Category Archives: Sailor Moon Anime (1992)

The original Sailor Moon anime which aired from 1992 to 1997.

Linda Ballantyne and John Stocker to appear at Anime North May 24th to the 26th

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Linda Ballantyne, voice of Sailor Moon

Linda Ballantyne, the voice of Sailor Moon, and John Stocker, voice actor and director, will be at this year’s Anime North convention in Toronto the weekend of May 24th to the 26th. Head over to the Anime North web site to register for this convention before tickets sell out.

Linda Ballantyne joined the cast of Sailor Moon after Terri Hawkes left the show. She voiced the main character throughout the show’s 3rd and 4th seasons known in Japan as Sailor Moon S and Sailor Moon SuperS.

John Stocker interview at Fan Expo 2012

John Stocker was involved with the show from the beginning doing small roles before ultimately working as voice director during the show’s later two seasons as well as the three movies. We previously interviewed John Stocker when we met up with him at Fan Expo 2012.

G-Anime 2013: Terri Hawkes: Acting, Writing and Directing as a Professional Panel

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Terri Hawkes: Acting, Writing and Directing as a Professional Panel at G-Anime 2013

Here is the second panel by Terri Hawkes, the voice of Sailor Moon, from this year’s G-Anime convention in Gatineau. In this panel Terri talks about what it’s like working as an actor, writer and director in the entertainment industry. It’s mainly geared towards people who are interested in pursuing this kind of work. There is some mention of her time working on Sailor Moon so fans of the show should check it out.

Also be sure to check out Terri Hawkes’s panel on voicing Sailor Moon as well as the interview I did with her at G-Anime.

Voice actor Chieko Honda, voice of Tellu, dies of cancer at 49

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Tellu voiced by Chieko Honda

Last Monday, on February 18th 2013, voice actress Chieko Honda died following a battle with cancer. She was only 49. Chieko Honda was a veteran voice actor best known to Sailor Moon fans for providing the voice of Tellu of the Witches 5 in Sailor Moon S. Though she only appeared in a couple of episodes of the show, her contribution will not soon be forgotten by fans.

Chieko Honda, voice of Tellu

Source: Anime News Network

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New Sailor Moon S figures for sale in May 2013

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3D Render of a new Sailor Moon figure from China's ACG Comic Expo

New figures of Sailor Moon and the rest of the nine Sailor Soldiers will be available in May from Legend Studio.

New Sailor Moon S figures from ACG Comic Expo

Sailor Moon Collectibles reports that a few pictures from the ACG Comic Expo in Guangzhou, China from December have surfaced. These pictures show that there will be the nine figures of Sailor Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Pluto, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn. Unfortunately we just get cutouts with no real indication of what the toys would look like for most of the girls but we get a bit more of a look at Sailor Moon herself. There are some CG renders of the Sailor Moon figure and it’s individual parts which gives us a good idea of what the finished product might look like. We see for example that the figure will have a number of swappable faces and by seeing all the pieces we can get a good idea of the articulation the final product might have.

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G-Anime 2013: Interview with Terri Hawkes, the voice of Sailor Moon

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Interview with Terri Hawkes, the voice of Sailor Moon, at G-Anime 2013

This past weekend I caught up with Terri Hawkes at G-Anime 2013 in Gatineau Quebec for this interview. Terri Hawkes provided the voice of Sailor Moon for most of the first two seasons of the show.

Thanks a lot to Terri Hawkes and the organizers of G-Anime for making this interview the best it could be.

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Catch Terri Hawkes at G-Anime in Gatineau this weekend

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Terry Hawkes to appear at G-Anime

It’s been a while since we first mentioned this convention back in September but the time is finally here. This weekend, Friday January 25th to Sunday January 27th, is G-Anime in Gatineau at the Palais des Congrès de Gatineau, a few mintues from downtown Ottawa. The main guest that followers of this site will likely be interested in is the English voice of Sailor Moon, Terri Hawkes.

