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So back in May I created a second YouTube channel to post non-cover related videos (cause I was starting to feel like making other videos). And I finally posted a video to it, so sharing that here!
You can find the channel here.
[Source for TARDIS dress in thumbnail]
Sailor Moon DiC Medley
So I made a cover medley of all the songs from the DiC English dub of Sailor Moon, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its U.S. release, which was recently. Unfortunately (but perhaps unsurprisingly), it got blocked for copyright when I tried to upload it (it was the NogiMyu clips that got blocked, guess I should've seen that coming). I considered making a clip-less version and uploading that (like I did for "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"), but I decided not to, since this project took me like an entire week to do (not even joking...the video editing alone took me HOURS) and I wanted people to see all that hard work. So I have uploaded it to my Google Drive, and you can see it here.
Including my originally planned description for this video's Tumblr post here:
Reblogging this to my main blog as well.
Hi fellow Sailor Moon fans!
I know it's been a while since I've used tumblr, but with The Super Live NA tour hype going around, I'm trying to use it again. I was able to see the show in Sugarland,TX back in March and as a lifelong Sailor Moon fan, and especially being a big fan of the musicals, it was such an amazing experience.
Chatting with fellow fans, I realized there's a whole side of this fandom that never knew about the musicals before The Super Live. If so, we eagerly welcome you to the Commyunity!
If any newer or older fans have been looking for a safe space to chat amongst other fans, we would love to see you in our discord server!
I'm more active there myself but it's been so fun to share in all the experiences with other members who have gone to see the show.
And if The Super Live has given you a new interest in the musicals and wondering where to watch them... then look no further than seaofserenity.net! We've got all the Bandai musicals translated with subtitles, the Nelle 2013-2017 run, 2018 & 2019 Nogizala 46 x Sailor Moon musical, and any TSL NA fans are looking to get more of the inner cast from the show, them we highly recommend watching The Lover of Princess Kaguya and Sailor Moon 30th Anniversary Musical Special -Chronicle-! (NogiMyu 24 subs miiightt be in the works 😉)
Welcome old and new fans!!
(Also photos are from when I was at the show March 19! Best anniversary trip ever for me and my gf ❤️)
Sailor Moon: The Super Live (2025) on Youtube?!?!
August 1-3 & 8-10, 2025 (Japan Time)
The 2025 performances of Team UK (led by Yui Yokoyama) and Team US (led by Riko Tanaka) will be available online for a LIMITED TIME!!!! I'm ASSUMING it won't be region-locked????
At first they will be exclusive for members of the official Sailor Moon fan club, Prettty Guardians, from July 29 to 31...
THEN they will be streaming for 3 days FOR FREE!!!!
London: August 1 (Fri) 0:00 to August 3 (Sun) 23:59
US Tour: August 8 (Fri) 0:00 to August 10 (Sun) 23:59
@ sailormoonofficialch on Youtube!!!!
Again, I'm ASSUMING this will be available globally??? Also please notice the schedule is probably in Japan time, you gotta pay attention to time zones!!! So in some places it should be available from mid-Thursday to mid-Sunday for example...Unless it’s somehow synchronized and we all gotta wait until Friday.
Mind you, the show is still going to be performed in Japan so honestly it would make more sense to stream it overseas than nationally...so I guess it IS global.
This has NEVER happened before in Sera Myu history and might never happen again, the previous Super Live was never even released on video... we can't miss this chance!!! Mark your calendars!!!
Update: It's REAL, GO WATCH IT!!!! (and yes, it's on Japan time)
Reblogging this to spread the word! (It's too late to watch the London one now, but the US tour one is still an option).
What's everyone's opinions on Team UK so far? I'll start. <3
Sailor Moon - Yui Yokoyama Absolutely without a doubt the best singer Nelke has ever cast for Sailor Moon. Her vocals are stable, strong, and sweet! She's such a funny, giggly schoolgirl Usagi. Her Sailor Moon is strong and powerful, she really nailed her role!
Sailor Mercury - Yui Oikawa So soft and kind, I really like her portrayal of Ami! Ami's never been one of my favorite characters, but I like YuiMercury! And her voice is so good too like girl just ate that soundtrack up!
