Finding Saban Moon Highlights Internet Historians' Importance - CBR - Comic Book Resources

While it is often overlooked, net historians who merchandise their documentaries connected YouTube are doing important enactment to sphere media past that mightiness different beryllium mislaid oregon forgotten. In Raven "Ray Mona" Simone's bid Tales of the Lost, she has worked to uncover mislaid media chiefly connected to fandoms aimed astatine young girls. After creating aggregate documentaries searching for mislaid girls games, Ray Mona started her astir extended probe into attempted American adaptations of Sailor Moon.

In The Western World of Sailor Moon and Finding Saban Moon: The Western World of Sailor Moon (Part 2), Ray Mona uncovered the footage of the unaired aviator of Toon Makers' Sailor Moon, a task that took the basal ideas of the Sailor Moon anime and adapted them into a mixed media format. While Ray Mona's documentary was focused connected uncovering the footage, she besides highlighted the formed and crew's enactment for the pilot. Ultimately, the probe showed however mislaid and seemingly discarded media tin supply much discourse connected however anime made its mode to America -- and the alternate avenues that past could person taken if Toei Entertainment and different studios had opted for adaptation alternatively of dubbing the archetypal series.

What Is Toon Makers' Sailor Moon?

The Toon Makers Sailor Moon aviator was an effort from 1993-1994 to accommodate Bishoujo Sensei Sailor Moon -- 1 of the astir influential shojo series of each clip -- for an American assemblage successful conjunction with Renaissance-Atlantic, a accumulation institution that served arsenic the American part of Toei. Many fans notation to this aviator arsenic "Saban Moon" adjacent though Saban Entertainment was not really progressive successful the project.

While the aviator was influenced by the popularity of Saban's adaptations of Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger and other ace sentai series into Power Rangers, Toon Makers' Sailor Moon did not really incorporated immoderate footage from the archetypal Sailor Moon anime. Instead, Toon Makers' version combined caller occidental animation with live-action sequences to archer the communicative of Sailor Moon arsenic she navigated mean teen issues and cosmic threats.

Since fans learned of this pilot's existence, Toon Makers Sailor Moon has fascinated mislaid media enthusiasts. Ray Mona has incorporated older investigations into the enigma and taken tips from different fans into her ain probe into the mislaid pilot. In Finding Saban Moon: The Western World of Sailor Moon Part 2, Ray Mona revealed she had uncovered the mislaid aviator successful an improbable place: the integer archives of the Library of Congress. With this discovery, fans of Sailor Moon can present spot what mightiness person been if Toei had chosen to greenlight the Toon Makers Sailor Moon series.

The Impact of Ray Mona's Investigation into Toon Makers' Sailor Moon Pilot

While Ray Mona achieved her extremity successful uncovering the mislaid Toon Makers Sailor Moon pilot, her travel determination mightiness beryllium adjacent much valuable. At the opening of The Western World of Sailor Moon, Ray Mona provided a concise mentation of Sailor Moon's popularity successful North America, and besides documented the series' analyzable roadworthy to a release successful some the United States and Canada. Her instauration to Sailor Moon provided important discourse for some longtime fans of the bid and caller fans who whitethorn person been unaware of its history.

Ray Mona's documentary bid besides celebrated the enactment of formed and crew connected the aviator which had antecedently gone unrecognized. While searching for the pilot, she uncovered the identities of 4 of the 5 actresses formed to play the princesses. She besides highlighted the enactment of the animators and unit astatine Toon Makers and Renaissance-Atlantic that helped bring the aviator to life. While the bid itself ne'er aired, aggregate radical enactment successful a large woody of enactment to make the pilot, and present their clip and efforts are yet acknowledged.

More importantly, the interviews Ray Mona conducted with cardinal figures successful the pilot's instauration provided a unsocial look into the tv and animation manufacture successful the '90s. For example, Ray Mona's interrogation with animator Lynn Walsh allowed Walsh to bespeak connected the opening of her agelong vocation successful animation and the aboriginal days of achieving her dream. While her interrogation with Tami-Adrien George did absorption chiefly connected the pilot, Ray Mona besides gave abstraction for George to sermon her different projects and bespeak connected the directions her vocation has taken her.

Ray Mona's interrogation with Rocky Solotoff and Steven Wilzbach provided much penetration into the accumulation broadside of creating a aviator and besides revealed the intersections successful their careers with galore fashionable animators, including Brad Bird and Dan Povenmire. These written and oral histories Ray Mona collected are important artifacts successful their ain right, providing caller perspectives connected some the Toon Makers Sailor Moon aviator and connected '90s media past successful general.

Since releasing her Sailor Moon documentaries, Ray Mona has continued her enactment successful uncovering mislaid media and media history. She precocious released The Secret Stories of Saint Seiya (Part 1), the archetypal portion successful a documentary bid connected an effort by Renaissance-Atlantic to make a live-action aviator based connected the Saint Seiya anime. In this caller investigation, she utilized anterior connections made during her probe into Toon Makers' Sailor Moon astatine Renaissance-Atlantic.

As before, she revealed caller perspectives connected the trajectory of anime successful the United States. While Ray Mona did not find the mislaid live-action aviator successful this installment of the documentary, she did uncover different mislaid media artifact related to Saint Seiya: the opening of Guardians of the Cosmos, an effort astatine an American animated adaptation of the Saint Seiya anime.

Thus, The Western World of Sailor Moon and Finding Saban Moon: The Western World of Sailor Moon (Part 2) form an important improvement successful Ray Mona's probe into longer-form content. Her latest documentary, The Secret Stories of Saint Seiya has shown however her thorough probe into Toon Makers' Sailor Moon has continued to unearth caller avenues of probe into different mislaid anime media successful the United States and Canada. Ray Mona's documentaries item the value of net historians who survey the parts of media past that mightiness beryllium overlooked, providing much discourse into however media has evolved done time.