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Entertainment: New Sailor Moon Anime Debuts Summer 2013

Honestly, I don’t know how I feel about this. I love the original comic/manga series from Japan, was glad that as bad the original English translation was it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as how the Americanized translation treated the Japanese animation. Ugh.

In fact it was so bad that I don’t think I ever really watched many of the individual episodes, however, I really liked the films/movies that came out of the series… to the point that I actually have the original VHS/DVDs somewhere.

So is it with some amount of cautious optimism that I will look at this theoretical Sailor Moon Anime series. I mean, the updated Sailor Moon manga series I am very glad to see… so yeah, we’ll see.

Vignette: Reawakening

AUTHOR NOTES: I wrote this back in 2003 for my original website. I am just reposting for prosperity.

REAWAKENING

In this present life, it had taken me quite a bit of time to fully understand the past that I had once lived. In fact it was all just a bit of imagination, until the dreams I have been receiving were far more detailed than I had originally thought.

My first dream, what did I first think about above all else? Peace, it was my dream to live in a world where peace was everlasting. So imagine my surprise when I dreamt of a shining kingdom upon the Moon. The subsequent dreams after that included my life in the Elysion Kingdom, better known as Earth. That was the beginning of everything.

Each night brought on a different dream, each night brought more questions than answers, and what do this all mean? I needed answer but were at a lost as to how to go about getting them.

It was a pleasant surprise indeed when I took a chance one day and started talking to the Crystal Guard. By this point in time I believed that the dreams were just that, dreams, and my original intention was to use them in the form of stories. Considering these dreams were so detailed in my mind’s eye it seemed justified that I should involve them in my story writing.

Over time, I had come to believe and understood my past as I remembered it, and the many parts that were still foreign to me. Particularly my family and my lover from the Silver Millennium. (Please read Gardens of Elysion for more details.)

Many months past, and I had become reacquainted with my brother in my past, Prince Endymion, now known as Chiba Mamoru. As well as the Generals of Elysion and the Senshi. But a part of me was still missing, and that part came to me upon a Midnight Dream…

One night I had recently found a new mode of travel through ones dreams, and I used this to the utmost advantage, going to the moon in particular. It was the third trip to the moon that I met him, the ‘man of my dreams’. Apolline.

Which brings me to now, there is still a very long a tedious description as to my first meeting with Apolline in this lifetime, but that is another story for another time. And now I have the obligation of keeping my past life away from the people I loved and have known in this life.

Visual Art Commission: Carla Wyzgala’s “Sailor Pluto”

W00t! It is done! The second of three commissions of the “Sailor Moon” series… “Sailor Pluto”! I love Sailor Pluto, the most enigmatic of the Sailor Senshi.

As much as I love the elegance and beauty of Sailor Neptune, I love the elegance and distance of Sailor Pluto. Of all the Sailor Senshi I feel like I relate the most with these two. Them and Mamoru Chiba aka Tuxedo Kamen.

Just a quick recap of the inspiration of the series:

Earlier this year (2012) I went to the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo aka C2E2. After a quick glance through the Artist Alley I saw a watercolor painting of Sailor Moon in her Sailor Senshi uniform. So since I was set on the artist of the watercolor painting the artist and I agreed to swap emails in hopes to find a style that I would be interested in.

After a series of emails, we agreed that she’d work on the Sailor Senshi starting with my favorites: Sailor Neptune and Sailor Pluto. In time she started to love the series and decided to complete the series on her own if I did not wish to have any more than what I really would like. Eventually I asked her to work on a piece involving Tuxedo Kamen, aka Chiba Mamoru (or Mamoru Chiba according to the western context of naming schemes). In response she did a quick series of pencil sketches for all the senshi in their “princess forms” and is just as excited as I am in completing the series for her portfolio.

Eventually I’ll post the original sketches that she sent me weeks ago. 🙂 I’m excited.

Visual Art Commission: Carla Wyzgala’s “Sailor Neptune”

Earlier this year (2012) I went to the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo aka C2E2. Once in a while I would go to the Artist Alley and just walk up and down the aisles and stop at tables that catch my attention for a split second (think of “ooooo shiny”) and if there is something at a table that I rather like I would walk away and wait a few hours or a day and I’ll either go back to the table or contact the artist directly for a personal commission.

Such a thing happened this year when I passed by a table and saw a watercolor painting of Sailor Moon. Yes, I am a Moonie, I was introduced to the anime by a couple of girls I used to be babysit for back in high school / college. I was drawn more into the mythology that the author created for her characters to live in, and that really struck me as something worthwhile. The most I read about the background of the manga series, the more I realized just how much of it related to Greco-Roman mythology and Western Astrology, two realms that I have been interested in for quite some time.

Now that I was sold on the watercolor painting… I sifted through to see what I could be interested in purchasing. Being a lover of art since I am unable to paint, watercolor, etc (I much prefer sculpturing and crafts and knitting/crocheting but that’s a different story) I’ve been collecting artworks for the past decade. Seeing nothing that caught my attention entirely the artist and I agree to swap emails in hopes to find something I would be more interested in.

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