Greetings, and welcome to Anime Versus. Like it's predecessors, Anime Versus will pit two competitors against each other each week, to see which one PPTers prefer. To vote, please select the anime you like best from the poll at the top of this topic, then feel free to discuss your choice below. The winner of the week will move onto the next round, and will face a new challenger anime. Should an anime win for six weeks straight, it will be removed from the competition and placed into the Anime Hall of Fame.
Last week, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon defeated Air by seven votes. This week it will face a new shoujo competitor.
The Competitors
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
versus
Magic Knight Rayearth
Series Information:
Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon (a.k.a Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, a.k.a. Sailor Moon) is a mahou shoujo (magical girl) series produced by Toei and originally created by Takeuchi Naoko (manga). With 200 episodes, it originally aired in Japan from 3/7/92 to 2/8/97, with four of the five seasons having been translated and shown on American television.*
Tsukino Usagi was your average junior high student. Well, maybe a bit below-average. Between failing grades, a tendency toward oversleeping, and a near-terminal case of clumsiness, she hardly seems like the first choice for a guardian of justice. But when a black cat named Luna gives her a transformation brooch, Usagi finds out that she is the magical warrior, Sailor Moon. As her dear friends and fellow Senshi gather around her, she’ll face evil forces, true love, and her own destiny.
Primary Seiyuu for Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon**
--Mitsuishi Kotono as
Tsukino Usagi/Sailor Moon/Princess Serenity (Excel – Excel Saga, Souma Kagura – Fruits Basket, Mireille Bouquet – Noir, Arisugawa Jury – Revolutionary Girl Utena)
--Hisakawa Aya as
Mizuno Ami/Sailor Mercury (Kaoru Miki – Revolutionary Girl Utena, Kurosawa Minamo (‘Nyamo’) – Azumanga Daioh, Skuld – Ah! My Goddess, Chloe – Noir)
--Tomizawa Michie as
Hino Rei/Sailor Mars (C-ko Kotobuki – Project A-Ko, Kasuga Manami – Kimagure Orange Road, Yamazaki Linna – Bubblegum Crisis, Kanzaki Sumire – Sakura Wars)
--Shinohara Emi as
Kino Makoto/Sailor Jupiter (Presea – Magic Knight Rayearth, B-ko Daitokuji – Project A-Ko, Azalie – Orphen, Mizuki Kaho – Cardcaptor Sakura)
Fukami Rika as
Aino Minako/Sailor Venus/Sailor V (Spoor – Banner of the Stars, Myung Fang Lone – Macross Plus, Hayami Daiko – New Cutey Honey, Imamura Suzu – Fullmoon wo Sagash*te)
Magic Knight Rayearth is a mahou shoujo (magical girl) anime created by CLAMP and produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha. The two-season series contains 49 episodes which aired from 10/17/94 to 11/27/95.
Shidou Hikaru, Ryuuzaki Umi, and Hououji Fuu were just regular high school girl visiting Tokyo Tower for a field trip. They had never met each other before, but when a bright light takes them to another world, Cephiro, they quickly form close bonds. Such cooperation is necessary not only keep themselves from being eaten by roaming monsters or killed by dark sorceresses, but also to become the legendary Magic Knights, the only people who can save Cephiro from its total destruction.
Primary Seiyuu for Magic Knight Rayearth
--Shiina Hekiru as
Shidou Hikaru (Dortin – Orphen, Elise Altmodic – Plastic Little, Door – Miyuki-chan in Wonderland, Momo – Tama & Friends)
--Yoshida Konami as
Ryuuzaki Umi (Hatsuno Hana – Brave King Gaogaigar, Knzaki Azusu – Devil Hunter Yohko, Miku – Metal Figher Miku, Kukuri – Mahoujin Guru Guru)
--Kasahara Hiroko as
Hououji Fuu (Naomi Armitage – Armitage III, Ishtar – Macross II, Misonou Nanako – Brother, Dear Brother, Azalyn – Irresponsible Captain Tyler)
--Sasaki Nozomu as
Clef (Mackie Stingray – Bubblegum Crisis, Shina Tetsuo – Akira, Urameshi Yuusuke – Yu Yu Hakusho, Ham – Monster Rancher)
--Shiratori Yuri as
Mokona and
Primera (Kiryuu Nanami – Revolutionary Girl Utena, Cherry – Saber Marionette J, Ruma – Slayers Premium, Sakaguchi Arisu – Please Save My Earth)
--Ogata Megumi as
Princess Emeraude (Tenou Haruka/Sailor Uranus – Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, Aoyama Masaya – Tokyo Mew Mew, Ikari Shinji – Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rio Izumi – Fullmoon wo Sagash*te)
*Information from http://www.animeacademy.com
**Information from http://www.animenewsnetwork.com
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Hall of Fame
Fullmetal Alchemist (won weeks 4 through 9)
Future Competitors (in no particular order & subject to change):
Marmalade Boy
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Hikaru no Go
Shaman King
Infinite Ryvius
Chobits
Love Hina
Miracle Girls
.hack//SIGN
Ai Yori Aoshi
Previous Competitors:
Trigun (Lost week 1 to Cowboy Bebop)
Ranma 1/2 (Lost week 2 to Cowboy Bebop)
Ayashi no Ceres (Tied with Cowboy Bebop week 3, lost to Fullmetal Alchemist week 4)
Bleach (Lost week 5 to Fullmetal Alchemist)
Read or Die: The TV (Lost week 6 to Fullmetal Alchemist)
Prince of Tennis (Lost week 7 to Fullmetal Alchemist)
Serial Experiments: Lain (Lost week 8 to Fullmetal Alchemist)
Cowboy Bebop (Won weeks 1 & 2, tied Ayashi no Ceres week 3, lost week 9 to Fullmetal Alchemist)
Fullmetal Alchemist (Retired to Hall of Fame)
His and Her Circumstances (Lost week 10 - Shoujo Showdown - to Sailor Moon)
Air (Lost week 11 - Shoujo Showdown - to Sailor Moon)
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