Sailor Moon Cosmos Pt.2 trailer

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-Sailor Moon Cosmos pt.1 movie has officially been released in Japan. It isnt setting the box office ablaze premiering at #9 and slipping to #11

-No word of when it will be released to the rest of the world or dubbed.

-Pt.2 comes out 6.30

-The director has said they'd be interested in doing more Sailor Moon but...we all know that wont happen

Comments

[little_vienna]

I wasn't really feeling this until I heard that the actress who played Sailor Mars in the live action Sailor Moon is voicing Sailor Cosmos... I wish Toei would stop being Toei and let someone license an official sub of PGSM. None of the fansubs are particularly good, from what I've read.

[yurasama_love]

The fansubs aren't that bad!

[little_vienna]

It's so hard because I hear so many different opinions!!

I've read some bad posts about the Miss Dream Subs being more "early 00s fansub"-esque where they change the meaning of scenes/words. But I've heard other people say that Miss Dream's translations are more for readability than literal translation.

I've heard the Sea of Serenity PGSM subs are better in that they try to be more literal/direct translations, but that it can sound stilted. Though I really hate the fonts and colors that they use (they switch between tons of different fonts/colors, being like... cutesy with it instead of trying to make it as readable and accessible as possible) and they're really difficult to read sometimes. At least they did this with their musical subs, I assume it's the same for PGSM. Idk what they were thinking with the font choices.

TV Nihon subs either seem to make people say they are amazing or awful...

[evilfirepixie8]

I don't understand Toei's business model because they clearly want money - with all the reboots and merch - but WON'T seize on easy gains like international releases and official subs of content. Why do they keep going about this the hard way?

[yurasama_love]

It's like they don't think women and foreigners have money

[evilfirepixie8]

Them having shitty ideas about the women in their audience would explain some of their merch choices too. They don't deserve to have the license for this series. Can we crowdfund a campaign to buy it from them?

[yurasama_love]

The merch is often so UGLY

[pseudonygma]

There's always something sad and souless about them. Idk if it's because I'm older now but I don't remember this being the case for the merch that came out in the 90s.

[yurasama_love]

They just paste square cut outs of images from the original anime and manga and call it a day. It's infuriating. And the stuff that looks good is sold out instantly.

[little_vienna]

It's so silly, because the fans WANT these things, but they won't let us have them! Like do they not realize how much money I would immediately drop on official live action DVDs? Or subbed musical DVDs? (Or does Bandai own those, idk, the rights for the musicals are confusing.) Let me give you my money, damn it!

[diablo_dancer]

With the musicals I do wonder if there’s a cost aspect given that some of them have an RRP of over ¥10,000 and whether they don’t think international fans would pay an equivalent price.

Having said that, DVD prices in Japan in general have always been insane but theatre dvds really take the cake.

[little_vienna]

Oh for sure re: pricing. About 10 years ago I went to a panel with the original Bandai Sailor Moon actress, and she said something along the lines of being shocked that everyone had seen them at all, because the VHS and DVDs were so expensive. (No one was going to tell her that the majority of us had probably been buying fansubs & copies, or at that point a lot of them were uploaded online as well.)

Although I wonder with the musicals, if there's a lot more licensing involved in getting them subbed and distributed. I know years ago they did one of the newer musicals subbed in theaters, one night only, but they never released it. And they've done a few officially subbed versions of other musicals like Boku no Hero Academia, but streaming only tickets and limited time.