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They just revealed the details on the Niconico stream.

Sailor Moon: Kotono Mitsuishi
Sailor Jupiter: Ami Koshimizu
Sailor Mercury: Hisako Kanemoto
Sailor Venus: Shizuka Ito
Sailor Mars: Rina Sato

Edit: The series will start streaming on Nico on July 5 2014 at 7pm (in Japan). It's supposed to be a worldwide stream. There will be new episodes on every first and third Saturday every month. So looks like's a bi-weekly series.

http://sailormoon-official.com/animation/

The official site has updated. There are lots of full body artwork for the characters there too.

http://sailormoon-official.com/animation/img/character/moon_1.png
http://sailormoon-official.com/animation/img/character/moon_2.png

http://sailormoon-official.com/animation/img/character/mercury_1.png
http://sailormoon-official.com/animation/img/character/mercury_2.png

http://sailormoon-official.com/animation/img/character/mars_1.png
http://sailormoon-official.com/animation/img/character/mars_2.png

http://sailormoon-official.com/animation/img/character/jupiter_1.png
http://sailormoon-official.com/animation/img/character/jupiter_2.png

http://sailormoon-official.com/animation/img/character/venus_1.png
http://sailormoon-official.com/animation/img/character/venus_2.png

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[fertygo]

Itshappening?

Btw the design is alright I guess, not particularly good either.

 

[firehawk12]

Japanese internet.

 

[Jex]

Okay, now I'm convinced that this will eventually come out.

 

[sphagnum]

Mercury still the best.

 

[Shard]

Duckroll you missed the the premiere date announcement of July 5th, 2014 at 7PM

 

[Scirrocco]

Usagis head looks huge, but otherwise nice. I expected them to be a bit more styalized, but these almost look like they were taken from the manga.

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Designs are fine in my book. They just look updated, cute!

 

[Beth Cyra]

Usagi look good. Ami Looks good. Minako looks good.

Rei is a step back.

Makoto, WTF happened to her?

 

[Nightengale]

Hmm, those designs... not sure how I feel about it.

On one hand, I'm kinda... glad ( I guess?) that it tries to translate Takeuchi's style into animation instead of going by a more generic design, but I feel like the end result in those shots came out looking kinda cheap, and kinda loses some of the luster that's great about Takeuchi's style.

But finally we've gotten an update on Sailor Moon! Aw yis.

 

[Articalys]

There will be new episodes on every first and third Saturday every month. So looks like's a bi-weekly series.

This is honestly the most interesting thing for me out of all the new info. Hopefully it means positive things for the animation quality.

 

[Shard]

According to Twitter Apparently it'll air on 1st and 3rd Saturday every month as well. 2 eps a month?

 

[Regulus Tera]

Designs will grow on me. It does look closer to the manga, which is a non-issue for me.

EDIT: Bi-weekly? LOL TOEI

 

[Reversed]

Bi-weekly, ugh.

No video teaser either. And yet it's coming pretty soon.

 

[krypt0nian]

duckroll, you have made my NIGHT!

 

[MikeMyers]

No confirmation of Furuya as Mamoru yet. :/

 

[duckroll]

The designs definitely look kinda fanart-y. Hopefully they'll look better animated. Actually, scratch that. Hopefully they're done animating episode 1 by the time they start streaming it.

 

[Pluto]

There will be new episodes on every first and third Saturday every month. So looks like's a bi-weekly series.

Eh? I would have preferred a weekly series. I'm afraid people will lose interest if the show isn't on every week. Does japan have many bi-weekly shows, is that a thing over there?

 

[SDBurton]

Awww yiss! Mercury looking good

 

[Femmeworth]

Bi-weekly? What. Guess this won't be a priority project.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Still has a 90's feel to it

 

[Shard]

The designs definitely look kinda fanart-y. Hopefully they'll look better animated. Actually, scratch that. Hopefully they're done animating episode 1 by the time they start streaming it.

Twitter seems to indicate that the designs came from a contest of some sort.

 

[LiK]

the designs look pretty old school. i mean from the early 80's kind of old school. curious how good the animation looks.

 

[duckroll]

Eh? I would have preferred a weekly series. I'm afraid people will lose interest if the show isn't on every week. Does japan have many bi-weekly shows, is that a thing over there?

This isn't even airing on TV. It's only streaming on Niconico Douga as far as we know. The entire thing seems to be bankrolled by Dwango, who are also producing the musicals iirc. I'm not expecting much honestly. It feels to me that someone decided they needed a new Sailor Moon anime for businesss reasons before anything actually existed, and they eventually found people to make it.

 

[Toki767]

I didn't even realize there was such a thing as a bi-weekly series. What happens when there are 5 Saturdays in a month?

 

[Pluto]

I like the designs, it is weird to see different anime designs but they're good, I believe I'll get used to them pretty fast.

 

[LiK]

I didn't even realize there was such a thing as a bi-weekly series. What happens when there are 5 Saturdays in a month?

i bet it'll be a filler recap episode

 

[Shadownet]

Never watch Sailor Moon but I gotta say, not bad for updated design. It stayed true to the original.

 

[Femmeworth]

Twitter seems to indicate that the designs came from a contest of some sort.

This isn't even airing on TV. It's only streaming on Niconico Douga as far as we know. The entire thing seems to be bankrolled by Dwango, who are also producing the musicals iirc. I'm not expecting much honestly. It feels to me that someone decided they needed a new Sailor Moon anime for businesss reasons before anything actually existed, and they eventually found people to make it.

Oh dear.

