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Sailor Mars' birthday is on Apr 17th, and as always, Crystal Tokyo Radio has a special 2-hour show devoted entirely to Rei Hino, playing at various times on Apr 16th & 17th.

In addition, today is CTR's fourth anniversary! Yaaaay!

Tune In Here:

#crystal tokyo radio #rei hino #sailor mars #sailor moon music

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Seems that Usagi was messing with Crystal Tokyo Radio's settings for some reason. I have to check, hang on...

...USAGI, WHAT DID YOU DO?!

Okay, so, if you tune in tomorrow, things might be...a little different. Totally normal. Completely intentional. Yes.

https://sailorsoapbox.com/crystaltokyoradio/

#oops she did it again

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#bringing this back just for the hell of it #this colouring took weeks and I'm still super proud

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Not an ask but I wanted to say thank you for your high-res screenshots. It’s a great resource I use for references for my original manga story!

Also! The @moonlightjusticepodcast is back so we hope you’ll join us again one day! :)

<3

I'm glad people find the screenshots so useful! I myself saw a need for them, which is why I started the project.

I had a great time. Invite me back anytime. <3

#answers

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I made some new mobile wallpapers based on imagery from the Sailor Moon S & SuperS Super Famicom fighting games. I think they're neat.

#sailor moon #sailor moon wallpapers #sailor moon lockscreens #sailor moon video games #sailor moon edits

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Hello Myrna, thank you for all the years of hard work you did for the Sailor Moon Fans who like to see and use high quality scans or screenshots for reposting. I discovered your website, SailorSoapBox about a month ago, and I very much appreciate your service. But I recently noticed that the download option in your SSB website is gone or not available anymore. I like to know what happened. Greetings from Germany

It's a glitch, we'll work on a fix as soon as we can. Sorry about that!

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Good afternoon! You might've known this already, but I just wanted to report to you, it looks like the sailorsoapbox website went down. Just wanted to report this to you! I love your site and all of the high res screenshots for the series! Thank you for all you do!

Yeah, that happens sometimes. 😩 It's usually when someone has been downloading a lot of screenshots - CloudFlare just can't handle the traffic, it seems! The site will come back on its own.

Crystal Tokyo Radio is hosted on a separate service so it's not affected by the server problems - an alternative way to listen is:

Thank you for letting me know, and thanks for the kind words!

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Random ask: The Inner Senshi (and Hotaru) play Genshin Impact. Who's their main?

The...uh... the cute one. You know.

#i beg forgiveness

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Random ask: Write a hypothetical Sailor Moon x Spongebob crossover

Yep, that's random all right! With the caveat that I was one generation too old to grow up with Spongebob, here goes...

SCENE 1

The Outers' living room. Haruka and Hotaru sit directly in front of their television, with Hotaru being given a place of honour on Haruka's lap. They are both bursting with excitement. Michiru sits on a chaise placed carefully to catch the most light. Setsuna is off preparing dinner.

Haruka: I wonder what Krabby Patties taste like...

Hotaru: Shhhh!! Haruka-papa, it's starting!

TV: 🎶 Ohhhhhhh... Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? 🎶

Haruka and Hotaru, in unison: SPONGE! BOB! SQUARE! PANTS!

Michiru, nonchalantly checking her always-perfect manicure: I don't recall ever being consulted on the matter... Quite rude, really.

SCENE 2

Coincidentally at the same time, Minako and Usagi have gathered at the Tsukino residence for a similar weekly ritual. Minako had devised a cheerleading routine to be performed to the Spongebob theme song, and she and Usagi had dutifully rehearsed the routine to perfection...much to Luna and Artemis' chagrin.

TV: 🎶 Ohhhhhhh... Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? 🎶

Usagi and Minako, in unison, complete with dramatic arm gesturing: SPONGE! BOB! SQUARE! PANTS!

Luna and Artemis: DO! YOUR! HOME! WORK!

Usagi and Minako, in unison again: Aww...

