Live Action Sailor Moon TV Show Panned By Chinese Netizens

Live action Sailor Moon.

A commercial for a live-action television show of the well-known anime “Sailor Moon” is thoroughly criticized by Chinese netizens who find it horrifying and shocking.  The TV show, appearing on Hong Kong’s J2 TVB network, appears to be a re-imagining of the Sailor Moon characters having matured into middle age with familial responsibilities.  Chinese take offense at the ages of the actors as well as the weight of one of them.

Script from the video:

Summer of 2010.

Mother: [to child] Remember, when attending class to study hard!

Woman: Serena (Usagi Tsukino), I’m giving this back to you.

Mother, now identified as Serena (Sailor Moon): Ami? Rei?

Serena: Moon prism power!

Ami Mizuno: Mercury power!

Rei Hino: Mars power!

All together: Uniform change!

Female announcer: Sailor Moon, premiering this Friday, broadcasting from Monday to Friday, 6 P.M. Let [Hong Kong television station] J2 accompany you on all of your little girl dreams!

Waiter: It’s been a long time since I last last saw you three; is discounted dim sum alright?

Comments from Tudou:

解夏之歌:

[Sarcastically] Truly “beautiful” (young) female soldiers, so beautiful, so young. Forget it, I need to go to the restroom to vomit.

伤心的狸猫:

My hand is too cheap. [Cheap is like "slutty" or "stupid", meaning their hand clicked on link to read this post knowing but not considering the consequences.]

涩女1121:

My Tuxedo Mask!! Do they [the show's producers] want to die?! Pig-headed uncle!

——、小卑鄙:

My kryptonite dog eyes! – - I admit my hand is cheap.

赤色の瞳op:

But, these three aunties really are quite frightening.

郁闷的尸人:

What is this ["dried shrimp" is internet slang for "what"]?? My eyes were almost blinded.

wqwan520:

When I saw that fat girl change, the cigarette in my mouth dropped onto my own pants…

黑之坠落:

Today, my hand has done something stupid again! ~~~5555555 ["wu wu wu" is like the sound of crying.]

票票万万岁:

Brother’s hand [referring to self] did something stupid~~

么小败:

- – Sigh, like everyone else, my hand was also cheap/stupid… can’t believe I clicked to open this…

向往着hell:

Oh oh… this has already affected my brain waves… so strong!!!

火の燃 超:

My eyes!! Eyes!!

故意大声哭:

Heavens, I don’t even know what to say.

弹墨清痕:

Fuck, I used to watch this stuff back in kindergarten…

溺死的水手:

Too hilarious, where can I watch this?

卖糕点:

You can watch this on the J2 Jade Channel, should only be available in Hong Kong, looks like a pay channel.

发骚中:

The transformations are too exaggerated (especially the fat chick).

zoe、璃末:

Too NB.

33控:

(runs into the wall) I’m already dead I’m already dead I’m already dead….

weiforel:

I vomited..

离别时:

Hearing that music, I was so moved…it has been so many years since I last heard it.

smile丶音:

My God… that fat chick… I don’t want to say anymore…

玖龍帝皇:

That Sailor Mars Rei was so frightening before she changed!

狼、誘惑:

- – I faint… TVB family appropriate programming has this type of thing?

腐女—:

That waist is…a little too thick…

沉默de俊男:

Ha ha, incredible.

ttwangzhen:

Looks like…an advertisement for a restaurant.

樱桃肉丸子丶:

Aren’t beautiful young girls supposed to be immortal [and not age]? T T [cries]

Comments from Youku:

standly仲:

Fuck, need to go wash my eyes.

ykjustnow:

The years have passed quickly, my, they have grown old.

fujiwangqi:

My heavens.

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  1. Tuxedo Mask is always been kinda of pervert to me. Like an “Dirty Uncle” molester type. Hell most Japanese people are kind of pervert. What do you expect from a Nation of Tentacle Porn Lovers?

  2. Lol. The concept is seemed pretty funny to me.

  3. What the hell, all of those women are beautiful. Those commentors have to be shut-in nerds that pretend to have absurdly high standards to make up for the fact that they can’t get a chick

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  4. I have to commit… i am hard..

  5. SHE DIDNT SAY, MR WONG WANTED YOU TO HAVE THIS… SHE SAID: HUAN GEI NI= GIVE THIS BACK TO YOU…. get your shit straight CS. you always making translation errors.

  6. Drugs. I blame the drugs. Someone’s on a kind of LSD trip – right?

  7. ….
    sailor moon was my favorite cartoon!
    they ruin my girlish dream!

  8. If an American director made a TV show with an overweight woman transforming into a slender vixen superhero, he would be executed in Times Square in front of thousands.

