This past weekend at Anime Revolution in Vancouver there were six Sailor Moon voice actors in attendance. A fan recorded this panel which featured Katie Griffin, the voice of Sailor Mars, Susan Roman, the voice of Sailor Jupiter and Vincent Corazza, the voice of Tuxedo Mask.
The sound isn’t excellent because of interference from another panel next door but regardless the content of the panel is something fans will find quite interesting.
Stephanie Morgenstern, the actress who lent her voice to Sailor Venus for the first two seasons of the Sailor Moon dub, will be at Fan Expo this coming weekend, August 23rd to the 26th. As we’ve already mentioned this convention will also be playing host to voice actors Katie Griffin (Sailor Mars) and Toby Proctor (Tuxedo Mask) as well as voice director John Stocker. Despite all these people being in one place no Sailor Moon panel appears to be planned.
But Stephanie Morgenstern will not be appearing as a voice actor but rather as the creator of CTV’s Flashpoint. On Friday afternoon at 3pm CTV will having a Q&A session with cast members David Paetkau, Enrico Colantoni, Sergio Di Zio and Olunike Adeliyi. Yes that right, Amy Jo Johnson, the Pink Power Ranger, will not be including in this Q&A… The Fan Expo site describes the event as the “Cast and Crew” of Flashpoint. Stephanie’s appearnance is confirmed on the Writer’s Guild of Canada’s web site where it’s mentioned that Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern will be joining the cast on stage for Friday’s Q&A.
We here at Sailor Moon News have been working hard to weeks in getting the site ready for launch and we’re happy to finally share it with the world. For years I’ve wanted to do a Sailor Moon news site but with so little going on it was to hard to justify. After last month’s announcement of a new Sailor Moon series I immediately knew it was finally time to do this! We want SailorMoonNews.com to be your source of all kinds of Sailor Moon News from the new 2013 anime series to anything related to the old manga, anime, live action series and merchandise related to all of these.
Please bookmark us, follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ and we’ll do our best to be the greatest Sailor Moon News site we can!
In anticipation for the site’s launch we’ve migrated some relevant posts from our parent site Powet.tv and we’ve also written some new stuff as we get things ready. We’re hoping this gives you a good idea of the kind of site we hope this will become as news of the new TV series becomes more frequent and we do our best to share it all with you. There’s been pretty much no news about the show since the original announcement but we’re as anxious as you for this to change.
Just who are we? The site will be maintained up and updated by Captain Genius and myself, Adam Gardner. We’re both fans of Sailor Moon from back in the day looking forward to see the franchise have some new life breathed into it.
Feel free to drop us a line via our contact page to let us know of any news or content you feel we should be covering on the site.
Also if you’re bored check out my embarassing first crack at a Sailor Moon fan site from 1997 at The Sailor Moon Page of Funk! and my only better by comparison Sailor V page The Sailor V Page of Funk!
For the second time in a week Shirt Punch is selling a Sailor Moon themed shirt for just $10. This time they have a biker gang style shirt with a Sailor Moon skull with the words “Sailor Soldiers Motorcycle Club, Crystal Tokyo, We will punish you…” on it.
This shirt will only be on sale today, which is only a bit over two more hours. You can also enter a contest to win a shirt like this at Don’t Blink Tees’ Facebook Page. This shirt is designed by Méchante Fille Art & Design. You can check more of her stuff out on tumblr or Redbubble.
Miss your chance to buy the shirt? You can still buy it from Don’t Blink Tees, though it will set you back more than $10.
The “Moon’s Angels” is likely a reference to the “Hells Angels Motorcycle Club“.
Today only there is a great shirt at Shirt Punch featuring Sailor Moon and Luna drawn in the style of Adventure Time characters. This “Adventure Moon” shirt is just $10 but is only available on August 12th so pick up it before it’s too late.
This shirt is designed by Eriphyle. You can check out her web site here.
Thanks to Scott for the heads up.
