MusicallyObsessedBoi
December 27th, 2009, 04:49 PM
In the Italian dub of Sailor Moon Sailor Stars, the Starlights' sex switching was not present. Instead the Sailor Starlights were said to be the twin sisters of the Three Lights. This explanation was added to the Italian dub after Vera Slepoj, a psychologist, claimed that Sailor Moon made young boys become homosexual.
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In Italy the anime was blamed by some psychologists and parents' associations because of its violent scenes and sexual references which, in their opinion, made it unfit for a young audience. In 1997 the psychologist Vera Slepoj declared that the last season would seriously compromise children's sexual identity, because of the Three Lights' sex change when they transformed into Sailor Senshi. Because of this, there were a number of changes which altered the storyline and affected the popularity of the series, one of which was that the Sailor Starlights were the twin sisters of the Three Lights. This change, however, did not occur until episode 188.
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I read this on like 9 different websites.
Apparently, these Italian people aren't OK with their kids being gay. I'm not saying that what they said is right. It makes you think that they would blame Sailor Moon for their children being gay. That is retarded.
Sailor Uranus & Sailor Neptune are lesbian lovers but they didn't change that! So apparently, they wouldn't care if their child's role model was a moody rich lesbian.
And also, they had no problem with the full nudity shown in episode 200. But when it comes to girls who came to Earth disguised as men who can turn back into women, they throw a hissy fit. But really, in the manga, they where girls who came to Earth who DRESS UP as men. No sex changes. But this was changed due to a miss-communication between Naoko Takeuchi (the creator of Sailor Moon) and Toei Animation.
The sex change and the nudity are a couple of the reasons Sailor Stars was never dubbed. And because Toei and Naoko refused to hand over dubbing rights to CWi (Cloverway - the Canadian company that dubbed seasons 3 & 4 for North America) after seeing how fucked up seasons 1 & 2 where after DiC was done with them! And what was changed about seasons 3 & 4! Even though they didn't do a thing to the scene where Ami (Sailor Mercury) is completely nude before she finally uses Mercury Crystal Power Make Up on screen. That caused a lot of controversy.
What are your opinions?
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In Italy the anime was blamed by some psychologists and parents' associations because of its violent scenes and sexual references which, in their opinion, made it unfit for a young audience. In 1997 the psychologist Vera Slepoj declared that the last season would seriously compromise children's sexual identity, because of the Three Lights' sex change when they transformed into Sailor Senshi. Because of this, there were a number of changes which altered the storyline and affected the popularity of the series, one of which was that the Sailor Starlights were the twin sisters of the Three Lights. This change, however, did not occur until episode 188.
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I read this on like 9 different websites.
Apparently, these Italian people aren't OK with their kids being gay. I'm not saying that what they said is right. It makes you think that they would blame Sailor Moon for their children being gay. That is retarded.
Sailor Uranus & Sailor Neptune are lesbian lovers but they didn't change that! So apparently, they wouldn't care if their child's role model was a moody rich lesbian.
And also, they had no problem with the full nudity shown in episode 200. But when it comes to girls who came to Earth disguised as men who can turn back into women, they throw a hissy fit. But really, in the manga, they where girls who came to Earth who DRESS UP as men. No sex changes. But this was changed due to a miss-communication between Naoko Takeuchi (the creator of Sailor Moon) and Toei Animation.
The sex change and the nudity are a couple of the reasons Sailor Stars was never dubbed. And because Toei and Naoko refused to hand over dubbing rights to CWi (Cloverway - the Canadian company that dubbed seasons 3 & 4 for North America) after seeing how fucked up seasons 1 & 2 where after DiC was done with them! And what was changed about seasons 3 & 4! Even though they didn't do a thing to the scene where Ami (Sailor Mercury) is completely nude before she finally uses Mercury Crystal Power Make Up on screen. That caused a lot of controversy.
What are your opinions?