Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal : une nouvelle série en 2014.... un reboot adapter du manga.

Toei Animation uploaded the first official picture of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal, a new Sailor Moon anime for 2014 that will also be a reboot of the series, adapting the original manga. The show will premiere in July on Niconico.
Here's the full picture with a slightly redesigned main character, Usagi Tsukino:

 Toei Animation uploaded an unlinked image to its official website for the upcoming Sailor Moon anime, and the image reveals the first key image, the title, and the synopsis for the new series. The image notes that Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal will premiere in July and will stream simultaneously worldwide on the Niconico website.

The image also lists the previously revealed main staff, and reveals a synopsis:



    Usagi Tsukino is a second-year middle school girl who is a little clumsy and a crybaby, but she is full of energy. One day, she meets Luna, a black cat with a crescent moon on her forehead, and she transforms into Sailor Moon, a sailor-uniformed pretty guardian of love and justice! As a chosen guardian of justice, Usagi seems to have a mission to find the Illusionary Silver Crystal with the other guardians and to protect the princess.

    Meanwhile, the queen of the Dark Kingdom, Queen Beryl, also sends minions to the town where Usagi lives to obtain the Illusionary Silver Crystal, which has immense power. This causes strange events to unfold….

    Can Sailor Moon really find the Illusionary Silver Crystal with the other Sailor guardians, and protect the princess…!?

The official website launched a countdown page earlier on Thursday with the words "eight days left... coming soon" with a waxing moon. The countdown does not begin until Friday.

The new Sailor Moon anime will begin streaming worldwide on the Niconico service in July. Producer Atsutoshi Umezawa (Precure franchise) said that it "is not remaking the previous anime, but adapting the original manga and starting from scratch again."

Munehisa Sakai (One Piece, One Piece: Strong World, Suite Precure) is directing this new adaptation of Naoko Takeuchi's original manga at Toei Animation, the studio behind the first anime. Yūji Kobayashi (scripts on Saint Seiya Omega, Smile Precure!) is in charge of the series scripts, and Momoiro Clover Z is performing the theme song.

Yukie Sako (chief animation director on Majestic Prince, Nyan Koi!) is designing the characters, and Yasuharu Takanashi (Naruto Shippūden, Fairy Tail, Precure franchise) is composing. The art directors will be Takashi Kurahashi (Mononoke, Gatchaman Crowds, Hakaba Kitarō) and Yumi Hosaka (Mononoke, Gatchaman Crowds). King Records is producing the soundtrack.

Takeuchi launched the original magical girl team manga series in the shōjo monthly manga magazine Nakayoshi in 1992. It soon spawned anime, a live-action television project, musicals, and other adaptations, and it also sparked a worldwide boom. The 20th anniversary project began in 2012, and featured the first musical in eight years at the AiiA Theater Tokyo last September. Kodansha has been republishing the original manga in a complete edition since last November, and Kodansha USA Publishing's Kodansha Comics imprint has been publishing the manga in North America.

The upcoming Sailor Moon reboot, which debuts on July 5th, features redesigns of all our favorite Sailor Scouts.
The changes aren't too dramatic or anything, judging from the art shared by Crunchy Roll. But everyone certainly looks different from the designs in the original anime. Most notably, all the Sailor Scouts have impossibly long legs. The sorts of legs that make Girl's Generation seem laughable, really. It's also hard not to note just how slender the new Sailor Scouts are. It's kind of intense!
Let's compare their old looks to their new looks, shall we? Note that we'll show the old designs, followed by the new designs, and that the new designs more closely resemble the characters in the manga.
Sailor Moon/Serena
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Sailor Mercury/Ami
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Sailor Mars/Rei

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Sailor Jupiter/Lita
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Sailor Venus/Mina

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You can read more about the new anime, including what voice actors will be making a return, here. But I'm curious: what do you think about the redesigns? Love em? Hate em? Let us know in the comments—and remember that you can use our special annotation system to pinpoint specific areas on the pictures, if you'd like.

Here's the trailer for the uncut and remastered Sailor Moon, which Viz Media will be airing every Monday on Hulu starting on the 19th of this month. Get hype!

Watch the legendary anime series, Sailor Moon from the very beginning. New episodes every Monday featuring uncut and remastered footage! All 200 episodes coming, including the never before seen fifth season, Sailor Stars!

Usagi Tsukino is a clumsy but kindhearted teenage girl who transforms into the powerful guardian of love and justice, Sailor Moon. Meeting allies along the way who share similar fates, Usagi and her team of planetary Sailor Guardians fight to protect the universe from forces of evil and total annihilation.

Sailor Moon Set 1 -available on DVD and Blu-ray this Fall from VIZ Media.

Hulu will be uploading two episodes every Monday. The episodes will be subtitled.
I remember growing up watching Sailor Moon, only stations would basically repeat the same episodes over and over—so the prospect of getting to see the show in full, with all the queer elements that the anime originally had (Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune ARE NOT COUSINS, guys), is kind of amazing.

Though the Sailor Moon reboot doesn't start broadcasting until July 5th, footage of an advanced screening has leaked—notably, Sailor Moon's new transformation sequence, as well as the new intro to the show.
If you don't want either of these things spoiled, you shouldn't watch either of these videos. Fair warning!
Here's the new transformation sequence in full, uploaded by Matthew Pearl, along with the old transformation sequence—for comparison's sake. Skip to :44 seconds if you just want to see the new one:



And here's some off-screen footage of the new opening, recorded by Kuchenreich. Note that you'll be able to hear an audience react to the footage, too:



What do y'all think? I'm a fan—straight up got emotional watching the new intro for the first time, heh. And that song? So catchy. I'm looking forward to Saturday!

This is not a bad thing. If you're a Sailor Moon fan, you know Usagi — at least early on in her career as a Sailor Scout — sounds like an immature girl who's on the verge of crying at any given moment. Voice actress Stephanie Sheh nails it in Viz's new English dub of the classic shojo anime.
This is, of course, for the remastered Blu-ray release of the original Sailor Moon series, not the new series Sailor Moon Crystal, although I would take a wild guess and say when Viz does release an English dub for Crystal the cast will be mostly (if not entirely) the same. At any rate, you'll be able to hear the entire new cast in action when the first Sailor Moon Limited Edition Blu-ray/DVD set comes out on November 11th. You can pre-order it here.