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The Le Mouvement Finale DVD is out in Japan. Animate and the Fanclub had audio CD bonus items of 2 tracks apiece so ended up buying the disc twice to get the bonus items. Kinda bummed as they were just CD's in clear cases not even a darned cover.
I'll leave it to Sailormoonnews.com to comment about the crappy video quality - I know people here have said musicals on blu-ray are rare but the trend is changing - the Utena musical has been listed on CD Japan as has a number of Takarazuka musicals.
I would normally buy the DVD once from Rakuten for 6,500 yen with free delivery (25% off) but ended paying out 18,000 in total for 2 copies at full price and only got 4,500 back at a specialist anime goods buy/sell store when I sold the 2nd surplus to requirements disc. Ahhh what it is to be a fan.....
Both incidentally had lottery tickets to attend "talk events" with the cast but I live out in the country and a plane ride away from Tokyo so can't use them
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I'll leave it to Sailormoonnews.com to comment about the crappy video quality - I know people here have said musicals on blu-ray are rare but the trend is changing - the Utena musical has been listed on CD Japan as has a number of Takarazuka musicals.
I would normally buy the DVD once from Rakuten for 6,500 yen with free delivery (25% off) but ended paying out 18,000 in total for 2 copies at full price and only got 4,500 back at a specialist anime goods buy/sell store when I sold the 2nd surplus to requirements disc. Ahhh what it is to be a fan.....
Both incidentally had lottery tickets to attend "talk events" with the cast but I live out in the country and a plane ride away from Tokyo so can't use them
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I saw it last night. I've never seen the musicals before, but I really enjoyed it. Surprised how faithful it was to the manga.
Who did the subtitles? I felt the timing needed improvement, but overall they were decent. They mixed Saturn and Pluto's titles at one point. I was also amused they used "meatball head".
Who did the subtitles? I felt the timing needed improvement, but overall they were decent. They mixed Saturn and Pluto's titles at one point. I was also amused they used "meatball head".
Since the musical never ended up screening near me, and I didn't feel like waiting around forever for a Blu-ray release to maybe happen, I decided to just finally watch the Miss Dream fansub I'd downloaded forever ago but never got around to finishing. I really liked it and I think it's the best musical since La Reconquista. The acting and singing were really good and all the costumes looked great (except for ESM). As I said before though, I still think Usagi's makeup was terrible and made her look like a zombie. There were a few instances of long, awkward silences when someone obviously forgot their lines or missed their cues, and there were some moments of the camera focusing on the wrong character or part of the stage. I hope that in the screened / home video version they used different shots and cut out the awkward silences.
As for the story itself... I, too, was impressed by how faithful it was to the manga, but at the same time, they tried to cram in way too many plot points, so the show just felt really rushed and the pacing was really off. For instance Similarly, there were way too many songs and they all just kind of ran into one another. A lot of the songs felt redundant and weren't especially memorable. I enjoyed "Sky of Jewels" but "Sailor Makeup" was a total dud.
Anyway, I loved seeing Satomi again, and finally getting Sailor Cosmos in an adaptation was enough to make me overlook the musical's problems. The cast's farewell messages were funny and moving. Galaxia's actress is a FIERCE DIVA QUEEN. The Chibi Chibi actresses were so precious. I laughed when Fighter's actress called herself Healer by mistake. I didn't realize Maker, Rubeus, and Hawk's Eye were all played by the same actress, so that was cool to find out.
So yeah. Overall this was a high note for this run to go out on. Can't wait for the new musical next year and for the musical projects this year.
As for the story itself... I, too, was impressed by how faithful it was to the manga, but at the same time, they tried to cram in way too many plot points, so the show just felt really rushed and the pacing was really off. For instance
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Anyway, I loved seeing Satomi again, and finally getting Sailor Cosmos in an adaptation was enough to make me overlook the musical's problems. The cast's farewell messages were funny and moving. Galaxia's actress is a FIERCE DIVA QUEEN. The Chibi Chibi actresses were so precious. I laughed when Fighter's actress called herself Healer by mistake. I didn't realize Maker, Rubeus, and Hawk's Eye were all played by the same actress, so that was cool to find out.
So yeah. Overall this was a high note for this run to go out on. Can't wait for the new musical next year and for the musical projects this year.
