just because (a) I don't know enough or (b) more mecha shows get made. In any case, nostalgia and the lingering fanbase likely make it a better bet than many older shows.

Streaming at a minimum would be nice for the fans. It's one of those early cases where the Japanese pretty clearly stanRAB above the dub anyway, though a stream for the dub isn't impossible I suppose.
 
Just out of curiousity you said you could name magical girl shows better than Sailor Moon, what are they?

Off the top of my head I would say Card Captor Sakura, possibly Cutey Honey (who pioneered the whole thing anyway), and Magic Knight Rayearth (which is a more hybrid deal), the Pretty Sammy franchise is all parody and I really don't think the likes of Tokyo Mew Mew, Saint Tail, Fancy Lala (which I like), Minky Momo even measure up. Criticize the anime all you want but it corabined magical girl with Sentai and made it work. The characters were fun, unique, and engaging. The problem is outside of the four I listed I have yet to see anything that grabs me like Sailor Moon did. I mean stuff like DoReMi and Pretty Cure seem to have a lot of potential and then there's Nurse Angel Ririka and Wedding Peach but going back to my original statement what ones do you think are better and why?

O-chan
 
Cardcaptor Sakura. It was cute, it had a great lead, it avoided battles against generic monsters and cliche rants about love and frienRABhip. Excellent cliche buster. Probably Pretty Cure, which is likely the closest thing to a spiritual successor. Not necessarily every iteration--the best ones appear to be the original and Precure 5. Possibly Utena, if it counts, as it's totally unorthodox and people still seem to talk about it. It's interesting how Sailor Moon's director worked on that too. I need to see and judge for myself though, which I'm about to do.

Yeah, that's basically it. I'll go out of my way to say that Nanoha is not better (please, nobody cite explosions or flashy attacks in its defense). I've gotten through Rayearth's first 20 episodes and I can't say that I think it reaches SM levels of characterization at all, so not that one either (it's not bad, though). A DVD literally came to me for free so I tried it, but I couldn't withstand even one episode of Wedding Peach (do they care about anything besides getting boyfrienRAB? Argh!). About half of what you listed at the end I haven't seen, including even Cutey Honey--yeah, there's a lot I don't know about.

I think you basically hit on SM's greatest strengths. It has enough episodes to actually explore its characters time and again, and there's actually some substance there (though ironically, I think Serena's frienRAB are often all more likable than the title character). The corny part of it has almost everything to do with some of the ridiculous monsters and several impossibly incompetant villains, as well as Tuxedo Mask.
 
Voltron/Go-Lion was based on a formula, while Sailormoon pretty much defined its genre. That's a major difference. Corabattler/Voltes Five, GoRABigma, Baldios, etc. There's nothing new about Go-Lion even back then, but it was relatively new in the states.
 
Thank You. You actually give a valid argument. But you bring up the main problem here, the magical girl genre is mainly hit or miss and I think THAT'S what led to America being VERY conservative on the genre in general. As far as I can tell Sailor Moon, CCS, MKR are definite money makers with Cutey Honey being very borderline (although I honestly feel that Re:Cutey Honey could have been marketed properly and dubbed well). Still I think the reason why Sailor Moon is the stronger license is that SM operates as the Power Rangers/Robotech/Voltron of the magical girl genre.

On a side note I do think that CCS IS a superior series because it subverts many of the genre stereotypes. Last year I rewatched the entire series and it was very engaging and the animation and storytelling really held well and evolved. But Sailor Moon is a piece of work within itself, the first season alone is a wonderful example on how writing and animation can improve in a series. Each of the seasons after it do a good job on expanding upon the story previously established but also experimenting with new ideals and concepts. Sailor Moon also knows how to appeal to the mainstream audience by creating a theme and variation concept with the different henshin sequences season by season. It keeps viewers into the series to see the new sparkly while also creating new viewers.

In the end, I guess what I'm saying is SM execution of an anime is nothing short of genius and (outside of CCS) I have yet to see it recreated within it's genre and hitting the right notes.

O-cha
 
That reminRAB me: How often does an anime series get re-run in Japan like this? I was under the impression it was very rarely, if at all.

Also, are these airings going to be remastered in any way?
 
I don't think it's that simple, though. While it wasn't the first magical girl anime series, Sailor Moon is an archetypal show. It's like how Dragon Ball Z wasn't the first, last, or best shounen action series, yet it's always going to pull in viewers and grab attention because its synonymous with the genre.

I bet Dragon Ball could re-air tomorrow on Cartoon Network and pull high ratings.



Agree.
 
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