Re[2]: Magical girls (was: Fanime con)


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subject Re[2]: Magical girls (was: Fanime con)
date Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:56:12 -0500
     Just thought I would try to answer a few questions if I could.
     
    I thought that some bits of Sailor Moon (the original, I have only 
    seen a few of the English dubs --- I turned off the VCR in digust 
    afterwards) were *very* intelligent, especially in the way it tries 
    make commentaries about Japanese society.
     
     Total agree you have to watch carefully to see were they are making 
     statements though. And if you want to see some twisted and warped 
     plots this show has them espical after the first season. With some 
     real dangrous and cool characters once you get to know them. The don't 
     seem as intristing in the Dubbed version as the original. Could be 
     just me, but I doubt it. 
     
> Well, there's deemphasizing
> the violence to the point of incoherence. In particular, the
> episode "Day of Destiny," where the Sailor Scouts are slaughtered 
> one by one. DIC's script tried hard to insist that the Scouts
> were merely being taken prisoner, but it was obvious from the 
> visuals these girls were buying the farm. Judging by postings 
> on r.a.a., not even kids in the 8 and under age group were
> fooled -- parents were reporting that the wee tykes knew darned 
> well what was going on.
     
    >I hope that DIC gets the message too, that their dumbing down 
    >efforts failed to pass their own target audience.
     
     More then just the Violence is watered down the plot is to.
     The different seasons in genral cover some intresting questions and 
     developments. 
     
> I'm hoping to see the episode in the
> uncut original Japanese sooner or later,
     
     They Japanese originals are far better then the dubbed version
     
    Episodes.  The ending was a two-parter.  Yeah, they cut out a 
    half-hour for the big finale.  :(
     
> but I gather that the
> ending must have been similar to the first Superman movie, in 
> which time is turned back to before the whole thing started,
> and the problem of the deaths of four Sailor Scouts (or "Pretty 
> Soldiers," or bishojo senshi) is solved by making them didn't
> happen.
     
    >Something like that.  I haven't seen the discontinuity explained 
    >well at all.  Anyone here with a deep understanding of the 
    >Japanese series?  Hitoshi-samsaaa!  ^_^
     
     
     Being some what of a fan of this show and living in Japan myself here
     is what I under stand about what happen at the end of the first 
     sesson. You must go back to an earler epsd. were they were talking 
     about genzsho.(mispelled) And the fall of the original Silver 
     Millenium Kingdom. At the end of the attack when perrty much everyone 
     was dead the queen summuned forth the powers of the crystal to trap 
     the Yomua army and send here people to earth to be reincarnated. The 
     use of the crystal is very dangrous do to the fact you can easyly 
     drain all your life force and die during its use. but at full power 
     the crystal can more or less do anything. At the end of the first 
     season during the final battle Usagi had assumed her true form as 
     Princess Serinity, during the fight the spirits of the dead Senshi 
     came to her aid powering The crystal to full power which is how the 
     won. During the course of the fight Usagi is killed by the use of the 
     crystal. Her diying thoughts where that all she every wanted was for 
     her and her friends to have a normal life. As the crystal was still 
     powered up it took that as a command and reincarnated all of the 
     senshi back into there normal lifes with no memory of who the are.
     I hope this answers your question.
     
> DIC mangled or sliced out a whole layer of
> reference to Selene, Greek goddess of the Moon, and Endymion, 
> the handsome young man she loved.
     
    >It probably would've offended Bible belters.  Very few American 
    >cartoons even approach the subject of religion, must less other 
    >non-Christian varieties.
     
     There is a lot of subtal stuff that has been left out of the american
     version from what I have seen. This is also why the well probably 
     never do SmS and above (the 3rd season). because the editing whould 
     prove a little diffcult with the issues and quesstions that are 
     raised. And the fact the won of the new senshi that get introduced is 
     basicaly a physical incarnation of death does not help.
     
--Peace :) From Yokosuka, Japan

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