Fan Expo takes place in Toronto (that’s in Canada) August 23rd to the 26th and amongst their many guests will be two great voice actors from the Sailor Moon dub, Katie Griffin, voice of Sailor Mars, and Toby Proctor, voice of Tuxedo Mask. It’s great to see a convention of this scope supporting the Raye/Darien romance that was so prominent in the first season of the show! That’s right ladies, while your husbands are there to see Jason Priestly and Luke Perry you can check out something you’re interested in too!
Also in attendance will be John Stocker who was a voice director for the show in the later seasons who also did a few voices such as Raye’s grandfather and two monsters Mister Magic Pierrot and BiriBiri.
Anime Revolution is coming up August 17th to the 19th and as part of a Sailor Moon 20th anniversary event they got a great line up of voice actors from the Sailor Moon dub! There will be Terri Hawkes (Sailor Moon), Vince Corazza (Tuxedo Mask), Katie Griffin (Sailor Mars), Susan Roman (Sailor Jupiter), Stephanie Beard (Rini) and Ron Rubin (Artemis).
The site has the following to say about their Sailormoon 20th Anniversary Celebration:
Sailormoon 20th Anniversary Panel – Celebrate everything that is the wonderful world of Sailor Moon in this very special panel, featuring voice actors from the english dub, song numbers, including a special performance by Irulanne, visuals and all sorts of other fun stuff!
This is quite an amazing group of voice actors they’ve managed to score! While Sailor Moon roles changed a number of times, as the series went on for so long, these are largely the actors who are most memorable for the roles they did.
On Thursday at San Diego Comic-con Kodansha, publisher of the Japanese Sailor Moon manga and the current US translations, held a comic panel where the main topic of interest was Sailor Moon. Anime News Network and Anime Diet covered the event. Here are the important details!
Information about the 2013 anime series was repeated. It was mentioned that while Kotono Mitsuishi is hoping to get the job as the voice of Sailor Moon that casting has not in fact happened yet.
The new editions of the manga will have a US release and will include colour pages.
There appears to have been a lot of people complaining about various quality issues with the manga translations currently being released (available in our amazon store…) and one rep from Kodansha was quoted to have said “There are some people on Twitter that are kind of mean”. Welcome to the Internet! All in all Sailor Moon is their top selling book so they are doing quite well despite all those mean people who are likely still buying their book because hey it’s Sailor Moon so who cares about a few problems, just buy it!
Aside from that there were a lot of things they weren’t able to comment on, and I see no point in reiterating that stuff.
About a week and a half ago, on July 3rd, a photo was shared on FUNimation’s twitter and Instrgram pages. The photo included a reference to a rabbit! Time to speculate! Rabbits are important to Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon’s Japanese name is “Usagi” which is the Japanese word for rabbit. Her full name “Tsukino Usagi” is literally “Tsuki No Usagi” or “Rabbit of the Moon” because when you look at the moon from Japan (or anywhere in the southern hemisphere) you see the shape of a rabbit. So… was this a super secret tipping of their hat that they’ll be working on a redub or maybe on the new series?
Almost certainly not. About 2 minutes of investigation got to the bottom of this. The food shown is said to be rattlesnake and rabbit sausage from a restaurant named “Wurstkuche”. 10 seconds later I’m on the Wurstküche web site looking at their menu and in the “Exotics” section is in fact a “Rattlesnake & Rabbit with Jalapeño Peppers” sausage. So yeah, that’s just a normal sausage and all signs point to a coincidence.
Kodansha Comics USA has posted this press release about the 20th anniversary show that took play last Friday, July 6th. Much of the information has already been covered on this site but a few new bits of information were included.
A new 10 volume collector’s edition of the Sailor Moon and Codename: Sailor V manga are going to be released in Japan. It’s mentioned that these will be faithful reproductions including the colour pages. Does this mean the content will be the original art rather than the slightly modified versions from the 2003 rerelease that is currently being released in North America? We can only hope so!
An anime memorial DVD collection, each featuring a different character, will be released. These were at one point though to be the Sailor Moon memorials which exist on VHS and laser disc, but those each focused on a season of the show, so this appears to be something new.
The character memorials will not be these ones, but may be something similar
Both the manga and DVD collections will be released one volume at a time on a monthly schedule beginning in October 2012.
Check out the full press release below.