Saban Moon: The Failed Project to Americanize Sailor Moon
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A few slight corrections:
- It's not 100% clear whether or not Saban provided funding for the pilot. They were reached out to for funding, and they would've been involved with funding the show if it was green-lit, but their involvement in the funding for the pilot isn't 100% confirmed.
- An anonymous source has told me that the Saban Moon promo was shown at AX95 rather than 98. They add, "They were implementing cel shading, I think this was the very first time it had ever been done automatically. Allen is huge anime nerd and got to know the Gainax guys so he was doing some test Evangelion stuff for them. And he wound up getting involved in the Sailor Moon project through his TV connections (Babylon 5, Seaquest DSV). So a bunch of the effects were going to be 3D rendered, with the big new thing being the 2D animation parts would have 3D effects. Queen Beryl's ship being one of them." The Allen referred to here is Allen Hastings, the person who showed the Saban Moon footage at AX.
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UPDATE: RAVEN--THE SAME RAVEN VOICING SAILOR JUPITER IN THIS VIDEO--FOUND SABAN MOON!!! GO WATCH IT:
ruclips.net/video/0L67YFwnQCQ/видео.html
WOAAAH YOURE BACK
WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! I already watched, fhhdsb I cried :>
Whoa. I saw this years ago and didn't realize Raven was in it.
I still feel like this isn't real lmao
I saw the pilot video as I was scrolling through RUclips and immediately thought of this video!!!
"You're acting like a granola bar" is a pretty solid insult though
Tuxedo Mask what was the original.
What does that mean anyway?
Ha!
Thunderclap Z she’s calling him nutty since granola bars have nuts in them I guess
Connor Beith wants you to know you're the fabled granola bar.
"I'll give you a ride home on my motor cycle and make sure you go straight to bed."
For a dub trying to erase any sign of same sex romance that was probably the most sexually suggestive sentence I've ever heard.
Idk man sounds pretty gay to me
You can give me a ride home and take me to bed any time Haruka.
Showbiz is full of homosexuals, so it probably shouldn't surprise anyone that one skated through the censors with only slightly obscure language...but then again we were largely unaware of quite a lot back in those days as I recall. Especially regarding translations from jp.
The trend is still there today, just waaaaay more blatant.
@@GTA2SWcity the reason it's funny is because Haruka was gay as fuck in the original and literally had a girlfriend, but this English dub tried to make her straight by turning her girlfriend into her cousin.
emphasis on _tried_
The Pearson above said u was a granola bar
I love how they took the "Sailor" part of Sailor Moon so literally that they ride on sailboats.
Also the person below is a granola bar.
Connor Beith go bleach your roots creep!
Though I don't think I actually thought about it, the "sailor" part never made sense when I first got into it, because they weren't sailors, and I don't think I knew about "sailor uniforms" (Japanese school uniforms never looked like sailor outfits to me.) I probably just assumed "Sailor Moon" and "Sailor Scouts" were just names, and never thought about the meaning.
ohh that's why ok
They are dressed in sailor suits they are sailor suited soldiers
*CRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINGE*
That footage looked so fake, it looks like a parody of Sailor Moon or something out of an alternate universe.
IKR!? That’s what I thought I was seeing, an alternate universe where there was no such thing as anime and sailor moon turned into...THIS. 😵 what a punch to the child hood! lol thank goodness this show never came to be. really makes you appreciate that old nineties Dic dub too huh?
It looks like the Baby-Sitters Club badly cosplayed Sailor Moon and made a cartoon out of it. Love that series lol
In an alternate universe, this came to fruition and lasted for a season, but had 51 episodes commissioned to terrify young children for decades to come. For fear of birthing something similar, the United States blocks all consumption of anime for the foreseeable future (even if Saban Moon was technically their idea). It is still used to present day as part of the CIA's special interrogation techniques in dealing with terrorists, and is only spoken of in hushed whispers and frightened rumors. The U.S. Government denies any involvement in its creation.
Starphoenix Lol wtheck
To be honest, i’m pretty sure if it got green lit. It would look much better than the pilot
what do you mean? "go bleach your roots creep" is comedy writing gold!
I mean, it DID make sense. The dude had white hair, so she assumed he bleached lol.
