Why is Toei reanimating Sailor Moon but not DBZ?

[JEFFMAN219]

How come Toei is reanimating the Sailor Moon anime but not Dragon Ball Z?

[JulieYBM]

How come Toei is reanimating the Sailor Moon anime but not Dragon Ball Z?

Nothing has been said as to why the decision was made.

Sailor Moon Crystal has four production committee members. Dragon Ball Kai has but two, Fuji Televi and Toei Animation. This leads me to believe there was a lack of parties interested in making a good remake.

[Kid Buu]

Toei reanimating Sailor Moon but not DBZ because Naoko Takeuchi is actually passionate about protecting her work.

Anyway. I like how SM fans gets everything DBZ fans want - an actual remake, uncropped Blurays, a redub, a decent live-action, etc. Well, not bad for Yamcha fans, he's also in Sailor Moon you know.

[Daimo-Rukiri]

Sailor Moon has a pretty low episode count in comparison to Dragon Ball, DB would be a huge undertake but I'm sure they could reanimate dragon ball in less than 300 episodes if it's a direct manga cut.
Dragon Ball would be a much bigger project for Toei and Kai is still going on so it'd be quite awhile before any re-animations take place.

[KentalSSJ6]

Toei reanimating Sailor Moon but not DBZ because Naoko Takeuchi is actually passionate about protecting her work.

Anyway. I like how SM fans gets everything DBZ fans want - an actual remake, uncropped Blurays, a redub, a decent live-action, etc. Well, not bad for Yamcha fans, he's also in Sailor Moon you know.

Well its as you said. Unlike Dragonball, Sailor Moon's author actually gives a damn about her creation.

[JEFFMAN219]

Toei reanimating Sailor Moon but not DBZ because Naoko Takeuchi is actually passionate about protecting her work.

Anyway. I like how SM fans gets everything DBZ fans want - an actual remake, uncropped Blurays, a redub, a decent live-action, etc. Well, not bad for Yamcha fans, he's also in Sailor Moon you know.

Well we do have a redub with Kai.

[Kid Buu]

Kai isn't really a redub since that is the first time they dubbed it they dubbed that show. I will give FUNi credit for making a more faithful dub though.

Toei reanimating Sailor Moon but not DBZ because Naoko Takeuchi is actually passionate about protecting her work.

Anyway. I like how SM fans gets everything DBZ fans want - an actual remake, uncropped Blurays, a redub, a decent live-action, etc. Well, not bad for Yamcha fans, he's also in Sailor Moon you know.

Well its as you said. Unlike Dragonball, Sailor Moon's author actually gives a damn about her creation.

She's even working with Viz on the redub of the 1992 cartoon. For a mangka to work on a foreign dub of an anime adaption, that is passion.

[TheBlackPaladin]

Toei reanimating Sailor Moon but not DBZ because Naoko Takeuchi is actually passionate about protecting her work.

Anyway. I like how SM fans gets everything DBZ fans want - an actual remake, uncropped Blurays, a redub, a decent live-action, etc. Well, not bad for Yamcha fans, he's also in Sailor Moon you know.

Well we do have a redub with Kai.

Eh....it could be thought of as a re-dub in a loose/spiritual sense, but it's not technically a re-dub so much as it is a dub of a new show that happens to have a crap-ton in common with an older show. A true re-dub would mean re-dubbing DBZ itself, and there's no way FUNimation could financially justify doing that. Quite frankly, I'm a little surprised Viz could financially justify re-dubbing Sailor Moon. I'm not complaining, and I'm eagerly looking forward to the re-dub, but I'm not confident in the prospect of an ROI with a Sailor Moon re-dub.

[Valerius Dover]

I believe it also have to do with the fact that SM needs a remake more than DB does. The DB anime is pretty faithful aside from the added contact, almost frame for frame at times. The SM anime tends to deviate pretty far from the source at times. It also needs a redub more than DB does. The first two series don't have uncut dubs, and the fifth series isn't available at all. All 3 DB series are available bilingual, uncut, and with a mostly consistent dub.

[Hellspawn28]

Kai is already a remake of DBZ. I doubt we will see another remake of DBZ for a very long time. Besides, I want something new. You can only tell the same story so many times before it gets tiresome.

[Kid Buu]

Eh....it could be thought of as a re-dub in a loose/spiritual sense, but t's not technically a re-dub so much as it is a dub of a new show that happens to have a crap-ton in common with an older show. A true re-dub would mean re-dubbing DBZ itself, and there's no way FUNimation could financially justify doing that. Quite frankly, I'm a little surprised Viz could financially justify re-dubbing Sailor Moon. I'm not complaining, and I'm eagerly looking forward to the re-dub, but I'm not confident in the prospect of an ROI with a Sailor Moon re-dub.

Well, unlike DBZ, Sailor Moon isn't really "over-saturated" in the home market with several different releases and thus there is still a big market for a home release. The manga was recently given a new release and it was a best-seller everytime it was released. Cardcaptor Sakura is getting a redub too, and that series is nowhere near as big as Sailor Moon. Another thing to consider is that Viz is running out of Bleach episodes to dub, so perhaps they are using the money there to dub Sailor Moon.

