The legendary story of "Sailor Moon" captured the hearts and imaginations of girls everywhere. It's been around for twenty years...and now it's coming back!

Just like the instant when a music box is opened, the gears of destiny are now set in motion for our heroine, Usagi Tsukino.
This tale, guided by the light of the moon, is dramatic...heartrending...and beautiful.

"Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" began its serialization in 1992 in Kodansha's monthly magazine "Nakayosi." The original manga has been translated into seventeen languages, and the animated series has made its way to over forty countries, creating a social phenomenon.
It's precisely because twenty years have passed since the creation of Sailor Moon that the time has come to use modern video expression, and that enthusiastic motivation that's been heating up for two decades, to go back to the source and depict the original's full charm. That's what the animated series "Sailor Moon Crystal" will set out to accomplish.
Everyone who seizes the day will now have the chance to see how Usagi Tsukino bravely and resolutely lives her life, both as a Pretty Guardian, and as a girl.

Usagi Tsukino is a little clumsy and a crybaby, but she's also one spirited eighth grader.
One day she meets Luna, a black cat with a crescent moon mark on her forehead, and transforms into the pretty guardian of love and justice in a sailor suit, Sailor Moon! As a chosen guardian of justice, Usagi apparently has a mission to protect a princess, and to find her fellow Guardians and the phantom Silver Crystal.
Meanwhile, Queen Beryl of the Dark Kingdom sends her subordinates to the town where Usagi lives. They cause strange events to occur there, all in an effort to acquire the tremendously powerful Silver Crystal...
Can Sailor Moon and the other Guardians successfully find the phantom crystal, and protect the princess...!?

◆Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon
This story's main character, an eighth grader who's a bit clumsy and a crybaby. Her trademark is her double pigtail bun hairstyle. With her cheerful and innocent personality, Usagi can quickly end up becoming anyone's friend. As a Pretty Guardian, her guardian celestial body is the moon.

◆Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury
A genius girl with an IQ of 300. She's always studying, so she can become a doctor. Ami functions as the brains of the Guardians. With Mercury as her guardian planet, she's a warrior of knowledge who uses the power of water.

◆Rei Hino/Sailor Mars
With a strong spiritual sense, she usually works as a shrine maiden to help her grandfather, a Shinto chief priest. Rei retains the ability to psychically sense danger even when she's a Guardian. With Mars as her guardian planet, she's a warrior of battle who uses the power of fire.

◆Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter
A tall girl with great physical strength. She speaks in a manly manner, yet is still a boy-crazy girl at times. Makoto makes use of her great strength when she fights as a Guardian. With Jupiter as her guardian planet, she's a protective warrior who uses the power of lightning.

◆Minako Aino/Sailor Venus

She's been active as a Pretty Guardian since before the rest of them awakened. Minako's the leader of the four Guardians, but she's actually a little clumsy, and a fangirl. With Venus as her guardian planet, she's a warrior of love who uses the power of light.
And you can find episode 1 here.

Sailor moon crystal episode 1:
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More character art from the new Sailor Moon anime Sailor Moon Crystal

Posted on May 1, 2014

Sailor Moon - Character art from Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal

Following Sunday’s live event where the character art for the new series was revealed the Sailor Moon official site added more images of the characters. Here we have Sailor Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus both in their Sailor Guardian costumes and as civilians Usagi, Ami, Rei, Makoto and Minako. There is also specific information about the show listed on the site. The series will premier July 5th 2014 7pm Japan Standard Time (6am Easter Standard Time) and will air once every 2 weeks. It has since been confirmed that the series will air for 26 episodes, which means it will run for a year.

Usagi Tsukino - Character art from Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal

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Sailor Moon Crystal voice actors and character artwork plus new musical information

Posted on April 27, 2014

New character designs for Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Moon, Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus from Sailor Moon Crystal

The Sailor Moon live event featuring new information about the upcoming Sailor Moon musical and Sailor Moon anime is complete and with that we have a great deal of new information. For the new anime, Sailor Moon Crystal, we have some new character art for all five of the main cast as well as the full cast listing. Most notable is the return of Kotono Mitsuishi, the original voice of Sailor Moon from the 1992 Sailor Moon anime, who will be reprising her role as Usagi in Sailor Moon Crystal. This was heavily insinuated at the original event announcing the new anime but now we have official confirmation.

