About SM:AF
The series started as a way to kill boredom between long hours of breaks at my college and as a writing exercise in my freshman English comp study class. It was started in December of 1996 in honor of the series that had run the year before on american television Fox network at 5 am eastern (this improved as it grew a cult following). The Fan fiction ran for 4 years with 21 episodes and a four part movie script. At the time only a handful of Sailor Moon Fan Fiction was around and many rated SM:AF as one of the most unique stories. Because of its success Imbria Arts was able to grow and blossum. With massive amounts of readers each month. But soon after 2001 the series started a decline in the creators interest. Sailor Moon had twice returned to TV since then and each time while it had fans the series struggled in between editing rooms, licensing issues and more. With lack of interest both the original series and the fan fiction of SM:AF came to a unresolved conclusion. In 2011 Funimation started work on trying to repurchase and bring the rights of the series to america, The manga had its second release through a new company and it exploded the sales charts where is dominates today, and with 2012 marking the series 20th aniversary it looks like a revival of the series is at hand. So to is SM:AF Brian (now Brittany see Path of the Butterflies for that one) in remaking Imbria Arts a mobil friendly site came upon the conclusion to reintroduce the Fan Fiction but in a stronger look and feel. Thus the revival of SM:AF is Born.
The story follows events after the manga/ TV series (even how it ended in Japan) conclueds. The girls are now high school students and growing into adults, but unanswer issues of the past come flying back at them with the appearance of a lost Soldier of The Moon Kingdom, Andromita Daughter of the Moon Kingdoms Defensive force, was very much alive when Queen Serenity hit the quote reset button on life and sent all the children of the Moon and Earth Kingdoms to be reborn on Earth. Andromita maintains much of her memories and unlike those that died in battle was not Reborn but awoke to a strange world and time. Confused at the situation she blames the current sitting ruler for the loss of lives and the destruction of the Moon Kingdom. Teamed up with her digital compainion Circuit she seeks revenge on Sailor Moon and on a Geo a refugee of the Negaverse bent on its rebirth into the world.
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About The ReWrite
So as I work this I want to point out to any past readers what changes are from the original series I release back in 1996 – 2000 to the latest version of the series in the Rewrite.
10 points in the changes in the Original SM:AF versus the new one.
1. Each episode gets the clean readable television style scripting. Each episode will have a clear color coding as to what is spoken, by who, and what action goes on in that very episode.
2. Curcit is now spelled correctly Circuit. One of the few complaints in the past of the series was misspellings of names While Andromita will remain (mainly to separate her from the countless Sailor Andromeda’s out there since we started this series) Curcit which honestly was a mistake but was accepted by the early readers is being changed to the proper spelling (15 years and I finally use Spell Check, doh.)
3. Each episode is about double the length of the past ones. In the past the scripts ran about 16 – 20 pages. Now the scripts run 30 + and that before the artwork is added to the scripts.
4. More focus on the groups lives outside of fights. One thing I felt I left out too much in the past was the interaction that went on with the girls in their day to day lives. So I’m giving more focus on it and showing how their lives have or have not changed now that the Inner is around 16 years old and in their second year of High school in Japan.
5. Name changes more fitting the general population of Sailor Moon fans. Names of established characters many revert to their original Japanese but many will hold their American Dub names as nick names. But at times you might here the true names called. The exception being the Main members as follows
6. Names of original series characters will have ether reasoning behind it or be a Japanese name (or some likeness there of). Andromita gets the name Moyria Gatent from a clothing label and news cast she see to use as an alias. Since she knew nothing of Japan at the time its fitting she fails to come up with a Japanese name. Sayrun Calvin the TV reporter that is Darien’s current boss is a foreigner that has taken the job as a reporter in Tokyo. Reyhard the owner of the news station is a foreigner that is trying to create a new International Network in started in Tokyo. New character such as the girls Homeroom / Math teacher Mr. Yamazaki /aka Goblin King Yamazaki (as Mina and Serena call him) will try to be in some sense of the words Japanese.
