Background on Toei re (live action) Sailor Moon etc.
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:39 pm
Recently, I discovered something interesting. I was looking for images of Astro Girl on Google, and I came across a Japanese version of... Supergirl - with similar costume - and in more than technical violation of Warner/DC's copyright. Then I discovered, partially by stumbling across a specialty website, that there is a whole subgenre of Japanese female action hero films. While there are other subgenres, some not directly related, there is one overlapping one of Japanese female exploitation films. See: http://brooklynrail.org/2006/04/film/dv ... id-wilentz Running through these to the others, is a soft-core theme, besides kick-ass Japanese girls, along with cowering, not-so-tough male bad guys who get hammered.
Relevance to Sailor Moon? See above, plus covert and overt fanservice in the original anime. Why? A common company: Toei films - who also does animated kids' TV shows. Anyhow, the specific live film genre is known as "pink", "pinku", "pinky", "pinky violence", etc. I have seen a book listing a couple of times, on this subject, in the Diamond Previews monthly comic catalogue, More to the point, I think this should clear up any lingering mystery about how and why the live-action Sailor Moon was done, and its latent appeal as well as its overall presentation; and additionally explain much of the accompanying campiness. Hope that this enlightens you as well.
Relevance to Sailor Moon? See above, plus covert and overt fanservice in the original anime. Why? A common company: Toei films - who also does animated kids' TV shows. Anyhow, the specific live film genre is known as "pink", "pinku", "pinky", "pinky violence", etc. I have seen a book listing a couple of times, on this subject, in the Diamond Previews monthly comic catalogue, More to the point, I think this should clear up any lingering mystery about how and why the live-action Sailor Moon was done, and its latent appeal as well as its overall presentation; and additionally explain much of the accompanying campiness. Hope that this enlightens you as well.