New voice actresses will be joining the show for the voices of Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus. The new cast will include Hisako Kanemoto as Sailor Mercury, Rina Sato as Sailor Mars, Ami Koshimizu as Sailor Jupiter and Shizuka Ito as Sailor Venus. Click on their names to view their Wikipedia pages and see what roles they’ve done in the past.

The cast of Sailor Moon Petite Étrangère

In addition to the new information about the new Sailor Moon anime Sailor Moon Crystal we also got details about the Sailor Moon musicals! Last September’s new musical, Sailor Moon La reconquista, will be released on DVD on July 9th 2014. Most of the cast, with the exception of Sailor Mercury, will be returning for this summer’s new musical which is titled Petite Étrangère, which is French for “Little Stranger” with the feminine usage of both words leading us to believe we’re talking about Chibiusa. The musical will play in Tokyo from August 21st to the 31st and in Osaka from September 5th to the 7th. The new Sailor Mercury will be played by Momo Koyama.
Here’s a look at all of the new voice actors from Sailor Moon Crystal:

Kotono Mitsuishi, the voice of Sailor Moon from Sailor Moon Crystal

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How to view Sunday’s live Sailor Moon event

Posted on April 25, 2014

As was previously announced, this Sunday there will be a live Sailor Moon event which promises to announce the cast of the new Sailor Moon anime Sailor Moon Crystal, show more character art and reveal the cast of this summer’s Sailor Moon musical. The event will be broadcast live on Niconico. You can watch that live stream in Japanese by following instructions that were posted at the Moonkitty Facebook page. Another option, for those having trouble getting on to the Niconico web site, is to watch a live stream of the event at the Miss Dream web site.

The event will air at 4pm Japan Standard Time which is 3am Eastern Standard Time. Prior to this just follow this link to the Niconico site where the event will be streamed. Use the links on the right to either create an account or link your Twitter or Facebook account. A bit before 3am (or whatever the time may be in your time zone) on Sunday just go back to that link, log in and enjoy the show! I’ll be out of town this weekend but I will be doing my best to give live updates via the Sailor Moon News Twitter account and of course post any new information we get to the site once the event is complete.

Get a discount on this Sailor Team Space shirt at OtherTees

Posted on April 24, 2014

You can get this cool looking “Sailor Team Space” shirt from OtherTees from now until 10pm EDT (4pm EST) on Saturday for just $11, but visitors to Sailor Moon News can get it for just $10! To save $1 on this shirt just enter the promo code “salormoonnews2″ at checkout. The first 100 users to use this code will get the discount. The shirt features the Sailor Team in front of the moon and a spacey looking background.
The shirt’s artist is EdWoody who has previously designed the Sailor Pop Art shirt we posted about a couple of times. Check out his Facebook Page for more of his work and his RedBubble store to see more Sailor Moon products.

Kawaii Jupiter and Venus and District Jupiter shirts for sale at Arteesel and Limiteed

Posted on April 22, 2014

For the next few days there are a few great looking Sailor Moon shirts for sale at Arteesel and Limiteed. First we’ve got Kawaii Sailor Jupiter and Kawaii Sailor Venus for sale until the end of the day on Thursday April 24th from Arteesel for $12 a piece. There’s also District Jupiter, a Hunger Games/Sailor Moon shirt featuring Sailor Jupiter, for sale for $12 at Limiteed until 9pm EST Wednesday April 23rd.

The shirt’s artist, Machmigo, also designed Kawaii Mercury and Mars shirts, other Sailor Moon/Hunger games shirts and many more! Check out more of her stuff on her Facebook Page, Twitter Feed, tumblr or deviantArt page.

