Monday, September 27th - 1:30 am
Update
- Jay
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Live Action Sailor Moon
update (Toei Final Act Commentary)
Can't believe I still have to do this. Translations from the Toei
page and its Act 49 commentary. The writer was in full-on waxing poetic mode
and thus half this stuff makes absolutely no sense. Top left:
The next update is planned for 10/1 [said 05 here, this was a typo]
Thank you for watching us for a whole year! And thanks for visiting the
official homepage! Although the show has stopped airing, we plan to continue
updating this website. We'd be mighty happy if you kept paying attention to
here.
Top left:
After one year, "Sailor Moon" has concluded. Thank you for cheering us on
for so long!
The last episode that aired was the Final Act. The subject of the final act
was drawing the storyline across time and space. This story couldn't be
filmed in one week's time and so it seemed impossible that we'd be able to
finish it in time for broadcasting. Did the filming of the show itself-
moreso than its story- cross space-time as well...? [oh hahaha you're so
funny]
Box below has Beryl and the gals:
Our first set was this very cave. This place was Beryl's whereabouts
from the very start, but due to various circumstances we used it for the
last time in Act 14 and had to give up on going there. It's a place that
really means a lot to Beryl and Jadeite.
For the sailor soldiers Ami, Rei, and Makoto, it also meant a lot. They
profoundly declared, "In this very spot, we became plastered in mud. And
this time we got plastered again!"
At this ground Sugimoto-san said, "That's a wrap!" And class teacher Haruna-sensei's
Chieko-san also at the school location denoted filming over.
That the same
places they filmed the opening were shown in a casual manner was the good
office by Supervisor Maihara so that they wrapped it all up at a "memorable
location", as well as that was a directing/staging effect.
One film location, one second hand article, scrutiny piled upon scrutiny,
and the impossible piled up upon the impossible. With this the Final Act was
built.
Ah, how time flies!
Thanks Kenji for corrections on that part. Box below with a pic of Usagi and Ami from early on:
It's been 1 year and one month since we first started filming. Over
the course of the one year of the show, at the same time the storyline
progressed, so did the growth of all the girls involved.
With the last episode, there were two duties they had to fulfill. They had
to see the story to its conclusion, but they also had to see the show to its
conclusion. These two things aren't the same.
"As Usagi is running, her hand just reaches her friends." This closing
scenario ends just before the hand reaches them. That kind of thing would be
a "storyline's ending." And the "show's ending" would be like the 'revenge'
seen after the ending sequence of Act 28.
These are just some examples but for more of those "storyline" endings, take
for example the "world gets destroyed" scene shown twice before the
commercials; this would make it seem like the "Storyline is over," giving
the Final Act multiple layers.
And there's the cast and staff who, even through bearing the burden of the
Final Act, kept growing. All this in just one year of Sailor Moon.
Last part:
People may have been wondering: "Although the final act has aired, why
haven't you updated the Making Of or [special article series at the bottom
of the page]?"
Well, we're going to- our plan is to update once again on October 1st
(a Friday!) A big announcement!..... is there something left?
I think it's pretty much set at this point that they're going to discuss
the special act DVD and boxsets.
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