The Early Days of Sailor Moon

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the staff of Threelights.net have posted on their website a genga artbook of Kazuko Tadano called Final Sailor. Inside of it there are some early anime sketches of Sailor moon


Has anyone got a copy or scans of the Japanese edition of the fourth volume of the shinsoban? I'm curious about this comic:


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Specifically, I want to know if Naoko actually said "lesbians." MissDream is known to take...liberties with their translations, so I'm curious as to whether or not Naoko actually described them as such. Thanks in advance!
in the Italian edition published by gp publishing the dialogue has been translated as follows:
"at this point I can confess that when I did uranus and neptune I aimed to create a vaguely lesbian couple. I was incredibly happy that this sparked so much interest to the fans and the anime staff.
 

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^ Indeed! That tiara is so interesting looking. It would be perfect for a new version of Princess Sailor Moon.

Also from that genga:



Not sure if that's a scrapped alternate design for Sailor Mars or just an overlap of Rei and Mars, but in any case, this seems to further suggest the '90s anime was originally going to include the SenxShi pairings.



This artwork of Kisenian suggests at some stage she was going to have a civilian disguise. Her being a copy of Kyurene, as mentioned in the JP BD booklet, is pretty apparent here.
 
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the staff of Threelights.net have posted on their website a genga artbook of Kazuko Tadano called Final Sailor. Inside of it there are some early anime sketches of Sailor moon
Even her name is a bit different in Japanese (bottom of the pic at the right), further confirming the pun in her final name. lol
 
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Even her name is a bit different in Japanese (bottom of the pic at the right), further confirming the pun in her final name. lol
the name Usagi fits her anime self.
 

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^ Indeed! That tiara is so interesting looking. It would be perfect for a new version of Princess Sailor Moon.

Also from that genga:



Not sure if that's a scrapped alternate design for Sailor Mars or just an overlap of Rei and Mars, but in any case, this seems to further suggest the '90s anime was originally going to include the SenxShi pairings.



This artwork of Kisenian suggests at some stage she was going to have a civilian disguise. Her being a copy of Kyurene, as mentioned in the JP BD booklet, is pretty apparent here.
The comment in the picture says ‘Why is Rei in the middle? Because it’s a doodle!’

Hm..
 
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Which'd mean "moon's world" or "lunar world"? Sounds cool. :cool:
I think the names Sekai, Utena(Calyx) or Shizuka would better fit with Usagi's back story in the manga as Cosmos and Princess Serenity that's it.
 
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Thanks to @Umino for bringing this to my attention: a Tumblr user shared a scan from an issue of Anime V a few months back of an announcement for the Sailor V OVA. The announcement seems to confirm that the OVA would be a four-part series, with the first volume being about Minako meeting Artemis, awakening as Sailor V, and visiting Magellan Castle as in the manga. The second volume would be her battling another minion from the Dark Agency.

https://hotwaterandmilk.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F644500162730983424
 

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What do you mean by 4 parts MementoNepenthe do you mean it would just have 4 episodes or 4 sort of OVA series with multiple episodes like to use an example The Tenchi Muyo OVA series with OVA 1, OVA 2 and OVA 3 having multiple episodes etc?
 
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Thanks to @Umino for bringing this to my attention: a Tumblr user shared a scan from an issue of Anime V a few months back of an announcement for the Sailor V OVA.
So, that issue was published just a few months back - looks like the project has revived! :dance:

(Y'know, like all human languages, the English language can also be ambiguous. :lol: )
 
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So, that issue was published just a few months back - looks like the project has revived! :dance:

(Y'know, like all human languages, the English language can also be ambiguous. :lol: )
That was supposed to be released alongside the TV run of Stars.

I think that was scrapped due to TOEI deciding to focus on Stars and Cutie Honey Flash.