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

Original Sailor Moon anime to replay in Japan starting May 5th

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Sailor Moon episode 1 - Usagi removing a bandage from Luna's head

Japanese satellite channel TV Asahi channel 1 will begin replaying the first season of the 1992 Sailor Moon anime starting on the 5th of May. This is not a free channel so the show will not be viewable by everyone. The TV Asahi web site mentions that the show will be airing from 5 to 6pm on Sundays, meaning that they will be playing two episode per week in this time slot. The site only mentions the original 46 episode, having run from March 7th 1992 to March 23rd 1993, so there is currently no indication of specific plans to follow this airing up with Sailor Moon R. Replaying this first season will take roughly six months at this rate.

Fans have been waiting for more information about the new 2013 Sailor Moon anime but such information has still not come. Is TV Asahi trying to capitalize on the impending hype for the new series? Unfortunately we can’t consider this move as an indication of much since Sailor Moon has been replayed in Japan a number of times since it’s original airing back in the day.

Keiko Han and Yuko Minaguchi, the voices of Luna and Sailor Saturn, to appear at Animazement in May

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Keiko Han, the voice of Luna in Sailor Moon

Keiko Han, the voice of Luna the cat from the Sailor Moon anime and live action series, and Yuko Minaguchi, the voice of Sailor Saturn from the anime, will be making appearance at the Animazement anime convention in North Caroline May 24th to the 26th.

Yuko Minaguchi, the voice of Sailor Saturn

Both of these Japanese voice actors have a ton of anime credits to their name and will surely have a very interesting perspective on the voice acting world in Japan and their roles in Sailor Moon. Though the schedule is not determined yet Animazement generally have guest panels and autograph signings. Check out Animazement’s guest page to see if any other of you favourite Japanese voice actors will be in appearance.

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Momoiro Clover Z reenact the Sailor Moon S opening

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Momoiro Clover Z - Sailor Moon S intro - Sailor Team

Unfortunately today’s appearance of Momoiro Clover Z on Japanese TV show Bakusho Show Battle did not have them performing the theme song to the new Sailor Moon 2013 anime as we previously reported. This was not an April fool’s joke but rather a misunderstood translation of the Japanese announcement. Apologies if we got your hopes up.

What we did get is a shot for shot remake of the opening of the Sailor Moon S season of the anime in which Momoiro Clover Z sing Moonlight Densetsu. You can watch the full clip below, assuming this clip does not get pulled as others have. You can compare their version to the actual Sailor Moon S opening being shown on the lower right corner of the screen.

Bakusho Show Battle is a Japanese TV show in which bands square off against each other doing a parody of a popular intro. You can find out more about this episode from Yahoo! Japan’s episode guide.

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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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