The Japanese production celebrated its 40th anniversary today, 11 November 2023, in Nagoya!
The first photo was taken last month (judging by the cast), and the following are all from today's anniversary performance.
In addition, the CATS Musical Instagram page posted photos from the Tokyo cast back in 1983 to celebrate.
40th Anniversary Show Cast:
Seiji Hashimoto as Asparagus, Erika Orita as Bombalurina, Shun Kuwahara as Carbucketty, Maaya Tahara as Cassandra, Ryujiro Isshiki as Coricopat, Chihiro Harada as Demeter, Yujin Haga as Gilbert, Chiaki Kimura as Grizabella, Miki Okudaira as Jellylorum, Naho Sakai as Jemima, Miki Kasahara as Jennyanydots, Hikaru Kitani as Macavity, So Yokoi as Mistoffelees, Haruaki Tamai as Mungojerrie, Junpei Wakebe as Munkustrap, Yuki Takahashi as Old Deuteronomy, Jin Sakuma as Rum Tum Tugger, Ayano Hasegawa as Rumpleteazer, Tomoki Kawakami as Rumpus Cat, Haruna Sasaki as Sillabub, Hiromu Kuroda as Skimbleshanks, Rika Takeshita as Tantomile, Yuma Ishida as Tumblebrutus and Nanako Yoshimura as Victoria.
Promotional photo cast from October 2023:
Kohei Nakahashi as Asparagus, Haruka Yamazaki as Bombalurina, Shuichi Kawazu as Carbucketty, Eiko Kataoka as Cassandra, Ryujiro Isshiki as Coricopat, Tsukushi Maruno as Demeter, Akira Goto as Gilbert, Masae Ebata as Grizabella, Ayaka Yoshida as Jellylorum, Naho Sakai as Jemima, Sayuri Ataka as Jennyanydots, Hikaru Kitani as Chorus Macavity, Akito Iwamura as Mistoffelees, Kazuki Morita as Mungojerrie, Junpei Wakebe as Munkustrap, Kazuki Kanemoto as Old Deuteronomy, Togo Kaminaga as Rum Tum Tugger, Ayu Shimizu as Rumpleteazer, Tomoki Kawakami as Rumpus Cat, Yuzumi Shibamoto as Sillabub, Yui Kobayashi as Skimbleshanks, Rika Takeshita as Tantomile, Yuma Ishida as Tumblebrutus and Nemu Kondo as Victoria.
Same rules as my previous post, but I decided to look into more Japanese VA/Seiyuu's for this one. I also found a link for the Latin America VAs that I'll drop here because I had the hardest time finding Prudence and Charlotte's English VA (Erin Fitzgerald voices both of them) for some reason and they list both the English and LA VAs there.
Again this will be long so it's under the cut. Enjoy!
[ @shoutaimu and I finally finished watching all of the Bandai Sera Myus. And since I don’t feel like sharing the document, here are our rankings for the Senshi actresses (plus Kakyuu) as well as ranking the roles of several recurring cast members. For double castings of Chibi Moon we put them in the same slot. I might come back and make another post with our explanations for the rankings but for now. Just have this list]
Senshi
Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon
Anza Ooyama
Marina Kuroki
Miyuki Kanbe
Fumina Hara
Mizuno Ami/Sailor Mercury
Ayako Morino
Chieko Kawabe
Minami Wakayama
Hisano Akamine
Yuikiko Miyagawa
Mariya Izawa
Rei Hino/Sailor Mars
Misako Kotani
Eri Kanda
Megumi Yoshida
Risa Honma
Aiko Kawasaki
Asuka Umemiya
Horoko Nakayama
Hiromi Sakai
Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter
Emi Kuriyama
Kanoko
Yuriko Hayashi
