The official Tumblr for myucorner.org, a fansite devoted to info about and reviews of the Sailor Moon stage musicals, from the old musicals of 1993-2005 to the 20th Anniversary revival. Myu Power Make Up!
This was a surprise to see in my Google feed this morning. Obviously, I hoped there would be an English release of this, but Yes Precure 5 has never got an official English dub (though an English promo trailer for it exists, so Toei did consider it at one point) so I kinda doubted it would happen.
Also…this is a SERIES apparently. I thought it was a movie, given how it’s been promoted. Maybe it’s like a movie broken into parts, sort of like Digimon Adventure Tri?
Anyways, just checked, the first part is already on Crunchyroll. Will have to check it out!
(Also hopefully this means Mahou Tsukai PreCure 2 has a chance of making it over here once it starts airing next year)
I saw this article and was…honestly not surprised. I had already seen the dance performance video for the song by this point (it was released yesterday) and it had a lot of full moon imagery and Jennie in double pigtails. It gave very Sailor Moon vibes.
Note: “They stated this magazine is NOT FOR SALE, and only customers of Chanel receive it. At this time, no word if this means a Sailor Moon Chanel collection is coming.”
OMG the scene where she fights the evil Senshi and Mamoru…that’s going to be both epic and heartbreaking. In Le Mouvement Final they even put the scene to the song “The Guardian Who Lost Hope” to drive the emotion home.
Happy to see Sailor Kakyuu confirmed. I always thought it was a bummer we didn’t see her in the original anime.
The shot of Galaxia’s outfit forming kind of reminds me of this shot from the opening of the Sailor Stars anime:
I was surprised they didn’t cast Usagi’s actress in this role, but Keiko is one of my faves - probably my fave TBH - actresses from PGSM, so I am still happy about this.
It’s been a while, but I wanted to post a song for the opening of Sailor Moon Cosmos, since I did the same for the opening of Sailor Moon Eternal (my cover of “Watashi-tachi no Naritakute”). I knew it should be something Stars related, so I went with a villain song I’ve wanted to do for a while – Galaxia’s image song from the ‘90s anime, “Golden Queen Galaxia.” Very metal vibes (which given that her Senshi outfit is basically armor is fitting I guess LOL).
I couldn’t sing quite as deep as Galaxia’s seiyuu Horie Mitsuko, but I tried.
Karaoke from Galaxia’s Sailor Stars single.
Karaoke from: Sailor Moon Center Background from: Sailormusic.net Vocals: Me
I DO NOT OWN SAILOR MOON OR THE MUSIC. IT IS OWNED BY TAKEUCHI NAOKO, KAMEYAMA KOUICHIROU, HORIE MITSUKO, TOEI ANIMATION, KODANSHA, BANDAI, VIZ MEDIA, AND COLUMBIA JAPAN. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS INTENDED.
Added a new cover to celebrate the release of Sailor Moon Cosmos Part 1! (It released yesterday).
I love that the Senshi’s “Sailor Star” forms (as fans have been calling that upgrade for years) finally have proper names. Having them have Eternal forms - as well as more cohesiveness in fuku designs - feels right, as they become much more of a proper team at this point (before, the Outers were still sort of doing their own thing, but after they beat Nehelenia, they really did become part of the Inners’ world full time).
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Four Ships:
Oh boy. TBH I’m not that into shipping really. I guess I have a few though.
Brainy x Nia (CW Supergirl): Definitely the beta couple of the last couple seasons of the show. I do kinda wonder how their relationship would’ve developed had Season 5 played out as planned (the ending of the season got kinda messed up due to COVID lockdowns, which is why the “beat Leviathan” plot got carried over to the beginning of Season 6). They got a fair amount of focus in Season 6, as they dealt with how Brainy’s actions in Season 5 affected them (also they had to write Kara out for most of the season because her actress was on maternity leave, forcing them to instead focus episodes on the rest of Supergirl’s team). I felt it was a strong ship, with two goofy, geeky people - one an alien genius who’s not very used to having emotions period and the other a half-human, half-alien girl with dream-related powers - who both clearly like each other but don’t know how to spit it out. The “Prom!” two-parter, where they go back in time to get DNA to help track down Kara, had them try to fit in in late-90s small town America, which was hilarious. Also, in general, even with all the hype over Nia being the first transgender superhero ever (she’s also played by a real-life trans rights hero, Nicole Maines), aside from a little focus when she was first introduced, they haven’t made it her sole defining trait, and have developed her beyond that, which I appreciate. I’m not sure their relationship had its full time to develop - towards the end it seemed doomed to fail since at some point Brainy was going to have to go back to the future time he came from. But in the finale he decided to “screw destiny” and came back for her, so they still have a chance!
