The day has finally arrived after what feels like a couple of years of talking about the relaunch of Sailor Moon with the more manga accurate Sailor Moon Crystal. The series has launched its first episode today at July 5, at 6:00am Eastern Time and you can watch it below! Also, there’s a lot of Sailor Moon events at Anime Expo today that you can see below!
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.
For everyone attending Sailor Moon Day Events at Anime Expo® We will be showing episode 1 in full HD in Video 1 at NOON.
Due to overwhelming demand, we will ALSO be showing it in LP1 at 11:30 AM as a part of the Official Sailor Moon Panel, which starts at 10:00 AM SHARP. What this means is, if you are attending the Official Sailor Moon Panel, stay in your seat because You’re gonna see Sailor Moon Crystal, too!
If you are attending Anime Expo, be sure to line up EARLY! We have lots of great stuff planned for the Official Sailor Moon Panel and all the events for Sailor Moon Day!
10:00 AM – 12:00 NOON– Official Sailor Moon Panel – LP1 (Petree Hall) *Gift while supplies last* (Not at AX, you can watch the panel portions streaming live on Simul TV or from our friends at Collectors Anime Here and Here.
12:00 NOON – Sailor Moon Crystal Episode 1 – Video 1 *Gift while supplies last*
1:00 PM- 2:30 PM – Sailor Moon Official Cast autograph session (Autographs area- Entertainment Hall)
2:45 PM – Official cast & Staff with Official cosplayers photo op (VIZ booth 1601 Sailor Moon Wall)
3:15 – 4:00PM – World’s Largest Sailor Moon fan/ Cosplay Gathering – MAIN EVENTS (Photo at 3:30 PM Sharp!)
All convention – Sailor Moon Stamp Rally – Go to the VIZ booth and find out how you can get the special memorial coin!
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…!?
I’m disappointed. The characters look strange… They look like they’re trying to be barbie dolls, and the shading is really weird sometimes. I can’t stop looking at Usagi’s lips, she even wears that lipstick when she goes to bed… When she was transforming, I couldn’t help but laugh because her arms looked like bendy pencils. The expressions also aren’t funny like before. It’s like she always has the same reaction to everything. I have to admit, though, the eye colors sure are pretty… The skies are pretty too. The mom is what really disappointed me. She was so pretty before, why’d they have to ruin her?