Sailor Moon R Episode Changes

Additions:

• Star Wars style text before opening credits (not in other episodes) – removed when re-aired
• Announcer explaining past episodes
• Aired on Fox
• Suggestions that the episode is a pilot

Cuts:

• A few seconds at the start where Artemis tries to cuddle with Luna and gets a paw across the face
• Entire scene with Usagi at school – so after she's late to school, she's suddenly home again
• "Sailor Says" segment

Changes:

• Much more inaccurate than most of the Earl/Ann dubs
• At the end, Usagi originally walked away saying "to the normal Usagi, bye-bye..." but it was changed to a joke
• Changed the names Earl/ Seijuurou and Ann/ Natsumi to Alan and Ann (removing alternate names for their civilian identities)

Goofs:

• Claim that Earl and Ann were sent by Queen Beryl
• 9th/ 10th grade goof (Usagi hasn't had her birthday yet and Japanese schools start in April)

Additions:

• Luna saying that Mamoru would be getting his memory back soon

Changes:

• Accurate; starts a long run of accurate ones
• TV station's Japanese sign replaced with a shot of the Tokyo Tower
• When Molly (Naru) asked Serena (Usagi) to come with her in the dub, she really told Usagi that since she has a lot of weird things happen to her, that she was afraid it might be another

Additions:

• Dialogue between Earl and Ann about pretending to be brother and sister at the high school

Cuts:

• Pool of blood scene (where Ken is knocked out) was shortened

Changes:

• Scene of Earl and Ann kissing (after added dialogue about pretending to be brother and sister)

Goofs:

• Perpetuating the "high school" goof

Additions:

• Reference to Usagi not liking war games (probably)

Changes:

• Episode specific speech was different
• At the end of the show, Sailor Moon was wondering about her tiara and Mamoru

Additions:

• Prunes in Umino's lunch

Cuts:

• Scene where Naru closes the sleeping bag with Umino inside as a prank
• Scene where Usagi puts extra mustard on Rei's food and Rei runs around screaming with fire coming from her mouth
• Apparently, the nude scene was a bit cut to remove a breast shot – but there's still a breast shot in there

Changes:

• Accurate except for cuts and speech (who knows how the speech got that way)
• The day wasn't part of their environmental studies

Changes:

• Mostly accurate except for speech

Consistencies:

• Kids were actually singing opening theme (which doesn't make sense in the dub because the dub theme talks about Sailor Moon, but the original version doesn't)

Changes:

• Scene with the baby peeing on Ann was changed to him throwing up (but left in the Sailor Says)
• Whole Sailor Says was left out in the rerun in some areas

Cuts:

• Scene at the start with Minako and Makoto selling good luck charms at the temple

Additions:

• Serena/Usagi's remark about Alan (Earl) looking like Lita/Mako's old boyfriend
• Molly (Naru) asking Melvin (Umino) if he was showing her inchworms
• Melvin (Umino) making the food for an anniversary
• Voice-over "what's that guy got that we haven't got?"
• Lita (Mako) wondering why Ann was so jealous
• Lita (Mako) wanting to run a restaurant

Cuts:

• Scene where Usagi was late and forgot her lunch
• Reference of the Moonlight Knight reminding Mako of her old boyfriend
• Joke where Ami asked Mako if Earl looked like her old boyfriend – she said no, but they did both like music
• Censored the end of the Mako/ Ami scene, where Mako slaps Ami hard before running off to share lunch with Earl
• Removal of Usagi's speech – mattered here, since in the original she was interrupted before she got a chance to finish

Changes:

• Bad scripts start again. Some of it inevitable, since bento boxes and lunch sharing are pretty Japanese culture specific.
• Mako asked Earl if he liked to wear Arabian clothes much earlier – for some reason the line was moved
• Earl didn't say that love is supposed to be special (and have Mako agree), he said that love has to be stolen by force (and she disagreed). Of course, no way could the original line appear on US and Canadian television.
• That wasn't squid. That was sausage cut to look like squid
• Mako/ Earl dialogue on the roof was completely different – get a synopsis
• Haruna didn't ask Usagi to get her lunch, she was upset over Usagi sleeping through classes (presumably out of hunger)
• Original joke at the end was Ann asking "what do I do with it?"
• It was not lunchtime when Usagi finally got her lunch

Goofs:

• Mis-dubbed Venus' attack name: it was really the "shower" version, but they dubbed it as the first version instead

Cuts:

