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Fighting boredom by moonlight. Making bad puns by daylight. Always making fun of a anime fight. They are the ones named Team Four Star.

Known for their fan favorite Dragon Ball Z Abridged and various spinoffs, Team Four Star are a group of anime fans who make fan based parodies of anime and even the original Final Fantasy VII. They’ve tried branching out into other projects, but DBZ specifically and anime in general are their bread and butter. They have even done official dubs outside of the Abridged format they popularized, though I’m not sure they created. Recently they tried their hand at the first Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon anime series.

Based on the manga by Naoko Takeuchi, Sailor Moon follows the adventures of Usagi Tsukino, a teenage girl who is destined to become the hero Sailor Moon, and her growing group of friends who become her allies, the Sailor Scouts. DIC did a very censored dub of the series, which got taken over and equally censored for US broadcast TV, and these would later air on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block, the former action block turned anime showcase. More recently a more faithful adaptation, complete with gay couples and a bit more violence (this is a manga/anime series for teen girls, after all) was released on home video and later streaming.

This is not that adaptation. Team Four Star released this in parts but just yesterday dropped a collected version of the abridge with some extra jokes in the credits. It follows the first anime, the first full story arc of the manga which ended with a reset before it was unreset because money probably. Note that there are swears, a gay couple not in the manga, blood where even the anime didn’t have it, a lot of puns, acknowledging some curious age difference romances, and more swearing. It’s still funny and not too graphic and they missed any jokes about the suit-up transformations, though not the miniskirts. If you’re okay with all that…enjoy.

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