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It wouldn't be the same since. It'd probably be a short one hit wonder series since it didn't have Bishoujo Kamen Poitrine to ....borrow...from.
It would definitely have a more rock vibe to it...
It would definitely have a more rock vibe to it...
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Rika-Chicchi said:
That's only too natural, considering the time lag between the pop culture in Japan & that in the West (which was even bigger than that nowadays), especially that both Classic & R aired just in the early 90s. 
But, i was, still at it not so popular IF cam before Dragonball, but who knows, or cares? Dragonball cam when it cam, Sailor moon cam when it cam. That can be think at what if it make 1970?
Rika-Chicchi said:
That's only too natural, considering the time lag between the pop culture in Japan & that in the West (which was even bigger than that nowadays), especially that both Classic & R aired just in the early 90s.
EMN Rose said:
Funny because I always had this imagination of Sailor Moon being set in different decades
Lately I've been envisioning what the series would be like it were in the 60s-70s
Lately I've been envisioning what the series would be like it were in the 60s-70s
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Bigger hair and bigger shoulderpads? Sounds pretty rad to me! They might look even cooler. I'd probably still be totally into it here in 2018 (butterfly effects allowing).
The tokusatsu genre certainly existed (heck, Toei Spider Man was from the 70s), so you would still get the posing catch phrases and stuff. I wonder if I'd think the music was even better, or not quite as good, but I bet I'd still like it either way.
If Japan caught up with America's fashion trends of things like acid wash denim, everyone would wear somewhat cooler clothes. (But they were already pretty cool.) Mamoru might roll up his green jacket sleeves and turn up his collar, but I bet he'd still wear purple pants. I like he'd have a little more hair on the back of his head, a nice 80s guy do, sorta like what Togusa has in Ghost in the Shell. (In my fanfic I give his similar-looking Golden Kingdom dad hair like that.)
The economic culture might be different, shifting the nature of things like Jadeite's schemes to be less like 1990s fads (pogs/furbies/tickle-me-elmo, but they drain your energy! Actually, did they even do that stuff in Japan? I thought there was an economic depression in the 90s in Japan) and more like... um... I really know nothing about 80s japan. Wasn't the big economic recovery of becoming a major technology exporter fresher news then? Nintendo's first home console, the Famicom (Family Computer) was in 1985, as I think was the MSX, so if we're talking 1982... would there even be a Sailor V videogame? Were arcades big in Japan yet? I know Nintendo made some back then, like Donkey Kong, but were those common in Japan or mostly exports? I know Americans often had Atari 2600 systems by then, but I 've never know if Atari did much business in Japan.
(The tangential thought of an Atari Sailor V game amuses me.)
Home computers were JUST starting to catch on in the early 80s, with the apple II. Not sure how that went in Japan. Ami's pocket computer would seem a lot more fantastical for it's time, like a Star Trek tricorder. The Crystal Seminar would have to be either straight-up scifi, or just a bunch of mundane paper tests designed to drain students' energy. Or possibly some kind of video energy drain- VHS was kind of a hot new thing competing with Betamax around then, they might even still be using a 35mm film reel and projector.
Umino would probably talk more about cutting edge tech, I would think.
In the anime, Nephrite's car would still be awesome. If anything, Nephrite would look less out of place. I think his entire story would be about the same, as pretty much would Naru's.
Zoisite... I wonder what the culture was on homosexuality and effeminate male affectations and crossdressing back in the 80s in Japan. That would also have to determine some things about Kunzite, but I don't think he'd change as much as Zoisite might. The VHS scheme "Rental Shop Dark" in the manga might play out differently too.
Beryl would be exactly the same I think. Maybe get some nice fishnet sleeves.
All the SilMil stuff would be identical.
I think Astro-Boy was being made around then.... the 40s were a tricky time for Japan. The end of the war and the American occupation/reconstruction period.
But I would absolutely watch a thing where Sailor Iron Mouse is drawn in ball-and-rubber-hose style like 1930s Mickey Mouse.
