My god I can't handle this... Naoko was so cute back In the day! Her face is just gleaming with passion and love for what she does, and it shows in her work!
This is actually a compilation of clips: - The first is a Dateline segment called "Moonstruck" which aired around November 1995. - The second is a clip from YTV's The Zone, probably from Fall 1995. - The third is a segment from CBC's Undercurrent, from November 22, 1996. - The fourth is a fansubbed interview with Naoko Takeuchi. - And the last is a recording of the abandoned original version of Sailor Moon, from an Anime Expo in 1998.
Naoko Takeuchi had to actually approve the new dub cast members in order for Viz to get the re-dubbed release underway. Viz also had to promise to release it uncut and uncensored.
Because most (male) otaku, at least back then, were known for living in their parent's basement and never bathing, female otaku at least shower regularly and live in the attic. :P
Sailor Moon is more important than most people even imagine. The musicals, and the PGSM series are some of the most truthful shows you will ever see. Where else do they tell you that the moon destroys the planet earth? It doesn't get anymore truthful than that.
I love the subtle racism purveying the start of this broadcast haha. Times have changed so much, it's easy to forget until you actually go back and see what was normal even 10-20 years ago.
Thought the same. 'Invaded', 'threat' and how they try to demonize the whole culture of anime and their fans like it's so obscure and weird. Times have changed indeed!
I somethings wonder how much people like you were beaten as kids. I can't imagine being so trained to pick up "offensive" things that were never meant to be offensive to begin with. Goddamned SJWs get out.
@@bluesailormercury It's no more xenophobic than what was called the "British Invasion", honestly. It could be better, but knowing us, it could be a lot worse.
@@syvallone2146 Naoko has always been a very fashion-obsessed person and her art style is very indicative of fashion illustrations. Leggy, willowy bodies that don't quite look like the figures of growing teenage girls. Hell, in some of her illustrations she makes Chibiusa look more like a little woman than a child. It's not the most comfortable thing ever, but it's her style.
While I think the "sexy" part goes to Makoto (despite her being for 14 when she looks like she's around 16 to 18 due to Naoko's designs), the "tough" part however goes to the two Outer Senshi; Haruka/Sailor Uranus and Michiru/Sailor Neptune. The two are much older, possibly around their 20s.
i love this interview with the creator she's so cute and sweet and you can tell how dedicated and inlove with her creations and over welmed with how things are. 21 years later and that series had such a impact. it was my first anime and introduction to anything japanese and now i'm in college to make music with intentions to bring my career to japan to create music for what? Anime.. C:
When I was watched Sailor Moon as a kid in '95, I remember one day I was reading the end credits and it said "Based on the comic". I was a big fan, but there was zero advertising on TV about Sailor Moon or any related merch. When I realized there was actually a "comic" (manga), I ran to my mom and said we have to go to the comics store now! We looked in several local comic shops and asked the clerks, but to my dismay, none of them knew what the heck I was talking about. She said if I really want it, the only option is to special order from a catalog and pay an exorbitant shipping cost (also Internet shopping was in its infancy in '95). I said, ah forget it... I love the show but we don't have to go that far... lol. How things have changed... These days, you can read manga so easily on the Internet.
Gotta love how in the 90s we confused sexy with pretty, and immediately thought that if someone was nude that meant they were trying to get you aroused or something instead of just showing purity, good thing we don't make that mistake today...oh wait dang it did we learn nothing over the years? I mean really? come on it's obvious what she was trying to do even with the butchering that DiC did to it.
Hitoshi Doi! If you were a Sailor Moon fan back in the 90's, you visited his website on a regular basis! Because of his site, I found out that there were more Sailor Soldiers than the original five! It blew my mind. Oh man, I feel old. Also, that Mercury fan is very, very creepy. I'd be laughing if that part didn't make me feel so uncomfortable from being so creeped out and from feeling second-hand embarrassment.
I didn't find him creepy. He's no more obsessed than your regular sports fan, who has posters and banners and T-shirts and can tell how his favorite team did thirteen years before he was himself born. It's not like he was saying "... and God I so want to screw her blue-haired brains out!!" There was none of that. Boys can be fans of female characters without it having to be "creepy."
Sailor Barsoom I have no problem with boys who are fans of female characters. In fact, I know plenty of males who like Sailor Moon. This guy in particular gave me a creeper vibe though.
spiderleenie I think the show played him that way, on purpose. Kind of a "look at this GROWN MAN liking this GIRLY KID STUFF! This FOREIGN girly kid stuff!!" The bit on him wasn't the only part to do that, either; notice the ominous anime eye laid over static at 16:14 , complete with scary music.
"tough and SEXY" whoa dude, they're in their early teens. But then again I thought they were older teens like high school when I was a kid so its all good lol Unless he knew their ages which makes the whole thing creepy o__o
I found that creepy too!! I watched it as a child and never thought of it like that! I thought "OMG BEING PRETTY AND SAVING THE WORLD IS POSSIBLE!! WOOO!!"