Akari Tonegawa
Emika Satou
Mai Watanabe
Ayano Sugimoto
Chiho Ooyama
Kaori Sakata
Takako Inayoshi
Marie Sada
Karina Okada
Minako Aino/Sailor Venus
Ayumi Murata
Nao Inada
Mizuki Watanabe
Nana Suzuki
Erica
Akiko Miyazawa
Momoko Shibuya
Kanatsu Nakaya
Yuki Nakamura
Miyu Otani
Chizuru Soya
Sakae Tamashita
Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus
Nao Takagi
Sanae Kimura
Akiko Nakayama
Asako Uchida
Michiru Kaioh/Sailor Neptune
Yuuka Asami
Hiroko Tahara
Tomoko Inami
Sara Shimada
Takayo Ooyama
Miyuki Fuji
Kahoru Sakamoto
Chikage Tomita
Setsuna Meioh/Sailor Pluto
Rei Saito
Yuuko Hosaka
Seiko Nakazawa
Yukiko Nakae
Miho Yokoi
Teruyo Watanabe
Yuki Kamiya
Miwa Hosoki
Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn
Ruria Nakamura
Keiko Takeda
Ayami Kakiuchi
Mao Mita
Chihiro Imai
Mario Tomioka
Eriko Funakoshi
Yui Iizuka
Asami Sanpei
Chibiusa Tsukino/Sailor Chibi Moon
Ayano Gunji
Tamaki Dai Shirai/Natsumi Takenaka
Mao Kawasaki/Ai Miyakawa
Noel Miyazaki
Kasumi Takabatake
Nanami Ohta
Moe Oosaki
Mao Ohno/Mina Horita
Arisu Izawa
Aisha Yamamoto
Mamoru Chiba/Tuxedo Kamen
Yuuta Mochizuki
Hironari Amano
Hidemasa Edo
Kenji Urai
Yuu Shirota
Yuuta Enomoto
Gyo Miyamoto
Mizuki Sano
Seiya Kou/Sailor Star Fighter
Sayuri Katayama
Chinatsu Akiyama
Taiki Kou/Sailor Star Maker
Hikari Ono
Akiko Nakayama
Yaten Kou/Sailor Star Healer
Momoko Okuyama
Mikako Tabe
Sailor Galaxia
Tamami Matsumoto
Yumie Sakaguchi
Saori Sara
Takemi
Princess Kakyuu
Sakoto Yoshioka
Ai Toyama
Recurring Cast Members
Ryuuji Kasahara
Tiger's Eye
Gilles de Rai
Kyaos/Chaos
MC Fly
Death Ra
Dark Nibiru
Prof. Tomoe/Undead Berserk
Kunzite [only at the bottom because we didn’t get to see this performance]
Ado Endou
Centi/Hanako Hoshino
Selkie
Sailor Lead Crow/Manila Karasu
Calaveras
Dark Menorah
Demon Lillith
Roi Malkuth
White Crow Ado/Dark Maya
Ensemble Roles
~ Death Nightmare
~ Lemures
~ Shadow Bug
~ Sailor Theta
~ Dark Moon
Thank you @vampiru-chan for creating an all-in-one game based on Sera Myu OR! That’s weekly but this is all at once I love it XD. K imma answer all 100!
Anza Ooyama or Fumina Hara
Miyuki Kanbe or Marina Kuroki
Sayuri Inoue or Shiori Kubo
Mizuki Yamashita or Shiori Kubo
Ayako Morino or Manami Wakayama
Hisano Akamine or Chieko Kawabe
Miria Watanabe or Hazuki Mukai
Riria Ito or Hazuki Mukai
Aiko Kawasaki or Risa Honma
Misako Kotani or Megumi Yoshida
Ranze Terada or Seira Hayakawa
Kazumi Takayama or Seira Hayakawa
Kanoko or Mai Watanabe
Marie Sada or Yuriko Hayashi
Minami Umezawa or Junna Ito
Ami Nojo or Junna Ito
Nana Suzuki or Erika
Nao Inada or Momoko Shibuya
Hina Higuchi or Mayu Tamura
Kana Nakada or Mayu Tamura
Sanae Kimura or Shuu Shiotsuki
Asako Uchida or Akiko Nakayama
Hiroko Tahara or Tomoko Inami
Yuuka Asami or [redacted]
Yuki Kamiya or Seiko Nakazawa
Teruyo Watanabe or Miho Yokoi
Keiko Takeda or Karin Takahashi
Mario Tomioka or Mirai
Tamaki Dia Shirai or Mao Kawasaki
Noel Miyazaki or Moe Oosaki
Hidemasa Edo or Hironari Amano
Yuuta Mochizuki or Yuga Yamato
Tamami Matsumoto or Yumie Sakaguchi
Saori Sara or Takemi
Yuri Nishina or Akiko Miyazawa
