kungpow12345 wrote:You also need to see the Live action series that just came out about a year ago...but it's still popular today. It's called Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.
*goes into moonie mode*
PGSM is what killed Sailormoon. It was because of PGSM that TOEI didn't attempt to renew the animation license when the rights to Sailormoon reverted back to Miss Takeuchi. TOEI's big angle was that the rights for the animated series' needed to die so that it would dissapear in favor of PGSM's worldwide distributorship - which never happened. In fact PGSM ran it's 49 episodes and was canned, with two video only release movies that streamed out on the tail end of the trainwreck it created. So PGSM goes dead in the water and dormant and because of it ALL rights for Sailormoon ANYTHING are dissolved, this means:
ADV Films had to quit printing and selling the Sailormoon and SailormoonR subtitled DVD boxsets even though they were selling very well dispite the hiccup with that bad disc 5, where the problem ADV "caught" was one that didn't exist. Instead of an audio problem on the episode they mentioned, that episode wasn't even included and the audio problem was on the previous episode, they did fix it all however.
Pioneer (which became Genon) had to quit printing and selling SailormoonS, Sailormoon SuperS, the movies, as well as the movie collection boxset and the hurrily created S and SuperS boxsets that Genon released. The whole reason why they pumped out those two boxsets so quick was because they knew the rights were going to be in limbo soon enough. Most fans still perfer the nice foil inlayed Pioneer single disc releases of the S and SuperS series as well as the movies, even though the content is the same. Heck, I'm one of them, the boxsets of this were nowhere as nicely presented as the ADV ones, single disc all the way here.
TOKYOPOP (formerly Mixx) wanted to begin reprinting the Sailormoon, Sailormoon SuperS, and Sailormoon Stars English manga translations due to huge fan requests. (the first three arcs [SM, SMR, SMS] were all mashed into "Sailormoon" although they're all intact, well as much as the translations are) This is even though that Sailormoon was Mixx's very first manga translation (remember Mixxzine people?) and reguarded as it's poorest, it was still better than nothing and is very much decent. However they couldn't begin to reprint or redistribute the translation because, that's right kiddies, the rights were not available.
This also means that Sailormoon can not be shown on television as syndication rights dissapeared with all the others. You might have noticed last year some "local" VHF networks were showing Sailormoon and SailormoonR early in the morning, we're talking like ABC and CBS affiliates in some cities. This was The Program Exchange squeezing out the last couple dollars they could earn before the rights went up in smoke.
Additionally this totally killed any possibility for a US SailorStars dub, at least anytime in the concievable future and by then well, the people that buy the products that support the production won't be interested in an anime series from the mid 1990's unless it's something overrated like NGE or Cowboy Bebop. Also means no SailorStars subtitled DVD release because the only thing that kept that door open was when ADV and Pioneer were making money on the other four seasons of subtitled or hybrid DVD releases. With the rights gone that's pretty much that, no reason to fight it, no reason to care. Once the dust settles for awhile, even if the rights do become available again, the momentum of "damnit, we're finally going to push hard and get this series out how it was meant to be" will be all but gone.
Lastly, the reward we were all supposed to get from this - PGSM in the United States and other worldwide distribution. Isn't going to happen. Dubbing live action series where you ACTUALLY have to synch the mouth movements is too expensive even in the digital era for the small amount of money the series would make. And you can't subtitle mainstream live action shows aimed at young children. In Japan it didn't do as well as everyone though it would, especially after the "Did you hear, a new Sailormoon is coming!" information bites years before PSGM began production. 49 episodes does not equal a complete series run in Japan, I don't care what anyone says.
And that was it, or at least it is now and that's how it looks. SOS USA even finally called it quits a couple years ago, they knew what was going to happen. Funny how they started it and other SOS campaigns (SOS Deutschland is a good example and one I was a part of briefly) were more successful far faster. Oh well, we got almost all of it, but that just makes what remains all that more painful to see sitting there. (SailorStars and the SuperS specials)
Along with that any hope of having Codename is Sailor V translated went out the door as well as the obvious suggestion of making a Sailor V spinoff anime series since Sailormoon was a spinoff of Codename is Sailor V. At least that live action US Sailormoon movie starring Alicia Silverstone back in 1999 never happened - but only because we faught it.
"Tell him the dream is over." - The Rocketeer.
While I'm bitter toward the PGSM series for the reasons above I will recommend that you all check out the Sera-Myu videos if you can get your hands on them. These are basically high production Sailormoon theater shows that were done for years after the series ended, in fact they continue to this day! They're actually really well done and the people that portray the characters do a better job than those on PGSM. It's like Sailormoon rock opera. Check out the link below for more information...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seramyu
*moonie mode over*
Please excuse me for doing that.
Those new screenies look great! I'd say this is the most intense BoR project period. Maybe even moreso than the original game creation itself. December 5th is fine, like I've been saying, take your time and don't get burned out. However I'm going to give you some "devver's warning" here. Don't let projects stretch through Christmas because rarely does anyone want to pick them up afterwards. I've been a victim of this twice myself and it's crippling both to the project at hand and to those who do wish to continue. Wouldn't want to see that happen to you.
...controller hasn't killed me yet.
Actually Mrgrill, I'm using fan actresses for the voice overs. I have more control over them that way and it's very impressive when you can get actresses that nail the "american counterparts" like nothing at all. 
Now I know you might mind this but some others might not, but I was thinking for the Sailor Moon S game of making a few new youmas but they will be ones that were not in the first two games. The only thing is, they're in the Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R series, Injector for sure. She's the girl that looks like a nurse and her arms look like needles. I ripped the gemini twins from the genesis game and actually, if you think about it, there's a lot of good youmas in that game and so I guess you can say I can't "run out" of youmas per say. I'm going to be sending you a PM in a few hours. Be watching for it 
Unrepairable too as there was a chain reaction that killed various parts once things started going bad. Now I don't believe in paying more than $30 for a VCR now days so I'm watching electronic store clearance because I don't like crappy electronics either. But I may be dubbing some VHS tapes later this week with a friend and if the chance arises I'll cram the subtitled Sailormoon S season onto three or so VHS tapes.
I'm glad you agree with me on the GT cars. My friend Corwin and I have been talking about the "development" of this game and when I asked him about either GT cars or F1 racers, he was a bit confused at first but then instantly went to GT. 
If I do this, I'll die happy. 
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Baseball field (basically you're fighting in the outfield)
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