Well it's been a very big week. Got some bad news but to counteract that a lot of good news too!

Let's get the bad news out of the way first so we can end on a good note.

Turns out the person that was impersonating Sarah Lafluer (Sailor Ueranus) was also impersonating Linda Ballantyne (Sailor Moon #3). Pretty shocking, maddening and depressing. This person had even started up a personal blog pretending to be Linda and was posting personal photos, etc. I'm glad I wasn't the only one fooled. Her Twitter account has been deleted and legal action has been taken.

I would like to remind everyone that impersonating celebrities is not cool. It hurts the person you're impersonating and also hurts the fans. If you are using a Sailor Moon voice actor, actor, singer, etc's name for your username on any site please change it. Even if you're convinced that you're doing it for the star, it's illegal, is a crime, hurts the person you're impersonating and also confuses fans and websites alike.

Now on to the good news!!!

Toei is officially selling the rights to Sailor Moon! This is a HUGE step in getting Sailor Moon back to English speaking countries! Whether you want a redub, a resub, a remastered rerelease of the existing dub or all of the above (like me!) this is very good news. Here's hoping someone buys it!

Speaking of Sailor Moon being rereleased around the world, SailorMoonWorld.it reports that a German magazine mentioned that German companies are now after the rights to rerelease the series on DVD in Germany. Great news for German fans (which I know there are a few of who read Moonkitty.net!).

btw, congrats to SailorMoonWorld.it for their 10,000th visitor!

The hilarious Sailor Moon Hell is back! Really funny stuff!

A fantastic fan just told me about this new Sailor Moon fan film and it looks absolutely amazing! How has noone ever heard of this project? Just look at this trailer! Can't wait for this!

The revamped Three-Lights.net continues to post some super content!

What I think is the oldest Sailor Moon fansite, Castle in the Sky has a new address. Still has great info after all these years.

After some great Sailor Moon fanart? Check this out!

I love the great content coming out of Sakky's Sailor Moon Blog lately!

I've updated the Sailor Moon Channel Archive with April 2010's layout.

Did you ever want the DiC music in the English dub of Sailor Moon S and SuperS? Me too. Someone has done a great job of mixing in the music from the first two seasons into an episode from Sailor Moon S and I like it! Check it out for something different! Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3.

Another great fan effort with checking out is this amazing Chinese cosplay group's retelling of the end of the Silver Millennium! Part 1 + Part 2!

Moon Sticks is back, turning one year old and has a new comic!!!

And now for your Moonie Music Monday video!!!

Lets embrace the crazy!

Labels: Anime Conventions, Cosplay, Fan Dubs, Interviews, Moonie Music Monday, Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon DVDs, Sailor Moon Fan Films, Sailor Moon Movie, Sailor Moon News, Sailor Moon Roundup, web

Posted By: Brad  # Monday, April 12, 2010  (9) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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Hey guys! Was just answering a Moonie Mailbag question about Sailor Moon ripoffs (see my answer here) and was thinking while I think I listed all the big ones I'm sure I'm missing a few (or even heaps) of others.

So I put this to you: What do you think are the biggest Sailor Moon ripoffs?

Comment on this post. Let's start a discussion! What do you think about Sailor Moon ripoffs? Do you like any?

Labels: community, Moonie Mailbag, Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon News, Sailor Moon Sightings, Super Twins

The massive international TV channel, Animax sure has been a huge supporter of the Sailor Moon anime recently.

They were the first channel in Japan let alone the world to begin screening the anime after the rights were released (well, relaxed and made open to negotiation anyway) and have done a pretty good job of promoting Sailor Moon in it's Japanese channel's commercials.

Recently Animax has been featuring the Japanese voice actress for Sailor Moon, Kotono Mitsuishi as well as two of the directors of the anime in a show called Creators.

You can see clips of this show on YouTube. Nothing really big to report but they do go into the usual conversation about what it was like in the beginning making the show and how it grew in popularity.

It isn't subbed in English but you can fairly easily get the gist of what they're saying.

For those that don't know what Animax is, it's basically a cable channel that focuses on airing almost entirely anime though also airs random shows like Wipeout. In the past few years it's grown more and more and expanded throughout Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and more! This channel is huge and screens retro animes like Slayers for example but also the latest newest anime like Bleach, Inuyasha and Idaten Jump.

Currently only the Japanese Animax channel shows Sailor Moon but since it has got the license it seems to be a very good idea to keep our eyes on local Animax channels for any future Sailor Moon airing opportunities.

Will keep you posted if I hear anything else!

p.s. Stay tuned this weekend for a combo Roundup and Moonie Music Monday as well as some extra info on some sections and... the winner to the Twitter competition!

Sailor Moon Says!

Labels: Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon Sightings, web

Hey guys! Having a good week?

As you can probably tell I've been doing some more fiddling with the site's layout. I asked all you awesome people who follow MKNET on Twitter what they liked and didn't like concerning the side nav and pretty much everyone agreed getting rid of the Interviews banner was the way to go. Opinions on the DVD info was split 50/50 so I shrank the amount of space it took up but kept the links there as I've been getting a lot of emails and tweets telling me how useful people find them.

