Sailor Moon Eternal

This movie is a good combination of 90's version and Sailormoon Crystal. The old one was childish but had some fun anime parts, also Mamaru was really annoying. In Crystal, the chracter drawings were unrealistic and disturbing yet it was more mature. This one combines the good parts and more loyal to manga. I hope we watch Sailor Stars season too, either movie or a whole season.

For anyone who has watched classic sailor moon, Crystal keeps doing it better, this adaptation does justice to the essence of the story. It's way more mature and places sailor moon in a higher place along manga and anime most successful of the world such as Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, One punch man, Naruto etc. The dream arc is truly redeemed.

The story is beautiful and the animation is outstanding. I'm sure it's true to the story of the manga. The story is exciting and the characters are well developed.

Unfortunately, what I don't like is that it was adapted as a movie. There are details where the thread of a character's story is quickly told in 5 minutes. Because of this, I think the story is rushed and not coherent. This creates a sense of absence in the viewer. Although this manga adaptation is made as a two part movie, it feels like it would work better as a TV series because of the many events.

I think the scene editors also struggled a lot with how to unify a manga originally intended for a TV series? It more or less succeeded.

Each story chapter was separated by a 1-second black screen (pause). Well, this created an amazing sense of lack and disunity for me. I think all of this could have been solved by possibly separating each section with the title of the chapter, so that would have worked very well.

All in all, it's a nice anime, faithful to the manga, but it doesn't fit the movie format.

Lovely adaptation of the manga, gorgeous art style from Kazuko Tadano who came up with something new and fresh for the series. The Eternal character designs (inner senshi and Usagi) are almost identical to page 68 of volume two actually ! I don't see any resemblance to the 90s apart from the attacks/transformations. I am not sure why they just copied the old ones, as a 90s fan I wanted something a bit more creative not a remake. Uranus really stood out, if they can show more creativity with the others it would be great.

This is the first Crystal arc I have seen so far as previous art style was not something I would enjoy in a "modern" anime

I would love to give Eternal a 10/10 but unfortunately the music was a huge letdown. Apart from Moon Color Chainon and Watashi-tachi ni Naritakute (cover) I did not think the music went well with the atmosphere of this film. The dramatic battle at the end especially also had unsuitable music. Very forgettable.

I found no issues with the pacing personally. It was mostly the atmosphere that was very calm instead of dark and tense. Eg when Mamoru is in distress Chibiusa just sits there gasping instead of showing actual concern. Very weird. Maybe it was the voice acting as well that could have been more passionate, at times they sound disturbingly calm even when going through the nightmare sequences

Loved the background style, gave depth to the Juban district and and the outers' home, some shots are really beautiful to look at.

The manga has plenty of violence so not sure why nothing more serious is ever shown. I also think both the films deserved a proper opening.

If they fix the music for Stars then this will be peak Sailor Moon for me.

I also don't think it would be fair to compare this to the 90s version, they re both independent after all. I don't think one is better than the other and since they show different stories it's not worth analyzing the differences. Eternal is a lovely film and hopefully Stars is next.

The animation was soooo cute, but I just couldn't keep up with it. There's a lot going on and I didnt feel like the events developed logically. It felt like the script was just random stories glued together. It didn't lead anywhere and there were too many twists and surprises. Too many characters, incomplete story archs and backstories. No character development. Could've been much more interesting.

I admit I didn't watch the original anime or read the manga, I just vaguely remember a random Sailor Moon magazine I was fascinated by as a kid, so maybe my experience would've been different if I had more prior knowledge.