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Post by ParaKiss_Groupie » Tue Mar 16, 2004 9:29 pm

I bought one of these books, and decided to avoid the rest of them. The inaccuracies bugged me. It was completely inconsistent between DiC, Cloverway, and the Japanese version. I figured that if I wanted information this wrong, I'd just type in "Sailor Moon Info" on google.
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Post by Aya Reiko » Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:05 pm

Dinozore wrote:O.o Looking at Rainbow's avatar, I have realized just how freakishly large Taiki's forehead really is...
You're only realizing that NOW?!?
ParaKiss_Groupie wrote:I bought one of these books, and decided to avoid the rest of them. The inaccuracies bugged me. It was completely inconsistent between DiC, Cloverway, and the Japanese version. I figured that if I wanted information this wrong, I'd just type in "Sailor Moon Info" on google.
... or read the news on SOS's site.
You seem like the kind of person who'll lie.
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Post by Dinozore » Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:31 pm

Aya Reiko wrote:
Dinozore wrote:O.o Looking at Rainbow's avatar, I have realized just how freakishly large Taiki's forehead really is...
You're only realizing that NOW?!?
I should have said "realized again"...

After watching all that anime with people who have normal foreheads (and not watching any SM for a very long time), it freaked me out all over again.
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Post by Parallax » Wed Mar 24, 2004 3:33 pm

I have the original Japanese guides as well as the screwed up American version for comparison, and the American stuff, read, CRAP made me sick to my stomach!!! :x Why can't the American translators get this stuff right???? :evil: :evil: :evil:
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Post by Rainbow » Mon May 02, 2005 3:25 pm

I was just reading those books recently and noticed that there were screenshots from SuperS in them. When they were first published in Japan, did they come out before or after SuperS? It's confusing since none of the written information, nor the story summaries, go beyond S.

Although with a set-up of "5 best stories" for each Senshi I would've published the books after SailorStars so I could give each Senshi one from each season. (that and I would've liked to see the pictures of the Starlights)

I like looking at them for the neat screenshots, especially of the attacks and transformations, and some of the wrong info is funny.
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Post by Umino » Mon May 02, 2005 6:14 pm

I think they were published maybe in the middle, or near the end of SuperS. I think they only used images up to when the Inners get their power-ups.

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Post by Rainbow » Mon May 02, 2005 7:01 pm

That makes sense. I remember some pictures of the Inners' new attacks in SuperS being in the books and also a picture of Ami and Chibi-Usa in swimsuits with Diana, which is from the story about Shingo having a crush on Ami.
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