Sailor Moon Season 1 Part 1 [DVD ONLY]

I love this show. In fact, it is probably one of my top five animes of all time. Probably much closer to being first place on the list than any other anime show. Without a doubt, it is a 5 star show all the way and a 5 star release all the way (even though i wish it was all of season one instead of only 23 episodes), but the 1 star comes to the new English voice cast. I understand the original DIC dubb in the 90's was heavily edited, and some fans viled that release, but i personally loved it. It introduced me to anime when anime wasn't easily accessible in America during that time. Whereas now, anime is widely available in all forums such as blu-ray, Netflix and even Amazon as part of their streaming collection. This show originally aired at 630am in the morning, but i still forced myself to wake up anyways and not miss any episodes. I even recorded every episode i could on my VHS tapes. The show had heart, laughter, and the English voice cast was just spot on. The biggest problem with this set is the new voice actors really lack "personality". The original DIC dubb had no trouble in that department. I understand staying true to the source, and not deviating, but i think it is great that DIC americanized it for the US audiences and made pop culture references that were relatable. For instance when Serena/Sailor Moon says 'Joey Lawrence' when Molly confides she has a secret crush on an older man. I miss Terri Hawkes voice sooooo much. She was a great Sailor Moon and probably the only one that could voice her besides Tracey Moore who dubbed about 13 episodes in season one. They both balanced comedy and emotion perfectly. Anyways, that is my rant. I love the release, brought it, but find the voice actors to be bland and boring and they are literally reading the Japanese subtitles word for word, but with their English voices. Update: So i got my set today in the mail and i have been watching the episodes for a few hours straight and i get tempted to pop in my old DVDs and watch the original voice cast. As mentioned, a lot of the actors almost sound the same and there is no variety whatsoever. Luna sounds like a kid, Molly sounds like Luna, Melvin doesn't sound like a geek. Serena's mother sounds like a teenager and her younger brother Sammy sounds like he is 30. Yes, i said it using their American names. The 1080P HD isn't even that noticeable after the first episode. Here are something others that bug me. Amy is pronounced OM-ME. AMY is just AMY or AMI. Not OMMMMM-MEEEEEE Jedite is just JED-DITE and not JADE-DITE. He is not some chinese jewel. Stephanie is not horrible as Sailor Moon, but she can come off a bit annoying at times. None of the voice actors have any comedic timing in their voice. English subtitles are simple structured sentences that anyone can write and it comes off so bland when the voice actors read it word for word without any ablibs. Here are some dumb lines: So you are part of the bad guys team. REALLY??? Luna now says: WHAT? Instead of: WHHHHAAAATTTTTT!!!!!! No personality whatsoever. Just LIFELESS. Jokes are lost in translation and do not come off funny. The boring Japanese music surely doesn't hold up 20 plus years later. The original English music was great and full of energy. They fit each scene perfectly. I miss the original voice cast sooooo much. Saying Moon Prism Power Make Up is sooooo CORNY. Remove the make up. Terri Hawkes laughter was infectious and endearing. Stephanie Sheh just comes off fake when she laughs. Now it is BUN HEAD instead of Meatball head. Americans never use the word BUN and even when they go to Starbucks to get a pastry, they never say: Let me get some buns. Meatball head is just funnier and more relatable. I can go on and on, but let me stop now. I added pictures of the box set and hope you enjoy them.

I have been an avid fan of Sailor Moon for nearly two decades. I have waited so long for an uncut version that is faithful to the Japanese original and here it is! I love everything about it: the pictures, the sounds, and even the English dub sounds great (though I am more interested in watching it in Japanese with subtitles). I am so happy! This release does NOT deserve any of these negative reviews. As for the picture complaints: I have not noticed anything wrong with the picture. I am not a film expert though, so maybe I am just not seeing it, but I honestly think it looks great. Now, as for the new dub complainers: The hard truth is: Get over it. Plain and simple. If you gave it a one star because you "want the old dub", you are truely missing the point and laying blame on the wrong people. 1. The rights to the old dub are forever in limbo and can never again be aquired because of copyright law. No way around that. Not Viz's fault they could not aquire the rights. 2. The old dub slaughtered the original context and words of the true Japanese version. I was heartbroken when I found this out and have been hoping for a "true to the original" cut. They didn't even dub all the episodes. Even if rights could be attained, there would be full episodes that would need new voice actors to dub the episodes and it would sound very strange to have different voices for different episodes. 3. "Well, they could've just brought the old cast back". No, they couldn't. For one, union labor laws would have made it complicated and costly. And for two, those women and men are in their mid-40s to maybe even early 50s now. They would not sound the same. I have fond memories of the DiC dub, it's how I was introduced to Sailor Moon. I do think fondly on the former English dub voices. Honestly, going back and listening to the old dub after watching it subtitled in Japanese, I thought it sounded weird because I got used to the Japanese voices. If so many others can give it a chance and get used to the new voices, so can everyone else. Giving this amazing release a 1 star because you won't let go of the past is not fair. Laying blame on Viz is not fair. You are allowed to be mad, but put your anger toward who's to blame, and it's not Viz, it's copyright laws. Okay, rant over. Bottom line, great release. It's 100% worth the purchase. It's a dream come true! Thank you Viz!

