Wednesday, April 28th - 3:32 am
Update
- Jay
Navok
Live
Action Sailor Moon update (Episode 29 preview)
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You
may think Usagi is sad at seeing the ice cream melt. But she is actually
quite happy, as she has just considered the following: "Throw water
on Kuroki Mio, and ding-dong, the witch is dead." |
Preview from the official
Live Action Sailor Moon page. The preview from the Toei page was prepared earlier
this week.
Finally the enemy's spell was lifted and Ami has returned to the senshi's side.
The senshi hold each others hands and are delighted. What's left is for each to respectively awaken as a senshi, and regain their memories of the Princess. While Usagi and the others are singing Aino Minako's song during their celebration party for Ami, the real Aino Minako aka Sailor Venus
[WHY DO THEY HAVE TO SAY THIS EACH TIME? WHO DOES NOT KNOW THIS?] ponders the problem of the appearance of a rival- Kuroki Mio.
Having recently shaken Minako- the top idol- from her throne, Minako recalls the unusual sensation she felt from Kuroki Mio. And that premonition
comes home to roost as somehow, Kuroki Mio has transferred into Usagi's class!
Note that none of the diaries have been updated this week yet.
We have a new MS Paint thread in the forums; the second go around of our Motivational
Posters series. I thought it would be interesting to get entries from
front page readers in addition to forum members, so take a look at the thread
and what's required, and send in an entry
if you'd like. If we get a number of entries from non-forum members, I'll post
them in a separate thread, and people in the forums will vote on their
favourite. The winner will get a free forums account. No limit on the number
of entries, and regardless of whether you win the free account or not, I'll
include your entry in the article. (Obviously the free account contest is open
to non-forum members only, but those who do have accounts are highly
encouraged to contribute in the regular thread.)
Also in the forum, there's a thread
in the BSSM category on reminiscing about the DiC dub days, and discussing the
problems with current Sailor Moon fandom: why is it that the fanbases for so
many other shows which have gone off the air are so adamant in getting their
show back on the air (as YingGirl pointed out to me, there's even a Save
Our Pizza Cats page- note plenty of popups) while the Sailor Moon fanbase
often seems apathetic? The energy we had those days back in 1996 appears to have
dissipated years ago. Apart from SOS's
efforts, the fanbase which used to be able to annoy the heck out of Janice
Sonski has long since lost momentum. I'm not condemning this- I think the loss of momentum makes
logical sense as the
majority of us wouldn't go out of our way to make sure we would watch the show
even if it was on the air (not that we're the target audience anyway.) Yet it does effect projects we would be interested in, like Heavy Cat's Gemini,
which is a shame. Here's to hoping Toei gives Sailor Moon outside Japan far
more consideration in the future.
Incidentally, having recently completed Another Story again (the final battle with
Apsu seems to have gotten considerably easier as the Pluto-Uranus-Saturn
combination of Timestop-Space Sword Blaster-Death Ribbon Revolution, then
Cologne, decimates her quite quickly), Lunar Archivist sent me a link to the alternate
ending which I had never seen, and it's quite interesting, if not a little
awkward for a Sailor Moon game. Worth taking a look at.
Given Another Story's high quality
but ultimately limited sprite-form, it makes me a bit sadder that Heavy Cat's
game isn't coming out. I'd hope they would develop a game for the live action
series in Japan, but I'm not sure how many sentai shows get their own video
games. Obviously if something is announced at E3, we'll give it a lot of
coverage. (I assume Bandai would be the publisher, since they did the most
recent one, so I'll ask one of their representatives at the show if there
are any plans.) Which
reminds me to announce once again that the week of E3,
May 10th-14th, this site will switching to convention coverage. I will prepare
whatever live action preview translations are at the Japanese sites before I leave for the
show, but I don't think we'll have any other Sailor Moon articles that week.
Of course, I'd like to have a synopsis that weekend too, but for that we
need a synopsis writer, and you know you want to apply.
Lastly, I came across this in reader-art page of the May issue of Famitsu Cube+Advance, the
Famitsu Nintendo monthly. (I buy it because it has
furigana...)
Who knows why the kid sent in a Sailor Moon drawing to a Nintendo magazine, but I found it amusing to see
one in such a random place. The caption to the right is written by the
magazine editors (there is one for every picture.) It says, "Wow,
how nostalgic. We're knocked out by the adult smiling face and the
childish smiling face." Yeah that doesn't make much sense, but
neither does the rest of the magazine. (They have a letters page where
one of the editors pretends to be a robot and types his responses in
all-katakana. Kids send him questions about what kind of oil he drinks
and what kind of hair he would have if he was a real person. I sh*t you
not. Also half the magazine is dedicated to Pokemon and/or Pokemon with
more Pokemon included for extra measure.)
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