Sailor Moon Crystal debuted on 5 July 2014 after a number of years of speculation, rumour and production delays. Essentially a reboot of the 1990s series, Toei went back to work with manga author Naoko Takeuchi’s legendary series and give it a fresh look with modern production values. The final result is an interesting revisit […]
Sailor Moon R Part 2 is the fourth collection from Madman and closes up the remainder of the second core saga from the 1990s adaptation of Naoko Takeuchi’s classic manga. This also represents the first time this arc of the series will be released in full and uncut in Australia, which is great news to […]
Ah, Sailor Moon R, what a tragic history you have in the West. When originally aired in 1996 in Australia, the series spent a great deal of time moving through the filler Hell Tree arc before settling into the Dark Moon arc, only to unceremoniously drop off part-way through the series. The abrupt ending left […]
I’ve gushed about my odd love for the 1990s adaptation of Naoko Takeuchi’s touchstone series Sailor Moon many times since getting hooked on the show in 1996. I possibly got a bit unnecessarily nerd excited when reviewing this collection’s predecessor if we’re being objective. I was considering trying to be a bit more level-headed as […]
It’s time to share a story. There comes a point where your general interest in anime changes from one of piqued interest to unusually obsessed. For me, this happened through a combination of Astro Boy as a young child then Robotech when it screened over late-1994/early-1995, followed by chance viewings of early Manga Video releases […]