Customer Reviews

A Scout is Born (Sailor Moon the Novel)

5 star:		(18)
4 star:		(12)
3 star:		(12)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(16)

 

 

This book is ok for people who just started watching Sailormoon. If your an old SM fan, I recomend the Mangas!

All I will say is, STAY AWAY from this book. If you are a newbie, I recommend the Manga. If you are a purist, like me, I say it can't possibly get any worse. This is basically DiC + a lost episode. If you want the real story of Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon, go read the Manga...-_-;

This book is AWFUL. Stu Levy should stick to editing comics and magazines instead of writing truly horrid "Novelizations" of them. Adapting an animated series to text format, you will lose a lot of visual information, but to replace it with all of the "Mall Culture" tripe Levy does makes this a truly putrid excuse for killing trees. I can't reccomend this book to anyone, and I feel sorry for anyone who did like this book. (This book gets one star because the computer won't let me give it NONE.)

I have heard that Stuart Levy is not a very big fan of Sailor Moon, and this has proven it for me. He seems to be rather out of touch with the show, and the writing style, to me seems awkward and stiff. It mainly focuses on the DiC dub, but adds two missing episodes which were never aired in the US. I found it rather short, and uninteresting. It defenitely shouldn't be rated Young Adults, (too short a book) but the things Mr.Levy mentions (Bloomingdale's, Miami Vice, Interveiw with the Vampire, Monteblanc) a young child may not have seen to understand. I'd advise Sailor Moon fans to stick to reading the manga's, they're much more interesting.

Another horrible american production of sailor moon. God! Come on already! Why most every anime be destroyed by being americanized? Why is it sooo wrong for there to be Japanese culture since after all, it is from Japan! This book was terrible! Every time I read the name Serena, I cringed. What's wrong with the name Usagi? So what if it doesn't sound American? Why is that so bad? And second of all the word scouts make me cringe. It's not scouts, they're not girl scouts..., it's senshi, sailor soilders... soilders! You want to read a real sailor moon book? then go buy the real Japanese manga, so what if you can't read it, there are translations on the internet!

I read this book and was so upset with what I was reading this book summarized the english sailor moon series and left out parts of what was in english verison. To cut out the japanesse is one thing but to cut out both jap and american is awful. I would be better for you to just buy the manga. It tells in more detail the story and is for an older group than this book.

The Sailor Moon novel series is very well written and great for fans of the TV show. The books are written very much like the cartoon series, so if you like watching the show, you'll love reading these books! Each TV episode is included, and reading them is like watching an episode of Sailor Moon.

The book is super for its intended market. All the purists need to get over themselves. It's an enjoyable read for a YOUNG ADULT. I'm an older adult, and yes I prefer the manga, but it wasn't bad, especailly for the money. My daughter loved it.

This novel was a disappointment to me. I expected Sailor Moon but instead received DiC. Granted, the addition of the lost episode was a nice touch, but I could have handled more detail. Ah, well, in the U.S. you take what you can get. I gave this book to my 8 year old niece. She loved it. Goes to show how different people view different things.

I am a newbie to Sailor Moon and wanted to read what I missed from earlier seasons. I bought both magna and this book, what a bomb! Get the MIXX versions, I know they're more money, but they fill in everything that going on. These DiC books are so twisted in their stories, I get enough of that from the liberal media!