This comedy sketch video was shared with us a while ago by Alice Moran (who plays Sailor Moon in the video). It’s a tongue-in-cheek look at Sailor Moon versus a random villain (played by Jon Blair) who questions the usefulness of Tuxedo Mask (played by Kyle Dooley).

The full video is embedded below if you’d like to check it out:

Have your own Sailor Moon related fan creation that you’d like to share with us? Send us an email!

Since my last post about Theodore Jefferson’s upcoming book about Sailor Moon, I was able to reach him via email to get a few more details. We’re also planning an interview after his campaign closes, so any questions you still have about The Incredible Untold Story of Sailor Moon can be sent in and we will include them in our interview!

For those of you wondering how this will differ from Roland Parliament’s Sailor Moon Reflections, here’s what Theodore has to say about the focus of his upcoming book:

My thesis is that were it not for Sailor Moon, the entertainment market of the last 25 years would have been very different. I plan to interview many of the people involved in the show’s production, including Andy Heyward and Naoko Takeuchi (if possible). My book highlights DIC’s enormous risk in bringing Sailor Moon to the U.S. and how it paid off.

I want to trace the timeline of the show from the early 90s and the Golden Age through the early 2000s (silver age) up to the present day. My book is the story of how Sailor Moon influenced animation, games and comics, and what the show meant to American culture and how American fans influenced the Japanese version.

In short, Theodore’s book will focus more on Sailor Moon‘s influence on modern pop-culture and the entertainment industry, whereas Roland’s books focuses on how the voice cast and dubbing staff brought life to the characters as well as how the English dub was produced. There are definitely aspects in both books that will appeal to fans, so we recommend checking them out to see if they are of interest to you.

Theodore also sent me the link for his original Reddit thread, where he has added a draft of the first chapter.

And here is an audio clip of an excerpt of that prologue:

The Reddit thread also includes an extended chapter list:

• C’est La Vie is Japanese for Superhero
• Five is a Magic Number: Nakayoshi, TV Asahi and The Golden Age
• The Fuse is Lit: Nine Hundred Million Reasons To Read Backwards
• Never Running from a Real Fight: The Deal
• Grain Futures Don’t Sell Action Figures: Syndication
• Save Our Sailors: The Internet Wars
• Clash of the Titans: Carl Icahn Defeats the Negaverse
• The Lewis and Clark of Anime: How a Card Game Vanquished Denmark
• This One Goes Out To All The Ladies: Toonami and The Silver Age
• The Wait is Over: Sailor Moon Saves the World
• Along Came a Spider: What a Difference Forty Years Makes
• Honors and Privileges: Italian Sports Cars and a Plush Toy Cat
• That’s Teamwork: My Little Incredibles
• Avenged: The Senshi Initiative
• Forty Billion Dollar Tiara: From Princess to Empress
• The Undiscovered Country: The Queen has Returned
• Bonus Chapters:
  • Naoko Takeuchi: The Rabbit on the Moon
  • Andy Heyward: The World of DIC
  • Al Kahn: Monster Man
  • Brad Bird: Mister Incredible
  • Lauren Faust: The Power of Friendship
  • The Original Japanese Voice Cast in their own words
  • The Original American Voice Cast in their own words
  • The Original American Musicians in their own words
  • The Live Action Television Cast in their own words

And here’s a list of some of the key people Theodore would like to interview:

• Naoko Takeuchi – Creator of Sailor Moon
• Andy Heyward – CEO of DIC Entertainment
• Haim Saban – CEO of Saban Entertainment, bid for the Sailor Moon license in the mid-90s
• Sawai Miyuu – Actress who portrayed Sailor Moon in the live action series
• Mitsuishi Kotono – Voice Actress for Usagi Tsukino in both anime series
• Ryan Gagerman – Licensing Executive at DIC Entertainment
• Keiko Kitagawa – Actress who portrayed Sailor Mars in the live action series
• Paolo Casarini – Head of Backstage Licensing, Italian licensee for the original anime series
• Kenji Ebato – U.S. Executive at Toei Animation
• Al Kahn – CEO of 4Kids Entertainment (now 4Licensing Corporation), licensee of the Pokemon franchise
• George Irwin – owner of Irwin Toy
• Mark C. Mackinnon – founder of Guardians of Order (which had a successful Sailor Moon RPG game)

Canadian fans may also be interested to hear that there will be inclusion of some details about the history of the original syndication deal with YTV.

If you are interested in contributing to the crowdfunding campaign, you can do so at Theodore’s official fundraising campaign page.When there are 100 funders (only one more to reach that goal!), everyone gets a bonus perk and if $4000 is raised, there will be an audiobook version. The campaign is currently sitting at $3596. You can contribute as little as $5 to get your name included in the book as a thank you for your contribution.

The Sailor Moon Crystal Limited Edition Blu-Ray Box Set 2 is officially out in Japan. The box set showcases a 24-Page Full Color Booklet, the second charm for the bag chain charm set from DVD Box Set 1 (In the Shape of the Mercury Transformation Pen/Heshin Wand), as well as the disc case which showcases artwork of Sailor Mercury/Ami Mizuno. Box Set 2 will include episodes 3&4 of the series. The Box Set is going for ¥7020 after taxes (about $80.00) on the sales website CD JAPAN

The regular Blu-Ray and DVD will be released in Japan on December 10, 2014 as shown on the merchandise website Sailor Moon Collectibles as well as on CD Japan. It will retail for ¥4860 for the Blu-Ray and ¥3780 for the DVD .