I’ve watched all the clips the channel Sailor Moon Says has to offer and that quotation is the tip of the iceberg lmao
@Lance of Duma Lol its cool! Great minds think alike.
😂 😂
the sailor scouts must frequent r/rareinsults
"Go bleach your roots, creep!"
She doesn't need the power of Mars to roast someone.
Mercury just gives them the cold shoulder ;)
Wich minuete?
0:30
@@lazy7758 thanks
Your talking like a granola bar
Me: Mom, can I buy Sailor Moon?
Mom: we have Sailor Moon at home.
*Sailor Moon at home:*
Seelen Brecher*in Stop complaining and just keep scrolling ig
@Seelen Brecher*in no u
I meannnnn I think this comment is gold hahaha
@@CrayolaCoffeeBean funny but not gold
simplespect I disagree 😉✨ lol but whatever
“Saban Moon” looks like She-Ra to me
I was literally thinking the same thing, or at least one of those toyetic cartoons from the 80's.
Yeah she really does.
That's what I was thinking too.
not the sjw she-ra one?
@@goodra999 No, like, the original She-Ra.
In defense of the dub mentioned at the beginning...
Calling someone a 'granola bar' is an amazing insult.
It's r/rareinsults tier.
@@ArmoredarmadilloX 🤔🤨😯😲🤯💀
i died when she said that xD
Sailor Moon “swears” became actual phrases where I lived. It taught us that anything can be insulting if it sounds like it should be.
Especially "go bleach your roots creep" that hurts
“I’ll give you a ride home on my motorcycle and make sure you go *STRAIGHT* to bed”
Oh my.
Woah, this is a christian website man!
Your pfp makes this better and worse at the same time
When she said that my mind went STRAIGHT to negative
Is that a threat?
The recording of the pilot literally looks like a horror ARG
It was shown at some anime convention and that video was going around. I remember seeing it many years ago.
It’s the old dingy graphics and the pitch lowering.
"I'll give you a ride on my motorcycle and make sure you go straight to bed." 😏
there is nothing straight about that line
@@TheKawaiifan
Indeed, because of that phrasing. xD
The VA has a sensual soothing voice. JS.
TheKawaiifan well that character was never straight
Olivia Stuck yeah
"Go bleach your roots, creep," is actually extremely good tho
That's something a granola bar would say.
yeah, but the way she said it was kinda ugh
It’s an iconic line from the dub.
@@TheHivesbane still, I pay way too much attention to animation and voice acting in pretty much everything
Yeah, even though the original dub wasn't good overall, it actually did have some pretty good lines that I still remember.
Rip Usagi she finally gave into her meth addiction
Mr Neddlemouse f
@@lssjgaming1599 f
@@hickorymccay2994 f
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Mr Neddlemouse f
"Ever since you fell off the roof, you've been acting like a granola bar"....What does that even mean?!
I only wish I knew! It's a funny line, though.
He's been acting nuts
Do granola bars do anything? No. And neither do people who have fallen off a roof.
That they seem nutty
@@itspienoon7883 LOL You read my mind.
Saban Moon: "Fighting Love by Daylight, Winning Evil by Midnight!"
Globalhanta “Always Running from a Real Fight! She is the one named Saban Moon!”
Sorry 😐
I'm wheezing lol
@@timetraintripster1356 lol!
@@timetraintripster1356 She'll always turn her back on her friends. She's never there to defend. She's one who we can never depend. She is the one named Saban...
@@MahouKat Saban Venus!, Saban Mercury!, Saban Mars!, Saban Jupiter!
Sorry, I couldn't help it.
Americanize sailor moon? Just make the lesbians cousins. Done.
Ever heard of "kissing cousins"?
(Sweet Home Alabama plays in the distance)
Caeser Tullo Should I mentioned Canadianization?
Alabama 100
Japan has always been perenially stuck in the 90s in LGBT rights
Imagine if we got Saban Moon instead of the dub. That’d be insane
It'd be so much weird confusion for folks later down the road.
That would be sad getting a cheap knock off instead of the masterpiece that is the anime Sailor Moon.
