Sailor Moon Eternal

For anyone who has watched classic sailor moon, Crystal keeps doing it better, this adaptation does justice to the essence of the story. It's way more mature and places sailor moon in a higher place along manga and anime most successful of the world such as Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, One punch man, Naruto etc. The dream arc is truly redeemed.

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal is the continuation of the Sailor Moon Crystal series and is a direct adaptation of the Dream Arc of the original Manga. Like most of Crystal; it follows the Manga very faithfully but there are some changes that mostly work out for the better. In the Manga the weapons "spoke"; it would have been a little cheesy for that to be pulled off even though that as a lifelong Sailormoon fan, even I can admit.

The animation is a huge improvement from Season III. Although some of the original 1995 Transformation and Attack scenes were more polished; they certainly looked better than last earlier seasons. The Moon Crisis Make Up sequence is not as polished and somewhat glamorous but the music is better.

The subtitles are mostly accurate; I was hoping that they would have been as accurate as Netflix did with Neon Genesis Evangelion; but oh well... The film is two parts and the total running time is 140 minutes.

There is no pacing issues, in my opinion. If you were disappointed in the earlier episodes of Crystal, Eternal may bring back faith for a very likely adaption to the Stars Arc.

Rated TV-14 for Fantasy Violence.

This movie is a good combination of 90's version and Sailormoon Crystal. The old one was childish but had some fun anime parts, also Mamaru was really annoying. In Crystal, the chracter drawings were unrealistic and disturbing yet it was more mature. This one combines the good parts and more loyal to manga. I hope we watch Sailor Stars season too, either movie or a whole season.

The animation was soooo cute, but I just couldn't keep up with it. There's a lot going on and I didnt feel like the events developed logically. It felt like the script was just random stories glued together. It didn't lead anywhere and there were too many twists and surprises. Too many characters, incomplete story archs and backstories. No character development. Could've been much more interesting.

I admit I didn't watch the original anime or read the manga, I just vaguely remember a random Sailor Moon magazine I was fascinated by as a kid, so maybe my experience would've been different if I had more prior knowledge.

The story is beautiful and the animation is outstanding. I'm sure it's true to the story of the manga. The story is exciting and the characters are well developed.

Unfortunately, what I don't like is that it was adapted as a movie. There are details where the thread of a character's story is quickly told in 5 minutes. Because of this, I think the story is rushed and not coherent. This creates a sense of absence in the viewer. Although this manga adaptation is made as a two part movie, it feels like it would work better as a TV series because of the many events.

I think the scene editors also struggled a lot with how to unify a manga originally intended for a TV series? It more or less succeeded.

Each story chapter was separated by a 1-second black screen (pause). Well, this created an amazing sense of lack and disunity for me. I think all of this could have been solved by possibly separating each section with the title of the chapter, so that would have worked very well.

All in all, it's a nice anime, faithful to the manga, but it doesn't fit the movie format.