Great news for fans of Sailor Moon and tabletop games! Dyskami Publishing Company has acquired the rights to release two Sailor Moon Crystal games this year! The first, Sailor Moon Crystal Dice Challenge, will be out this summer while Sailor Moon Crystal Truth or Bluff, a tile based game, is set to be release in the Fall. Details about both of these games can be found on the Dyskami official site.
The first game we’ll be getting, Sailor Moon Crystal Dice Challenge, is a game of dice and cards. Players will be one of 24 characters, who are each represented by a card, and will use a number of different dice to face off against each other. The game comes with a total of 24 dice, 6 different types, as well as tokens and challenge cards. The box art says it’s for 2 to10 players though the site lists it as being for 2 to 8 players. It’s for players aged 10 and up and will retail for $29.99 US.
The other game which will be released in the Fall is Sailor Moon Crystal Truth or Bluff. This game will have players laying down tile cards showcasing heroes, villains and ending tiles. It will also include tokens, tile holders, privacy shields and a cloth bag for portability. The title made me think this might be a Truth or Dare kind of social game but based on the description it seems to be about bluffing with what tiles you’re using. This game is for 3 to 10 players and again is for players aged 10 and up. It will also retail for $29.99 US. Check out some of the tiles below! They feature Super Deformed or Chibi type characters in a Sailor Moon Crystal style.
Both games are priced affordably and seem to be quite portable. I’m looking forward to seeing these games in action! It’s great to see this come from a Canadian company! Dyskami Publishing is based in Guelph Ontario.
This is not one of the upcoming games!
I was tempted to say that these were the first Sailor Moon board games available in North America but I had a vague memory of having seen one before. Indeed a quick search reminded me that there was a Sailor Moon Web of the Negaverse game released in the 90s! I never had the pleasure of playing it. There was also the popular Sailor Moon Trading Card Game and the Sailor Moon pen and paper RPG released back in the day. These last two were actually designed by Dyskami’s founder and CEO Mark MacKinnon. Many other Sailor Moon games were released in other countries around the world.
Check out the full press release below for more details. We’ll be sure to have more on these games when they come out!
DYSKAMI PUBLISHING COMPANY ANNOUNCES SAILOR MOON CRYSTAL TABLETOP GAMES
GUELPH, ONTARIO (25 APRIL, 2017) — Dyskami Publishing Company announced today that it has entered into a North American licensing arrangement with Toei Animation Inc. to design and distribute a line of tabletop board games based on the popular Japanese animation series, Sailor Moon Crystal. Based on Naoko Takeuchi’s legendary manga series, Sailor Moon Crystal retells the story of Sailor Moon as she searches for her fellow Sailor Guardians and the Legendary Silver Crystal to stop the dark forces of Queen Beryl.
“We are absolutely thrilled to be producing a line of Sailor Moon Crystal board and dice games for fans of the series,” said Dyskami Publishing Company President, Mark MacKinnon. “Sailor Moon Crystal offers a dynamic range of iconic characters and rich storylines that makes it an ideal series for adaptation into tabletop games. Sailor Moon and her allies have spanned generations, capturing the hearts of both gamers and anime buffs since the early 1990s and we look forward to bringing them to the gaming table.”
Dyskami will first release Sailor Moon Crystal Dice Challenge in late summer 2017, created by renowned designer, James Ernest of Cheapass Games, based on his Origins Award-winning Button Men game. Dice Challenge is an energetic dice battle game that’s quick to play, easy to teach, and highly portable for playing at anime/gaming conventions. Dyskami will debut its next release, the tile-passing-and-bluffing game Sailor Moon Crystal Truth or Bluff, later in the year with additional games following in 2018.
About Dyskami Publishing
Dyskami Publishing Company is a Canadian tabletop gaming company headquartered in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. They are dedicated to creating products for today’s busy board gamers, both casual and hardcore, who may not have as much time for their hobby as before. The company’s tagline, “It’s About Time”, reflects their vision for an evolution in board gaming design and implementation. Dyskami publishes the board games lines Warband: Against the Darkness, Upon a Fable, and Worker Placement. For additional information, contact Dyskami Publishing Company at info@dyskami.ca or visit dyskami.ca.About Toei Animation Inc.
Based in Los Angeles, Toei Animation Inc. manages the film distribution of Toei’s top properties, including all Dragon Ball series, Sailor Moon, One Piece, Saint Seiya, and many others to North America, Latin America, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Toei Animation Los Angeles office further handles all categories of consumer product licensing based on its film and television brands within these territories. For more information, please visit
www.toei-animation-usa.com.Sailor Moon Crystal ©Naoko Takeuchi/PNP/KODANSHA/TOEI ANIMATION
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Thanks for the great coverage! Just a quick FYI that Dyskami’s founder and CEO, Mark MacKinnon, was also the designer of the Origins Award-winning Sailor Moon Collectable Card Game and the Sailor Moon Role-Playing Game and Resource Book. Mark has an extensive history with Sailor Moon adventure games!
Good to know! I’ve got some cards and a couple of copies of the RPG book. (Found a German copy at a con…)
Added a note about it. Thanks.
This is the cutest thing I’ve seen in a long time
What wont they think of next?
I am quite delighted!
I also hope the fourth season gets announced in 2017.
They need to release a game that I can play alone. I never have anyone to play any board games with.
In truth I play a lot of board games and RPGs but I’ve never played a Sailor Moon game with anyone. I just don’t have a lot of friends who’s interest in games and Sailor Moon overlap. I can see a market for this but it’s not everyone who’s friends share their interests.
I have the RPG book and every card from the first series except Venus’ foil card (I never bought the “past and future” expansion.)
Poor Jedite, he didn’t get a token in the old game?
I have Web of the Negaverse. I’ll be selling it at Anime North’s Nominoichi if you’re interested!
This is months old, I know, but I have never found these games in any store I’ve gone to. They were actually released right?
I can’t say for sure. The web site has no update and neither does their Twitter account. I never saw the game or more information about it anywhere. No firm date was given besides “later in the year” so we should be expecting it soon but it doesn’t look to me like either of these games is out yet.
If you look at the “replies” section on their Twitter account they have a few from August that simply says the game has been delayed several months but not update beyond that.
https://twitter.com/dyskami/with_replies
I’d say keep waiting!