| Satan's Onion |
01-31-2006 06:27 AM |
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Originally Posted by Great Cartoonist
Sailor Moon is the only show that I know that really, REALLY insults my intelligence. I've seen some girls in my school blathering about the storyline and it really pisses me off. Hey, wanna know how to stop evil from pinning you down mercilessly under their power? How about if you stop announcing your name and what you're going to do right before you go into battle?
What I really want is a Metal Gear Solid cartoon show. It would feature Solid Snake taking crap from nobody. It would be the Anti-Sailor Moon.
Just a thought.
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We-ell, as something of a Sailor Moon fan (it was the first anime I ever saw, for one thing), I'd have to respectfully disagree with your assessment that they're completely helpless in the face of evil. (Tho' for the first season or so, they do end up owing a big debt to Tuxedo Save-Yer-Arse.) It has no mechanized suits, nor is it about an intergalactic war, but I daresay that at its best, it's not bad for its genre.
And have a *little* sympathy for it, if the version you're hearing of is the dub--as (am I right on this?) one of the first animes imported for a North American audience, it was pretty thoroughly mutilated in the dubbing process, especially the first season or two. In certain parts of most story arcs, it lost a *lot* that would otherwise probably make it more tolerable, and certainly more coherent.
I'm not trying to proselytize the Word of Usagi to you, I'm just saying--while it's pretty blatantly a show for the ladies (which may not suit you, but it's fine by me :D ), it's not necessarily a bad show, and it's certainly better than its dub would imply.
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