Naoko Takeuchi is not really a fan of the 90s dub, so I assume part of the deal to giving the rights to Viz was to essentially "murder" the 90s dub and sweep it under the rug.

[Blade]

If Kai had been more successful for Toei, they would probably be giving Sailor Moon the same treatment instead of reanimating it.

Annoyingly, Kai was somewhat of a (failed) litmus test for such an approach of 'refreshing' of old titles for Toei, and had they chosen another franchise other than Dragonball to test the waters with, we'd probably be looking at a re-animated Dragonball anime, too.

Sadly, as we have Kai, that's almost certainly not going to happen.

[Kid Buu]

If Kai had been more successful for Toei, they would probably be giving Sailor Moon the same treatment instead of reanimating it.

Doubt Naoko Takeuchi would have allowed that.

Also, you couldn't really "Kai" the anime because it is a character-driven episodic series anyway, as opposed to the plot-driven manga.

Sailor Moon is like Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the sense that practically every episode further the main arc. Even when its a monster of the week episode, there's something subtle there that helps advanced the overarching storyline.

[Blade]

Doubt Naoko Takeuchi would have allowed that.

A remastered, director's cut of the anime with a totally new audio track sounds fine on paper. I'm sure she'd have given it her blessing if she was involved in the production, or at least given a consulting role in overseeing the process.

Also, you couldn't really "Kai" the anime because it is a character-driven episodic series anyway, as opposed to the plot-driven manga.

In terms of the remastering and refreshing processes, there isn't really a problem.

[Kid Buu]

A remastered, director's cut of the anime with a totally new audio track sounds fine on paper. I'm sure she'd have given it her blessing if she was involved in the production, or at least given a consulting role in overseeing the process.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say here. The anime made various changes to the manga that she disliked, so she wants a new series to be exactly like the manga. It's not like DBZ where the anime is mostly the same narrative as the manga, with a few minor changes and padding. Remember this is a lady so obsessed with accuracy that she is in charge of a foreign dub of an anime adaptation.

In terms of the remastering and refreshing processes, there isn't really a problem.

So the exact same show but remastered? Uh..

[Cold Skin]

On the contrary of Dragon Ball, Naruto or One Piece, it was impossible to make Sailor Moon closer to manga just by edited the original anime.

The original anime heavily diverges from the manga, and I mean "heavily". A bit like Dragonball Evolution diverges from Dragon Ball, or to a lesser extent, like The Path to Power diverges from the original manga story.

Editing would have made it shorter, but would have still told a story that is only very loosely based on the manga, with some pretty major character, plot and settings modifications.

[KentalSSJ6]

Kai isn't really a redub since that is the first time they dubbed it they dubbed that show. I will give FUNi credit for making a more faithful dub though.

Toei reanimating Sailor Moon but not DBZ because Naoko Takeuchi is actually passionate about protecting her work.

Anyway. I like how SM fans gets everything DBZ fans want - an actual remake, uncropped Blurays, a redub, a decent live-action, etc. Well, not bad for Yamcha fans, he's also in Sailor Moon you know.

Well its as you said. Unlike Dragonball, Sailor Moon's author actually gives a damn about her creation.

She's even working with Viz on the redub of the 1992 cartoon. For a mangka to work on a foreign dub of an anime adaption, that is passion.

And because of said passion, her series is getting a quality remake with a dub inspected by herself. If Toriyama was even half this passionate then Kai would have had animation quality of the Budokai 2 and 3 openings.

[Puto]

On the contrary of Dragon Ball, Naruto or One Piece, it was impossible to make Sailor Moon closer to manga just by edited the original anime.

The original anime heavily diverges from the manga, and I mean "heavily". A bit like Dragonball Evolution diverges from Dragon Ball, or to a lesser extent, like The Path to Power diverges from the original manga story.

Editing would have made it shorter, but would have still told a story that is only very loosely based on the manga, with some pretty major character, plot and settings modifications.

This is the correct answer. It has nothing to do with passion or interested parties, merely that Sailor Moon's original anime is so radically different from the manga that no edit of the old animation would get you anything resembling the original story. Basically, Toei are reanimating it because they really don't have a choice.

[B]

Sailor Moon has a pretty low episode count in comparison to Dragon Ball, DB would be a huge undertake but I'm sure they could reanimate dragon ball in less than 300 episodes if it's a direct manga cut.
Dragon Ball would be a much bigger project for Toei and Kai is still going on so it'd be quite awhile before any re-animations take place.

A direct manga cut of Dragon Ball doesn't even need to be 200 episodes. Is Sailor Moon that long? Don't forget Sailor Moon Crystal will only be 26 episodes unless they decide to extend it. And it's airing twice a month on the internet. It's kind of clear that it's not as huge a money-sink as completely renaimating DB, with the intention of covering the entire series, on television.

But hell, at this point, I'd have settled for a 26-episode online series as opposed to what's been done with Kai. Granted, they start from the beginning and not Goku's adulthood.

[coola]

Original Sailor Moon is exactly 200 episodes long, guess Dragon Ball was unlucky to be choosed as a guinea pig, to see, if Toei could afford to make such half-baked remake, and still make lots of money, if that`s the case, then I'm kinda glad it was/still is a flop in Japan.