Sailor Moon Has Angered The Internet

Literally rose tinted glasses

"Sailor Moon was always pink!" Says everyone born after Toonami airings

Honestly I like both color sets. The pink tones make me feel nostalgic and I enjoy the different vibes it gives. The true colors look great and are easier on my eyes for sure, plus it's nice seeing the animation as it was intended to look. Internet needs to chill.

At this point, Twitter NOT flipping out over nothing burgers is literally impossible.

Fan restoration projects are fantastic and a great strive for archiving art.

honestly i think the pink tint looks nice and fits with sailor moon, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't also preserve the intended visuals as well. both have their place i feel

I think why they like the pink color is because it's more girly. It gives it a permanent sun set look, or permanent sun burn ❤️‍🔥

"Twitter is angry" When are they not?

The pink tint looks nice and ☆aesthetic☆, but I appreciate the restoration efforts.

“Twitter is angry” “So just another day, then.”

The restoration is super cool and the pink looks cool too!

People like the warmer "aged" colors because it looks closer to the way old low resolution tvs looked

"Evil and wrong" The twitter screenshots in the video: "I like the pink better"

I never realized just how large the color difference was for Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball z. Got to say I really do want to watch it all in the original colors now

Edit: mystery solved! As CB below says, it's very likely due to how VHS's had more subdued colors for 90s kids and older, so the subdued pinks of the color grading may evoke more nostalgia in us than the bright colors of the original due to that! And that totally tracks, because I didn't grow up on Sailor Moon (rather, I watched it on Hulu as an adult). And yet I still see the pink as more nostalgic even so. However, I did have VHS's in my early childhood, which explains it! I think this is a very cool and interesting psychological phenomenon, so I'm glad for all the answers but especially CB's one that solved it! OG I think what it is is that the pink not only adds a lil extra girly charm that tracks pretty well with the show, but it also sort of gives a bit of a 90s VHS type feel, if that makes sense. It feels oddly vintage for some reason. More nostalgic somehow, even if it's not the actual original. It'd be interesting to hear from someone who knows about color theory as to why they think the pink does this.

I think the pink tones caught-on due to the pirate anime culture of the '90s. For the uninitiated, the internet was around, yes, but large file-hosting servers weren't exactly a thing outside of universities and large organizations, and accessing media files over dial-up was a fool's errand. VHS bootleg (copies of copies of copies...) was the primary distribution method of anime for years. You had to go on forums/chat boards and request a desired show. The person filling your request was on the hook for shipping, so you would typically trade/swap desirable shows to balance the other's cost; it was kind of on the 'Honor System.' When you received your parcel, you had what was very likely a dozen copies or more removed from "original," with zero guarantee towards any semblance of 'quality.' As soon as online digital repositories began popping up, a lot of their material was being sourced from... you guessed it; those same bootleg VHSs. Thus, analog deterioration transferred over into the digital realm well into the '00s. Blurry, pinkish, artifacted video with buzzy audio was the norm. Even with multiple DVD releases and remasters eventually working their way into the pirate realm, digital storage tended to run a premium, and it was quite common that the most shared versions of bootleg anime were those that demanded the least amount disk space; thus, those same VHS copies persisted as small files that could be quickly distributed, occupying minimal data footprint. In terms of 'prowess,' The original run of classic Toonami shows was, what, a year or two? Some of the more popular shows might get additional re-runs, or subsequent syndication, but, for the most part, you watched a particular anime once, maybe twice all the way through on TV. If you wanted to watch it any more than that, you could pony up for those dope VHS boxed sets (which were not cheap), or you... acquired it... elsewhere. The latter acquisition was generally how most people watched anime multiple times over. As such, that medium became the defining version for them . Long story short, it's not so much that people are "misremembering" an artstyle; they just happened to have viewed and fondly remembered an alternative version of that same art.

The pink almost feels too nostalgic since it has an aged look, it makes me feel a bit melancholy. I actually prefer the white since it shows that it was actually pretty modern looking, sorta like how were used to black and white photos for the olden times but forget that everything was just as colourful.

As someone that watched the show in the 90's I can say that the series were as the "original" looks and all the merch I got back then as well. The pink thing is a trend now days to make stuff look "vintage" and cute.

It’s like the Mona Lisa. It’s straight up dirty but people love it and think it lends more to the painting.

Id love to see the entirety of DRAGON BALL to have this done