I also added some social bookmarking icons to the top part of the site and am curious which ones people actually use. I'm definitely keeping StumbleUpon but am unsure how popular the others are. Please comment below and let me know what you personally do or don't use. Less is more I always say! ;)

While cleaning up the site I also shrank the Donators section and created a whole new page for all that jazz. Thanks again to everyone that's donated so far! Every little bit helps and is muchly appreciated!

Now onto the news!

Just yesterday I was walking through Kinokuniya in Shinjuku and saw the pamphlet for the new Sailor Moon DVDs on the wall as well as the larger shiny metalic poster behind the counter.



Was really surprised as this is the first time I'd seen any Sailor Moon advertising for the new Sailor Moon DVDs at all.

Someone on the staff must be a Moonie because as I kept walking through the manga section I saw all the Sailor Moon manga out in prime position right near the entrance!



The little sign simply talks about how this is the manga the anime was based on, it being the whole series and also mentions the side stories.

Very nice to see!

Elsewhere on the Moonie web:

Three-Lights.net has just updated with what has to be one of my favourite Sailor Moon layouts of all time!!! SUCH AN AMAZING LAYOUT GUYS!!! Check it out!

Dreaming Moon has some cool scans worth checking out.

A Fruitful Spring has some photos from yet another PGSM reunion!!!

The Deep Submerge Directory has a new layout for the new year! Me like!

Star Dusting has new media worth checking out!

There's a brand new Sailor Moon site online that's focusing on the show's relaunch in Italy, SailorMoonWorld.it! They've got a really fresh layout and some great information on the show in Italy as well as peaks at the brand new Sailor Moon artwork that's been created for the show there. I love this site so much I've just affiliated with it! Check it out guys!

The Sailor Moon Funny Faces Gallery is heading in a new direction.

The latest Moonsticks comic is hilarious!

Labels: Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon Roundup, Sailor Moon Sightings, web

Posted By: Brad  # Sunday, February 07, 2010  (3) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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Recently I had the pleasure to sit down and interview the wonderfully skilled voice actress of the Sailor Moon anime's first villain Queen Beryl, Naz Edwards!

She's an absolute legend and offers some great insight into the early years of the English dub.

Read the interview here and make sure to tell your friends! ;)

p.s. This post is gratefully sponsored by Blast Off, the new book by Allison Maslan. Thanks!

Labels: Interviews, Sailor Moon Anime, site

Happy New Year 2010! Yes it's been a while but as those of you who follow my Twitter account know, I was suffering from a major wrist injury (bruised the joint and ripped the cartilage) which pretty much prevented me from writing anything over 140 characters long without screaming in pain and doubling over.

This is why I love Twitter! It allowed me to stay in touch with quite a few of you guys even when I was unable to update the site.

Speaking of Twitter, Interesting stats: 22% of you guys are guys, 78% are girls. 95% of you love RTing me (thanks!) & most are from US and Canada.

Got those stats from here if you're interested. They forgot to mention that 100% of you are fabulous!

That's interesting as on the MKNET main site there are a lot more Australians, Kiwis and Germans and also a few from Japan (besides myself).

Anyway as a consequence of my wrist injury I fell seriously behind in the Sailor Moon Sailor Stars Anime Episode Guide which I was hoping to have finished by the end of the holidays. Am definitely aiming to get it done by March. I've also got some great Moonie Mailbag Sailor Moon Questions in my inbox to be answered and will most likely get round to them this Sunday. Keep sending them in guys! I will answer them all, don't worry! If you haven't seen the Moonie Mailbag yet, you should check it out. Lots of content to read on a rainy day.

If you haven't been here in a while, you should also check out my review of the new Japanese Sailor Moon anime box set. This weekend I'll be updating it with screencaps from the DVDs so stay tuned!

I've also uploaded a lot of new Sailor Moon wallpapers to the Downloads section which are well worth checking out. There's also a HUGE collection of avatars & icons there if you want to change your avatar for the new year.

In Moonie news, nothing really big officially. Still no news of a new anime series from Japan or a new English redub let alone a rerelease of the series on DVD or Bluray in Region 1 or 4. The anime will be reairing in Italy next month though and Naoko Takeuchi will be drawing some new artwork for the Italians!!! That's pretty amazing and I think the first time she has drawn artwork exclusively for a company outside of Japan.

The official site has updated for the new year, but unlike last year's January update there's no message from Naoko. Interesting now though in retrospect that when Naoko in January 2009 said that 2009 would be an interesting year for Sailor Moon she must have been talking about the new DVDs and the anime's reairing on Animax in Japan.

Meanwhile elsewhere on the web:

Dreaming Moon has updated with some new card scans!

A Fruitful Spring has a new layout, new scans and lots of updates worth checking out!

Moon Sticks has a new strip online!

Moon Collection has a great post about a Moon Kingdom play set.

Sailor Moon plus Cooking equals crazy.

On a side note, I've been reading up on Amazon's Kindle lately and seen there's a lot of manga on it! Thinking about getting one. Do you have one? Please comment below and let me know if it's worth getting!

