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9:06 am - 07/06/2012

Oh Happy Day: New Sailor Moon Anime for 2013



This just in: At a Sailor Moon 20th anniversary talk event at Nicofare in Japan (Nico live link here), series creator Naoko Takeuchi announced that the Soldier of Love herself would be gracing the TV screens of Japanese anime fans in 2013 via a new, remade anime series. Momoiro Clover Z (Moretsu Pirates) will preform the opening theme song to the new series.

Although the geek idol group is currently in France for Japan Expo 2012, the organisers of the Sailor Moon talk event had the Momoiro Clover Z girls perform the opening theme – as well as their other hit songs – and streamed it over to the Japanese audience gathered at Nicofare.

The new anime series, simply titled “美少女戦士セーラームーン” (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon) is currently slated for the Summer 2013 TV anime season.</p>

Originally serialised from 1992 to 1997 in Kodansha’s Nakayoshi manga magazine, Sailor Moon was a hit – in particular with the teenage girls demographic – and has since been adapted into various anime series, video games, and even live-action musicals and a TV drama.



Edit: The tweet is suspect after talking to my friend. It might still be targeted to kids, but something that even older fans can enjoy.

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dropsofstars 7th-Jul-2012 07:58 pm (UTC)
I've always consider them female, never male because in the manga, their bodies didn't become physically male like they did in the anime, they were cross-dressing women. Naoko was really unhappy that they changed that on her, because senshi are only female.
Also.. No offense to star_healer, but the Hindu - Starlight connection was never confirmed by Naoko as far as I know. It's speculation, and there are some things that may be based of Hinduism, but again, it's unconfirmed and should be taken with a grain of salt. Naoko is supposed to have more say in this series, so I hope it clears up a lot of things that the last anime left untouched.
chibi_hime 7th-Jul-2012 08:46 pm (UTC)
I agree that the theory of a connection between the Starlights and Hindu is a bit reaching. I'm sure that there easily could be a connection between Sailor Moon and Jesus.

I believe that anime is made with the Japanese population in mind. I find that most Japanese people I meet have a very loose idea of religion, whether it is Buddism, Shintoism, Christianity, etc. So if any of it influences a mangaka, it's their creation, so why take offense?

I lost my train of thought here... basically I agree with you.
star_healer 8th-Jul-2012 03:20 am (UTC)
I replied to some of those thoughts above, if you're interested; I truly and honestly wouldn't even bother to ask Naoko, as though I didn't know already. ^^;; It's just like, ok, if Jesus walks onto an episode of Simpsons, right? If you're not Christian, you might be confused about what just happened and not get it. But if you get the reference, there's just not much to wonder about, and something direct like calling the creator and asking them to confirm a theory that it was Jesus, would seem odd and unnecessary, to someone having no doubts, right? The easier thing could be to just ask someone that would be familiar with the material enough to confirm it. :P However, there is no way BSSM would be aired in India - they banned even a Xena episode making some references to Krishna, and it was intended as polite and respectful. I'm also curious how things might be handled if they reach to them in a new anime! I do believe the anime was written to be more respectful to them, and I'm honestly kind of concerned if things are more like the manga, which I did not think looked so polite. ^^;;
dropsofstars 8th-Jul-2012 05:16 am (UTC)
Oh, I'm not saying that it couldn't be based off of Hinduism, at all! But I disagree with the fact that she meant for them to completely represent those Gods. Most likely, she just liked some of the elements of the story and added it to her own, as she did with a lot of the main characters. Naoko is pretty open on how she created her characters, I remember doing a lot of research on it when I was younger, and she never brought up the subject of Hinduism. Either way, I still see the Starlights as full women, and always will.. haha. However, I respect your opinion, and it makes my view on those characters a bit broader.
star_healer 8th-Jul-2012 01:39 pm (UTC)
Well, my opinion was really that the way they are in the anime isn't a bad representation of them... plus, I could tell who she meant even just reading the notes in the Materials Collection anyway, since they have very specific personalities... :)

Um... I'm bad with communicating, sometimes just easier to show, if you're interested to see what I meant?

