After revealing their plans earlier this year to release Sailor Moon Crystal in Germany and giving the voice actresses a chance to introduce themselves, Kaze Deutschland now has the first full trailer for it with the dub. It’s a pretty fun piece that definitely brings a different kind of sense of style about it, at least from this English speaker’s ear, and has me curious to hear a lot more of it. The distributor has set four volumes for release for it that have the odd-numbered releases coming out with a slipcase to hold two volumes. Coming out on both DVD and Blu-ray separately, the schedule is now set with:
- v1 + slipcase: March 24, 2016
- v2: May 27, 2016.
- v3 + slipcase: July 29, 2016
- v4: September 30, 2016
It looks like each set is a half-cour piece, so the first two sets make up the first cour while the second to make up the second cour.
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.
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…!?