Oh and one last thing before I go.... got another exclusive interview with a Sailor Moon voice actress coming soon!!! ;)

Labels: community, Moonie Mailbag, Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon News, Sailor Moon Roundup, Sailor Moon Toys, site

Posted By: Brad  # Friday, January 15, 2010  (5) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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Happy Friday! Hope you've had a good week and are getting all your Christmas shopping done!

The biggest Sailor Moon news this week is the release of the first Sailor Moon DVD box. It's been selling really well according to this chart (though I'm not sure the actual rank) and has flown off shelves here in Japan with a lot of stores already being out of stock! Even Amazon has sold all of their reserves in just a few days! Don't worry if you've placed an order though, the boxes won't go out of print until December 2011 and all stores should be getting new stock soon.

Luckily I pre-ordered mine and got it as soon as it was released. If you haven't already you should check out my review of the box which includes photos of the slip, case, disks and extras. Will be adding screencaps and a screenshot comparison between the different releases tomorrow so check back soon!

This week I also updated the Sailor Moon Channel Archive with December's layout. I wonder if this will be the last update for 2009! Looking forward to creating a new page for the 2010 layout! :D

In other site news Moonkitty.net's reached 1000 followers on Twitter! Thank you to all my followers for following thus far and if you haven't followed yet, come on over and join the party! I'll be throwing a competition for a PGSM CD / Book Set in the New Year that will be held entirely on Twitter so you better get in early to be eligible!

Speaking of Twitter, a BIG MOONIE THANK YOU to Dakota who made a donation this month! At this time of year, any support is appreciated so thank you so much for helping me out! **hugs**

Elsewhere...

The real story of how Pluto took Hotaru is revealed in this week's Moon Sticks & Dreaming Moon has updated a bit.

As holidays are approaching, expect more updates in the near future such as new wallpapers, icons and some bigger developments in the Sailor Stars Episode Guide! The latest poll also suggests that you guys want some Sailor Moon Character Information too so you can expect Moonkitty.net's Character Guide to premiere sometime in the New Year after the Episode Guides are finished (and they almost are!). I'll also be answering as many Moonie Mailbag questions as time permits tomorrow as well.

And don't forget Moonkitty.net's Sailor Moon Christmas Special!

Sailor Moon Says!

Labels: Competitions, guides, Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary Celebration, Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon DVDs, Sailor Moon News, Sailor Moon Polls, Sailor Moon Roundup, site, Twitter, web

Told you I had a BIG event for you today!

This week I was lucky enough to officially interview the voice actress who played Sailor Moon in Sailor Moon S and SuperS as well as Snow Queen Kaguya in the Sailor Moon S movie, Linda Ballantyne!

We really had fun talking to each other and discussed quite a few things I think fans have been wondering about concerning the English dub of the third and fourth seasons.

What are you waiting for?! Give it a read and feel more than free to comment below.

Sailor Moon Says!

p.s. Feel free to link to this interview but please refrain from copying and pasting it onto your own site or forum. Thanks. :D

Labels: Interviews, Sailor Moon Anime, site

Halloween's almost here! Luckily Moon Sticks has a special Halloween special strip online! Funny as always!

And now some pretty HUGE news! The official Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary site has updated with something fantastic! Apparently on the 6th of December all five Japanese Sailor Moon voice actresses will be appearing for a special event celebrating the manga's 20th anniversary in 2011! (Just a bit early, but hey, who cares!)

Wait, it gets better though! Toei is giving away 20 tickets to the event to 20 random fans who buy the first 20th Anniversary Box Set through their Toei site before November 3rd! I was going to buy my box set through Amazon.co.jp but looks like I may just order it through Toei (just for this first box though).

If you're living outside of Japan, I wouldn't recommend buying it directly from Toei as it's a LOT more expensive than Amazon.co.jp.

Wild Speculation #1 It's interesting that they mention the manga anniversary. Could this mean a reprint of the manga?

Wild Speculation #2 All five actresses reuniting is pretty huge. Normally this kind of thing happens when new animes are announced. It could simply be to promote the DVDs but December is normally the time of year in Japan when new animes are announced. Could they announce a new Sailor Moon anime or maybe a Dragonball Kai like remake? Fingers crossed!

In other news:

Speaking of Inner Sailors reuniting, the five main actresses from Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon have also reunited recently, though socially and Izumirika.com and Ayaka502.net have the photos and info!

Snowdrop has added some fantastic spirites to her already beautiful collection! There's even a "Sailor Halloween"!

SailorCosmos.org has also updated.

U&M.com has some great updates worth checking out. Beware direct linkers! ;)

That's about it so far! Have a great Halloween weekend everyone!

Labels: Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary Celebration, Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon DVDs, Sailor Moon Live Action, Sailor Moon Manga, Sailor Moon News, Sailor Moon Roundup, web

Posted By: Brad  # Friday, October 30, 2009  (5) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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Well I guess having the flu must be good for something! Lots of free time to work on the site!

After a whole day's work I'm very happy to reveal my Sailor Stars Episode Guide!!!

Right now the main page is done and I have episode summaries for the first six episodes which covers the entire Nehelenia arc! Each guide has been fully screen-capped for your enjoyment.

I'll be adding to this and finishing off the SuperS guide bit by bit over the next months and looking forward to having the anime guide finished by Christmas!

