10/07/00 - Sorry, but right now I HAVE to address an idiot. A person signed our guestbook under the name of "A Friend". Well, for one, if you don't have the courage to leave your e-mail or actually e-mail us, then I have already lost just about all respect for you. Sorry, that's just the way things are. Anyway, he says that our information is "wrong" about the SOS. I would just like to prove him wrong right now. I'm posting this in the "SOS" page too, so you can read this there too if you really want. Here's the entire message, and my comments are below it.

Name: A Friend
Comments: You've possibly made some huge mistakes on your SOS page. 9/24/00 - Neilsen ratings are not based on 7s. Sailor Moon S received lower ratings in it's premiere run in the Summer of 2000 than Sailor Moon R received in it's repeat airing in early 1999. And even as you noted, _repeats_ of Dragonball Z got higher ratings than _new_ episodes of Sailor Moon S. This is not good for new episodes! The Cartoon Network received a lot of mail about how bad the new Voice Artists were and how some fans missed the DiC cues. 9/24/00 - You fault the SOS for trying to represent the fans. Yet, it seems that a lot of fans do want a DiC version. The SOS, for better or for worse, does seem to represent the fans. Your beef maybe with the fans. 10/06/00 - You left out some important sentences here. The SOS said that the earliest the network could present the features is in 2001 and that for right now the network had no plans to PRESENT the features. Even the network admitted that they still hadn't acquired the features! The SOS never said that the network didn't want to present the features. I hope you make these fixes to your page.
Saturday October 7th 2000 12:23:53

Name: A Friend

No e-mail?? Geez....

Comments: You've possibly made some huge mistakes on your SOS page.

I doubt it....

9/24/00 - Neilsen ratings are not based on 7s.

Of course they aren't, Neilsen ratings are not based on ANYTHING. It depends on the show, time slot, network, and many other factors. I've seen ratings based out of 22, out of 18, out of 10. It all depends. In this case, Sailor Moon (and the other Toonami shows) were being rated out of 7. Want the proof? Go to animenation.com, they were the ones who reported the ratings. Infact, I'll copy and paste the whole article for you...

"The Nielsen television ratings for anime on the Cartoon Network last week reveal some surprises. Dragonball Z dominated the line-up while Gundam Wing appears not to be quite the powerhouse it was only a short time ago. Among boys aged 2-11, the 5 PM Dragonball Z scored a 6 out of 7 while its next nearest competitor, surprisingly Sailor Moon, scored a 4. Among young boys, Sailor Moon was trailed by the 6 PM Tenchi in Tokyo, which slightly edged out Gundam Wing. In the older category of viewers aged 11-17, Dragonball Z again dominated the rankings, earning a 4.1 share, followed by Gundam Wing (2.2), Tenchi in Tokyo (1.9), Sailor Moon (1.7) and Reboot (1.2). The household average balances out somewhat, but the overall household viewing percentages from last week still put Dragonball Z on top, earning nearly a 6 out of 7 score, followed by Sailor Moon, earning just above a 4, Reboot and Tenchi in Tokyo tied at a 3.5 out of 7 score, and Gundam Wing, the least overall watched anime program on the Cartoon Network last week with a 3.4 out of 7 score."

Read it and weep. It says for overall household viewing percentages, Sailor Moon earned just above a 4, which is better than any of the other shows except for DBZ on Toonami. This was reported on September 13th. Any questions, children? Please note that animenation was NOT suprised that Sailor Moon got a 4, but that it was the 2nd highest rated show, as usually Tenchi and Gundam do much better than they did that week. Considering Sailor Moon's time slot, I personally think that a 4 out of 7 (yes, a SEVEN, my "friend") is pretty good.

Sailor Moon S received lower ratings in it's premiere run in the Summer of 2000 than Sailor Moon R received in it's repeat airing in early 1999.

