LOS ANGELES/MIAMI (January 24) – Toei Animation announced today that it has finalized new licensing and merchandising deals in Latin America for several of the company’s animated properties.
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Brazil’s Playarte will create a DVD box set for Saint Seiya: Myth of the Resurrected Gold Saints.
Mexico’s Towers Entertainment will release DVD collections for the Sailor Moon and Saint Seiya series.
Brazil’s CD & DVD Factory will release the Sailor Moon series on DVD.
Vertical has made some comments about a “major” property they are close to landing, as long as the rights holder and author give the final okay. Considering they also dropped some hints that someone was close to acquiring the manga a few months back, I think we may be close to at least getting that. If the manga finally makes it back over, we may see the anime after all.
My thought still stands if we do there is a 1 in however many companies there is now we will see a new dub made. I’d be happy with a uncut sub only release of all 200 episodes and all the movies however.
I always wanted to read the manga, but by the time I learned about it TokyoPop has just stopped printing it and the supplies were slowly drying up. I will definitely be picking this up.
I also hope the anime reappears as well. I would love to see an uncut dub, but I would take it sub-only at this point as long as the entire series is available. However, I would really love to see Hilary Haag as Sailor Moon/Usagi and that would likely only happen if Sentai somehow nabbed it, but I don’t think they could put forth the resources for a series this long.
Wouldn’t it be pretty kewl dooooods, if Sentai releases it. Maybe it was part of a package deal with say, ohhhh…Ghost Sweeper Mikami and Clannad: The Motion Picture. Both are Toei shows if I remember.
Ohhh, I just remember…so was Kanon, the 2002 version.
Yeah…yeah…that be sweet.
I hope this gets a nice limited edition style sub only release. If it had been uncut dubbed before I’d be yay dubbed ,but the problem is it did not. I can read as well as listen!
We’ve received confirmation that the Sailor Moon manga will be returning in Germany via EMA publishing in October 2011.
Releases will be once a month. The German version will be based on the Japanese 2003 edition, with the previous 18 volumes condensed into 12. Each book will sell for 6.50 € and include colour pages. Also included in EMA’s release will be the two volumes of short stories as well as the 2-volume prequel Sailor V[/quote]
I wonder if Sailor moon would get licensed in north america without getting a new dub?
BREAKING NEWS: Brazil Puts Up A Good Fight, But A New Dub Wasn’t Meant to Be.
Save our Sailors Brazil reported the sad news yesterday that after a long and lengthy crusade to get a redub of Sailor Moon, it was not meant to be. A statement posted to their site from Márcio S. Reginnette, a representative of Brazil’s CD & DVD Factory, states that a redub of Sailor Moon S is not authorized because Naoko Takeuchi has not approved of any redubbing in any language. The same request was made in Italy as well, and was also denied. The statement also makes mention that Toei Animation does not have any exclusivity over the franchise, and prior approval has to be obtained by Naoko Takeuchi. There is also an excellent response to these developments posted over at Papo de Budega.
From what we know, the anime and manga are a sort of “co-agreement” between Naoko Takeuchi and the companies involved. Fans probably also notice that Naoko Takeuchi’s name is on every piece of Sailor Moon merchandise coming out their way these days. With the manga, Kodansha has the rights to publish it, but only after obtaining Naoko Takeuchi’s permission. But at the same time, she cannot hold it back. The same deal goes with the anime and Toei Animation as well. We do not know how many years that this current co-agreement is going to last, but that if matters regarding Sailor Moon do not go smoothly, they could be pulled away at any time.
While we understand fans’ anger, sadness, and frustration over this turn of events, please don’t be mad at Naoko Takeuchi. For all we know, the time frame for Sailor Moon’s return could be really short, and she may not like the idea of a redub keeping the series away from fans in an already shortened timeframe. Or, perhaps she likes everything the way it is and doesn’t want to change things too much. We are disgruntled too, as this leaves the fate of an English release of Sailor Stars up in the air, but at the same time we are thankful to have the Sailor Moon manga back (and hopefully soon, the anime).
Once again, huge hugs from Moon Chase to Save Our Sailors Brazil and everything they have worked so hard for. Keep up the strength, although your release has had it’s turmoils (starting with Season 3), you have done a lot for the fandom and we are sure every one of your readers thanks you for that!
I think it’s best to just do sub only sets and get it out as fast as possible cause like it says who knows how long it’s got . It’s taken what around 4 years to get 205 episodes of One Piece with a uncut dub. Maybe they could pull a Voltron and release the old dub to get some Nostalgia sales to. I honestly have a feeling this is the reason Funimation did not pick it up. From what I heard they actually did look into it. A reason was never fully mentioned as to why it was not picked up. I imagine Rightstuf would be a good fit for it. Though I’d hope they’d do the sets in 26 episodes so it could get out faster then later.
