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A bit early, but... Happy Valentine Day / Feliz San Valentin !Have fun
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This is beautiful~! Unnffff--- look at those details in the hair, hurrdurr
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Aaaadorable!
Valentine day isn't really my thing but this pic of yours is soooo lovely! <3
Keep up the good work!
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Well, it's not like I celebrate or anything like that (I'm as single as you get), but it's a nice occasion to make cute drawings.
Thanks
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There sure are many cute drawings on this day! xD
You're welcome~
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Gracias, me alegra que te guste.
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Aw, pretty babies~ Happy Valentine's Day
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Is this actually a scene from the story?
Gakupo looks so different in a t-shirt... I just imagine him in more complex outfits even when he's supposedly dressing casual.
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Yeah, I was thinking of the story 
Yeah...I prefer to draw him in more complex stuff, usually. That's what I want to do next: draw him in something regal or mythological
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Ha, I was right, I just saw Luka's dress and thought of it
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Yep. It's supposed to be one of the pretty new dresses. So obviously the next drawing i have to do is Maid Luka and Tuxedo Gakupo XD
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.... I know you mean Gakupo in a tuxedo, but my brain is still too Sailor Moon obsessed to not just imagine him as Tuxedo Gakupo, with a mask and top hat and roses...
...and a cane that's actually a samurai sword because come on, it's Gakupo
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...And that's another good idea for a drawing, haha
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Glad to know I'm putting crazy ideas in your head
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Speaking of SailorMoon, what are your thoughts on Crystal?
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I have to get caught up on it. I have to admit the fandom kind of turned me off, but I was enjoying what I saw of it. Maybe I just had more realistic expectations of what the show was going to be like.
Actually, the Vocaloid fandom kind of derailed my attention from it pretty hard too. I was actually writing recaps/reviews of the show as it aired, but those kind of ground to a halt. Again... the fandom really sucked out the fun of the show for me
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Oh, I have zero participation with the fandom, aside from perusing that Tumblr with the "awesome" art the series has to offer. Though crappy animation seems to be a generalized problem with modern anime, from what little I watch these days.
There are NewSailorMoon vs ClassicSailorMoon fights or something?
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Yea, I'm not sure what a lot of people wanted out of this show when they were always up front it was largely a faithful adaptation of the manga. I understand it made a few annoying divergences from it later on that I just haven't caught up to, but for weeks I'd hear complaints about a plot point not being the same as the "old" show... which just told me the person never read the manga.
Plus, I do like the old show, but I also like it for what it was - a separate continuity that sort of adapted loose elements of the manga. It was in production simultaneously with the original manga, which means it could never possibly adapt things faithfully so it didn't even try.
The manga's biggest problem isn't the storyline itself, it's that the narrative is often told in a very clumsy manner and I felt like Crystal was actually doing a better job of cleaning up the weaker parts of the story delivery and getting the characters some actual personalities before the storyline largely centers on Usagi again (the manga spends WAY more time on just telling Usagi's story, so I assume Crystal does that too.)
The new series is clearly being done on a lower budget, though apparently Toei threw some money at the episodes after they went online to fix the more egregious animation problems.
...phew, I can still write a lot of rants about this show XD Can you tell this used to be my most passionate franchise?
I dunno, I've started backing out of a lot of fandoms these days. Maybe I feel like the Vocaloid fandom is more chill because it's not as hyper-active right now... or maybe I've just had an easier time finding pockets of sanity. I guess when there's no actual continuity to worry about, it's harder for people to start fights? Well aside from stumbling into random ship wars O_O
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My, my the "divergences" >_< I don't know which was the last chapter you saw (I'm around 11 I think) but the Shittennou changes REALLY pissed some people off (thats the one thing I've seen discussed). You'll see.... though after the live action and the RPG, I don't really mind tackling them differently.
Well, that problem with currently running manga being adapted into an anime is hardly just an issue with Sailormoon. The first FullMetal Alchemist series went its own way, and shonen shows like Bleach and Naruto have loooooong filller arcs so the manga can catch up. I actually think the old show dealed pretty decently with the issue, giving the Inners little quirks and friends and whatnot.
Yeah, the manga can be hilariously "what did just happen?" at times. It doesn't help that I have an extremely inconsistent spaniard translation that couldn't even keep the names straight.
