Sailor Moon US Live Action

[nyaasu]

In 1994, Haim Saban who "created" the Power Rangers, was thinking about Sailor Moon to become a live action series, in combination with a typical US cartoon.
Here is what he imagined - at luck it was just an idea and never became real...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6abDYZsfnbw

[Calico]

I LOVE how this always shows up in SM forum areas. XD

I really wish they released at least one episode. I would've seriously ROFFLED myself to death.

WHEELCHAIR FTW!

[Lunix]

admin said:

I LOVE how this always shows up in SM forum areas. XD

I really wish they released at least one episode. I would've seriously ROFFLED myself to death.

WHEELCHAIR FTW!

You're so right. When you just look at those girls.. It's really traumatic.

[Fujiko]

That is sooooooooooooooooo weird. I can't believe that they were going to do that! It was totally Americanized. I'm glad they didn't end up releasing it otherwise I might never have watched Sailor Moon properly.

[nyaasu]

And I thought the Japanese Live Action was §$%&....

[Latara]

Haha, I remember this. I actually just looked it up for a friend a few days back. It's so hilarious.

[SailorNash]

I'm not sure which was more frightening - the promo itself, or the interview I read afterward where the original creator of this travesty still insisted that it was a great idea, that it would have done well on the air, and wanted to revive interest in the project.



Thankfully PGSM beat them to the punch and did things right. (At least, far better than the Saban Moon version...I still have complaints about human Luna, Nephrite, and Usagi's mom in cornrows?) -_-;

[Mysty]

LAWL I remember seeing this a long time ago. XD

WTF is with the wheel chair sailor scout. And Sailor Mars has a unibrow!

I enjoyed PGSM, even though, as Nash mentioned, there were a few little things that made me go, "Eh?" for example Sailor Luna? I love how cheap and low budget they were with having talking plushies in place of the cats.

[Mousey]

Yeah, I remember seeing this at Full Moon Over Crystal Tokyo AGES ago.

Saban is such a bunch of ... butchers. Rawr. They did a decent splice-job for POWER RANGERS lololz, but when it comes to anime, they just fail. They're the ones who censored DBZ so badly when it first premiered in America, too.

A politically correct Sailormoon would be ... something, all right. ~_~()

[Sparky]

Minako is totally not half as hot in that clip as she normally is. Thus, I give this "effort" a big fat "FAIL. YOU SO FAIL."

And now I'm off to stick my claws in my eyes.

[Fujiko]

I actually liked PGSM. Either I'm totally against changing things that are Japanese into American.. or it is just really bad. -_-;

[nyaasu]

In the German Sailor Moon dub they made a few changes, too. So Usagi is called Bunny, and in the diet-episode of the first season she eats hamburger and not riceballs... There are more differences like that, but at luck it's not that much...
In the US dub all of them have other names, don'r they? I read about Molly and Darrien... *brrrr*

[mochibuni]

Haha, I like PGSM too, so you're not alone.

Nephrite is the best thing ever in PGSM. XD

[Nyla]

nyaasu said:

In the US dub all of them have other names, don'r they? I read about Molly and Darrien... *brrrr*

I am going to need new ears after this but confirming US names:
Usagi = Serena
Rei = Raye
Ami = Amy
Makoto = Lita
Naru = Molly
Chibi-usa = Rini
Minako = Mina
Mamoru = Darien
Haruka = Amara
Setsuna = Trista
Michiru = Michelle
Hotaru = Hotaru

Funny how one of the least shown characters gets to keep her Japanese name.

[SailorNash]

Well, "Raye Hino" was close enough I think. Not like the spelling could be heard in the pronunciation of her Americanized name.

(And now, I need to go bathe. I feel absolutely dirty for defending something in the DiC dubbed version...ugh!)