“Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos The Movie” Set To Be Released Summer 2023
The “Sailor Moon” franchise announced recently during the 30th anniversary special program celebrating the anime that the final arc from manga will be a 2-part anime film. “Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos The Movie” (Gekijoban Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon Cosmos) is set to be released in early Summer 2023 in Japan.
The franchise opened a new website for the film along with a new trailer and key visual. The "Shadow Galactica" arc is known as “Sailor Moon Stars” to long time fans of the franchise. Created by Naoko Takeuchi, the original manga Naoko Takeuchi for the final arc consisted of three volumes and was released in 1997 by Kodansha in Japan. Tokyopop later released the manga in 2001 in the US. The original anime in the 90’s covered the arc in “Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Sailor Stars”.
“Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos The Movie” serves as the fifth installment to the 2014 rebooted TV anime “Sailor Moon Crystal”. The new films will continue the story from “Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie”, which Netflix released globally outside of Japan on June 3, 2021.
The voice cast from “Sailor Moon Crystal” will return for the new films. Tomoya Takahashi will be directing at Toei Animation and Studio DEEN will be co-producing.
“Sailor Moon Crystal” Seasons 1-3 can currently be streamed on Netflix, Crunchyroll, Amazon Prime and Hulu and is available to purchase on blu-ray in subtitles and English dubbing. “Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal The Movie” part 1 and 2 can currently be streamed on Netflix.
The original 90s “Sailor Moon” anime is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime and Hulu and is available to purchase on DVD and blu-ray in subtitles and English dubbing.