Sailor Moon Season 1 Part 1 [DVD ONLY]

I love this show. In fact, it is probably one of my top five animes of all time. Probably much closer to being first place on the list than any other anime show. Without a doubt, it is a 5 star show all the way and a 5 star release all the way (even though i wish it was all of season one instead of only 23 episodes), but the 1 star comes to the new English voice cast. I understand the original DIC dubb in the 90's was heavily edited, and some fans viled that release, but i personally loved it. It introduced me to anime when anime wasn't easily accessible in America during that time. Whereas now, anime is widely available in all forums such as blu-ray, Netflix and even Amazon as part of their streaming collection. This show originally aired at 630am in the morning, but i still forced myself to wake up anyways and not miss any episodes. I even recorded every episode i could on my VHS tapes. The show had heart, laughter, and the English voice cast was just spot on. The biggest problem with this set is the new voice actors really lack "personality". The original DIC dubb had no trouble in that department. I understand staying true to the source, and not deviating, but i think it is great that DIC americanized it for the US audiences and made pop culture references that were relatable. For instance when Serena/Sailor Moon says 'Joey Lawrence' when Molly confides she has a secret crush on an older man. I miss Terri Hawkes voice sooooo much. She was a great Sailor Moon and probably the only one that could voice her besides Tracey Moore who dubbed about 13 episodes in season one. They both balanced comedy and emotion perfectly. Anyways, that is my rant. I love the release, brought it, but find the voice actors to be bland and boring and they are literally reading the Japanese subtitles word for word, but with their English voices. Update: So i got my set today in the mail and i have been watching the episodes for a few hours straight and i get tempted to pop in my old DVDs and watch the original voice cast. As mentioned, a lot of the actors almost sound the same and there is no variety whatsoever. Luna sounds like a kid, Molly sounds like Luna, Melvin doesn't sound like a geek. Serena's mother sounds like a teenager and her younger brother Sammy sounds like he is 30. Yes, i said it using their American names. The 1080P HD isn't even that noticeable after the first episode. Here are something others that bug me. Amy is pronounced OM-ME. AMY is just AMY or AMI. Not OMMMMM-MEEEEEE Jedite is just JED-DITE and not JADE-DITE. He is not some chinese jewel. Stephanie is not horrible as Sailor Moon, but she can come off a bit annoying at times. None of the voice actors have any comedic timing in their voice. English subtitles are simple structured sentences that anyone can write and it comes off so bland when the voice actors read it word for word without any ablibs. Here are some dumb lines: So you are part of the bad guys team. REALLY??? Luna now says: WHAT? Instead of: WHHHHAAAATTTTTT!!!!!! No personality whatsoever. Just LIFELESS. Jokes are lost in translation and do not come off funny. The boring Japanese music surely doesn't hold up 20 plus years later. The original English music was great and full of energy. They fit each scene perfectly. I miss the original voice cast sooooo much. Saying Moon Prism Power Make Up is sooooo CORNY. Remove the make up. Terri Hawkes laughter was infectious and endearing. Stephanie Sheh just comes off fake when she laughs. Now it is BUN HEAD instead of Meatball head. Americans never use the word BUN and even when they go to Starbucks to get a pastry, they never say: Let me get some buns. Meatball head is just funnier and more relatable. I can go on and on, but let me stop now. I added pictures of the box set and hope you enjoy them.

