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NEWS: Sailor Moon Crystal Films Bring Back Original Sailor Moon Character Designer Kazuko Tadano

It's also really frustrating that there's plenty of imperfect things with Classic in terms of a majority male creative team and their handling of these young, female characters. But everyone just props them up so much.

A movie takes more time to make than a TV show does and we had to wait two years for seson one. Attack On Titan was four years before we got season two made. As long there's no more delay and we get it by next year, I can deal with waiting a little more and we still have new Seramyu coming out.

It's also a double standard to bash Naoko for having a fairly minor incest subplot in the Sailor Moon manga while praising Ikuhara's career while Ikuhara has made incest a prominent theme in several of his anime.

You mean Shintani with the new movie? That's completely different from this since in that case, Yamamuro is busy with the Dragon Ball Heroes ONA and he can stay there for all I care because Resurrection F had so many problems under him that bringing him back in the same roles for this new film would have killed a lot of it's hype.

Excellent point. And I feel the point about it with Chibiusa is that it was unhealthy and she outgrew it (and found her own identity, and even the incest was about wanting to be like her mom; not literally being in love with her father). Naoko went out of her way to show us that the incest wasn't okay. (It was just s unhealthy as Demande and his nature was.)

Ikuhara. . . does not always do that, imo. Not very well, anyway.

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Excellent point. And I feel the point about it with Chibiusa is that it was unhealthy and she outgrew it (and found her own identity, and even the incest was about wanting to be like her mom; not literally being in love with her father). Naoko went out of her way to show us that the incest wasn't okay. (It was just s unhealthy as Demande and his nature was.) Ikuhara. . . does not always do that, imo. Not very well, anyway.

As someone who enjoys all the versions of Sailor Moon pretty equally, it doesn't really matter to me which version of the franchise fans prefer and I often disagree with a lot of arguments from hardcore manga purists too. I just take issue with arguing a man should get more credit than the woman who actually created the characters and the story and I don't feel comfortable with this recent anti-Naoko trend that seems to have increased a lot in fandom lately for some reason. Like I can understand not being satisfied with Crystal, but that's no justification to engage in personal insults and attacks on Naoko or demonize her as some evil person. And I also take issue with fans who try to act like they're morally superior because of what version of the franchise is their favorite when really no one cares which version they like best.

As someone who enjoys all the versions of Sailor Moon pretty equally, it doesn't really matter to me which version of the franchise fans prefer and I often disagree with a lot of arguments from hardcore manga purists too. I just take issue with arguing a man should get more credit than the woman who actually created the characters and the story and I don't feel comfortable with this recent anti-Naoko trend that seems to have increased a lot in fandom lately for some reason. Like I can understand not being satisfied with Crystal, but that's no justification to engage in personal insults and attacks on Naoko or demonize her as some evil person. And I also take issue with fans who try to act like they're morally superior because of what version of the franchise is their favorite when really no one cares which version they like best.

No, I meant actual Super series episodes that he directed.

I checked, and his name is Yuya Takahashi, and according to ANN he didn't actually work on any Dragon Ball anime prior Dragon Ball Z: Kami to Kami, but still focuses more on 90s like designs.

Up is how Goku looked in one of earlier Super episodes, and down Takahashi's approach to the same form.
While I am in general satisfied over how anime style evolves over the years, this is the example of how classic designs can look great in era of today.

As someone who enjoys all the versions of Sailor Moon pretty equally, it doesn't really matter to me which version of the franchise fans prefer and I often disagree with a lot of arguments from hardcore manga purists too. I just take issue with arguing a man should get more credit than the woman who actually created the characters and the story and I don't feel comfortable with this recent anti-Naoko trend that seems to have increased a lot in fandom lately for some reason. Like I can understand not being satisfied with Crystal, but that's no justification to engage in personal insults and attacks on Naoko or demonize her as some evil person. And I also take issue with fans who try to act like they're morally superior because of what version of the franchise is their favorite when really no one cares which version they like best.

On the other... well it's still not going in any way to improve the writing of Takeuchi's rough draft of a manga that they are straight up adapting.