Fanta Moon I sorta wish we had somehow gotten both. It would be more Sailor Moon to watch and I love getting the opportunity to consume more Sailor Moon content even if it’s terrible (I’m currently collecting the Mixx Reads Smile Sailor Moon novels). Also, I like to laugh at terrible things.
there might be an alternate timeline where that actually happened and it's getting a reboot by now... let that sink in
I probably wouldn't have liked it honestly. Imagine what that would've done to the anime fandom outside Japan! Networks would just make some shitty Americanized versions of anime instead of airing the source material. Let's be glad this was never made, other wise we would've gotten another Wulin Warriors (look that up if you don't know what it is).
That is my birthdate in the script. Me being born stopped this and I'm so sorry
Don't be sorry, you prevented an atrocity. Just listen to the reactions of the people at that anime convention when the footage was shown.
you stopped it and i love you
Lmao, I'm thankful the show is failed
Actually, your birth was a miracle that stopped a disaster from occurring. Thank gyu for existing
Thank you! You saved everything!!
WAIT.
"GO BLEACH YOUR ROOTS CREEP"
WAS ICONIC AND NO ONE CAN TELL ME OTHERWISE!
Dirk Strider me when I see people with roots
The Netflix adaption before Netflix adaptions.
Should I mentioned that Netflix only publish the live-action Death Note, with one of the three film companies that made it was from China, in which they had a complicated relations with Japan...!?
Don't give them any ideas. They will make Sailor Moon woke.
@@TheLUGIA06 Wasn't it woke already with...Uranus and Neptune...!?
@@fernie-fernandez Not by way of creating relatable and endearing characters that are related to previously alienated and isolated members of society, but by creating stock cutouts with superficial trappings of these groups that serve only as blunt weapons b deranged shut-ins on social media and mainstream political acitivists against society at large.
@@claudecawley2888 English please, I'm stupid.
Obama chuckled, "You mean the Chaos Emeralds?"
Someone actually wrote that. That's amazing.
Welcome to fanfiction.
LMAO I had no idea that was the original. I saw an image of Lebron James saying the same thing with this hilariously evil smirk on his face.
Lol
ruclips.net/video/3tM0Sow-2r8/видео.html
queen barrel captured Uranus? oh no!
"It's a solar eclipse!"
they're on the moon that happens like once a day
Nope. The moon is tidally locked. It rotates at the same speed it orbits, so the same side always faces Earth. The moon's seemingly quick orbit is the result of the Earths' own rotation. This means the moon has one solar eclipse a month, not once a day as it's only got the Earth between it at one point of its orbit around the earth. Actualy, it's less than once a month, because the moon dosnt' orbit on a flat plane, it's angled a bit. So the right time of the month has to line up with the slightly varrying speed of its orbit so the Earth is at the zero degree point of its orbit and... Look, it really only gets 2-4 of those a year, okay?
@@MeepChangeling I am a failure and a shame upon my family for forgetting about the tidal lock
@@Abocreature you reclaimed your honor by owning your mistake, friend.
@@Abocreature Seppuku is the word youre searching.
acualy thr whole symbol of sailor moon, moon is acialy a partial solar eclipse, only thign htat looks liek that large cressant shape.
my psychiatrist: Saban moon Darien isnt real he cant hurt you
saban moon darien:
Tbh I would watch the hell out of Saban Moon. It looks terrible and I adore terrible things.
Then you would love me
Fair
@@cartoondeathnoises8756 BRUH
@@cartoondeathnoises8756 I love you.
@@cartoondeathnoises8756 i was gonna say that-
"GO BLEACH YOUR ROOTS CREEP!"
Every anime character with white hair feels personally attacked.
It’s fitting that the smartest character on sailor moon would come up with such a great line as “ go bleach your roots, creep!”
Trivia: A cat that was supposedly used for the role of "Luna" was drugged a lot during the making of this (to make the illusion that it was "talking"). In turn, it was peeing all over the set
Damm that's sad is the cat ok
Source?
@@caitlynvictoriahalim6867 even if the cat were fine it would sadly be deceased due to old age
I like that they took the sailor part much more literally than the original.
That’s what I was thinking. They were going to have to do something to justify it since they didn’t have Japan’s unique taste in school uniforms to fall back on.