Considering I said nothing remotely like this.....You should start reading over more carefully. For one, I said that Sailor Moon S did BETTER than Sailor Moon R's last 17 episodes did in their PREMIERE RUN. No repeats. PREMIERE. Did you get that? I'll say it again, PREMIERE. Plus, of course Sailor Moon did worse in the summer than in would have if it had premiered when school was running. It's a known fact that during the summer, people don't watch TV as regularly as they would during the school year. Had Sailor Moon S premiered, let's say, in April, I think it would have done much better (not that it was doing bad to begin with or anything).

And even as you noted, _repeats_ of Dragonball Z got higher ratings than _new_ episodes of Sailor Moon S. This is not good for new episodes!

Personally, I don't care about DBZ. It's a known fact that DBZ kills the other Toonami programs, so I don't see it as being a justified comparison.

The Cartoon Network received a lot of mail about how bad the new Voice Artists were and how some fans missed the DiC cues.

What's your point? Personally, I think that THOSE fans should be ignored if they don't realize that Cartoon Network has just about no control over the situation. And I'VE received lots of mail about how SOME (definitely not all) of the Voice Artists are very good, and they prefer the new ones to the old ones (ie - Venus and Rini). And really, it's not that the voice artists are any worse than the old ones. The old ones sucked too, it's just the new ones suck in an entirely different way, so they have to adjust to a whole different level of suckiness, and they are too lazy to do so. I've heard from EVERY SINGLE FAN that they all hated Linda when she first started, and EVERY SINGLE FAN acknowledged that she has improved TREMENDOUSLY throughout the two seasons. Now, about the music, almost 100% of the e-mail I've received has been supporting the new music. It's very charming and catching, and some of it is very emotional. Condemning it because "you don't like the transformation music" is absolutely absurd and disgusting. Yeah, sure, you may not like that ONE track, but if you're denying that ALL of the music sucks, then you're just freaking crazy. Listen to the Outer's music and the music theme that plays during the infamous "I like your hands" scene, and then tell me the DiC music was better.

9/24/00 - You fault the SOS for trying to represent the fans. Yet, it seems that a lot of fans do want a DiC version. The SOS, for better or for worse, does seem to represent the fans. Your beef maybe with the fans.

No.....My beef is with the SOS. They're idiots, straight up. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't condemn the SOS for wanting the represent the fans, I condemn them because they don't acknowledge all of the fans, they only acknowledge themselves and take the 50+ members of the organization as "the fans". And trust me, NO ONE WANTS A DIC VERSION. This is because a DiC version would have more script, animation, and dialogue changes, and it really ticks me that the SOS does not inform the fans that this is what a DiC version will have in it. A DiC version is NOT, I repeat, NOT just a return of the old voice actresses. The SOS should tell the fans this.

Plus, how do they know if the majority of the fans WANT the new voice actresses and Music gone? They have not conducted any ways of measuring this. I suggested to a friend of mine who works with the SOS to have a poll or something of the sort. She said it was a good idea, yet I have seen nothing happen.

10/06/00 - You left out some important sentences here. The SOS said that the earliest the network could present the features is in 2001 and that for right now the network had no plans to PRESENT the features. Even the network admitted that they still hadn't acquired the features! The SOS never said that the network didn't want to present the features. I hope you make these fixes to your page.

Although the SOS didn't say that directly that Cartoon Network didn't want to present the features, that's the way people took it, as it was very vague and not worded correctly. The Cartoon Network DOES, I repeat, DOES have plans to present the features! Hands down, that's the truth. Go listen to the interview with Sean Akins. The only reason it is not "officially" set in stone yet is because they are still trying to work the deal out. The only way that Cartoon Network would have "No plans to show the movies" would be if they WERE NOT trying to get the movies in the first place, and as of right now, the Cartoon Network IS trying hard, very hard, to get those movies. Plus the fact that the SOS just denounced Animenation's reliability really ticked me off.

Geez, this got pretty long, almost editorial length....Oh well, you can read this in our SOS page too. And just a note to "A Friend". I'm sorry I had to publicly humiliate you. Had you e-mailed me, there probably wouldn't have been a problem at all, but since you posted this in our guestbook and did not leave an e-mail, then I had to tell everyone. I'm sorry.

