Some art, and some news!

[erinptah]

First, the art:

Little Rabbit Riding Hood - Usagi in a cute cloak.

Our Lady - Princess Hotaru, Small Lady, and Prince Helios: OT3.

Red Spot Jupiter - an alternate costume design for Sailor Jupiter, with heavy jewelry and storm-cloud bows.

I Am Become Death - AU!Hotaru as Sandman!Death.

(I'll post more links as time goes on...I have kind of a lot of them ^_^;)


Second, the news:

Toei is soliciting international broadcast/distribution rights for all 200 episodes of the anime!

No hints as to whether Stars is a candidate for dubbing, or whether only subbed versions would be released, but either way the door is open to having the episodes available (legally, anyway) stateside :D

Comments

[birgitriddle]

It'd be nice to get my favorite seasons on DVD instead of, uh, using my VHS fansubs from way back. I know I had the chance to get them when they were out on DVD, but I didn't have the money then and now they aren't made anymore. :( And have Netflix get the chance to get the anime DVDs so I can watch the other seasons because I'm not too strong on my not favorites.

[ilyena_sylph]

The Little Rabbit Riding Hood is adorable.

I love the OT3, Hotaru looks great!

Jupiter is lovely, as she should be.

But my favorite is definitely Hotaru as Death.

[syntaxofthings]

I really hope they subtitle and release ALL of the episodes! It's amazing that they're so against it, when there clearly is still a large amount of people who will buy the DVDs. (Me! Me! Pick me!) It's odd that a company would refuse to make more money? They must have some reason I just don't understand.

Thanks for the art links too!

[everchangingmuse]

The artwork is lovely! I especially like the OT3, and I'm not usually a Hotaru/Usa shipper. But the picture is very well done.

And, I hope that Toei gets a proper US distributor this time around, if someone were to bid on the property. I'd love nice remastered quality DVDs (dub/sub or just sub), and new manga releases in the US - the video and audio quality of the sub-only boxes that came out just before the rights were taken away was not exactly good.

[dreamingpixels]

I absolutely love the artwork!

And I really, really hope the releasing of the rights means Sailor Moon sees another rise in popularity. I'd love to be able to get Sailor Moon goodies locally again! (Oh, nothing beats the days when I could walk across town to Ames to buy Sailor Moon dolls and wands...)