Hey there! Happy Friday! Before I get onto the Sailor Moon news roundup, some site info! (Yay!)

You've probably noticed a few changes in the site since your last visit (unless you visited 5 seconds ago). I realised that the mac version of Photoshop and the mac as a whole dilutes the colours of images when taking screenshots and saving them. Strange I know as I don't think that serves a purpose at all. Found a way to save the images properly though so resaved all the layout images to make Moonkitty.net look super colourful and sparkly. Can you see the difference?

I've also been fiddling with the side navigation. So much so that if you've visited the site every day this week you would have seen a slightly different variation of the layout! While I loved the two thick column look I've reverted back to the three column design which just functions a lot better and makes the site look more professional.

I've also rewritten the welcome message to make it more concise, added a site search (which I think I already mentioned last time but it's really worth trying) and added my latest Tweets to the nav as well.

Speaking of Twitter, a big hello to my (over 300!) followers! Have got some great site feedback and Moonie Mailbag questions from you guys that I'll be answering this weekend! Cheers!

In other site news, I've also completed all the DVD reviews for the Sailor Moon S Heart Collection DVDs with Sailor Moon S Heart Collection DVD #4, Sailor Moon S Heart Collection DVD #5 and Sailor Moon S Heart Collection DVD #6 finishing them off!!!

Each DVD review has full screencaps of the DVD menus and images of the covers. Hope you find them useful!

I've also added links to Amazon.ca in the shopping guide for all the Canadian Moonies on here. The site also has some Sailor Moon items in stock that Amazon.com doesn't actually so everyone should have a look every now and then.

Also if you haven't, make sure to check out my Complete Sailor Moon S Episode Guide!

Now onto the news!

Moon Sticks' latest manga in online! Hilarious as always! Go Sailor Pluto!

The official site has updated for July with a new layout, villain profiles and a mailbag update. (Nothing really that interesting to report)

Star Dusting has heaps of new images worth checking out!

Lots of fun updates at SMFFG.

That's about it!

Sailor Moon Says Have a Great Weekend!

Labels: Sailor Moon DVDs, Sailor Moon Roundup, site

Posted By: Brad  # Friday, July 03, 2009  (0) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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Sometimes less is more.



Bravo!

Labels: Moonie Music Monday

It's taken a lot of effort and even a computer crash over the last month or so but finally... finally I'm happy and proud to present to you Moonkitty.net's 100% Complete Sailor Moon S Illustrated Episode Guide!!!

All 37 anime episodes from Episode 90 to Episode 127 now have summaries, screencaps and miscellaneous trivia on their own specific pages.

I've also completed guides for all 11 opening and closing credits and the Sailor Moon S commercial bumpers / eyecatches!

The Sailor Moon S Movie: Hearts in Ice has also been done as well!!!

I'm so relieved that it's finished!!!

I would like to send out a big and special THANK YOU! to Corey of MoonlightSoldiers.com for taking the time to screencap the opening title screens off of his Sailor Moon S VHS tapes. You really helped me out man and I can't thank you enough.

Check out his site! It's pretty good!

Now... time to finish up the Sailor Moon S DVD Reviews before moving on to Sailor Moon SuperS!

Labels: guides, Sailor Moon Anime, site

Happy Friday! Hope you've got a nice relaxing weekend planned!

This week in Sailor Moon news:

This week's Moon Sticks comic went online a few hours ago, featuring the four sisters from Sailor Moon R! Great as always!

Speaking of Moon Sticks, have you read my interview with Chibi Jen yet?

A preview of the third Sailor Stars English Dub episode is online! Can't wait as always!

That amazing German Sailor Moon fan film has posted their second post on their blog (in English!) with some great preview pictures.

Here's a pretty cool Sailor Moon comic worth checking out. Thanks Icecheetah.

Star Dusting has had enough of direct linkers! Me too! Well done!

