Talk:Power Ponies/@comment-5808856-20131123231650/@comment-26973802-20131124211440

I admit I did like Sailor Moon's Season 1 and R voice better than her S and Super S voice. To me name changes mean nothing because the English dub is the main version I go by. I don't see a big difference between Ami and Amy aside from Amy being a name you see often in the US and Canada. I do like the name Serena much better than Usagi though, and it connects to the name of her Moon Kingdom mother Queen Serenity (what is the name of her princess form in the Japanese version, Princess Usagi or Princess Serenity?)

To the name change thing, the only time that was really noticeable for me was in Winx Club, which has three dubs: RAI English, 4Kids, and Nickelodeon. In RAI the planets are Domino and Andross and the Season 3 villain is Valtor, while in 4Kids they're Sparks and Tides and his name is Baltor. Also Nickelodeon calls her Aisha instead of Layla like the Italian version.

Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune wasn't the only removal of gay characters; I'm sure you know the dub changed Zoisite to a woman (Zoycite), and Fish Eye as well. At least they, unlike Yu-Gi-Oh!, never made any attempt to censor any of the various deaths (not even Neflite), unless you count all the deaths in Episode 40 Day of Destiny, but I don't think anyone's fooled by that "Sent to the Negaverse" garbage, it's clear the Sailor Scouts and Queen Beryl were killed in those scenes, and they did redeem themselves in Episoed 3 of R when Artemis says Beryl was "completely destroyed".

But hey, that's your opinion, this is mine, and we all have our own preferences. And when I first started watching anime (of which Sailor Moon was my very first) I didn't know, until I started doing research, that they even had, let alone originated as, Japanese versions