Beautiful artwork there! Thanks for posting these.
So they did get a bunch of real actresses in to do a totally bizzare life-imitates-art thing after all. :D I was actually a little freaked out when I saw real-life versions of the Sailor Senshi, especially the Starlights. (Mutters about Sayuri Katayama's terrible hairdo in the first Stars musical) But medium translations need a little...um, space?
"The obvious solution to this problem is to cast little girls to play the roles of little girls, as the Sailor Moon musicals did. BUT NO. All of Sakura Taisen's little girl characters are played by thirty-year-old actresses."
Regarding the "blackface" thing...I think it's kind of hard to find real Vietnamese, Russian, and black people in Japan who are wonderful performers in the Japanese language, so they had to do their best. I don't think they were being racist. Blackface probably has different connotations in Japanese culture. (Pardon me if I'm wrong, I'm not that familiar with it.)
Darn you, Nena, you've made me go and find the Sakura Taisen opening song on YouTube, and now I'm playing it over and over again and it's stuck in my head! DARN YOU!!! :D
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So they did get a bunch of real actresses in to do a totally bizzare life-imitates-art thing after all. :D
I was actually a little freaked out when I saw real-life versions of the Sailor Senshi, especially the Starlights. (Mutters about Sayuri Katayama's terrible hairdo in the first Stars musical) But medium translations need a little...um, space?
"The obvious solution to this problem is to cast little girls to play the roles of little girls, as the Sailor Moon musicals did. BUT NO. All of Sakura Taisen's little girl characters are played by thirty-year-old actresses."
NO!!!! HEEEELLLLLLP MEEEEEEE!!!! (Eyes bulge out) :D
(Has images of a 30 year old Sera Myu Chibiusa)
NOOOOOOOO!!!!
:D
Regarding the "blackface" thing...I think it's kind of hard to find real Vietnamese, Russian, and black people in Japan who are wonderful performers in the Japanese language, so they had to do their best. I don't think they were being racist. Blackface probably has different connotations in Japanese culture. (Pardon me if I'm wrong, I'm not that familiar with it.)
Darn you, Nena, you've made me go and find the Sakura Taisen opening song on YouTube, and now I'm playing it over and over again and it's stuck in my head! DARN YOU!!! :D