As a kid I thought the Senshi looked so grown-up and mature but now that I'm twice their age they seem like kids wearin slightly age-inappropriate uniforms, even if they're animated superheroes.. Perspective is a funny thing.
It's painful hearing the narrator butcher Takeuchi-sama's name! It's Nao-KO Ta-ke-u-chi! The Sailor Senshi are all in their TEENS for Heaven's sake, so please, no 'blonde bombshell'! And female otaku exist, believe me they do! They might not express their love of anime, manga, and comic book series in the same way as their male counterparts, but they do exist! ^_^
0:58 Despite the fact Sailor Moon have beaten down the sales of Power Rangers deep to the ground in the decade, Sailor Moon was inspired by Super Sentai series, SM Mangaka Naoko Takeuchi's key inspirational childhood tokusatsu which serves basis to Saban's adaption Power Rangers.
I used to go on Hitoshi Doi's Sailor Moon page waaaay back in the day, probably one of the first websites I ever visited. 😂 Naoko-san's interview is so relaxing, it's almost like ASMR
"I've never heard of a female Otaku" They just had to wait a decade or two: go to any anime con (outside of Japan) in 2016 and most of the attendees are going to be women.
Not to mention, it's not like they didn't exist. Maybe there weren't as many as there were males, but they were probably just better at hiding their otaku-ness
Naoko Takeuchi created the manga Sailor Moon, which was then turned into an anime series; it hit Japanese airwaves in 1992 and lasted 200 EPISODES until the show ended in 1997. Here in the States, the anime was dubbed in English and aired in 1995, but only 65 episodes were aired (the show was aired in syndication back then [I used to watch it every time I came home from school just to watch it, even though my mom told me that it was a "girl's show"]); a few years later, Cartoon Network aired the series on their TOONAMI block along with the 17 that were left unaired (known as the LOST EPISODES [my favorite LOST EPISODE was 'No Thanks, Nurse Venus', where Mina helps her friends {Serena, Amy, Raye, and Lita} while they've got the flu; things don't go according to plan, however, as she messes everything up, such as making soup that's WAY TOO SPICY for Raye and breaking Serena's bedroom window with a digital thermometer that has a dead battery]), making it go from 65 episodes to 82. Several years later, new episodes were aired, bringing that number to 156 EPISODES. BTW, if you want to know what happened to the other 44 episodes, here's your answer: they were skipped, along with the ENTIRE 5TH SEASON; the only place that yo can watch the 5th season is on UA-cam.
***** What was the name of that episode? I already know that her name is Chibi-Chibi. The 100th episode of the North American dub was called 'Birthday Girl Blues, Part 1'.
We would look at "otaku" very differently now. Nearly everyone has at least one obsession over some kind of franchise like Harry Potter, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, My Little Pony, DC/Marvel superheroes, and of course anime. Almost everything here is such a time stamp. Everyone is discussing "anime" like it's this new strange thing, wheres now, almost everyone in their teens, twenties, and maybe even thirties can name at least a couple shows. I didn't think there was THAT much info about Sailor Mercury out there. That guy was just creepy as hell, and there was probably something else going on there. Wonder where he is now. He'd be about FORTY! Also, LOL at that club watching 60 eps of Maison Ikkoku in a row (which would take about 24 hours). The very mention of that show makes it very clear that this was the mid-90s anime fandom. Actually, that anime was about 10 years old at that point, but the fans didn't seem to mind getting obsessed over older stuff as much.
Well, the internet, along with the whole world, moved a lot slower, so most of the shows American anime fans got into in the mid '90s were from the '80s or earlier.
Thanks for uploading! What's most interesting to me is the underlying xenophobia and fearmongering in the reporter's narration in the 1st segment. Lots of threatening language. He says Japan has "now invaded" the toy industry. He also lumps all of Japanese auto industry (Toyota, Honda, etc), the electronics industry (Panasonic/Sony) and toy company all as "they". Sailor Moon also "invaded" USA. Bandai is "the biggest threat" to the American Toy industry. The success of Sailor Moon is a "dream for kids, nightmare for American toymakers". Also interesting: Reporter asks very interesting and thoughtful question about localization, and the answer from Bandai man is completely nonsense. "everything is the same, except for the casting!" Sailor Moon was notorious for changing very big details about the show. Names, gender, sexual preferences of characters. An entire season was eliminated because of too many transgender themes. The reporter even mentions the toning down after.
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They were definitely not prepared for Pokemania if a then-modest success like Sailor Moon was enough of a warning whistle for them.
It is creepy a little to hear a grown may call 14 year old girls 'sexy', I mean, sure, they are, but still, as a grown man doing a piece on Sailor Moon, hearing him call 14 year old girls sexy seems almost criminal.