Sailor Mars - Marisa Yasukawa It's literally Marisa HOW CAN I NOT LOVE HER?? I do think she would do better in a role like Pluto but I LOVE how strong and passionate her Mars is! The script itself doesn't give Mars that many moments, as it heavily focuses on UsaMamo. But Marisa ATE. I love her so much, and I'm so glad she finally got a main role!!
Sailor Jupiter - Rii Tachibana I think she's a good Jupiter! Honestly after Jupiters like Yu Takahashi, Junna Ito, and Nao Tomisato, I'm a bit picky. xD But she did really good! I honestly have no complaints about her, I'm glad she played Jupiter!
Sailor Venus - Yu Nakanishi OH MY PLATONIC LOVE YU NAKANISHI. MY QUEEN, YOU FINALLY GOT A RECORDED PERFORMANCE. IT'S ABOUT TIME. She was just as amazing as I knew she would be. AND HER VOCALS HAVE IMPROVED SO MUCH??? Like I remember her struggling a lot in the DC preview, and girl was STRONG. STABLE. SLAYING. I fanboyedd WAY TOO HARD finally being able to see my glorious queen. Also SHOUTOUT TO YU NAKANISHI FOR BEING THE LONGEST-RUNNING NELKE VENUS. Okay I'm done, stan Yu Nakanishi for clear skin LMAO
Tuxedo Mask - SUFA Once again CONGRATS QUEEN ON FINALLY GETTING A RECORDED PERFORMANCE. That being said, I think she played a STELLAR evil Mamo! I mean she really gave that energy! Her vocals are also so lovely. Maybe not as masculine as say Riona or Yuga, but very nice to listen to! Her regular Mamo seemed to feel a bit too serious for me, but I love SUFA so it's okay. IDC, I stan. XD
Queen Beryl - Mayu Tsuyuzume SHE'S SO PRETTY. Like girlie is STUNNING. Her facial expressions are SO GOOD. Her vocals are real nice and clear. She's also a pretty good performer and totally takes charge when she's on stage! I enjoy her performance, and I hope we see her again. <3 How do you feel about the Team UK cast? Leave a comment below or repost with your thoughts! If you haven't seen it yet, so watch Team UK right now! You only have 3 days to do so!
I agree with a lot of this. I don't know these actresses as well though, since I haven't been keeping up with the more recent myus. Beryl DID stand out to me quite a lot, but I think that's because her songs really allowed her to shine. Although what was that like disco number though?? (The one she sings after capturing Mamoru, with the "burn the dance floor" line). They included it as an encore too so clearly they wanted us to remember it.
They also had a club music-like dance number in the encore part with the Youma actresses where the screen was like "Ok guys it's time to wave your lightsticks!" and as far as I could tell from the video no one actually did. *sweatdrop*
The only songs I knew in this were "You're My Universe" (which is quickly becoming a fave of mine), "The Starry Heavens" (also a great song), and of course "La Soldier" and "Moonlight Densetsu" in the encore section. It's kinda interesting that they've been bringing back songs from the Bandai era like "La Soldier" and "Solar Miracle Make Up." "La Soldier" has never been my favorite group song from SeraMyu (my favorite is "LINK"), but it's been growing on me over time. I think it's just cause it's so EVERYWHERE in the Bandai era I got a bit sick of it.
Honestly I was just so happy to finally be able to watch The Super Live, since I'd missed out on all the performances prior to this. I'm glad they are streaming it! Apparently, Team US's version is going to stream on YouTube August 8-10! I'll probably watch that too. (It only occurred to me tonight though - as I was watching the "let's make a fanclub" ep of Kimi to Idol PreCure - that if I'd known about this stream being intially exclusive to fan club members, I could've checked to see if my Pretty Guardians fan club membership was still good, since I did join it at one point, and I have a card and a fancy necklace to prove it!). Also apparently they're doing these streams as a way to lead up to the Japan shows in October, which I think is cool!
