YouTuber Ray Mona uncovers unaired American Sailor Moon pilot

For years, the collective Internet has been fascinated by the mystery of an Americanized sailor Moon Pilot, which was created in the early 90s as an attempt to market existing toys based on sailor Moon Anime for Western Kids Without Anyone Actually Watching Anime, American Pieces and Pieces sailor Moon-called Saban Moon Reasons to join the fan community power Rangers Producer Haim Saban-Haw Grooved years onlineIt also includes an old video of what apparently must have been its terrifying theme song (in reference to the theme which explains the premise of the show, it makes transformer Lookalike… twin Peaks,

A few years ago, Cecilia D’Anastasio et Kotaku put together a fascinating investigation into what Saban Moon detailing how and how (almost) a hybrid live-action/animated series about a teenage girl who hangs out with her friends as a real person, but then heads into the superhero Sailor Moon to go on animated adventures gets changed. It sounded awful, in a word. but KotakuThe investigation revealed an interesting thing: a second project called team angel some of them were put together by Saban Moon People tried to salvage the concept, and were able to uncover parts of it, but there was no real proof of it. Saban Moon The pilot—who, by some accounts, was present somewhere—was apparently gone.

But now, as reported by ledgeA YouTuber named Ray Monae, who specializes in uncovering seemingly lost media, has found the full, never-before-seen pilot episode of Americana. sailor Moon, Ray Mona covered the entire saga in two YouTube documentary videos, exploring as many details as possible about the failed pilot, who made it, and what happened to it, with the second part receiving Ray Mona’s approval to request copies. Hui. Saban Moon– Materials from the Library of Congress—including the actual pilot.

it’s very interesting Look into animation history, especially in the context of anime’s eventual success in Western television (and the eventual decision to bring anime to America).