Mr. X Society Yes, damn western society from trying to take our rights to feelings of pedophilia and hebephilia away from us! Get the fuck over yourself, it's disgusting even in cartoon form.
I was about to "enlighten" you on the fact that the show had great character development, somewhat cool fight scenes and a really intense story, but then I realized you were referring to the English Live action, not the Japanese one.
You know, after seeing the actresses do their Sailor Venus and Jupiter voices, they could've been done a really good job but since they were given pretty mediocre lines I guess they couldn't have made it sound serious.
I have always felt that regardless of the dialogue or script that the Dic voice actors did in fact do a really good job. I am driving out to L.A for Anime Exo soon and I am excited to see the original cast of Sailor Moon and I wonder if the cast Viz unveils at the convention will be able to measure up at all.
I wonder how well Amanda Celine Miller (Takeru from Squid Girl, Sully and Cherche from Fire Emblem Awakening) and Cherami Leigh (Lucy from Fairy Tail, Patti Thompson from Soul Eater, Asuna from Sword Art Online) will do as Jupiter and Venus.
TMX1138 I may be a little biased as a Danganronpa fan but I honestly think Amanda Celine Miller and Cherami Leigh have really great chemistry. They voice the two main characters in Ultra Despair Girls, Komaru (Cherami Leigh) and Toko (Amanda Celine Miller) and the new dub came out around the same time as that game I believe
This video is precious!! Thank you so much for uploading it !!!!! The power of anime in a sociological scale ! Plus I’ve never seen this video of naoko takeuchi. I am so happy we can see more of her !! OMG and i can put a face on Hitoshi Doi. Definitely a special video here. I also could be so friend with the fan of Sailor Mercury i don't see anything creepy here. He is an introvert that’s all.
The creepy Sailor Mercury fan's site is still up...in all its Times New Roman glory. Interesting to look at. Just google 'Greg Taylor sailor mercury' and it's the first one
Thank you for uploading this. Some of it I'd seen before (the SABAN trailer... shudder... the intervew with Naoko-san) but some of it was new. All the 'omg he said sexy is he a pedo' comments are bugging the hell out of me. In Japan (you know, where this show is FROM?) fourteen year old girls are considered sexy. Live with it. The Mercury fanboy is exactly that: a fan. He's no more obcessed than say a football fan. Just because it's anime instead of sports, it suddenly becomes "creepy?" That SABAN trailer... [shudders again] We were spared that. There is a God.
Sailor Barsoom that SABAN trailer wasn’t made by SABAN at all but ToonMakers, it’s even in the video, it being made by SABAN is an internet myth being spread by uniformed fans like yourself.
I'm not the first to say it, but it's bizarre to think that this video has been online for years and only now have people noticed the Thomas props in the background at 2:37 - the places you'll find rare Thomas photos!! Nice (though certainly dated in some ways •.•) piece of history btw!!:)
Sailor Moon started in December 93 in France, the first country to broadcast it after Japan so I was 5 years old when I became a fan and I’m 36 now and still a fan. It’s a blessing and a curse because I couldn’t collect things, I was too young so I started my collection during my teens and with the constant popularity there is always new items and products to buy or vintage articles but so many fans and crazy pricing is a double edged sword.
The interview played moonlight densetsu. Anyone in the US watching this would in the 90s would not have known that since 90s kids were used to the English theme, different from the the original Japanese. Also, 90s kids didn't know Umino was Melvin.
We haven’t honestly changed. Lol just look into what kids like now and people still think they’re being corrupted. It’s just a new generation a new batch of “dangerous” things they like.
I didn’t expect the clip with pj Phil on YTV interviewing sailor Venus and sailor Jupiter voice actresses to come on after and when I saw that it made me cry Becuase I remember watching that clip as a little girl and then talking about going to anime club at university of Toronto and thinking how amazing that sounded. I was lucky my mom later found an anime club for me and my friends and we went to it and I remember feeling so happy ♥️
+moriya2k2 Um, HELLO - it's PRONOUNCED "NayOHko taCOOCHIE". It rhymes with "hoochie". (DISCLAIMER: I will NOT be held responsible for people actually pronouncing Naoko Takeuchi's name this way.)
This may be WAY too late, but the theme song they used was from the NA version that debuted in the Fall of 1995, and competed alongside Power Rangers and its sister show VR Troopers to see which would get the biggest viewing audience as WELL as the biggest toy sales.
although I get why some people say Sailor Moon is thought to be a a female version rip off of Saint Seya and Ronin Warriors which both came out a decade earlier, but the mark it left on anime culture, Japanese culture, and even western culture is undeniable. its iconic
"Blonde bombshell and her four girlfriends"
Last I checked, the Sailor Senshi weren't in a harem.
