Following the recent acquisition of the rights of both the original Sailor Moon series and the new Sailor Moon Crystal series by Viz Media, conversations on feminism renaissance and dub character changes surface.
The new Sailor Moon will maintain its original names, stories relationships and, according to Comics Alliance’s Juliet Kahn, its feminist twinge.
”This is a need to return to a world where young women are in charge. This is an anger at the pabulum of Good Role Models for Girls, at boob windows and “fridging” and “tits or gtfo.” This is 15-year-olds covering their notebooks in “MERMAIDS AGAINST MISOGYNY” stickers, yet also gravely serious grad students applying bell hooks to Takeuchi’s use of Greco-Roman myth.”
Kahn continues with evidence support through the characters, “Mars is never portrayed as just needing to meet the right boy, as being frigid or bitchy or in any way possessing a defect in need of correction. Her understanding of herself, as a teenage girl who prefers to be alone, is respected and treated as correct."
It is assumed that the empowering feminist overtones presented through Sailor Moon and her counterparts are the reason why Linda Ballantyne felt anxious about replacing Terri Hawkes' voice in the new English dub version, due out this fall.
Fashion Style reports that Ballantyne confessed it was difficult for her to take over Terri Hawkes genius as Usagi Tsukino stating Ballantyne said “she'd come home from work crying in frustration.”
However, once Ballantyne got over her potential to be compared, hard, to Hawkes, she came around.
Viz Media is set to release the new Sailor Moon DVDs, Blue Ray too, with English subtitles this Summer with Ballantyne’s English dub version to follow in late 2014 as well as streaming it internationally on Hulu. To suit, Kodansha will drop a "Sailor Moon Crystal" art book in Japan next month on August 22, detailing the animators, the voice actors, and band Momoiro Clover Z, who have us the new theme, “Moon Pride."
Check out the Sailor Moon Crystal episode 3 preview below.
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