The Sailor Moon manga was first published in the pages of Nakayoshi on December 28th 1991. This was over 30 years ago. What does this mean for a franchise that still carries branding related to the 25th anniversary? Will new Sailor Moon Crystal be announced soon? I expect we may eventually be seeing updated “30th Anniversary” branding for the official Sailor Moon site and the brand in general. When this might occur isn’t evident. The “25th Anniversary Project” was announced in January of 2017. At that time they teased new episodes of Sailor Moon Crystal which eventually came out as Sailor Moon Crystal’s 3rd season. Prior to this the 20th anniversary event took place in July of 2012. It was at this event that Sailor Moon Crystal was originally announced. Based on this it seems likely that Sailor Moon’s official “30th Anniversary” would be celebrated in Japan in the year 2022, which is the year in which the Sailor Moon anime originally aired. The first episode of the series aired on Japanese television March 7th 1992. There’s more value for the franchise to expand the event beyond any since day to the entire year or, as we’ve seen, an ongoing five year long celebration.
We are all anxious to hear confirmation of a Stars arc of Sailor Moon Crystal and I do hope this will be announced in the next few months. Considering that we are approaching ten years since the series was first announced and that we’ve had four story arcs over this decade, patience is certainly warranted. We deal in months and years, not days and weeks, when it comes to Sailor Moon Crystal news! It’s likely we’ll have the manga’s story wrapped up before the 35th anniversary at this pace, but I wouldn’t bet on much more than that!
The next time you run into someone who’s under 30 just remember that when they were born Sailor Moon already existed.
What’s your bet for when a new season will be announced and when we might see it? I’m thinking teased in January along with a 30th anniversary logo, confirmed at an event for Usagi’s birthday in the summer and released in 2023! This is just a guess on my part. Perhaps I’m being optimistic!
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Happy Birthday to one of the best franchises out there! And remember, thirty is nothing!
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Strange how she was 25 years old for 5 years, and now, suddenly, she is at 30 XD .
Whether she’s 25, 25++++, or 30 years old, she looks really good for her age!
She is a goddess so… time has no effect on her!
What if it was only our money that kept her from aging, though XD ?
(Bad) joking aside, I wish you all the best 2022 can offer, Joseph
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I hope you are doing well, as well as everyone here. May you stay all strong through hardships, guys!
I wish I was a goddess. Then I could attempt to steal and use “I’m a goddess” as an excuse.
Thank you! May 2022 bring you good health and positivity!
A goddess on a Sailor Moon Blog.
Burning like an HTML flame
A summit of beauty and love
And Joseph their name.
He’s got it,
Yeah, baby, he’s got it.
I’m your Joseph,
I’m your fire at your desire.
His weapons were his Cheshire icons
Making every troll mad,
Stealthy as the dark night he was
Got what no one else had.
He’s got it,
Yeah, baby, he’s got it.
I’m your Joseph,
I’m your fire at your desire.
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What a good tactic. I will be 40 this year, but until then I am still 35!
Joke’s on you! I’m 35, but I’m 14 at heart! (Happy early 40th!)
Not gonna lie, I thought you were between 30 and 35, like me (32). So yeah in my mind, you are still 35.
This is the Sailor Moon News effect: this website stops our aging. You’re still 35. I’m still… I don’t know… 20, maybe? And Joe is the youngest
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And, of course, the three of us are born on February 29
I hope when Crystal Tokyo gets established I’ll rejuvenate to 22 instead of simply halting my aging process!
You and me both. What a ripoff if we don’t! I’ll join the Black Moon Clan in protest!
Oh no! I am the old man of the blog! Please, someone, come and say you are older!
But thank you for the early birthday wishes, Joseph, and thanks to you too, Aurélia!
If you get to be 20 and Joseph is 14, I refuse to be any older than 25.
Fourteen was a good age, but as much as I miss being a teen, the emotional rollercoaster makes me reconsider.
Let’s hope Palla Palla isn’t reading this.
On March 7, 2022, the anime celebrates its 30th Anniversary.
How old is the English dub of the manga? Because I only care about the dub.
Until this very comment I didn’t know we could use tags on the comment block. It’s true I’d never tried anyway. Nice find and very useful!
I had no idea.
Seems like you can do quite a few things.Oh, truth be told, I thought you knew XD .
Prepare now to see a lot of messy and fancy formatting in the comments
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One day, Sailor Moon will join the ranks of the greats[^1].
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how to do that adam
I put the HTML code right in there. Since I see some options in the admin dashboard I use to review comments it’s obvious to me which works. I’ll put some code snippets in here to give an idea of what works though.
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Hyperlinks!
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I love this sorcery going on!
HTML Crystal Power, make up!
*Tries to imagine a transformation sequence where the Senshi of Code is surrounded by whirling tags of all existing languages in IT. The tags then all collide violently in a terrific rumble, bursting into millions of evanescent 0 and 1 revealing, as they lightly and quickly dance like plumes of smoke and vanish in the air, the amazing Sailor Code, all dressed up and ready to launch her most powerful attack, Blue Screen of Death!*
(Oops, delete that other comment, seems I need to use instead of [] for formatting.)
Damn, I wish I had a Silver Crystal to keep me us all young and healthy. At this rate, some of us might need it, as we may be heading for the old folks home before Stars comes out.
I feel like Toei has been handling this all rather poorly. One of their most popular and well known series around the globe, and they don’t do the anime justice at all. As I’ve said before, in the time it took for them to cram the Dream Arc into two movies, the original series has had five seasons, 200 episodes, three movies and three specials. Oh, and that was mostly animating by hand. If they’d been on the ball, we could have finished the main series by now, or at least gotten Stars ready by this point, and maybe they could be looking into doing some specials for the side stories, or a Sailor V prequel for the 30th anniversary. The first week of January has already gone by and I’m guessing there’s no news yet? I’d be surprised if they actually said anything this month, though, TBH.
When I first heard about Crystal coming out, I was excited and started getting into more Sailor Moon stuff after kind of moving on from the series, but that feels like a lifetime ago now. The 30th anniversary should be a huge deal to me, but so far, I feel pretty underwhelmed. We’ll see what happens.
(Oops again. I swear I’m not spamming, sorry. Just let me test the html a bit more.)
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Sites that make you do formatting by hand are awesome