• First scene (Usagi late for school)
• Brief scene where Rei reads a wish that Mamoru wrote on a board at the temple

Changes:

• Seems to be a "good" episode except for a few changes
• Earl said that they didn't need to study English, not read fairy tales (though the book itself was still originally a Snow White book)
• Mako's "talents" referred to her breast size (which is why Mamoru becomes so nervous)
• Mars introduced herself as "Mars of the red heel"
• Venus' gesture was referring to her mask as Sailor V; not "V for victory"
• One of the few cases where the Senshi actually said things in the original that could be used (but weren't) to deduce their secret identities

Consistencies:

• That was Snow White in the original

Additions:

• Reference to seeing a video. They were going to a movie instead of doing real work.
• Usagi saying she was going to go home and do the assignment in front of the TV

Cuts:

• Scene at the beginning in which the Senshi fight a cardian
• Reference to Usagi and Mamoru being tied by the red string of destiny (and Ann/ Natsumi cutting it), a cultural reference
• When the cardian breaks out of the juku, you see a building front with Japanese writing. This building was originally shown at the start of that scene, too (dub replaced it with a generic park view)
• When Sailor Moon jumped down to join the Senshi, the part of the jump where she is shown coming out of the window was cut (probably censored because kids might imitate it)

Changes:

• Not the good writer
• When Ann (Natsumi) was asked to read poetry, she was really being asked to translate
• Earl originally blamed the Senshi for the lack of energy
• Haruna, on her date, realized she was forgetting something
• Original speech by the Senshi ended with: "in the name of Sailor Moon, we will punish you!"
• When Ann (Natsumi) remarked about the Doom Tree growing stronger when Serena (Usagi) was nice to her, the dialogue was nothing like the original. Natsumi was actually remembering the fable of the rabbit and the tortoise, where the rabbit is faster but the tortoise manages to win. (note: rabbit = Usagi).
• Natsumi asked Usagi to rest for ten seconds to give her a chance to catch up, not try mind reading

Consistencies:

• class was originally an English class
• Usagi did say she was going to find Mamoru

Goofs:

• No essays were involved; you can even see from what's visible of the problems near the end that theyi had to answer questions, not write essays
• Venus and Mercury used their powered up attacks; mistakenly dubbed as their regular attacks

Additions:

• Reference to thousands of years (of getting energy) for the tree

Cuts:

• Joke where Luna says that any show about Usagi must be a comedy

Changes:

• Doi's synopsis is wrong here – it was done from a book that left out the first scene
• hard to tell who was the writer; probably the good one, but it's much harder to tell than usual
• Serna/ Usagi's remark about Alan (Seijuurou) being a major hunk was originally her saying that Seijuurou and Natsumi didn't have other friends
• It wasn't hot chocolate, it was tea – both times
• Usagi's remark when she looked into the tree's room was on the order of "if people tell me not to look, I want to see it more", not anything about curiosity killing the cat (but it's close)

Goofs:

• tries to pretend the "Negaverse" is involved with the tree and lied to them. This isn't true. For starters, the Dark Kingdom chapter is completely separate from the Earl and Ann chapter – they are not connected in any way.

Changes:

• When Earl kicked Mamoru and Usagi's hands apart, he said, "I won't let you touch my Usagi-san." That's why Ann was angry with him, and she said nothing about him lying to her.
• Senshi lines about not knowing friendship was really telling Earl and Ann that love is not something you take
• When the Moonlight Knight appeared, he said nothing about the situation looking bad, nor did he say to Ann that she can't bear that Mamoru dumped her (they never dated!). He said that all people on Earth are brothers, and that Ann should look into her heart before fighting.
• Ann's dub line was "...I'll show you what this misfit can do!" But she actually said that anyone on Earth couldn't understand the pain felt by herself and Earl.
• We learn the Moonlight Knight's story, and it's accurate, except that he was created by the Ginzuishou, not a part of Mamoru that wanted to protect Usagi
• Doom Tree's story was accurate, except that the beings born from it were not created on purpose

Cuts:

• Apparently, a scene where ChibiUsa shoots Usagi with a toy gun (censorship for kids) (partial cut)

Changes:

• At the beginning, that was just a big, long, kiss. There was no dialogue about caramel bubble gum.
• Edited a bath scene to cover Usagi's cleavage – coloured and water level raised
• Rei's grandfather wasn't saying anything about milk in his tea (Japanese tea is not drunk with milk); he was making passes at the girls
• When Serena (Usagi) asked "And since when do we have a cousin named Rini (ChibiUsa)?", she really said that ChibiUsa wasn't human

