Appreciation post: the original Sailor Moon dub had a ton of edits

I was reading an old forum thread about 90s anime dubs and found out the first English version of Sailor Moon changed over 100 episodes. They cut out stuff like same-sex relationships and made the cousins into girlfriends. Has anyone else run into weird facts about old anime localizations?

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cameron41610d agoMost Upvoted

But do you think they were scared or just trying to make it fit for kids TV back then? It was a different time with different rules.

finley82011d ago

Made the cousins into girlfriends" is a wild sentence on its own. The 90s localizers were so scared of gay people they invented a whole new, much weirder problem. That's some impressive mental gymnastics right there.