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Jul 15

Nakayoshi 1995 Issues Downloads Complete

Happy Miss Dream Monday everyone! Today we continue Nakayoshi Rush, where the Nakayoshi 1995 issues are now complete! Nakayoshi magazine is a famous publication in Japan which has featured shoujo manga for many decades. Sailor Moon is one of many franchises that was featured in this magazine. News relating to any franchises serialized in Nakayoshi is usually posted within the magazine as well. The Nakayoshi 1995 issues contain chapters from Sailor Moon, as well as other famous shoujo from the time period. Magic Knight Rayearth and Saint Tail are among the titles which can be found in these Nakayoshi 1995 issues downloads and galleries.

Outside of the Nakayoshi 1995 issues downloads postings is the Nakayoshi February 1998 issue. While there are no Sailor Moon or Naoko Takeuchi works in this issue, it does contain a chapter from the popular shoujo series, Card Captor Sakura. This issue just happens to be one of the ones we acquired in our quest to obtain all the issues that feature work by Naoko Takeuchi. A lot of issues were in bulk pack sales, and rather than just do nothing with them, we figured that these could be enjoyed by all of you!

This week we also welcome a couple of new members to our staff, so please welcome Krysta and Senshi-chan! Long time visitors might be noticing that we are doing a lot of reworking of various pages, and Krysta will be doing wirte-ups for many of our pages to go along with these changes. Senshi-chan, who some of you might know as the organizer of Sailor Moon NYC Meetup, will be doing graphical work for items that we translate. We’re happy to have them added to the team! If anyone else would like to join, please contact us as we would love to have you aboard. Primarily we are looking for more graphical design people, as we never have enough.

This is all we have this week. We hope you enjoy the download and galleries for the final Nakayoshi 1995 issues as well as the Nakayoshi February 1998 issue! Next week we shall continue the Nakayoshi Rush, with more issues from 1998 to be posted online. Work is continuing on translations, where we hope to be able to start posting more within the next month or two. As always, we will do our best to post news as it happens, in which you can always refer to our news posts section. You should also keep an eye on our Twitter account for updates as we post them, as well as the official English translation Twitter account for Osabu-P as we translate his updates from Japan. We hope you enjoy today’s downloads, and will see y’all soon!

Nakayoshi February 1998

Nakayoshi September 1995

Nakayoshi October 1995

Nakayoshi November 1995

Nakayoshi December 1995

Jul 8

Downloads for Nakayoshi Summer 1995 Issues

Site Updates

Nakayoshi June 2013

Happy Miss Dream Monday everyone! Nakayoshi Rush comes back today, where we focus on the Nakayoshi Summer 1995 issues! Nakayoshi magazine is a famous publication in Japan which has featured shoujo manga for many decades. Sailor Moon is one of many franchises that was featured in this magazine. News relating to any franchises serialized in Nakayoshi is usually posted within the magazine as well. We especially saw this last week, with a lot of Sailor Moon merchandise and other news being announced in the August 2013 issue released. The Nakayoshi Summer 1995 issues all do contain chapters from Sailor Moon, as well as other famous shoujo from the time period. Magic Knight Rayearth and Saint Tail are among the titles which can be found in these Nakayoshi Summer 1995 downloads and galleries.

Outside of the Nakayoshi Summer 1995 downloads postings is a more recent Nakayoshi issue. Nakayoshi June 2013 goes up for download and viewing today. While there are no Sailor Moon or Naoko Takeuchi works in this issue, it does contain current works such as Doki Doki Pretty Cure. For those wondering why we are not posting the full August issue that was released last week, that is actually part of the reason. We post up current Nakayoshi issues on the first (in this case, second) Monday of the month following the publication date. However, as seen last week, we are more than happy to post any Sailor Moon content in the current issues as soon as humanly possible.

We are still working on more translations for the future, and even more Nakayoshi magazine issues have recently arrived. We have started to work on getting these scanned, and bring more vintage goodness to the site for your downloading and viewing pleasure. The Nakayoshi Summer 1995 issues can be seen in the image links below, and June 2013 issue in the link to the left. We hope that you enjoy these new downloads, and will see you next time!

Nakayoshi May 1995

Nakayoshi June 1995

Nakayoshi July 1995

Nakayoshi August 1995

Jul 3

Breaking: Sailor Moon Eyeliner, Gashapon, Apparel, and More!

Sailor Moon News, Site Updates

Breaking news: Sailor Moon eyeliner, gashapon, apparel, and more! I’m pressed for time today, but here’s some breaking news from the August 2013 issue of Nakayoshi magazine, which goes on sale in Japan today:

courtesy of fyeahmomoclo

Momoiro Clover Z, the JPOP idol group who is confirmed to be performing the new Sailor Moon anime theme song, will be having a concert August 4th in which they will be making an announcement regarding the new Sailor Moon anime series. The flyer recaps Momoclo’s performance in Paris during the 20th anniversary Niconico Douga live stream event in which the new Sailor Moon anime was announced, and gives ticket information and concert schedule for Momoiro Clover Z’s upcoming tour.

courtesy of SM Obsession

This flyer confirms a few cool things. First, new merchandise. We will be receiving:

new Sailor Moon apparel

new Sailor Moon eyeliner

new Sailor Moon gashapon

new DVD box set

Plus, it says that the new merchandise is aimed towards young women in the 20s. Which we kind of already knew, but hey, an official confirmation is nice.