I agree and don't know why they would say "bombshell" but by "girlfriends" they're probably referring to just friends not like lesbians or anything
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The lesbians came later. ^_~
Sailor Barsoom Ooh I see what you did there! lol
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Hmmm......Not bad, but not quite there. It's probably worth your time to try again.
ruth mcnally lmao
My god I can't handle this... Naoko was so cute back In the day! Her face is just gleaming with passion and love for what she does, and it shows in her work!
It still is. She looks amazing for her age.
back in the 90s, we didn't call them anime or manga we called them "Cartoons and Comics from Japan"!
Hailey Shannon jajaja in Mexico the mom's says Chinese cartoon 😂 not even Japanese cartons
That sounds way better than calling them anime in a different accent.
@ Which still rolls off the tongue I might add. But Anime suffices.
I called them Japanese anime, they definitely got defined that by the late 90s.
I mean they are just Japanese Cartoons and Comics.
This is actually a compilation of clips:
- The first is a Dateline segment called "Moonstruck" which aired around November 1995.
- The second is a clip from YTV's The Zone, probably from Fall 1995.
- The third is a segment from CBC's Undercurrent, from November 22, 1996.
- The fourth is a fansubbed interview with Naoko Takeuchi.
- And the last is a recording of the abandoned original version of Sailor Moon, from an Anime Expo in 1998.
Nice info
Damn I wonder if they’re any full dateline videos with sailor moon or was the dateline clip just a sample that included sailor moon
The zone ❤️😭
Naoko Takeuchi had to actually approve the new dub cast members in order for Viz to get the re-dubbed release underway. Viz also had to promise to release it uncut and uncensored.
So she approved for a grown man to voice Shingo? :/
What I meant is that Naoko Takeuchi should've chosen a woman to voice Shingo to match his age.
Well it's kinda pointless to censor anime series nowadays being anime is the norm for people. I just can't see people doing it nowadays.
Well, it wouldn't the first time a creator can be wrong with their own creation. George Lucas, Ridley Scott. :P
I wish Luna had an older voice like in the “DIC” version. I sometimes don’t know who’s taking her or Serena/Usagi
BACK WHEN EVERYTHING I WANT TODAY WAS ACTUALLY IN PRINT AND NOT 300 DOLLARS
+Sheba Kittycat thanks babe😘
OMG amen lol !! this is insane right !!! so much potential back then damn i was too young to figure that out
Alyson J. how did you get into sailor moon? :)
Sailor mercury is my favorite, but god damn that dude thirsty.
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"I've never heard of a female otaku" LOL.
You know, those guys were otakus before it was cool. :P
Because most (male) otaku, at least back then, were known for living in their parent's basement and never bathing, female otaku at least shower regularly and live in the attic. :P
Genta Well, otaku in Japan have another meaning, a very bad meaning.
Well, it's the same. Useless and murder are bad things, negative things.
They clearly haven't meet Konata.
Naoko Takeuchi's voice is soo ASMR
Science Project 88 wth I just watched ur video and now ur here???
Maybe for the rest of us, do we appreciate Bandai for making the toys the kids love?
Sailor Moon is more important than most people even imagine. The musicals, and the PGSM series are some of the most truthful shows you will ever see. Where else do they tell you that the moon destroys the planet earth? It doesn't get anymore truthful than that.
I love the subtle racism purveying the start of this broadcast haha. Times have changed so much, it's easy to forget until you actually go back and see what was normal even 10-20 years ago.
Thought the same. 'Invaded', 'threat' and how they try to demonize the whole culture of anime and their fans like it's so obscure and weird. Times have changed indeed!
I somethings wonder how much people like you were beaten as kids. I can't imagine being so trained to pick up "offensive" things that were never meant to be offensive to begin with. Goddamned SJWs get out.
hamburgbam Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. The remarks about Japan sound a bit xenophobic, at least.
@@bluesailormercury It's no more xenophobic than what was called the "British Invasion", honestly. It could be better, but knowing us, it could be a lot worse.
1990s - Cartoons and Toys were my life!
2000s - Video Games and my old iPod were my life!
2019 - *I M A T R A N S G E N D E R A L I E N*
Anyone that watches one episode of Sailor Moon would know that Sailor Moon herself is NOT very sexy.
only a chick would say that
She kinda was actually...
Sailor Jupiter, however, is. 'nuff said.
@@redmage8719 Agreed.
She was "Cute" but not a klutz
Let's be glad the American Sailor Moon from the end of the video was never made.
It would've been like Power Rangers but it's not.
Im bummed it wasnt made
This didn’t age well, lol.
@@skelemama What do you mean?
@@Blue-Apple-fc9eo Because the full pilot of American Sailor Moon was released a while ago
that mercury fanboy... I think I found my male counterpart
Sailor mercury is best.
I can't believe Naoko is married to the creator of Hunter x Hunter. #RelationshipGoals
yup :)
He also created Yu Yu Hokisho.
