Sailor Moon reprint is a total success, more than 50,000 copies sold out!!

It is even in the NY Times bestseller list!!

Kodansha USA Publishing, the American arm of the Japanese publisher Kodansha, announced on Friday that the English version of Sailor Moon manga volume 1 will get a second print run after the first print run of 50,000 copies "sold out in just four weeks." Kodansha USA did not specify if the 50,000 copies of Naoko Takeuchi's magical girl manga sold out at the distributor level or at the retailer level. 

With the second print run, the volume will have 100,000 copies in print. Kodansha noted that the first volume of Sailor Moon has stayed on top of The New York Times manga bestseller list for a third week in a row since it debuted on September 13. Takeuchi's related Codename: Sailor V volume 1 had two weeks at #2 after debuting on September 13.

Sailor Moon Tops Graphic Novel Sales in US Bookstores!

A proof that classics never die!

Naoko Takeuchi's return to North American shelves put the first volumes of her Sailor Moon and Codename: Sailor V manga at the top of Nielsen BookScan's top 20 graphic novels in American bookstores in September.

They even pushed Naruto volume 52 down to #3!

The other manga in the top 10 are Black Bird volume 10 (#6), Bleach volume 36 (#8), and the 26th and penultimate volume of Fullmetal Alchemist (#9). Dance in the Vampire Bund volumes 7 (#12), 6 (#13), and 9 (#17); Grand Guignol Orchestra volume 1 (#15); Omamori Himari volume 1 (#18), and Ultimo volume 2 (#20) round out the manga in the top 20.

The BookScan rankings represent sales at Barnes & Noble and other book chains, independent bookshops, and online purchases — but not sales at comic book stores, Walmart, and some other venues.

Kodansha USA will republish Sailor Moon manga!

After being 6 years out of print, this publishing company decided to republish Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon magical girl manga and its two-volume prequel Codename: Sailor V starting this September. The former has been 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.

Sailor Moon is a classic anime series which ran from 1992 to 1997.

Weekly review: Sailor Moon anime

This classic anime, adapted from the manga by Naoko Takeuchi in 1992, is probably one of the series with more dubs available in the world due to its success, and yet it is probably one of the most censored and cut apart ever.

And even the anime as we know it differs greatly from the manga, that it could be well worth it to remake this anime in the future.  With quality we see today in most animes, why not?

It is actually a shojo, 'magical girl' type of story with sentai (squad) elements, but it definitely became popular with male audiences ever since its publication in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine.

Sailor Moon is the story of 9 girls that are progressively introduced as they team up to fight the forces of evil that are constantly a menace to the world, and ultimately, the galaxy.

The protagonist, Usagi Tsukino (known as 'Bunny' in Spain and 'Serena' in Latin American dubs), is a 14-year old girl that is introduced as lazy and a drama queen, crying all the time over everything. Until she meets a mysterious black cat named 'Luna', who tells her of her true destiny. Thus she becomes Sailor Moon, a warrior of love and justice.



She then meets Amy (Sailor Mercury), Rei (Sailor Mars), Makoto (Sailor Jupiter) and Minako (Sailor Venus) to conform the Inner Sailor Squad for the first two seasons.



Then, the Outer Sailor Squad, formed by Haruka (Sailor Uranus), Michiru (Sailor Neptune), Setsuna (Sailor Plut) and lastly, Hotaru (Sailor Saturn), who is originally thought to be an evil sailor with enough power to destroy a planet by herself.





The series caused a lot of controversy when it started being licensed and distributed worldwide, due to its relatively mature content in regards to how relationships were depicted, especially in the case of Haruka (a cross-dressing girl) and Michiru (a yuri relationship). It's actually a perfect example of how in Japanese culture, sex and homoeroticism isn't such a great and uptight deal as in Western culture.