Transforming Sailor Moon was the first naked girl I had seen

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Is my sentence correct?

"Transforming Sailor Moon was the first naked girl I had seen."

Would changing was to is change the meaning?
 

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I would say:

Transforming Sailor Moon is the first naked girl I ever saw.
 

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Is my sentence correct?

"Transforming Sailor Moon was the first naked girl I had seen."

Would changing was to is change the meaning?
The sentence is correct if it's set in a past time frame. If you change was to is and had seen to saw, preferably with the adverb Tarheel suggested, you change it to a present time frame. The second part refers to the the past in either case.
 

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Is "Transforming Sailor Moon" really her name?
 

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No, her name is just Sailor Moon. She has the ability to transform in different ways, during which she appears kind of naked. See here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qImUihjYZA0
Then you have to rephrase it. It sounds like that's her name. You could say something like:

Sailor Moon, who can tranform her appearance, was the first naked girl I had ever seen."
 

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You could make a quick fix by using an article at the beginning, like this:

The transforming Sailor Moon was the first naked girl I ever saw.
 

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It says it's not available in my country.
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That's odd — I can't think why.

Piscean's spot on. As the cops say, 'Move on, folks – nothing to see here'.
 

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That's odd — I can't think why.

Something to do with copyright, apparently.

"This video contains content from Viz Media, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
 

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You should be so lucky!
 

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You might notice, Glizdka, that some of our members are not exactly among the biggest shojo manga fans in the world.
 

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You might notice, Glizdka, that some of our members are not exactly among the biggest shojo manga fans in the world.

I'm not a fan of manganimotakizm either; she was the first one nonetheless.
 
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The first time I saw a naked girl was in Sailor Moon's transformation.
 

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What ... seeing a naked girl, or getting Tdol's rephrase?
 
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