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The new art for Sailor Moon Crystal

I actually have nice things to say about the new promo images for the next season of Sailor Moon Crystal (3rd season/infinity arc) -

- The eyes look much better, more lively.  Chibi Usa in particular looks MUCH MUCH better with a rounder eye shape.

- The promo images appear to have a bit more movement to them then the original Crystal art did.  I am hoping this will translate to less stiff animation and more crazy magical girl poses for the next season.

- While I would say the hair is still a bit too detailed for budgeted animation, it looks like they are trying to simplify the hair shapes which would be a GOOD MOVE because really, you shouldn’t spend your entire budget on hair.

-  The girls actually look a lot girlier, which for a magical girl series, is a GOOD thing.  I still maintain that original designer was much better at designing men.

- The head shapes/perspective/and anatomy all have improvements, they are far from perfect but I have an easier time seeing decent animation coming from this then the old character designs.

Overall I am happy.  Are these designs the best? Well no.  There are still a few animators from the original anime that blow these designs out of the water.  But they are an improvement.  I’m hoping this means the new Crystal staff is taking better care then the old one, and that we’ll have a better season as a result.

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Feelings about SMC’s renewal

Warning, SMC criticism below.

Well it was confirmed, Sailor Moon Crystal got renewed.

I don’t know how to feel about this, I kind of was okay if the show got cancelled.  Like I am basically of two minds about this.

One part of me would have been relieved if Crystal was gone and we all just forgot about it.  Even with the moments where Crystal was okay I’d still say overall it was a massive disappointment.  The animation was not there, the art was not there, the character development was not there and the story was just not there.  Everything I had hoped for in a reboot more faithful to the manga just got squashed every 2 to 3 weeks that Crystal has aired.

On the other hand despite all this I am STILL interested in seeing the Dream Arc and the Stars Arc animated since they had the most massive differences in the original anime.  I especially want to see the Stars arc and all the senshi we never saw.

I am however not all that interested in seeing the Infinity Arc/S retold.  Though it’s one of my favorite arcs, I really don’t know how Crystal will do with it.  There’s the additional problem of S in the original anime being one of the STRONGEST seasons the anime had.  It also wasn’t all that different from the overarching story of the manga (and the differences the anime did have I really appreciated, like more time with the outer senshi and villains.)  I really do not think Crystal will be able to compete with the quality of animation and storytelling that the original S anime had, heck even if they get a competent director you can just tell that Toei is really not shelling out money for Sailor Moon these days (unless it’s for merchandising.)

Apparently this next Crystal arc will have a new director, so all I can do is hope beyond hopes this next director knows what they are doing.  I really would love for their to be huge improvements in the character designs, animation and overall storytelling.  The infinity arc needs those improvements too, like if you can’t make my girl Saturn badass, you better not even try.

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Yeah I’m really hoping this new director will do the franchise some justice. Even if sailor moon Crystal greatly improves we’ll still have those inconsistent first two arcs. And infinity arc is so heavy and is just an amazing arc I can’t imagine them butchering it. But damn what is the likelihood we’ll ever get another Sailor Moon anime (either never or we’ll be left hanging for another 20 years).

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Yeah a big reason why I find Sailor Moon Crystal’s failings disappointing was because this was supposed to be THE CHANCE for us to get a more manga faithful Sailor Moon.  I was really hoping for something with tighter animation and storytelling.  Plus so many other reboots have been done so well (Slayers and Full Metal Alchemist were phenomenal) that I don’t get why the Sailor Moon franchise didn’t get the respect it deserves.

Unless Naoko ends up disappointed with this I really don’t see another anime ever happening, or like you said it’ll take AT LEAST another 20 years.

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Feelings about SMC’s renewal

Warning, SMC criticism below.

Well it was confirmed, Sailor Moon Crystal got renewed.

I don’t know how to feel about this, I kind of was okay if the show got cancelled.  Like I am basically of two minds about this.