  9. “A re-imagining of the Sailor Moon characters having matured into middle age with familial responsibilities.”

    Actually, a relatively fresh take on the franchise. Too bad it’s probably just some studio’s attempt to make use of its middle-aged actresses who were discarded amidst the rush for “young” and “sexy.”

  10. Welcome to like 5 years ago

  11. Fauna: that’s a mis-translation. The waitor is suppose to be Tuxedo Mask..

  12. Haven’t heard that song in almost 15 years.
    As for Rei (the fat one)… I guess that not all girls age well…

  13. This is what happen when your movie budget is very limited.

  14. I think it’s hilarious. Get a sense of humor people.

  15. {reaching for the barf bag} Cripes, I thought all of the “creative” ideas considered during the hollywood writers strike a couple of years ago was finally thru the system. As for this “gem” looks like it is getting the “Lone Ranger Movie” Treatment from the otakus…

    {pause}

    … so, when is Stephen Chow suppose to step up to the plate with a parody of Japanese manga?

  16. Can’t believe I going to type this:
    Can’t wait to watch it just to piss myself laughing.

  17. If it’s not Japanese, it’s just not worth it…

    they should at least make it like where their daughters inherit their powers…

  18. Holy crap this is awesome

  19. Jesus why?

    HongKong, this is why you cant have nice things.

    I think I’ll just gonna blame the britfags and their colonialism for making you guys an undignified cultural desert…

  20. maybe the network had a budget restraint on the casting.

  21. i am thoroughly disappointed that this is not a porn title…
    the “new” Tuxedo Mask should protect the world by having 4p with these girls, make love not warcraft!

  22. I haven’t thought of Sailor Moon in years.Used to watch sometimes when younger,but like most Anime ,you wonder why Japanese make big deal of kissing or touching or dating in general.Even Disney characters kiss and men don’t run away from women.Unless it’s violent most Anime sucks.Live Action from Anime sounds stupid but I guess it’s a new trend in Japan.Teacher Onizuka is also live actions now.I thought that one was funny but again how can someone be in their 20′s and be a virgin unless super religious.I think Japan is trying to copy Hong Kongs like Kung Fu Hustle.Japan can try but will fail. Hong Kong knows how to make live action movies.BTW Tuxedo Mask is so Feminine.Why? Japan Why?

  23. Uhm…love the comments but this is TVB’s attempt at being funny — they are promoting the cartoon (NOT A REMAKE WITH ACTORS) with a quick advertising sketch. It’s MEANT to be ridiculous.

    J2 is a free to air channel but you have to have HDTV to view it.

  24. wowowowow, point totally missed people!!! this commercial was made by TVB, one of the most popular tv stations in hong kong. one of their sub-stations for HD tv called “J2″ aimed at young audiences has recently been bringing back classic cartoons and animes and has been showing them at 5:30 after school peak time (one of them being sailormoon). this commercial was simply a parody made to promote the show. in no way is there a live action sailormoon production being shown ANYWHERE (none that has to do with this commercial anyway), and that picture at the top of the page has nothing to do with the commercial. it’s just a random cosplay picture of sailormoon, and i have no idea how it got to this article/has anything to do with this video.

    • by the way, the “middle-aged women” concept was used because the girls who liked sailormoon as a kid have obviously all grown up now. the last line of the commercial says something like “reliving your childhood dreams” so their target audience is obviously for those girls who grew up watching sailormoon, and would probably enjoy watching this classic again. see, if you actually knew what it was saying it’s not that ridiculous.

    • thank you for this, the concept seemed cleverly meta but not really enough to sustain a whole show. for those who want their dose of live action sailor moon, there was a series maybe 8 years or so that wasn’t totally horrible – i imagine if you liked the anime then you would like it. I didn’t like the anime and found it strangely amusing anyway for its tackiness… the use of gratuitous panty shots in a series that aired at 7am made no sense whatsoever.

  25. Does Naoko know about it?

  26. oh wow, because getting old and putting on weight is SO HORRIBLE AND NEVER HAPPENS TO ANYONE.

    ugh.

  27. JAPEYKS!!! WAG MONG GAWING KATATAWANAN ANG SAILORMOON
    (IN ENGLISH: HOW FAKE! DON’T MAKE SAILORMOON A PHONY…)

    MAKE IT MORE BEAUTIFUL NEXT TIME

  28. O_O…I am going to go and poor bleach in my eyes in the hopes it will make me forget i ever saw this, good night everyone.

  29. Guys, this is not the trailer for a chinese live action but just a publicity for reruns of the anime series

    the actors are in facts chinese voice actresses in the series

  30. Hahaha incredible, fantastic, very very funny!!! I love it!!! hahahahahaha I love the strange Rai’s transformation…

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