Bandai’s Sailor Mercury S. H. Figuarts figure is now available for pre-order from Amazon. The figure will be available December 15th. You can order it through the link below.
Can’t wait that long? The Sailor Moon figure will be out October 1st. Sailor Mars must be close behind at this point! All figures and manga sold at Amazon can be purchased from our Amazon Store located on the left sidebar of the main page.
We’ve got new information and a better look at the cast of the new Sailor Moon musical set to play in Japan this September. A lot of this can be found on the musical’s official site. The musical now has a title “La Reconquista”. We also have a look at the Sailor Soldiers and Tuxedo Mask in their costumes.
Noteable is that Tuxedo Mask and all other male characters are being played by female actresses. The musical’s story will be focusing on the Dark Kingdom story arc meaning Queen Beryl, the four Shitennou and Queen Serenity are all characters. The Shitennou, male characters, are also being played by women. A curious character included in the cast list is “Lemures Leader”. The monsters from the Dead Moon Circus are called Lemures while the monsters from the Dark Kingdom are referred to as Youma. Lemures is a name for spirits of the dead while Youma simply means monster. We can speculate about what this means but it’s likely they’ll just be referring to a group of monsters as Lemures.
Miss Dream offers us the following cast list name translation:
Sailor Moon: Satomi Ookubo
Sailor Mercury: Miyabi Matsuura
Sailor Mars: Kanon Nakaki
Sailor Jupiter: Yuu Takahashi
Sailor Venus: Shiori Sakata
Tuxedo Mask: Yuuga Yamato
Queen Beryl: Hatsukaze Midori
Kunzite: Ryo Saika
Zoicite: Misaki Komatsu
Nephrite: KORO
Jadeite: RUUTO
Lemures Leader: Shintani Mayumi
Queen Serenity: Jamie Natsuki
Shows run from September 13th to the 23rd. Tickets go on sale August 17th. More information is available on the official site. If you’re interested in attending you might want to make plans to be in Japan in September.
We finally have a first look at the Sailor Mars prototype figure from Bandai’s S. H. Figuarts line! This figure is being unveiled at the Japan Expo in Paris which technically starts later today, July 4th. Like the other figures in this line it will be a very detailed very posable figure with many swappable parts. This is a prototype so the design could change but the Sailor Mercury full colour figure ended up being pretty much as shown. We’ll have to wait and see what kind of accessories Sailor Mars may come with. Any guesses? I would think we could see her Ofuda, the piece of paper on which her charm is inscribed, and maybe Phobos and Deimos, her pet crows.
News about many things came in today but I first wanted to share the latest about the new Sailor Moon anime that we’re all very excited for. A flyer for the new Sailor Moon keychains also listed some other upcoming Sailor Moon related dates. Miss Dream has been great in translating the relevant information and reveals that the show is currently in production and set to start airing some time around December 2013 or January of 2014. This lines up with earlier information we heard about the show being delayed until winter. More specifically the small calendar at the bottom of this flyer has an entry in December and January stating that the new anime will start then, but it is punctuated with not one but two question marks! What could it mean? Well it probably means this date is not set in stone.
Needless to say the original date of “Summer 2013″ is no longer something fans should be expecting. This is great, but not terribly definitive news! A delay may not seem ideal but now we some fairly reliable information that the show is underway and a rough idea of when to expect it.
Toby Proctor, who voiced Tuxedo Mask in most of the first two seasons of the English dub of the Sailor Moon anime, will be reprising his role at Fan Fiction The Show. Performing in costume Toby Proctor will be joining others in a comedic reading of Sailor Moon fan fiction. The show will be this Saturday July 6th at 8pm and 10pm at the Black Swan Comedy Club in Toronto. Full details are available at the event’s Facebook page. Tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets. There should be a lot of Sailor Moon fans in attendance so Toronto fans should make an effort to check it out.
The show’s description paints a decent picture of what’s in store.
World’s are shaken up with your favorite characters acting in strange and unexpected ways. Sailor Moon gets into a territory war Marvel’s Moon Knight! Is it true love at last when Luna The Cat meets Grumpy Cat??!? What if Tuxedo Mask has answered his true calling and became a barber!? Be there to find out
These new Sailor Moon key chains are set to go on sale in June, which is pretty much done, so we can expect to see them any day now I suppose. These are capsule toys sold in vending machines which are known in Japan as Gashapon. These tiny keychains are only about 1.5 inches in height. They’re priced at 1000 yen, about $10 US. They are available for pre-order from this link.
The keychains include the main 5 girls, Sailor Moon, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus as well as a Luna and Artemis set.
Source: Sailor Moon Collectibles
Here’s a trailer for a new movie Roommate, starring Keiko Kitagawa, Sailor Mars from the live action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon series.
The movie will be released on November 9th in Japan. The trailer doesn’t really tell us much but the story it would seem has Keiko’s character, Harumi, getting into an accident and befriending a nurse, Reiko (Mars Reiko?), played by Kyoko Fukada. The two decide to be roommates and high jinx ensues!
You can check out the official site for the trailer or check out the movie’s Facebook and Twitter pages.
Source: JPop Asia
If you have one of the more popular cell phone models you’re in luck. The official Sailor Moon site has announced that Bandai is releasing relatively inexpensive cell phone cases and stickers in Japan. The most recently announced items are a series of nine cell phone case designs for the iPhone (4, 4S and 5), Xperia (Z and A) and Galaxy (SIII and S4). You can buy them from the Bandai Premium site. There are a wide variety of designs available, each priced at 2,100 yen, which is about $21 US.
In addition to these cases some cell phone stickers were announced a short while back. There are a privacy protector and sticker case for the iPhone 5 and some smaller stickers which could be placed on virtually any cell phone. These items are available for pre-order from CD Japan. You can access these from the following links: Sticker case, privacy protector, group sticker, Sailor Moon sticker and Crystal Star Brooch sticker. They are priced anywhere from about $4 to $7 US.
Source: Sailor Moon Collectibles
Legendary anime voice actor Kappei Yamaguchi will be a guest of honor at Anime Revolution in Vancouver August 16th to the 18th. Kappei Yamaguchi provided the voice of Artemis in the live action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon series. He has also provided voices for many iconic anime characters such as Inuyasha and Ranma.
Kappei Yamaguchi joins Sailor Moon voice actor Toru Furuya, Tuxedo Mask from the anime series, who was previously announced as a guest.
Source: Anime Revolution via Moon Chase!
Susan Roman, the voice of Sailor Jupiter from the English dub of the original Sailor Moon Anime, will be joining Stephanie Morgenstern at the 2nd Unplugged Expo which will be taking place October 26th and 27th at the Daniels Spectrum Centre in downtown Toronto. This was announced by Susan Roman in the following video:
She concludes by saying “maybe the other Sailor Scouts will be there to say hi too”. Unplugged Expo is trying to get as many of the Canadian voice actors from Sailor Moon together for this convention as possible. Let’s hope there are more announcements to come! Stay up to date by following the Unplugged Expo Facebook page.
This will mark Susan Roman’s third Toronto convention appearance this year after attending Anime North last month and the upcoming Fan Expo in August. It’s a great time to be a Sailor Moon fan in Toronto! (or a Sailor Moon fan in Ottawa who doesn’t mind putting mileage on his car)