I'm probably going back to work tomorrow but I've set aside a few hours to answer all those Moonie Mailbag questions that have been piling up in my inbox.

I'll also be replying to site emails, so if you've emailed me sometime since 1999, look forward to your response. ;)

Anyway now that I'm done with Nehelenia I thought it would be suiting to feature a Nehelenia music video this Moonie Music Monday. Thank God I managed to find a good one! :D

This one to Clowns by Tatu suits the character in almost every level! Let me know what you think!

Labels: guides, Moonie Music Monday, Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Stars, site

After some energy gathering on Twitter I've gathered enough willpower to update the site and post this week's Sailor Moon Roundup.

I may have the flu, but that won't keep me down for long (sure kept me down yesterday though!)

First up you've probably noticed the new image and links to the left of this post (if you're reading this on the site that is). Thought it was needed as the 20th Anniversary Announcement happened a while ago and I don't want Moonies forgetting about it! It'll also make it easy for people looking for the official site link and links to where to buy the new Sailor Moon Box Sets online. (Amazon.jp is my No.1 choice in case you were wondering where I'm getting mine from)

Next I've created over 50 new Sailor Moon anime avatars / icons for your use. I've seen a few people using my icons in forums recently and... THANK YOU! It's great to see people appreciate them enough to actually use them to represent themselves online. (Just remember, no direct linking!)

I've also gotten around to re-saving all the Sailor Moon Widescreen Wallpapers. Some of you may remember that when I first uploaded this layout all the colours were quite dull due to how I was saving the images on my new imac. Same happened with these wallpapers! If you're using one of these I highly recommend re-saving the wallpaper onto your computer. You're guaranteed to find it much more vibrant and energetic. Sailor Moon Says!

Oooh, and now onto the Roundup!

With the 20th Anniversary DVDs on their way some posters have started appearing in stores in Japan advertising them. This post over at the genvid forums has an image of one. Personally I haven't seen any of them yet, but I'll keep you posted when I do!

IGN has listed the Top 25 Anime Characters of All Time and Sailor Moon ranked at #9! The writers seem to be confused over the concept of "series" and "character" but it's still pretty cool!

The new Moon Sticks is online. Always hilarious!

The Fighter4Luv Sailor Stars Dub needs a new Sailor Mars. Interested? Let them know!

Speaking of which, they're having a music video contest which has been extended until Dec 31st! Love making videos? Why not enter?

Labels: icons, Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary Celebration, Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon DVDs, Sailor Moon Roundup, site, wallpapers

Posted By: Brad  # Sunday, October 25, 2009  (0) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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HUGE WEEK IN SAILOR MOON NEWS! Toei has started celebrating Sailor Moon's 20th Anniversary and has announced brand new season DVD box sets for every season of the Sailor Moon anime! You can read more about this huge event in my original news post but if you just want to cut right to it and pre-order your limited edition box sets you can get the first box here and the second box here. Amazon.co.jp is offering a huge 26% OFF for pre-orders on these boxes so they're well worth a look. Personally I pre-ordered mine yesterday from them.

Something else that's got me hyped is this preview of the Sailor Stars fan dub! It's a perfect example of why I think the DiC music cues work better (as much as I love the Japanese music). Can't wait for this fourth episode.

It's Friday again so that means Moon Sticks has a new strip online! This week features two of my favourite characters Alan and Anne (Ail and Anne)!

Ayaka502.net has a cool new funky layout up!

SailorMoonLinks.com has some cool cosplay videos and images online.

My affiliate, Star Dusting is celebrating 10 years online this week! CONGRATS!!!

The Deep Submerge Directory has a new layout online! NICE!

I was surfing around YouTube and found this fantastic clip someone made that mixes the voices from the English version of Sailor Moon S but adds the DiC music cues from the first two seasons and OMG it works really well! Again I love the Japanese music but the DiC music just makes it seem so much more exciting!
Someone who commented on the video made an interesting point that thet DiC music cue works with the English voice actors and the Japanese music cues work better with the Japanese VAs. What do you think?

And speaking of fan edits! Check out this new preview for a fan project that mixes existing anime footage extremely well to make a brand new storyline! Looks very promising!

That's about it for the Roundup this week! Because Sailor Moon news in general is heating up though I will be posting any news as it's released, ASAP so you might get posts mid week, etc that are of huge importance!

If you haven't already I highly recommend subscribing to the site feed or following me on Twitter to get the latest Sailor Moon news as it's released.

Have a great weekend!

Labels: affiliates, Cosplay, Fan Dubs, Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary Celebration, Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon DVDs, Sailor Moon Fan Films, Sailor Moon News, Sailor Moon Roundup, Twitter, web

Posted By: Brad  # Friday, September 11, 2009  (5) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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Sorry for the later than usual news roundup this week! As followers of my Twitter account will know, life just got in the way this week and I was simply too exhausted to compose the Roundup post which requires a lot of energy and time.

Kind of a good thing I waited though, as this morning there's some HUGE Sailor Moon news from Japan! Let's get right into it!

This post over on the Genvid forums alerted everyone to the fantastic news that there will be some new Sailor Moon DVD releases in Japan!

The first DVD Box Set contains episodes 1 - 24 from the first season and is due for release this year in December! (Just in time for Christmas!)

