Sailor Moon Live, episodes 1 through... 49. Yeah, I watched them
all over the last few days, every last episode. Did I mention that my computer crashed Wednesday morning? Well, now you know what I've been doing to occupy my time.
I admit it, I thoroughly enjoyed this series. It didn't feel like Sailor Moon much of the time, though; it felt more like a soap opera. The characters were different, too; Sailor Mars, for instance, seemed less hotheaded but more sullen. The villians looked almost nothing like the originals from the anime classic; there was more intrigue between them, too, more infighting. The show had a lot of silly moments, and a lot of very dramatic moments, and one moment that left me stunned and speechless (until the next episode, when I found out the writers were just torturing me, and in the worst possible way). The background material about what had happened on the moon a thousand years ago was different, too, and not fully explained to my liking, although that may simply be the result of sub-par translation, which was pretty bad in some of the episodes. It might've helped a lot if I understood Japanese.
I can't say this was a great series, but it wasn't bad, not bad at all as far as I'm concerned. It had a lot of heart, and it definitely grew on me as it played out over the past few days. "Endearing" is how I'd define it, for lack of a better word, and I will gladly watch it again someday. Of course, I've still got the 200
original episodes to go through, too; hopefully I'll do so without a computer breakdown to prompt me.
Oh, one other thing... Due to a mistranslation, all of the subtitles refer to Queen Beryl as "Queen Berry". Now
that's scary!
