From: phoenix@mediaone.net   
      
   I remember that some of the discussions about the anime was why in the   
   world did it take so darn long to introduce the rest of the senshi.   
   Now that I understand how close the release of the animated series was   
   to the manga, it makes perfect sense.   
      
   Considering the manga was being published at the rate of one act a   
   month and the anime was being aired at the rate of one episode a week,   
   the animators were going to have to come up with at least 3 filler   
   episodes for every episode they could map to an act. And I suppose   
   they would need to wait for the act to be published before they air an   
   animated version of it.   
      
   In any case, Ami is introduced in Act 2 of the manga (published   
   March,1992), but not until episode 8 of the anime which was aired May,   
   1992 two months later. The animated episode is pretty much the story   
   from the manga. Ami goes to a juku school where the other students are   
   enslaved by using a special disk in their computers. Ami likes the old   
   paper and pen routine herself and escapes the hypnotism.   
      
   In the Mixxzine edition, we have more localization issues. Does Ami   
   really look like Demi Moore who would have been 35 at the time   
   Mixxzine was published? Really? There were no dark-haired teenage   
   stars they could have referenced?   
      
   So Ami's a super genius with a 300 IQ and the ability to ace a video   
   game after seeing it played one time.   
      
   Usagi appears to have a Fonzie-like ability with machinery. Just   
   hammer on it until something happens. She gets her disguise pen from   
   the game machine this way and later Luna tells her to use it to   
   transform into a doctor.   
      
   Ami also got a pen (which really writes) from the same game machine as   
   a prize for her high score which she later uses as her henshin wand.   
      
   When Usagi transforms into Sailor Moon, she still has the glasses, but   
   immediately tosses them. Then she uses her hair bangle as a weapon to   
   repel the enemy's attack. Luna returns them after the excitement is   
   over. There must be some kind of compromise going on here with the   
   original Sailor V character design.   
      
   Mamoru continues to wear a tux, develop a relationship with both Usagi   
   and Sailor Moon and figures out the disk trap on his own.   
      
   Phoenix ;{)   
      
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