Sailor Moon Actual Colors
My two most valuable sources came transcribing the actual paint shades used on the physical animation cels + all of the detailed information given in the official color guide. As a lifelong Moonie it's a major bummer that Sailor Moon may never have proper HD remastered, color corrected transfer on home video. Tertiary colors consist of red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet & red-violet.
These colors are formed by mixing primary & secondary colors, resulting in the 2. Moon Moon's color is pink. Her fuku is blue and red, but her color is pink because that's what color she glows during the Sailor Planet Power.
Sailor Moon Color Palette by rippleffects on DeviantArt
The pink probably represents purity, love, or femininity. "The reason for the colors for Sailor Moon and other Japanese animated shows not being accurate to the original intent of what the animation actually is supposed to look like is largely an issue. What are Sailor Moon's colors? Coming from the original anime, I always thought of Moon's original costume colors as blue and red.
I have seen some manga images, however, where the "red" parts of her costume appear more like a dark pink. So I read that Takeuchi's favorite color is pink and she actually wanted Sailor moon to look like a pink rabbit. so her original designs were for her to have pink hair, matching the pink in her outfit.
Sailor Moon Color Palette by YukoDarkButterfly on DeviantArt
She would resemble the Japanese rabbit on the moon myth. That idea was scrapped in favor of the blonde hair. Here are some things that should interest the color correction nerds.
The R Special contains several scenes from the first season. If we study the difference in levels/histograms of the frames from Special BD and compare it with the same frames from the DVDs of the TV anime we could have a very accurate color correction Comparison here: DVD. Sailor Jupiter: We're assigning Jupiter the color green becuase her senshi outfit is green, and she tends to wear a lot of green.
Sailor Moon Inspired Color Palettes » Palette #9 version 2 Original Colors Left to Right ...
Besides that, we couldn't really think of a good color. Sailor Venus: Venus, theoretically, should be pink because Venus in mythology is the goddess of love. However, in Sailormoon, Venus is yellow.
I can understand maybe arguing these colors, but CHANGING ACTUAL ANIME ART? She also thinks all girls should end up with guys, thus pairs up Haruka and Michiru with two of the StarLights. Hi, I'm working on a color correction project for Sailor Moon. No official release has decent colors due to tints produced by film aging.
All 200 episodes and 5 specials will be included with the Viz, Cloverway and Speedy dubs (I'm considering whether to include DiC by combining it with Viz). This process requires all episodes to be manually white balanced before global hue shifts are applied.