As a 15 year veteran of Sailor Moon I really loved this! To finally own a nicely done copy of Sailor Moon as my very own is just amazing. I still cant believe it actually happened. Yes like many others I am nostalgic for some of the old voices of Sailor Moon but I`m really appreciating the fresh new voices too. Usagi`s new Eng voice is so adorably perfect, I just cant get over it! I know they really tried to get someone that sounded like the Japanese voice and I think they did a pretty good job. Her voice is the one I worried about the most because she is the main role but also because its not easy doing a whiny crybaby without being super annoying, but Stephanie did a beautiful job. I noticed some people were really upset about the picture quality but in all honesty I didn`t see anything wrong with it. For an old 90`s anime, the colors were nice and bright and the picture ( to me ) looked clean and crisp. Of course I`m not a professional at things like that so unless the quality is super blurry, I wouldn`t be able to tell. I think they did a wonderful job bringing new life to an old anime and that`s not easy to do. If your worried about all of that but absolutely LOVE Sailor Moon, then I would encourage you to keep an open mind about it and dont be unrealistically picky. This is a NEW beginning for Sailor Moon not a rehash of the old. For the kids who are now watching this version, these are the Sailor Moon voices that they will grow up with and become fond of. Thankfully the Sailor Moon they will come to know wont be all cut up or missing episodes or changing voices midway through the series. These are all good things so I encourage you to watch it as a kid again and just enjoy the fact that Sailor Moon is finally here. So if your a Moonie like me who has been waiting a long time for Sailor Moon restored, with a fresh new dub that will last through ALL 200 episodes, and made available to you in a pretty pink box on DVD and BLURAY. Then this gift is for you!

I think its safe to say the Dragon Ball Z is the most recognized anime of all time(with the possible exception of Pokemon but I think it's more recognized for the gameboy game and cards than the anime), and especially when I was growing up in the 90s. I would say the 2nd would be Sailor Moon. Since I'm a boy, I watched Dragon Ball Z and not so much Sailor Moon since that was the girls anime. However from a male perspective and since I'm older I can say seeing the girls behavior is pretty entertaining. I am watching this for the first time in 2024 and I can just say that to me these older anime are better. To be clear the repeated cut scenes of the sailor transforming and the recycled attack moves make for pretty lame "fights" and are not great, but the actual story, characters, etc are great. I hear some people really hating on this dub, but I honestly think it is pretty good. Maybe it's just my personal preference to the charm of older anime, but newer anime just has a different feel/tone/mood/vibe or something that just feels so much different that anime like this. I will also disclose that I started watching this about a year ago and after about 5-6 episodes of the same Usagi fights monster of the day, I got bored and stopped, but when I started rewatching and got to Ami and Rei it starts getting much better. Usagi is ok when everyone else is there as support, but Usagi by herself is too much. Of course, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus haven't been introduced yet, but it looks like Jupiter will be early in part 2 DVDs.