Yeah, both Crystal and the manga focus too much on Usagi. It's kind of a shame, really. I kind of think Crystal is worse at it, I don't know. It's like watching the stuff makes everything seem more rushed. With the manga, you can mentally insert "Ok, the girls probably socialized here and there, it probably went something like this..." Or maybe that's just me XD
I wish I could tell if the Vocaloid fandom as a whole is winding down or what. It troubles me that the fanclubs I run at VO (Gakupo and Gakuluka) that get more visitors. I don't know if people just moved on, or what.
Ah, the ship wars. I'm super militant Gakuluka (obviously), so I avoid any situations that may potentially annoy me XD I bet I'm losing out on a bunch of good Luka songs due to that, but oh well.
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I did hear the Shitennou thing ended about how I expected 
The English translations of the manga haven't been great either. Either they'd edit them to match the awful 90s dub, or they put out stuff like the most recent one that is very sloppy and still gets names wrong. There's only ever been one good fan script of them manga that I've read, but it's no longer online. The Miss Dream scanlations are absolutely terrible. So yea, the manga already has an odd and rushed and sometimes disjointed plot, but it's not helped when the translations are so half-assed!
I'd be surprised if you miss out on many Luka songs... I have trouble finding a lot of duets for her in general. I actually set up another scenario in my current story where she has to sing a duet with Kaito and I realized I was just setting myself up for failure because LuKaito duets are really freaking hard to find. I had more luck with GakuRin, and I was sure that would be rarer! Maybe I'm not good enough at finding these.
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I hear you. My sister and I were expecting that from moment one, but I still feel TOEI "surpassed" my expectations.
Yeah, DK is kind of stale by now.
Let's see...the first things that come to mind about R (anime-wise)
-Aliens??? (After Stars, being so surprised by lol aliens is kind of amusing)
-Usagi crying inside of a phone-booth because of Mamoru 
-WTH what is Lawrence of Arabia doing here?
-Chibiusa sure is annoying, my god
-Dinosaurs??
XD No I haven't forgot the plot itself completely...
And here I thought the quality of English translations had gone up. That's a shame. Though my books are good for humour purposes, at least, and do get slightly better in the last volumes.
I was particularly thinking of avoiding LukaMiku duets, because some yuri fans are "lol Gakupo sucks" "het fans are homophobes" and so on, and I REALLY want to avoid that.
There's actually a good number of decent GakuRin duets, at least I think so.
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See, the breakup arc in R does produce a beautifully tragic scene in the phone booth... but it also makes no sense. It's kind of my go-to example for how not to write an arc where someone breaks the heart of the person they love to save them. Basically...
1) Mamoru is sent nightmares that his presence around Usagi will kill her.
2) Mamoru breaks up with her to save her. He does not question his dreams or visions - he takes them on faith.
3) He does not tell her why despite the fact he knows someone or something is trying to kill her. His girlfriend is a superhero and is on a TEAM of equally powerful superheroes... and he doesn't tell them he's aware of a threat to her life. He just acts like a dick and makes her hate herself and act reckless in combat.
4) He does nothing to track down what is supposedly going to kill her. He does not deviate from his daily life in any meaningful way. Thus he is constantly in Usagi's presence and constantly baby sitting her cousin WHILE he's a dick to her AND he is not doing anything to protect her, which is the entire motivation for him breaking up with her!
5) At one point, she actually does almost die because he won't help her. He still refuses to tell anyone why he is being a dick to her even though now her life has been directly jeopardized by him not telling anyone anything. He just acts like a dick to her again and leaves.
6) Usagi finally has a scary dream and tells him she knows what's going on. And... he caves almost immediately. The story basically proceeds as if nothing happened and nobody tries to check out what this world-stopping threat to Usagi's life was.
And to cap off the whole arc... the source of these dreams was... his own future self trying to test the strength of their love for each other. There was absolutely no threat to her life whatsoever. Mamoru of the future is ALSO a dick that recklessly endangers his wife, child, past self and basically time itself... for no reason. Nothing actually comes of Mamoru and Usagi being separated. They don't overcome some challenge later that they wouldn't have if Mamoru and Usagi had not gone through a damn break up arc. The worst thing that happens is at some point Wise Man tries to trick Usagi into thinking her aged-up psycho daughter is making out with her own father... which really, why does Mamoru breaking up with her and being a dick the whole time somehow increase her resolve more than him just telling her "Hey, Usagi, there's a horrible threat to your life and I'm the cause. I'm going away to stop it myself and I won't rest until I know you're safe. Tell your friends so you can protect yourselves and don't forget I'm doing this because I love you." Instead we're supposed to think at that moment "Wow, if only Mamoru hadn't been a reckless dick to me for all those weeks, I might not have had the emotional fortitude at this moment to know he's not also crazy enough to sleep with our future daughter now that she's got a nice rack!"
