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Pretty Guardian Trainer Jupiter Sailor Moon/Pokémon shirt for sale today at ShirtPunch

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Pretty Guardian Trainer Jupiter shirt

Check out this “Pretty Guardian Trainer Jupiter” shirt featuring a mash up of Pokémon and Sailor Moon. It’s for sale at ShirtPunch for only $10 but will only be for sale for 24 hours on October 18th. The shirt shows Sailor Jupiter as a Pokémon trainer with the Pokémon Blitzie, Roselia and Jolteon in her team.

The artist, Kinkwink, has already done similar shirts for Pretty Guardian Trainer Venus and Pretty Guardian Trainer Mars which are both still available at her Redbubble store. This shirt will also likely show up on that store once this sale is completed.

Kodansha confirms the new Sailor Moon anime will air around January 2014 in 10 languages

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Kodansha Comics USA booth at NYCC 2013

This weekend is New York Comic Con where there was a Kodansha Comics panel to discuss many things, including the current state of the Sailor Moon manga, art books and the new Sailor Moon anime we’re all excited to see. A lot of what we already knew was repeated at this panel. We had already heard that the new Sailor Moon anime would air in the winter. This is repeated as being “around January 2014″. The method of distribution was once again confirmed to be Niconico, a Japanese online streaming video site, and it was added that the show will be subtitled in 10 different languages! This would obviously include English, though we can only speculate as to what the other languages may be.

Sailor Moon poster at Kodansha Comics USA booth at NYCC 2013

Kodansha Comics USA also gave out some items at their booth including a Sailor Moon 2014 calendar, similar to the one they released last year.

Source: Go Robo Now and Kodansha Comics

New details about Bandai’s Figuarts ZERO Sailor Moon figure

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Sailor Moon Figuarts ZERO figure in colour

The Tamashi Nations Sailor Moon site has been updated with colour images of their upcoming Figuarts ZERO Sailor Moon figure which will be available in March from Bandai and Volks. We had previously only seen a grey prototype of this toy. The image below shows it next to the S. H. Figuarts figure to demonstrate scale, which is useful only to people who actually have the S. H. Figuarts figure which is itself a fairly small toy. It will be 22 cm tall, roughly 8.5″. It is priced at 8,800 yen which is about $91 US so get started on that loan application now. You can preorder this toy from JList for a mere $110.

Sailor Moon Figuarts ZERO figure size comparison to the S. H. Figuarts figure

This figure is not posable and is modelled after Sailor Moon from the Sailor Moon R arc of the anime, as Sailor Moon is seen with her Cutie Moon Rod and Crystal Star Brooch.

Sailor Moon Figuarts ZERO figure banner

Capsule toys for Sailor Moon transformation items, Sailor Chibi Moon and Sailor V coming in 2014

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Sailor Jupiter keychain and preview of Sailor V and Sailor Chibi Moon keychains

Bandai’s new Sailor Moon keychain capsule toys, also known as Gashapon, are now out in Japan! With these came inserts stating that two new keychains, Sailor Chibi Moon and Sailor V, would be released in February 2014.

Sailor Moon transformation item capsule toys

Can’t wait that long? No problem. In January five transformation items will be released as capsule toys. The entire set can be preordered now from JList for only $22. The set includes Sailor Moon’s original transformation brooch from the first season, her Crystal Star Brooch from Sailor Moon R, her Cosmic Heart Compact from Sailor Moon S and her Crisis Moon Compact and Sailor Chibi Moon’s Chibi Moon Compact from Sailor Moon SuperS.

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Susan Roman to appear on Linda Ballantyne’s “I’m Just Sayin'” radio show October 8th at noon

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Lita and Serena, Susan Roman and Linda Ballantyne

Tomorrow, October 8th 2013, Susan Roman, the voice of Sailor Jupiter, will appears on the “I’m Just Sayin'” radio show, which is hosted by Linda Ballantyne, the voice of Sailor Moon. The show plays at noon on Canada Talks (channel 167) on Sirius XM. With two Sailor Scouts on the same show it’s likely that the topic of Sailor Moon will come up!

Makoto, Usagi and Luna

This was mentioned on Linda Ballantyne’s twitter account. Be sure to follow her @LABallantyne. Tomorrow will be a particularly special show but you can always catch Linda Ballantyne on “I’m Just Sayin'” every Tuesday at noon on Canada Talks on Sirius XM. Readers may recall this show was mentioned during our interview with Linda Ballantyne at Fan Expo 2013.

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The Live Action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon series premiered 10 years ago today

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Miyuu Sawai as Sailor Moon and Jouji Shibue as Tuxedo Mask from the live action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon series

October 4th 2003, 10 years ago, the first episode of the live action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon TV series premiered in Japan. The show didn’t achieve much success with a North American audience but many fans did have a fondness for it. With a total of 49 episodes the series ran for about a year and also had two direct to video specials and a live stage show, along with a lot of merchandise.