Someone makes a Sailormoon intro for India, lol (they seem pretty fascinated about this sex switching thing, haha)
http://youtu.be/QH2E1Fk3JAQ

Video for Shiva (NSFW), you can see the imagery, is perfect for him, and the concept of "we are one" (they were picking matching names).
http://youtu.be/35AX8qbT_ek

A video where towards the end, Shiva kills Kama (Cupid) with his laser beam attack, which typically comes from the third eye on his forehead...
http://youtu.be/u8fItwReJNE

The trinity are a set where one makes the universe, one protects all the life in it, the third one destroys it, so the cycle can repeat. So, for Seiya, his role is to destroy the universe in the end, in order to recreate it, (like Seiya is singing about, in his theme song). :) He's also a dancer with perpetually messy hair, fond of wilderness areas, and as he's associated with graveyards and things like that. Some people were be scared of him because they have illusions/misperceptions about him, but he's really sweet. XD He's married to the goddess of spiritual purity... :)

Um... you can see them after their marriage if you skip to 3:44 (though this whole movie is about them), you can see why he thinks Usagi seems like his wife, right? :) (They're talking about how her mother got scared in seeing him and thought he looked like a monster -it's really funny in this movie-, because of seeing what she wanted to see and not the truth. This is why they write him in a monster costume in BSSM... he does have a very fierce, terrifying looking form called Shiva Bhairava, where his mount is a dog).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLLezvHatYE

An old movie with Vishnu and Lakshmi in Heaven in Vaikunthaloka planetary system, you can see their personalities (Vishnu is very cunning, always tricking monsters into killing themselves, etc, but also extremely kind)... :)
http://youtu.be/0bw50p2lGNE

Song for Krishna in English...
http://youtu.be/4PYa4ZUzPWE

A couple I saw where you can see pictures of Vishnu, with his beloved, also one picture with the multi-verses spilling from him.
http://youtu.be/Eo6wxJmAvfA
http://youtu.be/IBjyu2EYLk0
http://youtu.be/4y_A7bWMdHo
http://youtu.be/BsEQ8LqJWp0
http://youtu.be/TT2z57o-iKs


Taiki = Brahma... He's generally said to be from Satyaloka planetary system... he's married to Saraswati (Benzaiten in Japan). :)
http://molee.deviantart.com/art/Brahma-God-of-Creation-291527612

http://decodehindumythology.blogspot.com/2012/04/lokas-planets-of-advanced-aliens.html

Specifically Vishnu and Lakshmi do actually incarnate to fight evil, I figured that whole BSSM plot idea was probably from Hinduism? But yeah, I was quite sure, that's what the anime StarS season is supposed to be like, and I didn't think they did a bad job...
roseofjuly 9th-Jul-2012 07:41 am (UTC)
It's pretty open knowledge that Takeuchi used elements of different religions and spiritual belief systems to create her characters - Greek and Roman mythology, Shinto, and here Hinduism. It's pretty common for mangaka to do that in magical girl series. But I'm pretty sure she didn't mean for the Starlights to actually be the three Hindu gods, just that she used spiritual elements from those gods to create a magical system/basis for her story. I very much doubt that the entire plot was taken from Hinduism.
star_healer 9th-Jul-2012 09:16 am (UTC)
Mm, what I mean is is not anything particularly radical, I don't think -- just that the idea of deities incarnating/taking avatars to fight evil is nothing new, and can be found in Hinduism, which I can certainly tell she was reading about. ^.~ If I recall, actually did specify in Codename Sailor V manga that Mina is not just similar to Venus, she's a deity incarnate/avatar.
roseofjuly 9th-Jul-2012 10:04 am (UTC)
I don't think she says anywhere in the Sailor Moon manga that the senshi are deities who take the forms of avatar to fight enemies, much less that the Starlights are Hindu deities who fight enemies. She took inspiration from the different mythologies/spiritual systems to make the series more authentic/give it some magical interest.
star_healer 9th-Jul-2012 10:33 am (UTC)
That may be right, it does say Minako is a deity in Sailor V manga, and obviously what senshi are, is, soldiers that battle the forces of evil or chaos, but, I don't think it said those things in the same sentence before? Maybe it did, I don't remember...

It worked! That is why I got interested in the series, and even now, that's literally the only reason I love BSSM. :) I love anything to do with ancient history, mythology, etc, and wanted to watch specifically because when I was a kid, I saw the series had Venus in it. <3 :)
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