#short answers #sailor moon stuff i wrote #impromptu crossovers

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Mobile wallpapers featuring pixel art from various Sailor Moon Super Famicom video games!

#sailor moon #sailor moon wallpapers #sailor moon lockscreens #sailor moon video games #sailor moon edits

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A special DOUBLE Crystal Tokyo Radio announcement!

First off, everyone's favourite miniature nuclear bomb, Sailor Saturn, is celebrating her birthday! There will be a special 2-hour show devoted entirely to Hotaru playing at various times during January 5th and 6th!

Second, the Original Soundtrack of Sailor Moon Cosmos: The Movie has been added to the rotation, and we're celebrating with a week-long premiere of the full soundtrack, played in order! You can hear it from 6 PM - 8 PM EST every day this week (or 4 AM - 6 AM EST for people on the Eastern Hemisphere) until Thursday January 11th. Songs from it will randomly play during other scheduled shows as well!

Check it all out here, and don't forget to tell your friends about Crystal Tokyo Radio, the 24-hour commercial free all Sailor Moon radio station! ;)

#crystal tokyo radio #sailor moon music #sailor saturn #sailor moon cosmos

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Parodon me but do you a png version of this in high quality? https://www.tumblr.com/sailorsoapbox/658781067799592960/close-but-its-where-her-big-tear-is-shown-before?source=share

That's a 1440 x 1080 screenshot, I can't make it more high quality than it already is... I just took this one in VLC and there's not much difference.

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Hi, I am curious if there's a way on the Soapbox website to download screenshots en masse? I'm okay with big files. I'm just daunted at the idea of clicking thousands of screenshots individually. 😅 Thanks in advance, and I love the site!

That would probably cause the CloudFlare offices to explode, I'm afraid! 🤣 I couldn't even upload them in bulk on my end.

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Hello. i just saw that you were at some point in the process of making a sailor moon fan game, did you ever finish it? if so, where can it be downloaded?

I think you have me confused with someone else, sorry!

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Oh, this is SO pretty!

I drew

Tuxedo Mirage version saturn

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Not Sailor Moon related, but I'd like to share this gifset/analysis of cinematic parallels between The Castle of Cagliostro and The Great Mouse Detective with you. This was a Patreon request, so consider this post a preview of what you might see if you subscribe (Tier 1 starts at only $1/month)!

Today I would like to do a quick piece showcasing some of the cinematic parallels between Hayao Miyazaki's The Castle of Cagliostro and John Musker & Ron Clements' The Great Mouse Detective. Famously, both films' climaxes take place inside the workings of a clock tower. As many Disney animators, Musker & Clements included, are known to be fans and admirers of Miyazaki's films, it is quite likely that TGMD's climax is an intentional homage to TCoC. Here are five similar scenes from each film (reproduced as animated gifs) that I would like to discuss in particular:

The Villain's Entrance: Notice that both the Count and Ratigan take advantage of the clock tower's gears to sneak up on their enemy. Their figures are similar - large, hulking bodies, swishy red capes, and an unusual head shape. In the Count's case, his head shape is changed by his goat-shaped helmet, while Ratigan's angular pointed rat ears contrast heavily with Basil's rounded mouse ears. Interestingly, the Count moves vertically, while Ratigan moves horizontally. Both villains are temporarily thwarted by their respective Damsel in Distress warning Our Hero about the impending attack. 

An Unfair Battle: Both films feature a battle to the death on an unstable surface - Caglistro's being on moving clock gears, while Mouse Detective's battle is on Big Ben's clock hands which are slippery from the rain. As mentioned earlier, both the Count and Ratigan have large hulking bodies which visually contrast between Lupin III's and Basil's lanky and significantly shorter frames. The Count and Ratigan are also armed (with a sword and rat claws respectively), whereas Lupin III had to improvise with a long wrench. Basil is completely unable to defend himself, which accords with his characterization as being entirely Brains, not Brawn. Lupin III is an adventurer, so he fares much better in this battle, but it is still heavily weighed in the Count's favour.