The Sailor Moon Funny Faces Gallery has revamped with a brand new layout! Very funny! I'm so far behind in listening to their podcasts! They're a great listen. I highly recommend giving them a go.

Welcome back Moonlit-Fantasia! Love the new layout and will add your box back to the footer soon!

Want to be in a Sailor Moon musical? Apply Here. (Thanks SailorTravolta for the heads up!)

That's about it!

Before you continue, worth mentioning that I added a search box to the right menu there to make finding content on Moonkitty.net easier and have answered a letter to the Moonie Mailbag: Is Rini, Serena and Darien's daughter?

See you soon for a very big update!

Labels: Sailor Moon Roundup, site, web

Posted By: Brad  # Friday, June 26, 2009  (4) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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Bit of a late Moonie Music Monday but wanted to finish some site updates to post along with this amazing performance!

English speaking Sailor Moon Musical fan productions beware! These German fans will really show you how it's done!

Great singing, choreography and an inspired decision to have the Outers in their manga planetary princess dresses! Brilliant!!!



And now that you've picked your jaw off the floor, here are some cool site updates!

I've been amazed at the response to the Moonie Mailbag! A lot of people have been sending in questions this week and some of them are pretty good questions too!

Questions answered today were In what episode does Rini (Chibi Usa) transform into Wicked Lady (Black Lady)? & Has Sailor Moon impacted or helped shape your life in anyway?.

I'll be answering a few more as the day goes on so you may see a few empty pages for some questions but they should only be like that for an hour or so.

Also today I've uploaded a very interesting interview with the owner of Chibi Land and MoonSticks, Chibi Jen! Make sure to give it a read.

Labels: Interviews, Moonie Mailbag, Moonie Music Monday, site

Happy Friday everyone! Been so busy this past week and am really looking forward to the weekend!

Yesterday I updated the Moonie Mailbag with two new answers: Will Sailor Moon come back? & Which Sailor Moon character is your favourite?! BIG thanks to those who submitted questions!

Have a question for me? Send it to the Moonie Mailbag! :D

btw, the Moonie Mailbag isn't the new feature I mentioned a while back. That's still coming. heehee!

This week in Sailor Moon news:

There's a cool new behind the scenes cip from an upcoming Sailor Moon fan film online!

Speaking of Sailor Moon fan films I just found this one; Sailor Moon Scarifice which is made by doing some great editing of the original anime to make a new storyline featuring Sailor Moon's sister! Sounds a bit corny at first, but man check out this trailer! Cannot wait for this!

Speaking of fan films I can't wait for: the official blog of that spectacular German fan film has updated with some great photos, a poster and info in English and German! Yay! Check these guys out if you haven't already!

Star Dusting has updated with some great new screencaps!

It wouldn't be Friday morning without the latest Moon Sticks comic! This one features Hotaru / Sailor Saturn and doesn't disappoint! So cute! If you love Moon Sticks as much as I do, stick around as I'm conducting an interview with Chibi Jen that should be online this week sometime!

Moonlit Fantasia has also updated with a new layout. Love it!

The second episode of the brilliant Sailor Stars dub is now up for HQ download from the official site. Am seeding right now!

Sailor Moon Channel has updated for the mid-month with a new chapter of the manga now online. I wonder what will happen when they animate all the manga? Hmmm...

That's about it for this week in Sailor Moon news.

Still no updates on FUNimation and the Sailor Moon Redub. As soon as I hear something I'll post it asap.

Now something interesting! Have been using Google Analytics on MKNET for the past two months and got some interesting data about where you guys are all visiting from!

United States: 47.6%
Canada: 5.64%
Germany: 4.17%
Australia: 3.26%
Japan: 2.29%

Pretty interesting, yeah? Of course people from all over the world visit but I thought just listing the top 5 would be sufficient. ;) Hello to you wherever you are! Great to know Sailor Moon has reached such a huge audience!!!