7. Times and events. I’m shifting the whole story of Sailor Moon up 20 years in the rewrite and designing the world to the mimic current one. All the girls have cell phones and text often. Parts of Circuit include a discarded Smart phone, a HD Camera, and salvaged parts from the robots in Episode 1. Expect talk about the Japanese Earthquake in 2011 as well.
8. I’m letting the audience (aka you) in on things going on story wise more to mimic how it was done in the series. So if you see things like HOW Dumb could they be they are right next to each other and don’t know they are (insert character hero name hero) its fitting as it took many episodes/ issues for Tuxedo Mask to put two and two together on who Sailor Moon was and vice versa.
9. New artwork each episode, not just when I feel like it. Will have at least 1 image draw reflecting that episodes events. Some may even have panel pages of Manga to display events that go on.
10. New stories, some of the past scripts I have come to have a real dislike for how they developed so the rewrites might omit and insert completely new plots or stories all together. As for if the new rewrite will surpass the original and actually conclude. Well only time will tell.
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Thank you for your time reading this and enjoy the series
Brittany Dodson
About The Sailor Moon In General
What is Sailor Moon you ask?
Sailor Moon, known as Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon ( Bishojo Senshi Sera Mun, officially translated Pretty Soldier Sailormoon or Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon), is a media franchise created by manga artist Naoko Takeuchi. Fred Patten credits Takeuchi with popularizing the concept of a team of magical girls, and Paul Gravett credits the series with "revitalizing" the magical-girl genre itself. Sailor Moon redefined the magical-girl genre, as previous magical girls did not use their powers to fight evil, but this has become one of the standard archetypes of the genre.
The story of the various metaseries revolves around the reborn defenders of a kingdom that once spanned the Solar System, and around the evil forces that they battle. The major characters - the Sailor Senshi (literally "Sailor Soldiers"; frequently called "Sailor Scouts" or "Guardians" in many Western versions), teenage girls - can transform into heroines named for the moon and planets (Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, etc.). The use of "Sailor" comes from a style of girls' school uniform popular in Japan, the sera fuku ("Sailor Outfit"), on which Takeuchi modeled the Sailor Senshi's uniforms. The elements of fantasy in the series are heavily symbolic and often based on mythology.
Before the Sailor Moon manga appeared, Takeuchi had written Codename: Sailor V, which centered around just one Sailor Senshi. She devised the idea when she wanted to create a cute series about girls in outer space, and her editor suggested she should put them in sailor fuku. When Sailor V was proposed for adaptation into an anime, the concept was modified by Takeuchi so that Sailor V herself became only one member of a team. The resulting manga series merged elements of the popular magical girl genre and the Super Sentai Series which Takeuchi admired, making Sailor Moon one of the first series ever to combine the two.
The manga resulted in spinoffs into other types of media, including a highly popular anime, as well as musical theatre productions, video games, and a tokusatsu series. Although most concepts in the many versions overlap, often notable differences occur, and thus continuity between the different formats remains limited.
The protagonist of Sailor Moon, Usagi Tsukino (Serena Tsukino in the English dub), an ordinary, ditzy, 14-year-old girl - or so she thinks - discovers a talking cat named Luna, who reveals Usagi's identity as "Sailor Moon", a special warrior with the destiny of saving the planet Earth, and later the entire galaxy. Usagi must now find the Moon Princess and protect Earth from a series of villains, beginning with the Dark Kingdom that had appeared once before, long ago, and destroyed the Kingdom of the Moon.
When the dark nemesis attacked the kingdom, the Queen sent the Moon Princess, her guardians and advisors, and her true love into the future to be reborn, as a result Sailor Moon must help Luna awaken members of the court of the kingdom of the moon, and the people dedicated to protecting it. As Usagi and Luna battle evil and search for the Moon Princess, they meet the other Sailor Senshi, incarnations of the Moon Princess' protectors, and the mysterious Tuxedo Mask.
