Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon Crystal

I loved every little detail of this new remake. For me it was very faithful to the original resource the manga. As a very big fan of Sailor Moon, I can truly say I enjoyed this new series, I really loved that the manga is brought to life. Now Usagi may finally get her wedding in the anime. Stars in the manga is my favourite season. The art is very beautiful, the character are not bland like some others say, it's just that the original story focus is Usagi and Mamoru. But it gets better when the next season mugen arc comes and later on.I love to see the new technology the senshi use like laptops and new devices. It's like Sailor Moon grow up just as me. The story is the original one with no fillers. You could say it's part of the Sailor Moon universe. I give this series a 10

If this is "closer to the manga", then the 90s' anime did the source material a big favor. I grew up on the dubbed version of the 90s anime, and later rewatched it subbed. I loved it, and I genuinely enjoyed the characters. But Crystal has made me dislike the character of Usagi, as well as find her fairly useless. It's just the same cycle over and over. Sailor Moon cries, senshi protect her, senshi lose energy and collapse, Sailor Moon cries, they stand up repowered or she "remembers the power of friendship and gets re-energized herself". There's no variation to it. In addition, the 90s'anime gave me an emotional gut punch. The only time I felt emotional watching this was during the initial nostalgia factor of meeting the senshi over the first few episodes. In the 90s' anime, she was childish, but endearing. Here... she's lost the endearing quality. Animation? Terrible. SM is a powerhouse of a classic, and it deserved better. The CG is horrible. Don't get me wrong, I am not against CG, but do it well if you are going to do it. The drawn animation was also done incredibly poorly. The people who made this should be ashamed of taking something so legendary and stomping it into the mud. It should have been handled with the respect and care it deserves. Voice acting was mostly okay, with the exception of the "big bad" in Season 1. The lines were delivered like a petulant child. In regards to the dialogues themselves, they were poorly done. They feel clunky and unnatural. They needed serious rewriting to make them flow better in this media. If you loved the 90s' anime and want something SM related, I recommend the live action series. It starts off a little clunky, but get good at around episode 8, and the acting improves a lot. It also delivers some good emotional gut punches that Crystal can't pull off.

I'm a big fan of the original series and the manga. This was a huge let down. The animation quality is dreadful, lazy, sloppy and ugly. I think this is best illustrated by Usagi's buns, they are consistently drawn on top of her hair when clearly they should be behind her hair and peaking out over the top; this looks so ugly. Considering major details of the main character are so badly drawn you know what to expect from the rest of the art. The story in the original anime and manga also came across as very kitsch, I think this was a huge part ofits charm. The remake comes across as overbearing and too serious, 0% kitsch. The art tries to emulate the manga style somewhat, but the manga designs where a lot cuter, Takeuchi had a very unique scribbling style of drawing. When these were adapted for the original anime big changes were made but the new designs worked really well in the context. The new designs emulate the manga designs too closely but lacking the charm, they come off almost as bad as modern American CGI. Some things I can't blame on the remake, the manga character development was never a strong point. Everyone but Usagi/Chibi/Marmora are quickly discarded ending up as carbon clones, only there to support the main characters. If anything the original anime managed to improve on this, in spite of major story rewrites being made to target the show at a younger audience than the manga was aimed at. I was really hoping to recapture some of the magic of when I was younger and watched the anime (the german version because it wasn't on UK TV) and read the manga. Rewatching the anime 15 years later in Japanese was still a really joyful experience. Watching this anime is something I'd rather forget about. It doesn't change how I feel about the first two works but it's definitely a huge disappointment.

Personally, I was a bit on the edge when watching the trailers. The first couple of episodes really put me off as I am a big fan of the older series and manga, a remake was music to my ears. The artwork takes a load of time getting used to. Not to mention the 100% CG transformations making the characters look like rubber dolls being stretched to fit their costumes properly. There was really little effort put into every frame in terms of animation that I felt sick to my stomach just watching it, but... as a loyal fan, I swallowed that and continued anyway. As it progresses,they improved on the artwork which was a huge relief for me, after all, this IS a remake no? And then here comes the big punch. Yes, they are trying to do justice and provide as much fan service possible for the blockbuster series but I feel that it's rushed and they focused more on Usagi and Mamoru compared to the rest. Every other character deemed pretty much useless. It's all 80% UsaMamo 15% Random story 5% on the other sailor scouts. Overall, it's quite enjoyable. You get to see many scenes and fan service from the manga and the music is amazing, hands down on that. If you are going to compare this to the older series AND manga, please do yourself the favour and do NOT watch it. But if you would love to relive your childhood, please do! Plus, this is only the first season. I am DEFINITELY looking forward to the following seasons, especially the final Sailor Stars season; that's IF it reaches that.

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