Why is it always considered the best magical girl series ever made?
>>288489789Cutey Honey's pretty popular too. And way more mature for a magical girl series.
>it is considered>scientists found>they did studies
>>288489789Is there a reason it's always considered the best one?
>>288489852Honey had a big influence on magical girls but I'm not sure if it can be considered a magical girl. His powers come from sci-fi, not magic
>>288489789Because it’s old and popular. Plenty of other series have done it better but they aren’t the DBZ of the Magical Girls genre
>>288490480What exactly makes Sailor Moon the DBZ of magical girls? It never felt that similar to DBZ. Precure has a lot more martial arts than Sailor Moon ever had.
>>288490585Precure is the Gundam of Mahou Shoujo, or perhaps the Pokemon
>>288489789Panty shotsnext question
>>288489789I love Sailor Moon but it's so inspired by tokusatsu that as I got deeper into magical girl anime I've come to question if it can even count under some scrutiny. I know it paved the way, but I think Cardcaptor Sakura is much better as it's loosely serialized and you get to see Sakura grow and mature in both age and magical power. Sailor Moon has great episodes but rarely does anything that happens in them stick.
>>288489852You don't want 'mature stuff' in magical girl shows.
>>288489789only by people who think dragon ball is good (retards)
>>288491251Only if it's done by Go Nagai.
It's often the only one people have seen. With Madoka existing it's now one of two magical girl anime people have seen.
>>288491690Isn't it that people find the other ones nowhere near as good? I've seen people who say Precure is worse than Sailor Moon.
>>288491138I'd say Sailor Moon is serialized as well. It has continuity and character growth. It's not always an episodic series every single episode. There's arcs like the Nephrite arc where he and Naru were in love and then Nephrite died.
>>288491138I get half of Sailor Moon is just filler, but the plot important episodes still advance the story and things carry over in the episodes that adapt the manga.
Gen X'ers and millennials went apeshit for the senshis and massive naval battles happened across the ages over the best senshi.
>>288492382Maybe people on /a/ would have more experience with the genre (though even that's pushing it from what I've seen) but outside of a few places online it's unlikely people have much experience with mahou shoujo. Even people that talk about Sailor Moon often haven't seen it outside of maybe a few episodes on Toonami. It's crazy to me that people pretend to know and watch stuff but it apparently does happen.
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Why do Sailor Moon threads have so much shitposting recently and why do anons pretend nothing's wrong? I remember when shit was slow but great.
>>288493112I think there's been some twitter fight over magical girls lately.
It's good
>>288489789still at it again huh?
Spinning sailors around the maid pls
>>288489789>Why is it always considered the best magical girl series ever made?The long-legged girls, the doujins kept the series alive for me kek
>>288490585Precure is the naruto. Sailor moon is absolutely DBZ. Also i think the comparison is apt because just like how the idea of a shonen manga is dominated by jump titles, the concept of a magical girl is monopolized by nakayoshi titles
Minako and Haruka are my wives
It was one of the first and more popular alongside Pretty Cure S1 and Cutey Honey and a few I can't name right now. Also codified and popularized a lot of the stuff you see in magical girl anime today. Also while the Manga is a bit less know, the anime was an entire childhood for girls and a lot of boys, honestly, around the world. It ran for an generation from 5th grade to graduation basically. 90ties kids entered high school with the first season and graduated with the last.
>>288489852Usagi kills every baddies shes beaten
>>288489789>all-around lovable main cast>iconic transformation sequences>filled with heart>great voice acting
>>288489789It’s 2nd after Madoka
>>288493112Blame mamohater
>>288489789I thought people preferred Madoka here?
>>288489789How different your life be if you went to school with these girls?
>>288496399>It was one of the first and more popular alongside Pretty Cure S1 and Cutey Honey and a few I can't name right nowThese series are spaced apart by decades. Cutie Honey first started in 1973, Sailor Moon in 1991, and Precure in 2004. This is like people that lump YYH and Dragon Ball in with One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach despite them not being part of the same generation. There was also magical girl series prior to Cutie Honey, let alone Sailor Moon.
>>288500160>magical girl series prior to Cutie Honey, let alone Sailor Moon.Prove it.
>>288500470I'm not going to prove an easily looked up fact just because you don't know what you're talking about.
Where's the Sailor Moon spinoff where they have an actual five man combiner robot?
>>288489789>Why is it always considered the best magical girl series ever made?Where did you hear people saying that? Most people I know just say it's a great classic, but not the absolute peak of the genre. Usually when I hear people saying what the best magical girl series is it's either Madoka or to a lesser extent Cardcaptor Sakura.
Tutu, Utena and Meguca are the best of the genre.
>>288500992>UtenaI don’t get why this is considered a magical girl anime. She doesn’t even fight using magicShe barely even transforms
>>288500992This poster looks like it's for a hentai anime. Like the same sort of stuff you see with Bible Black posters.
>Why is it always considered the best magical girl series ever made?Because it's the only one most people have seen, or at least the only "traditional" one. I feel like a lot of Madoka fans don't even consider it part of the genre, or think shows like Sailor Moon/Cardcaptor Sakura are beneath them, but that's a conversation for another day.
>>288501317You don't understand, man. Madoka's about the CHARACTERS and isn't some repetitive kiddy shit like the stuff made before it! It deconstructs the genre (that I don't know anything about) and shows what would happen if magical girls existed irl.
>>288501317>Because it's the only one most people have seen, or at least the only "traditional" one.This is the correct answer. People that have watched more shows tend to think Sailor Moon is good, but not THE best.The best is clearly Creamy Mami
>>288501781>Creamy MamiThat’s just Madoka
>>288490480>other series have done it bettersuch as?I've seen about half of precure and the only one that's even in the contest is yes5.
>>288489789Because it obviously has the greatest total ambition of the lot of them and combines so many good qualities in a way that every thing that came after couldn't really top or match on the whole. Precure is capable of good quality, but it's also way too commercial and lacking in the interesting world that Sailor Moon established, and that holds it back, even though the actual battles are vastly better animated.
>>288491138That just means SM is episodic, not better.You said it yourself, it comes from its tokusatsu inspiration.There's nothing wrong with SM's format.
>>288492540>though even that's pushing it from what I've seenThis is unfortunately, but understandably, true. In English speaking anime fandom mahou shoujo is stupidly neglected as a genre, way too many pre-judge it for what it looks like and few people actively advocate for it or try to curate the actual quality it has. So you'll never see a regular magical girl show on a typical top x anime list for an Angelo, in the way you'd constantly see Full Metal Alchemist on them. It's also sort of weird how it's technically mostly shoujo, but there's way more focus on making it legitimately appeal to both genders compared to what you might call 'trad' shoujo (which are basically romance/soap operas for younger girls).
>>288496742As she should. Only way to be sure.
why is SM getting spammed so much. does it really need a perm general?
>>288501564I feel like normies throw around the word deconstruction for Madoka because they don't watch magical girl animes or because it's a series they usually don't want to watch. It's not like any magical girl anime before it didn't delve into dark topics or have characters die. Hell Nanoha had Fate getting physically abused by her own mother.
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