Today, August 22nd 2024, Sailor Moon Cosmos Parts 1 and 2 were released on Netflix. This marks the end of the long running Sailor Moon Crystal series being released in North America. This is the first time fans outside of Japan are able to watch the films without importing it and the premiere of the English dub, as well as dubs in many other languages.
I’m reminded about how we saw the first episode of Sailor Moon Crystal released simultaneously to stream worldwide around the globe! How far we’d come back in 2014 to be able to do so when way back in 2024 we would have to wait over a year for a film that came out in theatres in Japan to be released domestically. No wait… I have that backwards. Indeed Sailor Moon Cosmos Part 1 was out in theatres in Japan on June 9th 2023, over a year ago. Surely things are a bit different with films than with a series but 2021’s Sailor Moon Eternal came out a mere five months after it first dropped in theatres in Japan. Why the delay? I don’t really know. Let’s just be happy we’ve finally gotten it.
Will any of you actually be watching these films for the first time? I watched my imported Japanese Blu-ray in the year 2023 but I am looking forward to checking out the Viz dub of the films.
Source: Netflix
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I just hope they do not use English honorific dialogue for Toonami like they did for Sailor Moon Eternal.
one minor gripe i have about it is for the “singing” in part 1 they didnt even bother to dub it at all but instead use the original voices which is kinda ok since lets be honest who doesnt know what the songs are since season 5 was very well fan subbed for a long time… i will gripe tho for later on with seiya where there singing to usagi and its the same thing the japanese vo not any english dub… oddly enough the honorifics really fit well in the movie somehow… was there a reason that it took well over a year to dub and release??? i doubt we will ever find out and my hopes for a dvd/blu ray set for us incase netflix decides to just at anytime they feel like it to pull it and watch it disapear into the ether like other shows have gone with little to no way to watch em anymore… watched them 3 times now in english and funny enough its hard to wrap myself into it as i just finished bingeing the old dic dubs so some things arent clicking yet… at least the story was very solid if a bit too rush though the pages with no spice of the old crystal episodes to flesh out the plots a bit more
Will there be September news?
dont you have a bridge to go scare people off of?? i dont run this site and tbh this was the final arc of sailor moon so to look in my crystal ball im betting to say that there prolly wont be any new anime news for quite some time
Don’t listen to my imposter. He’s trying to impersonate me.
You can always count on Luke to copy and paste the same comment asking about news every month!
Maybe?
Finally, some August news!
Binged it last night. I got plenty teary-eyed while watching it.
Galaxia-sama! Mamo-chawn!
I just cringed my way through the English dub, and it’s about as good as the English dubs of Crystal and Eternal. There were some interesting acting/directing choices, but Mercury’s VA, Kate Higgins, is somehow still not on the same page as everyone else after three seasons and two movies. It’s too bad there won’t be any more of these for her to ruin.
With how dialogue-heavy this arc is, I’m really glad I watched the original Japanese audio first before watching any localized dubs.
I agree that the delay for the streaming release was unusually long for Cosmos, but I’m also not sure that the wait was worth it. You can tell that the English dub actors recorded separately like they did for Eternal and Crystal, with no particularly notable performances from anyone. This was just another job, and now that job is over.
Whatever fanfare and momentum were generated by the theatrical release over a year ago and the hard media release 8 months ago are virtually non-existent now. The diehard fans have already seen the Japanese audio version, so the Netflix release is kind of an afterthought for fans who didn’t get the memo last year.
It was like that the entire Viz dub of Crystal and maybe the original series too. Stephanie Sheh made Sailor Moon’s genuine style voice acting in Japanese seem phoney in English.
The 90’s DiC made Viz look like amateurs.
What about September news?
Stop impersonating me!
Last Friday, Sailor Moon short stories manga celebrated its 20th anniversary.
Last Tuesday was the first anniversary of my second comment about the third Sailor Moon article.
Can we have September news now?
We have some September news already. And stop impersonating me!
Glad I cancelled my Netflix subscription. This is just another reason not to go back.
Well, we made it. A decade of waiting but it’s here.
The theatrical release for Cosmos was over a year ago, so less than a decade. If you’re one of those people who only watches low budget dubs, you’re going to be waiting a decade for a lot of things.
Emi Shinohara died 2 days ago.
hi!
maybe you know since you are a sailor moon fan <3
i bought sailor moon crystal season 1-3 on bluray/dvd boxes. (american version)
but i cant find the rest on bluray =( or dvd did they not release it?
im sorry for my bad english =)
After watching the two last films, I wanted to write that I by the end I found them very powerful, ad I almost got teary-eyed. I felt some emotion. That didn’t happen for me watching any Sailor Moon except when the inners died in the Stars season of the ’90s anime. Well, I felt emotion all through the OG anime, just not to the point of almost crying like that time. I wish I could remember specific things I wanted to comment on, but I am writing this after seeing the films a month ago. The animation was really great at times, but sub-par other times, including during most of Sailor Moon’s transformations, which is when the animation should have been among the best! Oh well, the climax was animated beautifully and added to the power. I thought these last films were really good, so all in all, worth it. I just wish we got episodes for every Act, and consistently great animation. But I will definitely be re-watching all of Crystal, including Eternal and Cosmos, time and time again.
First no April news, then no July news, and now no October news? I’m really mad!