The second DVD Set<完> will come with episodes 25 - 46 which finishes off the first season and is due out sometime in 2010.

It is unclear if new masters will be used, though the original Japanese DVDs had remastered image and sound and looked fantastic.

Note: the Toei site seems to be down for "maintenance" right now so these pages are unavailable. All should be fine within 24 hours.

Also currently Amazon.jp isn't listing these new releases but as soon as they do I'll let you know.

Make sure to comment below to let me know what you think about this.

The official site updated for September so earlier this week I updated the Sailor Moon Channel Archive.

If you haven't already, make sure you check out the brand new Animax commercial for Sailor Moon!

Just yesterday I uploaded heaps of new Sailor Moon avatars (or icons). Almost over 100! You can find the new anime ones here and here as well as some cool manga inspired ones here. These are perfect for Twitter or discussion forums! Just don't place them on your own site! ;)

Some other big news this past week which I posted ASAP on Twitter was the closing down of ADV who was involved in the release of several Sailor Moon VHS and DVDs. Guess we can now completely rule them out of any Sailor Moon rerelease!

In similar news, Kodansha has ended their relationship with Tokyopop! This further confirms that Kodansha is looking to self publish their series overseas which includes Sailor Moon.

On to the fandom now:

Have you seen the latest Moon Sticks yet? It features my favourite monster of the day!

And the live action Sailor Moon musical movie is on hiatus! Boo!

Finally, the Sailor Stars Dub has another fantastic preview online that looks (as usual) REALLY GOOD! Someone hire these guys to do the official Stars dub!

And now to finish on a funny note, I present this week's Moonie Music Monday Sailor Moon music video! LOL!

Labels: Fan Dubs, icons, Moonie Music Monday, Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon DVDs, Sailor Moon Fan Films, Sailor Moon Manga, Sailor Moon News, Sailor Moon Roundup, site, Twitter, web

Posted By: Brad  # Monday, September 07, 2009  (3) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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Was surfing around YouTube this morning and found this new commercial for Sailor Moon anime's return to Japanese tv!

What's really cool besides the remixing of the show's footage into a modern commercial is the fact that the original Japanese voice actress for Sailor Moon, Kotono Mitsuishi has recorded new lines for the commercial. For those that are interested she basically says that it's been long time since people had seen Sailor Moon and that everyone should watch the show or she'll punish us in the name of the Moon.

Labels: Sailor Moon Anime

What a week! On with the Sailor Moon news!

Neno Studios has updated a new behind the scenes video (which is very fun!) as well as a short scene preview of their upcoming Sailor Moon fan film!

Sailor Moon Abridged has uploaded a cool video of the cast in costumes here. Speaking of SMA, have you seen their hilarious latest episode yet?

Moon Sticks has this week's strip online! Starfighter fans rejoice!

Just found a very cool site called Manga Angels. Check it out!

A new chapter of the SuperS manga has been animated at the official site.

The entire Sailor Moon anime is now available to buy online and download to your computer as high quality WMV files via the Japanese site, Anime-BB!
Prices range from 336 Yen - 440 Yen per episode (about US/AU$4). You can find the series specific pages here: First Season, Sailor Moon R, Sailor Moon S, Sailor Moon SuperS and Sailor Moon Sailor Stars.
All files are naturally the Japanese version with no English subtitles but it's a great way to legally buy the series, is also a very convenient format for Sailor Moon music video makers and is the digitally remastered version that's currently only available on the Japanese DVDs!

Labels: Anime Conventions, Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon DVDs, Sailor Moon Roundup, web

Posted By: Brad  # Thursday, August 20, 2009  (3) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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Told you it's be soon! Just uploaded 12 more episode guides to the Sailor Moon SuperS Episode Guide!

Each guide is complete with an episode summary, screencaps, Monster of the Day information, attack and character info plus bonus trivia!

Only 49 episodes to go until the Sailor Moon Anime Guide is completed! (Been working on it for years which is why I'm excited!)

Enjoy!

Labels: guides, Sailor Moon Anime, site

Some pretty big news today concerning the, what looks to be, return of Sailor Moon!

Almost immediately after the announcement that the rights to Sailor Moon have been released and that the show would once again be airing in Italy and Japan a press release was released announcing a brand new Sailor Moon mobile phone website for users in Japan.

The website offers Sailor Moon mobile phone ring tones (currently the Japanese theme, HEART MOVING and Sailor Star Song) as well as animated downloads and soon (not yet online) all 200 episodes of the anime for download to handsets.

If you have a phone that's web capable, you can check out the site at it's address: http://www.smoon.jp.

Some things worth mentioning is that in the footer of the page the PNP can be seen, showing that Naoko is still involved in the franchise and that there hasn't been any major change in ownership. It's also interesting to see that the Japanese logo for the series simply says "Sailor Moon". There is no mention of "Pretty Soldier", "Pretty Guardian", etc.

Possible re-branding of the series? It's possible (though by no means confirmed).

Exciting times!

Also in Sailor Moon news:

Sailor Moon was mentioned on the Australian TV show Good News Week. You can see a clip of it here.

This week's Moon Sticks is online.

