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Post by thewhiterabbit on Jun 13, 2008 3:14:31 GMT -5
Aha. I remember the first time I saw this. I remember thinking it was hilarious, yet kind of sad, and I'm so glad Toon-Makers didn't get the dub. I always wondered if they were going to have Mamoru/Tuxedo Karmen since he isn't in that clip. Also... those boat/wind sail things. WTF.
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Post by Lady Lunic on Jun 15, 2008 5:43:04 GMT -5
Yeah I've seen this, but am i the only person who thinks the dub was alright. I love the dub, admittedly nothing will beat the original but save the deleted scenes etc the dub was alright.
But hey that version that was proposed was alot like some other shows i use to watch when i little (Starla and the Jewel riders anyone?) But still thank god!
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Post by AmyAnn on Jun 15, 2008 7:01:04 GMT -5
The dub was alright, yes, but that's a whole other debate. I don't get why they put Ami/Mercury in a wheelchair, why Rei/Mars is african-american (although, I thought it would be nice to have an african-american senshi), why Usagi has no odangos, which we all know her for, where Tuxedo Mask is and why it goes from real world to animation
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Post by Carla on Jun 15, 2008 8:16:13 GMT -5
The girl in the wheelchair is... O.O
Is this for real?
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Post by thewhiterabbit on Jun 16, 2008 20:58:00 GMT -5
I found an interview with Rocky Solotoff, the president and founder of Toon Makers, who wrote, directed and produced the the pilot/clip. I picked out some of the best bits which answer some of our questions about ethnicity, the paraplegic senshi, luna and Tuxedo Karmen. Hopefully someone else finds this interesting too. RS: What we did was we tried to Americanize the animation... You know we'd always like to have more money to make it look better, but based on the money that we had and the mandate of coming up with something that had more of an American taste to it is why we created the animation with that look.Interviewer: Yeah, that's another one of the mysteries. I always wondered why you choose do different ethnical backgrounds for the characters.RS: Well, we were, you know, not exactly leading edge at the time. But, we did want to have a nice balance to be able to expand our audience. And in anime they very rarely portray anybody of color. And that's what anime does is they are looking for a world-wide market. So, even Asian characters aren't really portrayed as Asian. So, we decided to, kind of, update the idea and make it as politically correct and diverse as possible. And that's why we even brought in one of the sailors as paraplegic.Interviewer: Luna is a white cat. What was the decision behind that?RS: In the original animation there was a white and a black cat. Who, I guess, served as a telepathic link to Sailor Moon's mother. And the reason we put the white cat in the live action, and also in the animation, was that this white cat was sent to earth as pretty much someone who looks over Sailor Moon.Interviewer: So, witchcraft, or anything like that, didn't have anything to do with the decision to change from a black to a white cat, right?RS: Well, there was actually a white and a black cat in the original animation and we just chose to use the white cat for the pilot.Interviewer: That makes sense. Was Tuxedo Mask in the pilot?RS: Yes, he was.The full interview and article are here www.animefringe.com/magazine/01.06/feature/2/index.php3
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Post by Carla on Jun 17, 2008 11:27:25 GMT -5
Maybe it sounds crazy But I SO want to see their Tuxedo Kamen
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Post by AmyAnn on Jun 17, 2008 11:33:46 GMT -5
I didn't see him 0.0 I have to watch again
and...they're confusing Luna and Artemis...
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Post by Carla on Jun 17, 2008 13:38:40 GMT -5
^He doesn't appear in the clip, that's why you haven't seen him
About the cats the mixed Luna and Artemis in one scary disturbing fluffy cat O.O
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Post by tru0001 on Jul 3, 2008 6:09:57 GMT -5
Well since PGSM was produced by the company that makes Super Sentai (Power Rangers) why can't Saban or Disney dub that? Oh yeah I forgot.... the senshi are asian in their senshi form if they do that.... lol
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