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INTEREST: Great Eastern Lists U.S. Sailor Moon Merchandise

What i find funny is that OpMoonrise asked if we want La Luna Splende in the US. SPOILER ALERT: That game stinks.

I'd much rather have something like the Genesis game or Another Story. Can you imagine Another Story in HD? Or on the DS? I'd just love to see more Sailor Moon in English.

Perhaps some of the confusion is coming from the fact that I don't care about the dubs. When I said the quality of the ADV releases was horrible, I was talking from a general sound and video point of view. They looked and sounded really bad, due to being given bad masters from Toei. All I was talking about were those sub-only sets they released.

Sailor S wrote:

Perhaps some of the confusion is coming from the fact that I don't care about the dubs. When I said the quality of the ADV releases was horrible, I was talking from a general sound and video point of view. They looked and sounded really bad, due to being given bad masters from Toei. All I was talking about were those sub-only sets they released.

Yeah, the video and audio on those boxsets are terrible. I was happy when they came out and I could finally see the uncut episodes, but we desperately need a remastered release of those first two seasons.

Sailor S wrote:

Perhaps some of the confusion is coming from the fact that I don't care about the dubs. When I said the quality of the ADV releases was horrible, I was talking from a general sound and video point of view. They looked and sounded really bad, due to being given bad masters from Toei. All I was talking about were those sub-only sets they released.

Yeah, the video and audio on those boxsets are terrible. I was happy when they came out and I could finally see the uncut episodes, but we desperately need a remastered release of those first two seasons.

Joe anime wrote:

KabaKabaFruit wrote: faytlein wrote: OK Funimation, its time to stop being coy. Just announce it at Otakon, people will flood your offices with money, and everything will be right with the world. Just don't do 13 ep sets, that is a bit much considering the size of the franchise..... Okay, for the record, 13 episode volume sets is not all that bad and for another record, the fact that we're even getting 13 episode DVD sets for new releases of any anime in this day and age is already an accomplishment in of itself when you consider how much of a stink people made during the distribution of 4-episode singles in years past. May I remind you that FUNimation had to dramatically change their whole business model just to appease people like us who didn't want to pay top dollar for a few episodes of a show we absolutely loved, even to the point of midway canceling EXISTING releases for loyal fans just so this new business model can be implemented. The last thing we need to read here is more bitching about more episodes per volume release. I agree with KabaKabaFruit,a 13 episode DVD set is an accomplishment this day and age.if FUNimation does indeed get Sailor Moon i'm sure people will buy the DVD sets.

I'm fine with it myself but something i have noticed lately is that people complain when FUNi's sets has less than 13 episodes which is a problem because if you count how many episodes are in each season of Sailor Moon, you can see that in order to release each of them properly, most of the sets would have to have 12 episodes or less.

I did the math elsewhere a few months ago and this is how it might turn out.

Sailor Moon (All 46 episodes in 4 sets): 12 + 12 + 11 + 11

Sailor Moon R (All 43 episodes in 4 sets): 11 + 11 + 11 + 10 (This may change if they don't get episode 67 which was missing from ADV's set)

Sailor Moon S (All 38 episodes in 3 sets): 13 + 13 + 12

Sailor Moon SuperS (All 39 episodes in 3 sets): 13 + 13 + 13

Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (All 34 episodes in 3 sets): 12 + 11 + 11

Funimation doesn't always go that low -- their Case Closed sets appear to average over 20 episodes each and the Dragon Boxes appear to have over 40.

I'd just like to think Manga or Beez could get the sets released over here too if Funi (please be Funi) has picked it up. Admittedly I already do own the ADV sets and the Geneon sets (but only 1 of the 3 movies) but I'd adore to get them remastered as ADV got given shoddy, shoddy master tapes given to them by Toei.

Decent re-subtitling by Funi (the amount of name mistakes in S & SuperS were shocking on Geneon disks) would make me happy too. Of course the big dream is of a redub and Funi is about the only company that would probably be able to do that.

Wasn't it reported that Toei wouldn't allow other markets to do new dubs for it? If so, it may not happen here either. It would be nice though as the original dub is terrible and it wouldn't be impossible to do an unedited dubbed release.

We’re not even sure why this merchandise is mentioned online as none of the agreements for anything related to the anime and anime merchandise have been finalized yet (and this is most likely the reason that there are images up and no release date listed). We have learned this from a source that is not for public consumption, but this has everything to do with a higher parental agreement we alluded to earlier. Until this higher parental agreement happens for the United States, no anime or merchandise company can sign any agreements for the franchise. It is also fully possible that since the companies are also fully aware of fans’ attempts to get some of the new merchandise from Italy, that this deal with Great Eastern may be a distribution deal with one of the Italian merchandise manufacturers to bring merchandise to North America. These are simple products, and if they are released in the Fall it could make the perfect complement to Kodansha’s calls for there to be some cooperation with the release of the anime to coincide with the release of the manga for the success of the franchise. We are already aware of a similar deal with another Italian Sailor Moon product where they have been given permission to open up their orders to fans around the world (but we can’t share which product this is at this time). Once again, while this is an exciting time to be a Sailor Moon fan, please have patience, everything will come when the time is right.

I'd just like to think Manga or Beez could get the sets released over here too if Funi (please be Funi) has picked it up.

Decent re-subtitling by Funi (the amount of name mistakes in S & SuperS were shocking on Geneon disks) would make me happy too.