Midori Hatsukaze or Nami Tamaki
Hikari Ono as Loof Merrow or Bloody Dracul Vampiru
Yuuta Mochizuki as King Endymion or Count Dracul
Miki Kawasaki as Le Fey or Kunzite
Ryuuji Kasahara as Professor Tomoe or Tiger’s Eye
Akiko Miyazawa as Elizabeth Bathory or Queen Beryl
Mao Kawasaki as Chibi Chibi or Black Lady
Tomoko Inami as Mistress 9 or Sailor Neptune
Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon or Sailor Cosmos
Mikako Ishii as Sailor Pluto or Tuxedo Kamen
Chihiro Ando as Tiger’s Eye or Kunzite
Marina Kuroki with Kenji Urai or Yuu Shirota
Yuga Yamato with Satomi Okubo or Hotaru Nomoto
Mikako Ishii with Sayuri Inoue or Mizuki Yamashita
Nao and Yuuka or Shuu and [redacted]
Sanae and Hiroko or Asako and Tomoko
Coatl or Space Pirates
Death Lamia or Lilith of Darkness
Elizabeth Bathory or Le Fey
Count Dracul or Bloody Dracul Vampiru
St. Germain or Gilles de Rais
Death Vulcan or Dark Cain
Astarte as an enemy or an ally
Gaiden or Ai no Senshi
Sailor Stars or Eien Densetsu
Yume Senshi or Shin Densetsu Kourin
Last Dracul Jokyoku or Transylvania no Mori
Death Vulcan no Fuuin or Transylvania no Mori
Kaguya Shima Densetsu or Dracul Arc
Ankoku no Princess Black Lady or Ai no Sanctuary
La Reconquista or NogiMyu
Petite Etrangere or Un Nouveau Voyage
Amour Eternal or Le Mouvement Final
Sailor War or Solar Miracle Make Up
Dream Yume wa Ookiku 1994 or 2000
Fukkatsu! Crisis Yurusumaji or Broken MOBIUS
Triple Dreams or Triangle Secret
Isei Nottori Keikaku or Magus Collection
Black Moon Signal or Seijaku no Hostie
Sailor Busters or Kick Out A Bloody Mystery
L’amour D’amour Moonlight or La Fatalite Sei Senshi
Densetsu Seitan or HEREAFTER...
LINK or Junketsu no Narcissism
Moment Fatal or Here Goes! Shining Star
Mystery Sagashi or Everlasting Moonlight
FIRE or La Moon
Minna Dareka ni Aisarete or Ginga no Sanctuary
Ai no Starshine or Music of the Spheres
Speed of Light or Koisuru Satellite
We Are The Pretty Guardians or Sky of Jewels
The Last Change or Make Up! Kumikyoku ~ Moon ~
Drive Me The Mercury or Make Up! Kumikyoku ~ Mercury ~
Honoo no Messenger or Make Up! Kumikyoku ~ Mars ~
Zigzag Slash or Make Up! Kumikyoku ~ Jupiter ~
Traditional the Grace or Make Up! Kumikyoku ~ Venus ~
By Heaven! Kami Nomi zo Shiru or Warera Dark Kingdom
Ai no Starshine Nelke Myu or NogiMyu 2019
La Soldier 20th Anniversary or 25th Anniversary
Dracul Hakushaku no Kodoku or Image de Mon Pare
Just Love Wasurerarenai or Ice Doll
Sailor Pluto Bandai or Nelke
Satomi’s Super Sailor Moon or Hotaru’s Super Sailor Moon
Anza’s First Eternal Sailor Moon or Marina’s Last Eternal Sailor Moon
Inner Senshi Bandai High School Uniform or Le Mouvement Final Juuban High School Uniform
Haruka and Michiru’s Mugen Gakuen Uniform or Juuban High School Uniform
*Misaki Komatsu (bottom left picture), cast as Kunzite, got ill shortly before La Reconquista debuted on stage, so Mayu Iseki (bottom right) was the one to perform in the musical in her place. Earlier Misaki had participated of the photoshoot for the musical and of the Sailor Moon 20th Anniversary Talk Show Event back in 2013.
