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THERE'S A JAPANESE SAILOR MOON MUSICAL COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU

I went to South by Southwest to get the scoop on the ambitious global push behind Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live

Sailor Moon: The Super Live (2025)

This March there was a panel at SXSW Conference & Festivals in Austin, Texas with Fumion Osano (Sailor Moon's editor), Riko Tanaka (Sailor Moon), and Makoto Matsuda (producer of The Super Live and founder of Nelke Planning) and the interviewer shared some info!

I didn't see any brand new information regarding Sera Myu (unless you're new in the fandom), but it's nice to see some things stated outright by the producers!

For example, we know The Super Live is different from the regular Sailor Moon musicals as it's less dialogue-heavy to help break the language barrier (though they did comment how they got more confident with people's openess to it so they turned them up this time) - and we could also mention the small cast as part of the simplified storyline and a helping factor in travelling abroad. But I still found it interesting the way they highlighted it, like they are indeed separate products: "because there have been dozens of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon musicals in Japan, its creators insist on referring to this one—the streamlined one aimed at international audiences—as The Super Live, not a musical. The distinction is mostly about branding, as far as I can tell".

I guess that KINDA explains why they insist on calling the new production by the same title as the first one, but I still think they should have differentiated them somehow in the title. Even marketing has used material from the first production, so I wouldn't be surprised if people think it's the same one from a few years ago (I sure hope nobody actually misses it for that reason). At least they finally released footage of the London production so people can see more easily that it's new (sure the London run is almost done but the original TSL didn't stop by London like it did in the US).

They also talk about the push to bring the 2.5 Dimensional musicals abroad! They say in a different report (linked in the article) about how they started it with the original Super Live, but then were hit by the pandemic, then picked up again. There was an Attack on Titan musical short run in New York last year (I didn't know that!) and now the new Super Live production. The interviewer mentions Osabu's satisfaction in seeing Sailor Moon legacy flourisha broad, and how Matsuda is learning from all these tours to continue to get 2.5D productions worldwide. It's a logical conclusion of course, but again, it's nice to hear from them that they're really into this.

It sure would have been nice to have had this years ago with Sailor Moon, but it's still good to see it happening. And this is already the second production! And it's happening AFTER Crystal ended! I would say that's big. Not like Sailor Moon's worldwide popularity is anything new, but the Japanese seem to still be surprised by it, lol. Then again, to perform a show in a completely foreign language in different countries and have people continue to show up is no small feat, even with supertitles.

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Musical『Touken Ranbu』 Suehirogari Yagaimatsuri 1st week sale statistics

Hello Everyone,

Sorry for the late news again but Oricon just released the 1st week sale statistics of Musical『Touken Ranbu』 Suehirogari Yagaimatsuri BD/DVD and wowwwww

On the DVD side this production sold a total of

6,577 DVD COPIES OF THE LIMITED EDITION! ranked 1st as the best selling DVD of the week!

Toumyu also sold an additional

643 Copies of the regular DVD edition, this one ranked as the 13th best selling DVD of the week!

and on the BD side.....

They sold a total of

30,615 copies of the BD Limited Edition!!!! Also ranked 1st as the best selling BD of the week.

WOWOWOWOWOWOWOW

TouMyu also sold an additional

713 copies of the BD regular edition, ranked 25th best selling BD of the week.

In total they sold 38,548 discs in its 1st week of selling!!!!

SERIOUSLY HUGE! On part with a famous mainstream idol/artist 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Thank you to everyone who purchased a copy. I love you all 😭😭😭

Please continue to support the boys ♥

Source ; DVD, BD

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5 Guys Shakespeare Act 1: HAMLET Twitter Update

Feb. 21, 2022

[Distribution Information]

5 Guys Hamlet's rental distribution has started! Please have a look✨

💻Amazon Prime Video

💻DMM.com

💻U-NEXT　and others

Please check the "Distribution TV Column" on the page below 👀

https://www.nelke.co.jp/stage/5guys_hamlet/

#OkamiyaKurumu #TachibanaYuta #HashimotoShinichi #NorizukiKohei #NakamuraSeijiro

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Currently available at the following streaming platforms:

Rakuten TV U-NEXT Theater Complex Amazon Prime Music.jp GYAO! Store Video Market DMM.com

Price is around 998 JPY (any additional depends on the charges from the streaming platform).

See the digest movie here: youtu.be/MbFqeNz_Y84

* Please note that this includes spoilers throughout the digest.

Please do check it out! It's a great musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet :)

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Various pics from the many different versions of Sera Myu, the Sailor Moon musicals. Have you seen any of them? Do you have a favorite?

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