I'm glad you made that comment cause it went over my head. I was sitting here wondering why we got ships.
I hated them. Idk seemed more fitting for Power Rangers or something. Sailor Moon is a very flowery romanticized and magical series. Not so techy.
I’m calling my friends granola bars now and you can’t stop me
Thems fighting words.
Haha, ur a granola bar
Same
Lmao
The comment above you says "person below is a granola bar"
@@idontknowlogic7428 yes
"It's a solar eclipse!" You...you're ON the moon...what
You do realise, that solar eclipse only requires blocking the sun, right? There are periodic solar eclipses on the moon, it's the full moon.
@@karolnowak6423 yeah which is why i'm confused that the characters are making such a big deal about it, because it happens once a month and is incredibly predictable. That's like the sun rising and us going "OH MY GOSH! IT'S A SUNRISE!"
I'm not mad at them for putting in a black character and a disabled character, though.
I mean they did put a lesbian couple 😄?
That’s the most ‘90s thing ever
In those times it wasn't mandatory
I am
@@kittykat8485 most old animes don't even put LGBTQ members so eh 50%
Sailor Moon:
(She Knows)
I don't know.
Powerful script
😁😁
Just imagine how different the meme landscape would be were it not for the prevalence of -good- -great- -bad- -uhh- taste.
hard to even imagine.
Its hallrus tho that this would have cost more to make, and be less watchable because wouldn't have been any heart in it.
Nekogami-Crystal h...hallrus?
You mean hilarious?
I swear to god I have seen merchandise for this as a child that I thought were chinese bootlegs.
They're American bootleg though
You know, making Sailor Neptune and Mercury "cousins" makes it even worse
Wait...WHAT
Kinky stuff.
I'm surprised no one else has pointed it out yet but it was Neptune and Uranus that were made cousins, not Mercury
@@AmbiguouslyAnonymous dang, i forgot that her sailor name was Uranus not Mercury. Thank you for telling me
It wasn't Neptune and Mercury,,, it was Uranus and Neptune
"We must save the jewels" she says
"We must save the jews" I hear
Well you cant do both.
@@rorrim0 yeah either the jewels or the Jews
The Jews of power? Lol.
@@rorrim0 oh god, that spicy humor
that one got me laughing.
Hitler: *triggered*
Saban Moon is so 90s it's rejected by the 90s
They did Darian so dirty... actually they did the whole thing so dirty
They had Sailor Jupiter looking a mess
I think it was dirty
how did you get access to the 2025 netflix remake of sailer moon
Is colab with 4kids and funimation
Not gonna lie the backstory from the Saban Moon script is pretty interesting. I love the idea of Beryl being after the jewels of each planet instead of just the Silver Crystal.
BowserTheSecond it's almost like they skipped to the plot of season 5 of the actual anime haha! They even got the Darien, prince of the Earth thing right
"I love the idea of Beryl being after the jewels of each planet"
Do you mean THE CHAOS EMERALDS?
But, here's my question: How do they transform? You only see the girl who is portraying Sailor Moon just lift her arms into the air and magically become animated and a Sailor Scout.....
@@JadenYukifan28 isnt that how the og sailor scouts do?
Actually they had pens or brooches in sailor moon's case
As someone who has studied animation and marketing for years and has known about Saban Moon’s existence since Rebeltaxi talked about it. Even if it did get greenlit, this Americanisation wouldn’t have taken off and an aspect of that actually comes with the character design and overall art direction.
For one thing, this semi-realistic Filmation-like look was already phasing out by the time it was being pitched as animated shorts, shows and movies were already transitioning their artstyle back to something akin to the golden age (Roger Rabbit, Mighty Mouse, The Little Mermaid and the original Nicktoon trio specifically come to mind). No longer were cartoons about “toys first, then cartoon”, it was beginning to be more about being creator driven. Saban Moon probably wouldn’t have lasted long because it was using production practises that were beginning to be looked down upon as executives from other companies looked to the creators rather than the toys.