I went to this new arcade today and they had the Sailor Moon arcade game!! Like in an actual cabinet!! Since it was free play and not that busy I just played through the whole game as Mercury. Free play meant unlimited continues, which REALLY helped cause enemies really gang up on you in this game (it's a side-scrolling beat-em-up type game) so I died a lot. It's also not easy to get the crystals you need for your magic attacks; I had to rely on Mercury's one crystal attack (which just has her put on her goggles and say "Iku wa yo" in the on-screen animation, which then hits all the enemies with energy) a lot. I did manage to pull off Mirage Wave (the 2 Crystal one) a few times.
Each stage has a stage boss, which are mostly just various monsters from the show, but in one it's Zoisite, then in the final stage (there are 8 total I think) you fight Zoisite AND Kunzite as a duo and then shortly after Queen Beryl as a true final boss. Whoever translated this game though (I'm guessing it's translated cause it has English text, and this place has QR codes on all the games with Japanese onscreen text leading to a page with translated instructions, though I only actually used that for Taiko no Tatsujin, as the only other Japanese games I played were Project Diva Future Note, which was basically like the other Vocaloid games I've played, and another rhythm game called Wacca that had Japanese audio but English onscreen text) messed up some of the names though, like Kunzite being "Kunzait" or something like that 😂 (To be fair, that does probably reflect the Japanese kana spelling of his name better).
(Also, like I said, I played as Mercury; the first two pics are I think from the machine's "attract mode")
I'm not sure what my final score was but it was high enough that I got to put my initials in. I think I scored like 90,000 points or so in total. (But, like I said, I also had unlimited continues).
At least I did better at that than at this JoJo arcade game, which I sucked at, despite it having essentially the same gameplay mechanics as Street Fighter. (Actually, since it's a Capcom machine, it's probably EXACTLY like Street Fighter). 👇
Like, literally I tried playing as both Dio AND JoJo and I lost both times 🫤 And I'm no stranger to arcade fighting games. (At least I redeemed myself later playing Street Fighter IV Ultra, which I did well at for the brief time I was able to play before my food buzzer went off).
The Shitennou's image song from Sailor Moon Crystal, "I'M GOING DOWN," is one I've wanted to cover for a while, but had never gotten around to it.
I knew I wouldn't be able to do all the voices here -- since I'm, well, a girl -- so I recruited the lone male myu cover artist I know of, Music of the Spheres, to collab with me on this one. He also provided the karaoke, which was very nice of him! :)
This is the first time I've used any sort of masking effect in a video. I'd seen something similar in lyric videos, and since this was my first collab where there wasn't a video available to clearly show who was singing, I decided to try it this time. It was quite a lot of work, but I like how it turned out ultimately.
Also, I kinda decided last minute that this is going to be part of a mini-series of villain songs leading into Halloween, hence why I'm posting it at this time of year!
Background/cover image from: Sailor Moon Crystal Fan Wiki Vocals: @kosmosinusa (Kunzite & Zoisite) & Me (Nephrite & Jadeite) Karaoke made by: @kosmosinusa
I DO NOT OWN SAILOR MOON OR SAILOR MOON CRYSTAL. THEY ARE OWNED BY TAKEUCHI NAOKO, TOEI ANIMATION, KODANSHA, BANDAI, AND KING RECORDS. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS INTENDED.
as a subtitler im incredibly biased as i say this but. shoutout to forms of fan labor other than fanart and fanfiction. fanart and fanfiction are awesome, don't take this as a dig at those, but i have a big appreciation for fans who provide closed captioning/subtitles/translations of works out of love n passion; fans who recap and explain aspects of the original work; fucking SPEEDRUNNERS, holy shit, shoutout to speedrunners and challenge runners in video game communities. lots of things that fall outside the scope of what comes to mind when people think of fanart/fan labor are integral parts of a healthy fan ecosystem
I totally agree with this. I started watching random Pokémon playthrough and challenge videos on YouTube and, while I'm not saying I'd ever do a nuzlocke or whatever (I'm a casual gamer if anything), it's still interesting to watch. Like I got really into Mah-Dry-Bread's videos where he does crazy solo and team runs, usually Gen 1 runs with super weak Pokémon, or some kind of theme like using only gift Pokémon. He doesn't just play Pokémon; he does crazy challenges with other games too, like Fallout New Vegas with only recharging weapons and some Elder Scrolls stuff. He's also really honest about how YouTube works (like how he hardly ever takes sponsorships because he only wants to "sell" his viewers stuff he can be honestly enthusiastic about) and has an overall casual vibe (he has a running gag about telling people to comment "because comments are good for the YouTube algorithm," usually when he finds a Pokémon fossil, and often mentions in his outros that he's got to go make food cause apparently he's so busy he forgets to eat). He also prides himself on being the top streamer of this one Nancy Drew game (you know, those Nancy Drew PC games you find in like the bargain area of Walmart's game section).
