My two cents on the Sailor Moon Raisonné discourse....
I'm so disappointed, the images are too small, they're even overlapping each other :((((!!! Toei that's so shameful!!!
Well, they clearly said *700 illustrations over 200 pages*. Each of the first 5 original artbooks have between 60/70 pages worth of illustrations. Let's say a median 65x5=325 pages. And that's was not counting the Sailor Moon World illustrations and the newer ones (Chanel collab, Figure skating art etc..). Not counting the Material nor Infinity either, nor even Sailor V and old Nakayoshi promo art. Clearly it was never gonna be a good sign.
I don't understand why fans are upset it was never advertised as an artbook.
I mean... fair? But I don't think a lot of fans would know what a "raisonné" is (it's sort of an artist catalogue btw), and it is very fair to assume they just decided to use a random French word like they love to do: La Fatalité sei senshi, L'Amour d'amour moonlight, Un nouveau voyage, petite étrangÚre ... and these are just some examples of very random French in Sailor Moon! Lyrics from 90s CDs (check out Ai no Etude) heck they even released a "Sailor Moon in Paris" album,and a French version of Moonlight Densetsu in one of the recent anniversary album!! Why would "Raisonné" be different?
We were promised an artbook like 10 years ago when they started the Crystal reboot, then years later (2017?) we finally had a first flyer/ad announcing it was in the work, so yeah, legitimately thinking that was it, finally, is a very fair assumption to why seeing the end result is disappointing to people.
Am I disappointed? In a sense, ish? I am glad this catalogue exists, truly, but I am still waiting for a real artbook of previously unreleased material in hq big artbook format.