Pokéshipping (Ash x Misty): From Pokémon, obviously. This is Pokémon’s oldest ship and I have stood by it for years (to be fair, I haven’t seen enough of the anime to justify the other Ash ships anyway). But then I’m biased, since Misty has long been a favorite character of mine from Pokémon. It’s been cool seeing her come back in more recent seasons and still have a dynamic with Ash. It started with him accidentally frying her bike with Pikachu, and her tagging along to make him pay her back, but they ultimately developed a strong friendship, which I think is only rivaled by his friendship with Dawn probably. Of course, since I ship them, I wish there could be more - and there are songs showing Misty has feelings for him (“Misty’s Song,” “He Drives Me Crazy,” “I’ve Got a Secret” from Pokémon Live). The second movie also teased the idea, though Misty strongly denied it. As for Ash, we have no idea how he feels. But let’s be fair, he barely acknowledged Serena’s feelings, and hers as far as I can tell were WAY more obvious than Misty’s (Serena pretty much started traveling with Ash cause she had a crush on him). So I’m guessing he’s just completely oblivious. He’d have to grow up a lot to realize how Misty feels. And now Ash’s time in the anime is basically over. Though, they did leave things pretty open-ended with him, so…
Yowzah (Doctor x River Song): This is basically my main ship from Doctor Who (though I do also support Tenrose). For this ship, I usually define it as Eleven x River specifically, since they interact the most. Though their relationship is crazy complicated, their banter is always fun to see when they do meet. Because I didn’t watch Doctor Who quite in order when catching up on old seasons, I actually saw their romance in basically chronological order - starting with Series 5-7 and ending with 4, where Ten meets her but she ends up dying - which somehow made it even more poignant. I did appreciate that before Steven Moffat left, he resolved their whole thing by having Twelve finally take River to Darillium (the last place River saw “her” Doctor before traveling to the Library and meeting Ten), and having Twelve come to terms with her being gone. While there are still Big Finish audios coming out to flesh out River’s personal canon, I consider her timeline with The Doctor finished, and I don’t expect her to show up again (although, they brought back Jack Harkness, so I guess no one’s safe). I don’t feel like there’s any sort of future they could give them - “The Name of the Doctor” already showed River post-death. I suppose they could delve into their past still, especially if they keep the Timeless Child plotline when Russell T. Davies takes over again. I’d kinda love for River to meet the Fugitive Doctor. I feel like they would be BFFs in a heartbeat. At any rate, River is a fun character, and for now I’ve been indulging my interest in this ship via the Eleventh Doctor fanfic I’ve been working on for years (I have an idea for a ship fic with them too).
Mamoru x Hina (PGSM): So not sure this is even a ship but decided to add it anyway. When it comes to Sailor Moon, I’m typically in the Usagi x Mamoru camp pretty strongly. Especially in the manga, where their relationship really gets some deep development (it gets development in the anime too, but not in the same way I feel like). But the live-action series Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon just didn’t do their relationship justice. I get that they had limited episodes to work with, but they could’ve done better. They also tried to make things more dramatic by revealing Mamoru was engaged, right at the point of the show when Usagi was starting to think maybe he wasn’t so bad after all. And then try to twist the knife even more by making Usagi realize that “OMG this guy’s girlfriend is actually NICE.” Hina, meanwhile, didn’t get much development beyond being the “other woman” who clearly loved Mamoru more than he did her. That she was the “childhood friend” in this scenario probably didn’t help either (anyone who’s watched/read enough shoujo knows that the “childhood friend” rarely wins in a love triangle). She did at least respect that Mamoru had a lost past he was trying to find clues to, and tried to be supportive as much as she could. And when Mamoru got cut off from a call with her when Kunzite attacked him, she seemed genuinely upset. (She also got upset when she found Usagi’s handkerchief in Mamoru’s dresser, but that’s more like a “OMG are you cheating on me?” kind of upset). Ultimately she saw the writing on the wall and broke up with Mamoru. I mean, sure, if the show was going to follow the original Sailor Moon plot, Mamoru and Usagi were going to have to end up together somehow. But instead of trying to create a genuine love triangle with actual drama attached, they had Mamoru in a relationship he didn’t really care about and Usagi, as much as it pained her, willing to honor that relationship. Thus they started to kinda reluctantly become just friends instead. But while it can be argued they did develop some feelings for each other eventually, their whole romance seems to be based on the fact that they loved each other in their past lives, and fate is doing its darnedest to bring them together again. Except that in the past that caused the destruction of the Earth, a fact that initially no one remembers except Sailor Venus, Zoisite, and Kunzite, which is why those three are pretty strongly against Usagi and Mamoru getting together (Beryl also tries to split them up later, either personally or through her “shadow” Mio, since the Beryl/Serenity/Endymion love triangle is also still a thing). Then they get separated since Mamoru goes to study abroad in England, and then later lets Beryl capture him to save the Shitennou, causing all this angst where Usagi tries really hard not to make the Silver Crystal activate, as this would not only make her hardcore “I don’t care about anything but my prince” Princess Sailor Moon side come out, but it also inadvertently powers Queen Metallia, neither of which is good for the safety of the Earth. Even once Beryl is defeated and Usagi and Mamoru are *finally* set to get married, it’s clear Mamoru is not that enthusiastic about it, which is what leads to Usagi breaking things off and Mio showing up and being like “I’M BAAACK” and kidnapping Mamoru to be her groom in her circus-inspired base. So…anyway, it’s just hard for me to ship Usagi x Mamoru in PGSM for these reasons, so I lean more toward shipping Hina with Mamoru. After all, the short “Hina Afterward” made it clear that she still thought about him after they broke up.