There's a new Site of the Month at Deep Submerge Directory.

There's some great new galleries at Star Dusting featuring the Outers.

Here's a cute Sailor Saturn comic strip.

A very cool fan of the Sailor Moon Musicals has made a new Sailor Moon Maxi 2009 Medly Remix!!! Highly recommended if you're a fan of the musicals!

My affiliate, Kirari-PGSM.net has just turned 4! It's a great live action Sailor Moon site! Make sure to check it out if you haven't already! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Likewise, UsagiandMamoruUniverse.com has just turn 8 years old!! Make sure to check out the site's new layout and 8 years worth of content!

The third episode of the English Sailor Moon Sailor Stars dub is due out any day now. Prepare yourself with the episode preview!

Have you seen this interview yet? It took place last week and features the Japanese voice actress of Sailor Moon. Most of it's just small talk though it mentions that besides Sailor Moon, her favourite characters are Sailor Uranus and Neptune because she feels the characters appeal to the adults who watch the show.

In site news, I've just added Sailor Moon television Air Times onto the right side navigation to make it easier for everyone to find out when Sailor Moon is returning and airing in their country. If your country isn't there yet, that means that there has yet to be any information it airing yet. If and when such info is announced I will of course add it.

Exciting!

Labels: Fan Dubs, Naoko Takeuchi, Sailor Moon Anime, Sailor Moon Live Action, Sailor Moon Mobile, Sailor Moon Music, Sailor Moon Musicals, Sailor Moon News, Sailor Moon Roundup, site

Posted By: Brad  # Friday, August 07, 2009  (13) Post a Comment! / Who linked here?

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Some pretty big news this week!

As you all know, the rights to Sailor Moon have been frozen both in Japan and Internationally for a few years now which is why the anime hasn't been seen on tv and all the merchandise is now out of print.

A few days ago a poster on the genvid forums mentioned how the anime will once more begin airing in Italy in 2010 and that the rights had finally been released!

Pretty cool news in itself, but wait, it gets better!

Just this week there was a press conference in Japan announcing that the Sailor Moon anime would start airing on the Japanese Animax Channel in September! Kotono Mitsuishi, the Japanese voice actress of Sailor Moon was present for the announcement too.

It's definitely beginning to look like Sailor Moon is making a comeback!

I'll keep you posted as more news becomes available!

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The last week or so I've been silently working on Moonkitty.net's next project and now it's ready to be revealed, the Sailor Moon SuperS Episode Guide!.

Currently summaries and screencaps for the first six episodes are done as well as several opening and closing credits, the episode bumper / eyecatch and the SuperS Uranus and Neptune Special!

I'll gradually be adding to this guide over the next month or so and will also be doing the relevant DVD reviews (expect the first very soon) and attack guides (not online yet).

Hope you enjoy it and find it useful!

Have a great week!

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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!

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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!

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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

Funimation to redub Sailor Moon anime!?! Thanks to this topic over at the new (very active now) Genvid forums, I became aware of this new poll at the Funimation website asking fans which series they would like to see dubbed and an option is, "Redubbed Entire Sailor Moon Series".
Head on over there now and let our voices be heard! Even if you're a HUGE fan of the existing English dub like I am (really like DiC dub!) vote anyway to show how strong the fandom still is! If anything it may get an English dub of Sailor Starsand an official Subtitled release using the new digitally remastered Japanese sources! Could also mean a release of the rereleased Sailor Moon manga!

Also thanks to Genvid, I came across this great post about the changes in the new manga! I had no idea there were so many! Check out the new broach and redrawn panels!!!

Chibi Sticks has a new comic online! As always, funny stuff!

During the past few weeks, I conducted an interview with someone behind the scenes of Crystal of Chaos. Will post it soon so stay tuned!

Sailor Moon Opening Reborn Very well done!

Do you like Sailor Moon? Do you like Gundam? Check this out!

I'll take a Sailor Moon Supreme to go, thanks!

Ever wondered if the Martian Manhunter would disguise himself as Sailor Mars and if Bruce Wayne was a Moonie? Now we know! Haha!

MORE SAILOR MOON NEWS ADDED AFTER WORK ON FRIDAY

SMFFG has some great updates worth checking out!

Keiko Han and Yasu Yamaguchi ahve pulled out of Animazement due to the Swine Flu scare.


Also, here are panel times:

Sailor Moon Photoshoot
Time|Day- Saturday Late Morning, May 23, 2009 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Location- Lobby- Then move to a better location.

My Panels-
Naoko Takeuchi Fan Panel
Time|Day- Friday May 22, 2009 Night at 6:45pm - 7:45pm
Location- Track 5 302C

Sailor Moon Universe Panel
Time|Day- Saturday Afternoon May 23, 2009 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location- Track 5 302C

If you're going, have fun!

The Sailor Stars Fandub has a preview of episode 2 on their Media Page. Looks great. Seriously can't wait for the next episode!

Sera Myu Antics is back online!

Sailor Moon fanfiction was mentioned here alongside Lord of the Rings and Twilight fanfiction! Good to know it's still relevant!

Two rewatching groups going on right now. If you want to rewatch the anime, go here to participate. Want to rewatch the live action version of Sailor Moon? Go here.

