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I watched Sailor Moon Crystal on Saturday with softlykarou. I liked it.
It's difficult for me to really say much more than that, because unlike a lot of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time, I didn't grow up with Sailor Moon and don't have any fond memories of it. I didn't even see any anime at all until I was 19--and since the first ( Read more... )
It's difficult for me to really say much more than that, because unlike a lot of the people who have been waiting for this for a long time, I didn't grow up with Sailor Moon and don't have any fond memories of it. I didn't even see any anime at all until I was 19--and since the first ( Read more... )
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I went and looked this up to see if there was anything definitive, and you're right: The animated series [Utena] was directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara, who had just left his job as episode director of the very popular anime "Sailor Moon." Ikuhara stated that although Sailor Moon had a big influence on his later works, his decision to leave the project was due to his frustration with lack of control over the direction that the show went in.
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I had no idea that Ikuhara actually worked directly on Sailor Moon. Huh.
You're over-thinking the battles.
It's more that I'd rather have something different, but I can't blame Sailor Moon for not being what I want because it's never been what I want, it was never advertised as being what I want, and it makes no sense for the original construction of the modern magical girl genre to be in any way a deconstruction. I like the idea of a story about how being a magical girl is much more a curse than a blessing and it ( ... )
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