New Sailor Moon anime voice cast and art to be announced this Sunday April 27th

Posted on April 21, 2014

This Sunday, April 27th 2014, there will be a live streaming event on Niconico which will include announcements of the voice cast and some character art for the new Sailor Moon anime, Sailor Moon Crystal, as well as the cast for this summer’s new Sailor Moon Musical. The special will air at 4pm Japan Standard Time or 3am Eastern Standard Time. Hope you don’t like sleep!

Sailor Moon 2014 Anime "Sailor Moon Crystal" official artwork

This event was first announced on the Sailor Moon official web site on April 8th but we only got details about the event in an update on April 18th which mentioned the unveiling of the voice cast and the appearance of the five main cast members from the new Sailor Moon musical! Atsutoshi Umezawa, director for the new series, mentioned via Twitter that we would also be seeing character art from the new show at the event!

Sailor Moon Crystal director Atsutoshi Umeza

The event will also feature Fumio Osana, the original editor for the Sailor Moon manga, Munehisa Sakai, the director for the new series and Yuh Kamiki who is listed as being a producer for the Sailor Moon Crystal anime. Yuh Kamiki had not been previously announced as being affiliated with this show. A quick search finds a Japanese actor by that name with no anime series producing experience who I do not believe is the anime series producer who will be at this event.
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Megan Fox would like to act in a live action Sailor Moon movie

Posted on April 12, 2014

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly actress Megan Fox mentioned that she was interested in being in a live action Sailor Moon movie.
After having done movie versions of Transformers and now Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Megan Fox was asked what other cartoon she would like to be involved with a live action movie of. After mentioning an interest in Gundam Wing, Jurassic Park and Thudercats she added the following:

Sailor Moon. That could feasibly be made into a live action movie. I don’t know how many Americans were into that. I was into that, but I don’t know how huge it was here. That’s not actually a bad idea.

Keep in mind of course there are no plans to actually make such a movie. This is just something Megan Fox mentioned being interested in along with many other franchises she was a fan of when she was younger.
What do you think? Is a Sailor Moon live action film starring Megan Fox “Not actually a bad idea” or just a way to ruin more childhoods? Who should she play? She doesn’t seem to look much like Sailor Moon but she might be able to pull off Sailor Mars.

Pre-order the Sailor Jupiter S. H. Figuarts figure on Amazon

Posted on April 11, 2014

Sailor Jupiter S. H. Figuarts - Supreme Thunder

Bandai’s Sailor Jupiter S. H. Figuarts figure is now available for pre-oder at Amazon.com! It will be released on August 28th in North America. Can’t wait that long? You can import Sailor Jupiter from Japan from JList, CD Japan or YesAsia for a July 19th release.

The rest of the S. H. Figuarts figures are also available on Amazon.com. Sailor Moon, Mercury and Mars are already out. Sailor Venus will be released at Amazon.com on May 21st. You can also get Sailor Venus a bit earlier from Japan on April 30th from JList, CD Japan and YesAsia.
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Kawaii Mars and Mercury shirts for sale this weekend at Arteesel

Posted on April 11, 2014

Here are a couple of great looking shirts for sale until the end of the weekend from Arteesel. Kawaii Mars and Kawaii Mercury features Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury drawn in a style reminiscent of old cartoons like Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat.

The shirt’s artist, machmigo, has designed many other Sailor Moon shirts that have been mentioned on this site. Check out more of her stuff on her Facebook Page, Twitter Feed, tumblr or deviantArt page.

A new Sailor Moon Musical coming this summer will take place in Crystal Tokyo and feature the Black Moon Clan

Posted on April 3, 2014

A new Sailor Moon musical has been announced on the Sailor Moon official site. Not many details have been given but we do know that this musical will follow the Black Moon story arc of the Sailor Moon manga or the Sailor Moon R season of the anime which takes place in 30th century Crystal Tokyo following the battle with the Black Moon Clan. Though Chibiusa is not mentioned by name it stands to reason that this musical will feature her introduction as well as her transformation into Black Lady. No details about the cast have been revealed but the announcement mentions that this will be announced on the site in the near future.

This will be the second modern Sailor Moon musical following Sailor Moon La Reconquista which played last September.

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