GoodGrief741
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Fighting evil by moonlight
Winning love by daylight
Never running from a real fight
She is the one named Sailor Moon
Chance: 1%
Sailor Moon is one of the most popular and influencial manga and anime of all time. While not the first in the magical girl genre, it is certainly the first one that will come to mind for most people and codified most of the tropes in the genre. In its homeland, it is one of the biggest IPs in the shoujo demographic; in the West, it played a major role in proving the popularity of female superheroes. The original manga ran for 6 years, with one spin-off centered around Sailor Venus. Its anime adaptation ran for over 200 episodes. The franchise would later go on to spawn a second anime (3 seasons and counting), a live action series, 5 movies, a canceled American version (the pilot for which recently resurfaced), and an above-average spectrum of merch that includes your standard videogames and novels but also several musicals, a trading card game, a 4D attraction for Universal Studios Japan, and now an idol group. It's still going strong with the latest installment being a movie that released last year (on Netflix for us Westerners) and one is releasing next year.
Of course, Warner Bros. doesn't own Sailor Moon. How simple would things be if they did. But, their association is limited to Toonami and a couple of DVDs back when those were a mainstream form of media consumption. With the recent tweets from the devs (and also the general middle finger to the medium of animation that WB recently became) I think this won't be a priority, or, hell, even a possibility.
Whenever an anime character does get in (probably Goku, and probably in the far future), then I imagine demand for others will reach priority levels, and they will soon follow. If and when that happens, then yeah, I think Sailor Moon is comfortably in the top 10 first series to get a character.
Want: 100%
Despite my rejection towards all things anime for the first 21 years of my life (year 22 was the one in which SPY X FAMILY started), Sailor Moon was one of the rare exceptions I saw. How did teenage me, "had to be tricked by marketing into thinking Flynn Rider was the protagonist of Tangled" teenage me, wind up seeing Sailor Moon? I don't know. Probably for all the wrong reasons. But I really enjoyed it. Usagi, or Serena as I will inevitably default to calling her ruining my street cred, is a very relatable goofball of a protagonist, being kind of a selfish idiot at times but also having real moments of bravery, vulnerability and agency. The anime deals in these really cool battles with very high stakes without ever losing track of stuff like character relationships and growth, and I really dug the world building. And the cat was cute. I kinda never dipped back into the well after my original run (barring a couple of videogames), but my 12 year old cousin is a massive fan of Crystal and is reading the manga and everything, so it has also been a cool thing to bond over with her. So yeah, this would be quite hype.
Shao Khan post in progress but I have to go now, it's D&D Sunday
Edit: Shao Khan
Shao Khan is kind of the main villain of Mortal Kombat. Shang Tsung steals a big of his thunder by having been first and also being pretty iconic, and other baddies like Kano and Goro are arguably moreso, but Shang Tsung has always been the guy. That plus his own popularity gives him a claim to fame. But, again, there's maybe 10 other MK characters that have one, and we just won't get them all.
Chance: 6%
Want: abstain
I have other characters I want but I wouldn't mind him.
Noms split between Dream and House of the Dragon (new episode tonight! Can't wait. Edit: it was great)
Winning love by daylight
Never running from a real fight
She is the one named Sailor Moon
Chance: 1%
Sailor Moon is one of the most popular and influencial manga and anime of all time. While not the first in the magical girl genre, it is certainly the first one that will come to mind for most people and codified most of the tropes in the genre. In its homeland, it is one of the biggest IPs in the shoujo demographic; in the West, it played a major role in proving the popularity of female superheroes. The original manga ran for 6 years, with one spin-off centered around Sailor Venus. Its anime adaptation ran for over 200 episodes. The franchise would later go on to spawn a second anime (3 seasons and counting), a live action series, 5 movies, a canceled American version (the pilot for which recently resurfaced), and an above-average spectrum of merch that includes your standard videogames and novels but also several musicals, a trading card game, a 4D attraction for Universal Studios Japan, and now an idol group. It's still going strong with the latest installment being a movie that released last year (on Netflix for us Westerners) and one is releasing next year.
Of course, Warner Bros. doesn't own Sailor Moon. How simple would things be if they did. But, their association is limited to Toonami and a couple of DVDs back when those were a mainstream form of media consumption. With the recent tweets from the devs (and also the general middle finger to the medium of animation that WB recently became) I think this won't be a priority, or, hell, even a possibility.
Whenever an anime character does get in (probably Goku, and probably in the far future), then I imagine demand for others will reach priority levels, and they will soon follow. If and when that happens, then yeah, I think Sailor Moon is comfortably in the top 10 first series to get a character.
Want: 100%
Despite my rejection towards all things anime for the first 21 years of my life (year 22 was the one in which SPY X FAMILY started), Sailor Moon was one of the rare exceptions I saw. How did teenage me, "had to be tricked by marketing into thinking Flynn Rider was the protagonist of Tangled" teenage me, wind up seeing Sailor Moon? I don't know. Probably for all the wrong reasons. But I really enjoyed it. Usagi, or Serena as I will inevitably default to calling her ruining my street cred, is a very relatable goofball of a protagonist, being kind of a selfish idiot at times but also having real moments of bravery, vulnerability and agency. The anime deals in these really cool battles with very high stakes without ever losing track of stuff like character relationships and growth, and I really dug the world building. And the cat was cute. I kinda never dipped back into the well after my original run (barring a couple of videogames), but my 12 year old cousin is a massive fan of Crystal and is reading the manga and everything, so it has also been a cool thing to bond over with her. So yeah, this would be quite hype.
Shao Khan post in progress but I have to go now, it's D&D Sunday
Edit: Shao Khan
Shao Khan is kind of the main villain of Mortal Kombat. Shang Tsung steals a big of his thunder by having been first and also being pretty iconic, and other baddies like Kano and Goro are arguably moreso, but Shang Tsung has always been the guy. That plus his own popularity gives him a claim to fame. But, again, there's maybe 10 other MK characters that have one, and we just won't get them all.
Chance: 6%
Want: abstain
I have other characters I want but I wouldn't mind him.
Noms split between Dream and House of the Dragon (new episode tonight! Can't wait. Edit: it was great)
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