So Crystal airs on the first and third Saturday of every month. There are five Saturdays in August. ._.


So are they going to air episode 6 on the 30th or wait until September?

Wait wouldn't the next episode air on the 16th? Isn't that the third Saturday of the month?

SHHHHHHHHHHHHH YAMI CANT COUNT!!!  


Yes the 4th episode will air the 16th. As for the 5th episode (not the 6th! XD) it will air on the 30th or the 6th of September?

I don't think we're getting an episode at all on the 30th. Since it's only on the first and third Saturday of the month I think they're strictly sticking to that. Which means we're going to have to wait 3 weeks for episode 5 which is probably Mako's episode. :'(

I always thought they were doing one episode every other week?

Man!!!! Well I hope this mean Mako's episode will be better looking!! They will be given 3 weeks to work on it.

I wonder why anime studios wait to the last minute to do their animation anyway?

I really dont get why anime series are animated by the week while the show is airing. I wonder if it has something to do with the manga??? But since the Sailor Moon manga is over I wish they would have animated the whole series then released it. We would have gotten a better quality show in my opinion.

Yamichan16 wrote:

I really dont get why anime series are animated by the week while the show is airing. I wonder if it has something to do with the manga??? But since the Sailor Moon manga is over I wish they would have animated the whole series then released it. We would have gotten a better quality show in my opinion.

Agreed. I read somewhere on Tumblr/here that that's how a lot of shows in Japan work but I have no idea whether or not that's true.

Yamichan16 wrote:

I really dont get why anime series are animated by the week while the show is airing. I wonder if it has something to do with the manga??? But since the Sailor Moon manga is over I wish they would have animated the whole series then released it. We would have gotten a better quality show in my opinion.

Exactly. It makes you wonder what they were doing for those two years. I would really like to know what Naoko thinks of all this too.

Same here. She is working with them so I was hoping the story telling would have been better. But hey maybe once Mako joins the group Crystal will do its own thing.

As far as storytelling I find that is actually Crystal's strongest points. I really love how they are connecting the girls together and showing just how lonely and isolated they are before Usagi brings them all together. Am I hoping for new stuff? Yeah! But they've said Crystal is going to have content Naoko wasn't able to include so I find the really exciting. 

Besides Rei's episode, which felt kinda fast because it was probably rushed, the pacing has been pretty good. I think if you don't like the manga then you probably aren't going to like Crystal's story because while I think there are going to be changes (like everyone is saying Jadeite didn't look like he died) I think the overall story will follow like the manga did.

Anyway, I'm really curious to see what she thinks of the animation.