[CA] Sailor Moon Crystal on Family Channel

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Family Channel to air Sailor Moon Crystal this month

WildBrain’s Family channel will start airing Toei Animation’s Sailor Moon Crystal anime series this month. The show will begin on the cable network starting November 11th at 7:30PM with an encore following at 1:30AM. Episodes are scheduled to air Mondays through Thursdays. The show will run alongside Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. On Saturdays and Sundays, one episode will air each day at 11:30PM.

Crystal is a more manga faithful adaptation of Naoki Takeuchi’s 1991 to 1997 Sailor Moon manga series. The series aired over three seasons and 39 episodes between 2014 and 2017. It was followed by two movie duologies in 2021 and 2023. This marks the show’s debut on Canadian linear television, as well as the first anime acquisition aired on the main Family channel under WildBrain’s ownership.



Viz Media acquired the rights to the show and Toei’s original Sailor Moon adaptation in 2014. Crystal’s Japanese version was simultaneously streamed online on NicoNico and later, Crunchyroll. The English dub, produced in Los Angeles by Studiopolis, debuted exclusively on Hulu in the United States in 2015 before later seeing a home video release. Both the dubbed and subbed versions of the show, alongside the movies, can be seen on Netflix in Canada. The Japanese version of the show is available on Crunchyroll, Pluto TV and Tubi.

The first four seasons of the original Sailor Moon anime aired on YTV in Canada between August 28, 1995, and April 8, 2002. The run also encompassed the franchise’s three theatrical films. Sailor Moon was removed from the channel in January 2004, which coincided with the show’s temporary removal from international distribution. The show also saw incomplete runs on Global, with French broadcasts on TVA. The original Sailor Moon series can currently be streamed in its subtitled format on Pluto TV and Tubi in Canada. Viz’s uncut English dub was previously available on Crave, but was removed in September 2023.

All times listed in Eastern.


Second country to air Crystal on TV in English since it's run on ABC ME in Australia in 2018.
 
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Huh, Wildbrain, now why does that seem familiar?



just pointing this out for laughs, but also the fact that they also recently partnered with the Pokemon Company for the Pokemon pluto TV channel a while back. and also the original english dub, which is why DiC was also highlighted.
 

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I'm keeping an eye out for any promos, and plan to record all of these episodes as they air. Not holding my breath on anything too exciting after being let down with the return of the it's version on Toonami, but still an amazing development nonetheless.

I also highly doubt this would happen, but can you imagine if Toei pulled a DBZ and commissioned a brand new Canadian dub for Crystal? That would be spectacular.

So for now, I've set a recording for today's broadcast of the Boss Baby movie to see if we get any promos. Fingers crossed!
 

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I'm keeping an eye out for any promos, and plan to record all of these episodes as they air. Not holding my breath on anything too exciting after being let down with the return of the it's version on Toonami, but still an amazing development nonetheless.

So for now, I've set a recording for today's broadcast of the Boss Baby movie to see if we get any promos. Fingers crossed!
Oh, keep us up to date. I'm curious on how they'll handle the opening & ending videos since they might either be edited for time or have the same English credits seasons 1 & 2 got only on Hulu.
 
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The ending's the same as the dub on Hulu but the opening isn't? That's weird! It will be interesting to see what they will get for season 3 because there's English credits as a Blu-ray extra but only with the first ending video (the good one with Uranus & Neptune).

No previews is no surprise, the show's technically longer than the normal Japanese length anyway and it's a miracle that the opening & ending aren't trimmed down here.
 
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