Viz Media ran their Sailor Moon panel today at Anime Boston and during it they also announced the English language cast for the series that they’ll be working with. The cast includes:
- Stephanie Sheh as Usagi Tsukino
- Kate Higgins as Ami Mizuno
- Cristina Vee as Rei Hino
- Amanda miller as Makoto Kino
- Cherami Leigh as Minako Aino
- Robbie Daymond as Mamoru Chiba
- Michelle Ruff as Luna
- Johnny Yong Bosch as Artemis
Unsurprisingly, this is the same cast as the original series that they’ve been dubbing. But confirmations are definitely welcome.
Directed by Munehisa Sakai at Toei Animation with Yuji Kobayashi doing the scripts. Yuki Sako joined the team as the character designer, whose recent works include Majestic Prince. Yasuharu Takanashi is serving as the composer, having worked on some big franchise including Fairy Tail and Precure. Art direction is being done by Takashi Kurahashi and Yumi Hosaka, both of which worked on Gatchaman Crowds and Mononoke. The soundtrack is set to be produced by King Records, which means we should be getting plenty of clips and samples of everything once they start to the marketing side as they’re very involved on that front. Momoiro Clover Z is performing the theme song.
Plot concept: Usagi Tsukino is a second-year middle school girl who is a little clumsy and a crybaby, but she is full of energy. One day, she meets Luna, a black cat with a crescent moon on her forehead, and she transforms into Sailor Moon, a sailor-uniformed pretty guardian of love and justice! As a chosen guardian of justice, Usagi seems to have a mission to find the Illusionary Silver Crystal with the other guardians and to protect the princess.
Meanwhile, the queen of the Dark Kingdom, Queen Beryl, also sends minions to the town where Usagi lives to obtain the Illusionary Silver Crystal, which has immense power. This causes strange events to unfold….
Can Sailor Moon really find the Illusionary Silver Crystal with the other Sailor guardians, and protect the princess…!?
When will they release the dub
after either the original is fully dubbed or Crystal finishes season 1
This gives me hope that Viz will seek some sort of TV deal in the US & Canada. Put it on Space as the lead-in for Doctor Who.