Since Wednesday pre-orders for Bandai’s new Sailor Moon figure are up. You can pre-order this figure at many different online retailers, including the Amazon link shown below which can also be found in the Amazon store in our sidebar.
If for whatever reason you would prefer not to order from Amazon, there are many other pre-order options that can be considered. Listed below are all of the ones we are aware of at the time of this post going online.
Today at The Yetee there are two shirts featuring a mix of Sailor Moon and My Neighbor Totoro. They are for sale today and today only for $11 each.
“Lunar Express” has Luna as a giant Cat Bus with Sailor Moon riding inside of her. The Japanese writing on the bus showing the destination says “Luna”. This shirt was done by Machmigo and you can find more of her art on her Facebook page.
“My Neighbor Luna”, has a giant Luna taking the place of Totoro and a relatively small Sailor Moon in the place of Satsuki in the iconic bus stop scene from the film and it’s movie poster. This shirt’s artist is Karen Hallion. You can check out her Facebook page for more of her art.
This “Battle For The Moon” shirt is available at ShirtPunch today and today only, April 7th, for $10 after which it will be gone forever! This shirt features Sailor Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus literally fighting over the Moon.
The shirt’s artist is Donnie. You can check out his web site, blog or Facebook page for more of his works.
Kazuko Tadano, animation director and character designer for the original Sailor Moon series, confirmed in an Italian interview at the Cartoonist 2013 convention in Nice, France that the new Sailor Moon anime series would be delayed, potentially up to December. While Kazuko Tadano will not be working on the new anime series she stated that nothing was in the works, that there will be a large delay and that it will probably be ready in December. While this is once again not an official announcement of a delay this adds to a mountain of evidence that has already suggested a delay is happening. It should also be considered that since Kazuko Tadano is not associated with the show this isn’t first hand information but likely something she’s heard from someone else in the industry. We can’t make any definitive conclusions about the idea that the delay could be until the end of the year, though this does match up with the winter 2014 estimate that was given by a European distributor for Toei a few weeks ago.
Beyond this news she also discussed her work on Sailor Moon. When asked about leaving the series after two seasons of doing character designs and animation direction she mentioned that it was difficult to work with Toei and that she wanted to work on other projects. She also talked about Ail and An, the two aliens from Sailor Moon R, and how they were original characters of her own creation.
Bandai has released this fantastic commercial for their upcoming S. H. Figuarts Sailor Moon figure. The commercial features the voice of Sailor Moon from the original anime Kotono Mitsuishi and features a number of different parts that are included with the figure. You can watch it below.
The figure will be officially up for pre-order on May 8th, though as we have mentioned some sites have already started taking pre-orders for the figure. Once more details about the pre-orders and the figure are announced we’ll be sure to share them with you.
May 2nd update: This shirt was first available on February 7th but it has been listed again today, May 2nd, at the same site. Check out this highly requested reprint if you missed it the first time around.
This nice looking Tuxedo Mask t-shirt is available for $10 only on February 7th at ShirtPunch. Sites like ShirtPunch sell a new shirt every day for one day only for a low price. This is the first Tuxedo Mask shirt I’ve seen on one of these sites. Be sure to pick one up!
The title “Crystal Clear Hero” could be a reference to the dub episode title “A Crystal Clear Destiny” or just a similar pun about Tuxedo Mask’s searching for the Crystal in the first season.
The shirt’s artist is inkOne. He’s done a lot of other shirts for sites like this. Some of his designs can be found at this online store. You can also follow him on Twitter or Facebook to keep up to date with his stuff.
Sailor Moon Collectibles has the scoop on information about the Sailor Moon artbook. We haven’t heard much about this book since the original announcement at New York Comic Con last October and though there were a lot of answers that weren’t really answers, here’s what we’ve learned from Kodansha Comics USA.
The art books will all be printed in Japan and distributed around the world. We previously learned that they would be sold in seven countries, which includes Japan and the United States but we still don’t know what those five other countries are. We have learned that each country will have it’s own unique bonus materials meaning it will be quite expensive for completists to get every last one if they want all of the bonus content.
The Kodansha Tumblr page will be having a giveaway tomorrow, May 1st. Prizes, which will include Sailor Moon merchandise, will be manga, pins, calendars, posters and more.
Keiko Kitagawa, the actress who played Sailor Mars in the live action Sailor Moon show, will be releasing a new photo book to celebrate her first 10 years in the fashion industry. The book is set to be released on her 27th birthday, August 22nd of this year. She was recently in Paris to get photos for her book and has now returned to Japan to finish up with more photos.
Keiko Kitagawa now has an official Facebook page where you can see many photos she took while in Paris working on her photo book. She also recorded a video which is talking about the new book. It’s in Japanese but well worth watching if like me you’d watch her read the phone book.
The Bluefin Tamashii Nations USA Facebook page has posted some new information about Bandai’s new S. H. Figuarts Sailor Moon figure. They specify the North American sale time to be in August or September. The MSRP is $42.99, pretty much equivalent to the Japanese price we saw earlier. It is also mentioned that the two new face we recently saw, that being the winking and crying Sailor Moon faces, will be 1st edition exclusives. Additionally the Luna figure which accompanies Sailor Moon is also a 1st edition exclusive.
Online store G. G. Infinite already has the figure up for pre-order. The cost on their site is $42.29 and they mention the figure will be released in September.
Following last week’s post about a potential delay in the airing of the new Sailor Moon series we have received more specific confirmation from Fumio Osano, editor of the Sailor Moon manga, that the new Sailor Moon anime originally scheduled to air this summer is delayed. There has still been no official announcement and there are no specifics as to the extent of this delay, but this does seem to indicate that the show will not be released on it’s original schedule. As always I want to stress that nothing is official but given this is coming from Fumio Osano who was involved in the original announcement, it should be considered to be more than a simple rumour.
The tweet that Fumio Osano, @osabu8 on twitter, made to confirm was simple. A user asked “Please confirm. Has the new anime officially been delayed?” and he simply said “yes.”. Further to this another user asked if it would indeed be broadcast in Winter 2014 as we’ve heard, to which his answer was “not 2014.perhaps.“. I have no way to properly determine the full meaning of this comment. It could mean that it is delayed but not until 2014. Fumio Osano is not a fluent English reader or writer so all of this information is subject to errors in translation.