Cuts:

• Shortened scene at the beginning in which Usagi hugs Mamoru and Luna tells her to look for ChibiUsa

Changes:

• Apparently the 'good' writer
• No mention is made of Mamoru's age – it seems that Usagi's father is upset because Usagi is growing up and is old enough to have a boyfriend
• Sign on the cosmetics shop, and the papers, had the language changed (they originally said "Elegance Shop Otafukuya". The old name was kept inside the shop; only the outside was changed.
• "Love and justice" was kept, but "in the name of the moon, I'll punish you" was removed again

Goofs:

• "Crystal nucleus" is really a crystal point. According to Hitoshi Doi's synopses, there are six episodes with crystal points (originally 61-3, 65, 66, 71). There are ten points on the star, 5 inside and 5 on the tips. Apparently whoever rewrote the dub scripts was unaware of this and concluded that the sixth point has to be in the center.

Additions:

• Reference to Queen Beryl
• Seat belt painted on Amy (Ami) in the dub
• Ending joke

Changes:

• Not even close
• New items were not 10 times as powerful as the old ones (they weren't doing ten times better)
• Ami asked ChibiUsa where she was really from; replaced in the dub with "I always study best at night."
• Usagi did not say the party was her excuse for buying a dress
• According to Doi's synopsis, Ami had to leave in 10 days, not 2 weeks

Goofs:

• Said that the episode's crystal point was the first one (wrong, see notes for last episode)

Cuts:

• A scene where Usagi spanks ChibiUsa

Changes:

• First scene did not have Rei's grandfather get an expensive 2 page ad by mistake. The magazine really had an article warning about a perverted old man at the Hikawa Shrine.
• Rei was arguing with her grandfather because he likes to fool around with girls, not because she was afraid he'd get a heart attack
• Rei was jealous over Yuuichirou bringing in lots of girls who liked him, not over her grandfather liking him
• "Wait, I'm the coach" said by Yuuichirou became "No one has to fight"
• Usagi's speech seemed exceptionally redundant (In the original, she scolded the enemy for destroying the fun of an old man who was a little lecherous)
• Usagi didn't thank Tuxedo Mask, she said maybe she'll join the gymnastics class
• Sailor Mars didn't thank Sailor Moon, she made a comment that Tuxedo Mask still cared for Sailor Moon
• Sailor Moon's transformation command became "Moon Star Power"

Consistencies:

• Ami did make a comment about doing her homework

Cuts:

• Scene of Usagi jumping up and screaming at the lightning (left in preview)

Changes:

• Back to "Moon Crystal Power" and "punish you!", but the rest of the episode wasn't even close
• Ami didn't say Usagi and Mamoru were crazy to be out in the storm. She said was that if they have enough time to be running around in the rain, they should study.
• Seems very unlikely that there were any karma references in the original
• Mentioned at the beginning of the episode that the kid, not Princess Serenity, was scared of lightning

Consistencies:

• Usagi was scared by lightning

Goofs:

• Voice in the Luna ball was messed up. It's not supposed to be Luna; ChibiUsa wasn't talking to the ball, but to a person (to be revealed later)

Cuts:

• Line about ChibiUsa wanting to marry Mamoru
• Sign on the store was there in the original, but there was another sign in front which had more Japanese in it. A shot of the second sign was replaced with the first.
• A bit of the scene at the end – when Usagi drinks the good luck potion, she spits it out at Rei

Changes:

• Half of the first Black Moon scene was moved to closer to the beginning of the episode
• A lot of dialouge changed ('bad' writer episode)
• Usagi wasn't supposed to drink the good luck potion in doses. Drinking it all at once was the recommended method (but it still doesn't work so well).
• Girls weren't arguing over getting the "forgiveness" stone to forgive each other; they wanted it for boyfriend help but were trying to pretend they didn't have any boyfriend trouble
• Where Prisma (Petz) said to get out of the store, she really said "love is worthless"
• In general, references to love and or men were changed in this episode

Goofs:

• Minako did not call Mako "Jupiter" while in civilian ID

Cuts:

• Line "didn't your boyfriend dump you?", said by Avery (Calaveras) to Prisma (Petz) – that's what made her drop the cake
• Scene with the girls at home trying to cook. (Obviously because kids would learn to cut vegetables dangerously) – left in in the Sailor Says (Minako cuts her finger, and it looks like Mako is trying to find the end of it in the chopped carrots)
• Joke where Tuxedo Mask's speech was the same as Sailor Moon's

