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I'm gonna be a contrarian and say I like most of them despite being different from her initial style. You gotta remember it's been several years since she first did the designs, her work on the movies probably wrapped up back in 2020/2021, and she's only now being brought back for some promo art...

I think it's supposed to be a homage to episode 34 and the R movie (and possibly ep 196), rather than Ikuhara specifically. The Utena scene might've been inspired by the former, so I guess it loops around to the 90's anime either way. It's a good way to depict brutality without any blood when...

Honestly, it sorta feels like the manga was banking on you watching the anime alongside it for the "full experience" at times. As that's probably how a lot of people read it back when it was first serialized. It's understandable, considering Naoko didn't have the time to properly flesh out the...

Being an animation director is a *lot* more work than redrawing some promotional art. Even the Chibi Chibi transformation doesn't seem to be entirely his, considering he posted nigen. From everything he's posted, it sounded like he was a 2nd key animator for it, which is usually where cleanups...

Oh, he actually got called out for that? Good. I had to block him because half of my timeline was getting filled with posts of him trash-talking the rest of the staff's abilities and editing their art with captions like "fixed their inelegant faces tee hee :wow:" First Marco "copy-pasting faces"...

Hiroyuki Kakudou, who directed the original S opening, was contacted by Tomoyo Takahashi for permission to reference it and he gave his his approval. It's always nice when people ask for permission like that. He also linked to a blog post where he goes a bit more into detail over how the...

Yes! I can finally hear Nana's section of the song!

Here's a list of animators for part 1: There's several notable names from the past seasons of Crystal like Keiko Iwata, Miho Sugimoto/Suzuki, and Yuu Yoshiyama. Seeing Mamoru Kurosawa did some of the storyboards is a cool surprise, though. He did a ton of work on the 90's anime.

Some new clips, this time depicting Usagi's second transformation, her Silver Moon Crystal Power Therapy Kiss attack, and one of Galaxia's attacks.

Like clockwork. I'm surprised it's not Kotono Mitsuishi and I would've loved to hear her or Kae Araki as Cosmos too, but Keiko Kitagawa is still a pretty meaningful casting decision as she's another actor who's big career started with SM. All in all I'm happy they gave the role some real...

Oh, cool. I assumed they would've cut that scene. Saphir was basically telling Usagi that she and the Silver Crystal are at fault for everything bad that happens in it, iirc.

「自分を守る防御力を上げなきゃいけなかった」卵巣摘出、結婚の破談…セーラームーン役・三石琴乃の“波乱万丈すぎる人生” | 文春オンライン A really good, in depth article about Kotono Mitsuishi's new book, her struggles in life (mostly her hospitalization, among other things), and her legacy was published the other day. It also touches on Sailor Moon's reputation...

And the reason why they can do that is because they don't have to outsource much and the lack of a restricting deadline means the different teams can actually communicate with each other. Same with Kyoani! I'm willing to bet if they stopped making a billion shows a season this wouldn't be such...

I really hope that's the case for this movie, since nice layouts for small scenes have become somewhat endangered in anime these days. ^ Kind of a long read, but it's worth checking out for anyone who's wondering why so many modern anime have been lacking dynamic shots for smaller moments and...

I'm willing to bet 90's Rei is probably still in Tadano's heart whenever she draws her, even now. Honestly, more power to her if that's the case. :P I *think* she and the Starlights are actual settei drawings and only the main 10 are new illustrations. Thankfully the Starlights' poses are nice...

I'll have to disagree on that. Her style's certainly changed since her initial designs from four years ago and from working on stuff like Yu Gi Oh Sevens this whole time, but I don't see a single problem with the poses or expressions.

I think the character designs for the Animamates are fine. Their main purpose is to be a reference for the animators, so a simple, utilitarian pose is fine. Especially in a movie where you have a ton of characters as it is. Tadano's perfectly capable of more expressive, dynamic poses. It's just...

They still haven't made it clear whether it's actually for the fight between her and Galaxia, or with Chaos though. I'm personally still thinking it's the latter since she literally asks for everyone to lend her power in the cauldron and Chibiusa is still alive during the fight. The difference...

Here's some confirmation on the shot being a homage to episode 46, along with why they chose it.

Tbf, anime!Galaxia is a totally different character and Yaten pretty much says it instead at one point in episode 199, lol In all seriousness, I love how Kotono Mitsuishi's delivering these lines. It's a great mix of determination, despair, and desperation all in one. Her voice may have changed...