Another aspect of the art direction that would’ve damaged the show’s chance of popularity is just how unappealing the character designs are. I call it “diet Filmation”. Yes, the style is comparable to He-Man and She-Ra, but the differences comes in that even with the limited movements the animators still added subtle facial expressions and expressive creatures and environments that would fit with the medieval fantasy aesthetic those shows were going for. Sailor Moon is also a fantasy, but it was different to that of He-Man. Sailor Moon was more science fiction with the fantasy aspects being more fairy tale like as opposed to being gritty like He-Man. Not to mention that the facial expressions on the Saban designs are non-existent and lack the personality of the original show and manga.
A lot of Sailor Moon’s worldwide popularity comes in its unique mix between fairy tale fantasy and science fiction as well as designs that are both appealing to look at and emphasises on human expressions. Saban Moon lacks that in favour of a dated, robotic direction which wouldn’t have captured the hearts and imagination to it’s target audience the same way that the original show and manga have done.
Thank goodness that English speaking audiences got the original product as opposed to this “diet Filmation” show.
I just watched rebeltaxis video on worst redesigns.
RebelTaxi sucks
Reminds me of like Skydancers or Dragonflyz. Like cheap French animation.
@Bird Brain the right opinion, only redditors like rebeltaxi
@@radiocalico9124 oh God another person who believes in redditors have some say on RUclips.
you should know there's been an update to this! a youtuber called rey mona made a two part documentary and managed to get her hands on high quality (as high as you can for 90s stuff anyway) copies of the music video *and* the 11 minute pilot episode!
To be fair, the "cousins" thing wasn't DiC. It was Cloverway.
You are technically correct (the best kind). DiC had nothing to do with Sailor Moon after R. They produced 65 episodes -- the syndication mandate -- then stopped. Canada's YTV had to finish dubbing R by themselves because DiC wouldn't. Cloverway (w/Geneon) produced S and SuperS. It just happened to be at the same studio DiC used, with similar writers.
Cloverway either dosen't know what Pride Month is, or they're homophobes that hate Pride.
@@ashleychanforever It's really not fair to judge the dub by modern standards. LBGTQ wasn't even a thing back then.
@@BluntmanEXE .
Oh. It was just a joke.
@@ashleychanforever Oh thanks for this clarification I was about to make a fool of myself- [Saying this, I casually throw a large rock to the side]
Excuse you. "Go bleach your roots, Creep!" Is gonna be my new catchphrase.
xT0K0x scream this at rude people with ombre hair
xT0K0x same when I see others with roots
xT0K0x instead of creep, I’m going to say bitch
"Go bleach your roots creep" is an iconic line.
I'm old enough to remember when Sailor Moon aired on Toonami.
People tend to rag on the old dub, but if it never aired on TV a lot of us probably wouldn't be here talking about anime.
Saban writers: So how bad do you want this to be?
Sabad head: Yes.
This wasn't done by Saban.
Toonmakers, not Saban
@@mitchfletcher2386 they are now part of saban
"Don't you mean Americanisation?"
"It's called localisation, Mr Kaiba. Because I do declare there's only one country that matters when it comes to translating stuff."
Ishy OQGX Should I mentioned Canadianization?
I now have the immediate urge to marathon YGOA
Now I want to see a Victorian British-themed localization of Sailor Moon.
- Miss Hareshire, your Highness, would you please be so kind as to wake up and please save the people of Tokyoborough?
- Not today, Oliver, I have piano lessons at noon!
I'm going to be honest, your recreation of the scene is possibly the best thing I've seen in my life
"GO BLEACH YOUR ROOTS, CREEP" is top notch writing
I think we dodged a bullet with this one.But could only imagine how it would have been received if it would have got greenlit.I'm sure plenty of people would be giving every episode the Rifftrax treatment.
Yeah, we dodged a significant bullet here.
*Obama chuckled*
*_"you mean the Chaos Emeralds?"_*
CHAOS CONTROL!
I'M PISSING ON THE MOON
I swear in the early 2000s a friend of mine showed me the original footage of the Saban Moon trailer (not the recording of the projection here). I swear it must still exist somewhere.
Do you have the link? And was it in HD/HQ/4K?
