bikedopa.blogg.se

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.