Sailor Moon (KBS dub)

The KBS dub of mh:besttvshows:Sailor Moon (renamed in the dub as "달의 요정 세일러문") is a Korean dub of the show broadcast by the Korea Broadcasting System (KBS). There are three official Korean dubs of Sailor Moon, the VHS dub (1994), the KBS dub (1997-1998), and the Daewon dub (2012-2016). While the VHS dub and the Daewon dub have received generally positive reception, the KBS dub is heavily criticized due to its extreme censorship and unnecessary changes.

이 더빙이 짜증나는 이유 (Why This Dub Sucks)

 * 1) It is an expurgation of a popular anime series, as anything which they thought was violent and/or sexual was censored.
 * 2) Similar to the DiC/Cloverway English dub this dub is heavily censored, but to degrees even more exaggerated than the English dub.
 * 3) *Due to South Korea's ban on broadcasting Japanese culture at the time, all Japanese cultural references were removed in the KBS dub. Yes, eliminate Japanese culture in a Japanese show.
 * 4) **The location of the show was changed from Tokyo to Seoul.
 * 5) *Due to the above, all scenes featuring Hikawa Shrine were cut, episodes where this place appeared for a significant amount of time were omitted, and mentions of it were altered to replace shrine with "cathedral".
 * 6) **The scenes of Rei praying to the fire were cut.
 * 7) *37 episodes were cut from the KBS dub, reducing the number of episodes from 200 to 163. These episodes include episode 2, 10 and 11 were cut in half and put together as one episode, 14, 30, 31, 40, 63, 70, 79, 89, 90, 99, 103, 104, all of the episodes including the Amazon Trio, and 152.
 * 8) *The transformation scenes were edited to add footage from earlier scenes to remove the alleged nudity.
 * 9) *The romance scenes between Zoisite and Kunzite were cut.
 * 10) *All scenes of Rei singing in episode 54 were removed completely
 * 11) *Scenes where the characters kissed were removed (except the final kiss in episode 200).
 * 12) The names of the characters were changed.
 * 13) *Usagi was changed to Sera.
 * 14) *Ami was changed to Yuri.
 * 15) *Rei was changed to Vicky.
 * 16) *Makoto was changed to Rita.
 * 17) *Minako was changed to Mina.
 * 18) *Mamoru was changed to Leon.
 * 19) *Chibiusa was changed to Khoma Sera (Little Sera).
 * 20) *Haruka was changed to Terry Strauss.
 * 21) *Michiru was changed to Monica.
 * 22) *Setsuna was changed to Isabel
 * 23) *Hotaru was changed to Coco Persson.
 * 24) *Seiya was changed to Shaqui.
 * 25) *Taiki was changed to Didi.
 * 26) *Yaten was changed to Eva.
 * 27) *Chibi Chibi was changed to Khoma Ttotto.
 * 28) Several terrible edits worthy of a 4Kids dub.
 * 29) *Japanese words on papers or signs were removed and instead just left blank spaces, making it look like the characters are reading......nothing.
 * 30) *The Sailor Starlights and Amazoness Quartet's outfits were edited to avoid showing their bodies.
 * 31) *In episode 200 Usagi/Sara was edited to add a white dress.
 * 32) Numerous unnecessary changes ranging from bizarre to downright ridiculous.
 * 33) *For some strange reason, the ages of the protagonists were changed from 14 to 17.
 * 34) *The Three Lights are changed to female, and the relationship between Seiya/Shaqui and Usagi/Sara is removed.
 * 35) *The relationship between Haruka/Terry Strauss and Michiru/Monica was altered, eliminating the dialogues that could give indications of their romantic relationship.
 * 36) Due to the huge number of skipped episodes, there are several inconsistencies and plot holes throughout the entire series.
 * 37) The voice cast was quite small, which meant that a single actor did the voice of several characters at the same time.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Sailor Moon is a great show in its original version, only this dub is bad. Also the later Daewon dub was a great improvement with respect to this dub, since it is less censored and dubbed all 200 episodes.
 * 2) The voice acting is acceptable.
 * 3) The opening theme is decent.
 * 4) During its broadcast on the streaming service Laftel in 2020, some of the censorship was reversed.

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