Last Song: Not a song per se, but…the Suzume soundtrack on Spotify. It’s actually quite a good soundtrack. Sadly, they didn’t include the songs Serizawa plays in his car during the road trip part of the movie (probably for copyright reasons), but I found a couple Spotify playlists people made of the songs he plays: this one and this one. One of them is “Rouge no Dengon,” the opening song to Kiki’s Delivery Service, which I recognized immediately when I first heard it as that’s my favorite Ghibli film.
Currently Reading: This translation of Virgil’s The Aeneid, translated by David Ferry. It was the one recommended by Blue of the YouTube channel Overly Sarcastic Productions in his Virgil video, so I figured it had to be good. Now, being a mythology buff, I knew something about the Aeneid going into this (I also watched OSP’s video covering it), but I’d never read it in verse before now. And it is actually quite good. Sure there are boring lists of people at times, and Virgil spends like 10 stanzas describing the decorations on Aeneas’s shield in great detail, which I could care less about. While I definitely had to consult the list of names in the back a few times to know what stuff was, the text was otherwise quite understandable as is, which isn’t easy with old texts like this as far as I can tell. Ferry does a good job making it readable but not TOO modern. Would recommend.
Last Movie: The anime movie Suzume, directed by Makoto Shinkai, who did Your Name and Weathering With You. As I mentioned in this post, it’s REALLY GOOD.
Craving: I’m looking forward to the game Hogwarts Legacy. The Switch version got delayed till July and it bugs me a lot. Also, this game called Sea of Stars is finally coming out soon that I backed on Kickstarter. I’ve never backed a video game on there before, so that’s exciting! Besides that…I bought a TON of 3DS and DS games in my pursuit to get the games I wanted before the 3DS eShop shut down a couple months ago, so looking forward to those. In the process, I found out my DS Lite can still read GBA cartridges, allowing me to replay old favorites like Kim Possible 2: Draaken’s Demise and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as well as games I missed (like all of the Gen 3 Pokémon games - if I can track them down - and Tales of Phantasia, which I just recently found out even HAD a GBA version).
As for non-gaming things…I haven’t been to Disneyland in years, despite living less than 2 hours away from it. Sure, as an autistic person, theme parks can be kind of a nightmare, but I really love Disney movies. Also, I haven’t been there since before the Star Wars land was completed, so I really want to go there and see that, as I’m also a big Star Wars fan.
Also I do miss doing covers on my YouTube channel, I’ll admit. I’d also like to do more collabs, but the SeraMyu cover community seems kinda dead now, especially since our sort of Fearless Leader (and the one who encouraged me to join in the first place) @sailorzakuro seems to have moved on.
The Negaforce had several dozen human operatives before the Senshi
returned, spread around the globe in small cells and serving as cover
to prevent multiple national intelligence and law enforcement agencies
from finding the true source of the youma attacks. Their distinguishing
style of dress earned them the nom de guerre, “The Black Organization.”
This is actually kind of suggested in the Sailor V manga I think. The Dark Agency that Sailor V fights against is supposed to be an arm of the Dark Kingdom/Negaverse, run by Danburite, who reports to one of the Shitennou (Kunzite I think). And they do have multiple branches, as there is shown to be one in Hawaii.
Also in the 90s anime continuity, youma appeared briefly in England during the time Minako was Sailor V, as she fought them there for a bit.
I think it’s also stated somewhere in SM canon that the Dark Kingdom did search all over Earth for the Silver Crystal, not just in Japan.
