Sailor Moon Reboot Could Feature LGBT Characters

Sailor Moon reboot coincides with its 20th anniversary.

The Sailor Moon reboot will be based on the original manga that featured LGBT characters.

Toei Animation has announced that a Sailor Moon reboot will start airing in Japan in July.

Producer Atsutoshi Umezawa says that the new series will be more faithful to the source material,

“This second anime adaptation of Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon is not remaking the previous anime, but adapting [Naoko Takeuchi's] original manga and starting from scratch again. It is quite a project.”

Fans of Sailor Moon know that it originally featured a number of LGBT characters and relationships. There was a lesbian relationship between Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus. There were gay lovers, Kunzite and Zoisite. Plus there was even the Sailor Starlights, a boy band who actually transformed into biologically female superheroes.

None of these characters made it onto the cartoon version of Sailor Moon, once it was exported out of Japan. For instance, many countries saw Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus as straight characters that were cousins.

In anticipation of the Sailor Moon reboot, watch the original show’s opening on YouTube below

Source: Advocate NewNowNext

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