It’s official! Manga publisher Kodansha and Sailor Moon creator and writer Naoko Takeuchi are bringing us a new Sailor Moon anime next year!!!
The announcement was made during a 20th anniversary celebration for the Sailor Moon manga, and long time fans everywhere (including myself) couldn’t be more excited. Anime News Network brought us this announcement, along with the news that although the original Sailor Moon (Kotono Mitsuishi) and Tuxedo Mask (Tohru Furuya) were at the announcement, they didn’t say specifically if they would reprise their roles as the iconic characters. Although no broadcast details have been released, we do know that the anime will come to us in the Summer of 2013 and that it will have a worldwide, simultaneous broadcast.
After long, long years of being unable to buy anything but Chinese bootlegs of the Sailor Moon DVDs with crummy English subtitles, I can’t help but hope this will mean we might get some official distribution for the long-coveted Sailor Moon collections sometime soon. Please Takeuchi, can was haz?
How many of your are as thrilled as Scarlett, Darcy and I are? I may or may not have rushed off to immediately watch some of my old DVDs after hearing the news.
In honor of the announcement, I give you a Future Girls Sailor Moon AMV!