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It's funny. In 2015, before the musical tickets were available overseas, I had gotten ahold of the musical marketing reps. We wanted to know if there would be tickets available overseas, they said yes, but didn't know when. Then they got pissy with me cuz I was telling people. And then, about a month later, the English ticketing website was revealed. It would have been nice for them to say "hold on a bit longer." But oh well. My Singaporean friend had similar troubles with the Naruto musical marketing rep, so I'm guessing it wasn't just me.
Anyway, my point is, it doesn't surprise me that we have conflicting information about a blu-ray. And quite frankly, I would be surprised if that wasn't their end goal because basically that's the whole reason to get it into the theaters in the first place. Anime industry people have said that getting anime movies into the theaters are only worth it because it's a great way to market the disc. They aren't making money off of the theater showings.
But I think it's promising that the Utena musical is getting a blu-ray right out of gate. We're not sure if they'll have English subtitles, but I imagine we'll know relatively soon.
Anyway, my point is, it doesn't surprise me that we have conflicting information about a blu-ray. And quite frankly, I would be surprised if that wasn't their end goal because basically that's the whole reason to get it into the theaters in the first place. Anime industry people have said that getting anime movies into the theaters are only worth it because it's a great way to market the disc. They aren't making money off of the theater showings.
But I think it's promising that the Utena musical is getting a blu-ray right out of gate. We're not sure if they'll have English subtitles, but I imagine we'll know relatively soon.
Heads up, apparently King Records sent a Cease & Desist letter to Miss Dream to take down video & audio of Petite Étrangère, Un Nouveau Voyage, Amour Eternal & Le Mouvement Final.
It might not mean anything regarding an official English release but the last time this happened, it was last year when Kodansha Japan sent them a C&D to take down all Raw manga scans of Sailor Moon & Codename Sailor V and that happened a week after Osabu announced the English Kanzenban releases at Anime Matsuri.
It might not mean anything regarding an official English release but the last time this happened, it was last year when Kodansha Japan sent them a C&D to take down all Raw manga scans of Sailor Moon & Codename Sailor V and that happened a week after Osabu announced the English Kanzenban releases at Anime Matsuri.
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I imagine that they haven't finalized the rights yet and that's why they didn't ask them to take down La Reconquista. I would very much love to finally own the Myus on home video, either on Blu Ray or even DVD only would be fine for me. I also hope we could eventually get all the old Myus licensed. I wonder if they'll also do theatrical screenings of the first four musicals of the new Myus as well? But I wonder who would handle the North American home video releases of the new Myus since it doesn't look like Viz is involved any.
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When anyone has rights to distribute in English (or other language not Japanese) outside of Japan it's a license. In ethical fansubbing circles you are expected to stop subbing / distributing something if someone has any kind of disttribution rights in your own language. Cinelife Entertainment having theatrical distribution rights counts in that respect.
What you mean is disappointed regarding no announcement of a home video release
A bit early to be honest considering the theatrical run is not yet over.
In this current era of simulcasting - home video release announcements are a long way in the future. For example I doubt we'll see any news on CCS Clear Card blu-rays for quite some time.. Lupin Part IV on Toonami - that only got a home video release 2 - 3 months after the end of broadcast.
When anyone has rights to distribute in English (or other language not Japanese) outside of Japan it's a license. In ethical fansubbing circles you are expected to stop subbing / distributing something if someone has any kind of disttribution rights in your own language. Cinelife Entertainment having theatrical distribution rights counts in that respect.
What you mean is disappointed regarding no announcement of a home video release
A bit early to be honest considering the theatrical run is not yet over.
In this current era of simulcasting - home video release announcements are a long way in the future. For example I doubt we'll see any news on CCS Clear Card blu-rays for quite some time.. Lupin Part IV on Toonami - that only got a home video release 2 - 3 months after the end of broadcast.
They made announcements about the Myus last year at Anime Matsuri and even talked about bringing the fifth musical to the U.S. So they've already set the expectation that Anime Matsuri is a place where they make news announcement about the Myus. Combined with them sending the C&D a few days before Anime Matsuri definitely gave a lot of fans the false impression that there would be an announcement about the Myus there since they made one last year.
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The musical will have a few showings in Mexico apparently. I'm not sure if it'll still be subtitled in English or if it will have Spanish subtitles, but my guess is the former since the video's one subtitle is in English even though all the informational text is in Spanish.
The musical will have a few showings in Mexico apparently. I'm not sure if it'll still be subtitled in English or if it will have Spanish subtitles, but my guess is the former since the video's one subtitle is in English even though all the informational text is in Spanish.
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