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intereact!Director: Junichi Sato
Actors: Tracey Moore, Terri Hawkes, Linda Ballantyne, Karen Bernstein, and Liza Balkan
Rated: Unrated
Retail Price (not our price): $149.98
Release Date: 2003-07-15
Theatrical Release Date: 1995-09-11
Studio: Adv Films
Run Time: 1060 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Discs: 8
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Description
Based on a manga by Naoko Takeuchi, Sailor Moon is the story of a teenage girl who meets a magical cat who gives her super powers. She becomes the leader of a team of brave girls, known as the Sailor Warriors. Sailor Moon has long been justifiably renowned for the strength of its plot, its direct and honest treatment of romance and, in this uncut version, a realistic and unflinching acceptance of death as a necessary possible consequence of a righteous fight.
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) A dissapointed diehard [Rating: 1 out of 5]
I bought the cheapest one I could find, I will say that out front. Not only was it NOT the item pictured, but it was a bootleg with poor sound graphics quality and downright HORRIBLE sound quality. I cannot rate the expensive one, as it is likely to be the good, originaly printed one but do not waste your money on buying the cheap ones.2) A classic magical girl series hampered by a so-so release... [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Like many members of the "classic Toonami" generation, I grew up watching the hacked-up English dubbed version of Sailor Moon. That said, while I'm glad that the original version of Sailor Moon has finally been released over here, the DVD sets put out by ADV leave much to be desired. I know that this series is over 15 years old and originally aired in monaural sound, but on these DVDs, the show looks and sounds quite murky. Surely it's not THAT hard to put out a mono track with some degree of clarity, right? Even FUNimation's recent Dragon Ball Z sets do better on their mono Japanese tracks. While we're at it, the show's opening credits sequence is normally placed between the episode preview and the "Usagi intro", but here, it's placed before both the episode preview and the "Usagi intro". What's up with that?Also, to anyone attempting to buy this from a Marketplace seller: beware of sellers claiming to sell "import editions" or hawking these sets for under $100. ADV released this set with Region 1 (North America/etc.) encoding, and THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN "IMPORT EDITION" UNLESS YOU ARE BUYING A REGION 2 PRODUCT! These sellers (such as "monscreate" and "amazon-joe") are selling BOOTLEGS under the guise of legitimate releases, and they do this for many other titles such as Full Metal Panic!, Last Exile, and Samurai Champloo (three-disc releases of 26-episode series are also a dead giveaway because this invariably results in decreased audio/video quality). In short: if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.3) Ama-zing edition [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Excellent edition, way better than the dubbed version that unfotunately, was cut (even complete episodes [episodes 2, 5, 6, 20, 42, part of the last one]). About 6 episodes per dvd, to keep quality image (although for a 1992 series there is not much quality in the image). Also the box artwork is nice with the aluminium like image of sailor moon.4) I am Pleased With My Set [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Although the set i recieved is not the offical set, i am pleased with it, it has all the subtitles, and it has great sound and great picture.5) Good for the fans! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
There seems to be tons of bootlegs and other editions of this flowing around at amazon marketplace, so be careful before you buy. You might get them cheap, but it's not the real deal. Anyway, I'm sure what is to say about this has already been said. Sure, this show has aged and has horrible audio and mediocre animation compared to today's anime, but it is to be expected. If you're a Sailormoon fan, I highly recommend buying it (you know what you get anyway, so there's no need to complain). This is a matter of taste. Some people love this show even though it is repetitive and has very little plot except for the last few episodes. I can often tell that my favorite anime aren't nearly as good as many other anime I've seen, but I love them anyway. Mahou shoujo-ness puts me in a good mood.