Labels: Moonie Mailbag, Sailor Moon DVDs, Sailor Moon Manga, Sailor Moon Roundup, site

Posted By: Brad  # Friday, June 19, 2009  (2) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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I've seen a lot of Sailor Moon music videos in my time and none have emotionally affected me as much as this one!

For one it's the beautiful song, A Little Pain by OLIVIA inspi' REIRA and it shows ome great choices of footage and the picture quality is PERFECT!!!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Labels: Moonie Music Monday

Got my first two questions by the fabulous E for the Moonie Mailbag this week!

Is Sailor Stars going to be dubbed or subbed in English? & Where can I buy Sailor Moon DVD boxsets?

Have a Sailor Moon questions that you need answered? Send it in!

Sailor Moon Says!

Labels: Moonie Mailbag, Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon DVDs, site

God, I'm so happy with this new layout, especially after fixing the side columns last week! I can't stop looking at it! Yay!

Have been going into turbo drive with the Sailor Moon Episode Guides these past few days, writing heaps (and I mean heaps of new episode guides) but haven't got them online yet as my imac DVD drive is busted. Will be buying a new external drive on Monday (PAY DAY!!!) though so you should expect a HUGE content update in a few days time.

Now, is it just me or has the Sailor Moon fandom become really active these past few months? Quite a few fan films coming out or in production and a lot more websites seem to be updating this year than last year. Just goes to show that Sailor Moon isn't a fad after all!

On with the news:

Moon Sticks has the latest strip online featuring Kakyu and the Starlights!

The Deep Submerge Directory has added several sites as well as a new wallpaper and a featured music video by Hikaru Utada!

SailorCosmos.org is celebrating it's 6th Anniversary!!! Congrats!

And Chibiland is celebrating her 8th Anniversary!!!

Is that Mio skin at Kirari PGSM new?

The Oracle has updated with a great new feature, an archive of interviews concerning those involved in Sailor Moon! Great idea!

Sailor Moon Obsession continues to post great Sailor Moon related posts every week!

Check out a very short preview of a Sailor Moon fan film here.

Sailor Moon Abridged has another great clip online, this time of the promotional video created by DiC to attract investors (watch it if you haven't!).

The original is unintentionally funny enough by itself but their version is perfect! Haha! Even if you love the English version like me, you're sure to get a kick out of this!

Sailor Moon Says!

Labels: guides, Sailor Moon Fan Films, Sailor Moon Roundup, site, web

Posted By: Brad  # Friday, June 12, 2009  (2) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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Well, it's that time of year again when I feel like watching the live action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon again! So I went YouTubing (yes, that's a word!) for a PGSM music video and watched a lot that had footage from the show with popular Top 10 chart songs but then I found this one that actually used the opening theme song! The editing isn't that fancy and there are the occasional subtitle but the clips shown really do capture the mood of the more happy episodes of the series and left me with a very satisfied feeling after it had finished. Enjoy.



On a side note, what's with all the 5 minute music videos that feature one minute "opening intros" and two minute "credits"???

Labels: Moonie Music Monday

Did a bit of adjusting with the layout this morning. Looks a lot more cohesive now with slightly less scrolling and my stars I originally was going to use with this layout when I first launched it! Personally I really like the changes but let me know what you think!

Also with the adjustments I added 12 new mobile phone Sailor Moon wallpapers for your enjoyment and by request!

Also got around to splitting up the Sailor Moon Channel Archive into sub-pages to cut down on scrolling (the scroll bar was almost disappearing there was so much scrolling!). I also added the new official site layout for June which you can find here with the other 2009 layouts.

Something else that's new is the new site feature, the Moonie Mailbag, a section where you can email me questions and I'll answer them there. Found myself answering similar questions over and over again on the email so hopefully publishing the answers on their own page will be more educational (edutaining?) for everyone.

If you have any questions about me, this site or Sailor Moon ask away. I'm more than willing to help!

