Sailor Moon and Time Spent Doing Things

[Bob Schroeck]

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I don't know how much I'd rely on the live-action series for a fanfic involving the anime - there's quite a bit of difference, even more so from what I can tell than between the anime and the manga.

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Oh, yeah, that's for sure. But I've been approaching it from the point of view that Takeuchi may have been refining the core concepts. (Not that I agree with all the "refinements", personally, but that's another issue.)

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I'd thought that the approximations we'd arrived at before were good enough as far as this goes...

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Oh, they are. I just can't help looking at new primary source material and evaluating it, especially when it shows something new. (A lot of somethings new, actually...)

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This might well be the case even in the anime and/or manga, actually - she's truly formidable, it just gets lost under her... quirky personality most of the time. I'm not really a Minako fan, particularly, but there are times when she's just *amazing*.

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Hmm. Okay. My exposure -- to be absolutely honest -- has heretofore been limited to the uncensored first season and of course umpty-zillion fanfics. Oh, and the first five or six manga volumes, too. Of course, she doesn't have anything like a major role by that point. Still, the live series shows a Minako who seems hypercompetent, not to mention infected with a bad case of Batmanitis -- she's rather grim and serious.

-- Bob
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And all the girlies say I'm pretty dry for a wet guy...