@@bearmarion93 hokisho? Its Hakusho
@@base21 ok weeb
@@toogudd4dis I guess knowing how to spell makes me a weeb
"...tough and sexy the next" fam these girls are in 8th grade jfc
edit: thanks for replying to my five year old comment everyone
What 8th grader dresses like that????
@@syvallone2146 Naoko has always been a very fashion-obsessed person and her art style is very indicative of fashion illustrations. Leggy, willowy bodies that don't quite look like the figures of growing teenage girls. Hell, in some of her illustrations she makes Chibiusa look more like a little woman than a child. It's not the most comfortable thing ever, but it's her style.
Sy Vallone well this anime is from japan where the legal age of consent I believe is either 13 or 14 so it’s easy to see why they sexualize them
@@pickelsandnickels2487 It's not actually. Every prefecture has their own law that bumps it up to 17 or 16.
While I think the "sexy" part goes to Makoto (despite her being for 14 when she looks like she's around 16 to 18 due to Naoko's designs), the "tough" part however goes to the two Outer Senshi; Haruka/Sailor Uranus and Michiru/Sailor Neptune. The two are much older, possibly around their 20s.
i love this interview with the creator she's so cute and sweet and you can tell how dedicated and inlove with her creations and over welmed with how things are. 21 years later and that series had such a impact. it was my first anime and introduction to anything japanese and now i'm in college to make music with intentions to bring my career to japan to create music for what? Anime.. C:
How’s it going 8 years later?
When I was watched Sailor Moon as a kid in '95, I remember one day I was reading the end credits and it said "Based on the comic". I was a big fan, but there was zero advertising on TV about Sailor Moon or any related merch. When I realized there was actually a "comic" (manga), I ran to my mom and said we have to go to the comics store now! We looked in several local comic shops and asked the clerks, but to my dismay, none of them knew what the heck I was talking about. She said if I really want it, the only option is to special order from a catalog and pay an exorbitant shipping cost (also Internet shopping was in its infancy in '95). I said, ah forget it... I love the show but we don't have to go that far... lol. How things have changed... These days, you can read manga so easily on the Internet.
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this is INCREDIBLE!!! probably at one time was just a once in a lifetime view--- but you have preserved it for all of us. my gosh!!
Gotta love how in the 90s we confused sexy with pretty, and immediately thought that if someone was nude that meant they were trying to get you aroused or something instead of just showing purity, good thing we don't make that mistake today...oh wait dang it did we learn nothing over the years? I mean really? come on it's obvious what she was trying to do even with the butchering that DiC did to it.
Whilan ikr, it's like the naked angel babies
Naoko is super awkward. Cute.
Hitoshi Doi! If you were a Sailor Moon fan back in the 90's, you visited his website on a regular basis! Because of his site, I found out that there were more Sailor Soldiers than the original five! It blew my mind. Oh man, I feel old.
Also, that Mercury fan is very, very creepy. I'd be laughing if that part didn't make me feel so uncomfortable from being so creeped out and from feeling second-hand embarrassment.
I know, right? He looked like someone you'd see in a sex offender registry. =P
I didn't find him creepy. He's no more obsessed than your regular sports fan, who has posters and banners and T-shirts and can tell how his favorite team did thirteen years before he was himself born. It's not like he was saying "... and God I so want to screw her blue-haired brains out!!" There was none of that. Boys can be fans of female characters without it having to be "creepy."
Sailor Barsoom I have no problem with boys who are fans of female characters. In fact, I know plenty of males who like Sailor Moon. This guy in particular gave me a creeper vibe though.
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I think the show played him that way, on purpose. Kind of a "look at this GROWN MAN liking this GIRLY KID STUFF! This FOREIGN girly kid stuff!!" The bit on him wasn't the only part to do that, either; notice the ominous anime eye laid over static at 16:14 , complete with scary music.
Oh man I freaked out when I saw Hitoshi Doi. I was on that freaking site every other day for decaaades
"tough and SEXY" whoa dude, they're in their early teens.
But then again I thought they were older teens like high school when I was a kid so its all good lol
Unless he knew their ages which makes the whole thing creepy o__o
Considering that the guy probably hasn't seen not read the SM amine and manga
I found that creepy too!! I watched it as a child and never thought of it like that! I thought "OMG BEING PRETTY AND SAVING THE WORLD IS POSSIBLE!! WOOO!!"
As a kid I thought the Senshi looked so grown-up and mature but now that I'm twice their age they seem like kids wearin slightly age-inappropriate uniforms, even if they're animated superheroes.. Perspective is a funny thing.
he still knows they are high school students. It's so creepy!
He probably wasn’t aware. And he’s reading from a script.
Blonde bombshell! *is 13 years old* *awkward*
Haha thanks for sharing!
I am glad I got my sailor moon toys back in the 1990s
Lol I still have mine! 😁
It's painful hearing the narrator butcher Takeuchi-sama's name! It's Nao-KO Ta-ke-u-chi! The Sailor Senshi are all in their TEENS for Heaven's sake, so please, no 'blonde bombshell'!
