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Action Sailor Moon update (Full preview for Act 35) - Continued
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Completing the Toei
preview notes for Act 35 as promised. It may have already aired, but the notes
have nothing to do with the episode anyway. We've also got the Venus diary
from yesterday.
Sailor Venus (6/11)
Just the other day I went to eat with Kei-chan (Kitagawa, laugh) We
were overly hungry and together ate a ton of pizza and pasta. [The food at]
the restaurant was really delicious.
Soon it's going to be our school's field day!! I'm already full of fighting
spirit. (laughs) Starting now I'll be doing my best with everyone and
practicing. It'd be pretty sweet if we won...
I can't stop laughing at the mental image of the two of them with tomato
sauce smothered on their faces. (Hey, wow, she actually did something social
with another cast member.)
So back to Toei, what you'll want to do is scroll down a bit on
the
archives page past this week's preview notes to last week's, and follow
along with the pictures.
In the box with the picture of Rei wearing a helmet and Ami next to her:
In regard to Acts 33/34
The style of this television program is "about regular characters," that is
to say, the episodes are centered around reoccurring characters. The
antithesis of this would be the "Victims attacked by a youma" kind of 'guest
episode' method.
This way may make for an easier to
understand plotline and to draw well. (By this way,) You can make
"masterpiece episodes" (easier).
Episodes like Act 33/34 may, at first glance, appear to be 'guest episodes',
but since the backbone of "human development" is necessary, unless it's a
"regular characters" [style] it's not possible to develop it. [Wish I could
clear this up but it's just too awkward.]
Necessarily, the drama starts to get thick and for example with Act 34 a
quarter of the scenes couldn't be inserted. The biggest blow was to Usagi-chan's
scenes. Cutting things halfway would be even worse, but [it's regrettable]
all the same!
Below that, in the box with the two fellows wearing some odd headgear (what
the man in the left picture is wearing on his head is the chonmage
which I have left untranslated):
The two aspects of the chonmage
Act 34, the Rei and Ami party scene. Did those in the staff bout as well,
while wearing chonmage (sumo wrestler topknots)?
On the right, cameraman Kobayashi is equipping what's called an "easy rig,"
a kind of freehand steady-camera. Using the chonmage as suspension, this
equipment makes smooth hand-filming jobs possible. Even the
special-equipment demon, supervisor Tasaki has said that "This [equipment]
is rather unusual in Japan."
The box below that has pictures of some kids near one of the staff
members, and a youma cuddling up to them:
"Flowers and Children."
Another part in the "2 aspect" series.
Despite [the fact that they're] filming, voice staff member Matsumoto-san is
playing with children.
To the [overly excited] children who were calling out, "It's Sailor Moon!"
"Rei-chaaan" he soothed them and made a request: "Since [your voices] would
be recorded, please let's be quiet..." It's not just because their voices
would be recorded but because making sure extra noises don't find their way
into the audio is a part of the audio department's job.
Everyone listened well.
Saying, "Here you go" he gave them flowers. (Matsumoto-san is on the left.)
The girls just loved the flowers!
And yet a certain youma made the following appeal to the children: "I'm
a
flower too!" Aaa, don't let Beryl see you like that... Because he was a
'spontaneously generated' youma, this was just a 'one shot' [type of deal.]
The last box of the section has pictures of Ami's school uniform, and of
Minako's uniform:
From Act 33, the summer uniforms debuted.
Juuban Middle school's seasonal-change-of-clothing has occurred and dozens
of original uniforms have to be made all at once. They have to be prepared for each performer and so Osaki-san (of Ozaki
commerce co.) finished them at just the last moment. Since it's the time of
year when they're busy with seasonal-change-of-clothing matters for real
schools, they had to open up a special line just for our TV show.
The uniforms in the show may all appear to be fancy but Minako's uniform
(although you don't really see it often) probably looks the most normal.
From the colors to the materials, everything was carefully selected with the
intention of making it look "normal."
Yes indeedy. Speaking of normal-looking summer clothing, don't you need
some new shirts?
Help us out (it's our only way of fundraising for the site and we need
it) and look good for summer all at the same time. Everyone I know whose
gotten one likes our Hikari shirt a
lot and wears it constantly. In some cases, like my brother, he wears his
nearly every single day. (But he has two of them and I think they're the
only clothing he has.) His friend bought one as well and somehow the three
of us always end up wearing them on the same days. (There may be some sort
sort of quantum entanglement among Genvid t-shirts. If there is note that
we're not responsible for any resulting wavefunction collapses.)
The person who writes the Toei page would wear one! We're halfway certain
of it and the fact that he/she is probably some sort of bad-writing
supervillain!
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