Here are some photos of some Chihuahuas cosplaying as your favourite Sailor Soldiers! A Japanese Instagram user going by mayama_ya has made these cute Sailor Fuku for Sailor Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Venus for her pet chihuahuas and taken a ton of pictures for you to enjoy. The detail in these costumes is better than I’ve seen in a lot of human sized cosplay efforts!
We talk about a lot of Sailor Moon merchandise on this site but things are expensive in Japan, especially when you factor in expensive shipping prices. The good news is that you can now buy a digital version of the recently released Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary Memorial Tribute Album. The album is available for just $8.99 as MP3s from Amazon.com
The main draw back of the digital version of this album is that it does not include the final track, the French language cover of Moonlight Densetsu by Clémentine. If you’re a completist I would suggest downloading that track from the Miss Dream web site. You can still buy the physical version of the CD from Amazon Japan, CD Japan or JList.
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The latest books in the complete editions of the Sailor Moon manga were released in Japan on February 26th. Volume 7 features Sailor Pluto and Sailor Saturn on the cover while volume 8 features Sailor Chibi Moon. These issues cover the entirety of the Dream arc with Pegasus and the Dead Moon Circus. These books are Japanese text only and include all of the colour pages which were previously only seen in the pages of Nakayoshi.
Also included in these books are a few side stories. Chibiusa’s Picture Diary 3 is the story of Chibiusa’s adventures going to the dentist, and fighting a monster on the way. There are also three “Exam Battle” stories which follow the girls in their preparations for their high school entrance exams. We have The Melancholy of Makoto, Ami’s First Love and Rei and Minako’s Girl School Battle?
Volumes 9 and 10 will wrap up the series with the Stars arc. Hopefully Sailor V will be published soon as well though I have seen no official confirmation of this.
You can pick these books up from Amazon Japan (vol. 7, vol. 8), JList (vol. 7, vol. 8) or CD Japan (vol. 7, vol. 8).
From today until Monday, March 10th, two very cool Sailor Moon shirts are on sale at Arteesel for $12 a piece. Both of these shirts feature a Sailor Moon cat as the Cat Bus from Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro. Sailor Vehicle shows Artemis as the Cat Bus with Sailor V inside and Lunar Express, which has previously sold at The Yetee, features Luna as the Cat Bus with Sailor Moon inside.
The shirt’s artist is Machmigo. You can check out more of her stuff at her Facebook Page, Twitter Feed, tumblr or deviantArt page.
From the next couple of days this “Soldier of Water and Wisdom” shirt featuring Sailor Mercury will be for sale at Arteesel. Shirts on Arteesel go on sale for 3 days at a time for just $12, so you’ll have until the end of the day Tuesday March 4th, Eastern Standard Time, to pick this shirt up.
The artist is sigma-astra. Check out her Facebook page, Redbubble store and Society6 store for more of her stuff. She’s done a set of four shirts in this style, which are also available at her RedBubble store.
Keep an eye out on Arteesel next week when a couple more Sailor Moon shirts. We’ll be sure to post about them here as well.
We’ve got a bunch of new announcements about the staff for the new Sailor Moon anime which were revealed today on the Sailor Moon official site. The character designer for the new series is Yukie Sako, the music composer is Yasuharu Takanashi and the art directors are Takashi Hurahashi and Yumi Hosaka. Many fans were hoping for something more concrete about this new anime, currently slated to begin in July of this year, but even though we haven’t seen anything like concept art for the series, the growing group of staff associated with it only confirms that this project is going forward. Keep reading for details on some of these people.
Yukie Sako, the character designer, worked on many anime series including some Gundam series, The Big-O, a Pokemon movie and Steamboy. Be sure to follow her Twitter feed @sakouyukie and check out her imdb or Anime News Network profile to see a list of shows she’s worked on.
Yasuharu Takanashi, the music composer, made music for Hell Girl, Naruto Shippuden, many Pretty Cure series and much more. You can read up on him at Wikipedia or check out his imdb or Anime New Network profiles to see his work.
Art directors Takashi Hurahashi and Yumi Hosaka are relatively new to the job. Takashi Hurahashi previously worked on Tai Chi Chasers, as can be seen on his Anime News Network profile. Yumi Hosaka has worked on a handful of shows which you can read about on her imdb page, including a 2007 anime series named Mononoke.
Today’s Ript Apparel shirt, SailorPuff Girls, features Sailor Moon, Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Jupiter drawn in the style of The Powerpuff Girls. This shirt is $10 today only, February 26th 2014. The shirt was previously sold at TeeFury, though the colours have been touched up and so unlike the previous shirt this version has brown hair and green eyes for Sailor Jupiter, instead of the original black hair and blue eyes which was criticized by some fans.
The shirt’s artist is Nik Holmes. You can find more of his stuff on personal web site, RedBubble Store and Facebook Page.
This coming Thursday, February 27th 2014, a live concert will be held by MTV to celebrate the recent release of the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary Memorial Tribute Album. The concert is being called the “MTV LIVE 2014 supported by SHIDAX with LIVE DAM” and will feature some of the artists on the album. To date Shoko Nakagawa, Mitsuko Horie, Haruka Fukuhara and Momoiro Clover Z have been confirmed to be performing though more may be joining this list. The concert will be taking place at the Zepp Tokyo music hall.
A lot of exclusive merchadise will be sold at the show including t-shirts, towels and a flag. The Sailor Moon official site has images and details of these items. English information is available at the Sailor Moon Collectibles site.
A few weeks ago at Wonder Festival 2014 we got a look at the colour versions of the Sailor Mercury and Sailor Venus Figuarts Zero figures. We had previously only seen the colour version of Sailor Moon and the prototype for Sailor Mercury.
These 1/8 scale figures are non posable statues which stand at 8.5″ or 22 cm in height and aren’t cheap. The Sailor Moon figure will sell for 8800 yen and is listed on Amazon for $89.99. Sailor Moon goes on sale March 31st in Japan and April 22nd in North America. Sailor Mercury and Sailor Venus do not yet have release dates.
Wondering when they will reveal Sailor Mars? Me too.
Source: Ami Ami blog‘s Facebook page via Sailor Moon Collectibles
This weekend, March 1st and 2nd, there will be a huge gathering of Sailor Moon voice actors at the Wonderland Anime Festival in Winnipeg. The convention will be playing host to Linda Ballantyne, the voice of Sailor Moon, Kate Griffin, the voice of Sailor Mars, Susan Roman, the voice of Sailor Jupiter, Toby Proctor, the voice of Tuxedo Mask, Ron Rubin, the voice of Artemis, and John Stocker, voice director for the series. The convention will be taking place at the Victoria Inn Hotel, near the airport.
The convention will be holding individual panels for each voice actor on the main stage throughout the weekend. Saturday will feature Linda Ballantyne at 11am, Toby Proctor at 1pm, Susan Roman at 2pm and Katie Griffin at 3pm. Sunday continues with John Stocker at 1pm and Ron Rubin at 2pm. In addition to these guests the Wonderland Video Room will be screening episodes of Sailor Moon throughout the weekend.
Tickets are still available for $35 for the weekend or $20 for a single day.