Changes:

• Better writer this time
• Black Moon scene originally appeared much later in the episode
• "...Punish you!" was there for once, but mistimed

Consistencies:

• In general, references to love and or men

Goofs:

• The ingredient Usagi forgot was not curry, it was meat
• It wasn't chicken curry, it was beef, and when you see Rei's thoughts about using instant curry, it says "beef" right on the packet – in English

Synopsis:

• Senshi and ChibiUsa go to an island on summer break
• Only monsters are a dinosaur and a cute baby dinosaur, and they're friendly
• Senshi have to stop a volcanic eruption
• Very cute

Additions:

• Rini (ChibiUsa) saying that her mother can't be Serena (Usagi)
• Villains claim they could take Rini (ChibiUsa) home
• Serena (Usagi) saying Rini (ChibiUsa) must be a princess

Cuts:

• A scene where Usagi is accused of wetting her bed; but ChibiUsa did it. The later dialog was also changed to not refer to it.

Changes:

• Not by the 'good' writer, despite "punish you!"
• Script available in Hitoshi Doi's page – you can use it and easily see how much was changed
• Usagi was going to go shopping, but had planned it and wasn't out of money
• When the injured Luna appeared to the others, she told them where to find ChibiUsa
• ChibiUsa only needed the crystal, she didn't need to find her mother for her to go back home
• Scene with Wiseman saying ChibiUsa is Usagi's daughter was not so obvious in the original

Goofs:

• Didn't use Luna ball as a communicator (but at least it wasn't Luna's voice this time)
• Entire plot about Serena (Usagi) not caring for Rini (ChibiUsa) was completely a dub invention. When we are shown at the end that she does care for her, Usagi is still in costume – and ChibiUsa doesn't know Usagi's Sailor Moon, so if this plot was real, ChibiUsa would never know Usagi changed her mind.

Cuts:

• A scene where Rei slaps Usagi (left in preview)

Changes:

• Mostly accurate
• Tuxedo Mask's line at the end about roses was originally stating that they were no longer bound by the string of destiny

Additions:

• Catsy (Cooan) making the remark about ruling the universe

Cuts:

• A scene where Yuuichirou tried to sell various items to Cooan – she eventually got a fortune from him, with large Japanese writing on it
• When Artemis says that the girls are stuck with the cats because they don't have boyfriends, a bit was cut where Minako hits Artemis in the nose with her finger, hard

Changes:

• Not accurate
• Usagi was saying she's reading comics because she can't read them with ChibiUsa and Luna around, not because she'd be tired bringing them home
• Important: In the conversation with Rei, Cooan, and Usagi; Rei did not blame Usagi for the breakup, and needless to say, nobody said that she should apologize.
• ChibiUsa did not read Rei's comics
• Half the references to love were watered down (though, they are sickeningly sweet for a Canadian/ US audience) – e.g. "your heart's good, I believe in you" originally said that since Cooan knows love, she can be a friend.

Additions:

• Reference to a wing clipped
• Frame around the hug scene near the end

Cuts:

• Part of the chess scene at the start, where ChibiUsa plays chess with Usagi and wins
• Dialogue where Beruche says "I hate nice people like you."
• Beruche saying that fighting 3 against 1 isn't fair

Changes:

• Not too bad
• Usagi's speech was a different cheesy speech in the original, and did use "punish you" then. (At least they're keeping cheesy speeches now, even if they do invent new ones)

Additions:

• Synopsis contains no reference to the sisters' old selves being good before they worked with Rubeus – it can't be proved this wasn't in the original, but it sounds unlikely.
• Rubeus saying the sisters were badly dressed

Changes:

• Hard to say whether this one got the good or bad writer
• Those were sweet potatoes, not weight gain bars
• Two remaining sisters' mission was not to change the other two back, but to get information from them (who the Senshi are and where ChibiUsa is). It should be obvious that Rubeus didn't want to change them back as he rejected them in previous episodes.
• At the end, Rubeus originally learned Sailor Moon had the crystal

Consistencies:

• They did say in the original that the stick must be influencing Calaveras

Cuts:

• Scene where Usagi nearly slaps ChibiUsa (Some of the footage appeared in teaser for next episode)
• Some flashbacks to earlier episodes
• ChibiUsa's flashback to Crystal Tokyo (partial)

Cuts:

• All scenes showing the Senshi being held on crosses; so they just appear out of nowhere when Rubeus is defeated

