I can't believe it! After months and months of work I've finally finishes writing and taking screenshots for all the episodes in the fourth season of the anime, Sailor Moon SuperS!
Now all I need to do is do the guides for the SuperS specials, the opening and closing credits and add the shopping information and then I can movie on to the epic final series, Sailor Stars!!!! Wooo Hooooo!!!!
No real big Sailor Moon related news this week. Amazon has uploaded more pics for the first Sailor Moon DVD Box Set but screwed up and uploaded pics for the second box by mistake!!! Whoops! lol!
Hey guys! Happy Monday! First I thought I'd share a rather humorous video I just found that mixes the audio from a SuperS episode with the live action show. Pretty well timed and I love the Beryl shots. lol!
Now for the real music video spotlight! I'd never heard Rise before and I love it! It mixes really well with the Sailor Moon anime and the maker used a pretty wide selection of scenes for this video.
HUGE WEEK IN SAILOR MOON NEWS! Toei has started celebrating Sailor Moon's 20th Anniversary and has announced brand new season DVD box sets for every season of the Sailor Moon anime! You can read more about this huge event in my original news post but if you just want to cut right to it and pre-order your limited edition box sets you can get the first box here and the second box here. Amazon.co.jp is offering a huge 26% OFF for pre-orders on these boxes so they're well worth a look. Personally I pre-ordered mine yesterday from them.
Something else that's got me hyped is this preview of the Sailor Stars fan dub! It's a perfect example of why I think the DiC music cues work better (as much as I love the Japanese music). Can't wait for this fourth episode.
It's Friday again so that means Moon Sticks has a new strip online! This week features two of my favourite characters Alan and Anne (Ail and Anne)!
I was surfing around YouTube and found this fantastic clip someone made that mixes the voices from the English version of Sailor Moon S but adds the DiC music cues from the first two seasons and OMG it works really well! Again I love the Japanese music but the DiC music just makes it seem so much more exciting! Someone who commented on the video made an interesting point that thet DiC music cue works with the English voice actors and the Japanese music cues work better with the Japanese VAs. What do you think?
And speaking of fan edits! Check out this new preview for a fan project that mixes existing anime footage extremely well to make a brand new storyline! Looks very promising!
That's about it for the Roundup this week! Because Sailor Moon news in general is heating up though I will be posting any news as it's released, ASAP so you might get posts mid week, etc that are of huge importance!
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It's amazing what happens in a few hours! When I posted this morning about the new DVDs, Toei's main website (which included the official Sailor Moon Channel site) was down for maintenance.
Well it's back online now and while nothing major has happened on the Sailor Moon Channel or Toei's main page something HUGE has happened for Sailor Moon!!!
Toei has started Sailor Moon's 20th Anniversary!!!
They've created a new special 20th Anniversary website that not only has the release dates for all the new DVD box sets but also features all the cover art as well!!!
The official dates for Sailor Moon's 20th Anniversary are February 2012 for the manga and the 7th of March 2012 for the anime.
The release of the DVD Boxes are spaced out really well, with one being released every month or so throughout 2010. Here's the release schedule:
The descriptions say the episodes have been remastered though the previous Region 2 releases were also remastered. Not sure if it'll be a different image or not but I'll definitely be buying these and will be doing comparisons once I get my copy!
The price is also extremely cheap for a Japanese DVD box set with them ranging from 9400 yen to 12,000 yen per box. Some Japanese box sets sell for about 40,000 yen so this is a really pleasant surprise especially considering the individual DVDs previously released cost about 4,000 yen and had 6 episodes per disk.
Each box features half a season's episodes and comes with a slip case (left image on site) which holds the multi-disk case (right image on site).
Interestingly enough, or maybe just a coincidence, the slip cases look awfully similar to the live action's Moon Light Real Girl CD Box Set.
Speaking of which, no word on the live action's re-release though it does celebrate it's 10th Anniversary in 2013 along with the Sailor Moon musicals who turn 20 in that year. Also no word yet on a manga re-release in Japan or elsewhere though personally I think it's only a matter of time.
This is a very exciting time for Sailor Moon fans and I can't wait to see what else we have in store!
Sorry for the later than usual news roundup this week! As followers of my Twitter account will know, life just got in the way this week and I was simply too exhausted to compose the Roundup post which requires a lot of energy and time.
Kind of a good thing I waited though, as this morning there's some HUGE Sailor Moon news from Japan! Let's get right into it!
This post over on the Genvid forums alerted everyone to the fantastic news that there will be some new Sailor Moon DVD releases in Japan!
The first DVD Box Set contains episodes 1 - 24 from the first season and is due for release this year in December! (Just in time for Christmas!)
Just yesterday I uploaded heaps of new Sailor Moon avatars (or icons). Almost over 100! You can find the new anime ones here and here as well as some cool manga inspired ones here. These are perfect for Twitter or discussion forums! Just don't place them on your own site! ;)
Some other big news this past week which I posted ASAP on Twitter was the closing down of ADV who was involved in the release of several Sailor Moon VHS and DVDs. Guess we can now completely rule them out of any Sailor Moon rerelease!
Finally, the Sailor Stars Dub has another fantastic preview online that looks (as usual) REALLY GOOD! Someone hire these guys to do the official Stars dub!
And now to finish on a funny note, I present this week's Moonie Music Monday Sailor Moon music video! LOL!
Also managed to finally update the bookmark and feed icons at the bottom of each blog post to suit the new layout.
Ah, and if you're not, I highly recommend checking out Moonkitty.net's Twitter Account. Have been tweeting a bit of news items the last few days there that most will find very interesting.
Will go into details on the Friday Sailor Moon Roundup but if you want the news as soon as it's released, Twitter is really great as I normally post things ASAP on my Twitter account that I might not have time to write a full blog post for until days later.
but screwed up and uploaded pics for the second box by mistake!!! Whoops! lol!
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isn't listing these new releases but as soon as they do I'll let you know.
