Sailor Moon Season 1 Rant

"You got to be kidding right?" I know that thought just hit your brain, but no it is definetly worth ranting about.

Some of you remember Toonami, back in the days Toonami consisted of 4 shows a day, like Thundercats, Dragon Ball Z, Johny Quest...for some reason. The Ronin Warriors, Reboot, Tenchi something, and how could I leave out all 1,000 Gundam Wings? it's amazing I can remember all this from the top of my head.

Dragon Ball Z was the real reason why I watched Toonami back then...However I would get impatient and get to the T.V. early......But what was aired before Dragon Ball Z?...That's right Reboot, but before that came Sailor Moon.

Salior Moon is basically the Power Rangers...Only they're all girls. But hey that's not bad, I'm a guy...I like girls.

So the story.......Um...What is the story anyway? Well I found a video...and if you can survive the theme song you'll find out because.........I can't explain it.

 

..............Wait WHAT?!

So everyone on earth was once on the moon sent to the earth by being put in a bubble...and now they're on earth but have their memories erased?

The story makes as much sense as washing dishes in a laundry machine, whatever, who cares about the story.

So the Sailor scouts take on the evil forces of Queen Bucket-I mean Barrel and must stop the evil forces of the Negaforce...Or Megaforce? Ok it's just the Dark Side to me.

Before I go any further I want you to know I watched Season 1...Because I couldn't live any further than that, (There are 5 seasons)

One thing I didn't get was Sailor Moon's outfit...It looks exactly the same as her school uniform...So what's the deal? Why does it take so long for her to magically change into the clothes she was WEARING IN THE FIRST PLACE?!

Most the complaints I have about the series is the laziness of the animators. In every single stinking episode they use the EXACT same animation when Serena transforms into Sailor Moon, or any of the attacks that every one uses. Seriously, every time Mercury uses "Mercury Bubbles." It's the same sequence and hey when Mars uses "Mars Fire" You guessed it, it's the same sequence and you know what else? When Jupiter uses "Jupiter Thunder" Ok I think we get it by now, if there were a word for "repetitive" Sailor Moon would fit the bill

Don't think so? I have hardly scratched the surface, I'm positive in nearly all the episodes from Season 1 to Season 5 have the exact same format:

  1. Scene with Serena wanting to do something/ being with friends
  2. Scene with a monster appearing without the Sailor Scouts knowing
  3. Another Scene with Serena goofing off with friends
  4. Scene where monster appears
  5. Scene where Serena notices
  6. Scene where Serena defeats monster
  7. Scene where everything is fine until the next monster shows up

And I'm not exaggerating, this happens in all the episodes, even the ones at the very end where she faces Queen Bucket herself...Barrel...They have new monsters that show up every episode...and some how they can't beleive they were defeated so easily...Just like the last 30 before them.

Something I thought was funny were the parts were Sailor Moon kills the monsters, some of them actually say "You killed me!" And most the time they say that after they're already dead. I'd love an explanation for that but...nah they just messed up.

Tuxedo Mask is probably the most pointless character in the series.

seriously he appears right when Sailor Moon is about to die and throws a rose...then he says "Beleive in yourself Sailor Moon!" Then he LEAVES.......Why?? Tuxedo Mask can fight, so why does he leave after just appearing? It would have made more sense if Sailor Moon found a clever way...Not to die...like I don't know...Blocking or dodging. Tuxedo Mask is good for absolutely nothing until maybe the end where he gets mind controled and then is broken free of the control in about 2 minutes...very pointless indeed. At least Sheik did something useful for Link before leaving like she always does...I never figured that out, what's she doing between times? Does she go to the next dungeon and just wait her butt off for Link to get there? Why doesn't she help Link fight monsters? Why doesn't Tuxedo Mask fight the monsters? It makes no sense.

One of the main characters is the talking Cat that Serena has...First of all the creator must like cats, and second she talks like she's an old woman, I mean I don't know how cats would sound if they could talk but that didn't come to my mind first off. Anyway the cats job is to find the Moon Queen...Who is Serena...Dumb cat, and to give the Sailor scouts items the exact coincidently moment they need them...What talent.

The only thing I'm glad for is Serena has a personallity...Good move, she acts like a teenage girl, she's silly and fun and a big eater, which made me chuckle a bit, however some of the other characters have the personality of a brick, like Mercury.....There's nothing there for her man, she's just the brains of the group.

Another problem I have is how utterly stupid people are, if you see a super hero with pigtails...And the next day you see a girl that looked exactly the same, with the exact same pigtails......It would click somewhere in your brain that

"Hey they're the same person."

But this show takes it to a ridiculous level...Throughout the series the girls have their eyes turn into hearts when they see Tuxedo Mask...In episode 8 Mars is the first to call out that Darien might be Tuxedo Mask, ok so that's plausible, but what I hate the most is how unaware Darien is. It's like he was born stupid, he sees Serena every stinking episode and he sees her as Serena and Sailor Moon........And he still doesn't suspect a single dad gum thing! For real?! How dumb can a character be? It's not until like Episode 30 until both their identities are truly "Revealed." But the episode before that, Sailor Moon sees Tuxedo Mask get hurt in the shoulder ok? The next day Serena sees that Darien is hurt in the shoulder...Serena suspects absolutely nothing...What the crap?! Why did the creator make these character so incredibly stupid?!

I was suprized by one guy who actually figures out Mercury's identiy...It made me think

"Oh finally, a guy that uses common sense."

However as the episode went further on she asks how he figured it out....And what was his explanation? "Because you look just like her?" NO it's this:

"I can predict the future"

*Head hits the table*

But don't worry I've saved the absolute worst for last, at the very end of the series Sailor Moon faces Queen Crap herself. But first she must save Darien who is under a evil spell...And she does, Queen stupid responds by throwing a spiked rock at both of them...And what happens next? Darien throws that happy rose and breaks the rock with it, and it keeps going, and it hits Queen poo poo right in the chest.......I don't want to get hit with those roses.

So Sailor Moon then makes her last stand with all the Sailor scouts as they shoot this enormous beam straight at Queek Dooku and the world is saved.....

And then the unthinkable happens........What do you think happens? Is it

A. They live happily ever after until the next season?

B. Must escape the collaping dimension and escape to earth before they die?

C. Queen Beryal throws a final attack, and it hit Darien and he dies and Sailor Moon cries?

D. Ends the entire season right there without explaining anything afterwards

OR

E. They lose they're memories of everything that happened, including knowing about each other and Serena ever meeting Darien

As cruel and stupid as that last one sounds............

 

 

 

 

E.

And I am not kidding, that's how Season 1 ends.

 

......................................................and as Qbert would say:

@!#$%&*!

 

If they lost their memories why did you bother making the Season at all?! And that begs the question for me, what happens next season? Will they have to rebecome the Sailor Scouts and Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask all over again? Will they get their memories back before the 2nd episode? And wouldn't have been easier for them to NOT loose their memories if there were going to be 5 seasons?

None of this makes sense, it's about as pointless as the First Pokemon Movie, they loose their memories too, so to them, the movie never happened...So not making the movie would have been the same thing.

Well until I can figure out what else to Rant about, SpikerMan signing off