*"Cosmic Jewels?" Obama chuckled. "You mean the Infinity Stones?"*
I about died at the Evangelion reference when they were talking about piloting the Galleon
Usagi and Misato have the same voice actor in Japan
I was a little kid when I watched Sailor Moon, and I didn't know anything about LGBTQ and I kept forgetting the girls' names, but I knew Neptune and Uranus were dating.
Seriously. It's so ridiculous how people think that kids don't question anything or are able to figure these things out. That's the exact opposite what they do.
Same! I mean I was an avid fan but cringed at the non dubbed episode where minako and usagi are hounding her over being lovers with Neptune or not, presuming she’s a beautiful boy. why’d they have to be so dense? was it a product of its time? American cartoons for adults were immaturely obsessed with ignorant humor about being LGBTQIAU around that time, the late 90s. but at least the one in Japanese didn’t ERASE their lesbian relationship.
I remember feeling so gross that they made them cousins because it was so obvious they were dating and as a kid I literally thought they were lesbian dating cousins. I was like... why are cousins dating even remotely ok? It wasn't until I was older that I realized what they attempted.
It’s been found !!!
Back here since its been found
11:50 Queen Beryl and the evil forces of raw cookie dough.
Raw cookie dough is too pure to ever fight for evil.
do not underestimate raw cookie dough.
According to the CDC, each year up to 3,000 people die from raw cookie dough and even more get hospitalized from it.
That stuff is pure evil, and it makes you fat too. :o
don't underestimate the power .... of *salmonella*
Right when you said “he was no longer paying for the storage units”
I 100% expected they’d end up on Storage Wars
"Ever scince you've fell off the roof you've been acting like a gRanOla Bar"
Why hasn’t that become a meme?
Saban moon looks like it could be a spin off of Gem and the Holograms.
I guess it's a fine distinction, but this resembles Jem waaaay more than She-ra. 80's originals both.
I felt so old when you had to explain cel animation and showed that footage of cels being sold.
I remember looking at geocities pages on a dial-up connection just so I could copy the way cel shading looked.
"Go bleach your roots creep"
Sorry but that's gold and is further evidence that Ami is best girl
I C O N I C.
Hey folks for those interested RUclipsr Ray Mona unearthed the pilot and music video! Go check out her channel for the documentary on how she got it!
I actually really like the Saban Mercury character concept! The only other magical girl I know of that uses/used a wheelchair is Mimori Tougou from Yuuki Yuuna, and she was “cured” of being disabled by the end of the show :/ (as a disability rights advocate and special ed teacher, I was really disappointed by how Yuuki Yuuna treated disability in general)
My friend's pride and joy of his anime collection was a VHS recording of this thing when they showed it off at a con in the late 90s.
I know there was cons for stuff like Star Trek, Star Wars and Superhero stuff back then but i did not think there was cons for things like anime and cartoons yet.
@@CyberLance26
My parents were involved in starting a con right around '98 and there were already other large conventions out of state at the time to loosely model it after.
@@BonaparteBardithion Ok thats very cool.
I did not think anime was popular enough in the west to have cons yet back then.
@@CyberLance26 Even in post-commie, backwards 90s Poland we had a monthly anime magazine in the late 90s. Ordering VHS tapes from that magazine was pretty much the only way to get your anime fix.
@@CyberLance26 Oh yes, they were very much around back then, just more niche. The largest one here in Texas, A-Kon, has been around since 1990.
Wait, hold on. A solar eclipse... on the moon? Also, it's interesting that Mamoru's name getting changed to Darien apparently pre-dates the DiC dub. It makes me wonder who originally came up with it and how it remained his canonical English name even after being handed off to a Canadian company.
A quick google search said that both Darien and Mamoru mean, roughly, "protector". I also always liked that Mamo's american last name was Shields.
@@Huckleberry87 Aww, that is sweet. I did like the cleverness of some of the renaming. Usagi to Serena is actually pretty brilliant.
The English names are all pretty clever. Serena came from Serenity, and from Selene, the goddess of the moon. Darien came from Endymion, the Japanese name of his past life. It also means "protector", apparently. The English names aren't terrible, it's stupid,how people hate them so much.