And female otaku exist, believe me they do! They might not express their love of anime, manga, and comic book series in the same way as their male counterparts, but they do exist! ^_^
0:58 Despite the fact Sailor Moon have beaten down the sales of Power Rangers deep to the ground in the decade, Sailor Moon was inspired by Super Sentai series, SM Mangaka Naoko Takeuchi's key inspirational childhood tokusatsu which serves basis to Saban's adaption Power Rangers.
THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THE NAOKA TAKEUCHI INTERVIEW IN ENGLISH SUBTITLE! I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR IT FOREVER!
good interview
Paul M Yup!
I used to go on Hitoshi Doi's Sailor Moon page waaaay back in the day, probably one of the first websites I ever visited. 😂
Naoko-san's interview is so relaxing, it's almost like ASMR
Thank goodness that version of sailor moon didn't happen. (shutter)
Why? It looks awesome and cheesy as hell
"I've never heard of a female Otaku"
They just had to wait a decade or two: go to any anime con (outside of Japan) in 2016 and most of the attendees are going to be women.
Not to mention, it's not like they didn't exist. Maybe there weren't as many as there were males, but they were probably just better at hiding their otaku-ness
Naoko Takeuchi created the manga Sailor Moon, which was then turned into an anime series; it hit Japanese airwaves in 1992 and lasted 200 EPISODES until the show ended in 1997. Here in the States, the anime was dubbed in English and aired in 1995, but only 65 episodes were aired (the show was aired in syndication back then [I used to watch it every time I came home from school just to watch it, even though my mom told me that it was a "girl's show"]); a few years later, Cartoon Network aired the series on their TOONAMI block along with the 17 that were left unaired (known as the LOST EPISODES [my favorite LOST EPISODE was 'No Thanks, Nurse Venus', where Mina helps her friends {Serena, Amy, Raye, and Lita} while they've got the flu; things don't go according to plan, however, as she messes everything up, such as making soup that's WAY TOO SPICY for Raye and breaking Serena's bedroom window with a digital thermometer that has a dead battery]), making it go from 65 episodes to 82. Several years later, new episodes were aired, bringing that number to 156 EPISODES. BTW, if you want to know what happened to the other 44 episodes, here's your answer: they were skipped, along with the ENTIRE 5TH SEASON; the only place that yo can watch the 5th season is on UA-cam.
I love episode 20, the one with the psychic little girl :) Viz has added Sailor Moon Stars to Hulu now.
***** What was the name of that episode? I already know that her name is Chibi-Chibi. The 100th episode of the North American dub was called 'Birthday Girl Blues, Part 1'.
Joe Orsini This one: sailormoon.wikia.com/wiki/It%27s_Summer!_The_Sea!_Our_Youth!_Also,_A_Ghost
We would look at "otaku" very differently now. Nearly everyone has at least one obsession over some kind of franchise like Harry Potter, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, My Little Pony, DC/Marvel superheroes, and of course anime. Almost everything here is such a time stamp. Everyone is discussing "anime" like it's this new strange thing, wheres now, almost everyone in their teens, twenties, and maybe even thirties can name at least a couple shows.
I didn't think there was THAT much info about Sailor Mercury out there. That guy was just creepy as hell, and there was probably something else going on there. Wonder where he is now. He'd be about FORTY! Also, LOL at that club watching 60 eps of Maison Ikkoku in a row (which would take about 24 hours). The very mention of that show makes it very clear that this was the mid-90s anime fandom. Actually, that anime was about 10 years old at that point, but the fans didn't seem to mind getting obsessed over older stuff as much.
Well, the internet, along with the whole world, moved a lot slower, so most of the shows American anime fans got into in the mid '90s were from the '80s or earlier.
Dude wasn't that bad. "He's creepy" ok? And how and why? I see nothing wrong here except an obsession for a fictional character....
200 episodes total of the anime tv series since 1992-1997. Incredible!
Thanks for uploading!
What's most interesting to me is the underlying xenophobia and fearmongering in the reporter's narration in the 1st segment. Lots of threatening language.
He says Japan has "now invaded" the toy industry. He also lumps all of Japanese auto industry (Toyota, Honda, etc), the electronics industry (Panasonic/Sony) and toy company all as "they". Sailor Moon also "invaded" USA. Bandai is "the biggest threat" to the American Toy industry. The success of Sailor Moon is a "dream for kids, nightmare for American toymakers".
Also interesting: Reporter asks very interesting and thoughtful question about localization, and the answer from Bandai man is completely nonsense. "everything is the same, except for the casting!" Sailor Moon was notorious for changing very big details about the show. Names, gender, sexual preferences of characters. An entire season was eliminated because of too many transgender themes. The reporter even mentions the toning down after.
They were definitely not prepared for Pokemania if a then-modest success like Sailor Moon was enough of a warning whistle for them.
