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NEWS: Kodansha USA to Publish Sailor Moon, Sailor V Manga

I'm still trying to decide whether to buy the Utena remaster:

rainbowrabbit wrote:

There's something I want to bring up though. I'm not trying to bust anyone out. Oh, who am I kidding. That's exactly what I want to do. Justin Sevakis said on at least 3 occasions how we should give up and abandon all hope because Sailor Moon would never return to the US "unless the stars move". After those bold statements, can we expect backtracking, denial of making those remarks in the first place, or actually owning up to his arrogance of jumping the gun and acting like he knew everything? http://community.funimation.com/fb.aspx?m=333491

Shouldn't that be something we just let drop? I believe it was in reference to the anime, anyway, and thus he would know the inside scoop about what's happening with that media. Not that the anime can't return; anything's possible. Just rather unlikely.

Quark wrote:

This is great news! Hopefully they do a better job translating this than Tokyopop did.

No kidding.That is one thing I hope don't happen with this re release.

Though what I am really hoping for is that they'll finally be a relicensing fo the anime series and hopefully an uncut english dub version of season 1, R ( even though I still like their DIC counterparts ) and especially the Sailor Stars and hopefully a better dub of S and Super S cause the Pioneer version of the series ( not the movies ) were really unwatchable ,even for a hard core dubber like me.

enurtsol wrote:

That's not Takeuchi; that's Toei. Back when Sailor Moon was airing all over the world, Takeuchi was asked if she has any influence on the animation side of the business - she said she has none.

If she has no influence, then why all the hush-hush secrecy? Why didn't FUNimation just rescue the license years ago considering that they're in good terms with Toei?

I should hurry and sell the ones I've got before word spreads too far and they arent worth anything anymore...

RestlessOne wrote:

Shouldn't that be something we just let drop? I believe it was in reference to the anime, anyway, and thus he would know the inside scoop about what's happening with that media. Not that the anime can't return; anything's possible. Just rather unlikely.

Well, when you consider that the remarks were made online and made its rounds across all major anime fansites, this isn't exactly something that people are just going to let drop. Anything you say on the Internet can be used against you and considering that everyone was told to "give up" and "abandon all hope", it just came across as demeaning to the fandom. Don't be surprised if there is going to be a lot of "IN YOUR FACE, SEVAKIS!!!" going around the fansites should the anime get licensed again. The fandom, especially in Canada, is bigger than anyone even thinks.

Under no circumstances is, "So when is the anime coming out?" the appropriate reaction, btw. Saying "yay!" and saving your money to buy the volumes, which will start being released in September, is an appropriate reaction. If you really do not have the money (and believe me, I sympathize with that,) the most appropriate reaction is to head over to your local public library and become friends with the person who is in charge of the Graphic Novels section or, if there is no GN section, the "acquisitions" person and start getting them primed to pick this series up. Don't rant. Just let them know that one of the two series that truly launched anime/manga here in the US (Dragonball being the other) is about to be released and it'd probably be cool to get it for the collection.