Kawaii Mars and Mercury shirts for sale this weekend at Arteesel

Kawaii Mars shirt at Arteesel

Here are a couple of great looking shirts for sale until the end of the weekend from Arteesel. Kawaii Mars and Kawaii Mercury features Sailor Mars and Sailor Mercury drawn in a style reminiscent of old cartoons like Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat.

Kawaii Mercury shirt at Arteesel

The shirt’s artist, machmigo, has designed many other Sailor Moon shirts that have been mentioned on this site. Check out more of her stuff on her Facebook Page, Twitter Feed, tumblr or deviantArt page.

Chihuahuas dressed in Sailor Moon outfits

Chihuahua dressed as Sailor Mars

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!

Chihuahuas dressed as characters from Sailor Moon

Sailor Fuku made for a Chihuahua

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Volumes 7 and 8 of the Complete Editions of the Sailor Moon manga are on sale in Japan

Sailor Moon manga complete editions - vol. 7 and vol. 8 covers

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.

Sailor Moon manga complete editions - Chibiusa's Picture Diary vol. 3

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?

Sailor Moon manga complete editions - Exam Battle - Melancholy of Makoto

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.

Sailor Moon manga complete editions - Exam Battle - Ami's First Love

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).

Sailor Moon manga complete editions - Exam Battle - Rei and Minako's Girl School Battle?

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“Soldier of Water and Wisdom” Sailor Mercury shirt available until Tuesday at Arteesel

"Soldier of Water and Widsom" Sailor Mercury shirt at Arteesel

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.

SailorPuff Girls Sailor Moon/Powerpuff Girls t-shirt for sale today at Ript Apparel

SailorPuff Girls t-shirt at Ript Apparel

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.

A look at the Sailor Mercury and Sailor Venus Figuarts Zero figures

Sailor Venus, Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury Figuarts Zero

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.

Sailor Mercury Figuarts Zero

Sailor Venus Figuarts Zero

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

“SailorPuff Girls” Sailor Moon/Powerpuff Girls shirt available today at TeeFury

"SailorPuff Girls" Sailor Moon/Powerpuff Girls shirt at TeeFury

Today, January 19th 2014, this “SailorPuff Girls” shirt will be for sale at TeeFury. This shirt features Sailor Moon, Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury and Sailor Jupiter drawn in the style of The Powerpuff Girls. As with most shirt a day sites this shirt will only be sold today, for 24 hours, for $11. The shirt is available in Royal Blue, Tahiti and Red.

The Powerpuff Girls

The shirt’s artist is Nik Holmes. For more of his works check out his personal web site, RedBubble Store or Facebook Page.

Anime Expo to host a huge Sailor Moon reunion with nine voice actors in LA this July

Unplugged Expo Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary Panel - Day 1

This 4th of July weekend, July 3rd to the 6th, Anime Expo in Los Angeles will be playing host to a huge number of Sailor Moon voice actors. A few weeks ago the first round of guests were announced as the convention would welcome all five of the Sailor Soliders, Linda Ballantyne, Sailor Moon, Karen Bernstein, Sailor Mercury, Katie Griffin, Sailor Mars, Susan Roman, Sailor Jupiter and Stephanie Morgenstern, Sailor Venus. This past weekend another bunch of actors were added with Toby Proctor, Tuxedo Mask, Mary Long who voice Molly, Catsy and JunJun, Ron Rubin, Artemis and John Stocker, voice director for the movies and final two seasons.

All of these actors have done many other voice acting roles. This gathering is once again being billed as part of the Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary which was first celebrated in February of 2012. This July the 20th celebration will be well into it’s third year. Will we continue celebrating Sailor Moon’s 20th Anniversary up until it’s 25th Anniversary? Only time will tell!

Pretty Guardian Trainer Mercury Sailor Moon/Pokémon shirt for sale today at ShirtPunch

Pretty Guardian Trainer Mercury Sailor Moon/Pokémon Shirt

Today this Pretty Guardian Trainer Mercury shirt, which combines the worlds of Sailor Moon and Pokémon, will be for sale at ShirtPunch. The shirt is for sale January 13th for 24 hours for $10. Sailor Mercury’s Pokémon team includes Dragonair, Lapras, Wartortle and Vaporeon.

This is the 4th shirt in this series which features Sailor Moon characters as Pokémon trainers designed by Kinkwink. The previous shirts were Pretty Guardian Trainer Venus, Pretty Guardian Trainer Mars and Pretty Guardian Trainer Jupiter. All of these shirts can be found at her Redbubble store.

Jessica Nigri, Monika Lee, Riddle and Katie George cosplaying as Sailor Scouts at Anime South

Riddle as Sailor Mercury, Jessica Nigri as Sailor Venus, Monika Lee as Sailor Mars and Katie George as Sailor Jupiter

This past weekend at Anime South in Florida professional cosplayers Jessica Nigri, Monika Lee, Riddle and Katie George cosplayed as Sailor Scouts from Sailor Moon!

Jessica Nigri as Sailor Venus and Monika Lee as Sailor Mars

The costumes were made over a week’s time by Monika Lee, Riddle and Katie George. Jessica Nigri was Sailor Venus, Monika Lee was Sailor Mars, Riddle was Sailor Mercury and Katie George was Sailor Jupiter. No Sailor Moon in sight! Keep reading for a selection of photos from the weekend that were posted by these girls to their Facebook and Instagram pages.

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