*gasp, wheeze*
...the general randomness of the plot of Sailor Moon R is also a problem, but that one story arc really cheeses me off in its sheer pointlessness for the sake of generating relationship drama. I actually look to that storyline as what not to do if I need to create romantic tension and NOT have my audience actively start despising the character doing the break up and questioning their competency at basic thinking skills.
...ah, so. That broke my head, I'm going to watch Kaito prance around in tight pants for a few minutes. There... pain is gone...
Man, I didn't know there was a "het is ew" anti-fandom on Gakupo. I mean, yea, my holy trinity of Vocaloid Ships is basically impossible because I ship KaiMiku, GakuLuka, and GakuKai.... so I obviously can't get angry at any of them... but I also don't take out my rage on say... KaiMei for upsetting a KaiMiku. I actually love Meiko
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Wow, that's a pretty comprehensive breakdown XD I kind of remembered being rather nonsensical, but yeah, pretty dumb.
Was this also the season that Usagi got a new rod that manifested due to the strengh of her bond with Mamoru, by any chance?
Well, "Gakupo is a fail-loid" is an actual sentence I've seen expressed by a MikuLuka fan. Of course, that's probably not necessarily a widespread sentiment. But my translation project is called "Creepy and Evil Translations" because that's adjectives that I've seen used to describe Gakupo. So it happens, and it irks so much that just seeing MikuLuka makes my stomach churn because of it. Thanks guys.
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Ha, if I ever get back to recapping and reviewing the classic series, that rant will appear... I never got why it was silly when I was a kid, it wasn't until I was older and turning into an over analytical nutcase that I really tore into it.
The rod of love was actually the very next season, right in the second episode of S. It was the only major event Mamoru would cause in that season... unless you count getting trapped in a pile of glass and used as a damsel in distress at the midway point, and then much later serving as a battery to keep his daughter from dying
Awww, I didn't know anti-Gakupo sentiments was where your translation group name came from
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Nitpicking is fun. It's probably THE reason why we still watch Crystal over here XD
Poor guy... At least in the manga, I seem to recall him getting a magic attack (not that it helped himi much)
In that song, sure, but it was more like "Gakupo is such a creep, he always sound evil in songs, blablabla" general sentiment. Because you know, sounding like an adult male with a big range, if somewhat nasal= TEH EVILZ
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Oh yea, he got his own attack in the manga. He actually killed Esmeraude in fact! Here's hoping they let him do that in Crystal... he doesn't seem to have the entire writing staff out to get him this time
Ha ha, I can see it being easier to put Gakupo in more dangerous songs. He has the range to pull off evil characters. But actually, the first Gakupo song I heard was A Doll's Voice and that kind of defined him for me. So sad...
Course I think of Big Al as WAY scarier. Freaking crazy voice frankenstein guy. I mean, I actually like that about him, but all his songs tend to be either intentionally silly covers like Barbie Girl or straight up nightmare fuel.
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Huh, I didn't remember he killed Esmeraude. Go Mamo-chan XD
According to my sister, the producers of the original anime didn't realize Mamoru was supposed to be the Love Interest and decided to make him more antagonistic towards Usagi at the start. I have no idea if that's true... Though it doesn't explain why he never developed powers. *shrugs*
Well, yeah, I suppose that's true. Well, my first Gakupo songs were Nata-p songs and “Love is not enough”, so I can't see he him as stupid or a creep.
And to think the first version of Al was even more cavernous-sounding XD
Though I do appreciate that he isn't yet another shrill moeblob.
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I wouldn't be surprised if that was true, though given that by chapter 3 already Mamoru and Usagi were making eyes with each other, I'd wonder if perhaps the writers just weren't given accurate story boards. You know, if he'd still had that teasing relationship with her throughout the series, he'd have probably stayed interesting in the anime!
Wow, I've never even heard the original Big Al, though I did know he was re-recorded. Nah, but I like him all right. He seems like he has a hard voice to tune and he's got the same problem the rest of the Engloids have of being somewhat mechanical and having weird pronunciations, but he's also got one of the clearest voices of the Engloids. And it's hard not to like a Vocaloid design that looks like he could smash through a wall
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That's a good point. He had barely anything to do after a while, besides looking pretty.
It's funny how all Vocaloids sound like kind of dopey in English. Like they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes. I understand English is difficult, but it never fails to amuse me. But Al is pretty decent, all things considered. I just don't think I would have any use for him, making songs Xd But he's useful, fanfic-wise.
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