Meaning with that the fact that a portion of the fandom of this franchise has, due to completely nonsensical and ridicolous manga elitism, convinced themselves over the years that somehow the original manga designed and "written" (?) by mrs. Naoko Takeuchi is good in itself while the 90's animated serial (deservingly a masterpiece of animes and superheroics in general) is a reduction of said manga and not the monstruous improvement over the sucky paper material that factually is. The problem is, if you'd ever had the bad idea of reading said manga, what you will find is an infantile (we're talking about Golion King of Beasts level of infantilism) piece of atrociously written fanfiction with unlikeable and uninteresting mary sues and gary stues as main protagonists while all the rest (the enemies, the allies, the actions themselves, everything) serves as nothing more than background scenery to express the awesomeness of said protagonists, literally one of the worst comics if not the worst written comic I've ever read to this same day with a nice (but nothing more than nice) design on it. Guess what? This series tried to be 100% faithful to such material, a material good for the ideas it could give to somebody else more able in the writing and universe/superheroics management but not as something on its own. And what happened? The inevitable, with people complaining about bad writing due to the source manga and her main writer (and NOT on Toei meddling on anything, since already the Sailor V prequel manga was not exactly a masterpiece of good writing to begin with, it was a fun romp considering the context of a 14-years old girl tentatively writing her first output ever but nothing more than that), and nothing else. Thank the manga elitists and thank Naoko Takeuchi, who evidently, not happy enough with the unwatchable fiasco that was the Live-Action series from 2003 and the continous ocean of money she receives due to the merchandise empire she owns, believed said elitists and greenlighted this thing convinced that her manga was really well written and worthy of a more faithful rendition...which is totally, ABSOLUTELY not the case. If you are like me and care like gold and platinum about the Iconic with a capital I, believable, universally-appliable and more human than human themselves version of the characters you learn to love from the 90's series and its linked movies, avoid both the manga and this thing AT ALL COSTS.
Review of Sailor Moon Crystal
Sailor Moon Crystal
(2014–2021)
The fandom getting what they asked for...and complaining about it: Sailor Moon edition
21 April 2022