Terri Hawkes will have two panels at the convention. The first will be on Saturday at 11am where Terri Hawkes will talk about her role in Sailor Moon. An autograph session will follow at noon. On Sunday at noon Terri Hawkes will be doing a panel on acting, writing and directing as a professional. An autograph session will follow at 1pm. Though the convention is bilingual both of these panels will be presented in English.

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Countless Sailor Moon references in Ebiten

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Ebiten episode 2 - Sailor FukuSailor Moon posing

Ebiten is an animated Internet series that has also played on TV in Japan. The second episode of the show features more Sailor Moon references than you could ever hope for as the main character relives many events from Sailor Moon, transforms into Tailor Moon and breaks the fourth wall by making reference to the similarities. Not only are there references in the characters and actions in the episode but many sequences are nearly frame by frame recreations of counterparts in Sailor Moon. I’ve tried to put together a list of as many of these as possible. Fans of Sailor Moon would be best to simply watch the episode in question and marvel at the similarities. The first episode is available streaming at Crunchyroll or from NyaaTorrents.

With that being said keep reading for a bit of a play by play of the similarities as they happened. For the most part these similarities were to the first episode of the Sailor Moon anime and to the Sailor Moon R movie.

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Sailor Moon in Bon Jovi’s “These Days” music video

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Bon Jovi - "These Days" Sailor Moon machine

Here’s a really old Sailor Moon reference that I wasn’t aware of until just recently. Sailor Moon makes an appearance in Jon Bovi’s 1996 music video for the song “These Days”. At one point the song shows a quick couple of seconds of Japan and at that point an image of some sort of Sailor Moon S machine is shown. I’m not sure what this is, pachinko, slot machine, pinball machine? My searches didn’t turn up anything particular so if you have an idea of what it could be, drop us a line.

This reminded me of another bizarre music reference to Sailor Moon in the CD inserts for U2’s “Best of 1990-2000″ CD release. This picture of the band in front of a large Sailor Moon R The Movie poster was likely taken during their 1992-1993 Zoo TV tour which was going on while Sailor Moon R was in theatres.

U2 in front of a Sailor Moon R The Movie poster

Check out the original Sailor Moon R The Movie poster and the music video featuring Sailor Moon below.

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Sailor Moon reference in Myung Wol the Spy

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Sailor Moon reference in Myung Wol the Spy episode 7

Here’s a somewhat old Sailor Moon sighting from a Korean drama series Myung Wol the Spy. In episode 7 of the series which first aired a bit over a year ago on August 1st 2011, the main male protaganist is trying to get a woman off his mind. In doing so he is watching TV and her image keeps coming up as he flips through the channels. At one point he lands on Sailor Moon as her first season transformation sequence is happening with her face replaced by that of Han Ye Seul who plays the titular character Han Myung Wol.

The following clip has been cued up to the scene in question:

Sailor Moon appears at 9 minutes and 13 seconds.

Thanks to rosepetals from the Sailor Moon forums for spotting this one.

Is My Little Pony’s Crystal Empire inspired by Sailor Moon’s Crystal Tokyo?

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Sailor Moon - Chibiusa overlooking Crystal Tokyo - My Little Pony - Arriving at the Crystal Empire

If you’re a fan of My Little Pony be sure to check out our sister site The Ponyville Gazette on which this article was also posted.

This past Saturday was the season premiere of season 3 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. The story of this first episode centred around a location called The Crystal Empire. A while back when clips of this episode first appeared online someone made this image suggesting a link. While I certainly believe there are visual similarities there I think that now that the full episode has aired we can look at them objectively and see just what does and doesn’t add up.

Sailor Moon's Crystal Tokyo - My Little Pony's The Crystal Empire

The similarity in the image above is hard to ignore. These are both cities made of crystal with one large tower in the middle. The Crystal Empire has a road formation made of stars. Crystal Tokyo does not but from this angle we see a diagonal road leading to the tower which makes the two cities seem similar. The structure of the two cities is somewhat similar with the way other buildings are spread out with some grassy areas, but this is not atypical of any city. It should be noted that a view of Crystal Tokyo during the day is somewhat rare. More often than not we saw Crystal Tokyo during a perpetual night as it was all but completely destroyed and occupied by the Black Moon Clan.

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