We’ve finally got a look at what Sailor Moon will be looking like in the new anime series, titled Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal, which is confirmed to begin airing this coming July. Along with this artwork, shown above, we have our first look at the logo for Sailor Moon Crystal as well as a synopsis of the story. The word Crystal in the title is a reference to the Silver Crystal, the object of immense power which drives much of the plot of the Dark Kingdom story arc.
Earlier today on the official Sailor Moon site a cryptic message went up stating only “8 days. Coming soon.”. Something big is coming, but have we already seen it? In the files hosted on the official site was this one (mirror) which was not linked on the main page. It featured the logo for the new series in which we see the title Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal, artwork of Sailor Moon and her Silver Crystal as well as a brief synopsis. This synopsis, as translated by Anime News Network, is included below:
Usagi Tsukino is a second-year middle school girl who is a little clumsy and a crybaby, but she is full of energy. One day, she meets Luna, a black cat with a crescent moon on her forehead, and she transforms into Sailor Moon, a sailor-uniformed pretty guardian of love and justice! As a chosen guardian of justice, Usagi seems to have a mission to find the Illusionary Silver Crystal with the other guardians and to protect the princess.
Meanwhile, the queen of the Dark Kingdom, Queen Beryl, also sends minions to the town where Usagi lives to obtain the Illusionary Silver Crystal, which has immense power. This causes strange events to unfold….Can Sailor Moon really find the Illusionary Silver Crystal with the other Sailor guardians, and protect the princess…!?
Based on this we confirm once again that the anime series will be a retelling of the Dark Kingdom story arc where Sailor Moon fights Queen Beryl and searches for the Silver Crystal and the Moon Princess. From the logo we can see a sword which is likely the Holy Blade, also called the Sword of the Silver Crystal, a sword which is wielded by Sailor Venus in the Sailor Moon manga.
The rest of the image includes information we already know, mostly about cast announcements that have already been made. As always we will continue to bring you all new information about this new anime, Sailor Moon Crystal, as it becomes available.
Unrelated trivia! The sword being used as the T in Crystal was also done by the 1990 NES video game Crystalis which had a Crystal sword as it’s ultimate weapon and ripped off a number of Hayao Miyazaki movies.
Thanks to Theresa from our Facebook page for bringing this to my attention.
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We already knows what might happen in the plot. I hope they will bring something new.
I’m so happy they are doing this but I can’t see to find the website where is going to show
does anyone knows it???
How exciting! <3
And the artwork is MUCH better than I thought. With anime nowadays it's always hit or miss when it comes to spectacular art (IMHO). Thank you for keeping us updated! <3
I don’t know, the artwork really underwhelms me.
I’m so stoked that they are using the drawing style and plot from the original manga. Hopefully this series will be a lot more adult the way the comics were as opposed to the childishness and filler material used in the majority of the original anime. The art for this is beautiful, and I hope that the actual show really looks like this and that it’s not just digitally enhanced for the cover graphic. I’m going to just die of happiness if this anime really lives up to Naoko’s beautiful manga art and story!
Everything looks good except I’m skeptical of the NicoNico streamig release. Maybe they’ve cut a deal with NicoNico where NN supports the cost of production while getting marketing exposure in return.
I hope the series of 2014 won’t be the same series as the old series of 1992.
Meh, the artwork is pretty but she looks old and less cute. I hope this small taste is just a pretty image and not what the real animation looks like
I’ll wait until I see a sample art cell or some clip rather than a promotional picture before I give my hopes up again. I get that it’s a little more than what we had last summer (when they said it would be released then), but until I see some real evidence of progress I will not assume anything as solid confirmation. I’ve been burned by them too much to start celebrating so early.
I am so glad that they’d made a remake called Sailor Moon Crystal. It follows the manga really close. They did a super good job on it,i really like the show it’s really good better than the original. And the color of the Sailor Moon Crystal series really stands out. I like it.