Sailor Moon Crystal is a new Sailor Moon anime made for the 20th anniversary.
Overview
Sailor Moon Crystal (or Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal) is the 2014 Animated Adaptation of Naoko Takeuchi's seminal Magical Girl Warrior manga Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon Crystal is not a remake of the iconic and much-beloved original 90's anime. Instead, Toei Animation considers it a reboot.
Sailor Moon Crystal follows the plot of the manga more closely than the 1990's anime and updates the franchise for the 21st century within a next generation series. Toei Animation announced the series in 2012 in time for the 20th anniversary of Sailor Moon.
Crew
For the complete list see here
- Original Creator: Naoko Takeuchi
- Animation Producer: Toei Animation
- Soundtrack Production: King Record Company, Limited
- Theme Song Performance: Momoiro Clover Z
Episodes
Each episode contains Opening Credits, eyecatch, Introductions and Closing Credits.
See the full list of episodes here
- Season 1 - Dark Kingdom Arc
- Season 2 - Black Moon Arc
- Season 3 - Infinity Arc
Movies
- Sailor Moon Eternal - Dream Arc
Merchandise
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal DVD Releases
- Moon Pride (CD and Blu-ray)
- Moon Pride (CD)
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal Character Music Collection: Crystal Collection
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal Original Soundtrack
- Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3 Original Soundtrack
Trivia
- This is the first Sailor Moon animated series in 18 years
- Kotono Mitsuishi is the only voice actress to reprise her original role as Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon
- During production, the staff had about 100 possible titles for the anime
- While it was expected to be released in 2013 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the TV show's debut it wasn't released until 2014
- Unlike the original series, this new series' overall story lines, tone and character designs resemble much closer to the original manga
- Rina Satô was a big fan of the Sailor Moon franchise prior to being cast in this series and always wanted to be the voice of Sailor Mars
- The first Sailor Moon anime to not have Aya Hisakawa, Emi Shinohara, Michie Tomizawa, & Rica Fukami as the voices of Sailor Mercury, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mars, & Sailor Venus respectively.