And 20 years later they are back at it again.
Looking at this made me want to hop on a time machine and go BACK!! :) Thanks for uploading this. I really appreciate it! :)
Aw man, this video is a damn goldmine of nostalgia and the mainstream media totally not getting it. Thank you for uploading it!
Odd coincidence that the Mercury fanboy is named Greg. That was the name her temporary love interest got in the English dub.
I am so grateful to be born in the 1990s. I love anime and gaming. ^_^ I remember when tv was like this graphics and all.
Same Here!
It is creepy a little to hear a grown may call 14 year old girls 'sexy', I mean, sure, they are, but still, as a grown man doing a piece on Sailor Moon, hearing him call 14 year old girls sexy seems almost criminal.
They probably didn't know they were 14 years old. If they did, that wouldn't have slid by.
TheLostLenore I was thinking the same thing lol. It felt creepy lol
Mr. X Society Yes, damn western society from trying to take our rights to feelings of pedophilia and hebephilia away from us! Get the fuck over yourself, it's disgusting even in cartoon form.
Someone is overly butthurt over a cartoon.
have you watched sailormoon?
I like watching all these old 90s newscasts on stuff like this.
Really shows at parts that some things never change.
People should archive these old videos. These videos are like time capsules of culture.
2:38, you can see the S4 props of Duncan, Skarloey, Duke, Sir Handel and Peter Sam
The reactions to the live action Sailor Moon are priceless.
I was about to "enlighten" you on the fact that the show had great character development, somewhat cool fight scenes and a really intense story, but then I realized you were referring to the English Live action, not the Japanese one.
*****
Thaz meh.
I wanted to see Sailormoon in a wheelchair!
Still have my Sailor Moon figurines and plushies.
I cringe every time the guy says "Naoki". It's Naoko!
Ayy Lmao LOL 😂😂😂😂😂
haha he couldn't even bother to read the name right
You know, after seeing the actresses do their Sailor Venus and Jupiter voices, they could've been done a really good job but since they were given pretty mediocre lines I guess they couldn't have made it sound serious.
I have always felt that regardless of the dialogue or script that the Dic voice actors did in fact do a really good job. I am driving out to L.A for Anime Exo soon and I am excited to see the original cast of Sailor Moon and I wonder if the cast Viz unveils at the convention will be able to measure up at all.
supersqueak In fact Dic's voice actress of Sailor Moon was much better than the one we got in the Clover dubs.
I wonder how well Amanda Celine Miller (Takeru from Squid Girl, Sully and Cherche from Fire Emblem Awakening) and Cherami Leigh (Lucy from Fairy Tail, Patti Thompson from Soul Eater, Asuna from Sword Art Online) will do as Jupiter and Venus.
Omg YTV?!?!?!
TMX1138 I may be a little biased as a Danganronpa fan but I honestly think Amanda Celine Miller and Cherami Leigh have really great chemistry. They voice the two main characters in Ultra Despair Girls, Komaru (Cherami Leigh) and Toko (Amanda Celine Miller) and the new dub came out around the same time as that game I believe
wooow naoko was soo cute ^_^
This video is precious!! Thank you so much for uploading it !!!!! The power of anime in a sociological scale ! Plus I’ve never seen this video of naoko takeuchi. I am so happy we can see more of her !! OMG and i can put a face on Hitoshi Doi. Definitely a special video here. I also could be so friend with the fan of Sailor Mercury i don't see anything creepy here. He is an introvert that’s all.
Naoki Takiuchi, bombshell, OMG THIS IS HILLARIOUS XD TV in the 90's...
"Sweet and innocent one minute, tough and sexy the next!"
Please stop.
Exactly THEY’RE LIKE MINORS
OMG! Naoko looks so young
Yup
This hurts me inside.
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I'm gonna start scouting antique fairs for sailor moon stuff, everything is too expensive now.
It was so adorable how that one guy carried an Ami plush around with him 😅 💙
The creepy Sailor Mercury fan's site is still up...in all its Times New Roman glory. Interesting to look at. Just google 'Greg Taylor sailor mercury' and it's the first one
"The biggest threat to the American toy industry" wow
The otaku segment is some real Serial Experiments Lain shit, with all the zoom in on the CRT screens
so yes I am a huge fan of Sailor Moon but at around 2:36 to 2:40 i can some narrow gauge props from thomas and freinds
Thank you for uploading this. Some of it I'd seen before (the SABAN trailer... shudder... the intervew with Naoko-san) but some of it was new.
All the 'omg he said sexy is he a pedo' comments are bugging the hell out of me. In Japan (you know, where this show is FROM?) fourteen year old girls are considered sexy. Live with it.
The Mercury fanboy is exactly that: a fan. He's no more obcessed than say a football fan. Just because it's anime instead of sports, it suddenly becomes "creepy?"