Or Papasea who I got into via his "Playing Pokémon as Nintendo Intended" series where he finds official player's guides (the paper ones) for Pokémon games and plays games exactly how they say to, even if it doesn't quite make sense. (Some of the jokes from the first video, like saying to "hammer away" at the opponent or defeat them in "two shakes of a lamb's tail," have become channel staples).
People who make videos explaining how to do things in games really help me too. I have a whole playlist of reference videos for ACNH, cause I didn't get the game till a month after it came out, and I hadn't played any Animal Crossing games since the OG GameCube one (which I only played for like a week, quitting after realizing I couldn't keep up with the "game keeps going while you're not playing" mechanic on a console game, especially since I was in college at the time). I've saved a lot of ones for the more recent Pokémon games too.
I also have channels like Did You Know Gaming and The Gaming Historian to thank for educating me on older games I missed out on. Like I usually avoid shooters because I played one James Bond game in the past and sucked at it. But their videos on the Metal Gear series got me really interested (though to be fair, Metal Gear is more of a stealth game). So when the Metal Gear Solid remaster was announced last year, I was actually excited! Did You Know Gaming's Region Locked series, which covers games that weren't released in the U.S., is also pretty interesting.
The Gaming Historian, meanwhile, has introduced me to some crazy retro peripherals, as well as some interesting gaming history. When I discovered old Sonic the Hedgehog Game Gear games on the 3DS eShop, I used his video on the topic to decide which ones were worth it.
I also definitely applaud fansubs; I might not have discovered subtitled anime as early as I did without the VKLL Sailor Moon fansub tapes a friend lent me. It's also made some older and more obscure anime (and live-action stuff) more accessible. I was also involved with the Sailor Moon fan translation group Miss Dream from its earliest days, first just as a forum member, then briefly as a staff member, doing some English-to-French translation and even writing their error reports on the Kodansha USA manga release. I even appeared on their short-lived podcast to promote Myu Corner!
I also have fansubs to thank for introducing me to the Girls x Heroine franchise, a franchise of tokusatsu-style magical girl series which has a small following on YouTube. (I was looking on YouTube for live-action magical girl transformation references for a story I was working on, which led me to a video of an Idol Senshi Miracle Tunes transformation from a Japanese channel, which eventually led me to a fansub of Miracle Tunes that somebody uploaded).
Fan music is also an underrated part of fandom. I've seen some cool fan remixes out there.
There are definitely lots of ways to participate in fandom. Sure, I like fanart and fanfics, but I'm not great at art and while I do like fanfics, I haven't written any myself in a while (I did do some writing for one for Camp NaNoWriMo July last month, but I've been working on that one on-and-off for 11 years *nervous laugh*). So it's nice to see there are other avenues.
For Sailor Moon Opening Song Medley
I am working on doing a medley of Sailor Moon opening songs, but had limited it to TV size ones, doing the '90s anime, PGSM, and Crystal. But I realized limiting it to TV versions cuts half of Crystal (Eternal and Cosmos, which were movies rather than TV seasons) out of the equation. So...what should I do?
Should I include the openings to Eternal and Cosmos in my openings medley?
Yes, even though they are movies, you should include them.
No, just do the openings from TV.
The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.
editing my reblog of this to mention: it's not only going to be better for the mangaka to be able to take more time and not work themselves into burnout and actual harm, because so many mangaka across so many genres are so fuckin burned out and destroyed by industry worktime standards, it'd mean a jump in readership for the mags, too. giving the artists and authors more time to develop and plan means that mangaka won't be pulling plot twists out of their asses trying to fill all that space and there'll be a massive improvement in storylines because people can actually write and draw what they want and not come up with random filler arcs. and better stories mean more readers. which means more subscriptions.
it's honestly ridiculous even from a commercial standpoint that magazines aren't already doing this cause like,,,,if you give creators more space to work, more time to rest, you get better work.