10/06/00 - There had been something that the SOS had stated that had bugged me for quite some time. Let's look at the excerpt from the article. Let it be known that this is from the SAME ARTICLE MENTIONED IN MY TWO REPORTS BELOW. Wow! 3 lies per article......?

Now, I was not willing to say anything when I read it, but I HAD read many articles elsewhere that disproved SOS's theory, the big place being the highly respected animenation.com website. Since I had no SOLID proof, I decided not to say anything, but now I do have that proof. In an interview conducted by fantasticon.com with Toonami President, Sean Akins, the question about the Toonami movies comes on. Sean then proceeds to say that they are trying hard to acquire the Sailor Moon features so that they could present the movies on Toonami. If you don't believe me, go listen to the interview yourself (and if you do, you'll be suprised to know that this website is actually mentioned in the interview! How lucky we are!) So basically, Toonami and Cartoon Network DO have plans to air the Sailor Moon movies, they just haven't closed the deal yet. There you have it folks, lie number THREE for the SOS. More to come in the future.

09/24/00 - In the same article mentioned below, the SOS states -

Stop talking for all the fans, SOS! That's not what all the fans want. I consider myself a "fan", yet I sure as hell don't want a "DiC" flavor Sailor Moon! So how come you say "the better the chances of Pioneer creating the versions we'd all like for "Sailor Stars" (original flavor & DiC flavor)"? As I'll say many times in the future in this section, stop talking for all the fans, SOS! You're "organization" is made up of less than 50 people. You can't speak for a fan base of well over 500,000 (i'm probably way under too) when you only have 50 people basing your opinions off of. Just shut up, SOS, just shut up.

09/24/00 - The SOS states on their front page that Sailor Moon's ratings have been good, but not spectacular.

This isn't freaking Survivor, SOS! This is Sailor Moon! Of course Sailor Moon isn't getting 95% of the audience from 2-11 at 4:00, Power Rangers is on then! Geez!

In actuality, SOS's claim couldn't be farther from the truth. Sailor Moon S's ratings have been VERY GOOD. Infact, two weeks ago (In the middle of September), Sailor Moon was given a rating of 4 out of 7 overall, which is very good considering its time slot and its "age/gender targeted audience". The only other Toonami show that did better was DBZ, which was getting a 6 out of 7 because of their new episodes. Sailor Moon has been killing the other Toonami shows recently, with Gundam, Reboot, and Tenchi In Tokyo, all getting a 2 out of 7 or less. And this, SOS, is less than spectacular?

Then the SOS says that the Cartoon Network moved the show from 4 to 4:30 to help Sailor Moon's "bad" ratings. Is it just me, or are the SOS members trying to give the false impression that Sailor Moon is doing very poor, when it's not? This, my friends, is why I hate the SOS. They LIE.

Then comes that absolute worst part. The SOS gets off on blaming the supposed "bad" ratings on the new music and the new voices! For God's sake, how dare you! This is totally unfounded since they have nothing to base this opinion off of. And since it is an opinion, it has no right in a "journalistic report" that they seem to want to do. The fact of the matter is that most fans don't really care about the new voices much, it's just the SOS "thinks" (ha! "SOS" and "thinks" usually don't go in the same sentence) that everyone hates the new voices because it's just the people who hate them that speak up. As for the new music is concerned, all I've heard from fans is how much they like the new music. Not one person has e-mailed me saying that they despise the new music. SOS, get your facts straight before you try and piss me off, ok?

Another fact that SOS forgot to mention is that right now, Sailor Moon is more popular than it has ever been. They say that the ratings have been, "Less than spectacular", but based on what? When the last 17 episodes of R aired, they did very very poor (according to the SOS, mind you). Personally, I would think that an improve in ratings since the last batch of new episodes would be considered "Spectacular". This is example #1 of SOS's lies. More to come in the future, much much more.