#Keiko Kitagawa

[y2k1d]

Keiko Kitagawa and Nana Eikura promoting Barbie-branded fashion goods | Seventeen (September 2005 issue)

[nakamorijuan]

美少女戦士セーラームーン (テレビドラマ)

[sailorfailures]

PGSM 20 Year Reunion Event!!

This is not a drill!! The five Sailor Guardians from Toei's 2003 live action adaptation of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon will be officially reuniting under the series's title for the show's 20-year anniversary on Christmas Day, 2023!

The five actresses - Miyuu Sawai (Moon), Rika Izumi (Mercury), Keiko Kitagawa (Mars), Mew Azama (Jupiter), and Ayaka Komatsu (Venus) - have each posted about the upcoming event on their social media, but the official Sailor Moon franchise website has posted this announcement:

2003年から2004年まで放送された、ドラマ『美少女戦士セーラームーン』。 その20周年を記念した特番「セーラー戦士 同窓会」の放送が決定しました！ドラマ『美少女戦士セーラームーン』を制作したCBCテレビ（愛知・岐阜・三重）で2023年12月25日（月）に放送予定です。 オーディションにおける裏話や中高生時代の5人が仲を深めるきっかけになった撮影秘話など、今だからこそ話せるお互いの関係性にまつわるエピソードが満載のトークバラエティ番組になっています。 放送情報などの詳細は後日発表いたします。続報をお楽しみに。 The TV drama "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" aired from 2003 to 2004. To commemorate that 20 year anniversary, there will be a special program broadcast: "Sailor Guardian Alumni Reunion"! The program is scheduled to be broadcast on Monday, December 25, 2023 on the station which produced the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon drama series, CBC Television [Aichi | Gifu | Mie]. The episode is set to be a talk variety show covering behind-the-scenes conversations about the show's auditions, filming secrets about what sparked deeper friendships amongst the five then-middle and high-school-aged girls, and tales of their relationships that can only be talked about now. Broadcast details, etc will be announced at a later date. Stay tuned for more information.

[landofanimes]

PGSM Inner Senshi

2003 | 2023

[real-life-senshi]

On Jun 27 7:44PM JST, Keiko tweeted in English to address her Western/global fans, talking about her upcoming role in Sailor Moon Cosmos and her general love for the series, with mention of her time in the live-action. <3

My best guess is this post was indeed written by Keiko herself. Keiko is actually fluent in English - she did an English immersion program to study English in America after her time filming Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

This lovely lady is an absolute gem!

[redsamuraiii]

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon 20 Years Reunion by Japanese Drama and Movie

[pgsm-gal]

20 years later, our Sailor Mars has evolved into Sailor Cosmos ❤️✨

Me, I'm ecstatic. Tbh I've never been a big fan of the Crystal adaption. I was somewhat happy that the Cosmos arc is finally being animated? But nowhere near as excited as the rest of the community seems to be. For me the live action & the manga will always be top tier, and hearing that worlds will be colliding with Keiko voicing Sailor Cosmos is honestly some of the best news I've heard in awhile.

So to hear that people are apparently attacking her online just because they wanted Kotono to voice both Usagi & Sailor Cosmos is beyond baffling to me.... like.. you all do realize the two worked together on a different drama maybe a year or two ago right? You do realize odds are Kotono was probably the one who suggested Keiko for the role right? You do know she's a top tier actress still renown for her emotional performance as Sailor Mars to this day and she is going to straight up serve right?

[adaclosure]

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon

[sevyonekucar]

[glossytreasures]

keiko kitagawa as sailor mars pretty guardian sailor moon [2003]

[lenreli]

[nakamorijuan]

さえ - キラリ☆セーラードリーム! SAE - Kirari SAILOR DREAM! Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Live Action) - Opening Theme

[y2k1d]

Keiko Kitawaga promoting jewelry and perfume | Seventeen (March 2005 issue)

[landofanimes]

Sailor Moon Cosmos Part 2

Event with Nana Mizuki (Sailor Kakyuu), Megumi Hayashibara (Sailor Galaxia), Kotono Mitsuishi (Sailor Moon), Keiko Kitagawa (Sailor Cosmos), and Marina Inoue (Sailor Star Fighter). Keiko played Sailor Mars in the Japanese live-action series PGSM!