Now make sure you go vote for Sailor Moon in this poll and comment below to let us know what comments (if any) you left at the bottom of the poll.

Personally I suggested releasing all the seasons on Blu Ray! :D

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Some of you may have noticed that I've been cleaning up the Sailor Moon Anime Season One Episode Guide page a bit by cleaning up the coding, writing some more information and finally doing the episode guides for the famous "Missing Episodes" that were never adapted into English by DiC!

Currently three have been written and prettied up with screencaps:

Sailor Venus' Past, Minako's Tragic Love
The Sailor Warriors Die! The Tragic Final Battle &
Usagi's Everlasting Wish! A New Reincarnation

I've also got the guides up for the first and second Bumper (or Eyecatch) that accompanied each Sailor Moon episode in the first season.

Slowly but surely my anime guide is getting there!

p.s. Also if you haven't checked out my revampedSailor Moon Musical (Sera Myu) page, I highly recommend doing so. The musicals are simply fantastic yet I'd say 90% of Sailor Moon fans never give them a chance. Well worth your time guys!

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ANN has reported that the Cartoon Network will be finishing it's Toonami block today after 11 years that brought US viewers series from Dragonball to Yugioh and of course the first two seasons of Sailor Moon and was the where the English versions of Sailor Moon S and Sailor Moon SuperS premiered. (No seasons of Sailor Moon have aired these past few years though since the rights expired).

Farewell Toonami! Sailor Moon fans everywhere owe you big time!

Labels: Sailor Moon Anime

Just finished some episode guides for several more Sailor Moon S anime episodes,

Damp Spirits
Friendly Foes
Mixed Emotions
Individual Happiness
Birthday Blues Part 1
Birthday Blues Part 2
Hello, Sailor Mini Moon
Tainted Tea Party
People Who Need People
Related By Destiny
Art Appreciation
& Everything's Coming Up Rosey

Also I was wondering how this site looks for Internet Explorer users. I thought I'd fixed the problem ages ago but just a look the other day and the menus to the right seem to be distorting the layout. Any feedback is welcome via email or by commenting to this post. Cheers for all the help!

Labels: guides, Sailor Moon Anime, site

Have just done a big redesign on the Sailor Moon R Episode Guide with some added information, images and the episode guide for every Sailor Moon R episode!

I don't want to say it's complete as I still need to add shopping info for each episode as well as do guides for the openings and closings, etc but the summaries and screencaps for every episode (including the missing episode!) are done!

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Know, what's really exciting? Guess what comes next!

Labels: guides, Sailor Moon Anime, site

Just a quick update to say that I've uploaded my illustrated episode guide for the Sailor Moon R Movie, The Promise of the Rose!

Also added the following episodes to the Sailor Moon R Episode Guide

Sailor Moon R #67: Rubeus Strikes Out
Sailor Moon R #68: The Secret of the Luna Sphere
Sailor Moon R #69: Emerald Takes Over
Sailor Moon R #70: Promises Fulfilled
Sailor Moon R #71: No Thanks, Nurse Venus
& Sailor Moon R #72: Dog Day for Artemis.

Extra information and shopping details will be added throughout the week!

P.S. And for those wondering, the Sailor Moon R Movie Guide is not the big surprise I've been planning. ;)

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Done! The entire Sailor Moon Anime Season One Episode Guide has now been cleaned up, spell checked, spaced, edited and spiffied! Just finished fixing the following final episodes: (remember you may find broken links to attack and DVD pages that haven't been created yet).

Sailor Moon #32: Bad Hair Day
Sailor Moon #33: Little Miss Manners
Sailor Moon #34: Ski Bunny Blues
Sailor Moon #35: Ice Princess
Sailor Moon #36: Last Resort
Sailor Moon #37: Tuxedo Unmasked
Sailor Moon #38: Fractious Friends
Sailor Moon #39: The Past Returns
& Sailor Moon #40: Day of Destiny.

As an added bonus, check out these 13 new Sailor Moon Anime avatars!

And to celebrate some more why not watch this old Toonami Sailor Moon commercial!



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Continuing my efforts to clean up the Sailor Moon Season 1 Episode Guide, I've now converted the following episodes!

Sailor Moon #14: Shutter Bugged
Sailor Moon #15: Dangerous Dollies
Sailor Moon #16: Who is that Masked Man?
Sailor Moon #17: An Animated Mess
Sailor Moon #18: Worth a Princess' Ransom
Sailor Moon #19: Molly's Folly
Sailor Moon #20: A Friend in Wolf's Clothing
Sailor Moon #21: Jupiter Comes Thundering In
Sailor Moon #22: The Power of Friendship
Sailor Moon #23: Mercury's Mental Match
Sailor Moon #24: An Artful Attack
Sailor Moon #25: Too Many Girlfriends
Sailor Moon #26: Grandpa's Follies
Sailor Moon #27: Kitty Chaos
Sailor Moon #28: Tuxedo Melvin
Sailor Moon #29: Sailor V Makes the Scene
Sailor Moon #30: A Crystal Clear Destiny
& Sailor Moon #31: A Reluctant Princess

Note, while these pages link to their DVD reviews, I have yet to actually do the reviews. I just added the links to save me from going back and editing each of the files once I do have the DVD reviews done (which I'll probably do in a few days anyway).