Sailor Venus's original actress actually recorded the song "Venus"! This cover is based on the original Shocking Blue version, not the more popular Bananarama version.
Thanks to the Sailor Moon Awesome Music page on TV Tropes for making me aware of this! You can find out more about the album this is on here.
Also from my main blog. This is a really cool find IMO.
One of my first animation jobs was singing on dubbed cartoons. This was the early stages of my career, so I didn't know to check into things
One of my first animation jobs was singing on dubbed cartoons. This was the early stages of my career, so I didn't know to check into things
From Sailor Moon Super S season 4 ep 25I wasn't credited for the song.Please check out my jazz album! https://www.amazon.com/Pickpockets-Loo
If you've ever watched the DiC/Cloverway dub of Sailor Moon, you might know that there are actually three songs in the dubs of S and SuperS that were never released on CD. These are "Tear Our Hearts in Two" (which replaced the usage of "Ai no Senshi" in the episode "Birthday Blues, Part 2"), "Love is In My Heart" (which replaced "Watashi-tachi ni Naritakute" during the scene where Chibiusa flies on Pegasus's back in SuperS), and "Let's Fight!" (which replaced "Sailor Team no Theme" during the fight between the Inners/Chibimoon and the Amazoness Quartet).
So apparently back in 2020, Esther Thibault, the lady who sang these songs, filmed herself performing these songs and uploaded them to YouTube. I never knew who sang these songs, and apparently neither did most people, as Esther admits she was never credited for her work. Her videos use the Japanese karaoke tracks, since unlike with the DiC dub, Cloverway (the company that dubbed S and SuperS) didn't actually change any of the original background music. For these three vocal songs, they kept the same music and just wrote new words. (The DiC/Cloverway dub theme song, "Sailor Moon Theme," is similar - while the lyrics are all new, the melody is very similar to the original opening "Moonlight Densetsu").
After watching these, I felt I should definitely share them. The particular gem here is "Let's Fight!," because I've heard a TV rip of that song, and the lyrics are very hard to distinguish behind all the dialogue. This version, stripped of most of the dialogue, finally makes those lyrics clear.
Reblogging this from my main blog.
This popped up on my YouTube home page. It's great getting to hear Anza sing all these old songs after all this time! They included "Moon Revenge" (a song from the anime, specifically the R movie) in this medley as well, which was a surprise!
Surprisingly Anza's voice hasn't changed a ton from when she was in myu so long ago. It sounds more mature, for sure, but still quite recognizable.
After reading a couple nonfiction books from the library (one being the "clean living" book seen in the first pic), I decided to read some of the mangas downloaded to my Kindle.
The first one I read was Magilumiere: Magical Girls Inc, which I already posted about. As for the others in the first pic, I actually finished The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash first after Magilumiere, but since I finished it and My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren't Wicked on the same day, Goodreads listed them weird. Then yesterday I started the manga in the second pic, My [Repair] Skill Became a Versatile Cheat, So I Think I'll Open a Weapons Shop.
The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash is one of those "reincarnated with a past life's memories in a fantasy world" kind of fantasy stories, which I think is an Isekai subgenre?? Usually it's used with "reincarnated as a villainess" stories, though, and this doesn't seem to be that kind of story (unlike other similar stories, we're not told where the main character, Ivy, came from or how she got reincarnated into this world at the beginning - only that she has memories of a past life...so that already is different). Anyway, in this story Ivy gets ostracized when she's identified as a "starless," basically someone who has magic but at a zero-star level, which makes her magic so weak she's basically useless. Even her own family rejects her, and later the kind fortune-teller who helped her learn how to survive in the forest dies because the village chief heard she associated with a "starless" and refused to provide her with the healing potion she needed. After this, she takes off, using the survival skills and basic magic bags the fortune teller provided her with to get by. Having no money at first, she's forced to salvage through town dumps for resources, or eat whatever animals she can capture with traps (she does have a monster taming ability, as the title suggests, but hers is so weak she can only tame super weak monsters). She eventually manages to make some money from selling field mice she captured, and even snakes in one chapter (those she sells to the apothecary). A few chapters in, she encounters a super weak slime that even she, with her weak power, can tame. After naming her Sora, they set off together, and Sora ends up being more useful than Ivy expected, since it can absorb both organic and inorganic matter (most slimes in this world can only do one or the other). It may even be able to heal, if the ending of the volume is any indication. (According to the bonus short story, though, Sora is not very good with directions lol).
