Those seem like pretty solid reasons. I’m looking forward to watching it tomorrow. The only thing that throws me off of the series, is that the character design for Moon’s face looks TOO manga-ish, while everybody else’s looks more like a regular anime face. It really is cringe-worthy to me, at least.

Hmmm. First Disney announced they were releasing a doraemon movie, or TV show, now sailor moon is getting a reboot. When can we expect a new (and better) Valtron.

I never really watched the show when I was a girl, I caught a few episodes on Toonami but my younger brother had control of the TV that part of the day, but I read the hell out of it when I was in college. I’ll definitely be watching this.

Fun fact: A friend of mine sang “My Only Love” at Connecticon in 2006. You know how at rock concerts people hold up lighters? She got that with cell phones.

I just finished watching the episode. A lot of people are complaining about the “horrible CGI” during her transformation, but I didn’t think it was bad, just… very obvious.

I loved it…I watched Sailor Moon up to either Sailor moon S or SuperS – I am not sure which because the series were not labeled over here in England. I loved it and knowing that this was a more accurate to the manga I decided I was going to watch it straight away.

There isn’t much I could tell was different from the first episode – but I loved the transformation sequence…It was 3D CGI but it was awesome and really pumped me up…Sailor Moon is one of the three anime which had a biggest influence on me growing up (The other two are Ghost in the Shell and Tenchi Universe.) I hope that watching it finally gets me around to writing that magical girl webcomic I have had stuck in my head for seven years.

Weighing in on the CGI discussion, one of my guilty pleasures has been recent magical girl series, mostly things like Aikatsu or Lilpri. In those cases, CGI transformation sequences are the norm, so the choice to do that could have been to fit in with the current gen. However, those series also involve multiple costumes, as in it’s rare for them to use the same outfit two weeks in a row (Because merchandising!). Everyone knows that the transformation sequence is for the purpose of recycling footage, so that the animators have that much less to do each week, and when they’ve got to change the outfit regularly, it helps that the only part you’re really changing is the texture mapping on the clothing overlay. Here though, we know and expect that the transformation sequence is going to be the same each time, which kind of makes it seem a little cheap to use that method. For all I know though, the Sparkly CGI effects used in the transformation sequence were difficult to render enough that it’s comparable to whatever it would cost them to do a high quality traditionally animated sequence.