@@aromaladyellie I have to disagree. What about the other names like Lita, Trista, Amara, Michelle, Molly...? They don't have fitting meanings like this, do they? And what about the stupid changes like Dark Kingdom --> Negaverse; Black Lady --> Wicked Lady; Kunzite --> Malachite (why another mineral?!) ? They could have just stayed the same! Or the attack names. Why did they have to change things like "Moon Tiara Action" into "Moon Tiara Magic"?
@@sailorcat Negaverse much better than generic Dark Kingdom. I can't understand the hate but the voices and dialog for the dub is more memorable than the Japanese one.
This was available online a few years back, I have watched the horror that is Saban Moon (it's really, really, reaaalllly bad lol). I can't for the life of me find it again, must have been at least some 10 years ago I saw it. I am wondering whether I have the energy to cybersleuth to try and find it again X-D
Please do. I want to watch this before I die.
Find it Pleaseeeeeeee
@@roshpotter06 me too
if you find it, please share with us!
Are you sure you watched this and not the super cringy sailor moon live action?
This show feels like it was a step back in time; at least a full decade.
Japan: *makes sailor moon*
America: *makes saban moon*
Japan:do I look LIKE A JOKE TO U?!?
Japan made Power Puff Girls Z, so I think they're even.
They also made a toku Sailor Moon, that was actually quite faithful, costume issues aside
Dude your a granola bar
Dude your a granola bar
We hit em twice so, yeh
What could possibly be a worse “localization” than Diesel?
Creepopolous It’S aN eNeMy StAnD
Doozy bots it almost ruined gundam in the west.
Triceratops91 yeah, that was a real doozy of a localization nightmare.
Diesel wasn't even a localization, It was a knock off
What the heck is "Diesel"?
"I'll take you home on my motorcycle and make sure you go straight to bed." I don't know, that still sounds like she's hitting on Rei, just failing at it.
"take this rose! a symbol of my-
yeast infection? try monistat!"
such good ad break placement
Okay but "go bleach your roots creep" is the best line in the dub.
Excuse you. Acting like a graola bar is pure genius
What was this about Obama and the Chaos Emeralds? I'm very distracted now.
You should get in touch with Kenny Launderdale, maybe he could get a copy
Truth
YES PLEASE
Yeah, that he can find everything obscure
It's a straight up super power
I heard he found some lost media that he’s making a video on recently.
More like Sa-BAN this from my life
Don’t blame Sagan for this! Saban made some of the most faithful broadcast anime dubbing of its time! ... which really isn’t saying all that much, but name one kids’ anime dub from the late nineties/early 2000s to keep most characters’ names, and the thing set in Japan! They barely censored anything, even used death in places where “destroyed" would arguably work pretty well, seeing as, as Digimon, their bodies are literally destroyed. They didn’t even cut out the guns! They made sure to say that they were loaded, despite it not making any sense for them to be not loaded, but the guns got to (sorta) stay!
@@runeanonymous9760 Ok, you've shown me the light.. I know now that Sangan from Yugioh is not to blame here... Amazing...
@@runeanonymous9760 BEGONE!!! I BANISH YOU TO THE SHADOW REALM!!!
That guy laughing in the background of the leaked footage spoke to me on a spiritual level lol. I'm intrigued by this as much as anyone else, but I'm glad for what we got.
“Every since you fell of the roof you’ve been acting like a *confusion* G R A N O L A B A R”
What do you mean bad writing that’s perfect
the tape containing the pilot episode was likely in that storage locker that the script and cells were found in. the script and cells were sold on Ebay by the person who bought the locker but nobody knows for sure if he sold the tape or just threw it away since Ebay records don't go back that far.
I love how the way we got those cells were because that guy got arrested
I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. That rehash of the Saban Moon script is cringingly epic.
"You top-place-on-the-worst-dressed-list"
Ok, that was really funny!! xD
Lol
Hey! They actually use the part about the inner soldiers being princesses of their own planets! The 90's anime didn't even keep that in, so good on you Saban! You had something at least!
Actually it was kept in. When the Scouts learned about their past, one of the cats (I seriously can not remember if it was Luna or Artemis who said it), said they were all princesses of their respective planets, but also part of Serenity's court.
" Go bleach your roots, creep! "
That's iconic lmaoo
The american character design is really awful!😑
Jessie Jameson yeah like...