My Stepmother and Stepsisters Aren't Wicked is, as you might guess from the title, a take on the classic Cinderella story. Except in this case the Cinderella character, Miya, is the illegitimate child of a rich man, and that man's wife and daughters (the titular stepmother and stepsisters) take her in when her mother dies. But while she expects them to be really mean, they're actually really nice! But the mother is still stern and intimidating, and the daughters are spoiled and always trying to one-up each other, so their kindness kind of comes across in a comedic tsundere sort of way. Miya constantly worries that she's offended them, only for them to respond completely positively, no matter what happens. It is funny, but at the same time I feel like such a gag might get old after a while. Not sure though.
As for the last one, My [Repair] Skill Became a Versatile Cheat, So I Think I'll Open a Weapons Shop, like I said, I just started reading it. It's a fantasy about dungeon exploration, much like the Delicious in Dungeon series I've been watching on Netflix recently. But this one obviously has a different story. The main character, Luke, is a seasoned adventurer with 15 years of experience under his belt, but since his only skill is [Repair], a skill which has next to no usage in combat, he's still an E-rank adventurer (the lowest rank that is allowed to do dungeon raids). He finally got recruited by a powerful hero to join his dungeon raiding party, only to be treated as their pack mule and ultimately betrayed by the hero over a relatively minor issue (that doesn't even seem to be his fault). Left by his former party mates in the dungeon to die, he resolves to at least find a way out, even if all he has is his [Repair] skill and an old sword the hero gave him out of pity. Fortunately for him, he's able to make his [Repair] skill evolve seemingly subconsciously (hence the "cheat" part of the title, I guess), which, combined with finding a shortcut by punching a hole in a rock wall with his sword (something even the hero in his party couldn't do), allows him to finally escape after 2 weeks. He then helps save a samurai girl named Sakura who is cornered by a dragon by lending her his sword, and then using his [Repair] skill to heal her (he's not sure he can at first, since the skill doesn't usually work on living things, so when he succeeds he's as surprised as anyone - also doing so DOES make him pass out for half a day, so he's not crazy OP, like heroes in these stories often are). After making it to the settlement where Sakura and her friend Sylvia (daughter of the local innkeeper) are living, he decides to take a break from adventuring (at his level, he can't re-enter the dungeon he came from by himself anyway, as adventurers can only enter dungeons that are at their level or below, unless they're in a party with a leader of the right level, which Luke was before) and use his [Repair] skill to open a weapons shop, since the town doesn't have one currently (probably because the forest where Luke found Sakura and Sylvia just recently got classified as a dungeon). And, as far as I've read, this seems to go well (the fact that he helped kill a dragon certainly helps bring in customers). He does get into a bit of trouble with some local knights, though, because the members of his former party have gone missing, and since he got out alone, he's a prime suspect behind their disappearance. Also, he harvested mithril from the wall he broke, which only certain people are allowed to harvest (though to be fair he didn't know it was mithril, so he gets a pass there, though the knights still make him replicate how he broke the wall as proof of his story). And that's about where I'm at in the story.
Definitely enjoying my reads so far!
Kabushikigaisha Magi-Lumière (Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc.) - New Key Visual and PV. Premiere: Fall 2024
Oh yay the anime is coming out in the fall! When I saw Wikipedia said "Q4 2024" I thought I'd have to wait till winter. I hope one of the streaming services here picks it up so I can watch it.