We recently received this press release about a new Sailor Moon book in the making entitled The Incredible Untold Story of Sailor Moon:

For Immediate Release, November 6th, 2014

http://moon.sablewolf.net

The Incredible Untold Story of Sailor Moon will be the definitive history of the world-famous television series and manga in the United States.

The book is being written by author Theodore Jefferson, a professional journalist and former marketing consultant for DIC Entertainment.  A crowdfunding campaign for e-book and print versions reached its goal in 12 days.  It is now well on its way to funding an audiobook version.

Mr. Jefferson will bring together numerous sources, including interviews with animation industry colleagues, national correspondents, key entertainment executives and bestselling authors to paint a picture of Sailor Moon that will astonish even long-time fans of the show.

Everyone who reads The Incredible Untold Story of Sailor Moon, including Sailor Moon’s creators, will learn things about the characters they never knew before.

Sailor Moon changed the world.  This book will explain how and why.

Fans may also be interested in watching Theodore Jefferson’s promotional video about his take on the behind-the-scenes aspects of Sailor Moon‘s success:

The Indigogo crowdfunding page for the book includes some additional details:

• Author Theodore Jefferson is a former marketing consultant for DiC Entertainment and will be writing the book with editor Larissa Kayne
• The book will include interviews with various people who worked to bring Sailor Moon to English speaking audiences
• Contributors to the crowdfunding effort can get their name in the book and will be able to suggest a question for interviewees
• The crowdfunding campaign has reached the goal for a printed edition, but is still open and climbing toward the goal for an audiobook edition

Here is the proposed list of chapters for the book (this is expanding on the @sailrmoonuntold Twitter feed as more donations come in):

• C’est La Vie is Japanese for Superhero
• Five is a Magic Number: Nakayoshi, TV Asahi and The Golden Age
• The Fuse is Lit: Nine Hundred Million Reasons To Read Backwards
• Never Running from a Real Fight: The Deal
• Grain Futures Don’t Sell Action Figures: Syndication
• Save Our Sailors: The Internet Wars
• Clash of the Titans: Carl Icahn Defeats the Negaverse
• The Lewis and Clark of Anime: How a Card Game Vanquished Denmark
• This One Goes Out To All The Ladies: Toonami and The Silver Age
• The Wait is Over: Sailor Moon Saves the World
• Along Came a Spider: What a Difference Forty Years Makes
• Honors and Privileges: Italian Sports Cars and a Plush Toy Cat
• That’s Teamwork: My Little Incredibles
• Avenged: The Senshi Initiative
• Forty Billion Dollar Tiara: From Princess to Empress
• The Undiscovered Country: The Queen has Returned
• Andy Heyward: The World of DIC
• Al Kahn: Monster Man
• Brad Bird: Mister Incredible

And here is an excerpt from the book:

You can also follow updates about this book via editor Larissa Kayne’s Twitter account and the @sailrmoonuntold Twitter feed.

Fans interested in this book, which will be more industry focused (and primarily US centric based on the descriptions), may also be interested in Roland Parliament’s recently published Sailor Moon Reflections which is more focused on the acting, directing, and recording aspects of the first 65 dubbed episodes of Sailor Moon. Links for purchasing Roland’s book on Amazon are in the sidebar to the right.

We will be keeping an eye on this one and let you know more details as they come in about how this book can give you a more in-depth view of Sailor Moon‘s beginnings in the US and Canada.

Fans in and near Cambridge, Massachusetts may be interested in checking out the “Sailor Moon Shojo Spectacular” on November 12th at Oberon. The 18+ event will include various performances inspired by Sailor Moon.

Here’s the press release from the organizers:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: THE SAILOR MOON SHOUJO SPECTACULAR RETURNS!

Get your sailor suits ready for an evening of music, burlesque, circus and art in celebration of the classic 90s anime Sailor Moon!

Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight ~ the Sailor Moon Shoujo Spectacular is BACK for its second sugoi year! Join kawaii curators Amy Macabre and Jade Sylvan for an evening of performance dedicated to one of the most influential and long-lasting shoujo animes of all time––Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon! Let out your inner magical girl on Wednesday, November 12th, at Oberon!

Including burlesque and circus tributes by Fonda Feeling; music by, Niki Luparelli, Jade Sylvan w/ special guest Nuda Veritas, Jade Plays Anime Theme Songs on the Harmonium; drag acts; live drawing by Zombie Romance; thoughtful words from Harvard Japanese Girl Culture scholar, Andrew Campana, and more!

Hosted by Queen Beryl AKA Amy Macabre

Plus, there’ll be an amazing COSTUME CONTEST with fabulous prizes sponsored by geek clothing company Kobra Kawaii! Dress to impress your superior mistress Queen Beryl and walk away with shoujo swag!

The organizers have also shared with us some videos from last year’s event:

Lesbian Tank Top plays “World Shaking”:

Mary Bichner and Planetary Quartet (also check out the related video of the audience singalong of the English theme!):

Fans can attend this year’s “Sailor Moon Shoujo Spectacular” on Wednesday, November 12th, at Oberon in Harvard Square, (2 Arrow St., Cambridge). Doors will open at 7:30pm and the show starts at 8PM. Tickets range from $10-$15 (Standing room $10, Stools $12, Table seats $15)

If you attend this event, be sure to share your impressions with us!

If you know of other events like this, feel free to send us the details as we would be happy to share the info with Sailor Moon fans!