Volume 7 of Kodansha’s English translation of the Sailor Moon manga is now available in stores. Go pick it up or support our site by ordering it from the amazon link at the bottom of this post.
The manga’s cover features Sailor Uranus. The story in this volume focuses largely on Hotaru, who becomes Sailor Saturn and Mistress 9 as it covers acts 31 through 35.
On Thursday at San Diego Comic-con Kodansha, publisher of the Japanese Sailor Moon manga and the current US translations, held a comic panel where the main topic of interest was Sailor Moon. Anime News Network and Anime Diet covered the event. Here are the important details!
Information about the 2013 anime series was repeated. It was mentioned that while Kotono Mitsuishi is hoping to get the job as the voice of Sailor Moon that casting has not in fact happened yet.
The new editions of the manga will have a US release and will include colour pages.
There appears to have been a lot of people complaining about various quality issues with the manga translations currently being released (available in our amazon store…) and one rep from Kodansha was quoted to have said “There are some people on Twitter that are kind of mean”. Welcome to the Internet! All in all Sailor Moon is their top selling book so they are doing quite well despite all those mean people who are likely still buying their book because hey it’s Sailor Moon so who cares about a few problems, just buy it!
Aside from that there were a lot of things they weren’t able to comment on, and I see no point in reiterating that stuff.
Kodansha Comics USA has posted this press release about the 20th anniversary show that took play last Friday, July 6th. Much of the information has already been covered on this site but a few new bits of information were included.
A new 10 volume collector’s edition of the Sailor Moon and Codename: Sailor V manga are going to be released in Japan. It’s mentioned that these will be faithful reproductions including the colour pages. Does this mean the content will be the original art rather than the slightly modified versions from the 2003 rerelease that is currently being released in North America? We can only hope so!
An anime memorial DVD collection, each featuring a different character, will be released. These were at one point though to be the Sailor Moon memorials which exist on VHS and laser disc, but those each focused on a season of the show, so this appears to be something new.
The character memorials will not be these ones, but may be something similar
Both the manga and DVD collections will be released one volume at a time on a monthly schedule beginning in October 2012.
Check out the full press release below.