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Sailor Moon has been with us for over 30 years, but the cartoon series is popular enough that brands are still producing themed merchandise – everything from high end, crystal-encrusted Jimmy Choos to Black Milk leggings and speciality stationary. As we approach the release of the final instalment of the Sailor Moon Crystal reboot, I can’t help but wonder: why are we still obsessed with fighting evil by moonlight and winning love by daylight?

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon

• Yet there was something about Sailor Moon that caught the public’s imagination, and changed anime in Japan – and later the rest of the world – for good.
• Written by Naoko Takeuchi as a continuation of her series Code Name: V, Bishōjo Senshi Sērā Mūn (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon) ran from 1991-97.
• Sailor Moon takes stories about friendship and love and mixes them with a monster of the day format and colour-coded superheroes.

Girls comics

• Both shōjo (girls) and shōnen (boys) manga can include fast-paced, action-packed narratives, love stories, science fiction, high fantasy and suspense.
• Manga for girls and young women are more likely to be linked to fashion and will often include full body images of characters to illustrate the latest styles.
• For western and Anglophone viewers in the late 1990s, Sailor Moon provided a role model alongside Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena: Warrior Princess for girls and young women, showing that being a princess didn’t preclude kicking arse.

Anniversary fancy goods

• These might be as simple as pre-cut cardboard toys that can be torn out and folded, or designer collaborations on bags, pencil cases and other accessories.
• Causing more of a stir was a collaboration with lingerie company Peach John, which saw sailor collar padded bras and matching panties released as part of Sailor Moon’s 20th anniversary.
• At that time, 20 was the legal age of adulthood in Japan (this has recently been lowered to 18).

Coming of age in Sailor Moon

• The characters are now at the age of shoe appreciation – as is her global audience of fans, similar to Sex and the City protagonists.
• While some questioned Sailor Moon’s suitability as a mascot for STI awareness, in many ways this is just another monster of the day to be vanquished.

A queer wonderland

• Sailor Moon Cosmos, the final two-part film, is due to be released on June 9 and June 30.
• These two films cover the final season of the 1990s anime, Sailor Moon Sailor Stars, and the equivalent manga.

• For the first 7 weeks of 2023, the networks experienced year-over-year growth across all key dayparts in the coveted P25-54 demographic.
• Highlights are as follows:
  In Prime, the networks collectively garnered a 30% audience increaseiii, while cable networks as a whole have declined by 23% on average for the same period.
• TBD, one of the youngest skewing free TV networks, featuring a slate of fun reality-based series such as Fear Factor and Worlds Dumbest, garnered a 50% increase.
• and TBD have added new programming acquisitions, grown ratings and successfully launched several new series,” said Adam Ware SVP, Growth Networks Group.

• Exordium is led by Creative Director Tommy Lee Edwards, one of the most respected and versatile creators working today.
• In my 25+ year career, Atmos is the very first project Ive ever worked on where Im all in, said Tommy Lee Edwards.
• Exordium is the bedrock of the narrative journey for Atmos, acting as the nexus for Atmos Labs current and future products.
• For Atmos Labs, everything stems from the creation of this ever-evolving, fictional universe of Atmos; its what drives the team endeavors.

• DENVER, Oct. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Halloween weekend in Denver will be extra spectacular this year, as organizers prepare for FAN EXPO Denver: SPECIAL EDITION, set to bring fandom back to Denver for the first time since May 31, 2019.
• FAN EXPO Denver: SPECIAL EDITION, a one-time, exclusively curated event designed to delight fans of pop culture, will run October 29-31, 2021, at the Colorado Convention Center.
• Collectively it hosts nearly 1,000,000 fans annually at FAN EXPO Denver, FAN EXPO Canada, MEGACON Orlando, FAN EXPO Dallas, FAN EXPO Boston, FAN EXPO San Francisco, Calgary Comics & Entertainment Expo, FAN EXPO Vancouver, Toronto Comicon, Dallas FAN FESTIVAL and Edmonton Comics & Entertainment Expo.
• In 2022, FAN EXPO HQ will present six new shows previously organized by Wizard World: FAN EXPO Chicago, FAN EXPO St. Louis, FAN EXPO Portland, FAN EXPO New Orleans, FAN EXPO Philadelphia, and FAN EXPO Cleveland.