In other news, while I normally wait until the Friday, Sailor Moon Rounup to post news, I'm posting now anyway so thought I'd mention that ANN has reported that Kodansha will begin publishing manga in the US in September by themselves. This could well explain why they've been holding onto the Sailor Moon manga rights and could very well mean that we may finally be getting English translations of the new reprinted Sailor Moon manga!

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A few small site updates today. Have done a little more fixing up of the Season One Episode Guide concerning image spacing and adding of the Sailor Moon shopping information.

So far the following episode summaries / guides have been updated:

Sailor Moon #1: A Moon Star is Born
Sailor Moon #2: Talk Radio
Sailor Moon #3: Slim City
Sailor Moon #4: So You Want to be a Superstar
Sailor Moon #5: Computer School Blues
Sailor Moon #6: Time Bomb
Sailor Moon #7: An Uncharmed Life
Sailor Moon #8: Nightmare in Dreamland
Sailor Moon #9: Cruise Blues
Sailor Moon #10: Fight to the Finish
Sailor Moon #11: Match Point for Sailor Moon
Sailor Moon #12: An Unnatural Phenomenon
Sailor Moon #13: Wedding Day Blues

Update: Oh, what the hey, have some DVD reviews of Sailor Moon #2 and Sailor Moon #3. ;)

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Wow, I'm finally back into the Sailor Moon R Episode Summaries / Guides!

Just finished the episode summaries, screencaps, shopping information and interesting information for:

Sailor Moon R #61 : Naughty 'N' Nice
Sailor Moon R #62 : Prediction of Doom
Sailor Moon R #63 : Enemies No More
Sailor Moon R #64 : Checkmate
Sailor Moon R #65 : Sibling Rivalry &
Sailor Moon R #66 : Rubeus Evens the Score

I also finished the review for the DVD these episodes are on, Sailor Moon #11 here which comes complete with screencaps of the DVD main menu featuring Sailor Moon and Rubeus and a sample of the picture quality showing Sailor Moon transform.

Don't let anyone ever say I'm not a fan! ;)

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What a day! Completely revamped and cleaned up the DVD shopping guides for every season of the anime! The Shopping Guides now have links to the English and the Japanese Region 1 and Region 2 DVDs as well as information on each version the show has been released in.

Special thanks to Moon-Prism.net for providing the cover scans that I was missing.

Expect sometime later this week, shopping guides for the Sailor Moon manga and Sailor Moon Musical DVDs.

Sailor Moon Says!

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First of all, sorry about the lack of news roundups or music video spotlights. I've been working 6 day work weeks and have just come down with a very serious case of the flu. It's honestly taking a lot of energy just to write this but it's such big news that I just had to write about it....

Sailor Moon is back on tv in the UK! It's airing at 7:05am Saturday mornings during the Sat1 block on ToonAttik. They've just aired the first episode of season 1, A Moon Star is Born and will air a few more from the first and second seasons before airing the complete S and SuperS seasons which apparently have never aired in the UK.

Great news!

And now check out this very new Japanese remix of the Sailor Moon opening theme song!



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Nah, just kidding. but wouldn't it be great? Seriously though, every day I expect some anime news site to break the news about a new Sailor Moon anime series. With all these old series getting relaunched or turned into movies, the time just seems so right for a new version of Sailor Moon to pop up. Why hasn't it happened yet? Most likely due to the copyrights being held up in Japan by Toei and possibly Naoko Takeuchi herself.

It really is only a matter of time though. Did you know next year will be 10 years since the final episode of Sailor Stars (Episode 200) aired? Fingers crossed!

There's a possibility of The Deep Submerge Directory hosting a massive Sailor Moon website awards! Interested? Head on over there and mention how great it would be in the guestbook!!! Something like this would really motivate Sailor Moon webmasters and reinvigorate the Moonie community!

Ballads and Bows has recruited even more reviewers!

We have a new Affiliate in ShadowGalactica.com! Check it out for your Sailor Stars villain fix!

SeraMyu Antics has a brand new domain name, www.SeraMyuAntics.net! It's an excellent site full of Sailor Moon musical goodness! Check it out!

SailorMoonCards.eu has completely revamped their site and updated some content too!

Gaia Online has now added several other colour themed schoolgirl outfits to help all Sailor Moon fans cosplay their avatars into any Sailor Scout they wish! The February exclusive donation item though holds the mascot, heart wand, background bubbles and Super Bow.

In site news I've been cleaning up the Affiliates once more so those sites that haven't updated within the last 356 days have been removed from the side menu. They are however in the links page. If you have been removed from the side and you've just updated your site, email me to let me know you're active again and I'll re-add you.

Again a reminder for all new affiliate applications I am now going by a new policy that Moonkitty.NET must be linked to on EVERY PAGE of your site. Not just the splash page or links page. Speaking of splash pages, I will no longer link to these as I feel they waste visitors' time so instead I will link to the pages they lead too. Please let's leave splash pages in the early 90s where they belong. :D

I've been going FULL BLAST with the Sailor Moon episode guides! Expect a massive update later today!

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