Recently whilst watching the Japanese subtitled episodes of Sailor Moon SuperS I discovered that not only has Usagi's transformation into Sailor Moon (actually Super Sailor Moon) been significantly shortened, I (Usagi) now must SHARE my transformation WITH CHIBI-USA OF ALL PEOPLE!! This is a travesty...what happened to the Sailor Moon transformations that were all by herself, chock full of glitter, and most of all excrutiatingly long - the transformations in which you could get up after she shouts "Moon Prism POWER!" and get a sandwich and a glass of milk, sit back down and just then was her tiara forming on her head. These useless repetative time wasting transformations were what made the show good (aside from all the other obvious things that made the show good)! Now with all these new fangled transformations, where damnded Chibi-Usa is there with Sailor Moon the whole time, where is the prima dona, Sailor Moon self importance , fun in that!? Seriously now folks, what would you rather see, that damn fat, pink, irratating Chibi-Usa, transforming with sailor moon to "save time" and "add to the plot" or a full blown, impossibly high kicking, twirling, glittery, ribbon-filled, time consuming, TRANSFORMATION? Of course we know the anwer to that, the more Solo Moon time the better, right?

There is of course the issue of time. Sailor Moon episodes in America are roughly twenty minutes long, and episodes in Japan are about thirty minutes long. Sailor Moon's speeches and transformations do take up a lot of time...through the progression of the series many so called "important" things have had to be shortened or cut out completely to make room for these nicities, such as the other senshi's transformation times (or transformations at all), or villian monologues...but when you get down to it, you realize that Sailor Moon's transformation are really the important part.

So the issue comes up, what must be cut now to make room for longer, sparklier, SOLO MOON, transformations? Well I have some propositions for you, oh faithfull senshi readers.
1. The other senshi's indidvidual blasts can be cut shorter, for example, rather than "Sparkling Wide Pressure" Sailor Jupiter could merely say "Pressure" and cut down on the useless animation.
2. The clips of the villians talking or generally interactin can be cut, rather than Queen Beryl explaining the shadow monsters and Rainbow Crystals to the Negaverse she could merely tell them to get the crystals.
3. Cut all of the times Rei bitches at Sailor Moon and merely have her say a couple nice things like "You are pretty Usagi" instead of a slew of mean things. Perhaps cut most of Rei's lines completely.
4. Cut the charator of Chibi-Usa/Rini/Sailor Chibi Moon completely.

There, I feel I have pointed out several ways that Sailor Moon's tranformations can be longer and better. With that spare time, perhaps some other additions can be made, specifically Sailor Moon's assorted blasts, is the "Rainbow Moon Heart Ache" really long enough? I sure don't think so. Would it hurt to throw in a couple more twirls; more glitter? Butterflies perhaps? No of course it wouldn't. And how about Sailor Moon using more of her blasts more often? Say at the beginning of the fight with whatever Negacreep, she hurls her tiara, then uses her "Moon Princess Halation". Then to top it all off she finishes off the monster with my peronsal favorite, the "Moon Spiral Heart Attack", now we have a show!!

It seems to me that with a few simple modifications, Sailor Moon can be less cluttered and better quality. If we would all just accept that without all the exorbanantly long transformations and blasts of Usagi's Sailor Moon would be a not-so-fabulous show, then we would have a perfect world.

- Usagi Tsukino