Labels: Sailor Moon Mobile, site

Strangely enough, even though the Sailor Moon anime finished about 10 years ago, this year has shown some huge activity in Sailor Moon fan productions!

Last week I mentioned this Sailor Moon Musical Fan Film and this fantastic looking film from Germany well this past week I've discovered three more Sailor Moon fan films in production!!!

The first one I found was Sailor Moon & the Return of the Shadows which is using green screen to make some full on cg scenes! They don't seem to have a website, only the YouTube page unfortunately so there's not much info available.




The next one I found was The Last Soldier by Fairydust Productions. They've got some very cool costumes, direction and special effects going on and a very interesting storyline!



Can't wait!


The third one I found really surprised me! It's a Sailor Mars Series that's already up to it's second episode! It's based on the live action Sailor Moon series and continues the story of Sailor Mars using great special effects (ckeck out the transformation scene!!!), music and filming techniques that mimic the official series really closely! 5 stars!



If anyone knows of any other Sailor Moon fan films, let me know!

In other Sailor Moon fandom news, Moon Sticks has her latest comic up, this time featuring the Amazon Trio!

And the fantastic Stars Fan Dub has their second adaption of Sailor Stars online! This project is BRILLIANT! If you haven't checked it out, do so now! Seriously, if Sailor Stars never gets dubbed officially I'd be more than happy to see these guys do it!

There are several great reports from Animazement with photos and videos here, here (also Anime Boston) and here.

Sailor Tiger's Grotto has some new images online.

Moonkitty.net got three new affiliates this week; Star Dusting, Izumirika.com & Ayaka502.net! The later of which reports that Ayaka (PGSM's Venus) and Keiko (PGSM's Mars) will be starring together in a new Japanese tv drama! Keiko's role seems to be one of the main roles (she's HUGE now in Japan!) while Ayaka's seems to be in more of an extra role. The show is called "Buzzer Beat ～ Gakeppuchi no Hero ～" or "Buzzer Beat ～ Hero on the Edge ～" and will air at 9pm Mondays starting in July.

What else happened this week? Ah, that's right! The Official Sailor Moon Site updated with a new layout, game and mailbag. Interesting to note that one of the letters was from a non-Japanese person. Unfortunately the content itself was not so interesting.

Hope you had a great week and will have an even better weekend!

Sailor Moon Says!

Labels: affiliates, Anime Conventions, Fan Dubs, Sailor Moon Fan Films, Sailor Moon Live Action, Sailor Moon Roundup, site

Posted By: Brad  # Friday, June 05, 2009  (5) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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I have always been a strong supporter of buying series from official sources (which is why you won't find any links to Sailor Moon fansubs or torrents on this site) and was always planning to start an online campaign once it was "officially announced" Sailor Moon was being redubbed or rereleased encouraging Sailor Moon fan sites to take down links to manga and episode downloads to support the series which would prove to the higher-ups that there is a market for Sailor Moon which in turn would result in more Sailor Moon being released.

This is especially true in Japan where due to the different business models there companies end up making most of their income from DVD sales. In fact it was officially stated that because the PGSM live action DVDs sold so well they decided to produce the Act Zero and Special Act DVDs.

The reason I'm bringing this up now is due something that happened yesterday.

You know how Funimation is considering redubbing and rreleasing Sailor Moon in the US? And how they did a poll a year or so ago asking if people would like to see a subtitled Sailor Stars viewable online officially?

Well Funimation was going do something very cool last night (US time) that would have been the first step towards a rerelease of Sailor Moon being a reality... but the fans screwed it up. BIG TIME.

Here's the official statement from Funimation concerning what happened:

As anime fans know, FUNimation Entertainment and Toei Animation had planned for the first ever online simulcast of the series ‘One Piece’ tonight at 9:00 pm CDT., just one hour after its premiere on Japan's Fuji Television. Unfortunately, in the last 24 hours we have determined that the FUNimation servers were compromised, even though we employ strict security standards. An unknown individual accessed and posted episode 403 online and as a direct result of this illegal act, all U.S. and Canadian fans will be deprived of access to this great anime series for the immediate future. We will make every effort to locate and prosecute the perpetrator(s) to the fullest extent of the law and will provide updates regarding this most serious matter.

