Kazuko Tadano, animation director and character designer for the original Sailor Moon series, confirmed in an Italian interview at the Cartoonist 2013 convention in Nice, France that the new Sailor Moon anime series would be delayed, potentially up to December. While Kazuko Tadano will not be working on the new anime series she stated that nothing was in the works, that there will be a large delay and that it will probably be ready in December. While this is once again not an official announcement of a delay this adds to a mountain of evidence that has already suggested a delay is happening. It should also be considered that since Kazuko Tadano is not associated with the show this isn’t first hand information but likely something she’s heard from someone else in the industry. We can’t make any definitive conclusions about the idea that the delay could be until the end of the year, though this does match up with the winter 2014 estimate that was given by a European distributor for Toei a few weeks ago.
Beyond this news she also discussed her work on Sailor Moon. When asked about leaving the series after two seasons of doing character designs and animation direction she mentioned that it was difficult to work with Toei and that she wanted to work on other projects. She also talked about Ail and An, the two aliens from Sailor Moon R, and how they were original characters of her own creation.
Kazuko Tadano and Hiromi Matsushita not only worked on the Sailor Moon anime but also inspired characters appearing in the show! In episode 21 of the first season, “Protect the Children’s Dreams! Friendship Linked by Anime”, the story takes place in an animation studio working on the Sailor V anime and features the characters of Kazuko and Hiromi, best friends who are working as animators. Though Hiromi Matsushita, a man, is portrayed as a woman for the purposes of the show, their likeness is still seen in these characters. This particular episode had Kazuko Tadano and Hiromi Matsushita as animation directors.
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Aw I remember that episode with the animator friends and their special pencils! I love Sailormoon. It makes me so tender inside.
Me too. Now I am forlorn because we may have to wait until December ._ .
:'( i hope they bring it back soon ive been waiting forever :'(
What.?!? Are you sureee
? I don’t think so since they already have the pictures of the new graphics on google AND it says 2013
I just got my daughter(who’s 4) into sailor moon because I thought it was coming out around my birthday. And my daughter and I wouldn’t be fighting over the tv lol. Its sucks that we may now have to wait until dec inseated of the end of june. Which I saw some where it was suppose to be release 6/30/2013. And my birthday is june 26th. I HOPE IT COMES OUT THIS SUMMER AS IT WAS FIRST PLANED.
I dont mind a delay as long as its not cancelled and they do it right. We’re lucky enough they considered making a new anime version for Sailor Moon.