I'm with you there... it completely upsets the balance of something that's otherwise, I don't know, acceptable in fandom?

Sevelle wrote:

You know the sad thing is, now that I have money to buy box sets . . . it's pretty damn hard to find the series of Sailor Moon.

That would be because the license ran out, and so the DVDs from ADV (First season and R) and Geneon (S, SuperS, and the three movies) are OOP.  Pile on to this that Geneon no longer exists as a distributor, and it's a pile of bad news for R1 Sailor Moon fans who didn't get the DVDs when they were available.  Even the manga license Tokyopop had expired long ago.

Also, I'm pretty sure that Naoko Takeuchi and/or Toei have locked down the license of Sailor Moon (outside of Japan, I presume), so who knows if or when it will ever be re-released...

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Tokyopop stated at ComiCon 2006 (or it might have been Anime Expo 2006) that they would like to relicense the manga.  I'm assuming that any licensing company would love to get their hands on the anime, if they could for a reasonable price.  They could milk it just like ADV milks Eva, Funimation milks DBZ, and Bandai Entertainment milks Cowboy Bebop.  It's well known in the mainstream, and is quite the favorite of little kids even today.  Not to mention the teens and adults.

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I have never seen the dubs of S or SuperS, but I know I'd be sad if they redid any of the series without Susan Roman as "Lita."  Maybe I'm just not remembering it all that clearly, or I've got rose tinted glasses when it comes to my favorite character, but I do believe I thought she did a good job with her slightly gravelly voice, etc.

Not that it matters, sub elitist here!

I just remember that Susan Roman did Lita and Terri Hawkes was Serena for most of classic and R.  Now if it were listing the seiyuu for the Japanese version, I can rattle most of them off without thinking.  But then again, I have a bizarre obsession with Hisakawa Aya...

Aaah, ya gotta love incestuous cousins! Because, of course, it's much better to have relatives sleeping with each other than to just have two lesbians.

I'm ticked that I didn't get the entire S season! I got the first two discs. That is my favorite season out of the four dubbed ones. I've yet to see StarS, though. (I do own the whole manga series.)

Out of all the dub voices, Amara/Haruka's voice is my favorite. It's sort of androgenous...the first thing I thought when I heard it is, "Yup, she sounds like she should be playing left wing for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Perfect!" As far as her name goes? I think they should have went with Erica. Not only would it have worked with the meaning of her name (Erika is the female version of Erik, which means ruler...works with her meaning! ) However, Amara works better, as far as trying to get the name to "look" right with the mouth movement.

And you gotta love that any of the male villians who looked and acted feminine were instantly female. I don't have a favorite villian...but I loved Zoi's laugh in the dub.

Sevelle wrote:

I knew that, hello. It ran out when I was a Junior in High School.

I didn't know you knew.  I was just trying to provide some helpful information just in case.  At any rate, Shattered learned something new from it.

ShatteredMirror wrote:

Yes, he did. Shattered was never an enormous fan of the pretty soldiers, but he does appreciate them for being his introduction to anime eye candy.

They're "the boom anime babes that make you think the wrong thing?"

You really never know when or where you might find some of the singles or boxsets of BSSM.  I've known one person who stumbled across the ADV boxset for Classic, like-new condition, for $20 at a pawn shop.  I occasionally come across the movies in non-anime focused comic book stores (and from now on, I might start buying them--have an extra set and to sell/give away.)  I really wish the series could get relicensed.  I know during a recent poll at ANN, Toei had asked them to poll about what series people would like to see available for digital download (unfortunately, there was no option to say you wanted a DVD release) and Sailor Moon 'won' by a huge margin.  Unfortunately, I can't find the results on the Poll page anymore, and I'm too lazy to dig around currently.

That really is a high margin.

Oh, and Pink Sugar Heart Attack ftw.

ShatteredMirror wrote:

Oh, and Pink Sugar Heart Attack ftw.

How can that attack be so lame and so awesome all at the same time? It doesn't work half the time, and when it does it just makes the bad guys go "Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow." 

I loved it when Jadeite got run over by a plane. I thought Zoicite's death scene was the most romantic and sad, the way he died in Kunzite's arms...

I'm rewatching it too. I'm on S right now, hence my amusement with Pink Sugar Heart Attack... and the senshi laughing at the fact that Usagi never really changes, even after becoming Neo Queen Serenity she's kind of an airhead (no kanji in her note!).

Maybe I'll get through it because hard-hearted punk that I am, nothing makes me cry.