From: macross@mx1.ibm.com   
      
   On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:08:05 -0500, Phoenix wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
      
      
   Something I noticed though, in the manga, the disk provided by the cram   
   school is a CD-ROM, while in the anime, is a 3.5" floppy disk.   
      
      
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