A Near Miss: Both movies feature a brief scene where one of the "good guys" is nearly crushed by the clock gears, only to survive from a split-second escape. Both Damsels, Clarisse and Olivia, are relatively passive in the battle and are heavily protected by Lupin III and Basil. Clarisse, being a young adult rather than a little girl, is noticeably braver and more proactive during the battle. There is brief tension when Lupin III almost looks like he will be crushed, but because of his reputation for getting out of any jam, the audience never has to worry about how he will escape. In comparison, Olivia is helpless to save herself from being crushed, and Basil has to take advantage of his knowledge on the physics of clockwork to rescue her. The scene with Olivia is significantly longer, drawing out the tension.

The Villain Unmasked: Both battles take a turn when the villain is literally, and figuratively, unmasked. A gleeful Lupin III shatters the goat horned helmet, instantly making the Count look less intimidating and more like the pathetic man he is. His stance immediately changes from murderous and dangerous, to bewildered and annoyed. The result reminds the audience that for all his ambition and bluster, the Count is just a petty criminal with delusions of grandeur. Ratigan, in comparison, shatters his own "mask." Merely spotting Basil and Olivia trying to escape from him shatters his mind, and he destroys his own illusions of good breeding and sophistication. Ratigan might be a charismatic and brilliant criminal mastermind, but when he doesn't get his way, he reveals himself to be nothing more than a feral rat.

Falling From The Clock Tower: Clarisse, who is more proactive in this battle than Olivia (for understandable reasons), attempted to knock the Count off the tower to prevent him from activating its secret. He kicks her off him in retaliation, but she and Lupin III managed to fall into the water. They are miraculously (if implausibly) unharmed, and it eventually turns out that their falling off the tower saved their lives, as the Count would be gruesomely crushed between the clock hands triggered by the secret mechanism to point to midnight. In comparison, Big Ben itself is what causes Ratigan's demise. The tolling of the tower's bells (also at midnight) would be already deafening for a human, but are completely disorienting for a rat. Disney are known to kill off their villains by having them fall off something (so as to imply their deaths rather than showing a body), and Ratigan's death is another example. Interestingly, Ratigan's fall from the tower is implicitly shown to be fatal, which contrasts with Lupin III and Clarisse's survival. The films' respective target audiences also are a factor in how their villains are defeated - Cagliostro is aimed at an older audience, so while the Count's death is not explicit, his demise is far more visceral. Knowing exactly where the Count's body is (and what has happened to it) is a more potent image; we know Ratigan likely won't survive his fall, but we don't know where his body will land.

They're pretty good movies, y'know.

#castle of cagliostro #great mouse detective #cinematic parallels #gifset #gif warning #flashing gif

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Good morning! I've been listening to Crystal Tokyo Radio at work and today, 09/13/2023, in the morning "To Infinity and Beyond" program, I swear I've heard the Momoiro clover z cover of Tuxedo Mirage like a billion times. Is it my imagination or is something going on / something wrong with the playlist?

Sorry about that! It looks like radio.co is currently experiencing a downtime, which could certainly account for the repetition, but I probably need to tweak the settings. Most of the scheduled shows are set up to randomly play tracks with a certain tag, and they're also supposed to have 10-20 minute gaps before replaying from the same artist or album. It's an imperfect system since the music isn't exactly distributed evenly - the Dark Kingdom story arc has MUCH more music written for it than the other 4 arcs, just to give an example.

The Momoiro Clover Z version of "Tuxedo Mirage" also has a relatively unique problem in that it has two very similar versions - one recorded for the 20th Anniversary Tribute Album, and another re-recording done after Momoka Ariyasu left the band. I think I'll fiddle with the tags of the re-recordings since they're kind of redundant.

Thank you for the feedback!

Edit: I was finally able to get into the settings and GOOD LORD the station has already played that track SEVEN TIMES today that is definitely not supposed to happen wtf

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