As for the other shows featuring the Shitennou and their respective actors...
-> The second myu, Gaiden Dark Kingdom Fukkatsu Hen Kaiteiban (1994), a revised version of the first one, has no footage available, as it was not recorded.
Zoisite was then played by Masakazu Idono,
while Kunzite was played by Ryuuji Kasahara, who also reprised the role in the Sailor Moon Super Spring Festival (1994), also not recorded.
-> In Eien Densetsu (1997), Akira Tomemori and Hidetaka Asano were the ones to play Zoisite and Kunzite, respectively - the only Shitennou in the show
A recording of the 40th anniversary of CATS in Japan curtain call in Nagoya on 11 November 2023.
With Miki Kasahara as Jennyanydots, So Yokoi as Mistoffelees, Junpei Wakebe as Munkustrap, Chiaki Kimura as Grizabella, and Yuki Takahashi as Old Deuteronomy addressing the crowd.
List Game: The Sera Myu Soap-Opera about your life
After seeing this old post of mine, I decided to revive this thing and that is what I do now.
Just imagine a soap-opera about your life but the people starring in there are actually Myu-Characters :O So go to this randomizer and list 15 Sera Myu characters, then randomize and see what you get!
(This ranomizer actually made me very gay again lol I should’ve added more boys xD update: after replacing some actresses with some actors on the list, I am still gay and all the male actors were either my boss or plotting to kill me that’s life, people, that’s life, Missi and Centi even stayed the same lmao)
So starring in “my life - the soap-opera” are:
1. Your mum/dad: Kazuma Inoue as Death Vulcan [LOL]
2. Your sibling: Miki Kawasaki as Kaolinite (<3) [O-NEE-SAMA!!]
3. Your grandma/grandpa: Yuuta Mochizuki as ..Yuuta Mochizuki [wasted potential lol but a badass grandpa for sure]
4. Haunts you: Ayana Kinoshita as Michiru / Sailor Neptune [nooo, the revenge for hating on NewMyu xD]
5. Your boyfriend/girlfriend: Hiroko Mori as Loof Merrow [ok I’m gay for the Drama Queen I guess xD]
6. Your ex: Kazuko Ono as Lamia [nO why did we break up?????]
7. Your best friend: Yuuji Hirota as Dark Plasman (SKSD+K) [Drama Queen as gf and Drama Boi as best friend, this show is gonna be a comedy drama]
8. Proposed to you: Tomoko Inami as Mistress 9 [oh shit, but at least is this a world that is fine with gay marriages I guess]
9. Your boss: Hikari Ono as Vampiru [what kind of company is she the boss of?]
10. The random person you met at the bar: Mio Nunokawa as scary af Tellu [interesting. is she trying to poison me?]
11. Your rival: Sayaka Okamura as Snow Kaguya [ok so Snow Kaguya is into Mistress 9 or my gf I guess??? LOL]
12. Gave you your first kiss: Hisano Akamine as Ami / Sailor Mercury [looks like I am really into girls xD]
13. Drunk and singing karaoke with: Ado Endou as Centi/Hanako Hoshino [I CAN SEE THAT. I probably met her with Mio-Tellu in the bar and we went to karaoke afterwards]
14. Wants to kill you: Yuhka Asami as Michiru/ Sailor Neptune [Guess she’s plotting along with Ayana then]
15. Gave you your favourite dessert: Ryuuji Kasahara as Gilles de Rais [wasted potential again but thank you are you working at a bar or cafe or something]
RULES: go here, list 15 BANDAI sera myu characters (senshi are fine but name the actor too), randomize and answer! Then tag two other people from the fandom.
1. Your Parent: Jaguar Mask (Kenji Tominaga)
Ok...pretty weird parent, but I did try to be creative with the myu characters I put on the list. Jaguar Mask is this wrestler character from the 10th Anniversary myu Ai no Sanctuary who the Senshi cheer for, but then he gets turned evil by Dark Nibiru (he gets better later). I guess it would be kinda cool to have a famous wrestler as a dad...