There’s also some information about when the new anime series will premiere. It says that the series is officially in production, and will be scheduled to begin sometime between this November and January of 2014.

Sounds pretty cool! My copy of Nakayoshi magazine for this announcement is here, so I’ll be making a more detailed post about this tonight. There’s some information about the release dates for the new Sailor Moon 20th anniversary figurines, as well as release dates for some of the previously announced new Sailor Moon merchandise like the Shining Moon Powder compact, the Nail Collection, the smart phone cases, etc. Nothing too revolutionary, everything that is new I’ve listed above.

I’m especially eager to see the new Sailor Moon eyeliner and new Sailor Moon apparel that is referenced in the release schedule, but the gashapon are super adorable as well. I bet collectors are going to go nuts over that! :)

Update: We were linked at ANN here as well as Crunchyroll here, thank you for this honor!

Jul 3

Breaking: New Sailor Moon Musical: La Reconquista

Sailor Moon News, Site Updates

Happy 1 AM everyone! I’m awake to translate some breaking news regarding the new Sailor Moon musical: La Reconquista. Earlier tonight on Twitter @osabu8 shared some images of the costume designs for this new musical, which included the new subtitle for the upcoming September 2013 performance.

There is a press release via Comic Natalie, which I have translated in full below:

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A new work by Naoko Takeuchi of “Sailor Moon”, a musical entitled “Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon -La Reconquista-“. Today, July 3rd, the 5 sailor soldiers and Tuxedo Masks’s costumes have gone public.

Including Tuxedo Mask, the entire cast is female, which has become a hot topic of conversation. As for the other cast members, the Sailor Soldiers’s enemy will be the Dark Kingdom, with Queen Beryl portrayed by Hatsukaze Midori, with her subordinate Kunzite of the Four Generals portrayed by Ryo Saika, known for playing male roles in Takarazuka theater. As for the actress cast as Jadeite of the Four Generals, that would be the first of her kind in Japan, a female actress who is a popular model in the drag king magazine publication KERA BOKU (Index Communication): Ruuto.

As for the subtitle, “La Reconquista”, it refers to a period in history between the 14th and 15th century when Christians took back the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims, in an attempt to recover their previously owned terrirtory (an exercise to take back their country). In this musical, the Sailor Soldiers and Tuxedo Mask fight with the enemy, the Dark Kingdom, to restore peace on earth, and for that reason this subtitle was chosen.

The musical “Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon -La Reconquista-” will begin performances on September 13th in Tokyo at the AiiA Theater Tokyo. Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning August 17th.

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In addition, the second round of pre-orders for tickets to this event will be available between July 3rd ~ July 9th for NicoNico Douga subscribers. According to @osabu8, there will also be more news regarding the new Sailor Moon musical: La Reconquista in the August issue of Nakayoshi magazine, which goes on sale today (July 3rd).

Luckily, I have a subscription to Nakayoshi magazine, and I will provide a scan of the referenced page tomorrow afternoon as soon as my copy arrives.

The new musical costumes are a lot more mature and darker than previous ones from the older musicals. The phrase “La Reconquista” means “The Reconquest” in Spanish, and given that the new musical is supposed to be in the style of a come-back, a means of the sailor soldiers taking back what is theirs, I hope this means that the script and performance will be of a darker nature. The costumes and the facial expressions of the cast certainly look that way.

I’m also very pleased that many of the cast members are long-time Takarazuka veterans. In particular, I’m especially happy about the actres portraying Jadeite – this will be the first time that a popular drag king model will be cast in a musical dedicated to an anime series, so this is groundbreaking, especially for Japan where being gender-queer isn’t completely socially acceptable. This is extremely progressive, and I can’t wait to get more news of it as it comes out.

Stay tuned. I’ll be updating this post tomorrow with more information as it becomes available.

Edit: According to this page, here is the known cast so far –

Sailor Moon: Satomi Ookubo
Sailor Mercury: Miyabi Matsuura
Sailor Mars: Kanon Nakaki
Sailor Jupiter: Yuu Takahashi
Sailor Venus: Shiori Sakata
Tuxedo Mask: Yuuga Yamato
Queen Beryl: Hatsukaze Midori
Kunzite: Ryo Saika
Zoicite: Misaki Komatsu
Nephrite: KORO
Jadeite: RUUTO
Lemures Leader: Shintani Mayumi
Queen Serenity: Jamie Natsuki

Jun 24

Nakayoshi Rush – 1995 Start

Site Updates

Happy Miss Dream Monday everyone! This past week has seemed to calm down on the Sailor Moon news for a bit, and while it’s been exciting, it’s also nice to have a bit of a break. In the sense of trying to keep up on events in close to real time at least, since we still intend to update at least once a week. This week, Nakayoshi Rush continues! We round up 1994 with the December issue, and also have the entire first quarter of 1995 posted for your viewing and downloading pleasure! That’s all for this week, next week we will have more issues coming online, and if things happen through the week, we will be on top of it! Also, don’t forget that this Sunday is Senshi Matsuri, the Sailor Moon centric convention being held in NYC. A number of Miss Dream staff members will be in attendance, where we will be holding a trivia panel and taking part in general shenanigans. In attendance will be myself, sassypants678, James, Pixeluna, Jen, Dragonicsoul, and Izam. We’re looking forward to it, and hope to see some of you there!			Nakayoshi December 1994
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