The song really captured the spirit of the show, the magic, and the romance. I really love the lyrics and how they describe the romantic relationship between Usagi and Mamoru. Moonlight Legend was a catchy, whimsical song. Moonlight Legend was used in the first four seasons of Sailor Moon, before it was replaced in season five with "Sailor Star Song". Is this song better than the original Japanese song? No, it's not. The song uses the same melody of the Japanese theme song, Moonlight Legend, but has different lyrics. The "Sailor Moon Theme Song" was composed by Bob Summers and was used as the North American theme song for the first four seasons of Sailor Moon and the films, The Promise of the Rose, Hearts in Ice and Black Dream Hole. The Opening Theme Song "She's The One Named Sailor Moon" In this article, I will list some of what I consider to be the best music from seasons one and two of Sailor Moon.ġ. I would even go as far as to argue that they were sometimes better or on par with the original Japanese music score. The songs were catchy, memorable, and magical. One of the things I did like about it was the original background sound effects and music. I definitely agree that a lot of the cuts and edits were pointless censorship and sometimes the acting, dialogue and music would be overwhelmingly corny, I would cringe so hard I would pull a jaw muscle. I know this is probably nostalgia speaking, but I don't think the original English release of Sailor Moon was that bad. The names of the characters were changed from Japanese to English, Japanese signage was removed and replaced with English writing, dialogue was rewritten, scenes involving nudity, bathing or violence was censored, homosexual characters were rewritten and censored, the original background music was taken out and replaced with a new one written by Bob Summers, entire episodes were skipped and the final two episodes in season one had so much footage removed they were merged into a single episode. In order for the show to be labelled suitable for children, Sailor Moon's English release was subject to heavy editing, with lots of cuts made to content and length.
The DiC release of Sailor Moon was marketed and released as a children's show in North America to capitalise on the success of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
The Canada based Optimum Productions was hired by DiC to dub the anime for an English-language release in North America. It wasn't the most faithful adaptation.ĭiC Entertainment won the licencing rights for the first two seasons of the show in 1995 after winning a bidding war with Toon Makers, who had wanted to make a live-action, half animated, version of Sailor Moon.
They weren't wrong to dislike the DiC dub of the show. A lot of fans hated it and judged people who liked it, claiming that the original anime was better. I can remember at the time that there was a lot of disdain online for the DiC adaptation of Sailor Moon. It would be years later, once I got a little bit more internet savvy, that I would figure that out and discover the original Japanese version of the show and the manga it was based on. I didn't realise at the time that the show was an adaptation of a Japanese anime and manga. The theme song was catchy, I loved the transformation and magical attack scenes, and that all of the heroes were girls. I can still remember when I first sat down and watched Sailor Moon as a child in 1996. For a lot of English- speaking Sailor Moon fans their first introduction to Sailor Moon was the DiC Entertainment English- language release which premiered in North America in 1995.
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