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For this week’s Sailor Moon Moonie Music Monday I went on a deliberate hunt to find a music video featuring the four new characters from Sailor Moon SuperS, the Amazoness Quartet.
I originally thought that a music video showcasing them would be hard to find but boy did YouTube prove me wrong! There was actually quite a few to be seen featuring these girls! This one was one of my favourites. It used a very relevant circus-type song, Tunak Tunak Tun that has a great Bollywood feel to it and it suits the characters perfectly.
I’m pretty certain this video won’t be to everyone’s taste due to the music genre and characters. What did you think about it?
Hope you all enjoy the answers. If you’ve submitted a question that hasn’t been answered yet, don’t worry. I’ve saved them all in a special folder in my inbox and will get to them when I have the time.
In other site news, I’ve been doing a bit of fiddling with the layout, added some more fine print in the hopes of discouraging any future instances of piracy of Moonkitty.net’s content, brought the donate button back (am in a bit of financial trouble. Taxes, taxes and more taxes!) and finally…. FINALLYadded Moonkitty.net to Facebook!!! You can see the box on the lower right nav with links to “like” MKNET or you can click on the link posted just a few words ago. Am pretty excited about the Facebook page. In just half a day we already have 49 people liking! The MKNETFB page is a great way to contact me and I’ve also enabled the Discussion Forum on the page so those missing the ol’ forums from back in the day should feel right at home here.
Now something I’m really excited about is making Moonkitty.net Carbon Neutral!. I spent several hours trying to find a program to cancel the emissions of running a website and came across this great program.
It’s completely free to join and I would love to encourage all website owners and bloggers to make their own sites carbon neutral as well! All you have to do is write a blog post about this initiative and email them about it and you’re done!
Sailor Moon and her friends saved the world in the series, now we can too!
Just watched today’s episode of Futurama, “Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences” which spent a large part of the episode at ComiCon. There were quite a few cameos from Star Wars an other series but one of the coolest cameos was a fan dressed up as Sailor Moon!
It’s been a pretty busy week online for Sailor Moon websites! Heaps of people updating with lots of fresh new content! So great to see Sailor Moon fans so active!
There’s some awesome cut scenes of the upcoming fan project Sailor Moon Sacrifice. I can’t imagine how long they must have spent on these scenes!
Remember all those rainbow coloured moonkitties from the 1990′s Sailor Moon fansites? Someone’s made stuffed toys of them! Illegal but I want!
Family of Moonlight has so much content online! Check out there interviews with other Sailor Moon fans!
I stumbled across this Sailor Moon Keychain earlier this week. Have you ever seen something so cute?
In site news I’ve cleaned up the Sailor Moon R Episode Guide. All the text should be properly spaced now and all the correct shopping information added. I also finished all the missing Monster of the Day bits for every episode. You may also have noticed that I rewrote the fine print at the bottom of the site. This was due to a recent issue I had with someone who decided to steal content from Moonkitty.net and actually sell it (I won’t mention names as the issue has been resolved). If you see any content from Moonkitty.net being reproduced elsewhere please let me know.
Most fans of the Sailor Moon Musicals (sometimes called “Sera Myu” by English speaking fans) can probably relate to how hard it is to find a music video set to one of the many classic songs from this version of Sailor Moon.
After a bit of a search on YouTube I finally came across this great video set to 21st Century Koi no Senshi Ja Irarenai. It uses footage from the anime and while the image quality isn’t the best it has pretty good timing and matches the song very well.
As an extra bonus, here’s a video I took outside of the hall where the second last Sailor Moon Musical was performed. I was lucky enough to get tickets for the final performance (or “Senshuuraku”) of this musical which featured Yu Shirota’s very final performance in a Sailor Moon Musical and gave us the chance to shake hands with several stars after the show (Moon, Venus, Saturn and a few others). Was a pretty amazing experience and I hope that more Musicals are produced for the upcoming 20th Anniversary.
Earlier this week I created a new background for Moonkitty.net’s Twitter page! Hope you like it! Speaking of Twitter, it seems to be the third most popular way of checking site updates! Are you on Twitter yet? It’s seriously life changing.
One of my favourite PGSM websites, Kirari-PGSM.net has just turned 5 years old! CONGRATS!!!!
I was just about to give up looking for a Sailor Moon music video to spotlight when I came across this amazing dedication to Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask in both the animeandlive action.
