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New 'Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon' Anime Set for July 2014:

posted 11 years ago by berkshiresbibliophile
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http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/01/09-1/new-pretty-guardian-sailor-moon-anime-set-for-july-2014

The official site for the 20th anniversary project for the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon franchise finally announced today that the highly anticipated new anime series will be streamed worldwide via Nico Nico Douga from this July. It was originally planned to start in the summer of 2013, then postponed to the winter of 2013-2014. Let's hope this is the last change.

As expected, the new anime is produced by Toei Animation, the same company worked on the five mid-1990s anime series. 42-year-old Munehisa Sakai, who worked on the One Piece TV anime series (2006-2008), One Piece Film: Strong World (2009), and Suite PreCure♪ (2011-2012), the eighth installment of the PreCure TV series, serves as the director. Also 34-year-old Yuji Kobayashi (Ultraman Mebius, Suite PreCure♪, Saint Seiya Omega) works on series composition. And as announced last summer, five-member idol group Momoiro Clover Z will perform the OP/ED theme songs.

According to the produer Atsutoshi Umezawa, the new series is not a remake of the past anime series,
it is a project to animate Takeuchi's manga story anew from scratch.

[–] IkuharaKunihiko 11 years ago

Waiting for a year now, and I still have to wait another half a year...I hope they are not folling us around anymore.

"According to the produer Atsutoshi Umezawa, the new series is not a remake of the past anime series, it is a project to animate Takeuchi's manga story anew from scratch."

This is very mysterious to me. It is not a remake, but they will animate the manga story from scratch? So, I guess it is not going to be a faithful manga adaptation, but rather Sailor Moon with a new story, something like PGSM in 2003.

[–] eched 11 years ago

"This is very mysterious to me. It is not a remake, but they will animate the manga story from scratch? So, I guess it is not going to be a faithful manga adaptation, but rather Sailor Moon with a new story, something like PGSM in 2003."

And that would make it technically speaking a remake. :|

Mother F##ker: Like an evil Jesus!

[–] IkuharaKunihiko 11 years ago

Indeed, eched. Though it sounds more like a reboot to me.

Anyway, it seems this is now really going to happen, even Anime News Network has it listed: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=15693. According to their source, it will be directed by a certain Munehisa Sakai, a guy who directed One Piece, Dragon Ball movies 10-12 and Pretty Cure. I hope they pull it off and do it the right way.

[–] ChibiChloe 11 years ago

No, what he means it that the new anime is not going to be a remake of the original anime - it will be a closer adaptation of the manga.

Some plot elements that were in the manga did not exist in the anime, and vice versa. Therefore, Kunzite and Zoisite will most likely not be in a relationship this time around, there won't be a love story between Naru and Nephrite, and Rei's personality will be more like the manga's.

As it's a much more faithful adaptation, I'm anticipating that this version will be a lot more story based, with the backstories of Serenity and Endymion being expanded upon and we'll see things that weren't present in the original anime, such as the Shi ttenou being Endymion's guardians, etc.