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Settei, genga and more!

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A blog dedicated to the sketches, art and overall general animation of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal (Not a Crystal hate blog) **UNTAGGED SPOILERS**
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TAKEUCHI NAOKO INTERVIEW AND ART COMMENTARY TRANSLATION This is a complete translation of the Takeuchi Naoko-related texts from the artbook 5-nin no amajin/purojin ten / 5 Amateurs Turned Pro Exhibit, available for download at Miss Dream. It contains a long 50-questions interview, as well as Takeuchiโ€™s comments on the 20 pieces of color art she chose to include in the exhibit. It would probably be best to read this in tandem with the scans available at Miss Dream, so you can look at the art while reading her comments.

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We always talk shit about Mamorus bad fashion and usually think his manga fashion style is very decent (besides the cow print anyway lol)

But listen the boy literally cant dress right he doesnt even wear a tuxedo right, theres 3 types for specific occassions with specific etiquette and our boy is wearing all 3 styles at once what a mess.

imagine newspaper articles and forums just clowning in his drip lmaoooooo

Oh he's not technically breaking any rules, Tuxedo Mask's outfit isnt a traditional kind of tuxedo at all. Its a military Mess suit most likely based on the formal attire worn by the French Military! The uniform is crazy similar to Tuxedo Masks whole drip. Theyre also worn by royalty! Mamoru is a prince and a king!

Funny enough, King Endymion actually wears a traditional style tuxedo, with coat tails and everything. Endymion seems more associated with the coattails, so Mamoru on the Kanzenban covers probably isn't Mamoru at all but Prince Endymion!

Tuxedo Mask's outfit isnt an outfit, it's a military uniform- just like the senshi!

I think he has coat tails in Crystal's design cus Sakou used Kanzenban as a reference- Cus he's never actually depicted with having coattails in the actual pages or artbook outside of King Endymion. Or maybe cus mess jackets and white tie tuxedos share a similar waist design, Sakou and gang thiught he was wearing a white tie tux and probably didn't know about Mess Jackets, at least not by name.

It's all because he never had parents to teach him how to dress

Oh no the second half of this post is me coming to the realiztion that manga Mamoru wasn't mix macthing tuxedo ettiquette at all, I realized hes just wearing a specifc type of tuxedo i had never heard of until recently.

its just me acknowledging Naoko's knowlrdge in high end fashion

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We always talk shit about Mamorus bad fashion and usually think his manga fashion style is very decent (besides the cow print anyway lol)

But listen the boy literally cant dress right he doesnt even wear a tuxedo right, theres 3 types for specific occassions with specific etiquette and our boy is wearing all 3 styles at once what a mess.

imagine newspaper articles and forums just clowning in his drip lmaoooooo

Oh he's not technically breaking any rules, Tuxedo Mask's outfit isnt a traditional kind of tuxedo at all. Its a military Mess suit most likely based on the formal attire worn by the French Military! The uniform is crazy similar to Tuxedo Masks whole drip. Theyre also worn by royalty! Mamoru is a prince and a king!

Funny enough, King Endymion actually wears a traditional style tuxedo, with coat tails and everything. Endymion seems more associated with the coattails, so Mamoru on the Kanzenban covers probably isn't Mamoru at all but Prince Endymion!

Tuxedo Mask's outfit isnt an outfit, it's a military uniform- just like the senshi!

I think he has coat tails in Crystal's design cus Sakou used Kanzenban as a reference- Cus he's never actually depicted with having coattails in the actual pages or artbook outside of King Endymion. Or maybe cus mess jackets and white tie tuxedos share a similar waist design, Sakou and gang thiught he was wearing a white tie tux and probably didn't know about Mess Jackets, at least not by name.

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ๅŒ—ใฎ็ฉบใ‹ใ‚‰ Kita no Sora Kara From the Northern Sky

Another track from CMusic! this time for Sailor Moon R! This track is found in Episode 61 of the series Usagi Devastated: Mamoru Declares a Break-Up. None other than the song form the infamous Break Up scene! (infamous if you dont like the arc.)

Personally not my favorite arc for this season but this scene really does hit hard outside of it, and the music they chose fits so well.

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Anonymous asked:

hi :') i was clearing my likes from years ago when i came across some posts of yours which reminded me: there's people like me who preferred the smc 1&2 art style! i dont like the newer design choices at all, they make smc look like any other generic anime whereas these amazing people's designs (https://www.tumblr.com/crystalbehindthescenes/162796600707/i-really-liked-the-glossy-lips-and-shiny-shiny?source=share) made it unique and resembled takeuchi's style so much. i really wish we could have seen all the characters portrayed in that way </3 btw sorry for this, just wanted to vent i guess, i hope you dont mind lol! have a nice day ๐Ÿ’•

youre fine i totally agree. i wish theguys had more time to actually improve the animation and not abandon it entirely.

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Yesterday's Dream or Dream of Yesterday. A track from C-Music Professional Library that was featured in Episode 44 of 90s Sailor Moon. The scene where Queen Serenity dies

Theres a couple of covers on Yotutube playing it by ear but this is the official track played in the episode.

Heres the Two covers I've Heard: cover 1 ; cover 2

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have you seen sidney deng lastest art? like omgย 

he is the one behind this awesome fan art based on the manga style:

https://twitter.com/sid_dyy/status/1526348881411182592

and then he did this awesome poster and confirmed he did some work for Cosmos movies:

https://twitter.com/sid_dyy/status/1632594316295294977?s=20

he's been fixing some cosmos promo art:

https://twitter.com/sid_dyy/status/1633691522398044162?s=20

https://twitter.com/sid_dyy/status/1633888852711714816?s=20

https://twitter.com/sid_dyy/status/1633914277575925761?s=20

and now he just did this awesome design based on tadano's work for the movies like, it looks so good:

https://twitter.com/sid_dyy/status/1634335346988314624?s=20

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Oh how neat! But im a little cofnused, is he a fanartists or an official animator?

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Anonymous asked:

Sailor Moon Crystal has generally been a messy experience with being faithful to Naoko Takeuchi's original design. Sakou didn't deserve as much criticism though her design was flawed by design execution. Takahashi is generally ugly art with smooth animation. Tadano is barely close to resembling Takeuchi's art style and even then Crystal didn't need to look like the manga at that being the point in which Sailor Moon Crystal should've had its own distinct art style.

I agree with most except for distinct style. You could argue s3 is a distinct style (it doesnt follow the manga at all and its takashi's style at its most basic imo) and like you said it's ugly as hell.

Tadano's style is just the 90s style (which in s1 and R's case is pretty close to the manga, just with early 90s elements. thats what the 90s anime style is.) but way more cuter but like modern standard cute, so snub dot noses flatter colors ect.

I think Naokos style does deserve to be animated. Her style started this in the 1st place, and people do like it. Sailor Moon wouldnt be the same with a new distinct style as we saw with S3. The 90s anime is also in its own right close, just with style trends in 90s anime. Tadano took that old design (itohs specifically imo) and gave it modern ekemnts ie the snub noses and flatter textures.

There's just now like 40 styles under Naoko now compared to back in the 90s that you cant just Pick one and expect it to be accurate to a single page or art book. Also Naoko's style would be very unique against other cuter, snub nose, styles. why shouldn't it be animated?

the trick is striking a balance between her styles, choosing the right colors, and time in the industry. ..and maybe a dfferent studio but that wouldn't change much imo.

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