One part of me would have been relieved if Crystal was gone and we all just forgot about it.  Even with the moments where Crystal was okay I’d still say overall it was a massive disappointment.  The animation was not there, the art was not there, the character development was not there and the story was just not there.  Everything I had hoped for in a reboot more faithful to the manga just got squashed every 2 to 3 weeks that Crystal has aired.

On the other hand despite all this I am STILL interested in seeing the Dream Arc and the Stars Arc animated since they had the most massive differences in the original anime.  I especially want to see the Stars arc and all the senshi we never saw.

I am however not all that interested in seeing the Infinity Arc/S retold.  Though it’s one of my favorite arcs, I really don’t know how Crystal will do with it.  There’s the additional problem of S in the original anime being one of the STRONGEST seasons the anime had.  It also wasn’t all that different from the overarching story of the manga (and the differences the anime did have I really appreciated, like more time with the outer senshi and villains.)  I really do not think Crystal will be able to compete with the quality of animation and storytelling that the original S anime had, heck even if they get a competent director you can just tell that Toei is really not shelling out money for Sailor Moon these days (unless it’s for merchandising.)

Apparently this next Crystal arc will have a new director, so all I can do is hope beyond hopes this next director knows what they are doing.  I really would love for their to be huge improvements in the character designs, animation and overall storytelling.  The infinity arc needs those improvements too, like if you can’t make my girl Saturn badass, you better not even try.

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there is no beauty in a world that is completely S T I L L

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Japanese fans are not happy either about Crystal’s ugly designs and animation and decided to correct them themselves and tweet it directly to Osabu and Munehisa Sakai LOL!.

Click on the pictures for a higher resolution!.

Credits go to cerepalla Part II.

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I love it when corrections actually look more faithful to the manga because one of the arguments I see defending the Crystal art is often that it’s “inspired by Naoko.”

But these fan edits actually look FAR more like Naoko’s work and are much more appealing.

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women’s appreciation week | day seven → free choice:

↳ haruka and michiru

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What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? -Philip Zimbardo

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Sailor Uranus & Sailor Neptune concept art by Ikuko Itoh (伊藤郁子) Scanned by silvermoon424

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A few thoughts on the last crystal episode:

- Chibi Usa's character design still bothers me more then anything, the voice actress is doing a good job of making her sound like a kid but her face sometimes ruins it.

- Nice to have an Ami episode, but like with the Rei episode, it would have been a lot better if we had gotten ANY development of the friendships of the inner senshi in the Dark Kingdom arc.  It's still a little hard to buy the friendships which makes it less emotionally powerful when they get abducted.

- The scene where Mamoru forced a forehead kiss on Usagi made me MASSIVELY uncomfortable and made him seem like a creep.  I never read the manga scene as him forcing himself on her (it always seemed like he was just sweetly calming her down and that she was fine with being kissed) and I'm really not sure why the Crystal staff decided to depict it this way.  It really felt like Mamoru was not respecting Usagi's boundaries and she only gave in because she didn't want to fight.  The tone was just completely wrong and completely CREEPY.

So yeah, not a bad episode in ways but there were definitely some things wrong with it.  I actually think I would have liked it if not for the Mamoru/Usagi scene.

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When you're holding a shot for something that is supposed to be an emotional scene (like one of your main character's best friends getting kidnapped at the end of an episode,) you might want to consider making sure the art doesn't make your viewer squint and say, "Wat."

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janky-painted-butterfly reblogged your post Those square eyes on Chibi Usa in Crys... and added:

Apparently they took Mamoru’s eyes, because she’s his kid but looks nothing at all like him

Yeah I've heard people say that but it makes no sense to me because really she's supposed to be the spitting image of Usagi and while it would have been interesting if she did look a little like Mamoru... she has NEVER been drawn that way and the way they are trying to do it just doesn't work.

Those eyes just look disturbing on her because the harsh straight lines of her upper lid do not match with the HUGE round circles of her eyeballs.

Naoko never drew her that way.  Crystal should have just given Chibi Usa a variation on Usagi's eyes and kept them round.

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fighter x moon | requested by sailorwarsupreme

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