I spotted this info on the newsgroup alt.fan.sailor-moon about the "Monster of the Day" then Sailor Moon and the others Sailors fighted, thanks for reading, arigato
Stéphane Dumas From: [email protected] Subject: The De-evolution of the Monster of the Day Date: 1998/10/29 Newsgroups: alt.fan.sailor-moon Le jeudi 29 octobre 1998 04:00:00 UTC-4, [email protected] a écrit :John Brewer wrote: > > About the cardian - a "male" lion with breasts - we're geting into an > area of Sailor Moon where... > > There has been something of a de-evolution in monsters. In the first > half of the first series, the monsters have been really frightening, Go > Nagai-types - things you would see Devilman or Cutey Honey go up > against. In the rest of the first series and into R, they started > looking more like rejects from the Power Rangers series - especially in > "Mercury's Mental Match" & "Bad Hair Day". In the S series, they > started looking like very strange Vegas show-girls with pointed ears - > very VERY strange show-girls - and the ones in eps. 92, 94, 95, 97, 98, > 99, 106,[oh, don't get me started on 106!] 108, 112, & 118 come DAMN > close to taking the cake! By the time we come to SuperS,...CARTOONS!!! > I half-expected to see Yakko, Wakko, & Dot in the employ of the > Amazoness Quartet! And with Stars, embarrassing parodies are the order > of the day. [Sailor Guts?!!] HELP!!! YES! I am not the only one who noticed this! That was one of the things that bugged me about Sailor Moon, as the storyline progressed some things (ie the MotDs and SM's attack names) just seemed to get sillier and sillier. I LOVED the monsters that Jadeite used! They were freaky looking... actually scary! (Especially the monster that impersonated Naru's mother & the one that impersonated that girl idol... I can't think of her Jap. name, she was 'Saffron' in the dub. They did that freaky 'excorcism' thing with their heads. (@_@) Nephrite's monsters started going downhill. One of his first monsters was a _tennis ball_. Zoicite's rainbow crystal (not gonna even _try_ to spell the japanese word for them) were okay, nothing to write home about. Kunzite's monsters tended to look more silly then scary. Overall, I think the original season still had the best MotD's. The R season... the Cardians, as a whole, were all right. They weren't particularly scary but they weren't silly either. Now for the second half of R...all I can say is 'Droid Avacada' (which probably isn't her Japanese name...ah well). If Nephrite's tennis-ball monster is the silliest MotD in the original season, then the fruit monster gets my vote for the second season. Definately a turn for the silly in the second season. The silliest MotD from the S season goes to... the tennis-shoe monster (do I detect a trend here?) from the episode with the flashback to when Michiru and Haruka first met! I wasn't all that impressed with the daimons...but hey, S was spooky enough without freaky MotDs! (^_^) I haven't seen that much of the SS season, but the few episodes I have from it don't have very impressive MotD's either. (The SS special had pretty cool monsters, although I tend to think those monsters might have been a bit special. *cheers on the vampire from the SS special*) The Stars Season...whoo boy, _those_ are supposed to be scary monster farces? I take that back...Sailor Guts _is_ scary. That is definately something I don't need to see again any time soon. (Imagines someone actually dressing up as Sailor Guts for Hallowe'en. *shudder*) -Sailor Charon, BoS -- ~*~ "Don't you understand?We _all_ wear masks.Mine just happens to be prettier then most.Unfortunately this means that people are content to simply gaze at my mask...they never try to see what lies beneath it." **/\** */\* ~~|***|~ "You are right,I am not the normal damsel ~~|***|~ in distress.I am the one who throws over ~~|***|~ the prince to run away with the dragon." ~~|***|_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_*** ~~|High Queen Tiffany of DreamCastle*** ~~|aka Princess Tiffany'PT' ~~|******************* ~~|Morgana,Queen of Avalon ~~|aka Queen of the Night ~~|_________________________________*** DreamCastle:http://www.oocities.com/Area51/Zone/1331/DreamCastle.html Avalon:http://www.oocities.com/Area51/Zone/1331 "-You are my voice's echo Beyond the light. ~You are the wind which lifts my song to flight. =Sing Siren/Angel the haunted song of endless night." ------------------------------------ Group email addresses: Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List owner: [email protected] Shortcut URL to Yahoo! Groups' SUML page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sailor_Uranus Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sailor_Uranus/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sailor_Uranus/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
