Japanese Version with English Subtitles. Sailor Moon Sailor Stars is split into two arcs; the first arc deals with an enemy they thought was dead: Nehelenia, who comes back with one intention - to destroy everything that Sailor Moon loves. After they defeat Nehelenia, a new threat comes from beyond the solar system, along with a new senshi, the Sailor Starlights. But determining whether they are friend or foe is harder than it looks. And on top of that, Mamoru has gone overseas to study and Seiya of the idol group the Three Lights is interested in Usagi. Product Description: Audio: Japanese Subtitles: English Number of Discs: 4
M**.
Pretty good bootleg.
I first started watching Sailor Moon as a child (like many people, it was my gateway into anime.) When I got older and realized there were five seasons, I was ecstatic! That is, until I realized that it had never been dubbed in our country. And so I knew I would have to go to the "underbelly" of the anime world, go against my morals, and buy a bootleg.And, despite my initial worries, I was pleasantly surprised!The packaging itself is wonderful, not even my fellow anime loving friends could tell it was a bootleg at first. The only big packagaing tipoff is, in a little section on the back cover that lists character's names, Artemis is misspelled as Aramis.Unlike official anime releases, which give you the scene selection choice of Opening, Part A, Part B, and Ending, this only gives you a very simplistic episode selection with the title cards, which are unforunately in Japanese. So unless you can read the characters, you'll have to do what I did and print an episode list off a fansite, or Wikipedia. You also have to hit the menu button on a couple of the dvds, as they start playing automatically.Another little issue is occasional problems with the subtitles, which is most heavily present in three episodes. Firstly in "A Farewell and an Encounter! The Destiny of Flowing Stars", the last episode to feature Nehelenia. The subtitles for the last bit of the episode start playing as the senshi are reforming her, so while she's talking about wanting to start over, you see subtitles underneath talking about her falling asleep. If I hadn't seen these screencapped beforehand, I wouldn't have known what was going on. Secondly in "A Storm at School! Transfer Students are Idols", the episode where the football player becomes a Phage. The subtitles are very off, and continually say something about fish, I believe? I haven't rewatched that particular episode lately, so I'm guessing it was a sign in the background. Lastly, in "Night Between Us! Usagi's Pinch", the episode where Seiya ends up at Usagi's house, and the night ends up crazy as everyone else shows up as well. There are many parts where people are speaking and there are absolutely no subtitles at all. This is the one that upsets me the most, as I want to know what's going on between the characters. Sometimes, as well, I feel like subtitles don't display all of what a character is saying, as they're speaking at great length while the subtitle is only maybe three sentences long.The biggest problem I had is that one episode went a little jumpy on me, specifically "The Scream of Dead Souls? Terror of a Monster at Camp", in which the Three Lights are filming an action movie, and the Phage is Rei's cousin Kengo. It isn't my favorite and it doesn't drive the plot at all anyway; I tend to skip it. But if someone ever wanted to borrow my set, they might want to see it.Overall, this gets an 8/10 for me. One point deducted for subtitle issues, and one for the skipping episode. I'm glad to have finally been able to see Stars, and it's a great season!On a side note, as excited as I am for the 2013 reboot of my beloved BSSM, I wish they would at least release this officially with subtitles in the US, as the original Monster Of The Day format is the Sailor Moon I grew up with. Perhaps a box set for each of the five seasons? Viz Media has apparently just acquired the rights for releasing the show in Germany, so I'm hoping they'll work on an American release as well!
P**S
Best we could ask for
At least a chance to own the final season of Sailor Moon and this final season is well worth seeing. The season starts off with the return of the dark moon circus queen from Sailor moon super s wanting revenge of Sailor Moon. The girls are now in High School and Lita finally is in the same uniform as her class mates. Rei goes to another school with a different uniform. The queen begins with infecting Darien (Mamoru) and getting Serena (Usagi) all worried. The new power of the queen is enough to reawaken Sailor Saturn who speaks to the scouts of a sailor war.After the queen is dealt with and peace has restored to the girls lives Mamoru goes off to study in America though with the new Queen Galaxy attack it is unsure if he ever get there. The three lights music group (who is really the sailor stars) show up along with other characters calling themselves sailor soldiers like Sailor Iron Mouse. There are some stuff in this season that are like the events of previous season as other reviewers have noted as well as some interesting differences such as Usagi not being such a cry baby. I would like to mention that I have always wondered what become of Melvin and Molly characters since the early seasons.There is only a couple of things that causes me to down rate the set. The first is that the disks are stacked atop of each other. I seen it done in double and triple feature sets and never cared for it in fear of the disks getting scratched up. The other complaint I have is that you have to turn on the subtitles each time you put the disk in.
A**R
Yeah, a bootleg, but worth the money
Ok, so it is a bootleg. But, in my opinion, it is a pretty darn good bootleg! You can hear the audio crystal clear, and the picture quality is pretty good. The only things wrong with it is, on a couple discs, there is no menu to start the disc, and during the show on a couple discs, there are missing subtitle lines from the show, but not enough to make you miss out on anything important. Also, the theme song subtitles have a few missing lines on a couple discs. Rather than that, it is a pretty good bootleg. And, considering that Sailor Stars was never released to America, I think this was well worth my money.
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I got EVERYBODY into Sailor Stars! :) it was good. it was good. yes it was!
I have no clue what these other people who have rated this disk set as bad are talking about!I first watched this streamed online. After buying this DVD set. its perfect! no audio or visual skips or issues, captions are great.FYI this wasnt aired in the US so therefore it would make perfect sense why it was never dubbed!Dont like it? oh well!This dvd set didnt have any special features, which was fine.if youre just looking to have a hard copy collection of sailor moon, then this is definitely a good purchase for you!
C**X
Awesome Buy
I recently watched Sailor Moon on Youtube and got so into it I watched the final season in Japanese. It was great I loved the story it moved fast. Plus the end was great it left you satisfied. This box set is great. Only thing is sometimes the subtitles are wrong or someone typed randomness. Other than that very enjoyable. Nice to relive my childhood. Any Sailor Moon fan would love the final season!
A**R
Fully Sailor Stars
This is the best bet for your money. Since the studios refuse to release a professionally translated version of Sailorstars in the U.S., this bootleg edition is fantastic. The dvd quality is very good and the subtitles are well done, with a few occasional slip-ups where a line or two was forgotten. This set has no extras, but all 34 episodes of Sailorstars exist subtitled in English in all their glory. A must have for any avid Moonie.
G**D
Not a great quality
Some of the episodes skip in the middle randomly! In addition, unfortunately this is a fan-translation and so some of the subtitles are not accurate.
M**M
Five Stars
Arrived on time and no issues
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