In the 20-odd years since the franchise began, Sailor Moon and the predecessor Codename Sailor V started as a manga by former pharmacy technician Naoko Takeuchi. Both were primed to become anime, but Sailor Moon won out as Sailor V's anime deal fell through. Over the course of 5 years in Japan, between March 1992 and March 1997, 200 main episodes, 3 feature films, 2 pre-features short films and a trilogy special release during the SuperS season, which was partially based on the fourth manga arc. Between its run, the anime was licensed to various countries. But eventually, licenses ran out. It was orchestrated, or at least from an assumed perspective, to drive up nostalgia factor during the 20th anniversary rerelease. I have seen the English dubbed version by Viz on hulu and I can admit that the critics who trash the voice acting as garbage fail to see the point. I am from a family of artists, with multilingual studies, written word and visual arts as part of my studies, I have learned that a 100% accurate translation in terms of vocal acting and wording of the lines originally spoken in anime is an impossible task that in certain cases, can't be done. But the fact that various episodes that were dropped in the first dub by DiC (later Cookie Jar, then DHX) have been translated into English and dubbed by Viz should be a pleasant bonus to those who had invested in the Japanese DVDs. Between license runs, the underground of fansubbing was originally the only possible way to see the original Japanese episodes and the translation, which, although illegal, was reason enough for major anime companies within North America to take notice on profitable franchises. It was originally proposed that Funimation, who invested in the Dragon Ball metaseries, also from the same anime studio as Sailor Moon, Toei Animation, that by popular demand via poll, that they were to re-dub the series to its full extent. However, due to circumstances, this deal didn't materialize. With the impending worldwide streaming release of Sailor Moon Crystal, a more faithful retelling of the manga, Viz announced they were to do the deal with Toei of translation of both anime versions. This explanation is insight on the phenomena of Sailor Moon. The voices aren't as bad. Stephanie Sheh, who has done voices for the Monster High cartoon and was the sole villainess of the Deadly Six in Sonic Lost World, plays the eponymous heroine in both her civilian and superhero form and I admit she captured the pitch just right. Michelle Ruff, who voiced Fujiko Mine in the short-lived dub of Lupin III, is wonderful as Luna, compared to the DiC dub, which made Luna sound like a very old, Julie Andrews-like nanny. This dub may fall flat in some spots, but the fact the dub is more faithful than previous versions, is reason enough to go buy it. UPDATE: I did 4 binge watching sessions as the discs in the first season go 8-8-7-8-8-7 in terms of episodes, doing 4 discs so far and I've got to say, the only annoyance is that the video is rendered\encoded with black bars, but the fact the video was originally 4:3 and that this cartoon is from the early 1990s, I shouldn't expect much from Toei, who realized that the passion for Sailor Moon was not extinguished. As stated in other reviews, Toei had given the HD masters as the SD masters were in no shape for use. I find no problem with the Japanese names, seeing as I use cartoons from around the world as cultural stepping stones to motivate me to learn about culture and language. I don't mind Japanese music as I've been listening to it since I was 10 and I'm 27 and a former colleague of mine noted the fluidity of Japanese language paired well with music, even when a lover's spat broke out. I don't mind the madness of these comparison and usage in motivating education, because teaching and academics is part of my heritage. I was born to teach and I find making it fun helps. The DiC and Cloverway version are no longer legally releasable so if you were expecting "Serena", you are sadly wasting time. If you were expecting "Usagi", then I welcome you in faithful translation. P.S. I am from a family run by two Internet innovators (grandpa worked in fiber optics and dad was a program manager in Microsoft's various departments that involved or required Internet Access) So, the rating still stands at 5 stars as I can't expect wine from Fijian spring water: with the way thing are, the spring water has been around longer than the wine and if you were to check Biblical records, I'd be right. To be blunt, 1992 was 23 years ago, which was when I was 4 years old and cel animation transitioned to computer hand-drawn only in the last 15-16 or so years. Sure, it will be messy and errors will pop up but that's because it was done by hand in tiny cubicles in short time periods. (Episode 21 will give you an idea of pre-computer hand-drawn workstations.) I commend Viz for restoring faith in the fandom. Keep at it.