As the series progresses, Usagi and her friends learn more and more about the enemies they face and the evil force that directs them. The characters' pasts are mysterious and hidden even to them, and much of the early series is devoted to discovering their true identities and pasts. Luna, who teaches and guides the Sailor Senshi, does not know everything about their histories either, and the Senshi eventually learn that Usagi is the real Moon Princess. The Moon Princess' mother had her reborn as a Sailor Senshi to protect her. Gradually Usagi discovers the truth about her own past life, her destined true love, and the possibilities for the future of the Solar System.
Before the Sailor Moon manga, Takeuchi published Codename: Sailor V, which centered around just Sailor Venus. She devised the idea when she wanted to create a cute series about girls in outer space, and her editor asked her to put them in sailor fuku. When Sailor V was proposed for adaptation into an anime, the concept was modified so that Sailor V herself became only one member of a team. The resulting manga series became a fusion of the popular magical girl genre, the Super Sentai Series, of which Takeuchi was a fan. Recurring motifs include astronomy, astrology, Greek myth, Roman myth, geology, Japanese elemental themes, teen fashions, and schoolgirl antics.
Talks between Takeuchi and her publishers originally envisaged only one story-arc, and the storyline developed in meetings a year prior to publications, but having completed it, Takeuchi was asked by her editors to continue. She issued four more story-arcs, often published simultaneously with the five corresponding anime series. The anime series would only lag the manga by a month or two. Takeuchi has stated that due to the largely male production staff of the anime, she feels that the anime version has "a slight male perspective".
In the release in the US the anime was release first in dub by DIC Entertainment (heavily edited) and do to early controversy (From many women's Groups stating it was degrading to young women) was set to air on local Fox networks at 5:00 am time slot. It was thought to doom the series. Instead its fans grew and the show later in 1995 was given air time in afternoons on some networks, However issues arose and the show was removed for Local television. The Cable Network USA would be the next to air the series, with even heavier edits to fit a small time slot. The show again was canceled. By now fans rallied behind the series and Sailor Moon was becoming a pop icon that US television wouldn't respect. In 1997 Cartoon Network picked up the DIC release and placed it on its popular Toonami line up each week day. It was successful and by 1999 they even where able to land more episodes of the series to be dubbed. Sadly it fell in ratings soon after and was cancled from US TV for its final time. Meanwhile the manga finally hit shores with Mixx Publishing originally releasing it in a Monthly magazine then later classic paper back form. As the manga finished its print many thought the series has come to a end. In 2011 Kodonasha Publishing decided its new US department should release the unedited version of the series. The Manga’s has set records in sales when most manga sales slump. Funimation Entertainment has been working with Toei Studios (The studio that produced the original series to re-release the series in the US, Nether side as of now has budged one way or another on its release) But given three times the US canceled the series and the sales of the series in the US by former anime distributor ADV was met with a mild take as the series was not advertised or many copies made before ADV legal issues arose and the company had to divide. Such was a similar fate of the series Movies although accepted to a larger crowd was release by Pioneer Video not long before their collapse. Things do not look good for Toei to risk the selling it for a loss again. What does this all mean well the fans are out there and willing to pay for good quality work. Toei and Kodonasha see the possibilities but question the results, But I wouldn't doubt if we saw a slight hint at a large scale rebirth of the series in the coming years at least in the US.
UPDATE:
A new series Launch was actually announced a few weeks after the new site design and annoucement of the rewrite of SM:AF. At this time it is in production delays and is set for Winter 2014. Honestly I have no explination for this to happen so suddenly and state its purely conincdence that weeks after I post the new rewrite of Sailor Moon Andromita Factor with full on scripts that the series is accounced to have a new season. I personally expect a series revisit of the manga to stay true to the manga and step away from the past anime. Plans do stand to make it a international release like they did with Full Metal Alchemest Brotherhood. And if it is connected to this fan fiction series I for one will be shocked but honored.