I have to say that sounds kind of amazing. Would they all wear stuff victorian clothes, or am I thinking of the wrong era? I don't think Tuxedo Mask would need to change much.
Then again, if we're talking 1840s Japan, that's a whole different thing...
The tokusatsu genre certainly existed (heck, Toei Spider Man was from the 70s), so you would still get the posing catch phrases and stuff. I wonder if I'd think the music was even better, or not quite as good, but I bet I'd still like it either way.
If Japan caught up with America's fashion trends of things like acid wash denim, everyone would wear somewhat cooler clothes. (But they were already pretty cool.) Mamoru might roll up his green jacket sleeves and turn up his collar, but I bet he'd still wear purple pants. I like he'd have a little more hair on the back of his head, a nice 80s guy do, sorta like what Togusa has in Ghost in the Shell. (In my fanfic I give his similar-looking Golden Kingdom dad hair like that.)
The economic culture might be different, shifting the nature of things like Jadeite's schemes to be less like 1990s fads (pogs/furbies/tickle-me-elmo, but they drain your energy! Actually, did they even do that stuff in Japan? I thought there was an economic depression in the 90s in Japan) and more like... um... I really know nothing about 80s japan. Wasn't the big economic recovery of becoming a major technology exporter fresher news then? Nintendo's first home console, the Famicom (Family Computer) was in 1985, as I think was the MSX, so if we're talking 1982... would there even be a Sailor V videogame? Were arcades big in Japan yet? I know Nintendo made some back then, like Donkey Kong, but were those common in Japan or mostly exports? I know Americans often had Atari 2600 systems by then, but I 've never know if Atari did much business in Japan.
(The tangential thought of an Atari Sailor V game amuses me.)
Home computers were JUST starting to catch on in the early 80s, with the apple II. Not sure how that went in Japan. Ami's pocket computer would seem a lot more fantastical for it's time, like a Star Trek tricorder. The Crystal Seminar would have to be either straight-up scifi, or just a bunch of mundane paper tests designed to drain students' energy. Or possibly some kind of video energy drain- VHS was kind of a hot new thing competing with Betamax around then, they might even still be using a 35mm film reel and projector.
Umino would probably talk more about cutting edge tech, I would think.
In the anime, Nephrite's car would still be awesome. If anything, Nephrite would look less out of place. I think his entire story would be about the same, as pretty much would Naru's.
Zoisite... I wonder what the culture was on homosexuality and effeminate male affectations and crossdressing back in the 80s in Japan. That would also have to determine some things about Kunzite, but I don't think he'd change as much as Zoisite might. The VHS scheme "Rental Shop Dark" in the manga might play out differently too.
Beryl would be exactly the same I think. Maybe get some nice fishnet sleeves.
All the SilMil stuff would be identical.
I think Astro-Boy was being made around then.... the 40s were a tricky time for Japan. The end of the war and the American occupation/reconstruction period.
But I would absolutely watch a thing where Sailor Iron Mouse is drawn in ball-and-rubber-hose style like 1930s Mickey Mouse.
I have to say that sounds kind of amazing. Would they all wear stuff victorian clothes, or am I thinking of the wrong era? I don't think Tuxedo Mask would need to change much.
Then again, if we're talking 1840s Japan, that's a whole different thing...
What about a combination of both, with the Sailors wearing Victorian style outfits but with Edo era prints and accessories?
ETA: I found this poem about "Herschel" in an old astronomy book:
Perhaps "Sailor Herschel" would be the Sailor Pluto character in an alternate reality/1800s Sailor Moon series
(And I'd imagine this version's Silver Millennium would be inspired by the Great Moon Hoax)
ETA: I found this poem about "Herschel" in an old astronomy book:
Perhaps "Sailor Herschel" would be the Sailor Pluto character in an alternate reality/1800s Sailor Moon series
(And I'd imagine this version's Silver Millennium would be inspired by the Great Moon Hoax)
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