Did you notice that in the 80's and 90's there seems to be a trend of animanga and anime movies that plots focus on the apocalypse? It reminds of how also in the 80's and 90's, the Western world had showed a trend of movies that focused on dystopia and cyberpunk. Coincidence or something else?
I’m pretty sure it’s because, at that time, the Cold War was ongoing and the threat of a nuclear apocalypse was very much on everyone’s minds.
For the '90's ones at least, it might've also been the approaching new millennium. People seriously believed (at least in the U.S.) that when we transitioned to the year 2000, the computer grid would get all confused and completely collapse, meaning the end of civilization as we know it. That didn't happen, of course, but people still believed it. (The only series I can think of with this specific focus though is Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, where Manon/Jeanne was tasked with sealing the demons found within pieces of art before the end of 1999, or else God would be overthrown or something like that).
So the other day I read the first volume of a manga called Magilumiere: Magical Girls Inc., which is set in a world where, kinda like MHA with superheroes, magical girls are a common sight, and being a magical girl is treated like a normal job. Basically, they function as exterminators for these monsters called kaii, and there are multiple companies, of all sizes, that employ magical girls for this purpose.
Anyway, the manga was really cool, but we all know that magical girl transformations (especially techno-magic ones like in this series) look best animated. So naturally, I looked it up to see if there was an anime adaptation. And there is - just not yet. This manga only came out in 2022 in Japan (and it's running in Shonen Jump+, no less), under the title Magilumiere Co. Ltd (Kabushiki Gaisha Majirumie in Japanese) and it only started being released in English by Viz in March of this year. And while an anime version is planned, it's not due out till Q4 of 2024. So I have to wait.
The cast and staff seem pretty good, though. The anime is being made by J.C. Staff (the studio behind many well-known animes, like Azumanga Daioh, the A Certain Magical Index franchise, Saiki K, Food Wars, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Shakugan no Shana), alongside Studio Moe, which seems to be a pretty new studio with not that many credits. The composer, Makoto Miyazaki, also did the music for One Punch Man and Spy x Family. The script writer Shingo Nagai has also written for Symphogear (so he's no stranger to mahou shoujo). The director, Masahiro Hiraoka, doesn't seem to have much directorial experience (most of his credits on ANN are for artist work, most of which seem to be tied to Studio Moe, which as I mentioned, doesn't have very many credits), but I can overlook that. (Interestingly, a lot of his artist work has been in CG art, including CG for both HeartCatch and Suite PreCure, which makes me think the transformations and maybe attacks will involve CG, though I guess that's expected nowadays).
The cast is interesting too. The two main girls, Kana and Hiromi, are being voiced by Fairouz Ai and Yumiri Hanamori respectively. They previously appeared together in Tropical Rouge PreCure as Cures Summer and Coral respectively (and just last year reprised those roles in the movie PreCure All Stars F), although interestingly here Coral's actress is playing the energetic Hiromi, while Summer's actress is playing the much more reserved and intelligent Kana, which if you know Tropical Rouge is a complete opposite of their Cure characters. But then they have range - Fairouz is also the voice of Jolyne from JoJo and Alisa in Pokémon Concierge, while Yumiri has also played Hayasaka from Kaguya-sama (a character with a varied personality, apparently). So I'm not worried.
The two characters above are the resident programmer at and the boss of the titular Magilumiere. (Yes, the boss is a middle-aged male cosplayer. He's just weird like that). The programmer's name is Kazuo Nikoyama, and rather hilariously given his design, he's going to be voiced by Daiki Yamashita, the same actor who voices Izuku in MHA (I guess the resemblance to Izuku may not have been a coincidence 😂). As for the boss, his name is Kouji Shigemoto, and his planned actor is Rikiya Koyama (Kogorō Mori/Richard Moore in Detective Conan/Case Closed, Jōichiro in Food Wars, and Emiya in the Fate franchise).
Rounding out the currently known cast is nice-guy office worker Midorikawa, who is going to be voiced by Ryota Ohsaka (Keiji in Haikyuu, Sadao/Satan in The Devil is a Part-Timer, and the Japanese voice of Cat Noir).
Anyway, sounds like an interesting series! Unfortunately, Volume 2 of the manga doesn't come out in English until June, so I'll have to wait for that too.
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