This year at G-Anime Terri Hawkes, the English voice of Sailor Moon had two panels. Here is the first panel where Terri Hawkes discusses her time voicing Sailor Moon.
The next day Terri Hawkes ran another panel on acting, writing and directing as a professional. This panel didn’t have as much to do with Sailor Moon but may still be of interested to fans. It will be posted to the site in the near future.
New figures of Sailor Moon and the rest of the nine Sailor Soldiers will be available in May from Legend Studio.
Sailor Moon Collectibles reports that a few pictures from the ACG Comic Expo in Guangzhou, China from December have surfaced. These pictures show that there will be the nine figures of Sailor Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Pluto, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn. Unfortunately we just get cutouts with no real indication of what the toys would look like for most of the girls but we get a bit more of a look at Sailor Moon herself. There are some CG renders of the Sailor Moon figure and it’s individual parts which gives us a good idea of what the finished product might look like. We see for example that the figure will have a number of swappable faces and by seeing all the pieces we can get a good idea of the articulation the final product might have.
Here’s a great looking shirt showing Sailor Moon as a Geisha which is on sale today only from ShirtPunch. There sure are lot of Sailor Moon shirts popping up on these sites this week!
The shirt’s artist, Ashley Hay, also designed the Sailor Moon Pies shirt we posted about last year. Check out her web site for more of her work.
Fumio Osana, @osabu8 on twitter, has responded to a fan’s question about how US viewers will be able to watch the new Sailor Moon 2013 anime, asking if it would be available online. His reply was:
@DanielleSwaw yes,you will watch on internet.
Short and sweet. Based on this statement it would seem that international distribution of the show, at least at first, is planned to be done online. How exactly this will be done isn’t specified but it seems reasonable that we will see it on some kind of streaming site. Some sites like Crunchy Roll and Funimation already do this.
What a bizarre reference! Here’s a parody of the classic scene from E.T. The Extraterrestrial where E.T. and Elliott are flying in front of the Moon but with Sailor Moon and Luna in their place! The shirt is for sale for one day only at Qwertee. Since Qwertee is a European site the shirt will be on sale until 6pm EST tomorrow, February 11th. That’s 22 hours from this being posted!
The shirt’s artist is Meri. You can check out her portfolio to see more of her work.
For the next day and a half this cool Sailor Moon/Batman inspired shirt will be available at OtherTees for $11. This shirt was previously sold at Qwertee in November. Check out Mundos de Papel for more by this artist.
The lack of any significant news about the new Sailor Moon anime set to start airing this summer has been pretty frustrating. Naoko Takeuchi’s editor Fumio Osano (@osabu8) has been very active on twitter and answers many questions either by saying he doesn’t know the answer yet or he’s not allowed to give one. While details aren’t really there it seems obvious from all that he says that the new anime is still in the works, though it seems like many of the specifics aren’t quite figured out.
Recently a user SnowWolf2012 asked him if the simultaneous worldwide release mentioned at the 20th anniversary event was going to be in Japanese or in many languages. The answer was simply:
Not very definitive, but it seems that we might be seeing a Japanese release with subtitles in other languages, presumably including English, for the original release. A dub could certainly follow at a later time.
The 9th volume of the new English release of the Sailor Moon manga was released today. This version features Sailor Pluto on the cover. You can purchase the book through the amazon link below to support this site.
This book covers acts 2 to 6 of the “Dream” arc, which is the equivalent to the Sailor Moon SuperS season of the anime. This focuses on the story of Pegasus/Helios. In the final chapter of this book we see the return of Sailors Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Saturn. Be sure to check it out!
This past weekend I caught up with Terri Hawkes at G-Anime 2013 in Gatineau Quebec for this interview. Terri Hawkes provided the voice of Sailor Moon for most of the first two seasons of the show.
Thanks a lot to Terri Hawkes and the organizers of G-Anime for making this interview the best it could be.
It’s been a while since we first mentioned this convention back in September but the time is finally here. This weekend, Friday January 25th to Sunday January 27th, is G-Anime in Gatineau at the Palais des Congrès de Gatineau, a few mintues from downtown Ottawa. The main guest that followers of this site will likely be interested in is the English voice of Sailor Moon, Terri Hawkes.
Terri Hawkes will have two panels at the convention. The first will be on Saturday at 11am where Terri Hawkes will talk about her role in Sailor Moon. An autograph session will follow at noon. On Sunday at noon Terri Hawkes will be doing a panel on acting, writing and directing as a professional. An autograph session will follow at 1pm. Though the convention is bilingual both of these panels will be presented in English.