June 13, 2023

[real-life-senshi]

Posted at different times on Jun 29 JST - our precious Senshi had a Senshi reunion!

Mew (Makoto/Jupiter), Ayaka (Minako/Venus), Keiko (Rei/Mars) and Rika (Ami/Mercury) posted the occasion on their Twitter, Instagram and ameba blog accounts. (Rika posted within the last 30minutes, and with past records, Miyuu will likely post something soon as well.)

Keiko and Rika's caption was the 5 hearts emoji 💚❤️💙💗🧡🌙 in their signature colour. (But Instagram won't let two of the emoji show up on my browser lmao)

Mew's post also had the heart emoji and wrote: "わちゃわちゃないと🌙" - which "わちゃわちゃ" (wacha wacha)is a Japanese expression that typically describes the act of being excited and chatting noisily, usually by girls. SO, Mew here writing "わちゃわちゃないと🌙" is to say "I need to wacha wacha", ie "I need to bask in my excitement with the ladie and chat through our gathering"

Ayaka is UNSURPRISINGLY the quickest with writing up something that makes our hearts soar! She basically wrote the same thing on Ameba blog and Intagram. The translations are:

久しぶりの戦士会💚❤️💙💗🧡🌙 A Senshi reunion at long last 💚❤️💙💗🧡🌙⁡ やっと全員集合できた🥹❤️ We finally managed to do a gathering as a full team⁡🥹❤️ 相変わらずの安心感と安定感☺️💕 What an unchanging sense of comfort and stability ☺️💕 この5人でいると話が尽きなくて We never run out of things to talk about when it's between the 5 of us. 本当に時間が足りない🤣🤣🤣 We seriously didn't have enough time 🤣🤣🤣 ⁡セーラームーンを通して出会えたこの仲間とももうすぐ20年...このタイミングで、景ちゃんが声優を務める劇場版「美少女戦士セーラームーンCosmos」の後編ももうすぐ公開🌙 ⁡It's been almost 20 years since we met through working on Sailor Moon… With this timing, Kei-chan's voice acting work on the second part of the movie "Sailor Moon Cosmos," will be released soon 🌙 なんと感慨深い...🥹❤️ I feel deeply moved…🥹❤��� [Or in westernized lingo, Ayaka's basically saying "I have so many feels about this" lol] I wanna be with you. My best friend...❤︎

THE LAST TWO LINE. AYAKA IS QUOTING THE LYRICS FROM THEIR PGSM SONG FRIEND. I'M GONNA SCREAM. The fact that she also tags #幸せ #絆 #戦友 #仲間 to her posts with the Senshi team makes my heart explode.

"幸せ" (shiawase) is the ultimate Asian expression of happiness, a cross between "happy", "lucky/fortune" and "blessing".

"絆" (kizuna) means "bond", typically indicating a deep bond. We hear this a lot in anime.

"戦友" (senyuu) means "comrades in arms", ie a trusted teammate

"仲間" (nakama) means "comrade" or "teammate". We hear this a lot in PGSM. lol

Will update if Miyuu makes a post. Keiko might also post on her blog. It's a bit hard to predict now that Keiko also has an official twitter account.

[redsamuraiii]

The Taiko's Consort

Lady Ochiba (Fumi Nikaido) in Shogun (2024) Lady Chacha (Keiko Kitagawa) in Dou Suru Ieyasu (2023)

I love how both dramas show her as powerful and intimidating, with both actresses brining their own class and style to their roles. 😎

*Lady Ochiba is based and inspired by the historical Lady Chacha