We’re only a couple of weeks away from a great convention featuring many Sailor Moon guests in Toronto. After two successful years as the Toronto Sailor Moon Celebration this event is being rebranded as the Pretty Heroes convention which will take place the weekend of June 16th and 17th. While this new convention, broader in scope, will still include all things Sailor Moon it will also cover other things which fall under the umbrella of Pretty Heroes. Naturally many Sailor Moon fans will also be interested in many other things which are covered by this convention and so I would suggest you check out the convention’s web site for all of the details. As in the past this convention will be taking place at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto.

The convention will feature a ton of Sailor Moon related voice actors which includes, from the original English dub of Sailor Moon, Stephanie Morgenstern, the voice of Sailor Venus, Vincent Corazza, the 3rd voice of Tuxedo Mask and the voice of Alan the alien, Sabrina Grdevich, the voice of Ann the alien as well as the original voice of Sailor Pluto, and Barbara Radecki, the voice of Sailor Neptune. Also from Viz’s new dub of Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon Crystal is Lauren Landa, the voice of Sailor Neptune, and Amanda Miller, the voice of Sailor Jupiter. There may be more guests announced as the convention comes up so keep an eye out on the guest list for the latest.

I had a great time at the first Toronto Sailor Moon Celebration a couple of years ago but unfortunately I could not attend last year and won’t be able to make the trip to Toronto again this year. Will any of you be attending?

The 2016 Toronto Sailor Moon Celebration is this Saturday, July 9th, at the Ontario Science Centre. Last year I attended the event and recorded the voice actor panel. This panel included Roland Parliament, voice director for the first 65 episodes and the voice of Melvin, Tony Daniels, the voice of Jadeite and Wise Man, Susan Roman, the voice of Sailor Jupiter, Ron Rubin, the voice of Artemis, and Jill Frappier, the voice of Luna. If you missed last year’s event you can watch the panel below.

This year’s event looks like it will be a lot of fun. It has some great guests including voice actors Vince Corazza, the voice of Alan and Tuxedo Mask, Tony Daniels, the voice of Jadeite and Wise Man, and David Fraser, the voice of Raye’s Grandpa and other minor roles in the series. Jennifer Cihi, who sang many songs for the English dub, will be there to perform a concert. For more information on this and other events at the convention check out the event’s web site.

The second Toronto Sailor Moon Celebration will be taking place next month, on July 9th, at the Ontario Science Center. This year has some great guests in store yet again. Voice actors Vince Corazza, the voice of Alan Granger and the third voice of Tuxedo Mask, will be there. Tony Daniels, the voice of Jadeite, will be making his second appearance at the convention. Jennifer Cihi, who provided the vocals for many songs in the original English dub of Sailor Moon, will be there to perform a concert. Fan Fiction The Show, who have previously done comedy shows in Toronto about Sailor Moon and other fandoms, will be putting on a live comedy performance at the convention.

There will also be a lot of Cosplay guests including Yume and Kitsurie from Cosmeko, Jelly Cosplay, and Ammie Cosplay. I met Cosmeko at Unplugged Expo a couple of years ago and they had some great tips for making Sailor Moon costumes and accessories.

I had a great time at the Toronto Sailor Moon Celebration last year and even had a chance to participate in a few of the panels. Unfortunately I won’t be able to make the trip to Toronto this year.

For more details check out the event’s Facebook page, official web site or Moon Chase. You can also read the press release below for details on everything planned at this event.

Former Sailor Moon Singer, Former Sailor Moon Voice Actors, and Masters Level Cosplayers
to Appear at Toronto Sailor Moon Celebration

Toronto, Ontario – June 6, 2016 – Singer Jennifer Cihi; voice actors Tony Daniels and Vince Corazza; cosplayers Yume, Kitsurie, Jelly Cosplay, and Ammie Cosplay to participate in the Toronto Sailor Moon Celebration on Saturday, July 9th, 2016 at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This event is affiliated with International Sailor Moon Day and sponsored by Moon Chase.

Jennifer Cihi has been performing since she was a young girl growing up in California. At the age of 12, she began her professional career when she was cast in the role of Pepper in the 1978 Broadway National Tour of Annie. As a young adult, Jennifer lived and worked in Japan for two years performing at Tokyo Disney. Ironically, after moving back to Los Angeles, she was cast as the singing voice of Sailor Moon. She went on to star in the Nickelodeon television show Roundhouse and has lent her voice to many national jingles, including the now famed Hot Pockets commercials. Just over a decade ago, Jennifer said goodbye to Hollywood and moved to Nashville where her singing career continued to thrive. Now, she attends comic cons all over the US, Canada, and Europe and is excited to appear in Toronto. She will be performing a live concert that will include songs from Sailor Moon.