Keiko Kitagawa as Sailor Mars

The story of this series was a retelling of the Dark Kingdom storyline from the manga and anime. While at the beginning there were many similarities, the series quickly defied expectations and did it’s own thing going so far as to introduce new variations of classic characters like Sailor Luna, Dark Mercury, Mio Kuroki and Princess Sailor Moon. The effects were a bit cheap and Luna was a plush most of the time but the show still had a certain quality to it that made it very much Sailor Moon.

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New super deformed Sailor Moon figures from MegaHouse

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MegaHouse Sailor Moon figures

There are some great looking new Sailor Moon figures on their way from MegaHouse. These super deformed or “chibi” style figures come in a total of 14 designs, showing 8 characters. How does that work? Well the series includes two versions each of Sailor Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Tuxedo Mask as well as lucky items of Luna and Artemis. It may appear that there are duplicate figures but in reality there are simply variations in the winking faces of the various Sailor Guardians and Tuxedo Mask has a variant without his mask. The toys are 6 to 9 cm tall (about 2.4″ to 3.5″) and are set to hit store shelves in Japan this winter. They are 700 yen each, about $7 US, though they are likely to be sold as a set.

MegaHouse Sailor Moon figures

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Pre-order Bandai’s Sailor Mars S. H. Figuarts figure

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Sailor Mars S. H. Figuarts figure

The pre-order for Bandai’s Sailor Mars S. H. Figuarts figure has been available on Amazon for a few weeks now but I didn’t get a chance to post about it but that’s okay because it’s a pre-order! The figure won’t be released in North American until January 15th. You can get the figure a bit earlier if you import it from Japan but be prepared to pay for it in shipping! The figure is out on December 31st in Japan so you won’t be getting it that much sooner, as compared to other figures. You can pre-order it from sites like JList, CD Japan, YesAsia or Amazon Japan.

Can’t wait to get a figure? The Sailor Moon figure is actually out and you can get it now from Amazon! It’s been out for a while in Japan and has just been released in North America. Many fans have already gotten their figures (mine is still in the mail) but if you didn’t pre-order it you can order it now and it will ship right away. Sailor Mercury is also available for pre-order from Amazon for a December 15th release date. If you’re impatient you can import the toy from sites like CD Japan or Amazon Japan and it will ship on October 31st.

We also now finally have colour pictures of the Sailor Venus figure, previously seen only as a prototype, and the Sailor Jupiter figure which we hadn’t seen before. Check out this group shot from the S. H. Figuarts Sailor Moon site.

Sailor Venus, Mars, Moon, Mercury and Jupiter S. H. Figuarts figures from Bandai

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Toby Proctor, the voice of Tuxedo Mask, to attend Unplugged Expo in Toronto this October

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Toby Proctor, the voice of Tuxedo Mask

Toby Proctor, who voiced Tuxedo Mask for the majority of the first two seasons of Sailor Moon, will be joining many others at Unplugged Expo in Toronto October 26th and 27th. Here’s a video where he announced his appearance.

Toby Proctor joins tons of other voice actors from the English dub of Sailor Moon who have already been confirmed to be attending such as Stephanie Morgenstern, the voice of Sailor Venus, Katie Griffin, the voice of Sailor Mars, Susan Roman, the voice of Sailor Jupiter, Terri Hawkes, the voice of Sailor Moon, Jill Frappier, the voice of Luna, Ron Rubin, the voice of Artemis, Roland Parliament, the voice of Melvin, Julie Lemieux, the voice of Serena’s brother Sammy and John Stocker, voice director.

Will there be any more guests announced before next month’s convention? Does it matter? Why don’t you have your tickets yet?

If you’re a fan of Toby Proctor check out our interview with him from Fan Expo last month.

Watch the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon La Reconquista Musical with English subtitles

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Sailor Moon La Reconquista Musical - Rei, Usagi, Minako, Makoto, Ami

The hard working folks over at Miss Dream bring us a subtitled version of the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon La Reconquista musical which just played in Japan. The musical was streamed online via Niconico video for some of the shows and from this streamed version an English translation was put together. You can download it from Miss Dream’s Sailor Moon La Reconquista site.

Sailor Moon La Reconquista Musical - Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion

The video is over two and a half hours so grab yourself some popcorn, pocky or whatever strikes your fancy and enjoy the show! We’ll be sure to have a review for you in the coming days.

On the Miss Dream web site you can also find the soundtrack, audio versions of all the songs from the musical, as well as a translation of the pamphlet which was sold at the show.