I have been an avid fan of Sailor Moon for nearly two decades. I have waited so long for an uncut version that is faithful to the Japanese original and here it is! I love everything about it: the pictures, the sounds, and even the English dub sounds great (though I am more interested in watching it in Japanese with subtitles). I am so happy! This release does NOT deserve any of these negative reviews. As for the picture complaints: I have not noticed anything wrong with the picture. I am not a film expert though, so maybe I am just not seeing it, but I honestly think it looks great. Now, as for the new dub complainers: The hard truth is: Get over it. Plain and simple. If you gave it a one star because you "want the old dub", you are truely missing the point and laying blame on the wrong people. 1. The rights to the old dub are forever in limbo and can never again be aquired because of copyright law. No way around that. Not Viz's fault they could not aquire the rights. 2. The old dub slaughtered the original context and words of the true Japanese version. I was heartbroken when I found this out and have been hoping for a "true to the original" cut. They didn't even dub all the episodes. Even if rights could be attained, there would be full episodes that would need new voice actors to dub the episodes and it would sound very strange to have different voices for different episodes. 3. "Well, they could've just brought the old cast back". No, they couldn't. For one, union labor laws would have made it complicated and costly. And for two, those women and men are in their mid-40s to maybe even early 50s now. They would not sound the same. I have fond memories of the DiC dub, it's how I was introduced to Sailor Moon. I do think fondly on the former English dub voices. Honestly, going back and listening to the old dub after watching it subtitled in Japanese, I thought it sounded weird because I got used to the Japanese voices. If so many others can give it a chance and get used to the new voices, so can everyone else. Giving this amazing release a 1 star because you won't let go of the past is not fair. Laying blame on Viz is not fair. You are allowed to be mad, but put your anger toward who's to blame, and it's not Viz, it's copyright laws. Okay, rant over. Bottom line, great release. It's 100% worth the purchase. It's a dream come true! Thank you Viz!

収録順が日本版でしたら アバン→OP→「私月野うさぎ～」となってるのですが OP→アバン→「私月野うさぎ～」と各話全て順序が変更されてるので違和感があります この変な収録順はRでも変わってません 画質もBDのわりには同梱のDVDと同程度の画質です すべてにおいてイマイチ

Llego muy rápido y en buen estado, es una excelente edición para cualquier coleccionista de SM

This is the first anime I saw when I was young with my sister (cute). The first convention I ever went to I went dressed as Tuxedo Mask (sad). I was going to buy Sailor Moon on DVD for my Niece but then I saw this set for about $25 more and realized I could keep the Blu-rays for myself and she would be none the wiser (she is 2). I was very happy with this Blu-ray set until some nerd told me that it is not really 1080p but basically just an up-converted VHS tape. Now I am not planning on buy any more until they release it again with better quality but I have this terrible feeling that this might be the best possible. The Blu-ray has great menus, the DVD has basic menus. In terms of Blu-ray picture quality I sit about 3 feet from my 50" 4K screen so I am going to see every flaw but I am reasonably satisfied with this even though it is not really HD. I notice little checkerboard artifacts along the edges of the characters but I see that on my Star Trek Blu-rays as well. I would like the UHD version but I expect that will come out in about 9 years so I'm not going to wait until my Niece is 11 to buy her Sailor Moon, by then it would be too late. Some people don't like that the black bars are part of the picture video itself but I like how the subtitles appear over part of the black bars some time. Pretty much every TV is 16x9 so unless you are watching it on an old CRT you aren't going to notice. There is a new cast for the English Dub. I normally don't like Dubs but this one is good. I also liked the original Dub so it would have been nice to have both versions as well as the Japanese. It could have been done but it would have cost more and maybe they couldn't get the rights. The fact that the episodes are uncut is nice. Watch Episode 2 and guess which parts were cut out in earlier versions. So in conclusion this set is good for little girls but not for thirty something nerds. By the way, I figured out who is responsible for the terrible VHS quality picture. If you watch the extras on Disc 3 you will see Jennifer Yang of Toei Animation who is in charge of this Blu-ray transfer. Now I don't care how HOT Jennifer Yang is or if she was just following orders form higher-ups who told her not to release the real HD Blu-rays because that way they can sell Sailor Moon to the nerds again in a few years. What Jennifer Yang has done is wrong!!! WRONG!!! Just kidding Jennifer.

Perfectas condiciones, llegó a tiempo y la calidad si se nota entre el DVD y Blu-ray

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