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Popverse Jump: In defense of the DIC dub of Sailor Moon and its place in anime history
While the changes feel excessive and there are obvious issues with censorship, the DIC dub of Sailor Moon was instrumental to introducing American kids to anime in the 1990s.
Sailor Moon has an important place in the world of anime. The series became a huge hit in Japan, making an unavoidable mark on the magical girl genre and helping to introduce millions of kids around the world to anime. In the US, however, that introduction came by way of the infamous DIC dub, which made some… changes to the source material. It wasn’t the most accurate dub for plenty of reasons, but that first Sailor Mood English dub still deserves to be celebrated for what it tried to be.
The year was 1995 and the first episode of the Sailor Moon DIC dub appeared on US television and held the distinction of not only being popular but also being popular among both boys and girls at the time. This dub was many American kids’ first introduction to anime, but that doesn’t mean they got
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