I'm talking strictly about the marketing success of the original anime. Not saying having a more "masculine" appeal is good or bad from a personal standpoint, but it was well known that the original show was more popular with boys than expected, which was unusual for shoujo anime at the time.usamimi wrote:Sailor Moon is a shoujo series, made for girls, by a feminist woman...so if any of those things make you cringe, then I'd stay away from the manga and the new series in general. It's not supposed to have a lot of shounen elements, and Naoko Takeuchi famously didn't like a LOT of the changes that were made to her story for the 90s anime. You can prefer the original anime, there's nothing wrong with that, but there's also absolutely nothing wrong with a shoujo series being flowery or feminine. Those aren't bad things, and I don't see there being anything wrong with there being a "lack of masculinity" in a show that's being targeted specifically for women and girls.llj wrote:I think one of the most underrated aspects of the original Sailor Moon anime was its crossover gender appeal, and I had to think that the less flowery character designs had a lot to do with that. There was a harder, shonen-esque style to the character designs that made the show ever so slightly more "masculine" in appeal.greg wrote: I'm glad I am not the only one. Storywise, I couldn't say much since I didn't really take the time to try to absorb it, even with subtitles available. The art just too much for me.
I haven't seen the new Sailor Moon yet, and probably won't for a while, so I have no real opinion on the new designs, personally, nor of the show itself.
I actually think there aren't enough REAL shoujo anime out there in the first place, ones that truly target girls and not just otaku. I thought some of the best anime from the 80s and 90s were the "purely" shoujo shows. So from a personal standpoint I wouldn't have anything against Sailor Moon going in a more "girly" direction this time compared to the first anime. But from a marketing standpoint, I'm just saying would be difficult to replicate all the factors that made the first Sailor Moon anime a mainstream success.