That SABAN trailer... [shudders again] We were spared that. There is a God.
Sailor Barsoom that SABAN trailer wasn’t made by SABAN at all but ToonMakers, it’s even in the video, it being made by SABAN is an internet myth being spread by uniformed fans like yourself.
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OK. Thanks for setting me straight.
Bandai still isn't the #1 world largest toy company, but it's #4 which is still pretty amazing.
I had a Sailor Moon doll when I was little. 😊
I'm not the first to say it, but it's bizarre to think that this video has been online for years and only now have people noticed the Thomas props in the background at 2:37 - the places you'll find rare Thomas photos!! Nice (though certainly dated in some ways •.•) piece of history btw!!:)
Sailor Moon started in December 93 in France, the first country to broadcast it after Japan so I was 5 years old when I became a fan and I’m 36 now and still a fan. It’s a blessing and a curse because I couldn’t collect things, I was too young so I started my collection during my teens and with the constant popularity there is always new items and products to buy or vintage articles but so many fans and crazy pricing is a double edged sword.
I really think that Calgary is also the birthplace of Terri Hawkes which is the second voice of the DiC Dub in 1995.
Don't mind me, I'm only here for the S4 Narrow Gauge prop replicas at 2:37
So interesting to see Naoko's view on the series.
The interview played moonlight densetsu. Anyone in the US watching this would in the 90s would not have known that since 90s kids were used to the English theme, different from the the original Japanese. Also, 90s kids didn't know Umino was Melvin.
Maison Ikkoku and Kimagure Orange Road? These people legit have excellent taste.
The early days of anime in america, The industry is so different now then it was then .
I like in 90s how America thought everything was destroying America youth wether it was Music, WWF, or anime. Even power rangers.
We haven’t honestly changed. Lol just look into what kids like now and people still think they’re being corrupted. It’s just a new generation a new batch of “dangerous” things they like.
@@TheSlipperyNUwUdle and these are the same groups of people that watch those types of shows.
"I've never heard of a female otaku" *plays TROLOLOL song*
This guy likes sailor Mercury just like me
I didn’t expect the clip with pj Phil on YTV interviewing sailor Venus and sailor Jupiter voice actresses to come on after and when I saw that it made me cry Becuase I remember watching that clip as a little girl and then talking about going to anime club at university of Toronto and thinking how amazing that sounded. I was lucky my mom later found an anime club for me and my friends and we went to it and I remember feeling so happy ♥️
That guy was the most well adjusted otaku I've ever seen in my life.
Oh, wow! This is awesome!
Except for 2:58 ..... "Nayoki Tocky-oochi".... >_<
Thank you for uploading this!!
+moriya2k2 Um, HELLO - it's PRONOUNCED "NayOHko taCOOCHIE". It rhymes with "hoochie".
(DISCLAIMER: I will NOT be held responsible for people actually pronouncing Naoko Takeuchi's name this way.)
+kumada84 It's pronounced Now-ko Takoochie
OMG 14:10 Ed in the background! I used to buy SailorMoon stuff from him every week xD memories.
the first otaku dude is melvin-sempai irl
Did he say "Naoki Takeuchi"? It's NAOKO. And they used the wrong theme song
This may be WAY too late, but the theme song they used was from the NA version that debuted in the Fall of 1995, and competed alongside Power Rangers and its sister show VR Troopers to see which would get the biggest viewing audience as WELL as the biggest toy sales.
I would love to see that Naoko Takeuchi interview from Dateline in it's entirety.
excuse you sir in the video who never heard of a female OTAKU!!!! but I am a proud female OTAKU..... WHERE ARE ALL MY FEMALE OTAKU'S AT :)
They called her naoki omg NAOKO ITS NAOKO
Hey yo 2020😂?
now we're going to the dark side of the moon
Anime used to be so rare to find here in the UK in the 90s
It's weird looking back to the era before anime and manga got mainstream in the U.S and Canada.
Thanks for uploading this!
wow this is a huge throwback!
thanks for the upload
Wow, imagine seeing a huge display of Sailormoon lockets and wands like that. Holy shit.
although I get why some people say Sailor Moon is thought to be a a female version rip off of Saint Seya and Ronin Warriors which both came out a decade earlier, but the mark it left on anime culture, Japanese culture, and even western culture is undeniable. its iconic
*wonderful historical video!!!* *:D*
Lol when I was a kid, I had a crush on Mercury.
I NEEDED THIS.
The unmade version of Sailor Moon at the end still looks better than Crystal.
Thank u so much for this!
Those Sailor Moon toys were a big hit in Canada! (Don't know about the US...)
soo cool you found and uploaded this! i love sailor moon and i have a fable for the 90's!
3:34 Uh, no, that's not what happened lol. If anything the DiC dub dialed the innuendo up to 11.
Wow. There are clips from Super S in this. I had no idea Sailor Moon had been going that long in Japan before it reached America.