What is Sailor Moon Crystal? It's not really an 'Anime' Remake but a Series Reboot. The original Anime from 1992 didn't follow the manga closely, and had a lot of fillers. The reboot will follow the manga, not just story wise but art wise as well.
On June 5th, Japan released the teaser trailer. I went a head and attempted to translate what I could of the video. I figured it would be good Japanese testing. It all seems pretty accurate but I'm sure I screwed up somewhere.
On top of CrunchyRoll getting the licenses for Crystal, Viz media has done so as well, for both Sailor Moon Crystal and the original anime. Viz Media states that the episodes will be remastered, nothing will be cut out, all the names will be their original names, and relationships will stay the same. We'll even be getting the season that never aired here in America, Sailor Stars. The Re-Dub of the 1992 Sailor Moon will have an all new cast, said to be approved by Naoko Takeuchi-san, the maker of the Sailor Moon Manga!
For a lot of the people who dislike it when America 'Dumbs' things down because of 'this' or 'that' the news on the new dub makes everyone happy. Not only do the characters names stay the same, but relationships and genders as well.
In the original American Dub by DiC Entertainment, the names were changed from things like Usagi Tsukino, to Serena Tsukino. Why keep the last name and not the first? The first name plays a big part on the characters mythology. Usagi Tsukino meaning rabbit of the moon. In japan there is a Rabbit who makes Mochi on the moon. And Mamoru (which means to Protect) was changed to Darien, but they make up for his name meaning by changing his last name from Chiba to Shields. Other names have been changed s well but I don't want to go into all that.
Also DiC had changed relationships and genders, going as far as to cut out episodes to hide the fact they did so. The relationship between Sailor Uranus and Neptune. They were called Close Cousin, but in reality they were lovers. Now for the Gender Bending truth, Zoicite and Fisheye both are male while Zerconia is really an old woman.
Luckily for us Sailor Moon fan's who have read the manga, watched all 200 of the 1992 anime episodes, and even watched the Live Action show, we now have Viz saving the 1992 anime while giving us the 2014 anime. New Voice Actors chosen for the re-dub will also be the voice actors for the new anime. DVD and BluRay Sets of the 1992 anime's new dub are to sold later this year, while the digital subbed episodes will be sold this summer.
Sources: Anime News Network, Crunchyroll, and Sailor Moon News
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