 

[Shard]

This isn't even airing on TV. It's only streaming on Niconico Douga as far as we know. The entire thing seems to be bankrolled by Dwango, who are also producing the musicals iirc. I'm not expecting much honestly. It feels to me that someone decided they needed a new Sailor Moon anime for businesss reasons before anything actually existed, and they eventually found people to make it.

You would think that it would be unhard to make a new Sailor Moon anime yet here we are.

 

[fertygo]

This isn't even airing on TV. It's only streaming on Niconico Douga as far as we know. The entire thing seems to be bankrolled by Dwango, who are also producing the musicals iirc. I'm not expecting much honestly. It feels to me that someone decided they needed a new Sailor Moon anime for businesss reasons before anything actually existed, and they eventually found people to make it.

Oh wow, its sounds pretty promising lol

 

[Articalys]

This isn't even airing on TV. It's only streaming on Niconico Douga as far as we know. The entire thing seems to be bankrolled by Dwango, who are also producing the musicals iirc. I'm not expecting much honestly. It feels to me that someone decided they needed a new Sailor Moon anime for businesss reasons before anything actually existed, and they eventually found people to make it.

For such an incredibly famous series that feels kind of... haphazard.

 

[Regulus Tera]

This isn't even airing on TV. It's only streaming on Niconico Douga as far as we know. The entire thing seems to be bankrolled by Dwango, who are also producing the musicals iirc. I'm not expecting much honestly. It feels to me that someone decided they needed a new Sailor Moon anime for businesss reasons before anything actually existed, and they eventually found people to make it.

I knew Toei couldn't handle two magical girl shows in one year!

 

[Branduil]

This isn't even airing on TV. It's only streaming on Niconico Douga as far as we know. The entire thing seems to be bankrolled by Dwango, who are also producing the musicals iirc. I'm not expecting much honestly. It feels to me that someone decided they needed a new Sailor Moon anime for businesss reasons before anything actually existed, and they eventually found people to make it.

Well, expectations massively lowered, then.

 

[firehawk12]

This isn't even airing on TV. It's only streaming on Niconico Douga as far as we know. The entire thing seems to be bankrolled by Dwango, who are also producing the musicals iirc. I'm not expecting much honestly. It feels to me that someone decided they needed a new Sailor Moon anime for businesss reasons before anything actually existed, and they eventually found people to make it.

Anime is great.

 

[Shard]

For such an incredibly famous series that feels kind of... haphazard.

We were supposed to get this series a year ago, yea, haphazard is a good word for it.

 

[duckroll]

Twitter seems to indicate that the designs came from a contest of some sort.

I'm not sure what you're talking about? What contest? The character designer is Yukie Sako.

 

[FO-totality]

Looks okay. Not sure how I feel about how its being delivered

 

[Lafiel]

Where is the staff?!

 

[Pluto]

This isn't even airing on TV. It's only streaming on Niconico Douga as far as we know. The entire thing seems to be bankrolled by Dwango, who are also producing the musicals iirc. I'm not expecting much honestly. It feels to me that someone decided they needed a new Sailor Moon anime for businesss reasons before anything actually existed, and they eventually found people to make it.

Don't say that, that makes me think it will be a cheaply animated musical commercial, I want an epic retelling of the manga story with modern animation. I'm still happy it's starting soon but now I'm worried.

 

[Shard]

I'm not sure what you're talking about? What contest? The character designer is Yukie Sako.

Just what I saw on Twitter, I had my doubts about its veracity.

 

[Gorillaz]

I can't believe this is actually coming back

if comments are true in this thread, it could be a Struggle verison of it


Imma start calling it Struggle Moon

 

[Beth Cyra]

This isn't even airing on TV. It's only streaming on Niconico Douga as far as we know. The entire thing seems to be bankrolled by Dwango, who are also producing the musicals iirc. I'm not expecting much honestly. It feels to me that someone decided they needed a new Sailor Moon anime for businesss reasons before anything actually existed, and they eventually found people to make it.

This is so incredibly sad to me.

Sailor Moon is amazing, and while I would never watch this new show (as my avatar shows, I'm a fan of Rei/Usa which was very much a original anime only thing) the series deserves so much better then this.

 

[duckroll]

Where is the staff?!

They announced it some time ago:

 

[KDash31987]

...this won't do!

Here:

Not sure what to think of the designs. I think they're fine, but they do, at least from the images released, do look a bit..."fanart"-y.

Anyway, we were also just talking about the event in the Sailor Moon Community Thread, if anyone is interested.

 

[gconsole]

Look cheap. Ugly drawing ...

 

[duckroll]

Just what I saw on Twitter, I had my doubts about its veracity.

I haven't really seen anything about that. But hey, considering how everything else has gone so far, I wouldn't be surprised if she got the job because of an internal "audition" of designs submitted by different artists, given how she's an animator who has never done proper character design work before. It's a surprising choice for such a high profile franchise.

 

[Branduil]

I haven't really seen anything about that. But hey, considering how everything else has gone so far, I wouldn't be surprised if she got the job because of an internal "audition" of designs submitted by different artists, given how she's an animator who has never done proper character design work before. It's a surprising choice for such a high profile franchise.

"Surprising" seems like a kind euphemism here.

 

[Shard]

I haven't really seen anything about that. But hey, considering how everything else has gone so far, I wouldn't be surprised if she got the job because of an internal "audition" of designs submitted by different artists, given how she's an animator who has never done proper character design work before. It's a surprising choice for such a high profile franchise.

I get the feeling that the behind-the-scenes story is the vastly more interesting tale.

 

[RoryDropkick]

Awww yiss! Mercury looking good

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