Why does nobody attack when the Senshi are transforming or charging their attacks?
Usually, transformations don’t take time, and are there just for the viewers’ sake. (e.g. near the end of the first series where Usagi and Mamoru are attacked, Usagi transforms while the attack is still in the air.) There is an episode, however, where Jupiter does her usual motions to attack and gets tied up, mid-gesture. In dub #32, Sailor Moon was attacked while trying to “heal” the youma. According to the storyboard writers, in dub #30 Usagi was embarrassed at transforming in front of Mamoru because she would be seen naked, implying the transformations do take some time (Source: Animage 5/93, formerly translated on ftp.tcp.com). The odd part about this is that her body is coloured with computer animation, even in the original episodes; so you could argue that she isn’t really naked (but maybe she doesn’t know that). However, she might just have been embarrassed to have Mamoru see her transform because it’s unusual to divulge her secret identity in front of someone she personally kno
