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Boston Comic Shop to Host Sailor Moon Midnight Release Party
posted on by Andrew Osmond
The Boston comic shop Comicopia will host a Sailor Moon release party its store at midnight on Tuesday, September 13.
The event will celebrate Kodansha USA's release of Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon manga and its two-volume prequel Codename: Sailor V through the Kodansha Comics imprint. Kodansha USA is releasing the first volumes of both series on the same day.
The 1991 manga Codename: Sailor V revolves around middle schooler Minako Aino, a magical girl and crime fighter. In the more well-known 1992 Sailor Moon series, Minako Aino is the side character "Sailor V" while Usagi Tsukino ("Bunny" in the previous English-language manga edition and "Serena" in the English version of the television anime adaptation) takes the lead role of the titular Sailor Moon.
The Sailor Moon manga is being condensed into 12 bi-monthly "deluxe-edition" volumes (from its original 18), and two more volumes of short stories have been added. The new edition — with "new cover art, retouched interior art and dialogue along with extensive bonus material from Takeuchi" — is based on the 2003 Japanese re-release of the manga.
Mixx Entertainment (now called Tokyopop) licensed the manga for English release in North America, but the series has been out of print for six years. Codename: Sailor V has never had an official English-language release in North America.
Thanks to Grace Bellerby for the news tip.