Tony Daniels was the original voice of Jedite and Wiseman in the DiC dub of Sailor Moon as well as various ancillary characters in the DiC and Cloverway dubs of Sailor Moon. He has voiced many characters including Gambit in X-Men: The Animated Series; Maxum Brain in Sidekick; Boris Balkov, Dunga, and Rick Anderson in Beyblade; and Hawkeye in Avengers: United They Stand. Tony’s voice talents also include impressions and the ability to mimic a variety of accents.

Vince Corazza played Darien Shields/Tuxedo Mask as well as the alien Alan Granger in the DiC and Cloverway dubs of Sailor Moon. His voice has been in thousands of commercials and he has been a signature voice for many major networks. Currently he is the promo voice of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS and you can hear him daily as the voice of Dunkin’ Donuts. Vince has played roles in numerous animated TV shows, including Alden Jones on Braceface, Sam Sparks in Rescue Heroes, and Shickadance in Ace Ventura – Pet Detective. He’s also been part of various successful video game franchises including Carlos Oliveira in Resident Evil 3, Zexion in Kingdom Hearts, and The Marquis De Lafayette in Assassins Creed III. His Narration credits are numerous, namely James Cameron’s Last Mysteries of the Titanic, and most of the DVD extras for Dreamworks animated features from Bee Movie to Megamind to Shrek, Kung-Fu Panda, and Madagascar.

Yume has been cosplaying since 2005 and Kitsurie since 2008. They started doing duo cosplays in 2012. Yume loves the sewing aspect of cosplay making, while Kitsurie enjoys prop making. Both are Sailor Moon fans and have made two different sailor fukus each. Yume has also made a Serenity dress.

Jelly Cosplay is a master level cosplayer who found her passion of cosplay in 2001. She has crafted over 70 cosplays, including Sailor Mercury, Queen Beryl, and NoFlutter’s version of Sailor Venus. She brandishes several awards under her belt.
Ammie Cosplay started sewing well over a decade ago and has been actively making Sailor Moon costumes for 10 years. As a masters level cosplayer she strives to teach other cosplayers, both novice and masters, tricks of the trade and believes through her own trial and error in the art of costume making, she would like to share the wealth of knowledge she has obtained in the hobby. She has been featured in magazines and books around the world regarding her costumes.

About the Toronto Sailor Moon Celebration: this event is organized by Emily Gonsalves, known for her role as assistant editor of and regular writer for Moon Chase. This is the second year running for the first Sailor Moon specific convention in the Toronto area. The organizer, supporting staff, and volunteers are unpaid – this event is run by fans for fans.

About Moon Chase: a Sailor Moon focused website, run as a non-profit initiative. The site was founded to share information about Sailor Moon sightings and news from around the world, with the primary audience being English speaking North America.
About International Sailor Moon Day: founded by Sailor Moon fans in 2014 to celebrate the longevity and worldwide impact of Naoko Takeuchi’s classic magical girl series. For further details, please visit ismd.sailormoonmeetup.org

Toronto Sailor Moon Celebration
Admission: $20 in advance, $25 at the door.
Hours: 11am to 8pm on Saturday, July 9th, 2016
Programming Highlights: question and answer session with the guests, cosplay instruction panels, cosplay contest, video game area hosted by Toronto Gaymers, dance hosted by Kawaii Bass, photo booth run by Cosplay for a Cure, fan-run discussion panels, crafting, and other activities.

For additional information, including how to buy tickets, please visit sailormooncelebration.com

Vincent Corazza, best known to fans as the voice of Tuxedo Mask during the S and SuperS seasons of the English dub, will be making an appearance at Kishi Con in Weslaco Texas September 6th to the 8th. Though he only took over as Tuxedo Mask later in the series Vincent Corazza was part of the English dub from the first set of dubbed episodes in his portrayal of the alien Alan from the Doom Tree story arc of Sailor Moon R.

Presale tickets are now on for just $30. Will you see me there? Not likely unless someone wants to fly me to Texas, but I hope all who can attend have a great time.

The Anime Revolution web site has posted a couple more great interviews from their convention where they had six Sailor Moon voice actors present to celebrate the show’s 20th anniversary. First is an interview with Susan Roman, the voice of Sailor Jupiter and the second is an interview with Vince Corazza who played Alan Granger and eventually Tuxedo Mask in the later two season. Vince gives a nice explanation of the rythmo-band technique which was used to dub Sailor Moon which made the lip synching match up perfectly to the video.

You can watch the interviews on the Anime Revolution web site. We’ve also embedded them below for your convenience.

