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3rd Season of Sailor Moon Crystal's Spring Premiere, New Staff Revealed
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal anime will premiere in spring, with a new director and character designer.
Toei Animation will again animate the series.
The Animedia magazine will unveil a new visual for the anime drawn by Takahashi on Saturday.
Additionally, a Niconico livestream event will announce the cast for the outer Senshi on January 27 (January 27 is also Haruka Tenou/Sailor Uranus' birthday).
The third season will focus on the Death Busters arc. The new season will assemble all 10 Senshi — specifically, the popular outer Senshi such as Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Saturn will Sailor Moon, Sailor Chibi Moon, and the others. The new season will adapt the arc from the fifth and sixth volumes of the complete edition of Naoko Takeuchi's original Sailor Moon manga.
Kenji Nojima as Tuxedo Mask/Mamoru Chiba.
licensed both seasons for release in North America.
Takeuchi's original magical girl manga inspired an earlier anime incarnation that aired for five seasons from 1992 to 1997. That television anime from two decades ago spawned several feature films and theatrical shorts as well. A string of popular stage musicals ran from 1993 to 2005, and a new all-female musical production helped musical in the current revival ended its run in October, and like the third Crystal season, it covered the Death Busters arc.
Source: Comic Natalie