Sure there have been some great music videos that have used footage from several versions of Sailor Moon before but none of them has come as close as this one in blending the two so well together!!! It’s completely seamless and doesn’t jar you out of the music video viewing experience at all!
The song featured is Memory by Sugarcult which I hadn’t heard before but really like now!
You can watch the video on YouTube here where it was uploaded by a fan and you can visit the creator’s AMV page here.
It’s been a pretty active week in the Sailor Moon Online Community since the release of the Cantonese Sailor Moon Commercials announcing the re-release of the Sailor Moon anime in Hong Kong. Fans seem to be more excited about this than say the Italian or other re-releases. One of the reasons may be the amount of Moonie Cantonese speakers spread around the world and the availability of the Cantonese dub in Chinatowns world wide. (The first time I saw Sailor Stars was with the Cantonese dub) Another reason may simply be the coolness of these ads that feature some pretty impressive live action transformations featuring the Canto voice actresses of Moon, Mars and Mercury.
In other news I’ve received a few emails about a rumour that says there is going to be a new Sailor Moon anime in 2011. This is completely fake. While it’s something a lot of fans would like to see (including myself ) it has not been announced by any official sources. In fact there is no proof whatsoever except for an image that is OBVIOUSLY made by a fan.
There probably will be something huge for the 20th Anniversary and a new anime is possible but lets not say it’s fact until something official has been revealed.
Sorry for the lack of posts this past week. Twitter followers will know that I’ve had a bit of a family crisis (that I won’t go into here) recently that forced me to stop posting for a bit (just emotionally wasn’t up for it).
Things are looking better now though and thus I’m also feeling better so let’s get on to the news!
Chibi Jen tweeted just last night about the Sailor Moon anime’s return to yet another region, Hong Kong! There are two hilarious live action commercials for series return and interestingly enough seems to be geared towards the original fans of the anime who are now grown up and looking to relive their favourite childhood anime series.
Last month’s poll turned out to be a very happy success for me. I’ve always been a strong advocate of the DiC dub and constantly remind people that just because the anti-dubbers (nothing wrong with being one if you are) are the most vocal online it doesn’t necessarily mean everyone hates the English dub of Sailor Moon. In fact when I asked if you would buy a DVD or BluRay release of the DiC episodes 64% voted yes! 22% said no and 14% were unsure. If just half of the unsures bought the release then that would be 75% of Sailor Moon fans who would buy the English dub. Very interesting. Being someone who would also love to buy a rerelease of the DiC dub I hope the companies involved in any future rerelease consider this. Of course I would also buy a redub and a resub of the series.
Note: Let’s not turn the comments into a dub versus sub war, okay?
The new poll is now up for August! “How do you like to follow websites?” Vote now in the left hand side nav!
There’s a brand new layout image for the Sailor Moon Channel. Random trivia, those sunflowers are actually called “Sailor Moon Sunflowers”. No joke.
Off topic but I think it’s definitely worth mentioning: The new Pokemon anime series that will be starting in about a month is going to feature, for the first time a black girl as a main character! I know there have been other black characters in other animes (there’s at least one in Bleach for example) but it’s so rare to see. Those who have never been to Japan may be unaware just how many minority groups (non-pure-Japanese) there are here though the media perpetuates the stereotype of a homogeneous society. Here’s hoping this is the start of more racial diversity in anime. Check out a video of the new character here. Incidentally if you’re like me and are going to buy the new Pokemon Black & White as soon as they’re out in Japan you can get more info about them here.
@Mercurius360 reports that there was no mention of a Sailor Moon rerelease at Otacon. Boo!
Funimation has been quoted as saying if they do get Sailor Moon they will be doing a complete redub of all the seasons, specials and movies.
The New Kindle has been announced! I’ve preordered mine and can’t wait for the release later this month! Am looking forward to reviewing manga in a new Kindle section on Moonkitty.net! Definitely the way of the future and can’t wait to see how manga publishing companies release series digitally in the future.
MoonSticks is something I would love to see on the Kindle. btw you should check out the different languages available now! Great translations done by the fans for the fans!!!
Finally UsagiandMamoruUniverse.com will be turning NINE YEARS OLD TOMORROW! Congrats! Make sure to check out the site and the wonderful content!!!!
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