Sailor Jupiter – Susan Roman Interview:

Tuxedo Mask – Vincent Corazza Interview:

Last month at Anime Revolution in Vancouver there was a 20th Anniversary celebration including a panel featuring six of the cast members from the English dub. From left to right this panel includes Vince Corazza, voice of Tuxedo Mask, Stephanie “Sugar” Beard, voice of Rini, Ron Rubin, voice of Artemis, Terri Hawkes, voice of Sailor Moon, Susan Roman, voice of Sailor Jupiter and Katie Griffin, voice of Sailor Mars. The video is split into two parts. The quality isn’t perfect but the sound does come through pretty well so it’s well worth a listen.

Part 1 and Part 2 cover the entire panel. The third clip included below covered a half hour in the middle and is of higher quality. The voice actor portion begins 37 minutes into the first clip as it’s preceeded by some Karaoke and clips of many incarnations of Sailor Moon.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Higher quality clip:

If you really care about the best quality you’ll want to watch the first clip (Part 1) starting at 37 minutes for the voice actor portion up to about 42 minutes and 20 seconds, then watch the last clip (Higher quality clip) in it’s entirety and then finally watch the second clip (Part 2) starting at about 21 minutes and 40 seconds right up to the end. If you’re lazy, just watch the first two clips.

Thanks to YouTube users garct and Sacherz for uploading these.

This past weekend at Anime Revolution in Vancouver there were six Sailor Moon voice actors in attendance. A fan recorded this panel which featured Katie Griffin, the voice of Sailor Mars, Susan Roman, the voice of Sailor Jupiter and Vincent Corazza, the voice of Tuxedo Mask.

The sound isn’t excellent because of interference from another panel next door but regardless the content of the panel is something fans will find quite interesting.

Throughout the panel a lot of insight into the recording of the episodes is given. Vince Corazza even mentioned recording from 15 to 20 episodes on some days.

When the topic of the new 2013 show’s potential dub came up Katie Griffin mentioned being hopeful she would be asked to return to the new show and Vince Corazza added that it would be a lot of fun for all of them to do it. That being said nothing has been determined with regards to the casting of the dub though as Katie mentioned if they wish to keep costs down doing it in Canada would be wise so there’s a good shot some of the old actors will return.

Mars/Tux shippers can be pleased that Darien’s voice actor Vince Corazza thought Sailor Mars was the “sexiest”. Unfortunately Katie Griffin preferred Chad to Darien and hoped her character Raye would end up with him.

We’ll be sure to post the other panel, which featured all 6 guests, if and when it becomes available.

Anime Revolution is coming up August 17th to the 19th and as part of a Sailor Moon 20th anniversary event they got a great line up of voice actors from the Sailor Moon dub! There will be Terri Hawkes (Sailor Moon), Vince Corazza (Tuxedo Mask), Katie Griffin (Sailor Mars), Susan Roman (Sailor Jupiter), Stephanie Beard (Rini) and Ron Rubin (Artemis).

The site has the following to say about their Sailormoon 20th Anniversary Celebration:

Sailormoon 20th Anniversary Panel – Celebrate everything that is the wonderful world of Sailor Moon in this very special panel, featuring voice actors from the english dub, song numbers, including a special performance by Irulanne, visuals and all sorts of other fun stuff!

This is quite an amazing group of voice actors they’ve managed to score! While Sailor Moon roles changed a number of times, as the series went on for so long, these are largely the actors who are most memorable for the roles they did.

While Terri Hawkes was not the first dub voice of Sailor Moon she replaced Tracey Moore as the voice of Serena who did the job for a very short time. Terri continued to do the voice for the rest of the original 65 episode run, returning for the remainder of the Sailor Moon R episodes that were recorded before ultimately being replaced by Linda Ballentyne for Sailor Moon S and SuperS.

Vince Corazza’s first appearance in Sailor Moon wasn’t as the role he would be most known for, but rather as the alien Allan in the Doom Tree saga. He later went on to voice Tuxedo Mask as the third person to do his voice replacing Toby Proctor who spent most of the first set of episodes doing the voice after replacing Rino Romano who himself only did a handful of episodes.

Katie Griffin voiced Sailor Mars for more episodes than any other voice actor spent doing any other character, mainly due to the fact that she appeared earlier and was in more episodes than some others. Aside from being briefly replaced by Emilie Barlow for some of the later episodes of Sailor Moon R she stuck with the show as the voice of Raye until the end!

Stephanie “Sugar” Beard voiced Rini in all but the few Sailor Moon R episodes that included her character, so she was there whenever she transformed into Sailor Mini Moon. Sugar is well known to Canadian Sailor Moon fans as the host of The Zone on YTV for many years.

Susan Roman, the voice of Sailor Jupiter and Ron Rubin, the voice of Artemis, voiced their characters for the entirety of the show’s run.

This looks like a Sailor Moon event that should not be missed. Weekend passes are $75 so if you’re a Sailor Moon fan in the area this is definitely a con worth checking out!