The quest to uncover the canceled 90s american reboot of sailor moon
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https://kotaku.com/we-tried-to-uncover-the-long-lost-american-sailor-moon-1827695456
In 1993, before the magical girl anime Sailor Moon was released in the U.S., there was an alternate vision for it. It was an American vision. A total remake of the show with Saturday morning-style animation, intercut with footage of real-life, all-American high school teens.
“Politically correct,” in the words of its creators, the proposed Sailor Moonwould star Hispanic, black, and Asian Sailor Scouts, one using a wheelchair. The girls rode surfboards that rocketed them into space, to the tune of a bubblegum pop soundtrack.
A little psychedelic, the miscellaneous artifacts of this Sailor Moon together form either a pitch-perfect vision for a ‘90s American children’s show or, to die-hard anime fans, an irreverent Sailor Moon funhouse mirror straight from hell’s grimy content buckets.
The article goes massively indepth behind the scenes of this american reboot, too much to quote, but here's the american opening that leaked out years ago.
https://youtu.be/udId1PJckhA
It's weird to know that the typical butchered anime we got possibly wasn't the worst thing that could have happened to Sailor Moon.
Still think it’s hilarious they rebranded the lesbian couple in the show as cousins but left in all the flirty dialogue
As a Sailor Moon fan is incredible I haven't heard of these before. The first one with the animated parts reminds me a lot to other typical american cartoons of the same age. I don't remember their names but the style were very similar: one was about some sort of girl rock band who goes around saving the world, and another was about a woman with a overcharged pink Cadillac and a dinosaur I think.
The second, full real life one is just too weird even for the 90s lol.
some things are best left forgotten
They tried their hardest to hide it by making it seem like one of the characters was dating a guy, but i have a distinct memory as a kid thinking "Why does that guy look a lot like Sailor Uranus?"
If we have to remember Rapsitty street kids, we can remember this.
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/g5gb1q6i0tscegubw7jc.png
An animation cel from Toon Makers’ Sailor Moon.
Oh... my... god...
I do like a good lost media story, even if said lost media is absolute shit (Which it almost always is)
Every time i complain about how cheap Japanese animation can look, I'm always reminded at just how shit American animation can look.
in the name of the moon
what the fuck?
I was extremely not ready for seeing a Sailor Scout shooting beams from a wheelchair, holy fuck
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