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A Step By Step Guide To Converting Your Friends To Fandom

We always want to share the things we love with our friends, coworkers and family members — that’s human nature. And it’s a generous impulse, the desire to share. But how can you introduce your most beloved TV shows, movies, comics and books to people without turning them off? Here’s a step-by-step guide. Choose your … Continued

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The Golden Girls Are the Only Sailor Scouts We Ever Need

The Golden Girls as the Sailor Moon Sailor Scouts. There is nothing better than this. This is the best thing. It’s Tuxedo Stan! TUXEDO STAN! Artist Abraham Perez has just bestowed upon the internet this Golden Girls/Sailor Moon mashup and it is beautiful. Just look at Sophia’s purse! And Bea Arthur as an anime action … Continued

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The Sailor Senshi get an armour upgrade in these amazing cosplays

The Senshi’s battlegear in Sailor Moon is hardly the most protective of uniforms, but these awesome cosplays have improved the armour on these magical warriors – making them all the more wonderful. Header Image taken by Darshelle Stevens (Warning: Some of these links may feature images that are NSFW. Workers, click with discretion!) Okay so … Continued

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It’s Sailor Senshi vs. DVD Rentals on this week’s Sailor Moon Crystal

One of my frequent criticisms of Sailor Moon Crystal so far is that some characters have largely felt way too passive to the tepidly paced plot progression – but not this week, when the Sailor Senshi take on a Brainwashing Blockbusters. It takes a while to get going, but shit gets done, and it is … Continued

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Tuxedo Mask finally does something on Sailor Moon Crystal

It may have taken him 6 episodes, but finally, Tuxedo Mask barely manages to be an active participant in this week’s episode of Sailor Moon Crystal, as the search for the Legendary Silver Crystal continues. Moon Prism Power, Re-Cap! Act 6 – Tuxedo Mask – is an enjoyable return to form for the series so … Continued

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This week on Sailor Moon Crystal: Sailor Jupiter and Plot Conveniences

After a slightly extended absence, Sailor Moon Crystal returns with a new Sailor Senshi in tow, and a whole lot of contrivance as the team investigates a ghostly bridal shop. Moon Prism Power, Re-cap! Act 5 Makoto – Sailor Jupiter – isn’t really Sailor Moon Crystal’s finest hour (well, 22 minutes but you catch my … Continued

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The uncut, dubbed remaster of Sailor Moon begins this Friday

The next episode of Sailor Moon Crystal isn’t the only things fans of the Sailor Senshi have to get excited about this weekend: Viz Media have just announced that they will be streaming the first four episodes of their new English dubbed remaster of the original Sailor Moon anime back-to-back Friday evening! Viz media are … Continued

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The Most Badass Sailor Moon Redesigns The Internet Has To Offer

Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts have gone through their share of costume changes, but these tough, gorgeous, and just plain adorable fan redesigns go bit farther than we see in the comics, TV shows, and movies, giving us bikers, warriors, space adventurers, and punks all rooted in Usagi and her friends. The top image … Continued

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Watch A Whole Episode Of Sailor Moon Re-Animated By More Than 250 Fans

Sailor Moon and her friends get a couple hundred makeovers thanks to the Moon Animate Make-Up! project, in which more than 250 animators pooled their talents to completely re-do the animation for Sailor Moon’s 38th episode. It’s sometimes pretty, sometimes silly, and often flat-out ridiculous. Seriously, great job to the organizers and all the animators. … Continued

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Usagi Sounds Perfectly Annoying In The New English Dub Of Sailor Moon

This is not a bad thing. If you’re a Sailor Moon fan, you know Usagi — at least early on in her career as a Sailor Scout — sounds like an immature girl who’s on the verge of crying at any given moment. Voice actress Stephanie Sheh nails it in Viz’s new English dub of … Continued

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Sailor Moon Looks Utterly Badass As A Fantasy RPG Warrior

The Sailor Scouts look ready to slay dragons thanks to this animated makeover by artist Sasha Mutch, which portrays Usagi as the paladin leader of windblown fantasy party. Head over to Mutch’s Tumblr to take a closer look at each of the characters: Mercury as the mage, Mars as the archer, Venus as the assassin, … Continued

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Sailor Moon Uniform Socks Let Your Feet Cosplay As The Sailor Scouts

Donning these socks may fill you with an irresistible urge to shout, “Moon Prism Power, Make Up!” Small Planet is selling these little cosplay outfits for your feet, as well as socks featuring the old anime faces of the Sailor Scouts. Right now, they’re planning to ship the socks in September, but they’re only taking … Continued

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Sailor Moon’s Brand New Transformation Sequence Is Epic

How badass can a girl magically changing into a sailor suit be? The new transformation sequence from Sailor Moon Crystal (courtesy of our bros at Kotaku) has the answer — pretty goddamned badass. This video contains her original transformation for compariosn; skip to 0:44 if you want to get right to the good stuff. The … Continued

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​7 Magical Girl Series That Deserve Modern Sailor Moon-Style Remakes

When Sailor Moon Crystal debuts in Japan next month, it will bring the preeminent magical girl (also known as mahou-shojo in Japanese) anime back to TV for the first time since 1997. But Sailor Moon isn’t the only anime superheroine deserving of a comeback — here are seven more magical girls we’d like to see … Continued

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First Trailer For The New Sailor Moon Anime Shows Off Her New Look

Sailor Moon is coming back to television this summer with the new anime series Sailor Moon Crystal. And now the first trailer is out, showing off the new designs of the Sailor Scouts—who now have bizarrely long legs. The look of the characters is certainly more reminiscent of Naoko Takeuchi’s manga artwork than it was … Continued

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Hundreds Of Fans Are Re-Animating An Entire Episode Of Sailor Moon

We’ve seen fan filmmaker remakes of Star Wars and RoboCop, and now a huge group of animators are doing the same thing for Sailor Moon. They are pooling their talents to remake every shot of a single episode of the show in a variety of styles. Moon Animate, Make Up! is a fan project helmed … Continued

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​7 Dudes In Distress Who Needed Saving By Damsels

Traditionally, it’s damsels who need saving, what with their pretty dresses, bosoms and emotions. Men, on the other hand, are theoretically strong and self-sufficient… which is why it’s so satisfying whenever these tables turned. Here are seven dudes who would be dead without their infinitely more competent damsels. 1) Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games Has … Continued

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Sailor Moon And The Sailor Scouts Assemble Dressed Up As The Avengers

In the name of the Moon and Democracy, Captain American Moon will punish you. Artist Jei Shepard has combined the Sailor Scouts with the Avengers, and you can see Black Widow Venus and Iron Mercury over at Shepard’s Tumblr. Now which of the remaining Scouts would work best as the Hulk? WE ARE (NOT) SOLDIERS … Continued

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​Who Would Be The Worst Green Lantern In The Universe?

Greetings, all! You know I’m writing to you guys from the future, right? I don’t know how it works, since I’m a fake mailman and not a quantum physicist. Doesn’t matter. What matters is could one of you maybe bury a big box of booze, guns, and porn by the oak tree three miles north … Continued

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The new Sailor Moon anime finally has a name, a premiere date and art

Yesterday, Toei Animation made a website for the immensely long-awaited reboot of the Sailor Moon anime franchise with an 8-day countdown clock. Then someone hacked it, and discovered the show will be called Sailor Moon Crystal, premiere worldwide in July, and look like this. Now, when I say hacked, I mean someone just checked if … Continued