I don't usually do reviews, but I wanted to do my own honest assessment and make a review to help others make a purchasing decision. I have been a fan of Sailor Moon ever since the dub was released in the US in 1995. We never got the rest of the R series or S, SuperS (until much later), and never Stars. I would print out the synopses from the Hitoshi Doi website (does anyone else remember that?) since I could not watch the episodes from Japan. Around 1999, I went to a comic book convention where someone was selling some bootleg versions of the 3 Sailor Moon movies (which had not be licensed in the US yet), and I was in love. The Japanese version was soooo much better. The first time (as far as I know) that Sailor Moon was legally available on DVD was the ADV releases. The first season came in a HUGE box and cost $200. It was so expensive that I could not afford to get the R season when it also came out for $200 in a similar huge box set. Later I did get the S and SuperS series by Pioneer on DVD, but Stars has yet to be licensed until now. I also have the box set of all 3 movies from Pioneer, and I wonder if Viz will also be releasing the movies and the Ami's First Love mini-special. I bought the Viz Blu-ray and DVD set in a heartbeat, since it would be nice to have all the episodes in similar box sets. I took a look at it, and it didn't seem perfect, but after comparing it with my ADV DVDs, it was a big improvement. While trying to find the Amazon page for part 2 of this set, I was surprised by how many stars and how many bad reviews there were for this DVD set. So I decided to take another look at my Viz DVDs, my ADV DVDs, and the Viz stream episodes for comparison, and here's what I have found: *There is some ghosting that is very apparent in the opening song and anytime something is light colored and fast. That being said, it doesn't happen often, but it is a bummer for anyone who likes the opening. (On the other hand, ADV has weird lines in all the episodes.) Ghosting is also apparent in the Viz streamed episodes, so maybe it shouldn't have been a big shock. I have been religiously watching the Classic streaming on Hulu and the quality has been fine. If the DVDs are basically the same, then I don't have that much of a problem. I have also been watching the stream through Roku on a 40 inch TV and it looks great. *The sound quality on the Viz DVDs are muuuuuch better than the ADV DVDs. *Light colors on the Viz DVDs can look grainy and overprocessed. I should have known because even the "announcement trailer" Viz published is a little grainy. *The ADV DVDs episodes "shake", which doesn't happen in the Viz DVDs. *The ADV DVDs also have black bars on the side, since Sailor Moon was never shown in widescreen. It's fine to me. I don't see what the big deal is. *Sometimes lines are a bit blurry from being overprocessed, but I haven't really noticed until now while trying to look for them. *The ADV DVDs came in a huge box set and cost $200 for 1 season of DVDs. The Viz release is in a smaller, cuter, more manageable box set and will cost about $100 for 1 season of DVDs AND blu-rays. Overall, I think the Viz DVDs are not perfect, but when it's something from the early 90's which was never produced in stereo, it can't be 100% perfect. I have decided that I will continue to purchase the rest of the sets as long as what I see in the Viz streaming episodes is to my satisfaction. My images I have added, the first one is the Viz DVD and second one is the ADV DVD of the same scene in the same episode, for comparison.

I'm really loving the update to the series. I know several people are gripping about that the quality is still bad but come on guys this is an old series for it to be up to speed for Bluray quality you would have to redraw the entire series. The black bars are easy enough to ignore in my opinion since I'm not looking at them I'm watching the anime in the first place. I love that the colors have been tweaked slightly it definitely gives a new feel to it. I do like that Usagi sounds more like Usagi I do hope her voice will get more mature sounding as the series goes on because she does get more mature. Luna's voice will take me some time to get used to since she sounds so different from her original actor. But all in all this is a great series and yes the features aren't fully worth the money you are paying for the combo. I think $40 would be much more acceptable for the series. I'm a person that doesn't generally get Bluray stuff just because my family only has one in the entire house and I don't have a game system that can play them either. I do wish they would have given the DVD set a nice box as well but that's what happens I guess is the Bluray gets all the awesome stuff now. At least once all the series have been released we don't have to worry about it anymore since the prices keep getting higher on them since they know we are going to pay it. Despite all this I still get the series because this was my first anime that got me into anime in the first place and will always hold the #1 slot as my fav anime until the end of time. Don't listen to all the nitpickers this series is good no matter how you look at it they are just trying to cause trouble and if you are a fan of the series as much as I am you can overlook it because it's as bad as they are making it sound trust me.