This could have been the beginning of something amazing for English speaking anime fans, but someone decided they couldn't wait 24 hours for a FREE officially subtitled anime episode officially released subbed one hour after it aired in Japan!

Obviously this has impacted the experiment as they've now removed One Piece (the anime in question) from not only Funimation's website but Hulu and Joost as well. And it's not only an episode or two... they've removed the entire series.

Funimation and Toei are the two companies that would have released Sailor Moon and Sailor Stars and now perhaps, it may not happen.

This literally happened hours ago so I'll keep you updated on any developments.

You can read more about it here.

Needless to say, if and when Sailor Moon and Sailor Stars are officially announced as being released, stop downloading and wait for what you've wanted so long for.

Labels: Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon DVDs

I've been listening to a lot of the English Sailor Moon songs lately and realised I really liked "Oh, Starry Night" so decided to find a good Sailor Moon music vide of it. I did! And here it is!



p.s. In site news, I just uploaded 13 new Sailor Moon mobile phone / cell phone / iphone wallpapers! More coming soon!

I also added a new button to link to the site with and finally added the live action and musical episode to the random rotation to your right.

Labels: Moonie Music Monday, Sailor Moon Mobile

Lots happening this week in Sailor Moon news!

My new affiliate, Socal Sailor Moon has a brand new layout (up within the last 24 hours!) which is REALLY nice. These are the guys doing the Sailor Moon Musical Live Action Movie so make sure to check them out.

Speaking of Sailor Moon Fan Films, Sailor Moon Obsession, which is a GREAT Sailor Moon blog, reminded me of this German fan film and I can seriously not wait for this! Agreed. Sailor Uranus looks amazing!

The latest Moon Sticks (which I keep calling "Chibi Sticks" for some reason) comic strip is online! As always, hillarious!

Sailor Cosmos graduated high school! Congrats!

Feel like a laugh? Sailor Moon Abridged has bloopers online! Sounds like so much fun!

That promising Sailor Moon Supreme I mentioned last week has uploaded the first volume IN ENGLISH! Remember that English isn't their first language and you'll get a lot more out of it.

Great news for Gaia users (like me!) They finally have REAL Sailor Moon items! Cosmic Moon Broach, Sailor Moon hair and hair clips! SUPER RARE though! If you get one.... give it to me. 'kay? ;)

Check out this amazing Sailor V fan animation and comment on it here.

Joji Shibue who played Tuxedo Mask in the live action version of Sailor Moon (PGSM) reprises his Kamen Rider Hibiki role in episode 18 of this year's Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider Decade.

this is a great side-by-side comparison shot of Episode 200, Italian and Japanese versions. Ever wondered if the final episode could ever possibly be edited? Well it has been, and rather well! (I think anyway)

A BIG hello to all my fellow Tweeple! (Thanks Oprah for that phrase!) A LOT of people having been randomly singing the Sailor Moon theme song on Twitter this week! Great to see!

Labels: Sailor Moon Fan Films, Sailor Moon Roundup, web

Posted By: Brad  # Friday, May 29, 2009  (3) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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Pretty cool! Just added Sailor Moon Mobile Wallpapers & Sailor Moon Mobile Ringtones! A site first!

Wallpapers currently feature images from the anime and live action but more will soon come. The ringtones showcase tracks from the English and Japanese version of the anime as well as the live action show.

They should work on most modern phones. If you have any trouble using them, comment below. If you like them and want more.... also comment! haha.

Also cleaned up the Music page and added a donated fan version of Carry On (Well worth a listen!) and removed and added more links to the outgoing links page (a work in progress).

Labels: Sailor Moon Mobile, Sailor Moon Music, site