Changes:

• UFO blew up because ChibiUsa removed a power crystal, not because of a self-destruct device
• (Paul Cumming also sent K. Arromdee a list which is apparently too long to include)

Goofs:

• Continuity goof where Sailor Moon calls ChibiUsa "Rini" while trying to pretend she's "Trini". The new name was necessary in the first place because the villains know ChibiUsa's name instead of calling her "the rabbit"

Changes:

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Changes:

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Changes:

• Love bracelets were promise rings
• Promise rings were energy rings

Cuts:

• Opening sequence about the flu spreading through the city
• Some of the jokes with Minako messing up popular sayings

Changes:

• Changed from Christmas to Mamoru's birthday
• Serana/ Usagi's dream sequence was changed to not talk about the Mamoru/ Usagi age difference
• When Venus is pinned to the wall with huge syringes by the monster, her original line "Damn!" was changed to "Not good!"

Cuts:

• First scene where people are looking at Esmeraude. She thinks they're envious, but soon realizes a dog is peeing on her boot. Then she chases the dog into the petting zoo.

Changes:

• Called the petting zoo an animal shelter
• Monster of the episode was originally called Dogma

Consistencies:

• At the end, they show the same dog urinating on Esmeraude's boot (and her getting mad and chasing it again)

Cuts:

• Scenes with Esmeraude relaxing in her bath. In one of them, Saphir comes in, and Esmeraude says there is only one man who is allowed to see her in the bath (implying that it's Demand). He then tells her that she should finish her mission and not waste time in her bath, but she brushes him off.
• A scene where Mercury attempts to use the Shine Aqua Illusion on her friends before they leapt out the window

Changes:

• Monster of the episode was teasing Sailor Moon in various ways. She said that Sailor Moon was stupid, flat chested (that's why she covers her chest), etc. She didn't just keep calling her stupid.

Cuts:

• Flashback of ChibiUsa's first day at school, at the beginning

Changes:

• Melissa was known as Momo

Goofs:

• The twin droids, Doom and Gloom, were known as Chiral and Achiral in the original. The "Doom and Gloom" name was already used in a past dubbed episode – the "Doom and Gloom girls" Beryl sent to deal with the Senshi at the end of the Dark Kingdom story arc.

Goofs:

• When ChibiUsa sees the fake Neo-Queen, she called ChibiUsa "Small Lady" but ChibiUsa said she would never call her Small Lady. In the original, ChibiUsa was to be called Small Lady. Neo-Queen Serenity called her the rabbit. That's when ChibiUsa knew she was a fake.

Cuts:

• When Demand touches Usagi's shoulder and she shoves it off.

Changes:

• Wiseman told her (?) that she was a fool for thinking Esmeraude could control the Dark crystal, just before Esmeraude turned into a dragon and said, "I would give my soul for Demand."

Cuts:

• When the moon was shown, in the 20th century Tokyo, they cut out the ChibiUsa image
• A scene where ChibiUsa slips and falls in the rain
• Parts of the nude scene with Wicked/ Black Lady

Changes:

• Tuxedo Mask said "A pretty flower will die when poisoned" not "Be careful what you wish for"

Changes:

• The Doom Phantom was originally called the Death Phantom
• Saphir stole a crystal key card, not a control chip

Cuts:

• When Luna and Artemis ask the senshi to be careful
• Graphic blood scene on Demand's chest when he protected Sailor Moon from the Wiseman's attack
• When Black Lady kisses Tuxedo Mask

Changes:

• Ami was talking about crumb cake, not cheese cake.
• Here's what the senshi said before transforming:
  Makoto: Keep the peace and eat the cake.
  Minako: For our future.
  Ami: For ChibiUsa and the people of Crystal Tokyo.
  Rei: Our minds united.
  Usagi: We'll protect this Earth we love.

Changes:

• Black Lady said nothing about blasting Tuxedo Mask first. She actually said that she would kill them all, starting with Sailor Moon. Tuxedo Mask threw himself in front of Sailor Moon and took the blast. Black Lady couldn't  understand why he would risk his life for another person.
• Black Lady also said she wouldn't be deceived, not just "I'm all alone" a few times
• Before ChibiUsa went home, Minako reminded her not to wet the bed and she promised she wouldn't

Goofs:

• Venus forgot to say "Neo" in Neo-Queen Serenity's name

Additions:

• Saying Professor Tomoe looked like Umino

Cuts:

• Lots of small cuts