As a fan of Sailor Moon, I have watched every season and episode very much as any fan girl would. I love the nostalgic feeling I feel when I listen to the soundtrack and how my daughter now eight years old is excited about watching Sailor Moon. Their are very few shows I allow her to watch now in days and even more so ones that I don't want to watch with her. Sailor Moon is one of the ones that brings back that family environment for us. This company has done a great job in matching the Japanese version very well. Many of the themes and stories are quite similar so I am really excited about learning more about these seasons that I didn't have the time to watch with the japanese versions! The voices are little hard to get used to. A lot of people complained about the american dub voice actors released back through dic. I personally thought the first season voice actor was really good. It wasn't up until the 2 or 3rd season (the one with the aliens) that I thought it was weird because she sounded to old for her age. The voice actors are really good at what they do in this dub, but I would like to make a note that I don't feel like they have as much energy. For example, when Usage does her transformation scene, it seems more boring because the voice actor is just not as energized as what I am used to, other than that everyone did a great job. Sorry this review is long, but I wanted to make sure everybody got all the details of this as possible. A lot of people are complaining about the animation piece itself. Granted, I have only watched four episodes so far, but I have not see an issue and their was no issue from what my daughter told me (who is usually a bit to honest in my opinion about things.) Overall, for 24 bucks I think it is definitely well worth it. If it would of been 100 dollars I probably would have been upset, but for 24 dollars this is the best deal you are going to find in order to get Sailor Moon episodes without youtube. I plan on purchasing more of the dvd's. I will keep my post updated if I notice anything that is out of place. On an extra side note

収録順が日本版でしたら アバン→OP→「私月野うさぎ～」となってるのですが OP→アバン→「私月野うさぎ～」と各話全て順序が変更されてるので違和感があります この変な収録順はRでも変わってません 画質もBDのわりには同梱のDVDと同程度の画質です すべてにおいてイマイチ

Llego muy rápido y en buen estado, es una excelente edición para cualquier coleccionista de SM

This is the first anime I saw when I was young with my sister (cute). The first convention I ever went to I went dressed as Tuxedo Mask (sad). I was going to buy Sailor Moon on DVD for my Niece but then I saw this set for about $25 more and realized I could keep the Blu-rays for myself and she would be none the wiser (she is 2). I was very happy with this Blu-ray set until some nerd told me that it is not really 1080p but basically just an up-converted VHS tape. Now I am not planning on buy any more until they release it again with better quality but I have this terrible feeling that this might be the best possible. The Blu-ray has great menus, the DVD has basic menus. In terms of Blu-ray picture quality I sit about 3 feet from my 50" 4K screen so I am going to see every flaw but I am reasonably satisfied with this even though it is not really HD. I notice little checkerboard artifacts along the edges of the characters but I see that on my Star Trek Blu-rays as well. I would like the UHD version but I expect that will come out in about 9 years so I'm not going to wait until my Niece is 11 to buy her Sailor Moon, by then it would be too late. Some people don't like that the black bars are part of the picture video itself but I like how the subtitles appear over part of the black bars some time. Pretty much every TV is 16x9 so unless you are watching it on an old CRT you aren't going to notice. There is a new cast for the English Dub. I normally don't like Dubs but this one is good. I also liked the original Dub so it would have been nice to have both versions as well as the Japanese. It could have been done but it would have cost more and maybe they couldn't get the rights. The fact that the episodes are uncut is nice. Watch Episode 2 and guess which parts were cut out in earlier versions. So in conclusion this set is good for little girls but not for thirty something nerds. By the way, I figured out who is responsible for the terrible VHS quality picture. If you watch the extras on Disc 3 you will see Jennifer Yang of Toei Animation who is in charge of this Blu-ray transfer. Now I don't care how HOT Jennifer Yang is or if she was just following orders form higher-ups who told her not to release the real HD Blu-rays because that way they can sell Sailor Moon to the nerds again in a few years. What Jennifer Yang has done is wrong!!! WRONG!!! Just kidding Jennifer.

Perfectas condiciones, llegó a tiempo y la calidad si se nota entre el DVD y Blu-ray

I grew up on the DiC version and became a big Sailor Moon fan but the prospects of that being onto DVD look remote, so I decided to buy the ViZ production. It should be noted there are differences between the two versions, everything is all re-voiced and the songs are all the originals from the Japanese version. The names of the characters in the DiC are different perhaps I think it was an attempt by at the time to make character names more approachable to the North American viewer. One will also notice there are 46 episodes if you buy parts 1 and 2 while DiC had only 40; the ViZ version as a result makes the overall story and plot line much more coherent. You will find there are episodes that never made the light of day in the DiC version. I won't get into the debate of what is better but what I will say is; I became a fan after the watching DiC version, so if I didn't like it then I would not have bought this version. After watching this version; the main thing I will admit that I do miss is are some of the songs in the DiC version. Having said that, watching the ViZ version does not diminish my enjoyment of it one bit. My main criticism is the package is a flimsy and is easily damaged; I would love to have a collector's edition like other classic series. In short, if you cannot own the DiC version then having this is the next best thing. Well worth the buy.