(By the way, I recently found out there's a manga from the late '60s/early '70s called Tiger Mask, which was made into an anime in the '70s and has been remade a bunch of times. Real-life Japanese pro wrestlers have taken on the Tiger Mask persona as well. I wonder if this influenced the creation of Jaguar Mask...).
2. Sibling: Loof Merrow (Ono Hikari)
Well, that'd be a pretty cool sibling actually. Though she also lived thousands of years ago so not sure how that works...
3. Grandparent: Centi (Endou Ado)
Ok not sure how she'd be my grandmother but ok... (Centi is one of the Grimmseijin from Mugen Gakuen BTW).
4. Haunts You: Prince Dimande (Ono Hikari)
Yep, sounds about right. I mean, Bandai Dimande wasn't quite as creepy as PE Dimande (though I can still picture Hikari rocking "Junpaku no Megami"), but Dimande is a creepy guy regardless.
5. Boyfriend/Girlfriend: Chibiusa (Gunji Ayano)
Um...I don't date girls (I'm straight)...but for the purposes of this example let's pretend I do. Chibiusa is quite a bit younger than me (physically at least; obviously she's really 900+), so us dating would be kinda weird. Possibly even illegal if she's considered a child. (That's why I picked Gunji as an actress cause she's older than most Chibimoon actresses). Maybe we started with a mentor relationship and it became something more??
6. Ex: Kaolinite (Kawasaki Miki)
Again I don't date girls but we'll pretend. Man Kaolinite would be like the worst kind of ex. Maybe I dumped her when she started getting all evil, or maybe she cheated on me with Tomoe. Don't know. I'd imagine now that she wants to hex me big time. (Or just flat out steal my hostie and turn me into a vessel for a Daimon).
7. Best Friend: Tiger's Eye (Kasahara Ryuuji)
Um...WTH. Why would we be best friends? He's kinda creepy. (I feel like Ryuuji would be a cool friend though).
8. Proposed to you: Rei (Megumi Yoshida or maybe Kotani Misako)
That seems highly unlikely. Maybe she was drunk? Or maybe she secretly leans that way but didn't want to be with Minako anymore? The mind races...also since I just became reacquainted with Sailor Moon Abridged recently, I'm picturing the SMA Rei (a crazy, always angry, has-no-indoor-voice Satanist) in this for some weird reason.
9. Boss: Mamoru (Shirota Yuu or Kenji Urai)
That would be one cool hot boss...dang.
10. Random Person You Met at a Bar: Usagi (Ooyama Anza)
Of all the people I could meet at a bar LOL. I mean, Usagi did use her Disguise Pen that one time to get into an adult nightclub.
11. Rival: Space Knight (Mochizuki Yuuta)
So...my boss is Mamoru, but my rival is future Mamoru (since Space Knight is an alter ego of King Endymion's). Awkward. Also would be problematic as my sister Loof Merrow would be in love with him.
12. Gave you first kiss: Sailor Astarte (Hosoda Aya)
Well...this is getting, uh, interesting. My first kiss was with a senshi from the new moon, who's also secretly a goddess and a vessel for Dark Cain, an evil undead guy who's trying to end the world. My ex Kaolinite became a witch and part of the Death Busters. And my current girlfriend is a kid (and my boss AND rival's daughter to boot!). This is like a telenovela!
[GIF source]
13. Drunk and sing karaoke with: Miss Dream (Takeda Keiko)
Another villain...ok. I mean, she is picked on by the rest of the Dead Moon Circus, so she probably needs a friend.
14. Played 7 minutes in heaven with: Ami (Kawabe Chieco)
No joke...I had no idea what 7 minutes in heaven was and had to look it up. 😅 Anyway, I don't think Ami and I would make out or anything (though maybe since according to this list I'm a lesbian who's just getting around like nobody's business). Seriously though I think we'd probably sit and talk the whole time, like two reasonable, intelligent people. We'd have the deepest conversation one can have in 7 minutes, then exchange contact info so we can continue the conversation later.
15. Gave you your fave dessert: Minako (Ayumi Murata)
Can Minako even bake?? Still, I'd definitely appreciate the gesture.
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Hmm...who should I tag?? I'll tag @kosmosinusa and @gracemyheart (hopefully you haven't already done it...if so sorry).