Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon or simply sailor Moon is one of the most popular manga – anime of the nineties, released in December 1991, written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi and unfortunately witnessed how they were attempting to adapt his work into an American version.
This manga became famous for popularizing the magical girl subgenre and its sentai elements, making the male audience approach this story, mainly aimed at women. Its success in cartoons led to an anime version, also successful in the nineties.
That fame of Sailor Moon led countries around the world to be interested in the product, to the point that Saban, the home of the Power Rangers, wanted to create his own adaptation for the American marketbut that never materialized or was published… until now.
The terrible American adaptation of Sailor Moon
Ray Mona, a youtuber with more than 50 thousand subscribers and who is dedicated to sharing material and productions lost along the way, published a documentary on her channel that shows the images of the American adaptation of Sailor Moon.
Anyone who has time to watch this two-hour documentary will come to the same conclusion: thank goodness this adaptation didn’t make it to television, because it’s awful. An insult to Usagi Tsukino and her creator.
Strangely, this version of Sailor Moon is half animated, half live-action, a combination that for its time and the quality of the product was destined to fail.
The website of Third He adds in his report that Toei Animation, which released the original anime, rejected this 1993 proposal from Saban, Renaissance-Atlantic Entertainment, Bandai and the Toon Makers studio, as it would be more expensive than simply dubbing the series into English.
Curiously, the protagonist of the North American adaptation was going to be called Victoryand the show was going to feature a 16-year-old blonde daydreaming girl who attends a boarding school where she hangs out with her friends.