MS paint-level bad but worse...
MS *pain*
They probably made it simple to sell toys.
@@gart0562 yeah but look at Saban moon’s eyes. One looks like it was lazily drawn ☹️
i'll be sticking with my granola bars and jelly doughnuts thank you very much
Yeah ugly right 😓😓😓😓
That American Sailor Moon theme is atrocious 90's cheese
7:53 "Like Mr. Rogers, Comedic"
WHAT
Does anybody even know what that means?
@@voidofspaceandtime4684 I guess it means mimicking Mr. Rogers tone while being comedic.
@@merrittanimation7721 Seems pretty insulting.
The idea of a main character being a handicapped hero would of actually been so progressive.
Given it was developed in the 90s "the time of the Tokens 1" they actually had given her a personality and character. Nowadays in the era "the time of the Tokens2" it would be simply about "Look at me I am DiSaBlEd!".
In Yuki Yuna is a Hero, there is a magical girl named Togo Mimori, who has a wheel chair
@Chris Manaloe what is the alternative? what is the difference between a genuine character and a token character and when will we get to a point in time where you can have a black/gay/disabled character without people automatically jumping to the conclusion that they're a "token character", i don't get it. U either have diversity or you dont, I don't see the issue with "tokenism" when the alternative would have been all white, able bodies characters
@@eggzs6727 I'd say there are levels though, yeah? Like, if the token person's only noteworthy trait is being a token we can agree that's pretty shit.
No diversity
@@Pandaman64 yeah that's very true! I don't really think I've seen a lot of token characters for the sake of token characters- most of the time they are well developed or as developed as the rest of the characters in the franchise, people just like to kick up a fuss about it because it's not what they're used to. I think we're in a very transitional period now when it comes to cinema and in a few years time it won't be as much as an issue. We also definitely need more franchises and original content that feature a diverse range of ppl as leads
My brain automatically jumped to group movies like the new powerangers and charlie's angles and ghostbusters that feature p diverse casts but I guess in romcoms and such, 'token' support characters are pretty prevelant
Oh my God. The one in the wheel chair. Could you be any more 90's? Straight outta the Burger King Kid's Club.
I’ve heard a rumor that Dic reused assets from Saban Moon to create their dub. For example the Logo is the same for both, and the background music is wildly different from the original Japanese dub. It doesn’t make much sense to create new music when the background music was already dialog free other than the words “Oooooooooh Sailor Mooooooooon”.
Yup the logo was reused. The moon cycle toy was a design from the Toon Makers version. They probably reused as much as they could get away with.
“Go bleach your roots, creep!” Is my new favourite insult. 😂😂😂😂
Omg this was perfect. The voice acting and art was so amazing. The Jinkx Monsoon killed me.
Ah yes, Saban Moon
I remember accidentaly stumbling into that con footage while I was looking for the Japanese live action adaptation (you know back then when the youtube recommended tab didn't suck). I still hope we might see that pilot one day but probably unlikely. Shame, it would have been a fun time.
Narrator: suddenly, a chilling breeze swept the rose...
*SETTING IS ON THE MOON*
Me:
Wait, that’s illegal
Yeah, you know, those famous moon-breezes? They're my favourite moon-weather. Right after the lovely moon-autumn leaves.
“Go bleach your roots, creep!”
That’s my new comeback for my life.
The DiC dub was alright. Terri Hawkes did an awesome job as Sailor Moon and she gives her a lot of personality. This, however, is a sin.
Khadijah Johnson I feel like DiC and Nelvana’s dubbing If anime’s don’t get much love, since most of the localization from there Canadianization...
Also from DiC’s Sailor Moon, Stephanie Morgenstern as Sailor Venus and the late Dennis Akiyama as Kunzite truly nailed their character.
How she got the role is upsetting tho
I loved the OG dub Sailor Moon.
I hate how people always shit on the dubs, especially older ones. All the main scouts voices suited them perfectly. Trouble only came for Molly and characters not around long. The Voice actors gave them character.
and you need character and personality. Or else you end up with the raw suckage that is Crystal.
Nameless Pharaoh how did she get it? I tried googling it and couldn’t find what would be upsetting
Joseph Joestar how’s that? :o